'Israel' targets Nour Shams camp in plan to raze 106 homes
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Over 4,200 Palestinian families have been forcibly displaced, while more than 400 homes have been leveled completely and another 2,573 damaged.
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This is inside Nour Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, north of the West Bank (@MariamBarghouti)
The Israeli occupation military intensified its aggression on Saturday by demolishing residential homes in Nour Shams refugee camp, east of the city of Tulkarm in the northwestern West Bank, in continuation of its ethnic cleansing policy. The destruction comes amid a relentless assault that has now entered its 91st consecutive day.
Palestinian sources confirmed that the occupation forces detonated three homes in the Al-Manshiya neighborhood. This brings the total number of buildings destroyed by Israeli forces in the past week alone to 15, according to local estimates.
This is inside Nour Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, north of the West Bank.
— Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي (@MariamBarghouti) March 9, 2025
Israel has destroyed hundreds of homes in Tulkarem and forcibly displaced more than 16,000 Palestinians (mostly children and minors) with quadcopters, bombs and live ammunition then pursued to either… pic.twitter.com/tTyocMPSCi
The latest demolitions are part of a broader and systematic campaign by the occupation to erase entire neighborhoods within the camp. Israeli forces are targeting Al-Manshiya, Al-Maslakh, Al-Jami’, the UNRWA clinic area, and Al-Shuhada, as part of a plan announced 10 days ago to demolish 106 buildings across the Nour Shams and Tulkarm refugee camps.
The campaign has already triggered a large-scale humanitarian crisis. Over 4,200 Palestinian families have been forcibly displaced, while more than 400 homes have been leveled completely, and another 2,573 damaged. The occupation has further choked the camps by sealing their entrances and alleyways with earth mounds, transforming them into ghost towns devoid of life and services.
This collective punishment and targeting of civilian infrastructure are drawing increasing international condemnation. The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has described the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the northern West Bank as a case of mass forced displacement, warning that "the extensive demolition of property is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention and may amount to a war crime."
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Despite these warnings, the Israeli occupation continues to pursue policies aimed at uprooting Palestinians and deepening its control over occupied Palestinian territory through destruction, siege, and intimidation.
