Tulkarm, December 31, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation bulldozers began extensive demolition work on Wednesday morning on the homes of citizens in the Nur Shams camp, east of Tulkarm .
Our correspondent said that the occupation bulldozers began extensive demolition work in the Al-Maslakh neighborhood of the camp, in implementation of a plan to demolish 25 buildings containing more than 100 homes, whose residents had been forcibly displaced during the occupation’s latest aggression against the camp, which was announced on the 14th of this month.
Tulkarm Governor Abdullah Kamil commented on the occupation’s commencement of implementing the decision to demolish (25) buildings inside the Nur Shams camp, stating that it comes within the framework of the continued crime of aggression against our people in the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps .
He said in a press statement that this dangerous escalation targets the Palestinian presence in the camps, which are a witness to the Nakba, and constitutes collective punishment against civilians, and is a violation of international law, international conventions and norms, and human rights laws.
Kamil added that the demolitions come within the framework of a systematic policy that resulted in the forced displacement of our people from the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps, turning the two camps into a pile of destruction, in light of the continuous targeting and destruction of infrastructure and homes, and the accompanying escalating human suffering of the citizens .
He renewed his call to the international community and human rights organizations to intervene urgently to stop the crime of aggression against our people in the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps, and against our people everywhere, stressing that these crimes exacerbate the suffering of citizens as a result of forced displacement and expulsion from their homes .
The Adalah Legal Center announced on Tuesday that the Israeli Supreme Court upheld the demolition of civilian homes in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank. This came after the court rejected, on the 24th of this month, an appeal filed by 22 Palestinians from the Nur Shams camp and surrounding areas, along with Adalah, against orders issued by the Israeli army to demolish approximately 25 civilian residential buildings in the camp. The court adopted the Israeli army’s position, which claimed that the demolition orders were based on a “justified military need,” despite the Israeli Public Prosecution’s admission during the hearing that the targeted buildings were civilian homes not used for any military purposes and belonging to families with no connection to any military activity. The army justified the demolitions on the grounds of facilitating future military movements within the camp, rather than on any current or urgent military necessity .
This measure comes as part of a policy of tightening the noose on the camp’s residents, who, since the start of the Israeli aggression against it 326 days ago, have faced forced eviction orders amid a state of shock and grief, as a result of the continued threat of losing their homes and properties, at a time when the occupation forces are imposing a tight siege on the camp and its surroundings, which included extensive demolition work during last summer on dozens of residential buildings .
According to a previous report by the Popular Committee for Services in Nur Shams Camp, more than 11,500 residents were displaced from the camp and neighboring areas, such as Jabal al-Nasr and Jabal al-Salihin. More than 750 housing units were completely destroyed and bulldozed, with the occupation forces constructing massive roads on their ruins, effectively dividing the camp into small residential blocks. Additionally, more than 1,600 units sustained varying degrees of damage, and over 80 housing units and commercial establishments were burned .
The occupation caused total and partial damage to approximately 230 private and commercial vehicles and 260 commercial establishments, in addition to total and partial destruction of a number of public institutions, mosques, kindergartens, a rehabilitation center for the disabled, a social youth center, and the UNRWA office .
More than 100,000 square meters of roads, side streets, and main streets were bulldozed and destroyed, as well as more than 20,000 meters of the water network, 15,000 meters of the main and secondary sewage network, in addition to the damage to 50,000 meters of the electricity network, both high and low voltage.
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