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Nagham Zbeedat,
The Israeli army is ‘constantly turning villages into conflict zones,’ said the commander, with no attempts to disguise it as anything else.
In a hospital room in Nablus in the West Bank on Sunday, a woman was about to give birth to her first child. Somewhere in the same city, her husband was moving between shops, looking for something small and ordinary: baby clothes. A first outfit. Something soft to wrap around a life that just entered the world.
A day later, the child would be born into a shattered reality. ِ
According to Palestinian health officials and reports from Wafa News Agency, 26-year-old Naif Firas Ziad Samaro was shot and killed during an Israeli military raid in the city. A Red Crescent source told Haaretz he was on his way to the hospital when he was shot. At least four others were wounded, including a 12-year-old boy. Dozens were treated for tear gas inhalation.
An Israeli defense source said stones were thrown at the troops and soldiers had opened fire after initially using crowd-control measures.
This is how the story is told, again and again: a raid, clashes, stones, a response.
In a recent closed forum, Avi Bluth, the Israeli military’s top commander in the West Bank, laid it out plainly. The army, he said, is “constantly turning villages into conflict zones.” He described a strategy of what he called “precise aggression,” and spoke openly about relaxed rules of engagement, including the routine shooting of Palestinians, even stone-throwers, as a form of deterrence.
“In 2025, we killed 42 stone-throwers on the roads,” he said.
There was no attempt to soften the language. No effort to disguise what this means in practice. The line between a lethal threat to soldiers and the presence of Palestinian civilians is deliberately erased. A man buying baby clothes is no longer a civilian. A street filled with shops becomes a battlefield. A city becomes, in the words of a senior Israeli commander, becomes a “conflict zone.”
Bluth himself acknowledged that this system is not applied equally. When it comes to Israeli settlers who throw stones at soldiers, Bluth said: “I’m not sure we need to go there; we don’t have to engage in shooting, and yes, it involves discrimination.”
What happened in Nablus is a continuation of a system in which Palestinians are not seen as equal human beings. A system that does not need to justify every killing, but only needs to maintain the structure that makes those killings acceptable.
The IDF’s commander’s language reflects this: “Deterrence.” “Barrier consciousness.” “Conflict zones.”
Under the disguise of “neutrality,” these terms become tools that allow a person on his way to meet his newborn child to be reclassified, in an instant, into something else. A threat. A statistic. A necessary outcome.
“‘If someone comes to kill you, kill them first’ is the norm in the Middle East, so we’re killing like we haven’t killed since 1967,” Bluth said in the meeting, referring to Israel’s Six-Day War, when it occupied the West Bank and Jerusalem from Jordan.
There was no hesitation in the statement, no acknowledgment of what it implies. Perhaps because there is little reason to hesitate. And the message becomes clearer each time: this is not happening in the shadows. It is happening in full view.
A man goes out to buy baby clothes. A child is born. A father is killed.
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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