Three years after the October 7 massacre, the Israeli security establishment still admits that the situation in the Gaza Strip has not been resolved, two and a half years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement that Israel was "one step away from victory." Israeli army forces control about 64% of the Strip's territory through two military divisions and about 30 outposts, while continuing to build barriers and trenches and carry out assassinations. Security sources confirm that Hamas still controls the population and funds itself from 600 trucks entering the Strip daily, amid the absence of a political plan for the post-war phase.
In the West Bank, various areas witnessed a wide Israeli incursion campaign targeting universities, towns, villages and agricultural lands, accompanied by demolitions, detentions, arrests and confiscations. Israeli forces stormed Birzeit University with a military bulldozer, demolished a monument dedicated to the university's martyrs and detained one of its security guards. In Nablus, forces expelled farmers from their lands in the village of Osarin, and the army arrested a member of the Palestinian security apparatus during a raid on Ramallah. Israeli forces also stormed the town of Turmusaya and prevented citizens from reaching their agricultural lands.
In a related context, the Israeli army spokesman announced that Duvdevan unit fighters, led by the Samaria Brigade and guided by the Shin Bet, arrested two Palestinians yesterday Sunday in the Nablus casbah who were trading weapons allegedly intended to harm Israeli citizens and security forces, after storming the casbah in a special operation.