Hamas condemns escalation as Israel deploys tanks into West Bank for first time in decades
The Hamas resistance movement has denounced Israel’s decision to expand its military offensives in the northern West Bank, saying the crackdown reveals the occupying regime’s dangerous intentions to persist with its genocidal war against Palestinian people.
The Israeli military deployed tanks in the northern West Bank on Sunday, marking the first time since 2002 amid military escalation in the occupied territory.
Hamas said in a statement released on Sunday that, "The Zionist entity’s decision to escalate its acts of aggression in the West Bank, and the forced displacement campaigns that have affected more than 40,000 Palestinians in the Jenin, Tulkarm, Nur Shams and al-Far’a refugee camps require all components of the Palestinian society and its resistance factions to form a unified front to confront such brutal crimes."
The movement noted that “the comments made by Israeli minister of military affairs Israel Katz concerning keeping the regime’s forces in the northern West Bank camps for a year, and preventing its residents from returning to their homes, are illusions that will never come true.”
Hamas then called on Palestinian people in the West Bank to increase resistance and put an end to Israeli crimes.
An Israeli military statement said that troops of the Nahal Infantry Brigade and the Duvdevan Commando Unit began incursions into several villages near Jenin in the northern West Bank.
The Israeli public broadcaster KAN said the deployment of tanks was part of “broader preparations for an expansion of military offensives in the northern West Bank.”
Since last month, the Israeli army has been carrying out military actions in the northern West Bank, leading to the loss of at least 60 lives and the displacement of thousands of residents.
The raids were the latest in Israel’s ongoing military escalation in the West Bank, where at least 923 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 7,000 injured in attacks by the Israeli army and illegal settlers since the start of the genocidal war against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
Last July, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared that Israel’s long-standing occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, demanding the evacuation of all illegal settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds.
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