Israeli security forces backed by helicopters raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least nine Palestinians in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “large-scale and significant military operation”.

“We are acting systematically and resolutely against the Iranian axis wherever it extends its arms – in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Judea and Samaria,” Netanyahu said. Judea and Samaria are terms Israel uses for the occupied West Bank.

The move into Jenin, where the Israeli army has carried out multiple raids and large-scale incursions over recent years, comes only two days after the start of a ceasefire in Gaza.

Israeli NGO B’Tselem accused the Israeli government of using the Gaza ceasefire as “an excuse and opportunity to ratchet up the oppression of West Bank Palestinians”.

“This is not what a ceasefire looks like,” it said.

In the days leading up to the Israeli military operation in Jenin, Palestinians in the West Bank said multiple roadblocks had been set up throughout the territory, where violence has resurged since the start of the war in Gaza.

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    I hope those who didn’t vote or voted for trump in protest are happy…

    Looks like he also removed pause on 2,000lbs bombs :(

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      [insert image depicting a demoncrat responding to a global south person/literally any minority with “I just thought of worse ways the Republicans could go about killing you” here]

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      I didn’t vote coz I’m not americans. I find it really shocking that you people are trying to weaponize a genocide to make it about you and your political situation.

      Don’t you have any decency? You know we’re talking about real people, yes? Your country is doing it in your name and you pretend the other side did it to abscond yourself from guilt.

      You are still guilty.

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        You know we’re talking about real people, yes?

        I’m increasingly convinced that no, they genuinely don’t conceptualize them as real people.

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      Lol, as if Harris would have stopped this. BlueMAGA completely disconnected from reality

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      What leads you to think Genocide Joe or Kamala would be pushing back against this? Also, the 2k bomb thing under Biden was about OUR capacity to have enough of those, there was never a real pause because industrial capacity never lapsed afaik. Genocide Joe asked Reagan to kill more children in Lebanon in the 80’s. He LOVED every drop of blood he bled from a quarter million or more Palestinians, his only regret is he didn’t get more non-jew child blood.

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      I see you standing over a woman badly beaten in a hospital bed. [whiny voice] “boy! I hope you’re happy! You went and got yourself raped AND beaten for resisting that rape! There you were walking around in a short skirt, so it’s basically your fault you were raped! THEN you had the audacity to try to stop it, and you got yourself beaten half to death too! I hope you’re happy with yourself young lady!”