Overview
- A 105-page Human Rights Watch report says roughly 32,000 people were expelled from the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps in January and February, describing the largest displacement in the West Bank since 1967.
- Investigators describe soldiers ordering evacuations via drone loudspeakers, storming and ransacking homes, and bulldozing buildings, with reports of fire on residents trying to reenter the camps.
- HRW says more than 850 structures were destroyed or heavily damaged, while a United Nations assessment counted 1,460 buildings affected.
- The report urges investigations of Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel Katz, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth and Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, and calls for targeted sanctions, suspension of arms transfers and enforcement of ICC warrants.
- The Israeli military says demolitions were needed to deny militant use of infrastructure and offers no timeline for return, as displaced families crowd into relatives’ homes, rentals, mosques and schools with severe shortages of essentials.