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TEHRAN- The recent deadly shooting attack in the occupied West Bank has highlighted anti-Israel sentiment amid its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Monday, gunmen opened fire on a bus and vehicles adjacent to the Palestina village of Funduq near Nablus city.<\/p>\n
Three Israelis were killed and several others were injured in the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Israeli army immediately imposed a cordon around all villages in the area to apprehend the shooters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement hailed the attack as a “heroic response against the occupation’s continued crimes (including) the war of genocide in Gaza”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed a harsh crackdown on the attackers and their supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said he had instructed the army to “act with force” in the pursuit of the assailants.<\/p>\n
Smotrich suggests that the Israeli military destroy towns in the West Bank as retaliation for the shooting incident in Funduq and Ben Gvir envisions a level of violence akin to that seen in Gaza.\u00a0<\/strong><\/cite>“We will not tolerate a Gaza-like reality in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), and anyone who follows Hamas’ path in Gaza and enables or shelters the murder and harm of Jews will pay a heavy price,” he wrote on X.<\/p>\n The Israeli army has slaughtered more than 45,850 Palestinians in Gaza since launching war on the enclave in October 2023.<\/p>\n It now seems that Ben Gvir is trying to convey a message that Israel may consider a Gaza-style scenario in the West Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n He has also used the term \u201cJudea and Samaria\u201d which is the biblical name by which Israel refers to the occupied West Bank. The far-right minister is, in fact, doubling down on Israel\u2019s claim of sovereignty over the West Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, another far-right member of Israel\u2019s ruling coalition, echoed Ben Gvir\u2019s remarks.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Funduq, Nablus, and Jenin should look like Jabalia,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n Israel has devastated Jabalia since launching a new offensive in northern Gaza in early October 2024.\u00a0It has carried out back-to-back massacres in the Palestinian town. \u00a0<\/p>\n Israeli media says the Jabalia refugee camp has been left a \u201cghost town\u201d with no buildings left intact.<\/p>\n Smotrich is now implying that the Israeli army should demolish Funduq, Nablus, and Jenin and butcher Palestinians there.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since the onset of the conflict in Gaza, there has been a significant increase in violence in the West Bank.<\/p>\n According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah, Israeli troops or settlers have killed more than 800 Palestinians in the West Bank in parallel with the genocidal war in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n Palestinian attacks on Israelis have killed more than two dozen settlers in the West Bank in the same period.<\/p>\n Israel has neither been able to cripple the Palestinian resistance in Gaza nor the West Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Israeli army has failed to eliminate Hamas in Gaza about 15 months after initiating the Gaza onslaught. Monday\u2019s shooting in the West Bank also indicates that Israelis will face a recurring nightmare as long as the regime persists in its appalling atrocities against Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n