The Al-Mayadeen website reported on Thursday that the occupying forces launched a campaign of arrests in the towns of Qabatiya and Araba in Jenin, in the Balata camp in Nablus and in Beit Ummar, north of Al Khalil.
Israeli forces have forced more than two thousand Palestinian families from the Jenin camp to flee on foot due to the military operation, while UNRWA says the camp has become almost uninhabitable.
Al-Mayadeen also reports a large deployment of occupation soldiers in the streets of Nazareth and Haifa and in the Al-Hadaf neighborhood in the Jenin camp, as they stormed the village of Taybeh, west of Jenin.
At the same time, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – Jenin announced that they had targeted the “Dotan military checkpoint” west of the city of Jenin with machine guns.
In the city of Nablus, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades targeted the “Al-Tur military checkpoint” with automatic weapons, in addition to its fighters facing the assault of the occupying forces of the city in the axis of the national hospital, where they engaged in fierce clashes with them using machine guns.
The Qassam Brigades, for their part, stressed that “all the bloodthirsty plans of the enemy that he has started to implement in the occupied West Bank will only bring him more painful blows and decisive joint operations that will break his back” , emphasizing that “all factions, in the face of the criminal enemy, must demonstrate courage and perseverance” in the various towns, villages and camps of the occupied West Bank.
On January 21, the Israeli army announced the start of a military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, dubbed “Operation Iron Wall.”
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“The larger plan includes the construction of approximately 9,000 housing units for Jews at the site of Atarot Airport (Jerusalem Qalandia International Airport), adjacent to the Palestinian village of Kafr Aqab, where approximately 10,000 Palestinians live.” , explains Haaretz.
Israel had previously announced the approval of plans to establish a settlement on the grounds of Al Quds International Airport (north), created in 1920 and permanently closed by the authorities after the second Intifada which broke out in 2000.
Palestinian experts warn that the establishment of this settlement will completely isolate the northern part of Al Quds from the rest of the occupied West Bank.
Colonies to isolate the city of Al Quds
The daily adds that “among other things, a plan was approved to establish a religious school for Haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) in an eight-story building in the heart of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood” in Al Quds.
The religious school should be built on land “initially confiscated (from the Palestinians) for public purposes and which now belongs to the Israeli Land Authority,” it also reads.
According to Haaretz, “there is also talk of expanding the Givat Shaked settlement near the village of Sharafat, south of East Jerusalem.”
He adds that “700 housing units are planned and the committee has now discussed adding 400 units.”
Palestinian experts believe that the Givat Shaked settlement, as well as the Gilo, Har Homa and Givat Hamatos settlements in southern East Jerusalem, aim to isolate the city from the southern West Bank.
Palestinians consider East Jerusalem the capital of the state to which they aspire, by virtue of international legitimacy.
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