JENIN: Around the landmark mosque in the Jenin camp for Palestinian refugees, scenes of spiking violence in the occupied West Bank play out in rhythmic fashion.
Israeli forces make increasing raids, militants battle them in the streets, and posters of the dead are papered over pictures of previous “martyrs”, as the tempo of a decades-old conflict is supercharged by the Israel-Hamas war.“When there are funerals in the mosque, generally, sermons are given that talk about love, compassion and peace among people,” Ismail Jaradat, imam of the prayer hall, told AFP.
The war in Gaza has killed nearly 9,800 according to the Hamas-run health ministry there, but Palestinian authorities in the West Bank say more than 150 have also been killed in the territory occupied by Israel since 1967.Jenin Camp — home to some 23,000 people, according to the United Nations — has long been considered the hotbed of Palestinian militant resistance to the Israeli occupation.
An aircraft struck “an armed cell that hurled explosive devices” and a gun battle broke out and “ready-to-use” roadside bombs were discovered, a statement from the military said. At night gunfire raked the sky, and daylight revealed walls where bullet marks pocked countless posters depicting dead young militants from past days, months and years.
The 1948 mass exodus of Palestinians — 760,000 according to UN figures — occurred during the creation of the state of Israel, where the modern-day conflict traces back to.Like Hamas, which Israel has vowed to destroy, the Iran-backed group also active in Gaza is blacklisted as a “terrorist organisation” by the European Union and the United States.
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