Israel sends tanks into West Financial institution for first time in a long time, says fleeing Palestinians can’t go back

JENIN, West Financial institution — Israeli tanks moved into the occupied West Financial institution on Sunday for the primary time in a long time in what Palestinian government known as a “bad escalation,” after the protection minister stated troops will stay in portions of the territory for a yr and tens of hundreds of Palestinians who’ve fled can’t go back.Related Press reporters noticed a number of tanks transfer alongside unpaved tracks into Jenin, lengthy a bastion of armed fight towards Israel.Israel is deepening its crackdown  at the Palestinian territory and has stated it’s made up our minds to stamp out militancy amid a upward push in assaults. It introduced the offensive within the northern West Financial institution on Jan. 21 — two days after the present ceasefire in Gaza  took cling — and expanded it to within sight spaces.Palestinians view the fatal raids as a part of an effort to cement Israeli keep watch over over the territory, the place 3 million Palestinians reside beneath army rule.Israeli Protection Minister Israel Katz stated he and Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the army to “build up the depth of the task to thwart terrorism” in all refugee camps within the West Financial institution.“We will be able to no longer permit the go back of citizens, and we can no longer permit terrorism to go back and develop,” he stated.Previous, Katz stated he had recommended the army to organize for “a longer keep” in one of the West Financial institution’s city refugee camps from which about 40,000 Palestinians have fled, leaving them “emptied of citizens.”The camps are house to descendants of Palestinians who fled all over wars with Israel a long time in the past. It was once no longer transparent how lengthy Palestinians could be averted from returning. Katz stated Israeli troops would keep “for the approaching yr.” Netanyahu stated they might keep “so long as wanted.”Tanks had been final deployed within the West Financial institution in 2002, when Israel fought a perilous Palestinian rebellion.The Palestinian international ministry known as the Israeli strikes “a perilous escalation of the placement within the West Financial institution,” and instructed the world neighborhood to intrude in what it termed Israel’s unlawful “aggression.”“Although they keep, we can go back to the camp on the finish,” stated Mohamed al-Sadi, a type of displaced from Jenin. “This camp is ours. We don’t have any different position to move.”Israeli tanks shifting into the Palestinians town of Jenin within the occupied West Financial institution on Sunday.Majdi Mohammed / AP

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