Israel Continues Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza and West Bank
Israeli continues its genocidal violence and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank. In Gaza, more than 1,000 people have been killed since Israel resumed large-scale strikes on March 18, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported in Gaza. The official overall death toll in Gaza since the war began in October 2023 has reached 50,357 people.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) are also unleashing mass destruction of the Palestinian refugee camps. The Israeli army has announced plans to completely wipe out the Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nour Shams refugee camps, with the goal of preventing them from serving as "incubators for terrorist organizations," Israeli media quoted the military saying.
In Jenin Israeli forces have destroyed or seized more than 3,250 houses, according to the media committee of Jenin camp. Some were outright destroyed, while others were seized and turned into military barracks.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on March 31 that the Zionist war machine besieged the Nour Shams refugee camp, in the northern West Bank, deploying bulldozers in al-Manshiya and al-Maslakh neighborhoods. IOF forces set fire to many homes in the Nour Shams camp where they have been carrying out house raids and damaging infrastructure. In Tulkarm and its refugee camps, since the beginning of the latest offensive, at least 4,000 families have been displaced as the Israelis totally leveled 396 homes and partially razed 2,573 more. An estimated 24,000 people have been forced to leave from both the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps.
Along with widespread destruction by the IOF, including the demolition of homes, businesses, and vehicles, many of which have been either completely or partially destroyed, burned, looted, or damaged, is the terrorist violence by occupation "settlers" backed by the IOF. They descend on Palestinian homes, beat and murder, destroy barns, steal livestock and destroy olive trees with impunity.
An estimated 700,000 Israelis permanently occupy illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law.
(Press TV, Middle East Eye, Al Mayadeen)
This article was published in
Volume 55
Number 5 - April 3, 2025
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