Nadene Goldfoot
Jenin is an Arab town in Samaria, situated in the southern corner of the Jezreel Valley, near the junction of roads running to Haifa, Afulah, Nazareth, and Nablus. At the end of the 19th century, Jenin’s population was below 1,000, but by 1943 had increased to 3,900. In the 1967 census conducted by Israel, the town proper had 8,346 inhabitants; 4,480 more lived in a refugee camp within the
municipal confines. Only 90 were Christians, all the rest Muslims.Samaria was after Solomon's death, the northern part of the capital of the Kingdom of Israel founded in 880 BCE by the Jewish king Omri. It's the land's growth of Judea.
By law-the Oslo Accords, Jews are also allowed land in Judea and Samaria, and so many of the towns are allocated to the Jews who were originally from here in the first place. Palestinian refugee camps like Jenin are not making life safe for the Jewish population being the hub of terrorism.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Tulkarm refugee camp, February 21, 2025 (credit: MAAYAN TOAF/GPO) Iranian-backed militant groups in the West Bank, have since been extended to other camps, notably the Tulkarm refugee camp and the nearby Nur Shams camp, both of which have also been devastated.
The camps, built for descendants of Palestinian refugees who fled or were driven from their homes in the 1948 war around the creation of the state of Israel, have long been major centres for armed militant groups. There is continuous demolition and roads being dug up," said Mohammed al-Sabbagh, head of the Jenin camp services committee.
February 18, 2025 Reuters Headline reads: Tens of thousands of Palestinians flee West Bank Refugee Camps. A weeks-long Israeli offensive has demolished houses and torn up vital infrastructure in the heavily built up townships, Palestinian authorities said. Israeli forces began their operation in the refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Jan. 21, deploying hundreds of troops and bulldozers that demolished houses and dug up roads, driving almost all of the camp's residents out. Jenin has been known for a long time to be a hotbed of terrorists. Today is Friday in the US; for Israel it was already on Thursday, when Netanyahu visited Tulkarm.
"Just before Shabbat begins, I came here to the Tulkarm refugee camp to be with out heroic soldiers," Netanyahu said in a statement. "Over the past year, we have significantly intensified our operations: we are entering terrorist strongholds, leveling entire streets used by terrorists, and eliminating both operatives and commanders. We are carrying out crucial operations to counter Hamas and other terrorist organizations’ attempts to harm us.
This threat has not disappeared. What we saw yesterday—the attempt to carry out a series of mass terror attacks—is extremely serious. Police said it was possible the devices went off prematurely
And what has happened before? 4 buses have been found with bombs placed in them of which 3 blew up before the plan to kill so many Israelis took place.
"Several buses exploded in various locations across central Israel on Thursday evening in a planned mass terror bombing attempt. At least three bombs exploded buses in the area of Bat Yam, Israel Police said."
The initial assessment from the security establishment is that the plan for the attack came from Iran, and was carried out by Hamas terrorists from the West Bank. Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) identified Iranian involvement in the West Bank by supplying weapons, training terrorists to carry out attacks, and assembling explosive devices, according to Maariv.
The bombs were set to explode at "around 9 or 10am, but were set incorrectly," according to Maariv, and were composed of non-standard explosive material, including fertilizer and urea.
Tat Aluf or Brig-Gen. Yaki Dolf, former paratrooper. Yaki was born in Israel in 1976; being only 49. It evidently is a hard job, as several young men have had this position.
While in Tulkarm, Netanyahu received a security briefing from Brig.-Gen. Yaki Dolf, Commander of the Judea and Samaria Division,
Brig.-Gen. Hisham Ibrahim, Head of the Civil Administration, and the Commander of the Ephraim Brigade. He's the newly appointed head of the Defense Ministry body that regulates much of daily life – both Jewish and Arab – in Judea and Samaria. His appointment has shaken up a few politicians in Israel, selected by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi . Brig. Gen. Fares Atila
Ibrahim will replace Brig. Gen. Fares Atila, who has served in the position since February 2021. Ibrahim, one of the most senior Druze officers in the Israel Defense Forces, currently serves as commander of the Armored Corps. Brig. Gen. Fares Atila completes his role as the head of the Civil Administration after 30 years of dedicated service.
Brig. Gen. Hisham Ibrahim, the newly appointed head of the Civil Administration, steps into his role following his tenure as Chief Armor Officer in recent years. Atila will replace Brig. Gen. Ghassan Alian, who currently serves in the position and was recently tapped to serve as the next Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.Brig. Gen Ghassan Alian, born in 1972, is an Israeli-Druze officer in the IDF and the current head of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. Aluf by rank, he has previously served as Central Command's executive officer and head of the Israeli Civil Administration. Alian is one of the highest ranking Druze Arabs in the IDF and has served since 1990
The problem we are all facing goes back to 1948 when the Muslim Army told the people to be patient and when they won over the Jews, they could have the Jewish homes for themselves. Instead of course, we Jews won the battle; and what did the Arab leaders then tell the people? Stay in refugee camps until we say so. They have been there, multiplying and not learning a thing except to dig tunnels, for the past 77 years! And whose fault is this? The U.N.!!! They have aided and abetted these people all along, thereby making jobs for themselves, of course, as the population has grown into a much larger number. The UN is helping the descendants multiple times over of the original population.
In 1948, approximately 438,000 Arabs were living in the area that would later be known as Judea and Samaria, (1st land Jews lived in from Exodus onward) which became in 1948 part of the territory designated for the Arab state in the UN Partition Plan for Palestine.
- This figure includes the Arab population in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip, which are considered part of Judea and Samaria in the Israeli perspective.
- During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, a large number of Arabs fled the area, contributing to the Palestinian refugee crisis. Our 12 tribes made up the Israel Empire but 10 were taken away by
- the Assyrians in 721 BCE, leaving Judah, and a few of Benjamin and
- Simeon with Judea. The 2nd Temple of Solomon was in Judea.
32% of 56% of land is not a habitable portion of the Negev of PalestineOur 56%; lots of sand
. With about 32% of the population, the Jews were allocated 56% of
the territory (most of it the Negev desert). It contained 499,000 Jews and 438,000 Arabs. The Palestinian Arabs were allocated 42% of the land, which had a population of 818,000 Palestinian Arabs and 10,000 Jews. In consideration of its religious significance, the Jerusalem area, including Bethlehem, with 100,000 Jews and an equal number of Palestinian Arabs, was to become a corpus separatum, to be administered by the UN. The residents in the UN-administered territory were given the right to choose to be citizens of either of the new states.
The Jewish leadership accepted the partition plan as "the indispensable minimum", glad to gain international recognition but sorry that they did not receive more. The representatives of the Palestinian Arabs and the Arab League firmly opposed the UN action and rejected its authority in the matter, arguing that the partition plan was unfair to the Arabs because of the population balance at that time.
I note that these men in charge are of the Druze sect from Islam. They are full citizens of Israel and nationalistic along with us. 53,000 were living in Israel in 1992 in 18 villages in the Galilee. They also have representatives in the Knesset, their own religious courts, and their own religious law. Druze do not identify as Muslims. They maintain Arabic language and culture as integral parts of their identity, with Arabic being their primary language. Most Druze religious practices are kept secret, and conversion to their religion is not permitted for outsiders.
Resource:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/tens-thousands-palestinians-flee-west-bank-refugee-camps-2025-02-18/
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