While the world looks at Gaza, this is what is going on in the West Bank

After the attack on Hamas on October 7, 2023 sparked the devastating war in Gaza, a new fatal reality was also interested in the Palestinians in occupied West Bank.

With the attention of the world concentrated on Gaza, Israeli military operations in the West Bank have increased in size, frequency and intensity. The army launched the campaign interrupted to counter what it says is a growing militant threat.

Here is an overview of the location of things, with data collected by the United Nations Humanitarian Bureau and Peace now, an Israeli anti-settling monitoring group.

Palestinian deaths by Israeli fire increased

Since the war in Gaza broke out, the majority of Palestinians killed by Israeli fires in the West Bank have been killed during military raids in villages and cities.

Israel says operations are necessary to eliminate activism. Many deaths have been activists killed in clashes, or young people throwing stones or fire bombs.

But the Palestinians and the rights defense groups say that dozens of non -involved civilians have been taken in the cross -fires. Among the killed since the attack on Hamas, at least 182 were children under the age of 18, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which Israel said that Israel was involved in the launch of Pierre and activism. Rights defense groups accuse Israel of having used excessive force.

Israeli offensives expelled 40,000 in refugee camps

Israel is organizing a massive offensive in four major refugee camps in the north of the West Bank. The raids, at their peak, pushed 40,000 people from their home. Many now refer to parents in neighboring villages, others accumulating apartments for rental while they are waiting to return.

Israeli officials, on the other hand, said that displaced persons would not be allowed to go back for at least a year.

The forces torn the roads, destroyed the infrastructure and demolished hundreds of houses. Israel says he dismantles terrorist infrastructure. But civil houses have also been destroyed.

In another escalation, the soldiers have taken up tactics previously rare, such as drone strikes, in these densely populated areas.

The attacks of the settlers against the Palestinians occur almost daily

The attacks of the colonists causing injuries or death to the Palestinians jumped following the attack on Hamas. For Palestinians living in small Bedouin villages in areas under Israeli control, attacks have become an almost daily event as colonists – enhargeed by the Israeli pro -settler government – Building new unauthorized outposts on the summits of neighboring hills.

Israel says that he opposes the violence of the colonists and blame everything on a small extremist fringe. Palestinians say that the Israeli army is not doing much to protect them and that attacks are part of a systematic attempt to expel them from their land.

Israeli outposts cross the territory

The settlers have established around 80 new outposts since the start of the war. Rights defense groups say that the outposts, often populated by extremist activists, are the main engines of violence against the Palestinians. The tiny seizures of unauthorized land are tolerated and even encouraged by Israel, which, over the years, has converted many outposts into authorized colonies while it cement its grip on the territory and the movements to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian State.

The Israeli government, dominated by the chiefs of colonists and the supporters, has established 13 new colonies since the start of the war, of which at least five have emerged as outposts. This brings the total number of colonies to 140.

Most of the international community considers the illegal colonies, although US President Donald Trump supported them.

Control points stifle the Palestinian movement

Meanwhile, the movement between Palestinian cities and cities has only become more difficult. The new checkpoints have also divided the territory And has created strangulation points that the Israeli army can go out on a whim.

The crossings that had been opened 24/7 began to close during the morning and evening rush hours, disturbing the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and transforming once the routine goes on a trip of several hours.

While the war in Gaza continues and the West Bank is boiling, the Palestinians say that life only becomes more difficult.