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For 4 hours, Muhammad Abu Hatab tried to enter his home in Nour Shams camp, east of the city of Tulkarm, to take what he could carry from the holdings, after the Israeli occupation army had notified him a few days ago by demolishing him, in addition to the homes of 5 other families, from the Al -Mansheya neighborhood in Nur Shams, and estimated at 15 housing units.
The occupation forces prevented Abu Hatab from reaching his home, despite obtaining a statement that he and the rest of the dangerous families, and detained them in a large square in front of the camp entrance, and prevented them from reaching the houses that they wanted to demolish today, and they also prevented a number of Red Crescent volunteers and tried to search them.
“They prevented me from entering despite my coordination since last night, they told us that it would allow us to reach our homes from 8 am to 12 noon, but I spent the time being held here in the square, and they tried to harass the Red Crescent paramedics and search them, but they refused because there was no female soldier to search for women.”
“My last opportunity was to see our house and bid him farewell before the occupation bulldozers were destroyed, we went out without carrying clothes even, now we lost everything,” he added.
Not so far, Hashem Abu Harb stood on a hill that oversees the camp, watching the bulldozers of the occupation that turned his two -storey house into a pile of rubble, and he says as he overcame his tears, “This is the fatigue of the years, he turned in a minute into ashes, our homes are our homelands, they were not satisfied with stealing our homelands the first time, they stole it again.”
Radical uprooting scheme
The Israeli occupation forces prompted this morning, Monday, with military bulldozers to the entrance to the Al -Mansheya neighborhood, accompanied by a number of military vehicles, and after hours, demolitions began in buildings of the Abu Harb family, “with the aim of expanding roads and dividing the camp into a group of residential neighborhoods, linking them to a network of roads.”
It is estimated that the occupation seeks to split 12 roads, with a width of 3 meters per road, which means canceling the geography of the camp, which is near the homes to each other, and the narrowness of its lanes and streets.
With the end of the current demolition process, and includes 5 buildings for the families of Shehadeh, Abu Harb and Al -Tuwaimah, Nour Shams camp will be almost half of its buildings.
According to the official estimates, the occupation forces demolished since the start of the “Iron Wall” operation in the northern West Bank camps 4 months ago, equivalent to 1500 homes.
Last Friday, the Israeli occupation army announced its intention to demolish nearly 106 buildings in the Tulkarm camps, including 48 houses in Nour Shams camp, claiming what he called “military measures”, and as a result of that the people of Nour Shams tried to reach the houses that were announced that they were destroyed, while the occupation bulldozers today carried out the first stage of the large demolition.
Videos showed a number of displaced people carrying clothes bags and some covers, and others tried to remove pieces of furniture from their homes deep in the camp, but the occupation soldiers attacked the people with live bullets, and detained a large number of men at the main entrance to the camp, and they prevented women and children from reaching their homes.
The residents described these demolitions as a “massacre” against the camp and its people, and that it represents a “termination of the camp”, which has been exposed to 89 days ago to an expanded and accurate Israeli military operation, despite the camp emptying from its residents, but the occupation mechanisms and military bulldozers did not stop making roads and expanding them, demolishing homes and burning a number of them.
New calamity
The Nour Shams Services Committee confirmed that it does not have clear plans until the moment to address the displacement cases that occurred in the camp, amid the absence of a real official move to accommodate the displaced and their housing.
The head of the Services Committee describes Nihad Abu Shawish, the position of the camp as “tragic”, and talks about the repetition of the Nakba again to the refugees and their grandchildren.
This coincides with difficult situations that the displaced people who were dispersed in the neighborhoods and villages of the governorate go through, amid weakness in providing them with aid and a lack of basic supplies.
He added, “Some families have allocated the province a residence, and paid 3 months of the value of its rent, but we are facing a catastrophe represented in the displacement of more than 24 thousand people from the two camps, this is a real calamity.”
“Some of us were subjected to displacement twice,” said Mahmoud Abu Raad, who is one of the displaced people from the camp, in which the people of Nour Shams participated in the city of Tulkarm.
During the stand they organized after the occupation, the people published the demolition maps, the official authorities to provide them with homes, and to find a fundamental solution to the problem of their displacement.
Today, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian government, Muhammad Mustafa, held his weekly government session in the city of Jenin, and said that “this is a message titled that the camps will remain a witness to the right of return, despite the occupation policy that destroys these camps and deserted their people.”
According to Mustafa, the government seeks to implement plans concerned with housing and harboring the displaced, including building mobile homes in Tulkarm and Jenin, renting a number of homes for families from which individuals suffer from humanitarian diseases and cases, and provide financial resources for a number of displaced people, especially those who lost their work due to displacement.