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Saba Yemen
02-06-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Over 5,000 Palestinian families displaced from Nur Shams & Tulkarm Camps
Ramallah – Saba: Nihad al-Shawish, head of the Popular Committee in Nur Shams camp, stated that 5,000 Palestinian families have been displaced from Nur Shams and Tulkarm camps since the start of the Israeli aggression four months ago. Al-Shawish explained that 2,500 families fled Nur Shams camp, while 3,000 families were displaced from Tulkarm camp, emphasizing the residents' rejection of the forced displacement policies they face, according to the Ma'an News Agency. In an interview with "Voice of Palestine" radio, al-Shawish also refuted the Israeli occupation authorities' claims of allowing Palestinian citizens to retrieve their belongings from their homes, stressing that they are given only one hour to take what they can. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
New York Times
08-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
In Israel's Demolition Path, West Bank Residents Pack Up Their Lives
When Israel informed the Palestinian Authority that it planned to demolish dozens of buildings in crowded parts of a border city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the notification set off a panic. Hundreds of Palestinians in the border city, Tulkarm, learned that they would likely not be returning to their homes at the end of a sweeping Israeli offensive in the northern West Bank. 'They're causing a disaster,' said Nihad al-Shawish, the head of the services committee in the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm. Since January, the Israeli military has conducted a large-scale military operation in three camps in the northern West Bank, displacing tens of thousands of people and causing widespread destruction. Israeli officials, who say the purpose of the campaign is to target militants and their weapons, have said the military should be prepared to remain in the camps for a year. The military has said the latest demolition of homes in Tulkarm was meant to make the city's two camps, Tulkarm and Nur Shams, more accessible to Israeli forces and to prevent militants from regrouping there. Many Palestinians believe Israel is seeking to transform the camps, which have housed refugees and their descendants, into neighborhoods like the rest of Tulkarm. In recent days, Israel has allowed some residents of the camps to return to their homes to gather their belongings. Nasr al-Jundi, 45, a resident of Nur Shams, said he only had time to grab only some of his belongings on Tuesday, including clothing, a television, a fan, a microwave and a sauté pan. 'They're taking away my dreams,' he said. Later, residents of the camp assembled on a nearby hill, watching a bulldozer knock down homes.
Saba Yemen
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Zionist enemy begins demolishing dozens of homes in Tulkarm
Occupied al-Quds - Saba: Zionist enemy forces began carrying out on Tuesday afternoon extensive demolitions of Palestinian homes in the city of Tulkarm, as part of a systematic displacement policy targeting camps in the northern occupied West Bank. Palestinian media outlets reported, citing eyewitnesses, that Zionist enemy bulldozers stormed al-Manshiyya neighborhood and began demolishing multi-story residential homes, after the army allowed some families to evacuate their personal belongings. This escalation comes a day after the demolition of other homes in the camp, as part of a broader campaign announced by the Zionist army. This campaign includes 106 buildings in the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps, which were previously identified on maps submitted to the Palestinian authorities. Nihad al-Shawish, head of the camp's popular committee, said that what is happening is an ongoing aggression targeting the infrastructure and preventing the return of displaced persons, with the aim of obliterating the camp's landmarks, a living witness to the 1948 Nakba. He added that the demolitions are a crime against humanity and a flagrant violation of international law, emphasizing that the Palestinian people are facing a new Nakba on its 77th anniversary, but they will not give up their right of return. This escalation coincides with the ongoing military aggression launched by the Zionist enemy in the West Bank since January 2025, which began in Jenin and later extended to Tulkarm, causing widespread destruction and heavy human losses. According to Palestinian data, attacks by the Zionist enemy and settlers in the West Bank have resulted in the deaths of more than 960 Palestinians, the injury of approximately 7,000 others, and the arrest of more than 16,400 citizens since the beginning of the escalation. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (International)
LBCI
03-03-2025
- Politics
- LBCI
Israel clears another refugee camp as squeeze on West Bank tightens
Israeli troops demolished houses and cleared a wide roadway through the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, in a weeks-long operation against militant groups that has forced tens of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. The operation, during a fragile ceasefire in Gaza that has halted fighting there for the past six weeks, has emptied some of the biggest refugee camps in the northern West Bank in what some Palestinians see as a trial run for wider clearances later. Nur Shams, outside the city of Tulkarm, is the latest camp to be virtually emptied of its inhabitants following a camp in the volatile city of Jenin to the east and a separate camp within Tulkarm itself. Residents say bulldozers have been clearing a broad roadway through the area where houses once stood to create easy access for military vehicles, continuing one of the Israeli military's biggest operations in the West Bank for years. Of the usual population of some 13,000, almost none was left inside the main camp, said Nihad al-Shawish, head of the Nur Shams camp services committee.
Khaleej Times
03-03-2025
- Politics
- Khaleej Times
Gaza war: At least 12 killed as Israel clears Nur Shams refugee camp in West Bank
Israeli troops demolished houses and cleared a wide roadway through the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, in a weeks-long operation against militant groups that has forced tens of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. The operation, during a fragile ceasefire in Gaza that has halted fighting there for the past six weeks, has emptied some of the biggest refugee camps in the northern West Bank in what some Palestinians see as a trial run for wider clearances later. Nur Shams, outside the city of Tulkarm, is the latest camp to be virtually emptied of its inhabitants following a camp in the volatile city of Jenin to the east and a separate camp within Tulkarm itself. Residents say bulldozers have been clearing a broad roadway through the area where houses once stood to create easy access for military vehicles, continuing one of the Israeli military's biggest operations in the West Bank for years. Of the usual population of some 13,000, almost none was left inside the main camp, said Nihad al-Shawish, head of the Nur Shams camp services committee. "There were about 3,000 people left in the camp and as of today, they have all left," he said. "There are still some people just outside on the outskirts but there is no one left in the camp." There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which has previously said its operation aims to root out fighters from Iranian-backed militant groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, that have established strongholds in the camps of the northern West Bank. At least 12 people have been killed in Tulkarm during the operation, including both armed militants and civilians, according to Palestinian health officials. The Israeli military said it had made hundreds of arrests in the northern West Bank over recent weeks, confiscating 120 weapons and destroying hundreds of explosive devices. Gaza-style demolition The military has denied issuing formal evacuation orders to residents of the camp, a crowded township housing descendants of Palestinians who fled their homes or were forced out in the 1948 war at the birth of the state of Israel. But as in Jenin, residents have fled with whatever possessions they could carry in shopping bags or rucksacks as the Israeli bulldozers have demolished buildings and torn up roads, leaving the camp resembling the ruins of Gaza. "People are leaving with nothing but the clothes they are wearing. They need food, clothing, baby milk, everything, Shawish said. Shawish said the operation, which has coincided with Israeli moves to cut out the main United Nations Palestinian relief organization UNRWA by closing its headquarters in Jerusalem, appeared to be a test to prepare for similar moves against refugee camps across the whole of the West Bank. "If it succeeds, they will export it to all the camps," he said. The operation has drawn widespread international criticism and comes amid heightened fears among Palestinians of an organized effort by Israel to formally annex the West Bank, the area seized by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war. US President Donald Trump, who recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital during his first term, has not yet indicated whether he would support annexation, a move that could complicate efforts to strengthen ties with Saudi Arabia. But he has already proposed moving Palestinians out of Gaza to make way for a US property development, and has said he will give his position on the West Bank, which the Palestinians see as the core of a future independent state along with Gaza, in the near future. For Palestinians, such talk has revived memories of the 'Nakba' or catastrophe when some 750,000 Palestinians lost their homes after the 1948 war and became refugees.
