Increased Violence in West Bank Highlights Strategic Position Over Israel

Published on August 29, 2024

News Analysis The Israeli army’s overnight raid in the West Bank—strikes in Jenin and Tulkarm that killed 10 Palestinians—underscores another front in a war that Israel had been fighting mostly against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah on the Lebanese frontier, until now. Here, Israel hasn’t engaged in a full-on ground war as in Gaza, nor an intense air and rocket war as with Hezbollah. But the West Bank is a strategically important front for Israel—one it can’t allow to be dominated by enemies. Many Israelis fear that if the area were granted independence, terrorist elements in the West Bank would launch terror attacks against them. That’s what Hamas did after taking over Gaza in 2007, culminating in the Oct. 7 massacre....

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