Nine Palestinians died in the attack by the Israeli army on Thursday. The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, largely helpless, promised the rupture of the security cooperation agreements with Israel.
by Louis Imbert (Jénine, Special Envoy)
Nine dead and at least twenty injured. The Jénine refugee camp suffered, Thursday, January 26, the most violent raid led by the Israeli army for two decades in the West Bank. The attack triggered by the Hebrew State against activists of Islamic jihad closed a month during which more than one Palestinian died every day, killed by the army or settlers. It marks an acceleration of the military operation launched in the spring of 2022, supposed to break an emerging armed insurrection, which has evolved into massive repression throughout the West Bank.
The president of the Palestinian authority, Mahmoud Abbas, largely helpless in this sequence, announced the rupture of the security cooperation agreements which bind it to Israel. A gesture heavy with consequences, if applied. During the night of Thursday to Friday, rockets were drawn from the Gaza Strip in retaliation, in return arousing Israeli strikes against a camp of Hamas Islamists and a Center for the Manufacturing of Rockets.
In Jénine, where the army has been working every week for a year, the only element of comparison shared by each, is the destruction of the camp by the army, during the second intifada, in 2002. An operation that had cost the lives of 52 Palestinians, including around twenty civilians, and 23 Israeli soldiers. Thursday, the first shots resounded around 7 a.m. Discrete Israeli elite units were already present in the camp. Jénine’s brigades, a training that brings together all the local armed factions, spots one, aboard a blue truck from the Jneidi dairy. In the Hawasheen district, attached to the Khalil-Suleiman hospital and the city center, a lookout for these brigades is killed. Ezzeddin Salahat, a member of the 22 -year -old military police, had been publicly displayed for a month in the Resistance, according to his older brother, Ammar. His father, non-commissioned officer in the presidential guard in Ramallah, the siege of the Palestinian authority, deplored that he took up arms against Israel, but he let go.
Snipers Israeli
The armored vehicles then penetrate behind at least a bulldozer, which releases the frieze horses arranged during the night by the brigades across the streets. They make a passage to the heart of the camp. Rare fact: the army may be constantly introduced inside, it is reluctant to engage even in the depths of these alleys, where resistance continues to densify.
The armored vehicles climb a sloping alley, go under the high sheets that the fighters have stretched to block the sight of Israeli snipers. These take the first position on the roofs, around a house located in the first foothills of the hill to which the camp is leaning. Palestinian fighters run in the slope of black oil, supposed to hinder military vehicles. After their departure, they will mop up sand.
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