[News] IOF aggression on Tubas: An attempt to impose control over the gateway to the Jordan Valley

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IOF aggression on Tubas: An attempt to impose control over the gateway to
the Jordan Valley

Wednesday 26-November-2025
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TUBAS, (PIC)

The governorate of Tubas, in the northern West Bank, woke up at dawn on
Wednesday to one of the largest Israeli military operations in months. An
operation that revived memories of full-scale invasions, plunging the city
and its surrounding towns into total paralysis under a harsh curfew and
widespread raids in all directions.

Three brigades on the move

According to the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, three Israeli brigades
took part in the operation: the Menashe Brigade, the Shomron Brigade, and
the Commando Brigade, a military mobilization that analysts consider far
greater than the scale of the “wanted individuals” Israel claims to be
searching for.

Israeli forces closed major roads, deployed reinforcements and massive
bulldozers, and Apache helicopters hovered intensively over Tubas, firing
in the air, while other units stormed towns like Tammun, where one family
was forced out of their home so it could be turned into a military barracks.

The municipality of Tammun confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces
(IOF) turned more than 10 homes into closed military sites, bulldozed many
main roads, cut water lines, blocked all entrances to the town, and
isolated its neighborhoods from one another.

A geographic objective

Tubas Governor Ahmad al-As’ad said that the Israeli military informed
Palestinian authorities that the operation would continue “for several
days,” even though the governorate, according to him, is “free of any
wanted individuals.”

Al-As’ad said in a press interview that the targeting of Tubas is linked to
its strategic location and its proximity to the northern Jordan Valley, an
area Israel has sought for years to consolidate control over.

Parallel expansion of raids


*In parallel with the Tubas operation, raids expanded into other towns and
cities:*-Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of al-Khalil, witnessed mass arrests
and intensive raids.
-The town of Halhul, also in al-Khalil, was subjected to sound-bomb and
tear gas attacks.
-The village of Talluza northeast of Nablus and Al-Am’ari refugee camp
south of al-Bireh also saw consecutive arrest and raid campaigns.

Since October 2023, Israeli attacks in the West Bank have led to the
killing of more than 1,080 Palestinians and the arrest of over 20,000,
including 1,600 children.

Systematic aggression

Hamas described the operation as “revealing the extent of the systematic
criminality of the extremist occupation government,” saying that turning
West Bank cities into “besieged, fragmented zones” is an extension of
“annexation and displacement schemes.”

Islamic Jihad viewed the operation as “a new attempt to empty the West Bank
of its people” and to create a political and legal environment that paves
the way for settlers to seize even more land.

Writer Yasin Ezz Al-Deen affirmed that this operation is part of the
ongoing campaigns carried out by the IOF in the West Bank to deplete the
resistance and prevent its growth and development.

He explained to the Palestinian Information Center that the IOF usually
targets a single town or camp and focuses on it, but today’s operation is
much larger, targeting four towns and a camp: Tubas, Tammun, Tayasir,
Aqaba, and Al-Faraa refugee camp.

He added that Tubas has witnessed resistance operations against the IOF in
recent weeks, and despite continued attacks, the fighters maintained their
performance, prompting the army to expand its assault in hopes of
delivering a major blow.

Toward total control of the West Bank

Writer and Israeli-Affairs researcher Suleiman Bisharat believes that what
is happening in Tubas is “a natural extension of the Iron Walls Operation”
that began in Jenin in late 2024, aiming, in his assessment, to impose
complete security and political control over the northern West Bank.

Bisharat added that the choice of Tubas specifically is because of its
location as the “gateway to the Jordan Valley,” an area Israel seeks to
resolve in its favor in any future political arrangements.

A new reality

In a special interview with our correspondent, analyst and writer Mohammad
Halasa offered another perspective, saying, “The operation in Tubas is not
a passing event nor merely a chase after individuals. We are facing an
Israeli attempt to create a new reality in the northern West Bank, a
reality that precedes any imagined negotiations and establishes the logic:
what the army controls today will be annexed tomorrow.”

He added that this is “a layered pressure targeting the social fabric to
break its resilience, paving the way for a phase where the line between
security and politics disappears.”

Halasa also stressed that “the timing of the operation is linked to an
internal race within the Israeli establishment to prove the ability to
impose control and to set new rules before any upcoming regional or
international changes.”

*Intertwined objectives*

Political writer and analyst Sari Orabi said that Israel had been intensely
targeting the northern West Bank long before the war on Gaza. Since 2021,
he explained, this region represented the true center of Palestinian
resistance activity, before the focus of confrontation shifted to Gaza
after the Al-Aqsa Flood.

Nevertheless, Orabi added, the occupation never forgot the northern West
Bank due to its complex and sensitive nature, which constantly places it at
the top of Israel’s security calculations.

He explained to the Palestinian Information Center that the northern West
Bank was, at times, an inspiring model for resistance, then later became a
model of direct defiance to the occupation. This placed Israeli security
institutions in a race against time to dismantle the armed groups there.

To achieve this, Israel resorted to destroying large parts of the Jenin,
Tulkarem, and Nur Shams camps, and to continuing pressure on the social
surroundings through displacement policies that continue to this moment.

He added that what happened in these camps marked the first experience of
internal mass displacement since the 1967 war, after more than 40,000
Palestinians were displaced, an experience the occupation considers a
“successful model” it is contemplating to repeat, turning the West Bank
into a repelling environment, consistent with the Israeli vision that sees
the West Bank as the strategic backbone of the Jewish state and the
ideological heart of the extremist religious movement.

Orabi emphasized that Israeli military operations in the West Bank are not
traditional security missions, but rather carry deep strategic and
political goals related to engineering society and imposing new realities
on the ground, including reshaping camps, intervening in lifestyle
patterns, and imposing political and social conditions on Palestinians.

At the same time, these operations renew themselves whenever Israel’s
security and military concerns arise, within a policy built on using far
more force than the situation requires, part of an integrated path of
“consciousness warfare” and reconfiguring the social environment to serve
the project of control and annexation.
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