{"id":12904,"date":"2026-11-01T07:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=12904"},"modified":"2026-11-01T07:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:57:18","slug":"israels-war-on-homes-from-hebron-to-gaza-and-southern-lebanon-israel-palestine-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=12904","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s war on homes: From Hebron to Gaza and southern Lebanon | Israel-Palestine conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UNRWA\u2019s West Bank director, Roland Friedrich, said the scenes in Hebron carry \u201calarming echoes\u201d of the mass displacement in the northern occupied West Bank in early 2025, when Israeli military operations emptied the Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps.<\/p>\n

More than 34,000 Palestinian refugees from the Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps remain displaced, according to UNRWA, more than a year after Israel\u2019s \u201cIron Wall\u201d operation began in January 2025. The operation destroyed more than half of the camps\u2019 residential buildings.<\/p>\n

OCHA\u2019s demolition records capture only a fraction of that destruction. Between 2009 and October 2026, the agency recorded 1,399 buildings demolished in the Jenin and Tulkarem governorates, displacing 4,139 people. Those records mainly track demolitions carried out for lack of permits or as punishment, not buildings destroyed during military raids.<\/p>\n

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An investigation by the research group Forensic Architecture<\/a> found evidence of deliberate, systematic destruction. Researchers verified more than 200 incidents involving the destruction of buildings and streets across four refugee camps, using armoured bulldozers, controlled demolitions and air attacks. They found that roads were widened through homes and gardens to create routes for military vehicles. The group concluded that Israel was applying tactics in the occupied West Bank similar to those it had used in Gaza.<\/p>\n

In February 2025, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Tulkarem and Jenin would come to resemble Jabalia and Shujayea, two of Gaza\u2019s most devastated areas.<\/p>\n

The raids have not stopped. Last week, Israeli forces detained four Palestinians in Tulkarem, and in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, troops converted several homes into military barracks, as they have in Hebron.<\/p>\n

Near Jenin, the army has ordered the residents of an entire village to leave permanently. \u201cI have sheep and cows. Our entire lives are tied to this land,\u201d said farmer Jabri Yahya. \u201cLast year they uprooted our olive trees, and this year they want to force us to leave. We don\u2019t know where to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jabri Yahya, who has been forcibly displaced from his village near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, packs up his farm [Screengrab\/Al Jazeera]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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UNRWA\u2019s West Bank director, Roland Friedrich, said the scenes in Hebron carry \u201calarming echoes\u201d of the mass displacement in the northern occupied West Bank in early 2025, when Israeli military operations emptied the Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps. More than 34,000 Palestinian refugees from the Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps remain displaced,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_templately_pack_id":"","_templately_imported_at":"","_templately_source":"","_templately_import_session_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t