The Israeli army faces a new kind of adversary in the West Bank, a territory it has occupied since 1967. "Battalions", or "katiba", with no clear affiliation, made up of young people who live in the heart of cities and identify with it, get their own weapons, communicate on social networks, find themselves around the rejection of the Palestinian Authority and the will to fight against
the “occupation”
.
This flexible, unstructured model is duplicated across the West Bank.
The last “katiba” thus appeared at the end of February in Tulkarem, a city that had been rather calm until then
.
Most of the operations carried out by the Israeli army since the beginning of the year have targeted such groups.
The deadliest raids took place in Jenin and Nablus: it was in these two centers of resistance that these new "katiba" emerged.
The first was born in the Jenin refugee camp in May 2021, in response to the “Guardians of the Wall” operation, in the band…
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