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Mat Nashed

‘The battlefield is about to shift’: West Bank braces for rising violence

Mourners carry the body of Ahmad Nimer al-Shaib after he was killed during an Israeli military operation in Jenin, in the West Bank village of Bruqin, Wednesday, January 22, 2025 [Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo]

When the Gaza ceasefire was announced on January 15, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were overjoyed that Israel’s devastating war on the besieged enclave would finally end.

However, Israeli state violence has quickly escalated across the West Bank in what local monitors and analysts describe as an apparent attempt to formally annex more land.

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