The Jenin ambush – which resulted in the death of an officer and the wounding of 16 Israeli soldiers – reveals the fireball rolling in the occupied West Bank, where the Palestinian resistance there is increasing its tactics and ability to confront.
The Jenin ambush appears to be a copy of the resistance ambushes in Gaza, but it can be described as exceptional in all its details after the Israeli vehicles penetrated the area more than once, and bulldozed the infrastructure of the city and its camp.
Thus, this ambush – according to a report broadcast by Tel Aviv Tribune by journalist Suhaib Al-Assa – is like a security and military miracle because of the way in which explosive devices were made from materials that are not allowed to enter the West Bank, in addition to the inability of the technologically superior occupation army to discover, follow up and track the implementation of the ambush.
Israel monitors every intruder and incoming person in the West Bank with greater capabilities than it monitors the Gaza Strip, as there is no tunnel network in the West Bank and no communications network for the resistance independent of broadcast towers and Israeli telecommunications companies, while Israeli drones hover everywhere.
Israeli intelligence is also aware of all the details of the people and places that the resistance might use, and anyone suspected of being connected to the resistance or helping them militarily, security-wise or financially is quickly arrested, in light of the complete freedom of movement of the occupation forces in the West Bank.
On Thursday morning, the occupation army admitted that its military vehicles had been ambushed in the middle of the “Marj Ibn Amer” plain, which is the road taken by its vehicles, troop carriers, and military bulldozers to reach the Jenin camp when it was stormed.
The army said, in a statement, that a very large explosive device exploded in an armored military vehicle, causing injuries among the soldiers inside. After another number of soldiers arrived to treat the injured, and 5 meters away from the site of the first explosion, another explosive device exploded, killing an officer in the Israeli army sniper unit, and wounding 16 other soldiers in the two explosions.
According to the statement of the occupation army, the ambush was “very surprising”, especially since the Israeli military force that was on its way to the camp had completed all the procedures it usually takes before storming, which is combing the roads with bulldozers to remove any mines or explosive devices planted in the streets.
The operation, which was claimed by the Jenin Battalion of the Al-Quds Brigades (the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement), was widely welcomed by the residents of the camp, who suffered extensive damage as a result of the ongoing destruction of their property, homes and infrastructure during the repeated occupation raids.
