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6 Feb

Israel’s Ever-Expanding War on the West Bank

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JL;DR SUMMARY Israeli military operations in the West Bank, particularly in Jenin, have intensified, echoing tactics used in Gaza and raising concerns of escalating conflict. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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West Bank  Jenin  Human Rights  Conflict Resolution  Airstrikes  Military Escalation  Operation Iron Wall  Gaza Model  Palestinian Militancy 

Places mentioned

Jenin, Palestinian Territories
"...Benjamin Netanyahu announced the start of Operation Iron Wall, a military campaign centered on Jenin, a city in the northern West Bank that has long been an epicenter of Palestinian militant activity."
Nablus, Palestinian Territories
"...in the north, which is where a lot of these perpetrators that were alleged to have conducted lone wolf attacks in Israel, as the justification for Israel conducting search and arrest operations in the West Bank, often held from."
Tulkaram, Tulkarm, Palestinian Territories
"There was an airstrike in Tulkaram that hit a cafe on October 3rd that killed 18 people, some of them children."
Balata refugee camp, Nablus, Palestinian Territories
"IDF came into multiple camps in the northern areas, including Jenin, but also Tulkaram, Balata, and Farah camp in the north, where they launched these intense raids that coupled not only soldiers on the ground..."
Farah camp, Jenin, Palestinian Territories
"IDF came into multiple camps in the northern areas, including Jenin, but also Tulkaram, Balata, and Farah camp in the north, where they launched these intense raids that coupled not only soldiers on the ground..."
Tubas, Palestinian Territories
"Over the last 15 months, we've also seen very similar images that we've seen in places like Gaza, coming out of the West Bank, in places like Tulkar, in places like Tubas, places like Jenin..."
Timon, Tulkarm, Palestinian Territories
"So, for example, in Timun on January 8th, they conducted an airstrike near where IDF troops were operating and called it a terrorist cell."
Bethlehem, Palestinian Territories
"Then you ended up having was a churning process of a kind of rotation of membership, right, where new members would be joining."
Hebron, Palestinian Territories
"For many, the option of leaving is not an option, right? Where do you go? What state is going to absorb you?"
Ramallah, Ramallah and al-Bireh, Palestinian Territories
"Places like Ramallah, for instance, where the routinization of daily life has been completely disrupted, and where there is really no sense of security for Palestinians."
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