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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">IOF aggression on Tubas: An attempt to impose control over the gateway to the Jordan Valley</h1>
<p class="gmail-single_date">Wednesday 26-November-2025</p>
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<p>TUBAS, (PIC)</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p class="gmail-has-vivid-cyan-blue-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-005ec645210e85a4a0e5422c022ff640">Three brigades on the move</p>
<p>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 \u201cwanted individuals\u201d Israel
claims to be searching for.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p class="gmail-has-vivid-cyan-blue-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-893285b8a011f775453760d45f13f577">A geographic objective</p>
<p>Tubas Governor Ahmad al-As\u2019ad said that the Israeli military informed
Palestinian authorities that the operation would continue \u201cfor several
days,\u201d even though the governorate, according to him, is \u201cfree of any
wanted individuals.\u201d</p>
<p>Al-As\u2019ad 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.</p>
<p class="gmail-has-vivid-cyan-blue-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-62a61b1bfa272c098f1646daf9c5ec99">Parallel expansion of raids</p>
<p><strong>In parallel with the Tubas operation, raids expanded into other towns and cities:<br></strong>-Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of al-Khalil, witnessed mass arrests and intensive raids.<br>-The town of Halhul, also in al-Khalil, was subjected to sound-bomb and tear gas attacks.<br>-The
village of Talluza northeast of Nablus and Al-Am\u2019ari refugee camp south
of al-Bireh also saw consecutive arrest and raid campaigns.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p class="gmail-has-vivid-cyan-blue-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-f9c5d280b82936c67a080552d23397fc">Systematic aggression</p>
<p>Hamas described the operation as \u201crevealing the extent of the
systematic criminality of the extremist occupation government,\u201d saying
that turning West Bank cities into \u201cbesieged, fragmented zones\u201d is an
extension of \u201cannexation and displacement schemes.\u201d</p>
<p>Islamic Jihad viewed the operation as \u201ca new attempt to empty the
West Bank of its people\u201d and to create a political and legal environment
that paves the way for settlers to seize even more land.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>He explained to the Palestinian Information Center that the IOF
usually targets a single town or camp and focuses on it, but today\u2019s
operation is much larger, targeting four towns and a camp: Tubas,
Tammun, Tayasir, Aqaba, and Al-Faraa refugee camp.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p class="gmail-has-vivid-cyan-blue-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-932dfed1b770f5f24e97a0b8bc9e471c">Toward total control of the West Bank</p>
<p>Writer and Israeli-Affairs researcher Suleiman Bisharat believes that
what is happening in Tubas is \u201ca natural extension of the Iron Walls
Operation\u201d that began in Jenin in late 2024, aiming, in his assessment,
to impose complete security and political control over the northern West
Bank.</p>
<p>Bisharat added that the choice of Tubas specifically is because of
its location as the \u201cgateway to the Jordan Valley,\u201d an area Israel seeks
to resolve in its favor in any future political arrangements.</p>
<p class="gmail-has-vivid-cyan-blue-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-322fa95b9aa909ccbb3afbcd38dbbe09">A new reality</p>
<p>In a special interview with our correspondent, analyst and writer
Mohammad Halasa offered another perspective, saying, \u201cThe 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.\u201d</p>
<p>He added that this is \u201ca layered pressure targeting the social fabric
to break its resilience, paving the way for a phase where the line
between security and politics disappears.\u201d</p>
<p>Halasa also stressed that \u201cthe 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.\u201d</p>
<p class="gmail-has-vivid-cyan-blue-color gmail-has-text-color gmail-has-link-color gmail-wp-elements-a5681562702c69ef54ce944ecaa92ac9"><strong>Intertwined objectives</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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\u2019s security calculations.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 \u201csuccessful model\u201d 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>At the same time, these operations renew themselves whenever Israel\u2019s
security and military concerns arise, within a policy built on using
far more force than the situation requires, part of an integrated path
of \u201cconsciousness warfare\u201d and reconfiguring the social environment to
serve the project of control and annexation.</p>
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