Israeli settlement near Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Sept. 30, 2026. (Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday that displaced residents of a Palestinian refugee camp would not be allowed to return to their homes, after the supreme court ordered the government to provide a timetable for their return.
In a video statement filmed in the vicinity of the Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu referred to it as a "terror stronghold" and praised the Israeli army for "clearing it out under our directives."
"I heard that there is someone in the High Court of Justice who says that the residents should be brought back here. These are not residents, these are terrorists," the premier added.
Since January 2025, tens of thousands of Palestinian residents have been forcibly displaced from three refugee camps in the northern West Bank — Jenin, Nur Shams, and Tulkarm — after the Israeli army launched large-scale military campaigns against resistance factions operating from there.
The displaced Palestinians have largely been unable to return.
