Israel’s forces continued their assault on the city of Palestinian settlement of Jenin and its camp for the fifth consecutive day on Sunday.
The Israeli aggression on Jenin and its camp in the occupied West Bank have so far resulted in the deaths of 14 citizens, the injury and arrest of dozens, in addition to the widespread destruction of Palestinian property, public and private facilities and infrastructure.
Egypt condemned the continued Israeli military attacks in the West Bank.
Cairo renewed its warning in a statement by the Foreign Ministry on Sunday against the dangers of Israel’s scorched earth policy, which aims to undermine all the components of the future Palestinian state and eliminate what remains of the Palestinian people’s hope to regain their legitimate rights and establish their independent state on the June 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The Israeli police also announced on Sunday the killing of three members of the Israeli police force in a shooting operation near the city of Hebron, southern West Bank.
“It seems that Israel is floundering in its operations in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon, and is carrying out assassinations in Beirut and Tehran,” said the advisor at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies Abdel-Aleem Mohamed.
“But these criminal actions seek to achieve a major strategic goal for the Netanyahu government, which is to liquidate the Palestinian cause and drag the region into a regional war that will lead to the freezing of the Palestinian cause for the next decade or more,” he added.
Mohamed explained that Israel also seeks to provoke Egypt by remaining in the Salah al-Din (Philadelphi) Corridor, though Israeli security authorities see the possibility of withdrawing from it and returning later.
He stressed that Egypt’s position stands clear and firm, as this area is considered a border and buffer zone according to international treaties and Egypt will not accept any concessions in this regard.
Writer Yoav Limor said in the newspaper Israel Hayom that the ministers’ decision to remain in the Salah al-Din corridor was disappointing, not only because of the shallowness of the discussion and strategic shortsightedness, but also because they abandoned rescuing Israeli detainees through a deal with Hamas in exchange for remaining in the corridor.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced the recovery of the bodies of six hostages, after they were found inside a tunnel in Gaza Strip and confirmed their identities.
This prompted the leader of the opposition in Israel, Yair Lapid, on Sunday to call for a strike to shut down the country’s economy in order to pressure the government to reach an agreement to release the remaining hostages in Gaza Strip.
