– Security forces have now started an operation to prevent terrorism in Jenin and Tulkarm, says IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee in a joint statement from the military and the Shin Bet security service on Telegram. Jenin and Tulkarem are cities in the north of the Palestinian West Bank, which are under Israeli military occupation. Several deadly attacks were reported on Wednesday morning. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, at least ten people have been killed, writes AFP. There have been several attacks against Jenin and the town of Tubas, south of Jenin. Over 600 killed in the West Bank Adraee has also shared a video on Telegram purporting to show a drone attack on Nur Shams, a permanent Palestinian refugee camp in Tulkarem, earlier this week. It says that five people who were accused of terrorist activities were killed in the attack. Relatives and mourners on Tuesday carried away the body of Khalil Ziadeh, who was killed in clashes with Israeli settlers south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. Photo: HAZEM BADER / AFP The West Bank health authorities confirmed that the five were killed in the attack, according to the BBC. Two of them were children. At the same time as the war in Gaza has raged for over ten months, the violence in the West Bank has increased. Over 600 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since 7 October, the UN said last week. Almost 120 have been killed in airstrikes. The number of attacks committed by settlers, Israeli settlers living in illegal West Bank towns and villages, has also increased. In mid-August, more than a hundred settlers attacked the village of Jit in the north of the West Bank. At least one Palestinian was killed in the attack. At the same time, Israel and settlers have taken control of new areas of land in the West Bank. The number of Palestinian buildings demolished so far this year is also among the highest since 2009, according to the UN. ICJ and Israel on the settlers The International Criminal Court ICJ recently issued a legal assessment on Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and its consequences. The court says, among other things: “There is extensive evidence of Israel’s policy of providing incentives for Israeli persons and businesses to move to the West Bank, in addition to the development of industry and agriculture by the settlers.” “Israel regularly legalizes outposts that have been established in violation of national Israeli law. [ …] The Court believes that through this practice Israel encourages the transfer of parts of its own civilian population to the West Bank, in violation of paragraph 6 of Article 29 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.” The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following comment on the court’s assessment: “The Jewish people are not occupiers of their own land, including our eternal capital Jerusalem, or in Judea and Samaria, our historic homeland. No absurd judgment from The Hague can undermine this historical truth or the legal right of Israelis to live in their own communities in the land of our forefathers.” The hostages in Gaza have become pawns in a game. Can they ever come home? Published 28.08.2024, at 06.57 Updated 28.08.2024, at 07.08
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