Israel has placed the occupied West Bank under rental, sealing the entrances to towns and villages with iron doors and concrete barriers, while its forces bomb Iran.
The Israeli seat continued on Sunday for a third day, while the army intensified its operations on Palestinian territory, where it killed at least 943 Palestinians, including more than 200 minors, according to the United Nations, since the war against Gaza began on October 7, 2023.
Palestinians in the West Bank say that Israeli actions aim to annex their land and extend illegal establishments. It is estimated that three million Palestinians live under the Israeli military occupation in the West Bank.
Since January of this year, there have been Israeli operations in progress in three refugee camps in the regions of Jenin and Tulkarem in the West Bank. At least 137 Palestinians, including 27 children, were killed this year in the West Bank, according to the UN.
But in recent days, while Israel strikes Iran and this last response, the West Bank is under locking.
Here is what you need to know:
What is Israel doing?
The Israeli army applies a locking.
In addition to closing cities and villages, it seriously restricts the Palestinian movement by setting up checkpoints, according to the Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent, Nida Ibrahim, limiting the entrance and exit to zones.
The army has increased its presence in the cities of the West Bank like El-Bireh and Ramallah, according to Wafa, the Palestinian press agency. Strict control points also hamper the movement in Nablus, Hebron, Qalqilya and in the Jordan Valley, where the control points disturbed the work of farmers and the transport of their products.
“The current closures have paralyzed daily life in the West Bank, severely limiting mobility, restricting access to essential services and impacting economic activity,” said Wafa.
The Palestinians say that attempts to approach the control points were welcomed by living fire by Israeli soldiers in certain places, while in others, grenades and tear gas have been deployed.
There are many injury reports. In the Tulkarem refugee camp, for example, a 16 -year -old was killed in their leg by Israeli forces. They also carried out night raids in the West Bank, arresting at least 15 people, according to Wafa.
Ambulances are struggling to reach the wounded because their movement is also hampered.
“Even when we have Israeli military permission to move, we are detained at the checkpoints for three to four hours before being allowed to cross,” said Fedel Jabbar, ambulance driver. “This (Saturday) morning, a woman stayed three hours at a checkpoint. The only way to operate now is to transfer patients from one ambulance to another to these control points.”
Even before the recent Israeli action, pregnant Palestinian women reported that checkpoints could be a question of “life and death”.
Meanwhile, in several areas of the West Bank, Israeli soldiers also expelled dozens of families from their homes and transformed them into military positions.
Why is the West Bank besieged?
The Palestinians say this is done to control them.
The Israeli government increased the colonies and the annexation of the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem in 2024, according to a report by the United Nations Human Rights Office in March of this year.
An Israeli poster describes locking as preemptive, saying that the movement will be limited until further notice. He reads as follows: “Terror only brings death and destruction.”
“The Palestinians say that it is those who are attacked,” reported Ibrahim.
Qassim Awwad of the Palestine Liberation Organization of the Liberation Organization (PLO) said that, since October 7, 2023, Israel has increased checkpoints and the West Bank of 600 to 900. “Now they use this time (war with Iran) to increase the locking of Palestinians, transforming them into isolated cannons separated from one of the others,” he said.
Meanwhile, Israel killed at least 23 people in Gaza on Sunday, including 11 while waiting to get help. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 55,297 Palestinians and injured 128,426 others, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
What about the violence of the colonists?
It continues.
“The colonists continue to attack Palestinian houses and properties,” Ibrahim of Tel Aviv Tribune reported. “Others operate the headquarters to establish and develop new illegal regulation outposts.”
Last Thursday, in the city of Sderot, the ministers of the Israeli cabinet and the government’s coalition partners held a conference where they are committed to annexing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media.
The Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich and the Minister of Communications Shlomo Karhi spoke in favor of the annexation, while the Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu would also have called in Syria and Lebanon.
“Do we want Judea and Samaria (the West Bank)?” Do we want Syria? Do we want Lebanon? We want Gaza? ” Eliyahu would have shouted to a crowd that responded to the affirmative.
Do Iran’s reprisal attacks affect Palestinians?
The night sky of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan has been illuminated by the exchange of missiles between Iran and Israel since Friday.
While Israel tries to shoot Iranian missiles, some of their remains landed in the West Bank, where, unlike Israel, residents do not have access to bombs or protection shelters. Dozens of Palestinians in the territory were injured by intercepted missiles.
“Palestinians say they are taken between Iranian projectiles and Israeli missiles intercepting them,” said Ibrahim.
What is PLO doing?
“The Palestinian government says it is working to ensure the entry of food and fuel,” added Ibrahim. “With Israel controlling almost all aspects of their lives, the Palestinians fear that the ability of their governments to help them are seriously limited.”
Most of the world’s attention in recent days has been on the exchange of strikes between Israel and Iran.
But UNRWA, the United Nations agency focused on Palestinian refugees, said the West War “on Friday.
“It is governed by international standards and conduct codes for the application of laws, which Israeli forces have the obligation to maintain.
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