Nadene Goldfoot
Nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees have been released from Israeli jails in recent weeks, in exchange for 33 Israeli hostages freed by Hamas. Many of the Palestinians released, like Ashraf Zughayer, had life sentences for deadly attacks on Israelis, while others — 33:2000 ratio? Is that the best we can do?
including women and minors — had been held in administrative detention without charges or sentences, but were caught aiding and abetting other terrorists or mimicking them. More than half of the Palestinians were sent to Gaza. But several hundred were released to their families in the Judea/Samaria — and they allege harassment, arrests and intimidation by Israel after they were freed. Of course they would. Don't most doing a dastardly deed plead innocence?
Zughayer was arrested in 2002 for being a member of the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, and driving a suicide bomber to an attack on a Tel Aviv bus that killed six people. He was sentenced to 600 years. KUFR AQAB, East Jerusalem — Ashraf Zughayer was given two days' notice before being released from Israeli jail after more than two decades (20 yrs) .
Security officials estimate that 80% of the thousands of terrorists released in the hostage deal will resume terror activities. Many of the released prisoners are experienced terrorists with the knowledge and networks to reestablish terrorist cells, secure funding and weapons, and recruit new terrorists.
Security officials have also noted a significant increase in the flow of weapons and funds into Judea/Samaria, heightening the threat of terror attacks. The IDF is continuing to operate against terror cells in northern Samaria, including Jenin, a hotbed of terrorists, and is killing and arresting many terrorists, but other terrorists are leaving the area and setting up shop in other locations outside of the IDF's dragnet.
IDF kills Islamic Jihad commander in Judea and Samaria - JNS.org
The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that troops had killed five more
militants in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including a senior commander
of a Hamas-allied group, as eyewitnesses said the IDF operation there continued.
. Israel launched its largest West Bank military operation in years overnight
on Wednesday, and says it has killed a total of 14 militants since then.
The Hamas-allied Islamic Jihad group issued a statement Thursday confirming
the death of its commander in Judea/Samaria Tulkarem area (below), saying
Mohammed Jaber, also known as Abu Shujaa, died during a "confrontation
Tulkarem
with the IDF soldiers" in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir has canceled all routine holiday leaves for soldiers, saying the army must remain on alert year-round in the wake of Oct. 7.
Tulkarm or Tulkarem (Arabic: طولكرم, Ṭūlkarm) is a Palestinian city in Judea/Samaria, said by them to be the capital of the Tulkarm Governorate of the State of Palestine of which is non-existent. The Israeli city of Netanya is to the west, and the Palestinian cities of Nablus and Jenin are to the east. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2017 Tulkarm had a population of 64,532. Tulkarm is under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority (PA).
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is intractable. One binational state is impossible, given that the two sides – Jews and Arabs -- have irreconcilable national projects (goals). The two-state scenario has also proven elusive with Palestinians refusing to recognize Jewish nationhood. So wrote Abdul al Abdul, Iraq journalist.
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