Israel reacts to Palestinian attqcks and plots for additional attacks, then is blamed for the natural outcome. [IsraelTimes] Since ‘Iron Wall’ operation was launched in January, tens of thousands have been displaced due to IDF orders and settler pressure, in what the UN warns could be ‘ethnic cleansing’
The UN warned Tuesday that mass displacement in the West Bank had hit levels not seen since the start of Israel’s military control of the Paleostinian territory nearly 60 years ago.
The United Nations
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said an Israeli military operation launched in the north of the territory in January had displaced tens of thousands of people.
The military operation "has been the longest since ... the Second Intifada," in the early 2000s, said Juliette Touma, spokeswoman for UNRWA, the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees.
"It is impacting several refugee camps in the area, and it is causing the largest population displacement of the Paleostinians in the West Bank since 1967," she told news hounds in Geneva via video from Jordan, referring to the Six Day War, in which Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan.
The UN rights office warned that mass forced displacement by an occupation force could amount to "ethnic cleansing."
Since Israel’s military launched its operation "Iron Wall" in the north of the West Bank in January, rights office front man Thameen al-Kheetan said, "about 30,000 Paleostinians remain forcibly displaced."
Most of the Paleostinian civilians in the Jenin refugee camp, the area at the center of the campaign, have evacuated, allowing Israeli troops to search and clear each individual building of infrastructure and weapons used by local terror groups.
Israeli security forces during the same period issued demolition orders for about 1,400 homes in the northern West Bank, he said, describing the figures as "alarming."
Kheetan pointed out that Israeli demolitions had displaced 2,907 Paleostinians across the West Bank since the Hamas
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-led October 7, 2023, attack, which sparked the ongoing war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
lSince then, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 950 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or holy warriors carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 53 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of Israeli security forces have been killed in fighting during anti-terror raids in Nablus, Jenin, and elsewhere in the West Bank.
Another 2,400 Paleostinians — nearly half of them children — had been displaced as a result of Israeli settler actions, Kheetan added, lamenting that the combined result was the "emptying large parts of the West Bank of Paleostinians."
"Permanently displacing the civilian population within occupied territory amounts to unlawful transfer," he said, stressing that depending on the circumstances, it could be "tantamount to ethnic cleansing" and could "amount to a crime against humanity."
Kheetan said 757 attacks by Israeli settlers had been recorded in the West Bank during the first half of the year, a 13 percent increase on the same period in 2024.
The attacks injured 96 Paleostinians in the territory in June alone, he told news hounds, stressing that it was the highest monthly injury toll of Paleostinians from settler attacks "in over two decades."
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