Fearing resistance in the Jenin camp, the occupiers resorted to “wall walking”. policy

The Israeli army began using the “walk through the wall” technique to move between houses in the Jenin camp, to avoid using the streets and alleys where resistance groups were stationed.

According to a report prepared by Salam Khader, the occupiers previously used this technique during the Al-Aqsa Intifada in the Jenin camp, where soldiers opened gaps in the walls of houses to move between buildings without the need to cross the open road. They resist sniper fire, ambushes and explosives.

Observers have noted that Israel is attempting to civically and socially re-engineer the West Bank camps, adopting these camps as its incubators as resistance operations grow.

During Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, Israel failed to overcome resistance in Jenin despite the camp’s narrow area to the east, which was no more than 37 square kilometers.

Geography favors resistance

Therefore, a new method was adopted for soldiers to move from house to house through gaps in the walls, which limited their exposure to danger, meaning that the occupying army relied on unconventional methods of dealing with resistance.

But on the other hand, the resistance fighters used their knowledge of the camp’s geography and terrain to their advantage and despite their great military superiority managed to damage the ranks of the occupying forces, using home-made explosive devices that were difficult. To monitor and discover.

Israel’s use of this strategy indicates an attempt to re-engineer the camps, change their characteristics, and bring about a radical change in the political and geographic map of the West Bank, consistent with its security concept.

It is worth noting that the Israeli army is carrying out a major military operation in the northern West Bank for the fourth consecutive day, which it says aims to destroy resistance cells in Jenin, Tulkarm and Nablus, resulting in so far 20 Palestinian martyrs and the arrest of others.