Thousands of exiled residents of the western coast face the uncertain months that are ahead of us

“The army forced us. Me, my wife and family. We didn’t take anything with us.”

Alaa Ogi tries to understand how to manage her drastically changed circumstances.

“We left our documents, clothes and everything we had at home.”

It’s been a month since the Israeli army took over the refugee tulkarm campsite, causing thousands of inhabitants to flee.

In the office of a local Palestinian governor, we found displaced residents of the camp seeking help.

Some tried to find affordable rental places. Others, like Mr. Olfi, were supposed to retrieve important things, but the Israeli army prevented them from returning to their homes.

“My wife expects a baby next week,” Mr. Olfi said. “I can’t take her to the hospital because I need me insurance papers and my ID, but they stayed at home.”

What Israel calls “Operation Iron Wall” against Palestinian armed groups has launched an exodus of about 40,000 people from four camps in the north of the occupied West Coast: Tulkarm, Nur Shams, Jenin and Far’a.

Aid agencies call it the greatest forced displacement of Palestinians on the west coast of He was captured by Israeli forces during the six -day war in 1967.

It is also the first time that all campsites, which were established in the early 1950s for Palestine who fled or were taken from their homes during the Israeli independence war, almost completely evacuated.

Ever since the operation began in January, the Israeli forces had engaged the roads and demolished homes.

On the eastern edge of the tulkarm camp, a wide scar is visible where there were once tightly charged houses. Israeli soldiers can be seen patrolling what looks like a street now.

Otherwise, the roads in the camp are installed, armored bulldozers that create piles of land and pools of muddy rainwater. Plons and fronts of the trade are left intended.

The UN concrete sign was demolished, standing over the current main entrance to the camp.

At least 51 Palestinians, including seven children, killed Israeli forces on the north west coast since the beginning of the operation, according to the UN.

Three soldiers also killed Palestinian army, one of them during an exchange of fire in Jenin and two others in an attack on a control point in Tubas, it is said.

The Israeli army says that he is fighting Palestinian militant groups, based in camps – groups that blame for a series of attacks on roads on Israeli soldiers and civilians.

On Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, said the army “in the war with Islamic terrorism in Judea and Samaria” – the term Israel uses to describe the West Coast.

He said he had directed Israeli defense forces (IDF) “to prepare for a long stay in the camps that were cleared for the next year.”

At the same time, Katz ordered the tanks to take positions at the Jenin Camp and the surrounding city for the first time after more than 20 years.

Apart from undergoing a difficult message of the Government, it is not clear what the role will be played by four tanks.

“IDF operates in very complex urban environments,” said a military official, provided anonymity.

“We did this in Gaza, we did it in Southern Lebanon in the villages,” said the clerk, referring to the wars of Israel with Hamas and Hezbollah.

“We do this in those neighborhoods in Judea and Samaria for the threat we are facing.”

Military officials say there were no orders to evacuate civilians.

“IDF has made it possible for locals who want to distance themselves from combat areas to safely go through certain transitions,” the army states.

But the residents of the campsites say they were forced to leave, some of them under fire.

Others say they delivered instructions for the departure.

One video from Jenin shows an unmanned aircraft flying over the camp, seemingly broadcasting a message.

“Get out of your homes, the army will be here,” the message said.

The recently appointed Palestinian Governor Tulkarma, Dr. Abdullah Kmeil, calls the Iron Wall surgery “Declaration of War”.

“You talk about destruction surgery,” he told the BBC. “The financial and mental destruction of the inhabitants. These are the things that the Israelis planned.”

The goal, he says, is to create a “hostile environment” for the residents of the campsites, hoping to go and absorb into the general Palestinian population.

Meanwhile, Palestinians struggle with many new difficulties, big and small.

In the village of Qatatiya, south of Jenin, we found a driver who was frantically trying to turn from a muddy hole left by Israeli bulldozers who dug up the street.

His car stuck in the middle of the road, holding traffic in both directions.

In the center of a nearby roundabout, a miniature replica of the Jerusalem iconic dome of rocks was broken into pieces.

Despite the warning of Israel Katz, no one knows how long the operations and limitations of civilians will last.

“If we can’t go back to our house for a year, it will be a disaster,” says Alaa Ofa.

“We will be stranded on the streets with the kids.”