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published by IMEMC News
Feb 2, 2025

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the international community to urgently intervene to stop the Israeli occupation’s bombings of homes in Jenin and Tulkarm, to put an end to Israel’s plans to forcibly displace Palestinians in the West Bank, and to stop the ongoing violations of international law, which include war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Ministry condemned, in a press statement today, Sunday, the bombings committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the Jenin and Tulkarm camps, including their bombing of large neighborhoods of the Jenin camp, in a brutal scene that reflects the extent of the destruction that the Gaza Strip has been subjected to, and embodies one of the manifestations of the war of extermination and displacement against the Palestinian people.

The Ministry said that they had repeatedly warned of the Israeli occupation’s plans to transfer the crimes of ethnic cleansing and destruction from Gaza to the occupied West Bank, under flimsy pretexts to continue its direct targeting of defenseless civilians, their homes, properties and places of worship. This expansion of war crimes in the West Bank comes in the context of implementing the policies and instructions of the ruling Israeli far right, which openly calls for the annexation of the West Bank and the imposition of Israeli law on the Palestinian people, feeding the cycle of violence and destruction to achieve its colonial ambitions and prolong its stay in power .

The Ministry held the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the crimes and violations of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the crimes of bombings and residential neighborhoods that aim to uproot the Palestinian people from their land and displace them in the West Bank.

The West Bank and Gaza Strip are two non-contiguous territories that constitute what remains of historic Palestine (23% of the original land of Palestine). Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes in what is now Israel for the creation of the state of Israel on their land in 1948, and further displaced with the expansion of the state of Israel and its military occupation over all of historic Palestine, which began in 1967 and continues until today. The Oslo Agreement of 1993, which was supposed to bring about a ‘two state solution’ with two separate states along the 1967 borders (with freedom to travel between the two non-contiguous parts of the state of Palestine: the West Bank and Gaza) was never implemented by the Israeli military that rules over the West Bank and Gaza, and was instead used by Israel to transfer over 500,000 Israeli civilians into colonial settlements on stolen Palestinian land throughout the West Bank in direct violation of international law and the Oslo Agreement. In this way, Israel has continuously expanded its territory onto Palestinian land, shrinking the land left to the indigenous Palestinian population into smaller and smaller isolated reservations or bantustans (much like those experienced by Native Americans in the US and those experienced by Black South Africans under the apartheid regime which segregated people by race in South Africa up until the end of that system in 1994).

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Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي
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This is not Gaza, this is Jenin moments ago as the Israeli army continues its offensive on the West Bank dubbing it “Operation Iron Wall.”

Dozens of civilians are killed, including children (as young as 2 years old and 9 years old).

This situation is terrifying. Even those killed in Jenin are not allowed to be buried, they’ve been in the refrigerators for more than a week as the army closes off the cemetery.

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