2024-08-29
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From the New York Times, it's the headlines.
I'm Traci Mumford.
Today's Thursday, August 29.
Here's what we're covering.
Israel's wide scale military operation in the West bank this week appears to be the largest in over a year.
Hundreds of troops went into the occupied territory, targeting what the israeli military said are militant strongholds.
In many past raids, Israel has gone into these places and left within a number of hours.
But we're now speaking more than 24 hours since the start of this raid, and the israeli forces are still on the ground.
Adam Raskin covers Israel for the Times.
He says even as Israel has been at war in Gaza, it's also been conducting near daily raids in the West bank for the last year.
Hundreds of Palestinians there have been killed and thousands have been arrested on suspicion of being involved with armed groups.
Israel sees this as an operation focused on rooting out militancy in parts of the West bank, whereas much of the palestinian population sees it as a raid that's upending their lives and forcing them to huddle in their homes.
But we spoke to many people on the ground, and they spoke about hunkering down in their homes, fears of snipers on roofs nearby.
At least individuals that we spoke to hadn't been outside for the entirety of the day.
An israeli military spokesman said yesterday that the operation in the West bank is in its, quote, first stages.