While the world’s attention has been focused on Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Israel’s military and settlers have been relentless in their violence against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces have been conducting deadly raids in towns and refugee camps across the territory since 7 October, when Hamas delivered a bloody nose to Israel’s military and political establishment.
Israel hopes to suppress armed resistance in the West Bank as part of these raids, but to also quell any form of dissent to its ongoing genocide in Gaza.
As Israel’s violence in Gaza sets new precedents of scale and brutality, it is also intensifying the scale and frequency of its daily violence across the West Bank, as its forces conducted airstrikes in the area for the first time since the second intifada in recent weeks, and have used drone-fired missiles against Palestinians in the area.