Israeli military veterans group: Occupied West Bank’s Jenin being ‘Gazafied’

An anti-occupation group of Israeli army veterans has warned that the occupied West Bank city of Jenin is being “Gazified,” as a large-scale military operation by the regime’s occupation forces is underway in the area.

The Israeli veterans’ advocacy group, named Breaking the Silence, said after Israeli settlers were allowed to torch villages throughout the West Bank over multiple straight days, the Israeli military has now launched an “all-out” operation in Jenin.

Jenin now faces being “Gazafied” by the Israeli military, as a result of a series of "airstrikes and destruction of infrastructure,” the group added.

In a separate post on X, the group shared a video clip of dozens of masked Israeli settlers arriving at al-Funduq village, located east of Qalqilya, in the northern part of the West Bank, where they began to torch vehicles and homes.

The settlers carried out the acts of sabotage and vandalism as a “a clearly visible” Israeli police car stood nearby, it said.

The raids and rampage come only two days after the start of a long-awaited ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The resistance group has already urged Jenin’s “youth to mobilize and escalate confrontations with the Israeli army.”

Hamas said that the offensive “launched by the occupation in Jenin will fail, just like all its previous military operations against our people,” in Gaza.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces have reportedly assaulted several Palestinian youths at al-Hamra checkpoint, located at a junction linking various West Bank cities to the Jordan Valley.

Palestine’s official Wafa news agency, citing local activist Mutaz Bsharat, reported on Tuesday that Israeli forces tightened restrictions at the checkpoint, blocking the passage of Palestinians from Tammoun town and assaulted them.

Separately on Tuesday, Wafa reported that Israeli forces had detained seven Palestinians from the West Bank cities of Salfit and al-Khalil.

According to local sources, Israeli troops also detained five Palestinians in the town of Beit Kahel town, west of al-Khalil.

Israeli forces also rounded up a youth from a store in Deir Istiya town, northwest of Salfit.

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Earlier in the day, Israeli soldiers detained a 17-year-old teenager after besieging a house in Tiinnik village, west of the West Bank city of Jenin, eyewitnesses said.

The Israeli military frequently carries out wide-ranging arrest campaigns across the West Bank under the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians.

Over the past few years, the Israeli military has conducted numerous raids in the West Bank, which escalated after the onset of the genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023. Palestinians have also been violently attacked by illegal Israeli settlers.

At least 859 Palestinians have since been killed and over 6,700 others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied territory, according to the Health Ministry.

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