Repeated failure to arrest wanted persons. What does the occupation want from Balata camp?

Nablus - In a scene that has been happening in the Balata refugee camp near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank repeatedly for several months, Israeli special forces, followed by an incursion by the Israeli occupation army, stormed the camp around eight in the morning on Saturday, resulting in the death of two young men and a number of injuries, while sources inside the camp confirmed the failure of the occupation army to arrest the wanted.

The raid, which aimed to arrest wanted for the occupation from inside the camp, seemed court and well prepared, according to the account of eyewitnesses who spoke to Al Jazeera Net, but failed, and led this failure when the occupation soldiers to inflict the greatest damage to the camp and its residents, killing two young men and wounding a number of citizens, including a woman, after they shot them directly.

Jamal Rayan, an eyewitness and activist documenting the events of the camp, said that the occupation army stormed the camp about 10 minutes after the sequence of the special forces, after the resisters discovered the order of the special forces and clashed with them, and then the soldiers surrounded the targeted house, which belongs to the Abu Rizq family in the middle of the camp.

Injuries to the occupation army

In the meantime, Ryan adds to Al Jazeera Net, that the violent clashes escalated after the heavily armed soldiers stormed the camp, which led to the ability of the resisters to withdraw, and in response the occupation army fired towards citizens and some young men who gathered in the vicinity of the place, which led to the martyrdom of the two young men Saed Jihad Masha (32 years old) and handsome lame (19 years old) and the injury of 6 citizens with live bullets, including a fifty-year-old woman seriously injured.

Rayan revealed, quoting eyewitnesses, that the discovery of the resistors of the special forces and then their clash with soldiers "caused direct injuries among the soldiers, and the occupation army was seen transporting its wounded."

Neither citizens nor even martyrs posed any danger to the occupation soldiers, according to Rayan, saying, "They were executed in cold blood, and the moment of their martyrdom was documented, so they were not armed and did not pose any danger to the occupation."

Following the martyrdom of the two young men, the Israeli occupation soldiers raided the targeted house and rained rockets at it, which resulted in its complete burning.

Martyrs of Balata camp Saed Masha (right) and Wassim Al-Araj (social media)

A catastrophic and repeated failure

Muzaffar Zouqan, an official in the mass action in Balata refugee camp, attributed this Israeli arrogance and exaggeration in targeting civilians to the "catastrophic failure" of the occupation in the operation launched by the occupation army, which lasted more than an hour.

Balata refugee camp has recently been an important event in the West Bank, especially with the announcement by a group of resistance fighters that they had formed a camp battalion, similar to other camps and sites in the West Bank, and that battalion had launched various operations against the occupation and its settlers and clashed with them.

Tasteful says to Al Jazeera Net, that this battalion consisting of all factions of resistance in the camp hurt the occupation, which sought to "amputate her hand" repeated incursions into the camp, which failed more than once to reach the wanted, and adds, "does not want the occupation to keep these wanted free-handed, and that his activity today in the camp and under the synchronization of his aggression on Gaza confirms that the West Bank is not isolated."

The Israeli occupation army intensified raids and arrest campaigns in the West Bank (Anatolia)

On more than one occasion, resistance fighters were injured in Balata refugee camp during incursions by the occupation army and their confrontation and clash with it, and on the other hand, it was recorded more than once that it failed to arrest them.

Therefore, Zoukan says that the occupation wants to end every "phenomenon of resistance that disturbs its security", especially since the resisters in Balata camp are attacking army and settler sites and not waiting to confront it inside the camp only.

On April 11, two of the most wanted men in the camp, Saud al-Titi and Muhammad Abu Dar'a, whose bodies were withheld by the occupation, and a third was wounded but managed to escape in an ambush by the occupation army near the settlement of Itamar perched on Palestinian land east of Nablus, where resistance fighters clashed with Israeli soldiers despite being besieged.

Martyrs camp and the bomber of the revolution

Balata camp, which has lost more than 400 martyrs since the first intifada in 1987 until today (including 10 since last year), is described as the compass of the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank and the bomber of its revolutions, and is credited with blowing up the 1987 stone intifada in the West Bank.

The 1996 tunnel intifada in Jerusalem was attributed to him, after his resistance targeted Israeli soldiers and settlers holed up in Joseph's Tomb in the Balata al-Balad area near the camp, and the camp also ignited the spark of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 in the West Bank, coinciding with its launch at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, all of which made him a direct target for the occupation army, which targeted it with the operation of the protective wall and its invasion in 2002.

The occupation tried, according to Zoqan, to draw the attention of the camp and its militants from the resistance work by provoking strife, strife and problems and the spread of the phenomenon of armament in it in different ways, so the occupation did not like the emergence of the resistance awakening in it, although it failed with the first resistance event, which manifested itself in the "resistance battalions", which prompted the occupation and its security services to work to end the phenomenon.

Zoukan bets on the failure of the Israeli occupation to stop the state of struggle inside Balata camp and the camps in general, as the environment in the camp reinforces the feeling of incitement against this occupation and that it is the cause of the state of Nakba experienced by the Palestinians, whose 75th anniversary coincides these days.

The Israeli Army Radio had confirmed the "failure" of the occupation forces to arrest the wanted persons in today's operation in Balata camp.

The funeral of the bodies of the martyrs is expected this afternoon, starting from Rafidia Governmental Hospital to the Martyrs' Cemetery in Balata camp, east of Nablus, while mass marches roamed the streets of the camp towards the homes of the martyrs and the site of the operation, shouting "From Balata we heard the sound. uprising to death."