In the administrative capital West Bank occupied Palestine Politics is not talked about on the street, it is only whispered. Inside Ramallah The walls are listening and the phones are tapped by the devil. In recent years, Palestinian National Authority (ANP) Mahmoud Abbas ruled with an iron fist and significant paranoiaIt suppresses all dissent and cooperates closely to keep Israel at bay. Hamas and other groups armed resistance. Its sclerotic regime, intelligence services provincesecurity forcesCreated and financed by. United States of America And European Union After Israel destroyed them during the Second Intifada. It is a paradigm that is starting to crack due to extreme violence HE Israeli soldiers and settlers has been deployed in the West Bank from the beginning. The war in Gaza.
Raids are carried out every day They cover the entire West Bank, which is nothing more than an archipelago of isolated islands under the control of the Israeli military. The networks are full of videos Palestinian detainees kicked in the head, robbed, tortured, or humiliated; Fire was opened at civilians trying to pick up the wounded, and houses were sprayed from an armored vehicle. stinky sewage waterof houses destroyed by explosives or destroying infrastructure with bulldozers. And while all this is happening, Jewish settlers are waging a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing with the full support of the state. “The situation in the occupied West Bank East JerusalemIt is alarming and urgent, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said this Sunday.
After the massive attack launched by Hamas south Israel to do It’s been almost a month, they died here 132 Palestinians42 of them are children, The number of detainees exceeded 1,200. Of these, 760 will be linked to Hamas. “Even before October 7, the Government Netanyahu He made it very clear that this was his intention. annex the West Bank and slowly drain it Palestinian population. There is no doubt that a new Nakba continues,” says the political scientist Assad AbdurrahmanHe was a member of the PLO Executive Committee until he resigned several years ago. “This explains the desperation of the Palestinians and the Muslim world, but also explains why the Hamas attack was so well received on the streets.”
Back to arms
No matter how barbaric, The attack disrupted the status quoIt opens a perspective where nothing existed before recession and daily reality “stifling profession”As the UN Secretary-General described, Antonio Guterres. In the meantime, he ended the illusion. peaceful road defended by Conquest And ANP No results have been achieved in the last thirty years. “It has become clear in the last two years that path of resistance It touched the hearts of those who saw how Israel destroyed the peaceful path. Especially young generations want back to arms”says Abdelrahman, who lives between Ramallah and Amman.
a clear threat new wave of dispossessionIt is an action that runs parallel to the destruction of Gaza and its people. The West Bank is on the edge of the abyss. The dormant Fatah militia began to cooperate with Hamas, but above all with Islamic Jihad, which was less affiliated with the ANP. Both of them Nablus like Fetus, Tulkarem anyone Hebron. A phenomenon that started months before the war but will now give way to the creation of a new war. “national resistance units”. Only in September 212 attacks in the West Bank and Jerusalem34 of them had firearms, according to Israeli Shin Bet. This explains why the Israeli Army is so obsessed with the West Bank that it gets distracted when the attack comes from Gaza.
Dayton Police
However, more than the activities of the militias, which have almost stopped breathing in recent years, may accelerate its implementation. second front that’s what’s inside Palestinian security forces. Recruited mainly from cadres Fatah, It is estimated that they will have at least 25,000 soldiersThey were much better armed and prepared than the militias. The Palestinians told them “ ‘Dayton Police’The name of the American general who led the reform. In recent years they have devoted themselves mainly to conservation. Israeli occupation forces There are potential attacks by Palestinians, but the pendulum is shifting. There are cracks and marks indicating an explosion. “Most attacks on settlers and soldiers come from the region.” security service“, admits a Palestinian official who cannot speak publicly due to the position he holds.
“Most of these people are patriots who believe in the political path, but this horizon has disappeared. The rest were poor people who didn’t even get their salaries, and now they’re wondering: Will I cooperate with these people even if they don’t pay me?” adds the same source. Since Oslo Accordsisrael collects Palestine customs duties and other fees, but have been blocking some of the money that should have been transferred monthly since 2018.
In all this, the Palestinian President has almost nothing to do with it. 87 years old, Abbas has nothing to do with the issue. He neither eats nor allows himself to eat. Neither abandons leadership nor disrupts order cooperation with Israel At the protest. Most of the Palestinian people think about it “a traitor”. Like this The near future in the West Bank This may depend on what Israel actually wants to do. Wants prevent intifada or is trying to provoke him to make his job easier annexation plans and ethnic cleansing? Many sources consulted believe that the Army and the most reasonable sections of the Israeli political establishment want to prevent the formation of a new front. However, this position conflicts with the following statements: colonists’ intentionswho are now an integral part of the Government and want to destroy everything. It’s basically the same equation as always: in the end it almost all depends on what you want Israel.