Last week, the Israeli army demolished 25 residential buildings in Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. The homes used to belong to dozens of families who were displaced from their homes a year ago, alongside the rest of the camp’s residents. Now their displacement has become permanent.
“The neighborhood is gone, and our house is being demolished by the Israeli army,” Motaz Jamil, a young resident of the camp, told Mondoweiss as he watched his home being leveled. “Our neighbors, our families, our sad and happy memories — all of it is being erased.”
This is not the first time Jamil’s community has experienced displacement. Being refugees, they all came from the villages dotting Palestine’s coast in 1948, when the state of Israel was founded. “We were displaced from Jaffa, and today we are being displaced once again,” Jamil explained. ….more
