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Israeli soldiers stand guard near a damaged section of the Israeli separation fence, that is used by Palestinian workers to cross into Israel, in the West Bank village of Jalameh, near Jenin, Monday, September 6, 2021
THE Fatah party branded revenge attacks on Palestinian prisoners a war crime today as Israeli occupation forces go on the offensive in response to six detainees escaping from a high-security jail earlier this week.
Fatah called for “an urgent popular uprising in all Palestinian cities, villages and camps,” promising to stand with the Palestinian people alongside the “heroic prisoners” after their daring jailbreak.
Israeli authorities started a brutal crackdown in the wake of the humiliating escape from the maximum-security Gilbao prison, demanding their return “dead or alive.”
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
