The head of Israel’s Shin Bet security agency said Thursday that Israel’s “multi-front war” is now focused on the occupied West Bank amid a new Israeli siege on the northern Palestinian city of Jenin.
“We are in a multi-front war, and now it is the turn of Samaria,” said Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, using the biblical name for the northern West Bank.
Bar made the comments while visiting Israeli troops with Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the head of the Israeli military, who said Israeli forces must be ready for “continuous operations in the Jenin refugee camp, to handle pressure and, at the same time, know how to do other things as well.”
At least 12 Palestinians have been killed in Jenin since Israel launched its renewed assault on the city on Tuesday. Resistance groups have said they’re engaging with the invading Israeli troops, but so far, there’s been no word of Israeli casualties.
Jenin Deputy Governor Mansour al-Saadi said Thursday that Israeli forces had blockaded all four entrances to the city and its refugee camp. Israeli military bulldozers have been tearing up roads in Jenin, and hundreds of Palestinians in the refugee camp have been forced to flee their homes.
Al-Saadi warned the attack could be a “repetition of what happened in the northern Gaza Strip, a systematic campaign of extermination.” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has said Israel is applying “lessons” it learned in Gaza in its assault on the West Bank.
The Israeli military launched its assault on Jenin just two days after the Gaza ceasefire took effect. The attack also came after the Palestinian Authority was conducting a major operation in Jenin as part of a crackdown on resistance groups.
The PA withdrew when Israel began its invasion, but there are reports that PA forces have been involved in the Israeli attack on the city. According to The Cradle, the PA killed a resistance fighter in Jenin on Wednesday night.
This focus won't last long as Hezbollah is ready to unfocus Israel on Sunday…!
Post a link, please.
https://farsnews.ir/Mousavi_82/1737703554930615313/Hezbollah-Warns-Israel-over-Plan-to-Delay-Withdrawal-from-Lebanon
Thank you.
Right now Hizbollah seems all but completely unseated from its quite powerful position just months ago. The Lebanon truce, followed by anti-Hizbollah power grab, and the Syrian islamist takeover have completely isolated the Resistance forces in Lebanon. Until Syria changes again (and it will, Julani is not paying salaries apparently, Iran is confident that the HTS regime won't last), the situation seems bad for Hizbollah.
Hezbollah would turn tactics perhaps similar to what Hamas is doing… That's not the sign of weakness…!
Hamas has also been massively weakened by the Gaza genocide, let’s be honest: the whole enclave has been turned into a smoking ruin, almost nothing stands anymore. Another weakness of Hamas is that they’re ideologically (and logistically) linked to Muslim Brotherhood (i.e. Turkey, Qatar, the unstable current terrorist regime in Syria, etc.), who are NOT fighting against Israel and will never do. Even when MB (Morsi) ruled Egypt they did almost nothing for Gaza.
Said that, it’s not something we can easily assess in full and only time will tell what happens. Something that has me very intrigued is a first hand report about “Russia” building a large military base in the Alawi mountains of Syria (while simultaenously evacuating the coastal bases under HTS pressure). Watch this (excellent first hand reports’ small channel on Syria): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CtDFvQCPsQ
That bit of the otherwise very credible reports makes no sense… unless what it means is that some sort of Syrian (Alawi) “Hizbollah” is being organized and armed and that the label “Russian” is not entirely correct.
That would be a big mistake by Hezbollah. There are no guardrails in place to prevent Israel from crushing Hezbollah and all of Lebanon. In fact, Trump is sending the 2000 pounds bombs to Israel, that Biden stopped shipping last year.
I would call what Israel is doing a multi-front land grab. Israel has no right to the west bank. Trump is not going to allow a west bank takeover. Unlike Biden, he will not shovel billions more to Israel to reward its aggression.
“Trump is not going to allow a west bank takeover. Unlike Biden, he will not shovel billions more to Israel to reward its aggression.”
Unless he’s undergone some dramatic change of heart in the last few hours, he will likely not just “allow” a West Bank takeover, but actively encourage it and fund it to whatever amount the Israelis demand.
In point of fact, one of his first actions in this term was to lift US sanctions on the Israeli squatters in the West Bank.
Israeli-American "relations" give the whole concept of "foreign policy" a very different look. More like a domestic policy driven by obscene wealth – the hallmark of success in the good old USA.
And now Trump ordered the shipping of 2000 pounds bombs to the Israel.
"Trump is not going to allow a west bank takeover" LOL. Sure he will. You and everyone else who reads these comments know what he did in this first term relative to Israel expansion.
Trump says Jordan, Egypt should take in more Palestinians from Gaza
By Agencies
US President Donald Trump says that Jordan and Egypt should take more Palestinians from Gaza, where Israel’s war against Hamas has caused a humanitarian crisis.
“I said to him I’d love you to take on more because I’m looking at the whole Gaza strip right now and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess. I’d like him to take people,” Trump says about his call with Jordan’s King Abdullah.
“I’d like Egypt to take people,” Trump tells reporters, adding he would speak to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday. “You’re talking about, probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know it’s, over.’”
Gaza first, West Bank next. At least in Trump's mind.
So, why are you commenting like you disagree with Trump's actions?
I would characterize Israel as a disease surrounded by a clot of healthy cells.
It's a cancer that needs to be removed…!
As expected (feared). That's what Adelson and Trump want and anyhow it was in the agenda since the Gaza Genocide began a year+ ago. The only thing that plays against this genocidal-colonial agenda is that Israel is losing Jewish population and not being an attractive colony to settle in anymore.
Words to contemplate Maju…
Wow I did not realize you are a Trump insider, releasing inside details to us. Oh I see, that is why Trump got a cease fire deal, because he wants Israel to escalate.
I'm obviously not any "Trump insider", I'm someone who's paying attention to what Trump, Kuchner and that other Lebanese in-law of Trump (I forgot the name) are agitating in the Mediterranean region, from Morocco to Palestine and beyond. Others are the ones trying to read what will Trump mean for us, for the wider Euro-Mediterranean region, since months ago, I just learn from those who make good analyses, for example Sahrawis.
Anyway, the genocide of the West Bank is not directly related to Trump, just as the Gaza genocide was not directly related to Biden/Blinken: they are bipartisan policies and it was in fact Trump who orchestrated the Gaza genocide back in 2017 per the Bin Farhan revelations: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170624-saudi-prince-reveals-us-conditions-for-mohamed-bin-salman-to-be-king/
He got a ceasefire deal so Israel can pause, regroup and concentrate on the West Bank and Trump can speculate to build his Trump vacation empire in the Gaza strip.
Trump designating Houthis as terrorists will cause problems in Yemen, if he follows through anyway.