The recent shooting operations by Palestinian resistance groups and the ramped-up struggle against the Tel Aviv regime in the West Bank have proved how fragile the Israeli military is, a Palestinian media report says.
Faraan: “Shooting operations and the targeting of Zionist troopers at military checkpoints and positions in the West Bank have been ramped up recently, with Israeli forces getting wounded and killed by Palestinian fighters,” the report said, according to Tasnim news agency.
The report was pointing to two recent shooting operations carried out within less than 48 hours in two separate neighborhoods in al-Quds. On October 9, an Israeli soldier was killed while two others were injured in a shooting attack at the Shuafat refugee camp checkpoint in East al-Quds. Two days later, a second shooting operation targeted and killed another Israeli soldier near the Shavei Shomron settlement in Nablus.
The report said while the two operations have been carried out at different times in two different areas, they both were a success. “Carrying out similar operations in the future can rub the Israeli military of its dignity within the Zionist community, create growing distrust and bring discredit on it,” it added. It concluded that the reduced efficiency of the Israeli military can create distrust among the troopers and commanders, lead to the withdrawal of the ground forces, and make the military reliant on its air forces in the conflicts.
Israeli forces have recently been conducting overnight raids and killings in the northern occupied West Bank, mainly in the cities of Jenin and Nablus, where new groups of Palestinian resistance fighters have been formed. The Palestinian health ministry says at least 171 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the illegally occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year, including 51 Palestinians during Israel’s three-day assault on Gaza in August. Hazem Qassem, a spokesman for the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement, said that the ongoing siege in the Shuafat refugee camp in Nablus, which came to force following the October 9 shooting operation, reveals the failure of the Israeli security apparatus.