fetal- Amjad Khazim cried with great heartburn as he watched the bulldozers of the Israeli occupation, destroying his house and commercial in its place last Monday, in a camp. fetal The northern West Bank. This is one of 11 houses belonging to his brothers, demolished by the occupation once, in addition to more than 10 commercial stores belonging to the family.
With great sadness and oppression, he describes Khazim to Al -Jazeera Net, what he feels as he watches the house in which he was born and lived in it.
Khazim and his 11 brothers lost their homes, but they lost their source of livelihood by demolishing the shops that supported their families.
Demolish a third of the camp
Over the course of 6 months of the Israeli military operation in Jenin camp, the occupation bulldozers demolished more than a third of the camp, according to the estimates of the Jenin municipality.
The municipality says that after the occupation announced its plan to demolish 95 buildings in the camp last month, it would have demolished about a thousand homes in the camp, which includes 3200 homes.
At the same time, the occupation has been continuing for 5 months to demolish the homes of citizens in the city camps TulkarmLast Monday, he was notified of the demolition of 104 new houses in the “Tulkarm camp”.
For his part, Abdullah Kamil, the governor of Tulkarm, issued a statement in which the international community demanded pressure on the occupation to stop the demolitions in the camps, stressing that the silence of the international community from these crimes encourages the occupation to continue its attacks.
He said that this decision expresses a criminal action, a political decision to bear the responsibility of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -What is required forInternational Criminal Court On charges of war crimes in Gaza- and his government, “it represents a violation of international law and international humanitarian law, and human rights agreements, especially the human right to housing and life.”
Pretexts
The demolition of homes does not depend on camps West BankRather, the occupation has adopted from its inception the policy of demolishing homes throughout the West Bank, citing weak and valuable allegations.
On Tuesday, the occupation authorities demolished a house in a village in the city of Qalqilya, on the pretext of being in Region (c)The occupation bulldozers also demolished last Thursday, a two -storey building in the village of Zawiya, south of Jenin, for the same argument.
The occupation was notified by the family of the martyr Raafat Dawasa from Sila Al -Harithiya, west of Jenin, by demolishing her house, on the pretext of carrying out several shootings at the settlers, before his assassination in August 2024.
Over the past months, the occupation demolished several Palestinian homes and facilities in Barta’a and the villages of Tulkarm, Salfit and Jericho, in addition to the demolition of martyrs homes in Hebron and Nablus.
Israel destroys the Palestinian homes based on 3 pretexts:
- Military demolition: It is considered the most dangerous and destructive as the occupation deliberately without warning and leads to a wide destruction in infrastructure and buildings, as it was happening at every storming of Fenn, Tulkarm and Tubas.
- Punitive demolition: Israel punishes the perpetrators of operations against settlers and the Israeli army by demolishing their homes and their families.
- Administrative demolition: It is the most common, and is used to restrict Palestinian urban expansion, especially in regions (C), which represents 60% of the West Bank.
Israel depends on the 1945 British law issued against The Palestinian RevolutionAnd he approved the demolition of the accused’s homes on the pretext of deterring them. Although it is an old colonial law, the occupation is still adopting it today, even after the Israeli military court considers it used in a way that exceeds the basic purpose of it, and that it is targeting entire families.
War crimes
Legal organizations believe that Israel does not distinguish between areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority and areas (C), where the occupation demolished buildings and residential buildings in Ramallah and Nablus, without any consideration of the agreements dividing the areas between them and the authority.
These organizations confirm that the security demolition increased after October 7, 2023, which is taking place in the camps that witness complete demolitions.
The Director General of the Independent Commission for Human Rights, Ammar Al -Duwaik, says that the Jenin and Tulkarm camps are witnessing the largest ethnic cleansing during the current decade, and that there are no accurate numbers of the number of homes that were demolished, because the camps are fully closed and the occupation authorities do not allow any human rights or international organization or organization to enter.
According to the official, the justifications for the occupation that the demolition of the camps comes to protect the army is a completely violation of international law, which states that it is not permissible to demolish housing except in very exceptional cases.
“What the occupation is doing is a systematic process to empty regions (C) and some areas (B) of the population, as well as to empty the camps and re -engineer them in demography,” Al -Dweik says in his interview with Al -Jazeera Net.
He adds that the Palestinians are in Jerusalem They are trying to obtain construction licenses from Israeli official bodies and they refuse to give these licenses, and then the homes are destroyed on the pretext of not licensing.
Al -Dweik called for documenting these violations, and said, “The countries, especially those who have relations with the occupation, must take practical steps, including the threat of the occupation to take measures against it if it does not stop these practices.”
He stressed that human rights organizations addressed the relevant international bodies, specifically the special course concerned with the right to housing, in particular, that this policy directly affects the law of the right to housing, stressing that the systematic destruction of housing, the displacement of the population and the displacement of families classifies war crimes.
statistics
Several humanitarian and human rights organizations, including the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs “Osha”, documented the demolitions over the years of the occupation, and indicated that these operations have increased significantly since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip.
The office documented the demolition of the occupation 1787 establishments, including 800, in the period, between October 7, 2023 and October 7, 2024, and this led to the displacement of more than 4 thousand citizens.
The demolition of 465 establishments also recorded the pretext of non -license, including 56 facilities funded by donors, from the beginning of this year until April last, which resulted in the displacement of 445 people.
In the same period, the occupation demolished 11 houses as a punitive measure against the families of the perpetrators of operations and the resistance or the suspects, and imposed the deportation on 65 people.
The Osha office documented the demolition of the occupation last June more than 20 buildings in the Jenin and Tulkarm camps andNour ShamsIn addition to 120 buildings in the camps themselves since the start of the military operation.
The international organization estimated that the total buildings that the occupation had destroyed since the start of the war on Gaza ranges between 2,400 to 2,500 establishments in the West Bank, and includes residential buildings and other facilities.