Alarming Israeli climbing in the West Bank

Lhe cease-fire finally entered into force in Gaza on January 19 and the too slow releases of Israeli hostages captured during the massacres of October 7, 2023, must not divert the attention of the major military operation Conducted from the next day by Israel in the Palestinian city of Jénine, in occupied West Bank. This historic bastion of armed groups had however just been the scene of intervention by the security forces of the Palestinian Authority, at the cost of fratricidal clashes. If Mahmoud Abbas wanted to give pledges of his good will to the Israeli authorities, he only received upturn, appearing more than ever as an additional.

Without doubt the Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, wanted to spare the far right faction still present in his coalition and whose leader, Bezalel Smotrich, promised Jénine the same fate as Jabaliya, The city of the north of the Gaza Strip partly reduced to the state of ruins by Israeli bombings. But the message sent by the Israeli operation to Jenine also applies, and above all, for what he says long -term intentions of the Israeli government.

By intervening massively in an area theoretically under Palestinian control, even if he only falls under illusion, the latter indeed shows that he is determined to prevent by all means that Palestinian authority can play the slightest role in the future. This is worth in the West Bank as in Gaza, in the event, still very far from being acquired, that the sustainable return of calm in the narrow strip of land plowed by war can allow the restoration of an essential public order so that Starts the titanic site of a reconstruction encrypted in tens of billions of dollars.

With impunity, Israel continues to regularly deprive this disputed Palestinian authority from all sides of the tax revenues due to it, and which it collects in its place, to maintain it in extreme precariousness.

Reprisals of Israeli settlers

Dead angry of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since he focused on Gaza, the West Bank has identified more than 700 killed following Israeli operations since the massacres of October 7, 2023, the Palestinian armed groups being responsible for death of around thirty Israelis in this occupied territory during the same period. And the reprisal operations of the extremist Israeli colonists aimed at Palestinian localities with the slightest protection is increasingly violent, without the Israeli authorities going.

This situation shows how irresponsible the decision of Donald Trump is irresponsible, upon his return to the White House, to lift the very symbolic sanctions targeting four extremist settlers imposed just a year ago by his predecessor, Joe Biden, who then denounced a “Intolerable level of violence”.

Such a decision is in line with the appointment as an ambassador of the United States to Israel of a Republican, Mike Huckabee, who denied in the past, in the name of a Christian fundamentalism, the existence of the Palestinian people as well as their claims legitimate self -determination. This blind support for the colonization of the West Bank is however the guarantee of the perpetuation of the conflict.