While the guns remain silent in the Gaza Strip, Israel has now launched a major military operation in the West Bank. An “anti-terror operation” is being carried out in the city of Jenin, considered a stronghold for militant Palestinians, together with the domestic secret service and police, it was said on Tuesday. The first deaths should already occur. Israeli security forces also had to take action against radical Jewish settlers rampaging in Palestinian villages (see video above).
At least eight Palestinians were killed and 35 others injured when the operation called Iron Wall began, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah. According to Palestinian information, the Palestinian Authority security forces, which had been deployed against militant forces there in Jenin for several weeks, had withdrawn beforehand. According to media reports, ground troops and special forces entered the city. There were also several drone attacks.
The Catholic Church warns against Israel’s “annexation plans”.
The Catholic Church painted a bleak picture of the situation in the Holy Land on Monday. It is feared that the ceasefire between Israel and the militant Palestinian organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which came into effect on Sunday, is only “a temporary relief”, said the general director of the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem, Sami Al-Yousef . according to Kathpress. For the occupied West Bank, he warned of Israel’s plans for partial or full annexation. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem represents Roman Catholics in the Holy Land.
Yousef described the Gaza Strip, which has been devastated by the war since the Hamas massacres in Israel on October 7, 2023, as “virtually uninhabitable.” The reconstruction will take a very long time. The director of the patriarchate described the situation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as a disaster. The current Israeli government is pursuing policies that destroy the few remaining achievements of the Oslo Accords of the 1990s and aim to fully establish Israeli rule over the Palestinian territories.
Radical settlers attacked Israeli security forces
According to Yousef, the biggest challenges facing Palestinians are the sharp increase in violence by Jewish settlers and a catastrophic economic situation. The already tense situation in the West Bank has deteriorated significantly since the Hamas massacre in Israel. On Monday, scores of masked radical settlers set fire to several vehicles and houses in Palestinian villages. Two of the settlers were seriously injured in clashes with Israeli security forces.
Source: Krone
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