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On the night, Israeli forces entered the Refugee Camp Jenin in the occupied west coast and began ordering its 20,000 Palestinian residents to leave their homes, 66-year Juma Zawayda says to reject.

“My family remained, but I told them I had to stay, if I was going to attack the house of Israel, I want to be there to be damaged.”

Three days of fear, with the constant sound of gunfish, explosions and drones flattened through the neighborhood and issuance of orders that Jumaa could not be in the middle of noise. Then the water and current was interrupted, his phone ran out of battery and Jumaa felt he could no longer stay.

Now, three months later, Jumaa stands in the hill in the city of Jenin, looking through the city of the Refugee Camp on which he and other residents still prevent the Israeli army from still being prevented.

He is trying to see if his home is one of the many destroyed Israeli forces during his business against Palestinian armed groups that were present in the camp. The sound of liquid explosions can be heard below.

“Some told me that they think that our building was demolished, but we certainly don’t know,” Juma says, fight to express itself through their emotion.

Father nine, who used to work under construction, remained three months in the shelter at the school for displaced camps. He now moved to the accommodation for students with a university shared with his brother.

Prior to the outbreak of the war in Gaza in October 2023. year, Israel was already engaged in military campaign against armed groups in the west coast.

Several groups appeared in densely populated city refugee camps created for Palestinians who fled or were thrown out of their homes during the war that followed the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. years.

The main groups in the Jenin camp are related to the Palestinian Islamic jihad and Hamas. Their fighters were mostly attacked by Israeli military forces, together with sporadic attacks on Israeli immigrants in the west coast.

The number of fighters is unknown, but local journalists estimate that Jenin and Palestinian authorities from Israel and Palestinian was about 150 fighters in the Jenin camp.

Palestinian authority, which manages the western bank, has launched their own passage in the Jenin camp in December 2024. years, and its forces just withdrew when the Israeli army began its great surgery in January.

The Israeli defense minister called the camps of the Terror’s Nest, and in January, she intensified his campaign against armed groups who operate in them – entering and blocking numerous refugee camps in the north west coast.

He ordered the inhabitants to leave and started the demolition building wave, while some residents gave short opportunities to collect things.

But with Israel, he almost completely blocks access to camps and not publicly announcing which buildings that have destroyed, many Palestinians are disturbed whether they have a home.

The UN Palestinian Agency says its best assessment that Israel has collapsed at least 260 buildings that contain about 800 apartments during the “Wall Operation Operation, focusing on three refugee camps in the north of the Western Bank: Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams. UNRWA estimates that 42,000 Palestinians from the campsites were displaced from January.

In February, the Israeli army announced that 60 fighters were killed in its operations and arrested 280 others. Meanwhile, Palestinian health officials say that 100 people were killed in the west coast from the beginning of the Israeli January operation to date.

The Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that the army destroyed weapons and infrastructure “and said that he sent him to stay in refugee camps a year and prevent the inhabitants there was averted.

The Israeli military told the BBC for the militias “to exploit the civilian population as human protectors and jeopardize them planting explosive devices and hiding weapons.”

1. Maja, Israel gave Palestinian officials in the west coast of the new map 106 buildings, said that they would demolish in Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps in the next 24 hours for “military purposes.” They said that the inhabitants could apply for a short window to return home to take matters.

Help Agencies say that the Israeli campaign caused the largest forced displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in decades.

“What happens is not unprecedented,” says Roland Friedrich, director of the West Coast UNRW.

“As for the number of displaced people and the level of destruction, we have never seen anything like it since 1967,” he added, relating to Israel in the year, the military occupation of the West Bank began.

While lowering the interview with the mayor of Jenin, the BBC testified by Israeli forces reserves several Palestinians, including municipal workers who tried to enter the camp to clean the route to the nearby hospital. They were held three hours before release.

“There are great challenges, regarding the provision of services to citizens. As everyone knows, the infrastructure in the Jenin camp was completely demolished,” says Mayor Mohammad Jarrar.

“Israel’s goal is to try to make a Jen’s camp completely unfit to live, and I tell you that it has now become completely irreversible.”

The Israeli blockade for Western Bank Refugee Camps has achieved the establishment of data on what happens within almost impossible, says Unrwa Roland Friedrich, including the correct scope of demolition.

Jumaa is among some of the displaced Palestinians who issued a brief visit to the US forces of Israeli forces to take things. He just managed to catch his ID and family dog. Then two months later, in March, Israel issued a map of over 90 buildings that identified for demolition in Jenin. Jumaa looked at the residence among them.

The Israeli Army told the BBC that it was necessary to demolish this building to improve “freedom of movement” for its forces, but did not confirm that Jumaa Dom really destroyed.

The BBC was compared to the Israeli Matu Matu to the satellite footage of Jenin with satellite footage taken a week later. We managed to confirm that until 27. March at least 33 buildings on the list, including Juma, destroyed. Satellite images reveal many further demolition from January since January, including the construction of new roads to Israeli forces in which the buildings were previously standing.

“Why did they break down my house? I want to know. I want the Israeli military to give me a justification. I had nothing to do with militants. I am a quiet person,” Juma says.

“I worked for work to work 50 years to build my home.”

Despite the learning that his house was demolished, Jumaa remains insisting that he will return home.

“I won’t leave the camp. If he won’t let me restore the house, I’ll set the tent in my place,” he said.

“Isn’t it enough that my family was displaced in 1948. years, now we have to deal with displacement?”

Additional reporting Line Shaikhouni and Daniele palumbo.