National Security Minister Itamar Gen Gvir, along with other Israeli officials, have been preparing Jewish settlers for war to expel Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and eliminate the possibility of a Palestinian state.
The Israeli army is preparing to deploy automated and remotely monitored machine guns to protect illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israeli Army Radio reported on Sunday (15).
The automated weapons, developed by Rafael Combat Systems, will be installed in watchtowers around dozens of settlements and near their entrances. They will be controlled remotely from command centers “to prevent armed attacks and infiltration operations”.
The same system was installed on the Gaza border in 2008 and operated by observers at bases. However, he failed to prevent fighters from the Islamic Resistance movement, Hamas, from approaching and breaching the barrier fence to attack Israeli settlements and military bases on October 7, 2023.
During Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, fighters from the Qassam Brigades reportedly used attack drones to disable automated weapons during the early hours of the operation.
The military will first deploy the weapons to locations it defines as “high risk” and will expand its deployment over time to include additional locations.
According to the report, the Army’s 636th Reconnaissance Unit of the West Bank Division will operate the systems.
Israeli soldiers and settlers have intensified their attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza last year.
The Israeli army and settlers have killed 812 Palestinians and injured 6,500 in the West Bank since then.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has provided more than 120,000 firearms to Jewish settlers in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza War.
“More than 120,000 weapons were distributed to qualified citizens, while tens of thousands received conditional approvals,” Ben-Gvir, leader of the far-right Jewish Power Party, said on his X account in October.
“We intend to continue arming Israel. That’s what we did and that’s what we will continue to do!”
Ben Gvir and other Jewish supremacist politicians and ministers announced their desire to use Jewish settlers to expel the indigenous Palestinian population from the occupied West Bank and annex it into Israel.
Following Donald Trump’s election as US president in November, Ben Gvir, himself a resident of the Kiryat Arba settlement, declared that “this is the time for sovereignty” over the West Bank.
On December 9, following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria, Bezalel Smotrich called for an increase in Jewish settlements and the establishment of “facts on the ground” to ensure that a Palestinian state would never be established.
With information from The Cradle*
Source: https://www.ocafezinho.com/2024/12/15/urgente-israel-usa-tecnologia-militar-contra-palestinos-na-cisjordania/
