PFLP warns of imminent explosion as West Bank nears third Intifada

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
Today 15:47

The PFLP says continued Israeli killings, settler violence, and occupation policies are pushing Palestinians toward a large-scale confrontation in the West Bank.

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Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian man in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarm, on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. (AP)

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) warned that the occupied West Bank is on the brink of a major escalation, stressing that the eruption of a third Intifada is now “closer than ever.”

The movement said this warning comes in direct response to the Israeli occupation’s killing of two young Palestinians in occupied al-Quds at dawn on Friday. It stressed that this crime, along with ongoing bloodshed and the unchecked settler violence, will shatter any illusion of calm, adding that the accumulated anger of Palestinians “will erupt like lava in the face of the occupation.”

In its statement, the PFLP said that “the burning, destruction, and targeting of civilians reveal a deeply ingrained racist and fascist doctrine, and a sick psychological makeup of a group of killers and deranged individuals for whom crime has become a distorted human nature,” describing the occupation’s actions as rooted in an entrenched ideology of brutality.

Resistance is the only possible response

The group affirmed that Palestinians “will not remain passive in the face of such criminal brutality and will not bow to organized terrorism,” insisting that Resistance is the only possible response.

According to the PFLP, the Israeli occupation is delusional if it believes escalating crimes will bring “calm.” Instead, it said such aggression will intensify revolutionary momentum and transform the West Bank into “a theater of attrition for the occupation and its settlers,” imposing a full confrontation on all fronts.

The Front further warned that the ongoing existence of the occupying entity represents “a central hub of extermination and a grave threat to humanity as a whole,” arguing that true regional stability can only be achieved “through uprooting the occupation completely.”

The PFLP also urged free peoples and global movements to intensify efforts to isolate what it described as a criminal system. It called for a comprehensive boycott, stripping the occupation of legitimacy, and treating its leadership “only as a rogue gang of murderers and enemies of human values.”

Israeli settlers assault Palestinians across West Bank

Israeli settlers carried out a series of violent attacks on Palestinians and their property in multiple areas of the occupied West Bank since Friday morning.

In Masafer Yatta, south of al-Khalil, settlers violently assaulted Palestinians in Khirbet al-Markaz, according to local reports.

In Beit Lahm, a number of Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation following assaults by Israeli occupation forces and settlers on the village of Kisan.

In Ramallah, settlers set fire to an agricultural room in the village of Abu Falah, leaving behind racist slogans scrawled on the walls.

In Nablus, six under-construction tourist villas on Jabal Tarouja, between the villages of Al-Lubban al-Sharqiya and Amouriya, were set ablaze by settlers. The guard of the complex sustained burns while attempting to extinguish the fire. Settlers also attacked a plant nursery in Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus, destroying its crops.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces arrested four Palestinians from the Aqtaba neighborhood east of Tulkarem.

'Israel' kills two Palestinian children in al-Quds raid

Earlier today, two Palestinian children were martyred after being shot by Israeli occupation forces during a military raid on the town of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied al-Quds, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The ministry identified the two martyrs as Amro Khaled Ahmad al-Marbooh, 18, and Sami Ibrahim Sami Mashaikh, 16. Palestinians held a funeral procession for the martyrs in Kafr Aqab, starting from the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.

According to Palestinian media outlets, the IOF stormed Kafr Aqab, deploying large squads of soldiers, including snipers on rooftops, and opening fire directly at residents who attempted to resist the incursion.