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SvennoJ on 28 August 2024
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Israel’s foreign minister calls for forcible transfers of Palestinians in occupied West Bank

Israel Katz made the call in a post on X.

The minister said: “Our army is working hard in the Jenin and Tulkarem camps to dismantle the Islamic-Iranian infrastructure that have been established there.

“Iran is trying to establish an eastern front against Israel in the West Bank, similar to the model in Gaza and Lebanon, by financing and arming terrorists and smuggling advanced weapons from Jordan.

“We must deal with the threat in the West Bank as we are doing in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever other steps are required. This is a war in every sense of the word and we must win it.”


Israeli forces set up checkpoint in Nur Shams refugee camp

Meanwhile, the Israeli army is allowing civilians who want to leave to do so, residents told Al Jazeera.

No evacuation order has been announced, they said.

This comes after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz called for the evacuation of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory as a strategy to deal with armed groups there.

“We must deal with the threat in the West Bank as we are doing in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever other steps are required,” the minister said on X.


Palestinians in Nur Shams given three hours to leave

Israeli forces have been closing down roads leading to Jenin, Tulkarem and Far’a camp.

There are roughly 80,000 Palestinians in these areas where military operations are continuing.

In Nur Shams camp [in Tulkarem], a checkpoint is allowing people to leave if they want to. Palestinians in the camp have been told they have three hours left if they want to leave. There’s no direct evacuation order, but this suggests a potential escalation.

In Far’a, we’ve been speaking to medical sources who say Israeli forces have assaulted the head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society’s (PRCS’s) medical centre, before detaining medical teams for a while and then allowing them to go.

According to local medical teams, only people who have coordinated with ambulances have been able to get to the hospital.