By Muhammad Bham
06:09:2022

In the occupied West Bank, a 19-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by the Israeli army during an early morning raid in Qabatiya, south of Jenin.

Near-daily raids carried out in the West Bank since the start of the year see scores of Palestinians killed.

Speaking to Radio Islam from the Occupied West Bank, Ehab Jallad said that this incident is a continuation of a series of insurgence and attacks over the Palestinian territories in the West Bank that took place in the last months.

Weekly raids occur in the heart of Palestinian cities like Nablus, Jenin, and Qabatiya.

According to the Oslo Accords, Israel claims they are looking for wanted Palestinian youth inside the Palestinian A Zone, which is supposed to be under complete Palestinian Authority rule. But the Israelis are violating these rules, and they raid the city centres. At times, they even shell houses with rockets from far and nearby mountains and attack other residences regardless of other inhabitants being children or the elderly.

Most “wanted people” are often considered below the age of 18.

It is part of the Israeli plan to control the West Bank and to remove all kinds of understanding between them and the Palestinian Authority.

Palestinians are in the shadow of occupation, similar to the occupation before 1993, where there was direct Israeli control over the West Bank before they handed the areas and cities to the Authority. It seems like a return to that status quo.

The municipality of Tel Aviv, near Jafa, has printed a map of historical Palestine, and within the map, there is no clear division between the 1967 and the 1948 lands. Areas of the West Bank on the map are marked with a green line that the Israelis say is too dark and rejected the map. They said there should not be a clear division between the West Bank and lands occupied before 1948, which means that Israelis are dumping all the agreements with the PA and are demanding all of historical Palestine, thus neglecting the Oslo Accords.

Jallad said that they are witnessing the death of the Oslo Accords, made very clear from the Israeli side.

Regarding the Palestinian attack on the bus, Jallad said it shows that the Palestinian Resistance was not suppressed in the West Bank. They informed tourists for a long time that the PA had managed to freeze that kind of unrest and prevent the Palestinian Resistance, adding that they were safe and could walk in the Jordan River Valley.

The plan from the 70s was to prevent the Palestinian continuous territorial land with Jordan, so the Israelis created buffer zones with many settlements, with some Palestinian still living within these settlements.

The Israelis didn’t expect this kind of Palestinian Resistance within these lands under their control for over fifty-four years. It shows the Palestinian Resistance is not shut down nor turned off, and they still recognise the region as legitimate Palestinian land.

The message from the Palestinians to Israelis is that the writing is on the wall – they are not safe in any part of historical Palestine. It is also parallel to the demolishing of houses in that area in the Jordan Valley and the restrictions made over the Palestinian expansion.

The incident was a reaction to the increasing Israeli pressure on the Palestinian communities in the Jordan River area.

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