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Resistance factions from across West Asia have expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, and also renewed warnings about an impending escalation in the region due to Israel's actions
On top of this, the far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is debating loosening weapons license regulations to allow for more settlers to arm themselves in the occupied Palestinian territories. According to Israeli media, there are discussions about distributing “thousands of weapons” to settlers.
Netanyahu is also expected to put forward a law to deport the families of Palestinian resistance fighters. The cabinet will also discuss arresting the relatives and close associates of the perpetrators of the attacks.
The violence in the occupied West Bank escalated after Israeli troops conducted a massive raid in Jenin on Thursday. The raid led to the massacre of 10 Palestinians, including an elderly woman.
In retaliation, Palestinians have so far carried out two shooting attacks on settlers in occupied Jerusalem, which left at least 12 dead.
Confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli troops have since been reported in different sites across the West Bank.
There are over 650,000 Israeli settlers illegally occupying portions of the West Bank in violation of international law prohibiting the relocation of the occupying power’s civil population to the land of the occupied.
Despite this, Netanyahu and his Jewish supremacist allies have put forth plans to expand illegal settlements and annex large swathes of the West Bank.
Resistance leaders from West Asia have warned about the impending escalation of violence in the occupied Palestinian territories due to Tel Aviv’s actions.
On Saturday, the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, warned that the region is headed towards an “unprecedented escalation.”
His warning came in response to the Israeli Prison Service punishing many prisoners by placing them in solitary confinement because they publicly expressed their joy over the Jerusalem attack.
Hezbollah on Friday also praised the attack, saying that “this brave operation confused the enemy, revealed the fragility of its security apparatus, and introduced terror and anxiety into the hearts of settlers.”
On Saturday, the Deputy Secretary General of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, tweeted: “The future is for a liberated Palestine with its brave and struggling people. The hour of demise for Israel is approaching. Isn’t the morning near?”
نؤيد ونبارك عملية القدس النوعية، ردَّاً على إجرام الصهاينة واحتلالهم. المستقبل لفلسطين محرَّرة مع هذا الشعب المجاهد والشجاع.
ساعة الزوال لإسرائيل تقترب.. أليس الصبح بقريب؟!#الشيخ_نعيم_قاسم #العملية_البطولية #فلسطين— الشيخ نعيم قاسم (@shnaimkassem) January 28, 2023
Iraq’s Kataeb Hezbollah group also praised the attack, calling it a “brave response in the wake of the [Jenin] massacre committed by the occupation forces.” Meanwhile, Yemen’s National Salvation Government said: “We stand in [solidarity] with the project to confront the Zionist enemy, and we adhere to the line of resistance that extends from Sanaa to Palestine and Tehran.”
Finally, the Secretary of Fatah in Jenin, Atta Abu Armila, issued a statement on Saturday saying: “The division is behind us, and today we are fighting, Fatah, Hamas, PIJ, the PFLP, and all the factions as one, and we call on all our people to take up arms, as there is no language today but the language of the gun.”
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