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The IDF is determined to fully maintain the terms of the agreement in order to return the hostages,
The implications of the violence is that it leads to direct or associated displacement and that falls in line with Israel’s objective of preventing any Palestinian state on their land,
said Tahani Mustafa, an expert on Israel-Palestine with International Crisis Group The ceasefire in Gaza – which looks more like a humanitarian pause and “trade of hostages and prisoners” – comes with a price. Israel never ever relinquishes anything without a price to be paid and I think we are seeing that in the West Bank, given the sort of [officials] the Trump administration is composed of,
The aim of the settlers is known,
said Abbas Milhem, the executive director of the Palestinian Farmers Union The settler violence and incursions we are seeing … is an indicator of where we are heading now,
We watched a genocide unfold in Gaza for 14 months and nobody in the world did anything to stop it and some people here think we’ll suffer a similar fate,
said Shady Abdullah, a journalist and human rights activist from Tulkarem We all know we fear that the situation could get much worse here in the West Bank,
What these people are doing is illegal, but they don’t care about international law, or Palestinian law or Israeli law,
We believe Israel’s plan is to attack the north of the West Bank in the same way it did during the second Intifada when it invaded Palestinian camps,
said Murad Jadallah, a human rights monitor with al-Haq, a Palestinian rights group The battlefield is about to shift from Gaza to the West Bank,
We will not allow the arms of the Iranian regime and radical Sunni Islam to endanger the lives of (Israeli) settlers (in the West Bank) and establish a terrorist front east of the state of Israel,
Thank God, we were at home, we went out and asked an ambulance to take us out,
said a woman who gave her name as Um Mohammad The current situation is awful. Israeli forces destroyed the roads in front of the hospital. They put the rubble from the destroyed streets in front of hospital exits to prevent ambulances from entering or leaving.”
Wissam Bakr, the head of Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital in Jenin, said No one can break the siege on the refugee camp and the surrounding area,
said Nebal Farsakh, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent There is no operational justification for action in the West Bank,
said the Israeli professor Yagil Levy, an analyst of civil-military relations at Israel’s Open University Public statements by Israeli military officials raise concern about Israel’s plans to expand and increase operations in the occupied West Bank.”
The UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territories (OHCHR) said Until now Israeli forces are outside,
Bakr said, sending an image of an Israeli military bulldozer appearing to clear some of the rubble at the entrance to the hospital complex People are stuck in their towns and cities, unable to go to work,
We have to learn from 7 October and not let terror groups regroup rearm, and plan terror attacks a few hundred metres from us,
International spokesman LTC Nadav Shoshani said , calling Jenin “one of the main points of terror.” The settlers were masked and had incendiary materials,
