Dozens of Palestinian families flee Israeli operation in West Bank

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  • February 10, 2025

“We hear explosions and bombings as well as bulldozers. It’s a tragedy. They are doing here what they did in Gaza,” said Ahmed Ezza, a resident.

Ahmed Abu Zahra, another resident of the camp which is on the outskirts of Tulkarem, said he was forced to leave his home.

“The (Israeli) army came and we were forced to leave after they started destroying our homes”.

Three Palestinians, including two women and a young man, were killed on Sunday in Nur Shams, the health ministry in the territory said.

Israel said its military police had opened an investigation into the death of one of them, a woman who was eight months pregnant.

It said on Saturday it had launched an operation in Nur Shams, part of a much larger campaign that began in January in Tulkarem and Jenin, which it said had “targeted several terrorists”.

In the streets of Nur Shams camp, under a light rain, residents were fleeing.

An AFP photographer saw dozens of families hastily leaving the camp, while bulldozers carried out large-scale demolitions amid gunfire and explosions.

According to Murad Alyan, from the camp’s popular committee, “more than half of the 13,000 inhabitants have fled out of fear for their lives”.

Since January 21, the Israeli military has been conducting a major operation in the “triangle” of Jenin, Tubas and Tulkarem, where half a million Palestinians live.

Israel says it is targeting “terrorist infrastructure”.

Jenin in particular is a bastion of armed Palestinian militant groups.

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