Afrasianet - Despite the bitterness and harshness of the scene, the displacement may have been easier for Abeer Bani Odeh and her four sons than the siege imposed by the Israeli occupation army on their home in the town of Tammun near the city of Tubas, in the  northern West Bank, where there is no entry or exit amid raids and searches of homes, abuse of citizens and field investigations with them.

What Abeer is experiencing for the third consecutive day, the cities and camps in the northern West Bank, especially Jenin and Tulkarm, have been facing for two weeks, as the occupation launches its military operation "Iron Wall", which targeted the Jenin and Tulkarm camps first and spread to Tubas governorate, especially Tammun and Fara'a camp.

Through this report, we answer questions about the ongoing Israeli operation, which has become a threat to Palestinian lives and geography as well. What was the iron fence operation and when did it start?

On  January 21, the occupation launched its military operation "Iron Wall" – as it called it – in the Jenin Palestinian refugee camp in the northern West Bank (more than 20,000 people), followed by another operation under the same name in Tulkarm refugee camp  (15,000 people) on January 27.

The occupation also stormed the southern areas of Tubas governorate, specifically targeting the town of Tammun (17,000 people) and Al-Fara'a camp (7,000 people) on February 2.

In addition to the names of previous military occupation operations in the West Bank, such as "breakwaters", "summer camps" and others, there is no biblical quote for the "iron wall" operation, but it means dealing more strongly and firmly with the West Bank and the northern areas in particular.

•    What does the occupation want from the "iron wall", especially since large numbers of its forces are participating in it?

The occupation did not give a clear and specific goal to its military operation, despite announcing that it may last for weeks, that there are areas from which it will not withdraw quickly, and that the decision is in the hands of the political level, as reported by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

The operation, involving Border Police forces, special units, the Shin Bet  security service and the IDF, aims to "continue to maintain the army's freedom of movement throughout the West Bank, destroy and neutralize terrorist infrastructure and pursue ticking time bombs," according to the newspaper.

•    How did the military operation of the occupation army roll in the targeted areas? And what did it characterize?

A few minutes before the occupation forces stormed Jenin camp, it was announced inside the camp that Israeli special forces had infiltrated one of its neighborhoods and were discovered, while the incursion was direct into the city of Tulkarm and its camp, and the same was the case in the storming of the areas of Tubas governorate.

The operation carried a military character from the beginning, as it used dozens of military vehicles technically equipped with the latest weapons and surveillance tools, and personnel carriers of different types and sizes, the latest of which was the most fortified "Eitan" armored vehicle, which is used for the first time in the West Bank, and the military bulldozers "D9" and "D10" tracked and wheeled.

From the air, Israeli warplanes, along with drones, assist soldiers on the ground, provide them with all the necessary data, and monitor the movements of the resistance fighters and bomb them.

•    How is Operation Iron Fence and its military actions on the ground going?

In all the targeted locations, hundreds of soldiers armed with various types of weapons are deployed between alleys and neighborhoods, enforcing a complete siege on the place, imposing curfews and preventing the entry and exit of citizens, except with prior coordination that is rarely allowed by the occupation, and then storming citizens' homes and wreaking havoc through their policy of "collective punishment amid unprecedented violence."

In addition to the abuse, intimidation and pressure exerting pressure on citizens during field interrogation during their detention inside their homes and in the places to which they are collectively marketed, the occupation army used them as human shields, especially inside the camps, to reach its goals.

After evacuating the residents and expelling them from their residential areas, the occupation turned their homes into military barracks for its soldiers, climbed on the roofs of other buildings and installed snipers on them.

He synchronized his soldiers' operations by demolishing the infrastructure of the sites where he was penetrating, cutting off electricity and water, leveling the streets widely, cutting off neighborhood ties through barriers and earth mounds, and using a policy of "house-to-house"  demolition to facilitate the safer movement of soldiers.

The occupation also prevented the medical and food supply of the population, prevented ambulances from moving except with prior coordination, obstructed the work of ambulance crews and assaulted them, besieged hospitals, prevented the funeral of martyrs and the dead, whose bodies reach their refrigerators, disrupted citizens' communications, and completely paralyzed economic life in the areas where it penetrated it.

