Israeli tanks enter Jenin on the occupied west coast because military operation displaces more than 40,000 Palestinians
Israeli military operation in The busy west coast He has now forced over 40,000 Palestinians to escape from their homes in the cities of the Janin refugee camp, Tulkarm and Nur Shams, according to Israeli officials and united nations. It is the biggest movement of civilians on the occupied west coast from the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
Over the weekend, Israel sent tanks to the city of Jenin in the north of the West Coast for the first time after more than two decades.
Islamic jihad group convened by Hamas, which, like Hamas, was appointed as a terrorist organization of Israel and the United States, she said on Monday that the schedule of tanks after forcibly displacing in Palestinian refugee camps could be a step towards the Israeli annexation of the entire western coast.
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AFP journalist reported empty streets on Monday, except for several Israeli Merkava and displaced residents of the refugee camp, which occasionally enter through the back alley to get things out of their homes.
“Let’s get back to get things, whatever we can. We take the risk because we have to,” said 52-year-old resident Jenina Ahmad al-Qahrawa for AFP. “We had nothing when we left, without clothes, nothing. We’re going back to our clothes because it’s cold.”
Israel launched a major military surgery to the north of the west coast just a few days after a fragile Term and Talace Exchange Agreement I finished I finished 15 months War in Gaza’s belt demolished on Hamasmuch smaller Palestinian territory in the southwestern corner of Israel. Israeli defense forces said the troops seeking terrorist suspects had cleared three refugee camps, confirming that the tanks were arranged in Jenin.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday that the troops would remain in evacuated refugee camps for several months to “prevent the return of residents and revive terrorism.”
He put the number of people displaced from the camp at 40,000, the same character provided by the United Nations, saying that the offensive had killed at least 51 Palestinians, including seven children, and three Israeli soldiers.
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Israel said the operation – called Iron Wall – designed to abolish militance, but Palestinians are afraid that its real intention is to move the population of territory and annexation permanently.
Islamic jihad said the mass evacuation and the first deployment of Israeli tanks in the territory from the early 2000s, “confirms the occupation plans for the side coast forcibly.”
The group, who struggled with Hamas in Gaza and had a strong presence on the northern Western coast, condemned the “new aggressive act”, which he said was “focused on eradicating our people from their country.”
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Bulldozers have already demolished the large areas of the Jenin refugee camp, and the local municipality says that military engineers have been seen preparing for what they seem like a long -term stay.
The Red Cross International Committee said that many residents who fled to “full of mosques and schools” were removed.
The damage was disturbed by the displaced residents “access to basic needs such as pure water, food, medical care and shelters”, and the winter cold “made survival difficult,” the Red Cross added in a statement.
The UN’s Humanitarian Agency Ocha said that the military offensive “seemed to exceed the standards for law enforcement,” and had severe consequences.
“The continuation of the use of deadly war tactics in residential areas is extremely worrying,” Ocha said.
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The Israeli stubborn has long been advocated by the direct annexation of the West Coast, which the Israeli forces have occupied since 1967, but such proposals welcomed the strong opposition of Palestinians and most of the international community.
Violence has grown on the west coast Since Hamas launched a war in Gaza on October 7, 2023, a terrorist attack on Israel. About 1,200 people were killed in this attack and another 251 other abducted. Israeli retaliates in Gaza displaced the vast majority of the population of the territory, left most of its homes and other infrastructure in ruins and killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, according to the HAMAS Ministry.
As the violence increased on the west coast, so are the calls of Israeli politicians the far right for the annexation of the territory.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday rejected “Annexation Calls” and said that he was “serious care about growing violence” on the West Bank.
“We look at the development carefully and we cannot hide our concerns when it comes to the West Coast,” said European Union Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas.
President Trump said he would publish his stop in the occupied territory within a few weeks. His envoy in the Middle East Steve Witkoff should be in the region this week, with the hope that he will be able to help in the negotiations on the secondary stages of the Gaza Agreement, as the first six -week phase should end this weekend this weekend.