Sydney - Middle East Times Int’l: In light of the state of public anger over the oppression, genocide and intimidation practiced by the Israeli army and its settlers against the Palestinians, the cities and villages of the West Bank committed, yesterday, Sunday, to the comprehensive strike announced by Palestinian forces and factions, and it affected all aspects of life.

In response to calls for a strike in the West Bank following the massacre in Nour Shams camp near the city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank, in which 14 Palestinians were killed in an infinite toll, and coinciding with massacres in the Gaza Strip, commercial shops and private and public educational and health institutions closed their doors.

A state of public mourning was also declared, and the streets were emptied of pedestrians amid calls to confront Israeli army soldiers and settlers and to confront their attacks, which, according to observers, have exceeded all limits, and have come to warn of a “massive explosion” in the West Bank, the indicators of which have begun to increase day after day.

The strike came after the Israeli army withdrew from Nour Shams camp on Saturday evening, 3 days after a massive military attack that left 14 dead, dozens of detainees, complete destruction of the infrastructure, and the demolition of dozens of homes and commercial establishments in the camp.

Press reports stated that the Israeli army had begun an investigation after the killing of a Palestinian volunteer medic in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that Muhammad Awad Allan (50 years old) was shot while he was treating people injured by Israeli settlers, and the Israeli army said that forces were sent to the village of Al-Sawiya to resolve the clashes.

The army confirmed that an ambulance driver had been killed, and that it was investigating the matter.

It is worth noting that the West Bank is a geopolitical region located in the center of Palestine, and constitutes approximately 21% of the area of Mandatory Palestine, as it and the Gaza Strip remained after the establishment of the State of Israel in the hands of the Arabs after the Nakba of 1948 until the 1967 war, and the displaced people of the 1948 war constitute About 30% of its population, which today numbers about 3 million Palestinians. It was called the West Bank in the context of the annexation of this region to the Kingdom of Jordan following the Jericho Conference’s pledge of allegiance to King Abdullah as king on both banks of the Jordan River. . The area of the West Bank is 5,860 km², and geographically this area includes the mountains of Nablus, the mountains of Jerusalem, the mountains of Hebron, and the western part of the Jordan Valley. Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, and the United Nations Security Council issued Resolution 242, which stipulated the need for Israel to withdraw from the territories it occupied. Israel still controls the West Bank and annexed parts of it, such as East Jerusalem, and systematically expropriated lands through replacement settlement and the construction of the separation wall, pushing Palestinians to flee, and an administration for the region was established in the name of “Judea and Samaria” to organize this. The Palestinians rose up in the West Bank as well as in Gaza against the Israeli military rule imposed on them. The most prominent of these uprisings was the 1987 intifada, which was followed by the start of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, in which the Palestine Liberation Organization agreed, in the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements in 1993, to recognize Israel in exchange for establishing... A Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on the basis of United Nations resolutions.