Resistance ops nearly doubled ‘all over Israel’ in two years
The Cradle, August 16, 2024 —
Over 330 resistance operations were carried out between 7 October and the month of August.
Resistance operations against Israelis, particularly in the occupied West Bank, have surged dramatically since the start of the year, Hebrew media reported on 16 August.
According to Israeli news outlet Channel 12, hundreds of operations have been carried out since the start of 2024. Despite most of them being in the West Bank, the operations have targeted “every point in Israel.”
Israel’s Channel 10 correspondent Noam Cohen also noted a surge in resistance operations across Israel and the occupied West Bank over the past 10 months.
Between 7 October and the current month, 338 resistance operations were carried out against Israelis, Cohen said, adding that this marks an 82 percent surge compared to 2022 and around a nine percent jump since last year.
Commenting on the increase in the average number of operations per month, Cohen said the average was five in 2020, 10 in 2021, and 17 in 2022. Since 7 October, it has become an average of 31 per month, the correspondent added.
The majority of the over 300 operations since October have been in the West Bank. Ten were in occupied Jerusalem and 28 took place in the territories occupied in 1948.
The operations have killed 28 settlers and wounded over 250.
Two Israelis were killed in a stabbing operation in Holon, near Tel Aviv, on 4 August.
An Israeli prison guard was found dead in his home in the occupied West Bank in early July. It was discovered later that month that he was killed by a member of Hamas’ Qassam Brigades, Ibrahim Mansour, who was detained by Israeli forces on 22 July.
One soldier was killed and others injured in a stabbing operation in the Karmiel settlement on 3 July. These are just a few examples.
The surge in operations comes as there has also been a massive spike in settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 7 October.
Around 100 armed Israeli settlers invaded the Palestinian town of Jit in the occupied West Bank on 15 August, firing bullets at residents and setting homes, cars, and other property on fire.
Settlers killed 23-year-old Rashid Sedda during the pogrom.