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TEHRAN – Israel has launched a large-scale military operation in the West Bank amid growing pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his failed military strategy in the Gaza Strip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect at the weekend, Israel has ramped up brutal attacks in the West Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the Israeli army continued raids in the flashpoint\u00a0city of\u00a0Jenin for the second consecutive day.\u00a0\u00a0A day earlier, Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has condemned the Israeli assault.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe condemn in the strongest terms the systematic displacement, destruction and killing carried out by the [Israeli] army against the Jenin camp and its people,\u201d the movement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The resistance group also blamed the Palestinian Authority for the deadly violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hold the authority in Ramallah and its security services responsible for participating and colluding in this aggression, after they provided [Israel] with services in imposing a siege on the Jenin camp,\u201d it said, according to Al Jazeera.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Israeli settlers have also intensified attacks against Palestinians under the protection of the regime\u2019s army.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the Wafa news agency, dozens of Israeli settlers stormed the Palestinian village of Khirbet Aqwiwis and assaulted residents.<\/p>\n
The Palestinian news outlet added that the settlers beat and pepper-sprayed the residents. It said a number of Palestinians, including elderly residents, were hospitalized with head wounds and fractures.<\/p>\n
The growing Israeli violence comes as Netanyahu is trying to obscure his failure to meet his military goals in the war on Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Israel signed the truce deal with Hamas after it failed to defeat the group following 15 months of a war that left more than 47,000 Palestinians dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Israel\u2019s military chief of staff, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi,\u00a0announced that he will resign over his role in failing to prevent the Al-Aqsa Storm, a surprise military operation carried out by<\/p>\n
Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. The Hamas attack was followed by Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Halevi\u2019s resignation resulted in increasing demands for the Israeli prime minister to resign.<\/p>\n
\u201cI salute\u2026Herzi Halevi. Now let the prime minister and his entire disastrous government take responsibility and resign,\u201d opposition leader Yair Lapid said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other Israeli opposition figures made a similar call.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Apart from Israel\u2019s attempts to distract from its military setbacks in Gaza, the regime\u2019s fresh attacks in the West Bank have highlighted its expansionist agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Israel is planning to annex the entire West Bank. Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967. Over the past years, it has expanded settlements in the Palestinian territory. All Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump\u2019s pick to be the\u00a0United States ambassador to the United Nations has backed Israel\u2019s expansionist agenda in the West Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She has claimed that Israel has \u201cbiblical\u201d dominion over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n