Jenin's gasification will not succeed Views

Last month, when the Israeli army began to withdraw from Gaza under the fire termination agreement, it announced an “operation” in the occupied city on the west coast Jenin and his refugee camp. For three weeks, he has been terrorizing the Palestinian people there, using fighter jets, helicopters, tanks, drones and bulldozers to kill and destroy.

Enhanced by the world's indifference, the Israeli government is clearly trying to repeat the gas on the west coast. But the gas of Jenin and other refugee camps on the west coast is obliged to fail, just as such brutal strategies have failed in the past.

There is a reason why Israel has chosen Jenin for the beginning of his updated bloody attack on the west coast. The camp, which was created as a result of NAKBA to accommodate 8,000 Palestinians, forcibly expelled from their homes by Zionist forces, is an incubator of resistance for decades.

During the first intifada, it became one of the nuclei of the Palestinian organization and resistance. The youth who knew nothing but the profession became his voice, his fist, his heart.

During the second Intifada, Jenin again served as the center of resistance. In April 2002, the Israeli army invaded the city, killing 52 Palestinians, destroying hundreds of homes and displacing more than a quarter of the population.

Israel announced the victory then, claiming that he had crushed Terror. Yet, from the ruins of Jenin, a new generation rose rises, bearing the unshakable will to resist.

In the 2020s, the activity of armed resistance increased in Jenin and other refugee camps on the west coast. This ended with another Israeli attack In the city in July 2023, just months before the Gaza Genocide exploded. The operation included the deployment of fighter jets, armed drones, tanks, bulldozers and thousands of troops. The Israeli army killed at least 10 Palestinians, destroyed homes and infrastructure and displaced thousands. Still, the resistance reappeared and answered calls from Gaza for mobilization.

Jenin has become the center of resistance for a reason. Refugee camps are not just places where displaced survive – they are the beating hearts of the Palestinian consciousness. These are places where the wounds and trauma of Nakba are transmitted from generation to generation, where sons and daughters inherit the desire of parents and grandparents to return home.

The children grow up, seeing their neighborhoods, attacked, friends, detained or killed, just like 10-year-old Saddam Rajab of Tulkarem, who was shot in the abdomen by an Israeli soldier on January 28, and the ambulance that wears. Saddam died 10 days later.

Children in refugee camps know the steep price of the struggle for freedom and as adults they still choose to pay it anyway.

In the Gaza Strip, refugee camps such as Jabalia have also been large fortresses of Palestinian resistance for decades for the same reason. Historically, Jabalia was the largest refugee camp in Palestine, with 100,000 people living. In 1987, she produced the spark that lit the first Intifada. He has been repeatedly directed by Israeli military attacks that have left behind mass casualties and destruction.

After the launch of the Israeli Genocide War, the Israeli army began several attacks on the camp, each time after the same brutal pattern: massive bombing, house destruction and civilian displacement. Each time it is claimed to have dismantled the resistance, only to return a few months later for another “clearing operation”.

In the fall, the Israeli army launched a large -scale air strike campaign, which devastated Jabalia. About 90 percent of buildings are thought to have been destroyed.

Still, the resistance continued, launching operations that led to significant Israeli casualties.

The ongoing attack on Jenin uses the same unsuccessful gaming book to “dismantle” resistance by destruction. He killed more than 45 Palestinians, including two-year-old Laila Al-Khatib, forcibly displaced 20,000, knocked entire blocks, siege a hospital and cut the city from the rest of the west coast.

The wholesale destruction did not work in Jenin before and did not work in Gaza, so why does Israel think it will happen now?

This military strategy sets Israel's main blindness. He sees the resistance as something tangible – removal fighters, destruction tunnels, murder leaders, seizure weapons. But in Palestine's refugee camps, resistance flows through generations like blood through veins. He lives in the stories betrayed, in the stubborn insistence of dignity under siege, in the determination to restore what is destroyed.

The story has already written this story. In Jenin, in Jabalia, in every refugee camp in Palestine, generations have turned spaces from temporary asylum into permanent monuments into an idea that cannot be killed. With each invasion, with every demolition, with every attempt to break the will of these communities, the determination is strengthened only. He lives in the designated step of a child who walks to school through checkpoints, in the challenging smile of an elder, restoring their home one more time, and in the collective refusal to accept displacement as fate.

Therefore, Jenin's gas will fail. You can kill revolutionaries, but you can't kill the revolution. You can't bomb an idea in submission. You can't kill the will to be free.

The anger expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazee's editorial position.