By car and on foot, through the muddy olive groves and sniper sight lines, tens of thousands of Palestinians in recent weeks escaped from Israeli military operations in the northern west Brzeg-the greatest displacement in the occupied territory since the Arab War of 1967.
After the announcement of universal repression against the fighters of the West Brzeg, on January 21, two days after the weapon suspension agreement with Hamas in Gazie-Sieły Israel, Jenin came down to the peaceful city of Jenin, because they have dozens of times from October 7 Hamas on October 7, 2023, an attack on Israel.
But unlike previous operations, Israeli forces then pushed deeper and harder to several other nearby cities, including Tulkarm, Far and Nur Shams, dispersion of families and moving bitter memories of the 1948 war with the creation of Israel.
During this war, 700,000 Palestinians escaped or were forced from their homes in Israel. The fact that Nakba, as Palestinians call it, using the Arab word “catastrophe”, gave the creation of crowded cities on the west shore now assaults and still known as refugee camps.
“This is our Nakba,” said 53 -year -old Abed Sabagh, who packed his seven children to the car on February 9, when solid bombs relaxed in the Nur Shams camp, where he was born for parents who escaped from the war in 1948.
“This is unprecedented”: UN
Humanitarian officials claim that they have not seen such a resettlement on the West Bank since the war in 1967, when Israel took over the territory west of the Jordan River, together with Eastern Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, displacing another 300,000 Palestinians.
“This is unprecedented. When you add to this the destruction of the infrastructure, we reach the point where the camps become dissatisfied, “said Roland Friedrich, director of the Western Bank for Unrwa, the Palestinian Refugee Agency of UN. According to the agency, over 40,100 Palestinians escaped from their homes during the ongoing military operation.
Experts say that Israel's tactics in the west bank become almost indistinguishable from those located in gas. Already US President Donald Trump's Proposal of mass transfer of Palestinians from Gaza He looked at Israel's extremely proper renewal to renew the calls to the annexation of the West Bank.
“The idea of” purifying “the Palestinian land is more popular today than ever before,” said Yagil Levy, head of the Civil-Ilitary Studying Institute at Open University.
The Israeli army contradicts the issue of evacuation orders on the West Bank. He said that soldiers secure fragments for those who want to leave their own will.
7 minutes to leave the house
The age of resettled Palestinians, with whom interviews were interviewed last week, said that they did not escape their homes in fear, but on the order of the Israeli security forces. Journalists from the Associated Press in the Nur Shams camp also heard Israeli soldiers shouting through mosquito megaphones, ordering people to leave.
Some resettled families say that the soldiers were polite, knocking on the door and ensuring that they could come back when the army leaves. Others said that they were ruthless, plundered the rooms, waving rifles and falling to the inhabitants from their homes despite their request.
“I sobbed, asking them:” Why do you want me to leave my house? My child is upstairs, just let me get my child ” – Ayat Abdullah, 30 years old, remembered shelter for displaced people in the village of the village of Kafr al -Labd. “They gave us seven minutes. I brought my children, thank God. Nothing more. “
It was told to make your own path, Abdullah hit 10 kilometers on a path illuminated only with a glow from the phone when the rain turned the ground to the mud. She said that she tightened her children, the courage of possible snipers who killed a 23-year-old pregnant woman only a few hours earlier on February 9.
Her five -year -old son, Nidal, interrupted her story, chasing her mouth to make a loud buzzing sound.
“You are right, honey,” she replied. “This is the sound they made when we left the house.”
In the nearby town of Anabt, volunteers moved into mosques and government buildings, which became makeshift shelters – providing donated blankets, serving bitter coffee, distributing cooked eggs for breakfast and whipping the vat of rice and chicken for dinner.
When the invasion began on February 2, Israeli bulldozers burst underground pipes. Kuty ran dry. The sewage gushed. The internet service has been disabled. Schools closed. Food reserves have decreased. Eh of the explosion repeated themselves.
The Israeli army described its ongoing campaign as a key effort to counteract terrorism to prevent attacks like October 7, and it was mentioned that steps were taken to relieve the influence of civilians.
Introducing relationships
The first thing that Doha Abu Dgheish noticed about the five -story house of her family 10 days after the Israeli troops forced them to leave, said, there was a smell.
Coverting inside, when the Israeli army withdrew from the Far camp, found rotten food and toilets arranged with excrements. Animal partkeets disappeared from the cages. The pages of the Koran were destroyed with graphic drawings. Israeli forces apparently used explosives to blow off each hinged door, even though none were closed.
The frame, her 11-year-old daughter with Down syndrome, screamed after finding a torn skirt of her doll and her face covered with subsequent graphic drawings.
Associated Press journalists visited the house in Abu DGheish on February 12, a few hours after their return.
This month, almost two dozens of Palestinians conducted interviews at four refugee camps on the west shore, described the units of the army taking over civil houses for use as dormitory, warehouses or viewpoint service points. The family of Abu Dgheish accused Israeli soldiers of destroying their home, like many families in Far.
Israeli security forces attacked the occupied city of Jenin in the west shore, killing at least eight Palestinians in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “a large and significant military operation.”
The Israeli army blamed fighters for settling in civil infrastructure. Soldiers may be “obliged to act from civil houses for various periods,” he said, adding that the destruction of civil property was a violation of the army's principles and is not in line with its values.
It was found that “all unique incidents that raise concerns about the deviation from these orders” are “carefully addressed” without developing.
For Abu Dgheish, the mess was symbolic for the emotional whipping of their return. Nobody knows when they will have to escape again.
“It's as if they wanted us to feel that we are never safe,” she said. “That we have no control.”