In the early hours of Monday, Ahmed Al -Ami, 56, watched a fantasy while three Israeli tanks were rolling in his hometown, Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.

The last time he saw the tanks there were more than two decades when Israel sought to crush the second intifada in 2002.

This time, the scene seemed to raise the spirit of humor more than alert.

Join the passers -by who took selfies in front of the armored vehicles or put them in the rocks when they entered Jenin.

“There is no use in bringing these tanks all the way here. The city is empty!” The five father said.

He said: “Thousands of others and others have already been expelled, and unless they fight their demons, they will not find anyone in the camp to fight with him.”

He had followed the tanks from Wadi Birkin, the village in which he is now, about 10 minutes away from his home in the Jenin camp, which was forced, along with 14 members of his family, on January 26.

Refugee camps to the West Bank are hosting thousands of Palestinians whose ancestors were ethnic by the Zionist gangs to make room for the state of Israel in 1948.

Over the years, the armed resistance has arisen there. In 2002, when Israeli tanks renewed alleys of these camps, the fighters were ready with traps and ambushes.

But when the three tanks entered Jenin this week, and became concentrated in the Al -Jabriyat neighborhood, they did not find any resistance.

Politician, not tactical

The deployment of the tank comes more than a month after the Israeli attacks on the occupied West Bank, which is called the “Wall Iron Operation”, which it fired exactly as it took the ceasefire in Gaza.

According to analysts, Israel’s motivation is not a political, and not security, and is seen as a step to satisfy Israeli extremist politicians who were angered by the ceasefire.

At least 61 people have been killed in the West Bank and explained more than 40,000 since late January.

“The war in Gaza and now in the West Bank is part of the strategy of the collective punishment of Israel,” said Abu Yusef, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

“The destruction of Palestinian cities and the displacement of the population … political maneuvers are designed to tighten Israel’s grip on the occupied lands,” adding that it will pave the way for building more than the illegal Israeli settlements.

Test for long -term Israeli plans

Analysts say that the latest developments in Jenin is Israel testing its vision of the West Bank, especially since the Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that those who were displaced from refugee camps will not be allowed to return.

According to Palestinian political analyst Ahmed Abu Al -Hajjah, the deployment of the tank is part of an Israeli strategy to reshape the security and governance structures in the West Bank.

“What is happening in Jenin is … about the redefinition of Israeli control and perhaps integrating the security forces of the Palestinian Authority in a framework dominated by the Israeli,” he said.

He added that these attacks are also linked to pushing Israel to dismantle the refugee camps and the concept of Palestinians as refugees, which became clear when what appears to be a campaign against UNRWA, the United Nations Refugee Agency.

“The elimination of UNRWA is part of erasing the right of the Palestinians. He explained that the Jenin camp has been dismantled, it will put a precedent for other camps throughout the West Bank, turn it into regular urban neighborhoods and force the Palestinians to integrate into the Israeli municipal regimes controlled by the Israeli.

Rightly right pressure and the annexation of the West Bank

For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces the increasing local turmoil due to his dealings with the Gaza war and a ceasefire despite his extreme right partners, escalation in the West Bank is a political distraction.

His extremist right -wing allies, including Finance Minister Bizlel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar bin Ghaffir, called for annexing the West Bank and expelling the Palestinians.

“Netanyahu is trying to survive politically by offering a military escalation as a privilege over his extreme right -wing alliance,” said Suleiman Basura, director of the Yabous Center for Strategic Studies.

“Publishing tanks in Jenin is … a scene designed to send a message to his base that he is taking decisive measures” and “to shock the Palestinians to submit.

“By spreading heavy military machines, it aims to create an inevitable sense of control over the West Bank.”

Manufactured

Palestinian analyst Ahmed Raqq Awad, director of the Center for Political Studies, said, while Israel aims to depict its military operations as necessary security measures, the excessive force used in the West Bank risked the renewal of the Palestinian resistance on a large scale.

“The level of brutality we see – collective arrests, the demolition of homes, and the ongoing raids – can push the Palestinians towards another uprising.”

“If Israel continues this level of violence, we may see a return to collective popular confrontations similar to those in the first and second bloating.”

Oud agreed that amid a “silent” response from the international community, and “without real consequences, Netanyahu and his right -wing allies will continue to expand the scope of settlements, erase the refugee camps, and establish the occupation under the guise of security.”

For Palestinians, such as Al -Amiuri, the presence of Israeli tanks in two Jenin is a dark reminder that the occupation is deepening.

“We lived under their occupation throughout our lives. This is not a new thing. In fact, this is all very familiar.

This piece was published in cooperation with egab.