Violence in the Palestinian territory has not ceased since the beginning of the truce in Gaza in October; In the same month, the UN recorded an increase in ‘settler attacks that caused casualties, material damage or both’
O announced this Wednesday (26) the beginning of a “broad operation” against Palestinian armed groups in the north of a territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
“Overnight (from Tuesday to Wednesday), (Israeli) forces began operating as part of a broad anti-terrorist operation in the region of northern Samaria,” says a military statement, which cites the biblical name that Israelis use to refer to the northern West Bank.
Israeli forces “will not allow terrorism to take hold” in the region, the text adds.
Questioned by AFP, the Israeli Army stated that the action is not part of the “anti-terrorist operation” that began in January 2025, which had as its main targets the Palestinian refugee camps in the region, but rather a “new operation”.
Violence has increased in the West Bank since the start of the war in triggered by the attack of on October 7, 2023 against Southern Israel.
Since then, more than a thousand Palestinians, including many combatants but also many civilians, have died in actions by Israeli soldiers or settlers, according to an AFP survey based on data from the Palestinian Authority.
In the same period, according to Israeli figures, at least 43 citizens of the country, including civilians and soldiers, died in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military incursions.
Violence in the West Bank has not ceased since a truce in Gaza came into force on October 10.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recorded that month a significant increase in “settler attacks that caused casualties, material damage or both” in almost two decades of compiling data in this Palestinian territory.
On November 10, one Israeli died and three were injured in a stab attack carried out by two Palestinians who were quickly killed by soldiers near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
*With information from AFP
