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London: attacks against Palestinian villagers in the West Bank for Israeli settlers, and the seizure or demolition of their properties under unpleasant laws, are nothing new. But, since the beginning of the war in Gaza, he has intention of the number and nature of such incidents.

Several attacks on recent weeks have joined the impression that not only have they been given to the colonists to the white letter to do what they want, but that the discipline within the ranks of the Israeli army that operate in the West Bank is being broken.

Since the Gaza War begged in October 2023, Israeli troops and settlers have killed at least 917 Palestinians, including militants, in the West Bank.

On March 27, the UN Humanitarian Affairs Office, Ocha, revealed that only in the first three months of this year, 99 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank.

Tens of thousands had displaced the legs of their homes, 10 non -running schools had been forced to close their legs, and 431 houses that lacked construction permits in the mid -Israelis impossible to coin had demolished the twe of the leg as many as the same period last year.

Occasionally, such attacks are trapped by the camera. That was the case earlier this month, when the images supposedly circulated showing masked settlers that attacked the town of Duma in the West North Bank, setting fire to the houses.

On February 29, dozens of settlers, accompanied by the personnel of the Israel Defense Forces, descended to Jinba, a grazing community, where, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “Uniformed Israelis and unfortunate civilized, altered the village, broke all households, abandoned foods, irryized devices and civilized terrorized devices “.” “” “” “. “” “” “. “” “” “. “” “” “.

The supinated trigger for the attack against the people, after which the boxes of Palestinian men were arrested and arrested, was an alleged assault on a settlers pastor. In fact, the images of the phone emerged later to show the man in question that he approaches the Palestinians and his flock in an all -terrain vehicle and assaults a physical issue.

“The land seizures and violence by the settlers are not new, but there has been a great increase,” Alon Cohen-Lifshitz, architect and advisor to the planners of the Israeli non-governorship for planning rights, or Bimkom, or Arab News, told Arab News.

“What has changed is that now there is a wide collaboration between the settlers, the army, the authorities and the police. Now, the army is the settler.”

Often, those involved in violence and intimidation are from the IDF reserve units, whose members are settlers and unfold near their own settlements, and “sometimes they use uniforms, sometimes not.”

Rarely has been arrested. “The police put obstacles on the path of the Palestinians who come to file complaints,” said Cohen-Lifshitz.

“The army, the police and the settlers have become a single unit, working together against the poorest, more fragile and marginalized communities that do not harm. These people are not involved in anything, but live in the settlers.”

His “crime” is that “they live in the country that Israel and the settlers want to control and clean ethnically,” he added.

The Planning Law is also being deployed against the Palestinians in the West Bank. “Israel is using it as a weapon to conquer the country,” said Cohen-Lifshitz.

It was the Planning Law, he said, which led to the creation of settlements and the fragmentation of the West Bank, and “there are also plans for the Palestinians, but the objective of these is to limit the development, create very small areas in which the building is allowed, but to a very high density, which is not how it used to be in Palestinian villages.

“There, were around 10 units per hectare. Now the plans for the Palestinian areas propose urban densities of 100 units, which allows the authorities to justify demolitions outside these areas.”

Around the last two years, however, “there has been a great expansion in advanced positions and settlement farms. But, from what we know, a single permission for the Palestinian construction has not been approved.”

The apparent indiscipline in the FDI ranks did not escape the notice of the high military bras, which seem eager to ascend bad behaviors with reserve soldiers instead of central personnel.

Athegh did not comment on the violence in Duma, Israel’s main commander in the occupied West Bank, Major General Avi Bluth, condemned the actions of the reservists who last a raid in the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem on April 2.

The images shared on social networks showed vandalized apartments, where Israeli sprays nation -painted nationwide slogans painted on the walls were broken. In a video shared by the army last week, Bluth said that “Dheisheh behavior by our reserve soldiers is not what we defend.”

“Vandalism and graffiti duration An operational mission are, from our perspective, unacceptable incidents. It is unconscious that the FDI soldiers do not act according to their commanders,” he added.

However, it would be a fog interpreting the climb in the West Bank as a result of a discipline collapse, said Ahron Bregman, a member of senior teaching in the Department of War Studies in King’s College Londars and served in the Israelis for six per six.

“It’s not about discipline. This is something else: the execution of a plan,” he said. “The war in Gaza is almost finished. The main front is now the West Bank, where I think the Israelis are trying to implement a great plan to empty it from its people and attach it.”

The IDF, in Bregman’s opinion, has changed.

“Many units of the IDF, especially infantry, are now dominated by right -wing settlers. They have managed to penetrate the thesis to such an extent that I think it is not an exaggeration to say that many unusuals, especially in Grevant, which is relevant, which is relevant, who is Aracee, which is.”.

The driving force, believes, is the Minister of Finance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, who is also Minister of Defense and is an answer for the administration of the West Bank.

Leader of the Religious Zionism Party of the extreme right, Smotrich is himself a settler, who, in the words of a profile in the time of Israel, “has long been a vociferous defender of the holiday settlements and so strongly toes the Palestinian State throughout the land of Israel.”

The support of Israeli ministers for settlers goes beyond the simple words. Last year, the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, gave more than 120,000 firearms to the settlers. More recently, Smotrich and Orit Strock, the Minister of National Settlements and Missions, gave 21 ATV to illegal farms and advanced positions in the hills of southern Hebron, to be used “for security purposes.”

The location of armed conflicts and event data, a non -profit organization recorded in the United States that collects data on conflicts and protest worldwide, says that its findings support the anecdotal evidence that violence against Palestinians in the West Bank is increasing.

“It is not always clear who is responsible,” said Ameneh Mehvar, Middle East Analyst of Acledge, Arab News.

“Are they always settlers, or soldiers, security squads, regional defense battalions? There is a blur of lines. But we have definitely seen a problematic behavior of soldiers in recent weeks.”

Traditionally, she said: “The rules of commitment of the IDF in the West Bank were different. The policy of the central command was to limit violence and maintain the status quo, for practical reasons, as much as anything else, the side settlers and the Palestinians.

“But since October 7, things have worsened. There is a spirit of revenge and the soldiers feel they have the support of the rhetoric of extreme right and Proettler politicians. It is not necessarily that more data senior command.

“Then, what we are seeing is a mixture of this permissible environment, and the reasoning to the west cessation of the soldiers of Gaza, which returns from the war there with the mentality that the Palestinians are not human. They are all, the same rules of commitment first, and ask questions later.”

The parties in favor of the establishments in Israel, said, “are no longer marginal actors, but are part of the mainstream in Israeli politics, and their objective is obviously the annexation of background parts.

“The greatest interest of Prime Minister Netanyahu is to remain in power, and to maintain his united coalition, he has given many incentives to parties and politicians in favor of establishments.”

The “Iron Ball” operation of the IDF in northern Bank is being carried out in this background. The conformity with the UN relief and works agency, UNRWA, the assault on the Jenin camp, which began two months ago, is “with much the longest and destructive operation in the bank occupied since the second intifada in the 2000s.”

The UN says that tens of thousands of residents of Jenin, Tulkarm, Nur Sham and Far’a Camps of refugee have been displaced, since the IDF have embarked on the “systematic destruction of civil infrastructure and home houses, and homes, and homes, and homes, and home, and home, and home, and home, and home, and home, and home, and home, and home, and home And home more

Althegh, the world’s attention has focused on Israeli actions in Gaza and Lebanon, “what is happening in the West Bank is not a secondary show,” said Mehvar.

“Before October 7, the attacks of the settlers were already increasing. But now the West Bank is a barrel of dust that could explode at any time.”