This paralysis is more evident in the town of Tammun, where more than two-thirds of its residents work in agriculture, and the town is a food basket (agricultural and livestock) and a supplier to many Palestinian areas, and these are prevented from reaching their farms, which threatens to have serious consequences for them and their facilities if the siege continues. What has Operation Iron Fence resulted from so far?

Since the beginning of this year, Israel has killed 70 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 42 since the beginning of the Iron Fence, and displaced thousands of citizens outside their areas of residence who were displaced to the suburbs, surrounding villages, schools, health centers and mosques.

In a statement carried by the Israeli media, on Tuesday, the occupation army said that it killed 55 Palestinians and arrested about 380 in the West Bank during January, which coincides with the launch of its military operation "Iron Wall."How was the target map and its results distributed among the targeted areas of the operation?

In Jenin refugee camp, the Israeli occupation killed 26 Palestinians and wounded dozens, 70 of them critically. In addition, 90% of the camp's population was displaced (3,420 families out of 3,490 were displaced) after about 150 houses were destroyed through the bombing of some of them and the burning of others, in addition to direct demolition, the most dangerous of which was a few days ago after blowing up a residential square in the camp that affected more than 20 buildings at once in an operation that has not happened since 2002.

In the stricken city of Tulkarm and its two camps (Tulkarm andNour Shams) through more than 60 incursions into two years, and the total and partial demolition of more than 500 houses, the occupation has continued since the beginning of the "iron wall" - against Tulkarm camp in particular -  to demolish dozens of houses and blow them up through special engineering units, forcing 80% of the camp's population to flee outside it.

In al-Fara'a camp, many incursions and displacement of residents from their homes were recorded, as was the case in the town of Tammun, from which more than 15 families were displaced after soldiers occupied their homes and turned them into military barracks, while imposing a military siege on dozens of homes and entire neighborhoods.

According to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, since the beginning of Operation Iron Fence, Israel has arrested and detained 115 Palestinians in Jenin and its refugee camp, and more than 30 citizens in Tubas, including 28 in Tammun, and later released some of them. Meanwhile, in the city of Tulkarm and its camp, about 35 arrests, including the wounded, were carried out.

•    How do Palestinians read Operation Iron Wall politically?

It seems from the nature of the map of the "iron wall" that the occupation is trying to create a continuous geographical space for its military operations in the West Bank in this way and at this stage.

The targeting of the northern West Bank, says Suleiman Bisharat, writer and political analyst for Al Jazeera Net, is the beginning of a new phase represented in strengthening Israeli control and restructuring the geographical and demographic area to facilitate the strategic goals of the occupation of annexing the West Bank lands, and trying to create a new political and security reality that facilitates the process of strengthening settlements very significantly.

The "Iron Wall" confirms that the occupation has a vision, a plan to implement and much more comprehensive political goals from the security and military standpoint at this stage.

•    How is the process going for Israeli society?

Israel launched its operation for many purposes, the first of which was to plant in the Israeli imagination that it is related to the issue of war, thus making society at war and alert.

It also – although it means the northern West Bank now – but its goals are greater towards an internal "transfer operation", says Yasser Manna, a researcher on Israeli affairs for Al Jazeera Net.

Israel seeks to empty the neighboring camps, cities and villages, promote the separation of the West Bank from each other, and obstruct the establishment of any Palestinian entity on a continuous basis in order to serve Israel's future vision for the West Bank, such as control of land, annexation and the like.

It also wants to redefine  the PA functionally and geographically, and to define its function to Area A only, which is to manage the population and provide security functions to Israel.

•    Does the "Iron Wall" military operation have a time limit?

The data on the ground indicate that the occupation is continuing its military operation in the northern West Bank, especially since the Israeli security establishment has been discussing since the first days of the operation to expand its ground activity to include all parts of the West Bank, which coincides with statements by army commanders that "there is no time limit for it," and that it "will expand to achieve its goals leading to the complete dismantling of terrorist bases."

This was confirmed  by Herzi Halevi, the  resigned IDF Chief of Staff after his visit to the site of the commando operation at the Tayasir checkpoint, east of Tubas, which led to the death of two Israeli soldiers and the wounding of 8 others, saying: "We will increase the operation and expand it to other new areas," while the Israeli Channel 11 reported that the operation will continue until Ramadan.