Zionist Occupation Expands Killings and Forced Displacement in West Bank Refugee Camps

A silent war is raging in the West Bank, particularly in Jenin, where the Israeli occupation is replicating the same crimes committed in Gaza. The besieged refugee camp endures relentless assaults, with the blockade now stretching into its 30th day. More than 3,000 families have been forcibly displaced as their homes were either demolished or set ablaze, scattering approximately 25,000 people across different areas of the West Bank.

Residents of the camp describe the ongoing tragedy as a “ Smaller Nakba,” one that has been met with complete silence—no condemnation, no statements, and no official stance from the international community. This absence of response has effectively granted the occupation’s military gangs a green light to escalate their attacks, further spilling Palestinian blood and seizing more land.

According to the latest report from the Jenin Refugee Camp’s media committee, the Israeli aggression has claimed the lives of 27 Palestinians over the past 29 days, including one killed by Authority security forces. Dozens more have been wounded, while the occupation has carried out mass arrests, detaining over 150 Palestinians and subjecting hundreds to field interrogations, beatings, and threats at gunpoint. The Zionist forces have also systematically destroyed vast sections of infrastructure, businesses, and roads, with clear evidence of efforts to erase and reshape the camp’s features in accordance with annexation plans.

The military campaign has now expanded to other refugee camps, particularly in Tulkarm and nearby Nur Shams, both of which have suffered extensive destruction. Just yesterday, the occupation began preparations to demolish 16 homes in these areas.

In a particularly brutal assault, an ambulance crew from the Palestinian Red Crescent was viciously attacked by Israeli forces in Jenin while attempting to evacuate a patient, despite prior coordination with the International Red Cross. This attack is part of a systematic pattern of Israeli violations that target all aspects of Palestinian life, including the medical sector. Zionist forces routinely obstruct ambulances, target hospitals and medical centers, and arrest paramedics and doctors.

Meanwhile, 15-year-old Diaa al-Din Ahmad Sbeih martyred, succumbled by critical injuries sustained two weeks ago in an Israeli drone strike on the town of Qabatiya, near Jenin. He had been inside his father’s shop when the enemy’s drone targeted him.

Palestinian refugee camps have long been bastions of resistance, home to the descendants of those forcibly displaced during the 1948 Nakba. These camps have endured repeated Israeli enemy raids, but the current assault is unprecedented in scale and intensity, launched immediately after the ceasefire agreement in Gaza. Zionist officals have openly stated that the operation has no set time frame and will continue indefinitely.

Simultaneously, Zionist settlers have escalated their attacks on Palestinian villages and farmland. The latest assault took place in al-Khalil (Hebron), marking the fourth attack since the start of the month. Daily settler raids continue in the northern Jordan Valley and southwestern Nablus, where Israeli forces have seized more than 16,000 dunams of land in multiple areas east of Ramallah.

The scale of these daily crimes and aggressions makes it clear that the annexation plan, officially introduced in 2017, is no longer a theoretical proposal but an active and ongoing project. The Zionist entity has already seized control of 60% of the West Bank, systematically dismantling the prospect of a Palestinian state—once the foundation of negotiations, now buried under the relentless expansion of settlements.

The occupation’s crimes extend beyond land seizures. In Beita, south of Nablus, Israeli forces brutally beat a young Palestinian man, leaving him with serious injuries. During the raid, occupation troops fired live ammunition and toxic gas canisters, sparking confrontations with the locals.

A similar scenario unfolded in the village of Qusra, also south of Nablus, where Israeli forces stormed the area, fired live rounds, and launched gas canisters, causing multiple cases of suffocation among residents, including entire families trapped inside their homes. The victims were rushed to medical centers for treatment.

The military raids have also targeted the villages of Tell and Asira al-Qibliya, as well as the city of Tulkarm, where Israeli forces detained and brutalized Palestinian youths.

In yet another act of settler terrorism, Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian-owned vehicles in the village of Susya, located in Masafer Yatta, south of al-Khalil. These attacks are part of an ongoing wave of settler violence against Palestinians and their property, carried out with full protection from Israeli forces, who provide settlers with cover, weapons, and direct support from top Zionist officials.

The incursions have not been limited to these areas. Israeli forces have also stormed the towns of Yabad (south of Jenin), Al-Khader (west of Bethlehem), Beit Rima, and Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya (north and east of Ramallah), launching sound bombs and toxic gas canisters at homes and shops—tactics that often precede large-scale raids, similar to those already witnessed in Jenin and currently unfolding in Tulkarm.

Since the start of the genocidal war on Gaza, Israeli forces and settlers have intensified their attacks across the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem. These assaults have resulted in the martyrdom of at least 917 Palestinians, the injury of approximately 7,000 others, and detained 14,500, according to official Palestinian sources.