News - Middle East: The recent shooting operations by Palestinian resistance groups and the ramped-up struggle against the Tel Aviv regime in the West Bank have proved how fragile the Israeli military is, a Palestinian media report says.

“Shooting operations and the targeting of Zionist troopers at military checkpoints and positions in the West Bank have been ramped up recently, with Israeli forces getting wounded and killed by Palestinian fighters,” the report said, according to Tasnim news agency.

The report was pointing to two recent shooting operations carried out within less than 48 hours in two separate neighborhoods in al-Quds.

On October 9, an Israeli soldier was killed while two others were injured in a shooting attack at the Shuafat refugee camp checkpoint in East al-Quds.

Two days later, a second shooting operation targeted and killed another Israeli soldier near the Shavei Shomron settlement in Nablus.

The report said while the two operations have been carried out at different times in two different areas, they both were a success.

“Carrying out similar operations in the future can rub the Israeli military of its dignity within the Zionist community, create growing distrust and bring discredit on it,” it added.

It concluded that the reduced efficiency of the Israeli military can create distrust among the troopers and commanders, lead to the withdrawal of the ground forces, and make the military reliant on its air forces in the conflicts.

Israeli forces have recently been conducting overnight raids and killings in the northern occupied West Bank, mainly in the cities of Jenin and Nablus, where new groups of Palestinian resistance fighters have been formed.

The Palestinian health ministry says at least 171 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the illegally occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year, including 51 Palestinians during Israel’s three-day assault on Gaza in August.

‘Nablus siege shows failure of Israeli security apparatus’

Hazem Qassem, a spokesman for the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement, said that the ongoing siege in the Shuafat refugee camp in Nablus, which came to force following the October 9 shooting operation, reveals the failure of the Israeli security apparatus.

“The continuation of the closure, siege and collective punishment policy imposed by the occupation on the city of Nablus, for the sixth consecutive day, is nothing but an expression of the impotence and failure experienced by the security system of the occupation, in the face of the rising resistance and uprising of our people throughout the occupied West Bank,” Qassem said in a statement on Monday.

“We are mobilized by our people and our heroic resistance fighters in Nablus, Jenin, Shuafat and the entire West Bank, and they are writing the most wonderful epics and heroism in the face of an arrogant occupation that knows nothing but the language of force,” he said.

He added that the siege, incursions and murders will neither “intimidate the resistance” nor will they stop them from protecting their lands and sanctity.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Nablus have been trapped in the Shuafat refugee camp and nearby towns by Israeli forces since October 11 amid an ongoing search for the shooter that killed an Israeli soldier.

Since the beginning of the Israeli blockade, Palestinians have been unable to leave to receive necessary health treatments, and many basic supplies like flour are running low. Education within the camp has been suspended as well.

Source: Press TV