In the demolition path of Israel, the inhabitants of the West Bank pack their lives

When Israel informed the Palestinian authority that it was planning to demolish dozens of buildings in busy parts of a border city in the Israeli West Bank, the notification arose a panic.

Hundreds of Palestinians in the border city, Tulkarm, learned that they would probably not return to their houses at the end of a radical Israeli offensive on the northern west bank.

“They cause a disaster,” said Nihad Al-Shawish, the head of the service committee in the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm.

Since January, the Israeli army has performed a large -scale military operation in three camps on the northwestern Jordoever, which moves tens of thousands of people and causes widespread destruction. Israeli officials, who say that the purpose of the campaign is to focus on militants and their weapons, have said that the army must be willing to stay in the camps for a year.

The army said that the last demolition of houses in Tulkarm was intended to make the two camps of the city, Tulkarm and Nur Shams, more accessible to Israeli troops and to prevent militants from regrouping there.

Many Palestinians believe that Israel wants to transform the camps, who have housed refugees and their descendants, into neighborhoods such as the rest of Tulkarm.

In recent days, Israel has allowed some residents of the camps to return to their houses to collect their possessions.

Nasr al-Jundi, 45, a resident of Nur Shams, said he only had time to take only a few of his possessions on Tuesday, including clothing, a television, a fan, a microwave and a Sautépan.

“They take my dreams away,” he said.

Later residents of the camp gathered on a nearby hill and watched how a bulldozer brought down houses.