RAMALLAH(Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Al-Barghouti, sounded the alarm against the risk facing the Palestinians in Jenin and Tulkarem, stressing that what is happening can be repeated in all Palestinian areas, and no one is immune to such Israeli plans.
Al-Barghouti explained that the Israeli incursion into the West Bank revealed Israel’s practice of the same repressive behavior it demonstrated in Gaza, but for a greater goal: annexing the entire West Bank, which constitutes the biggest danger the Palestinian people have faced since the Nakba in 1948.
In an interview with Aljazeera TV, he said that the goal of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not only to subdue Gaza, but also to eliminate any opportunity of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
He attributed Netanyahu’s daring to escalate his brutality to three factors. The first is the limited international reaction and the complicity of some international parties with the crimes of Israel.
The second is the weakness of the official Arab and Islamic position as well as the tendency of some governments towards normalization with Israel, and the third factor is the continuation of the Palestinian internal division and the failure to form a unified national leadership.
He stressed that Palestinians have nothing today but resilience and steadfastness and clinging to their land to thwart the Israeli plans, and that the resistance is the only weapon they have, calling for escalating international popular work to boycott and impose sanctions against Israel.
On August 28, the Israeli occupation forces launched a military operation, described as the largest since 2002, targeting resistance fighters in the cities of Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas in the northern West Bank.
Large forces of Israeli occupation army invaded all areas, cities, and camps in the northern West Bank, from several axes, in a military operation called by the IOF the “summer camps”, resulting in 20 martyrs and many wounded, as well as widespread destruction of homes and infrastructure.
