President Mahmoud Abbas chairing a meeting of the Palestinian Authority. (Credit: Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/AFP)
Since January, Israel has been conducting unprecedented military operations in the northern West Bank, officially to eradicate the remaining armed factions. The occupied territory has never experienced such a wave of population displacements since the 1967 war. Israel has also never been as explicit about its annexation threats, driven by an ultranationalist wing of Benjamin Netanyahu's government, the most right-wing in the country's history. And Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority, has never seemed so powerless, hands and feet tied in the face of Israeli designs.This trajectory accelerated after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks and the war in Gaza, which is itself threatened with reoccupation. Faced with an Israeli government that desires no other outcome for the enclave than its annihilation, is the...
Since January, Israel has been conducting unprecedented military operations in the northern West Bank, officially to eradicate the remaining armed factions. The occupied territory has never experienced such a wave of population displacements since the 1967 war. Israel has also never been as explicit about its annexation threats, driven by an ultranationalist wing of Benjamin Netanyahu's government, the most right-wing in the country's history. And Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority, has never seemed so powerless, hands and feet tied in the face of Israeli designs.This trajectory accelerated after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks and the war in Gaza, which is itself threatened with reoccupation. Faced with an Israeli government that desires no other outcome for the enclave than its annihilation, is the...
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