Palestine calls for urgent UN action on Israeli ‘crimes’ in West Bank
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to “overcome its state of paralysis and take urgent action to stop the crimes of settlement, home demolitions and annexation” in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
In a statement shared on X, the ministry reminded members of the UNSC that they were party to the Geneva Conventions and of the recommendations from the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice.
The statement provided examples of recent illegal Israeli measures, such as the establishment of some 800 military checkpoints and iron gates to “control the movement of Palestinian citizens and impose more collective punishment on them”.
The ministry also said there has been a “noticeable increase in the crime of demolishing homes” in Jerusalem and the West Bank leading to “ethnic cleansing and displacement”, while the legalisation of random outposts further isolated Jerusalem and other communities from their Palestinian surroundings.
Israeli forces raid another refugee camp in West Bank
Israeli forces have raided the Arroub refugee camp, near the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, and are carrying out “large-scale” arrests there, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.
The soldiers assaulted several of the detainees and have also stormed a UNRWA health centre in the camp.
The raid comes amid a large-scale Israeli military operation targeting refugee camps across the occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces taking part in the offensive, dubbed the “Iron Wall”, have killed dozens of Palestinians and displaced more than 40,000 people from the Jenin, Tulkarem, Nur Shams and Far’a camps. They have also demolished dozens of homes and destroyed critical infrastructure across the camps, including roads, water and power networks.
Palestinians flee their homes in Nur Shams camp
Palestinians walk in front of an Israeli army bulldozer as it tears up roads in Nur Shams
Israeli troops destroy more West Bank homes, force dozens of families to flee
The Wafa news agency is reporting that residents trapped in an eastern neighbourhood of Tulkarem city are calling for help, including the delivery of food and medical assistance, as the siege on the area enters its 17th day.
They say Israeli forces have turned three buildings there into military barracks and that snipers have taken position there, preventing them from leaving their homes “or even appearing at their windows and on their balconies”.
In the Tulkarem camp, Israeli forces burned down the house of the Al Awfi family, while in the nearby Nur Shams camp, the soldiers demolished at least three homes and forced dozens of families to flee their homes “under threat and intimidation” and “amid gunfire and the sound of explosions”.
Earlier, we reported that Israeli forces arrested two women from their homes and a number of others from a mosque in the city of Tulkarem.
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