GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas Movement said that Israel’s decision to expand its military operations in Jenin in northern West Bank reveals its dangerous intentions to persist in its genocidal war against the Palestinian people.
The Israeli decision to expand its aggression in the West Bank and the forced displacement campaigns that affected more than 40,000 Palestinians from the Jenin, Tulkarem, Nour Shams and Al-Far’a refugee camps, “requires all components of our Palestinian people and its resistance factions to form a unified front to confront these brutal crimes,” the Movement said in a statement issued on Sunday.
The Movement further pointed out that “the statements made by the Israeli Army Minister, Yisrael Katz, regarding keeping his army 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 called on the Palestinian people in the West Bank to escalate resistance to put an end to the Israeli crimes.
The Israeli occupation army has been conducting military operations in the northern West Bank since last month, killing at least 60 people and displacing thousands.
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 onslaught against the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
The International Court of Justice declared in July that Israel’s long-standing occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, demanding the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
