The Israeli occupation army, in cooperation with the Shin Bet security service, initiated a large-scale "military operation" in the northern occupied West Bank around midnight on Tuesday–Wednesday.

Palestinian locals reported that some of their homes had been turned into military positions.

The governor of Tubas, southeast of Jenin, said that the occupation army had erected earthen barriers around the area, explaining that these barriers had paralyzed traffic in the city. He estimated that the operation would last several days.

According to the Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority, three brigades are participating in the operation, working in parallel with support from the police aerial unit and the air force.

The campaign involves search operations and detentions, as well as the seizure of weapons and the monitoring of weapons-manufacturing workshops, in an attempt to thwart the formation of Resistance cells and gather intelligence, according to Israeli media.

The misleading language that masks occupation violence

Although Israeli officials describe the raid as a “military operation",  the actions unfolding in the northern occupied West Bank point to san act of aggression against a civilian population.

Turning Palestinian homes into military outposts, sealing off entire areas with earthen barriers, and deploying multiple brigades backed by aerial units go well beyond any claim of security enforcement.

Such measures disrupt daily life, restrict movement, and impose collective punishment on communities that cannot defend themselves or seek protection. By framing these assaults as routine operations, the occupying power attempts to normalize practices that, on the ground, function as a coercive, destabilizing force against an already vulnerable population.

Aggression on Jenin

Similarly, earlier this year, the Israeli army carried out a large-scale operation in Jenin that involved drone airstrikes targeting weapons caches, followed by the deployment of numerous forces, including the so-called “Border Police” and the Shin Bet, to the city.

The operation forced the displacement of about 30,000 Palestinians from refugee camps in the area.

The new aggression builds on near-daily assaults in the region by both the army and settlers.

Daily assaults

Just yesterday, Israeli occupation forces launched, on Tuesday at dawn, a large-scale detention campaign across the occupied West Bank, detaining at least 35 Palestinians, including senior Fatah leaders.

Meanwhile, settler violence intensified early Tuesday, with coordinated attacks reported in multiple areas and involving the storming of Palestinian homes, vandalizing their contents, and causing significant damage.

Since the beginning of “Israel’s” war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, attacks by the Israeli occupation army and settlers have resulted in the killing of at least 1,057 Palestinians, the injury of nearly 10,000 others, and the detention of more than 20,000 people, including 1,600 children, according to estimates by Palestinian human rights organizations.