At the beginning of February, Israeli forces stormed the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and started houses in the bulldozer, demolish the stores and tearing the roads.
Nur Shams is located just outside the northern coastal city of Tulkarem, which has been subjected to Israeli raids increasingly violent in recent years, especially in the Tulkarem refugee camp.
The rapid and deliberate destruction of Israel of the Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps has uprooted thousands of inhabitants and upset countless lives in a few days.
The Hamdan Fahmawi store was damaged and vandalized during raids – the third time a year.
On February 26, the 46 -year -old man, who had left the region, made the risky decision to return with his 17 -year -old son and staff to inspect his shop in Nur Shams and recover money and important documents.
“The Israeli soldiers finally told us to go out (from the shop and leave the camp), so we did it. One of them lifted his weapon on us and we felt that we were in danger, but fortunately, no one was injured, “said Fahmawi.
Shift
Since Israel’s attacks began in the West Bank on January 21 – a few days after having had to interrupt his devastating war against Gaza – Israeli soldiers forcefully expelled at least 40,000 Palestinians from their homes in the camps.
The declared objective of the new Raids of Israel, nicknamed the Iron Wall operation, is to eliminate the “groups supported by Iran” affiliated with Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in three refugee camps: Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams.
In 2021, the desperate and current young Palestinians formed ad hoc armed groups to resist the constantly evolving occupation of Israel, according to a report by the International Crisis Group.
However, they hardly constitute a threat to Israeli soldiers or illegal colonists, instead of competing with Israeli security forces when they go down to the camps.
Israel still tried to exaggerate the capacities of armed groups – translated them as Iranian attorney – to justify the destruction of camps and uproot thousands of Palestinians in the context of a greater plan to make Palestinian life unbearable in the Western West West Cisjord, analysts, inhabitants and human rights monitors say.
“I think people (who have been moved) are lost and do not know what to do or what their next steps will be,” said Murad Jadallah, human rights researcher at Al-Haq, a group for the defense of Palestinian rights.
“We have reached a new level of uncertainty,” he told Tel Aviv Tribune.
Nourdeen Ali, 17, said that many families had fled or lost their house in Nur Shams and ended up staying with parents and friends just outside the camp.
But many were uprooted for the second time when the Israeli forces have descended in the houses surrounding Nur Shams and expelled more families.
Israel generally converts houses into and around the camp to “interrogation” makeshift centers, Ali in Tel Aviv Tribune told Tel Aviv Tribune.
“What is happening is that the Israelis will be (enter a neighborhood) and resume a random house … And then no one in this region is capable of entering or leaving their house without risking being slaughtered or excavation and excavation and arrested,” he said.
“People will come back”
The blind attacks of Israel oblige thousands of people to seek shelter in schools, mosques and football fields, say residents, who add that the only help at their disposal comes from Palestinians who have mobilized to provide basic relief – giving covers, litter, food and water.
Ali believes that most Palestinians will return home in the camps once Israel stops his raid.
“The way I see things, no matter what the Israelis do, people will return to the houses where they have grown because a life without the camp is impossible for them,” he told Tel Aviv Tribune.
Fahmawi adds that most people from the camp are too poor to afford life in big cities, they will therefore return to Nur Shams even if Israel anchors its presence to intimidate and harass the Palestinians.
“Everywhere in Palestine is dangerous, not only the camps … There is no law and (the Israeli army) can shoot any Palestinian at any time. However, we have no other place to go. We have no choice, “he told Tel Aviv Tribune.
The easier Palestinians have different considerations.
Jadallah said that a close friend had moved to Jordan with his family for fear that Israel will soon attack and destroy the Palestinian cities – like Tulkarem, Jenin and Ramallah – in the same way that they attack the camps.
“My friend lived in Jenin’s camp, but he then obtained a good income, so he moved with his family to Jenin City,” said Jadallah.
“They recently decided to go to Jordan and put their children at school there, because Jenin City becomes too dangerous,” he added, referring to the frequent military raids of Israelis who often target civilians.
Fahmawi does not think that the departure will make the Palestinians safer.
He refers to the recent kidnapping of the Palestinian doctoral student Mahmoud Khalil by American immigration and the application of customs on March 8, despite the fact that Khalil had a legal permanent residence in the United States.
The administration of American president Donald Trump revoked Khalil’s permanent residence as a punishment for him led students of the University of Columbia to protest against what many experts and rights describe as the Israel genocide in Gaza.
“There is no alternative to the homeland,” Fahmawi told Tel Aviv Tribune. “In the end, there is no other place where we are all going there … if we die, then we will die on our earth.”