RAMALLAH (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Euro-Med Monitor has warned against efforts being exerted by Israeli occupation authorities to impose a new status quo in the West Bank through systematic destruction of Palestinian camps and the policy of forced displacement.
The Euro-Med said in a statement on Tuesday that the Israeli destruction of Palestinian refugee camps in the northern West Bank and the displacement of its inhabitants opens a new chapter of the “Nakba” of the Palestinian people.
The announcement of the Israeli war Minister, Yisrael Katz, to expel about 40,000 Palestinian refugees from the camps of Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams and making them unlivable, represents an attempt to impose a new status quo that makes their return impossible, in the short or long term, it added.
The statement stressed that the deployment of a unit of tanks and heavy army vehicles in those areas has no security or military necessity, but rather comes within the framework of imposing military control on the northern West Bank.
It added that the Israeli occupation authorities may seek to impose a new reality in areas subject to the sovereignty of the Palestinian Authority (PA), which means canceling the PA’s role in those areas, and it may be a step on the path of annexing the West Bank.
The Euro-Med pointed out that Israel’s impunity at world platforms over the past decades and the international silence towards the Israeli crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip have encouraged the Israelis to expand the aggression and escalation in the West Bank.
The human rights group called on the international community to place actual pressure on Israel to end its military campaign in the northern West Bank, allow the return of the displaced, and to halt its policy of destruction and displacement against Palestinians.
On January 21, the Israeli occupation army began a military campaign against the city of Jenin and its camp, leaving dozens of martyrs, wounded and detainees, before extending the military offensive to Tulkarem and Tubas.
The aggression on Jenin has so far resulted in the martyrdom of 27 Palestinians and the injury of dozens of others, as well as the displacement of 40,000 people, while in the Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps, 12 citizens were martyred, and approximately 14,000 citizens were displaced.
