RAMALLAH, West Financial institution — Sept. 13 marked the twenty eighth anniversary of the Oslo Accord, which the Palestine Liberation Group and Israel signed in 1993. But the Palestinian territories appear to be nearer than ever to a complete intifada and farther from peace.
Since Sept. 6, the West Financial institution and Gaza Strip have gone by way of each day confrontations and clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli military, after the escape of six Palestinian inmates from the Gilboa Jail. On Sept. 13, two separate stabbing assaults occurred in Jerusalem, which wounded plenty of settlers. A couple of hours earlier, physician Hazem Joulani in Jerusalem was killed, as he had reportedly tried to hold out a stabbing assault, according to the Israeli police.
Within the metropolis of Jenin, within the northern West Financial institution, dozens of shootings targeted al-Jalama checkpoint, selfmade bombs had been thrown, and bullets focused an Israeli army camp in Mount Gerizim in Nablus. Additionally, dozens of clashes involving stones and Molotov cocktails came about in numerous components of the West Financial institution.
Anger mounted within the Palestinian avenue after Israel captured and allegedly tortured 4 of the jailbreakers, specifically Zakaria Zubeidi, the previous commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
The Palestinian factions praised the escalated confrontations in Jerusalem and the West Bank, contemplating them as the one choice to drive Israel to finish its violations in opposition to the Palestinians and prisoners.
Following the second stabbing attack in Jerusalem on Sept. 13, the chief of the Israeli police stated that he fears new operations, and famous that the Israeli police determined to deploy an extra 2,000 policemen within the metropolis of Jerusalem.
Within the West Financial institution, stress prevails in Israeli jails, amid repression of prisoners who had been scheduled to stage an open starvation strike on Sept. 17. The strike was delay after the Israeli jail service met a lot of their calls for.
The Palestinian factions in Gaza threatened that prisoner abuse would result in instability. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad stated in a press launch on Sept. 16 that they’re open to all choices to guard the prisoners and warned Israel in opposition to subjecting them to any hazard.
Moreover, the specter of struggle hangs over the Gaza Strip, in mild of the each day skirmishes between the Palestinian factions and the Israeli military, with rockets being fired from the Gaza Strip in direction of the encircling settlements, and the Israeli military shelling the armed factions’ websites in Gaza.
Israel’s Maariv newspaper reported on Sept. 14 that the Israeli army is being ready for a possible escalation within the close to future, given the latest developments associated to the Palestinian prisoners’ challenge.
Jamal Huwail, a member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council in Jenin refugee camp, advised Al-Monitor that anger within the West Financial institution is cumulative, because of the lack of political horizon, extra settlements, ongoing arrests and executions, and the Judaization of Jerusalem, however that the prisoner challenge elevated anger at Israel.
Huwail careworn that the state of affairs could be very severe, whether or not within the West Financial institution or the Gaza Strip, and an escalation may occur. “There isn’t a comparability between the capabilities of the Israeli military and people of the resistance,” he stated, “however the will of the folks and fighters who’ve been going by way of arduous occasions can’t be damaged. They don’t concern any risk.”
“The Israeli military is able to storm the camp, awaiting a political resolution, But, the resistance fighters within the camp will make them pay for it. Any value, regardless of how low it’s, will shake the Bennett authorities. This military can’t stand the killing of 1 or two troopers,” he stated.
Huwail, who took half within the battle of Jenin camp in 2002 and was imprisoned for seven years, stated, “The present technology within the camp doesn’t have any fears, and solely understands the language of drive. The proof is that they each day go to the al-Jalama checkpoint and conflict with the military. They don’t seem to be ready for [the army to go to] the camp.”
“The military could storm the camp, however there can be a value for Israel to pay and losses can be inflicted on its military,” he stated. “Jenin will resist any foolishness that could be made. Gaza is not going to enable such a factor to occur and can be part of the entrance line. There’s a chance that Hezbollah additionally joins the confrontation as effectively. Based mostly on that, Israel will discover itself going through an open battle.”
