On 28 August, the Israeli army launched ‘Operation Summer Camps’, with a large-scale and extremely violent assault Palestinian towns, cities, and refugee camps in the northern occupied West Bank. Since then, in Tulkarm, Jenin, Tubas, and other towns and camps, Israeli occupation forces have killed close to 50 Palestinians – including elderly residents and children, as well as local fighters. The operation is, in theory, open-ended – and thus far characterised by withdrawals of forces from a particular town, only for the army to return some days later. Airstrikes, the bulldozing of civilian inf…