On Friday, Israeli forces began a demolition campaign targeting 24 residential buildings in the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank.
WAFA correspondent reported that the military bulldozers embarked on the destruction of 24 buildings in the Abdullah Azzam neighborhood of the Jenin camp, adding that 12 of the buildings are set to be completely demolished.
For its part, the Department of Refugee Affairs of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) condemned the decision to demolish the buildings, and the continued aggression against the Jenin refugee camp, and the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps.
In a statement, the department announced that it considers the Israeli military decision as an extension of the forced displacement, and an attempt to liquidate the Palestinian refugee issue.
The Department of Refugee Affairs added that the occupation government has partially or completely destroyed more than 700 citizens’ homes, forcibly displacing 4,000 families, in violation of international humanitarian law and the United Nations Charter, while destroying hundreds of homes in the Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps, displacing thousands of families.
In a statement, the chairman of the Palestinian National Council, Rouhi Fattouh, denounced the Israeli orders to demolish 24 residential buildings in the Jenin refugee camp, which consist of hundreds of housing units.
Fattouh added that the demolition of the residential buildings is a dangerous escalation in the context of the Israeli occupation’s systematic policy of demolition, ethnic cleansing, and forced displacement targeting refugee camps in the northern occupied West Bank.
