In recent months, Palestinians say there has been a dramatic increase in aggressive and extended Israeli raids on towns and villages across rural areas in the occupied West Bank – especially those close to illegal Israeli settlements.
This has prompted concerns among residents over whether Israel is rehearsing for long-proposed plans to annex and impose its sovereignty onto the West Bank – as Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has repeatedly threatened.
The military incursions have been carried out in Palestinian areas classified as Area B under the Oslo Accords, which are supposedly under the civil administration of the Palestinian Authority (PA), and in Area C, which has been under Israeli administration since the 1993 Accords. ….more
