Israel carries out largest West Bank raid in years by Alexandra Sharp, Foreign Policy/World Brief, March 4 https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/04/israel-west-bank-ramallah-raid-hamas-kamala-harris-benny-gantz/
Israel conducted an overnight raid on the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian officials announced on Monday. It was one of Israel’s biggest raids on the Palestinian Authority’s administrative capital in years. During the six-hour-long so-called counterterrorism operation, which took place mostly at al-Amari refugee camp, Israeli forces apprehended two wanted suspects and seized “inciting material spread by Hamas,” Israeli officials said. When fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinians broke out during the offensive, Israeli forces opened fire and killed a 16-year-old boy, Palestinian officials said. Israeli forces also detained at least 55 Palestinians across the West Bank in a series of separate raids last night, the Palestinian Prisoners Club reported. Israeli officials have detained around 7,400 Palestinians since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. . . . To discuss ongoing cease-fire negotiations, Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz met with top U.S. officials—including Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan—in Washington on Monday. On Sunday, the Biden administration issued one of its toughest statements on the war to date when Harris called for a six-week temporary truce and pressured Israel not to impede aid workers from entering Gaza. “This would allow us to build something more enduring to ensure Israel is secure and to respect the right of the Palestinian people to dignity, freedom, and self-determination,” she said. Gantz’s trip, however, sparked uproar back home. An Israeli official and member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party told The Associated Press that Gantz did not receive authorization for his trip; Netanyahu reportedly reminded Gantz that Israel has “just one prime minister.” Gantz is a member of the opposition National Unity party. Netanyahu has found himself increasingly at odds with U.S. President Joe Biden as the Israel-Hamas war nears its five-month mark. The Biden administration continues to push for a two-state solution that would place the Palestinian Authority, which governs parts of the West Bank, in charge of Gaza—a postwar plan that Netanyahu refuses to consider. Washington has also pressured Israel in recent weeks to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza, going so far as to airdrop 66 bundles carrying 38,000 meals into the Gaza Strip on Saturday after dozens of Palestinians were killed at a food distribution site in Gaza City last Thursday. # # # -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29259): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29259 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104735610/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
