Israeli tanks have invaded the Jenin refugee camp for the first time since 2002, as Israel continues to escalate its genocide and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank – while breaching every day its supposed ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza and refuses to fulfil its obligations to release thousands of wrongly detained hostages. More than forty thousand West Bank civilians have been forcibly displaced from refugee camps, an unequivocal war crime, hundreds killed, hospitals attacked and huge areas of housing demolished in a repeat of its genocidal actions in Gaza.
Israel used, as an excuse for its escalation, the bombing of three empty buses in central Israel last week – but these appear to have been ‘false flag’ incidents designed to create such an excuse, as only Israelis have been arrested and there were no casualties in the late-night explosions.
Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister, made the regime’s war criminal intentions clear, saying “We won’t let them back” and that the tanks and troops will occupy Jenin for at least a year. Snipers have been positioned on rooftops and are shooting civilians at random, with several children shot in the back among the victims.
Brave Palestinian journalists have braved the streets to capture footage of the invasion:
Guarded by the tanks and snipers, armoured bulldozers are again wantonly tearing up roads, destroying drainage and sewage systems and other infrastructure, for no military purpose:
Israel is a terror state and the UK and US governments are fully colluding in its war crimes and crimes against humanity, while many other western governments are silently or actively complicit. Solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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More on that ‘false flag’ from Damo — we can only hope:
SHOCK Shift That Could Finish Netanyahu For Good!
The 2002 Battle of Jenin when the Israel invaded the camp and the surrounding occupied West Bank, the aggressor was mainly the state’s armed forces. Today, the aggressors are primarily the citizenry who occupy the West Bank to claim ownership as ‘Lebensraum’.
Oppression has been privatised or, as Netanyahu would put it, “democratised”.
Today, as then, Israel denied access to emergency and medical relief. Today, as then, UN criticism of the rogue state is muffled and stifled, under-reported by the press.
Some things seem never to change.
Remember when the zionists said they wouldn’t touch the west bank because it was a war against hamas, and hamas weren’t there?