Amos Harel/Haaretz

Yesterday’s events in the West Bank show that there is a strong battle inside the cities of the West Bank, but the media does not highlight it, which was shown in the injury of colonial settlers who infiltrated into the city of Nablus without the approval of the occupation army in order to perform Talmudic rituals at Yousef’s Tomb, and in another event in the village of Rojib, two resistance fighters were arrested after they clashed with Yamam fighters and the Israeli army soldiers.

These events indicate a clear trend in the West Bank, which began almost in the wave of shooting and stabbing operations that occurred between the past two months of March and May. Recently a new factor has been added, which is the fortifying of resistance fighters in buildings or secret apartments, refusing to surrender and conducting an exchange of shooting fire with soldiers and policemen.

The most prominent incident occurred in Nablus on August 9, when the martyred resistance fighter Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi waged a long battle with the men of "Yamam" until his death, and he was famous for his shooting operations.

At the peak of the two intifadas, as well as between them, in the 1990s, the army, the Shin Bet, and the Border Guard had a consistent way called the “pressure pot,” which encircled a house in which there was a resistance fighter, and used powerful means of attack, reaching up to launching rockets, and sometimes even demolishing the house as required by a bulldozer. Hundreds of similar incidents occurred in the West Bank, and now, because of the general atmosphere in the West Bank, and the increase in resistance in it, let's take Al-Nabulsi as an example. It seems that this old way has returned, and all of this is happening because of the weak control of the Authority over the West Bank, as the resistance fighters challenge the authority that is trying to prevent resistance, so you find alliances between activists in Fatah and Islamic Jihad and possessing a lot of weapons.

The unanimous opinion of the senior commanders of the army, the Shin Bet, and the Office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories is that the West Bank is deteriorating into a violent reality. Mahmoud Abbas' position is weak, and the Lapid-Bennett-Gantz government knows that making economic or political goodwill gestures can calm, even in some way, few souls, but she fears that she will be looked at as a defeated left-wing in the struggle against the Likud. Chaos in the West Bank could intensify and deteriorate again into the occupied Palestine in 1948, before the elections, which will affect its results.