Since Hamas\u2019 October 7, 2023, attack, Israel has engaged in an increasingly militarized campaign that it says targets West Bank militants, employing tactics like airstrikes that were once nearly unheard of there. <\/p>\n
The Israel Defense Forces launched a major campaign – \u201cOperation Iron Wall\u201d – focused on the northern West Bank last month. <\/p>\n
That operation, Israel\u2019s defense minister said last month, was explicitly applying the lessons of Israel\u2019s \u201crepeated raids in Gaza.\u201d Israel\u2019s war in Gaza has destroyed around 90% of housing units, according to the United Nations. <\/p>\n
The West Bank operation has displaced at least 40,000 Palestinians in the northern West Bank from their homes, according to the United Nations. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Israeli military are doing this under pretext of security and fighting terrorism,\u201d he said. It is a \u201cpurely political\u201d operation, he alleged, to satisfy hardliners in the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. <\/p>\n
In November, Israel\u2019s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich \u2013 who is in charge of Jewish settlements in the West Bank \u2013 ordered preparations for the annexation of the settlements, saying that US President Donald Trump\u2019s victory \u201cbrings an important opportunity for the state of Israel.\u201d <\/p>\n
Palestinians want the West Bank, as well as Gaza and occupied East Jerusalem, for a future independent state. Jewish settlements there are considered illegal under international law. <\/p>\n
Israel launched Operation Iron Wall two days after the Gaza ceasefire began, saying it was aimed at eliminating \u201cterrorists and terror infrastructure\u201d and at \u201censuring terrorism does not return\u201d following its completion. The Israeli military said on Tuesday that its soldiers were operating in Tulkarem to \u201cneutralize terrorist infrastructure.\u201d It said that its clearing operations would enable \u201cfreedom of movement within the camp area, thereby enhancing operational flexibility for forces to effectively thwart terrorism in the region.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Israeli military also said Tuesday it had arrested 25 people in the northern West Bank it says were suspected of \u201cinvolvement in terrorist activity across the area.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the activity, the troops collected findings and weapons used by the enemy,\u201d the military added. <\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s military operation in the West Bank that started in the Jenin refugee camp last month has since expanded to the Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and El Far\u2019a refugee camps, according to UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. <\/p>\n
He alleged that Israeli forces had raided houses in the middle of the night. Many properties in the Nur Shams camp had been extensively damaged, he said, and water and electricity in both camps had been cut off. <\/p>\n
UNRWA warned that the forced displacement of Palestinian communities in the northern West Bank had been escalating at an \u201calarming pace.\u201d <\/p>\n
The agency said the West Bank had suffered 38 airstrikes this year alone, with advanced weaponry and controlled detonations becoming more commonplace, marking a \u201cspillover of the war in Gaza.\u201d <\/p>\n
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa on Tuesday directed urgent humanitarian aid and shelter for \u201cPalestinian people forcibly displaced\u201d by Israeli forces in the \u201cnorthern West Bank, particularly in the refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur Shams\u201d until \u201cIsraeli forces withdraw from the targeted areas.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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