Situation Report by PALM Strategic
The wave of Israeli raids and attacks against the cities and towns of the West Bank have increased during the past few days. Today morning, the Israeli occupation forces raided the eastern area of Nablus and arrested many resistance fighters, yet they stormed Qabatiya area in southern Jenin to arrest other fighters the day before. This represents a continuation of the series of raids that often lead to more martyrs, injuries and arrests.

In contrast, the Palestinian resistance acts have steadily increased recently. The cities and towns of the West Bank have witnessed the implementation of 25 resistance operations of shooting and explosive, and 65 popular resistance actions ranged between throwing of stones and cutting off the road to occupation forces and colonial settlers. What attracts the most is that the resistance operations continue to extend and expand in more regions of the West Bank in a way that increases the costs spent on the Israeli occupation army.

According to statistics, since the start of 2022, the regions of the Occupied West Bank witnessed more than 600 resistance operations, including 50 shootings, that concentrated in Jenin, Nablus, Al-Quds, Ramallah. This particularly indicates the resistance's entry to a new phase of "revival", making it more efficient, powerful and costly to the occupation.

Analysis and Scene Reading:
•West Bank cities are experiencing a renewed phase of resistance work, which declines and gets affected as a result of Israel's military and security operations and security coordination, but soon recover and continue with greater resolve.
•The occupation carries out vicious military operations and intrusions against Palestinian cities and villages with a view to eliminating and damaging resistance to the maximum extent possible, in order to prevent them from confronting the occupation and its forces and settlers.
•The occupation recognizes the strategic dangers of the growth of the state of resistance in the occupied West Bank and the situation of deep attachment between the Occupied West Bank and the occupied territories in 1948, which constitutes an existential threat to its security and entity.
•Resistance in the West Bank is an iconic situation in terms of its ability to rebuild and restore its military capabilities despite all the challenges and attacks by the occupation against its formations and organizational structure, which explains the West Bank's constant state of renewed awakening.

Possible Scenarios: based on the aforementioned analysis and reading of the scene, following is the expected: 
•The individual and organized operations might continue in a more powerful and efficient way during the upcoming period of time. This will affect the Israeli occupation, heat the fronts of the Occupied West Bank, and increase the possibility to expand and include the implementation of such operations in the 1948 occupied Interior. What supports this scenario is the continuous individual and organizational efforts of the Palestinian factions to pressure the occupation in West Bank; thus, the occupation's cost will increase and its security will be drained. Also, the occupation will lose more settlers and soldiers, especially with the ongoing Israeli attacks that constitute a motivation provoking the resistance and its cells. 
•The occupation's ability to control the field "awakening" led by the Palestinian Resistance in West Bank, and restore the security control over the West Bank cities and towns in a way that brings relative calm. This can be applied through the integration with the security coordination system to dominate the Palestinian Resistance's efforts. This scenario is supported by the steady rise in the Zionist efforts exerted in this context.

In general, the first scenario looks more realistic and logical in light of the popular and factional resistance against the Israeli occupation in the cities of the West Bank, and the expanding culture of resistance there amid the spreading occupation's violations and attacks against the Palestinian resistance.