Israeli tanks roll into West Bank

Over the past month, the Israeli military has intensified its aggression in the occupied West Bank, reaching a climax with the recent deployment of tanks in Jenin.

This was the first such occurrence since it launched a bloody crackdown on Palestinians during the Second Intifada (2000-2005).

Failing to achieve any stated military objectives, including the elimination of Hamas in Gaza, Israel was ultimately compelled to accept a ceasefire agreement despite a 450-day-long genocidal onslaught on the besieged territory.

Following the humiliating outcome in Gaza and the subsequent truce on January 19, the Israeli regime shifted its focus to the occupied West Bank, beginning its attacks on the city on January 21, 2025.

Since that moment Israeli occupation forces have been raiding Palestinian homes in the West Bank, using bulldozers to destroy vital infrastructure, with particular focus on the northern regions of Jenin and Tulkarem.

Israel is a Colonial Enterprise that thrives upon the dispossession of the Palestinian people

The occupation forces have also raided further south in the occupied West Bank, hitting Kobar and Silwad north of Ramallah, the Beitunia neighborhood of Ramallah, and al-Khalil.

Palestinians say the regime is employing war tactics in the occupied West Bank, similar to those previously used in Gaza, as evidenced by the military’s deployment of tanks.

The IDF now caused widespread destruction in the Jenin refugee camp, carving out of roadways and plans to establish another military base.

Jenin Mayor Mohammed Jarrar last week condemned the Israeli army’s adoption of a pattern of random destruction in the camp and its surroundings, effectively rendering the area uninhabitable.

Reports indicate that over 40,000 Palestinians have been forcibly uprooted from their homes in the refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and Al-Fara’a.

This is marking the largest displacement in the occupied West Bank since the 1967 war when Israel occupied territories west of the Jordan River, including East al-Quds and the Gaza Strip.

The forcibly displaced Palestinians are now living in dire conditions in makeshift accommodations in overcrowded schools and mosques in the occupied city.

According to the Israeli advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), there is a dire shortage of food, power, and medical supplies in the occupied West Bank and the Israeli army is obstructing Red Crescent vehicles and humanitarian services.

This way Israel is intentionally delaying their ability to provide first aid or transport patients to hospitals for treatment.

Since January 21, the besieged Palestinian refugee camps of Jenin and its adjoining areas have witnessed a steep rise in the death toll, with at least 27 Palestinians, including children, losing their lives in the face of relentless Israeli military aggression.

The recent blockade in the Jenin camp marks the culmination of weeks-long siege tactics, initially implemented by Palestinian Authority forces and subsequently enforced by the Israeli military.

These iron-fist measures have resulted in severe limitations on the movement of residents and the cutting off of essential resources such as water and electricity to the camp.

Yom Kippur War was the First Military Victory for Arabs over Zionist enemy

Established as a sanctuary for descendants of Palestinian refugees displaced during the 1948 Nakba following the illegal formation of Israel and subsequent occupation of Palestinian territories, these camps have long served as pivotal strongholds for resistance groups fighting Israeli occupation.

The occupied West Bank, with approximately 3.3 million Palestinian inhabitants, has roughly one million more residents than the besieged Gaza Strip.

Over the years, the camps have been repeatedly targeted by the occupation army. Since the war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, Israel has increased the deadly force it uses in the occupied West Bank, using helicopters and drones to terrorize locals.

Everyone is repeating the same line for the first time in two decades, Israeli tanks invade the West Bank.

It’s being framed to suggest some element of surprise. When a more accurate report is that for the SECOND TIME in the last two decades, Israel is carrying out a large-scale lethal military offensive on the West Bank.

This is Israel repeating its crimes at a larger and more intensified scale, not some new development.

 

Hanan Ashrawi, a veteran Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, and scholar also highlighted Israel’s systematic ethnic cleansing and destruction of refugee camps in the northern occupied West Bank.

The Israeli ethnic cleansing & destruction of the refugee camps in the north of the West Bank plus the assault on towns like Qabatiya, the forcible expulsion of the inhabitants declared permanent.

Also, the planned re-invasion by the occupation army with the threat of deploying tanks against civilians, are all the declared official policy of the genocidal Israeli government.

Mark Seddon, Director of the Center for United Nations Studies at the University of Buckingham, Britain, decried the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank and the silence from the West, as their inaction in response to these atrocities has become a common pattern throughout the years.

Ethnic cleansing underway and many civilians, including children, killed by the IDF, in the occupied West Bank. The silence from the West is deafening. As usual..

PressTV / ABC Flash Point News 2025.