Increased Violence in West Bank Highlights Strategic Position Over Israel

The West Bank, center of a proposed Palestinian state, is land many Israelis think they can’t risk giving up.

A column of Israeli armored vehicles leave following a military operation in Tubas, West Bank, on Aug. 14, 2024. Majdi Mohammed/AP

News Analysis

The Israeli army’s overnight raid in the West Bank—strikes in Jenin and Tulkarm that killed 10 Palestinians—underscores another front in a war that Israel had been fighting mostly against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah on the Lebanese frontier, until now.