The West Bank will be the second grave of Zionism

On August 28, 2024, the Zionist occupation state launched a comprehensive military operation targeting the cities and camps in the north of the West Bank (Jenin, Tubas, Tulkarem, Al Khalil, Ramallah), which it aims to completely annex. This military operation, which is the largest occupation attempt in the West Bank since 2002, is a direct extension of the bloody and criminal genocide that Zionism has been carrying out against the Palestinian people in Gaza for 11 months. The aim of this aggression is to completely occupy the West Bank, destroy the resistance in the West Bank, deepen the existential war waged against the Palestinian people by the partnership of imperialism and Zionism, and try to change the military reality on the ground in favor of the Zionist occupation forces, since Israel has not achieved any of its goals in Gaza.

This occupation attempt is also a tool for Zionism to implement its recently announced racist and colonialist plans: With this aggression, it is desired to establish absolute Zionist control over Al Quds, the capital of Palestine, and Al-Aqsa, which is sacred to both Muslims and Christians, and to change the demographic and social structure of the West Bank and to accelerate the process of Judaization through settlers. The racist ministers of Zionism, Katz and Smotrich, have openly declared that they want to annex the entire West Bank and that a synagogue should be opened in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

As part of this military operation, the Zionist occupation forces blockaded the hospitals in the West Bank, prevented the wounded from receiving treatment and prevented ambulances from working, imposed an embargo on cities with hundreds of soldiers and armored vehicles, and targeted the homes of the Palestinian people with warplanes and drones. The Zionist state, which actually uses its air power only against the resistance in Gaza, started bombing the resistance in the West Bank with its warplanes and drones a few weeks ago, as the resistance operations in the West Bank increased and became more qualified. This new situation on the ground was an expression of the racist occupation state’s diminishing military capacity against the resistance in the West Bank.

According to a study announced by the Mo’ta Research Center at the end of July, the Palestinian Resistance has carried out 2,444 military operations in the West Bank since October 7, 2023. 1,533 of these were shooting operations, while 678 were operations where explosives were used. The occupation state, which hides its losses, announced that it lost only 30 soldiers and 310 were injured in these operations. Jenin, which was the main focus of the comprehensive occupation operation that started on August 28, stands out by hosting 855 of these 2,444 resistance operations, or 35%.

While the number of resistance operations is this, the number of incidents announced by the Mo’ta Research Center under the title of “conflict” for the same period is 3,771. While 734 of these were realized in the form of mass mobilizations, it is understood that 125 Molotov cocktail attacks took place.

This comprehensive wave of struggle by the Palestinian people and the resistance in the West Bank would undoubtedly deserve to be called a Third Intifada if it were not for the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the struggle against this genocide. Because the Zionist state has read the situation in the West Bank exactly like this, since October 7, 2023, it has massacred 585 Palestinians in this region, injured 3,735, and kidnapped 9,860. The aim of the occupation attempt launched on August 28 is not only to try to reverse the military situation on the ground and to continue the 1948 Nakba, but also to suppress the Third Intifada.

The attempted occupation of the West Bank by Zionism began and continues entirely with the cooperation, approval and support of imperialist countries and the criminal silence of capitalist Arab regimes. The arrogance of the genocidal state in its plans to destroy the Palestinian nation and in its offer to “surrender” to the Palestinian Resistance stems from the support it receives from imperialism and the collaborating Arab regimes.

The Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority who was recently invited to Turkey to speak at the Turkish Grand National Assembly, have used the forces at their disposal since October 7, 2023 to assassinate resistance leaders, kidnap resistance fighters from hospitals and seize the arsenals of resistance groups. This collaborationist approach has been met with deep discontent and anger by the Palestinian people in the West Bank, with mass mobilizations and clashes erupting to protect resistance fighters in hospitals from PA police officers, and while Mahmoud Abbas has fallen below 20% in polls, the popularity of Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated, has approached 80%.

In the face of the attempted occupation of the West Bank that began on August 28, the Palestinian Authority under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas must abandon its old collaborationist line, end intelligence sharing with the Zionist enemy, adopt a position supporting the will and resistance of the Palestinian people, opt for the restoration of national unity as expressed in the Beijing Declaration, and call for a unified meeting aimed at establishing a national-revolutionary consensus government. The divisive plans of the Zionist government, which aims to separate Gaza from the West Bank in the face of genocide and occupation, must be thwarted with a national unitary action program.

As the Workers’ Democracy Party, we once again express our support for the Palestinian Resistance against the ongoing genocide and occupation in Gaza and the West Bank, and for the struggle of the Palestinian people to return and determine their own destiny.

The Zionist state is committing war crimes in both Gaza and the West Bank, and therefore must be subject to a comprehensive trial.

Collaborating regimes in the region, including the Palace regime in Turkey, must end all economic, commercial and diplomatic relations with the Zionist genocidal state.

In order to stop the genocide in Gaza and the occupation in the West Bank, and to support the approaching victory of the Palestinian Resistance, we call on the masses to mobilize against the collaborating governments in their own countries, and we state that this mobilization is necessary until the genocide in Gaza and the occupation in the West Bank end.

End the Gaza Genocide!

No to the annexation of the West Bank!

Let’s mobilize against the occupation of the West Bank!

The Nakba continues, no to a new Nakba!

Cut off all relations with the Zionist state, right now! Close the valves that pour oil to the Zionist state, right now!

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

Workers’ Democracy Party

29 August 2024

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