Dr. Abeer Abdel Rahman Thabit
The Palestinians were accompanied by major transformations in their conflict with Israel, which has in a way or another succeeded in neutralizing its enemies and attempting to strip the Palestinians of their Arab depth. It pursued a policy of neutralizing and dividing opponents for the possibility of confronting them individually and started that since the last century seventies with the signing of the Camp David Accords; where the features of the different contexts of the conflict with Israel appeared. It also became apt for different Arab tracks and accounts; therefore, the Arabs took the role of mediator with Israel instead of the role of partner for Palestine; so the conflict was limited to the Palestinians alone; and shifted from the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

In another major Palestinian political shift; the political division that produced a state of fragmentation and a political, social and economic division between the two parts of the country extending for sixteen years occurred. Israel, with all means possible, sought to exploit this divisive reality, especially in light of the Hamas control of Gaza and the absence of an internationally recognized legitimate cover, and worked to isolate the resistance factions by besieging them, and demolishing Gaza with repeated rounds of aggressive wars under the pretext of searching for the security of its citizens stripped from Gaza's resistance, according to its claim.

Later on, Gaza became central to the political and military map of the mindset of the Israeli and regional security organization. Thus, it has acquired an attractive political position for many Arab and regional powers, which each rushed to resolve the Gaza decision, and devoted their wealth to controlling the future of Gaza and its citizens by providing conditional financial support to the Palestinian factions in Gaza, which was later discharged from the independence of its decision.

In another attempt to target opponents, Israel tried for the first time to isolate one of the resistance factions (Islamic Jihad) when it assassinated Baha Abu Al-Atta in 2019. At that time, it created a new resistance reality, as the standing of ‘Hamas’ was similar to its position in the assassination of Tayseer Al-Jabari in the last aggression. Meanwhile, ‘Hamas’ preferred and distanced itself from interfering in order to assert its commitment to the strategic understandings with Israel.

Consequently, Israel discovered that it had failed to establish a new reality by isolating Al-Quds Brigades from the resistance factions, or isolating Gaza from its inclusive Palestinian context, especially after the aggression of Ramadan in 2021 (Al-Quds Sword battle) which contributed to the unity of the people and the country with all its political geography where the popular uprising extended to all the cities of the West Bank, Al-Quds and the 1948 cities.

This has confused the Israeli security organization, which has been seeking, since its aggression on Gaza in 2021, to re-arrange the security of the West Bank cities, specifically Jenin and Nablus, and try to separate the resistance in those cities from the resistance in Gaza at all costs, neutralize Gaza from what is happening in the West Bank and Al-Quds, and break the unity equation achieved in 2021 when all the Palestinian lands broke out, and the armed resistance became a part of the comprehensiveness of the Palestinian struggle. Gaza is no longer alone in resisting with rockets to lift its siege or to improve the livelihoods of its citizens, rather, the resistance in all its forms turned into a collective clash in all the Palestinian territories, to reject settlements, defend Al-Quds, and prevent the marches of the flags. This is what Israel rejects with all means possible.

 In connection with the foregoing, Israel has renewed the policy of dividing the Palestinian people, to be able to defeat them in its colonial sense. It applies this policy round-the-clock in the cities of the West Bank stormed every day in an organized and singular manner, with the aim of neutralizing. The strategic goal of Israel has become to dismantle the cohesion between the resistance forces, both in the West Bank and Gaza, or the Al-Qassam Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades -which Israel considers an extension of what it has been doing in Jenin a few months ago, as it assassinated Al-Jaabari. Once again, Hamas made its decision and did not participate in the response, for internal and external accounts, and within the intermediaries' public messages that the target is the ‘Islamic Jihad movement’, which Israel considers one of Iran's arms in the region; accusing it of performing the proxy war on Iran, this lays for a change in the system of confrontation with Israel, which has been trying for years to isolate each party separately to remove it from the military scene.

Through this strategy, it tries to achieve political goals in addition to its military goals. On the political level, it works to deter the resistance factions in the West Bank and Gaza through its security and military dominance. This lays the foundations for preventing the creation of a unified Palestinian resistance reality, and stops any attempt to communicate with the armed resistance with the West Bank, because the costs for Gaza will be high, as it does not want to deviate from the positions of Gaza from its humanitarian needs, and to threaten Al-Jihad after the arrest of one of its leaders, Bassam Al-Saadi, considered it a breach of its fragmentation policy, as a matter of interfering in the affairs of the West Bank, which should not regard Gaza and the resistance factions in it from the point of view of Israel. The strike to the Jihad movement was not only military, but also political to all the resistance forces. In the most important meaning for Israel to preserve the reality of fragmentation that it is trying to impose with its repressive policies in the West Bank, Al-Quds, the Gaza Strip and within the 1948.

The Palestinian issue has reached the marginality of the political context in the region after the wave of normalization with Israel and the continuation of the political division that exhausted the national project. This encouraged Israel in its aggression on Gaza, the West Bank, and Al-Quds, and its continuous attempts to divide the Palestinian whole. The Palestinians have no choice but to re-plan a national strategy in a unitary manner, without randomness or exclusivity, and the agreement on a political program for national action that establishes an end to the division; Through it, a unified Palestinian discourse is formulated that will be able to confront the Israeli occupation and its military dominance.