The Supreme Monitoring Committee of the Arab Society in Israel toured the Jenin refugee camp earlier this week to examine the damage caused there as a result of a recent Israel Defense Forces operation. The delegation also visited the graves of Jihadists and other militants who shot at IDF troops and were killed.

The delegation that arrived in Jenin was attended by representatives of all the Arab parties in the Knesset, public representatives as well as clerics such as Sheikh Ra'ad Salah and activists of the Northern Faction of the Islamic Movement of Israel. The Hadash party was represented by Mansour Dhamsha, one of the senior party leaders, and also Amjad Shabeita, secretary of the Hadash party. From Balad's side came former MK Sami Abu Shahada and the party's general secretary, Yosef Tator. The representative of the Ra'am party was a member of the Shura Council, Abd Al-Malek Dhamsha.

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Footage from the visit to the graves of the Palestinian militants, considered by Israel and the US to be terrorist operatives, show pictures of the deceased holding assault rifles, placed on the top of the tombstones. Among the companions of the delegation was a senior Fatah official, Gamal Havil, who, after the attack in Tel Aviv on Dizengof Street carried out by Jenin resident Raed Hazem last year, said that "there is no other way [of resistance] except the rifle and the barrel of the guns."

Mohammad Bracha, chairman of the Supreme Monitoring Committee, told Israeli reporters from “Makor Rishon”: "This visit was a visit in solidarity with the suffering of the camp, which has been the target of invasions by the ‘occupation army’ for years. All these people are victims of the occupation operations that operate in a place that does not belong to them. These people were in their homes and in their city, and the one who invaded there and the one who destroyed and sabotaged and shot is the occupation army."

The organized visit to Jenin comes after earlier this week, the chairman of the Ra’am Party, Mansour Abbas, was interviewed and said that he is willing to join the Netanyahu coalition. Abbas set one condition for Netanyahu and said: "We are ready to join the Netanyahu government today if we receive the ministerial case for eradicating crime and violence in Arab society. I challenge Netanyahu if he really cares about the lives of Israeli-Arab citizens."