{"id":220516,"date":"2025-01-21T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T12:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/israeli-military-begins-west-bank-raids\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T12:06:09","slug":"israeli-military-begins-west-bank-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/israeli-military-begins-west-bank-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Military Begins West Bank Raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/21\/multimedia\/21mideast-ledeall-wqtc\/21mideast-ledeall-wqtc-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Israeli Military Begins West Bank Raids\" title=\"Israeli Military Begins West Bank Raids\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Israeli military announced on Tuesday that it had embarked on what it described as a counterterrorism operation in Jenin, a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank that has become a hotbed of militancy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It gave no further details, but the new raid comes amid rising tensions in the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority, which has typically left security in the area to Israel has been conducting an unusually public crackdown on militants in the Israeli-occupied territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday night, Jewish extremists raided several Palestinian villages in the West Bank, just hours after President Trump rescinded sanctions imposed by the Biden administration on dozens of Israeli individuals and far-right settler groups accused of violence against Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The cancellation of the sanctions was one of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a long list of executive orders that Mr. Trump signed<\/a> immediately after his inauguration. Palestinian officials strongly criticized the move, saying it was likely to encourage further violence. Hard-line members of Israel\u2019s right-wing government and leaders of the Jewish settlement movement in the West Bank had been requesting the removal of the sanctions, which then-President Biden imposed under an executive order he signed almost a year ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some settler leaders have nurtured close ties with Mr. Trump\u2019s associates over the years, including <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/12\/us\/politics\/mike-huckabee-ambassador-to-israel.html\" title=\"\">Mike Huckabee<\/a>, Mr. Trump\u2019s pick as the next ambassador to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The cancellation of the sanctions coincided with a second consecutive night of violence in the West Bank as extremist settlers protested against the cease-fire in Gaza, which took effect on Sunday and ushered in a period of calm after 15 months of war prompted by the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led assault on Israel. Attackers set fire to vehicles and property, according to Palestinian officials and the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Far-right members of the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and their supporters oppose the cease-fire, the first phase of which calls for a six-week truce and weekly exchanges of a total of 33 hostages held in Gaza for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The details of the deal\u2019s second phase have yet to be negotiated, but it calls for the temporary cease-fire to become permanent and for a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Violence in the West Bank sharply escalated after the Oct. 7 attack. The growing power of militants in West Bank cities like Jenin and Tulkarm has prompted <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/24\/world\/middleeast\/west-bank-raids-gaza-war.html\" title=\"\">a deadly cycle of Israeli raids and drone strikes<\/a>, which have devastated Palestinian neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israeli troops have seized neighborhoods for days at a time, searching for suspected militants as bulldozers <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/25\/world\/middleeast\/west-bank-raids.html\" title=\"\">chew through roads<\/a> looking for explosives. The Israeli military says its soldiers were compelled to conduct the deadly raids to quell the militants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/21\/world\/middleeast\/israel-trump-settlers-west-bank-gaza.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli military announced on Tuesday that it had embarked on what it described as a counterterrorism operation in Jenin, a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank that has become a hotbed of militancy. It gave no further details, but the new raid comes amid rising tensions in the West Bank. 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