The year 2023 witnessed about 3,260 "specific" resistance actions in the West Bank and Jerusalem, including bombings, shootings, and clashes. The destruction and killing that took place in the northern West Bank prompted once again a type of resistance that has long been a more subtle source for the occupation.
Experts spoke to Al Jazeera Net about the reasons for the decline in guerrilla operations in conjunction with the absence of popular resistance. Retired Major General Youssef Al-Sharqawi says, “The main organization that can carry out activities in theWest Bank is the Fatah movement, but it adheres to absolute silence"