Annisa Essack | kzn@radioislam.org.za
10 July 2023 | 14:00 CAT
3 min read

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More than 4000 Palestinians returned to Jenin, flashing the V-for-victory sign with their hands and chanting victory slogans after Israel ended a devastating two-day military campaign on the refugee camp. Twelve Palestinians and an Israeli soldier lost their lives.

Ml Ebrahim Moosa explained that the Israelis seem to be divided about the success of the land and air offensive. On the one hand, the politicians are calling the assault an overwhelming success, whilst the military is expressing concern about the ability of the Palestinian resistance managed to access ammunitions that they used against one of the most advanced militaries in the world.

The Palestinians triumphed as they worked under a unified command, leaving their factional differences behind, fighting against a common enemy.

The Israelis, not having met their objective of turning Jenin into a “graveyard of terrorists”, then began an assault on the civilian population, destroying communications, water, and electricity infrastructure and displacing more than 5000 people.

Having lost the battle, the Israelis, according to Moosa, will now turn toward conflict management strategies to control the refugees within the camp instead of looking for solutions-based outcomes.

Further, commenting on the Israeli occupation plans for Jenin, he opined that the area could become another Gaza, mounting new offensives on the refugee camps and trying to create division among the united Palestinian resistance.

Anger against the Palestinian Authority has also boiled over in Jenin. Moosa spoke about the comments made by Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the areas controlled by the PA as another line of defence against the Palestinians whom they should be protecting.

Immediately after the Israeli offensive ended, Palestinians expressed their anger by attacking the PA Security Headquarters with stones and Molotov Cocktails after members remained inside the building and made no attempt to fight against the occupying forces.

Some arm resistance groups have said they were being fatally stabbed in the back by their people, the PA Security Services, that no fighter or defender of the land would accept.

An Israeli court has acquitted a border police officer charged with reckless manslaughter in the deadly shooting of an autistic Palestinian man in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City three years ago.

On Thursday, the Jerusalem district court ruled that the officer acted in self-defence when he shot and killed 32-year-old Eyad al-Hallaq.

His parents expressed shock at the sentence calling it a disgrace. And adding insult to injury, Itamar Ben Gvir, at a demonstration, shouted at the mother, calling her a terrorist and saying that he and the Israeli government would fully back the officer who will be returning to the Israeli forces with a promotion.

Listen to the full interview with Sulaimaan Ravat on Sabahul Muslim here.