Israel announces plans to demolish dozens of buildings in West Bank’s Jenin camp
Israel’s military has said it will demolish 24 buildings in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp for “operational” purposes. In a statement, the army said Israeli authorities had notified Jenin residents of the upcoming demolition campaign.
Last week, Human Rights Watch accused Israel of attempting to forcibly displace Palestinians in Jenin camp and two other West Bank refugee camps earlier this year, including by intentionally demolishing Palestinian homes and other infrastructure.
It said those acts amount to war crimes and a crime against humanity.
A rubble barrier, built by Israeli army bulldozers, at one of the main entrances of the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank
More than 1,000 Palestinians injured in settler attacks this year: OCHA
Israeli settler attacks have injured more than 1,000 Palestinians so far this year – more than double the total for all of last year, the United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA) says in its latest update.
Here’s what OCHA reported this week:
- Between November 18 and 24, the agency documented 36 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
- At least 22 Palestinians were injured in the attacks.
- More than 180 Palestinian-owned trees and saplings were vandalised, mostly olive trees.
- Since the start of this year, OCHA has recorded more than 1,600 settler attacks, affecting more than 270 communities across the West Bank, with the Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron areas particularly hard-hit.
- This total is equivalent to about 35 Israeli settler attacks weekly, which is consistent with the past week’s numbers.
Israeli forces injured 3 Palestinians, arrested 15 others in West Bank’s Far’a camp
At least three Palestinians have been injured in an ongoing Israeli raid of the Far’a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society transported three injured people out of the camp in Tubas, medical sources confirmed. An update on their conditions was not immediately available.
The director of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society in Tubas, Kamal Bani Odeh, told Wafa that at least 15 people were arrested starting at about midnight.
