Israel’s West Bank crackdown triggers a wave of displacement unseen in decades

Farra Refugee Camp, West Bank – By car and pedestrians, through muddy olive groves and eyesight lines in snipers, tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled in the last weeks of Israeli military operations through the northern West Bank – the biggest displacement in the occupied region since the 1967 war in the 1967 war.

After announcing a large -scale campaign against militants in the West Bank on January 21 – just two days later The ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza – Israeli forces He went down in the comfortable city of JeninAs they have Dozens of times Since Hamas October 7, 2023, an attack on Israel.

But unlike previous operations, the Israeli forces pushed deeper and more powerful to many other nearby cities, including TolkramVara and Nour ShamsThe scattering of families and the movement of bitter memories from 1948 War for the creation of Israel.

During that war, 700,000 Palestinians fled or forced their homes in what Israel now knows. Nakba, or a “disaster”, as the Palestinians call it, led to the crowded West Bank cities now under attack and are still known as refugee camps.

“This is our Nakba,” said Abed Sabag, 53, who collected his seven children in the car on February 9. Nour Shams campHe was born to the fathers who fled the 1948 war.

Humanitarian officials say they have not seen such displacement in the West Bank since 1967 Middle East War, When Israel seized the region west of the Jordan River, alongside East Jerusalem and Gaza, which resulted in the displacement of 300,000 Palestinians.

“This is unprecedented. When you add the destruction of the infrastructure, we reach a point where the camps have become uninterrupted,” said Roland Friedrich, director of West Bank affairs to The Palestinian Refugee Agency. More than 40,100 Palestinians have fled their homes in the ongoing military operation, according to the agency.

Experts say that Israel’s tactics in the West Bank are almost indisputable Those who were published in Gaza. Indeed, President Donald Trump’s plan for A collective transition to the Palestinians from Gaza Israel has gathered the extreme right to renew calls to include the West Bank.

“The idea of” clearing “the land of the Palestinians is more popular today than ever.

The Israeli army denies issuing evacuation orders in the West Bank. She said that the forces were providing clips for those who want to leave on their own.

More than ten Palestinians who were interviewed last week said they did not escape from their homes, but based on the orders of the Israeli security forces. Journalists at Associated Press also heard in the Nur Shams camp, the Israeli soldiers screaming through Mosque Megaphones, which orders people to leave.

Some of the displaced families said that the soldiers were polite, knocking on the doors and assuring them that they could return when he left the army. Others said they were cruel, glowing rooms, and guns out of their homes despite their appeals for more time.

“I was crying, asking them,” Why do you want me to leave my house? “Aya Abdullah, 30, summoned a shelter for displacement in the village of Kafr El -Labad.” They have given us seven minutes. I brought my children, thank God. Nothing else. “

Abdullah told their own way, 10 kilometers (six miles) on a luminous path of glow from its phone, as the rain turned to the ground to the mud. She said that she is holding her children tightly, and reaping the potential snipers they have A 23 -year -old pregnant woman was killed a few hours ago on February 9.

Her 5 -year -old son Nidal interrupted her story, and followed his lips together to make a loud voice.

She replied, “You are right, my love. This is the sound made by drones when we left the house.”

In the nearby town of Anabta, the volunteers moved inside and outside the mosques and government buildings that have become temporary shelters – the offering of donated blankets, bitter coffee, distribution of boiled eggs on breakfast and hitting ponds of rice and chicken.

Residents have opened their homes to families who escaped from Nour Shams and Tolkrim.

“This is our duty in the current security situation.”.

But he stressed that the welcoming city hand should not be wrong in anything else.

“Nasr that their displacement is temporary,” he said.

When the invasion began on February 2, the Israeli bulldozers were torn underground. The taps ran dry. Settling. The Internet service has been closed. Schools closed. Food supplies diminished. Echoes the explosions.

Ahmed Suboo could have understood how his neighbors chose to escape from the deported refugee camp during the incursion of Israel for 10 days. But he dismantled the rain water to drink and retreated in his home, and he divided himself and his family and the Israeli soldiers knocking on his door that he would remain.

The soldiers advised not to do so, and they informed the Subua family on February 11, because the room raised doubts about the containment of security cameras and an arms -like being, they will detonate the second floor.

Subuh said that the surveillance cameras, which the Israeli soldiers argued can be exploited by Palestinian militants, were not unusual in the volatile neighborhood, as families can notice street battles and the operations of the Israeli army from within.

But the second claim sent him to the upper floor, where his nephew’s water tube was found in the form of a gun.

Hours later, the explosion left his nephew’s room naked on the wind and destroyed most of the others. It was very dangerous to stay.

He said of the Israeli army, which, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, demolished hundreds of homes through the four camps this year: “They are doing everything they can to expel us.”

The Israeli army described its continuous campaign as a specific effort to combat terrorism to prevent attacks such as October 7, and said that the steps had taken to alleviate the influence of civilians.

The first thing that Doha Abu Dajish noticed around her family’s five -storey house, 10 days after the Israeli forces forced them to leave, the smell was.

He ventured at home, and the Israeli forces withdrew from the Vara camp, found corrupt food and toilets accumulated with stools. Pet parrots have disappeared from their cages. The pages of the Qur’an have been distorted with graphical drawings. It seems that the Israeli forces have used explosives to detonate each door of their hinges, although none of them were closed.

Rama, her 11 -year -old daughter with Down syndrome, shouted when her doll skirt was found torn and her face is covered with more graphics graphics.

AP journalists visited Abu Dajish’s house on February 12, hours after their return.

Nearly twenty Palestinians who were interviewed through the four refugee camps of the West Bank described this month the army units that take over civilian homes to be used as homes, stores or control points. The Abu Dajish family accused the Israeli soldiers of sabotaging their house, as did many families in Far.

The Israeli army blamed the militants for including themselves in the civil infrastructure. She said that the soldiers “may be asked to work from civilian homes for varying periods,” adding that the destruction of civilian property was a violation of the army’s rules and is not compatible with its values.

“Any exceptional incidents raises concerns about deviating from these orders,” they are carefully addressed, without a situation.

For Abu Dajish, the chaos was symbolic in the emotional injury to return. Nobody knows when they will have to escape again.

“It seems as if they want to feel that we are never safe,” she said. “We do not have control.”