Palestine demands intl. action to stop Israeli demolitions in West Bank camps

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has denounced the widespread home demolitions by Israeli military forces in the three refugee camps in the northern West Bank, calling for international action to stop the policy.

In a statement released on Saturday, the ministry condemned the crime of forced displacement, which has driven more than 40,000 Palestinian citizens from their homes, especially during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

It emphasized that such crimes fall within the framework of the occupying Tel Aviv regime’s plans to consolidate its control over and annex the West Bank, including East al-Quds.

The Palestinian foreign ministry noted that it will continue to monitor the suffering of Palestinians, and shed light on their plight through global bodies, fact-finding and investigation committees, special rapporteurs, assistants to the secretary-general of the United Nations, and all international parties.

It called for genuine and serious international intervention to compel Israel to halt its aggression and submit to the international will for peace, stressing that a negotiated political solution is the key to resolving the conflict, and that military solutions only exacerbate and deteriorate the situation.

Earlier this month, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees warned that Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps in the northern side of the West Bank have been nearly emptied of their residents as the Israeli military is escalating its attacks on the occupied territory, expelling tens of thousands of people from their homes.

West Bank Palestinians fear Gaza style destruction as Israel escalates raids

The Palestinians of the occupied West Bank fear Israel will destroy the territory the same way it destroyed Gaza.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement on March 7 that “With widespread destruction to civilian infrastructure, including homes, [in the camps], people now face the prospect of having nowhere to return to.”

“These large-scale demolitions are an alarming new pattern. They have an unprecedented impact on the Palestinian refugees and seek to permanently change the characteristics of the camps in the northern West Bank,” UNRWA added.

The Israeli military initiated its assault on the occupied West Bank on January 21, stating that the objective was to target the resistance fighters linked to the Jenin Battalion.

Since the beginning of the Gaza war in October 2023, the actions of the Israeli army and illegal settlers have led to the deaths of at least 930 Palestinians, with nearly 7,000 individuals sustaining injuries in the occupied West Bank.

Last July, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared that Israel’s long-standing occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, demanding the evacuation of all illegal settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds.

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