BERLIN, February 28, 2025 (WAFA) – Germany Friday slammed the Israeli occupation army’s plan to stay in the northern occupied West Bank city and refugee camp of Jenin as unacceptable.
“The Israeli Government’s plans to maintain a long-term military presence in Jenin are therefore unacceptable,” the German Federal Foreign Office said in a press statement.
Commenting on the ongoing Israeli military aggression in the northern West Bank cities, the German Federal Foreign Office said: “It has already forced 40,000 people to leave their homes in the Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas refugee camps, 50 people have been killed and many wounded, including civilians.”
Referring to the 1993 Oslo Accords, touted as the only way to reach a permanent peace between Palestinians and Israelis based on the “principles” of mutual recognition and “land for peace”, the German Federal Foreign Office said: “Under the Oslo Accords, Jenin is in Area A, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) thus has exclusive responsibility for security there.”
It cautioned that “If Israeli security forces remain in Palestinian-administered Palestinian territory, this will undermine the PA’s efforts to act as the legitimate representative of Palestinian interests.”
It stressed that “Israel’s actions are consolidating the occupation, which, according to the ICJ Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024 must be brought to an end, and are destabilising what is in any case already an extremely fragile security environment.”
The Israeli occupation has been waging military aggression on the city and refugee camp of Jenin for 39 consecutive days, killing 27 Palestinians and injuring dozens and causing large-scale destruction of vital infrastructure and properties.
The aggression on Jenin comes in parallel with similar aggression on the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm for 20 consecutive days as well as with tightened restrictions on Palestinians’ freedom of movement within the occupied West Bank through a complex combination of approximately 898 fixed and flying checkpoints and gates, including 18 gates that have been installed since the start of 2025 and 146 others installed in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, settler-only roads, over 200 military bases, and various other physical obstructions.
Military aggressions, and closures besides other measures, taken under the guise of security, are intended to entrench Israel’s 58-year-old military occupation of the West Bank and its settler colonial project which it enforces with routine and frequently deadly violence against Palestinians.
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