Ramallah- It was considered a shooting and stabbing in a city Jaffa inside Israel Or what was called the “Jaffa Operation” is an exceptional operation from more than one angle, according to analysts. On the one hand, its perpetrators arrived from the far south of the West Bank, despite the strict security measures in the West Bank and between the West Bank and Israel.
On the other hand, it occurred shortly before the first anniversary of the battle Al-Aqsa flood And the aggression began Gaza Strip، The operation also coincided with an attack on the Netzarim military base south of Gaza City and the firing of hundreds of rockets from southern Lebanon and Iran towards Israel.
The outcome of the operation was 7 Israelis killed and 16 injured, according to a tally announced by the Israeli police on Wednesday, while Israeli Army Radio revealed that its perpetrators “infiltrated into Israel, stabbed a soldier, seized his weapon, and carried out the attack with his weapon.”
This is the guerrilla Ahmed Al-Haymouni, the second executor of #OperationJaffaHe rose up with his companion, the martyr Muhammad Misk, in support of innocent blood and the religion of God, and reports indicate that he was arrested by the occupation forces after he was wounded. pic.twitter.com/djHmGsJuZJ
– Radwan Al-Akhras (@rdooan) October 1, 2024
Storming and arrest
Late yesterday evening, Tuesday, an Israeli force stormed the city Hebron In the south of the West Bank, they raided the homes of the families of the two young men. The occupation authorities point to the two young men, Muhammad Misk (19 years old) and Ahmed Al-Haymouni (25 years old) as the perpetrators, and while the first was martyred, the other suffered a serious injury.
During the raid, the occupation army arrested Misk’s brothers, while members of the Al-Haymouni family were asked to surrender themselves, as they were not in the house at the time of the raid.
According to Israeli media, the operation targeted the light train and its surroundings, and in the same place, “the gunmen were neutralized by the security forces and a number of civilians,” according to the Israeli police.
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According to Israeli estimates, Misk and Al-Haimoni entered Israel through a loophole in The separation wall near the city of Jerusalem, noting the arrests of relatives of the perpetrators and others in Jerusalem believed to have provided them with assistance.
threat and promise
From the site of the operation, Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir announced the summoning and deployment of tens of thousands of armed Israeli civilians. He also threatened to demolish a mosque in the city of Jaffa, which Israeli media claimed the perpetrators were in before carrying out the operation.
Ben Gvir said that he agreed with the Inspector General of Police to “deploy 13,000 volunteers immediately throughout Israel,” referring to civilians to whom weapons were distributed since the start of the aggression against Gaza.
As for Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, he said that he requested it in a meeting The cabinet Last night, the families of the perpetrators were deported to the Gaza Strip, without announcing whether his request was fulfilled or not.
According to the assessment of the director of the Yabous Center for Studies, Suleiman Bisharat, there is a missing link in the Israeli narrative regarding the operation and the theft of a soldier’s weapon, “perhaps because Israel does not wish to present it, in an attempt to downplay the operation and to avoid creating a state of fear in the Israeli street, especially in major major cities.”
The missing link – according to Bisharat – is the information related to the motives of the operation and whether it was an individual character or an organization with a factional dimension.
Bisharat added in his interview with Al Jazeera Net, “If we accept the Israeli story that they entered Israel without weapons, this indicates the presence of individual determination among the two young men with an ideological intellectual vision that made them search for any means that could be used. This gives the impression that the occupation is facing the entire Palestinian people and not factional party systems, and this is more dangerous.” On the occupation from any other angle.
The Palestinian analyst points to an Israeli war against the factions and their organizational structure since the 1987 Intifada, through the Al-Aqsa Intifada (which broke out in 2000) until today, as its members are easy to track, prosecute, arrest, and weaken their influence. “But the most dangerous phenomenon began to form years ago, and Israel calls it Lone wolves“.
He continued that the resistance work is now no longer part of a systematic map, but rather “lone wolves, which disperses the Israeli intelligence effort on the one hand and pushes towards broader community participation on the other hand, and this is what Israel has always feared.”
The terrorist attack on Jerusalem Street in the city #Jaffa Which led to the death of 7 Israelis and the injury of 16 others.
Shin Bet and IDF forces arrest suspects #Hebron and #Jerusalem Helping terrorists buy weapons. Investigations are continuing in cooperation between the Shin Bet and the police. pic.twitter.com/eIKoXutGOc– Israel Police (@Israelpolice_Ar) October 2, 2024
overstep
The operation comes as the entrances to Palestinian cities and towns continue to be closed with barriers and iron gates since the start of the aggression against Gaza on October 7, 2023.
As for the city of Hebron, from which the two perpetrators left, it is experiencing a siege and strict Israeli military measures after an operation near the Tarqumiya military checkpoint, west of the city, which led to the killing of 3 Israeli police officers on September 1st.
As for the perpetrator of the Tarqumiya operation, the perpetrators of the Jaffa operation do not have security records according to the Israeli terminology, and were not previously arrested for reasons related to resisting the occupation.
According to an announcement by the Israeli army, 6 brigades are now operating in the West Bank in parallel with the ongoing military operation, especially in the camps and cities in the northern West Bank, and guards on roads and settlements are also working with major reinforcements.
Here, Bisharat says that no matter how much Israel tries to show that it is capable of controlling the field in the confrontation with the Palestinians, it has failed in the military and security approach. “Arrest, demolition, targeting of infrastructure, collective punishment, and assassinations have proven their failure throughout history.”
He continued that Israel “makes a mistake every time in using the same tools and methodologies in dealing with the Palestinians, as the Israeli crimes taking place throughout the Palestinian territories constitute a psychological tension factor that automatically generates unexpected reactions.”
“Support Gaza, O Lord.” A Palestinian cries the moment Iranian missiles fall on an axis #Netzarim Northern sector #Gaza#Al Jazeera_Live pic.twitter.com/29OZO7OtHW
– Al Jazeera Mubasher (@ajmubasher) October 2, 2024
Meaning of timing
Considering the time of the Jaffa operation, it occurred while Israeli ambulance crews were evacuating the wounded, at a time when sirens sounded in most Israeli cities warning of an Iranian bombardment with hundreds of ballistic missiles targeting military bases.
It also came at a time when Israeli media announced an attack carried out by dozens of gunmen targeting military points in the Netzarim axis, which is occupied by the army, south of Gaza City, and coinciding with the fall of dozens of rockets launched by Hezbollah that shook villages and cities in northern Israel.
But Bisharat does not believe that there is a link between the operation and the Hezbollah and Iranian missiles, and he rules out the existence of prior planning for it to be simultaneous, “rather, it may have been a mere coincidence, as the two young men worked hard to choose the timing.”
He added that people who did not have the tools presented themselves through the field, “which indicates the absence of an integrated structure, and we cannot say that there is an organization, directly or indirectly, that coordinated the operation time.”
