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The Israeli army killed 11 Palestinians in Nablus (West Bank) on 22 February. Since the beginning of the year, 60 Palestinians have been killed. What is the reason for this escalation?

After Jenin and Jericho, it was in Nablus, in the north of the West Bank, that the Israeli army unleashed violence, leaving 11 people dead and more than 100 injured. B’Tselem, Israel’s main human rights organization, condemned the attack: “Since early 2023, Israeli forces have killed 60 Palestinians, averaging more than one per day. The international community allows this, and the United States has just covered Israel in the UN Security Council.” (February 23)

Israel’s repeated attacks owe nothing to chance. The State of Israel is in the grip of an internal crisis that is tearing the entire society apart from the bottom up. The crisis is pitting supporters of a new far-right government against those who, in massive weekly demonstrations, claim to oppose it with “democratic values” — yet without once questioning what B’Tselem describes as “the apartheid regime ruling between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.” “.

In the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, journalist Amira Hass asks: “Is there a connection between the bloody raids of the last few months in Jenin, Jericho and Nablus and the overthrow of the judiciary by the Netanyahu government?” (February 23)

The electronic intifada answers this question: “According to some knowledgeable observers, the new far-right government in Tel Aviv may be deliberately seeking to escalate violence in order to create a pretext for realizing its goals of annexing lands in the West Bank and consolidating its colonial regime and apartheid regime.

The Palestinian people responded to the massacres in Nablus with a general strike – a general strike that, according to Israeli news outlets, was being held at the very moment when “senior aides to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas were being kept under wraps.”

These negotiations were conducted directly through the Biden administration and continued after the January 26 Jenin massacre, when Abbas announced that he had ended his “security cooperation” with the State of Israel.

Can there be a democratic solution, or are the people of Palestine doomed to this spiral of mass murder?

The United Democratic State campaign answers this question as follows:

“Palestinians and Jews who oppose apartheid and colonialism must continue to form a united resistance movement. They should not be distracted by protests that only legitimize the fake democracy and actually reinforce its repressive system of colonization and control. This movement must offer a clear alternative: building a united democratic state in Palestine, historically on the ruins of the apartheid regime” (February 21).

(article reprinted/translated from Issue No. 379 of the Tribune des Travailleurs / Workers Tribune)

And then it was the turn of Huwara, in the north of the West Bank, south of Nablus, to be subjected on February 26 to what can only be described as a pogrom of Palestinians by Israeli settlers…

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