Israel’s ongoing deadly assault in the occupied West Bank has nearly emptied several refugee camps.
Some 40,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced since Israel’s military operation dubbed “Iron Wall” launched in the northern Jenin refugee camp on 21 January. Since then, Israel expanded its assault to Tulkarm refugee camp and Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm, also in the north. Al-Faraa refugee camp in the foothills of the Jordan Valley, south of Tubas, was also targeted.
UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, said the deadly and destructive assault “is now the single longest in the West Bank since the second intifada.”
Israel’s operation follows a series of assaults on refugee camps in the occupied West Bank which have left them “uninhabitable,” according to UNRWA, forcing their residents into a state of “cyclical displacement.”
This was “a spillover of the war in Gaza,” the agency said./…..more
