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In the Nour Shams refugee camp, new demolitions and endless displacement

After Israel announced the destruction of 25 residential buildings in Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank, about a hundred Palestinian families who have already been forcibly displaced since the beginning of the year await further demolitions.

In the Nour Shams refugee camp, new demolitions and endless displacement

Damaged houses in the Nour Shams Palestinian refugee camp, in Tulkarem, in the northern occupied West Bank, on De. 18, 2025. (Credit: Zain Jaafar/AFP)

From the window of an apartment overlooking the edge of the Nour Shams refugee camp, a few kilometers east of Tulkarem in the northern occupied West Bank, Fatma Naghnaghiya waits.Shoulders hunched, the 70-year-old Palestinian keeps her eyes fixed outside, alert to the slightest sound. She arrived at her neighbors’ apartment two days earlier, not because they had space to spare, but because their living room, with heavy sofas and floor-to-ceiling curtains, faces her own home.“I want to see how they are going to demolish it,” she said.On Monday evening, Dec. 15, Israeli authorities released a military map detailing planned demolitions inside the camp. Fatma said she initially struggled to believe it. But her house appeared in red, listed under her brother’s name — a bureaucratic notation sealing its fate.Her phone rang nonstop. Neighbors...
From the window of an apartment overlooking the edge of the Nour Shams refugee camp, a few kilometers east of Tulkarem in the northern occupied West Bank, Fatma Naghnaghiya waits.Shoulders hunched, the 70-year-old Palestinian keeps her eyes fixed outside, alert to the slightest sound. She arrived at her neighbors’ apartment two days earlier, not because they had space to spare, but because their living room, with heavy sofas and floor-to-ceiling curtains, faces her own home.“I want to see how they are going to demolish it,” she said.On Monday evening, Dec. 15, Israeli authorities released a military map detailing planned demolitions inside the camp. Fatma said she initially struggled to believe it. But her house appeared in red, listed under her brother’s name — a bureaucratic notation sealing its fate.Her phone rang nonstop....
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