(11 Feb 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nur Shams refugee camp, West Bank – 11 February 2025
1. Various of Israeli soldiers checking families leaving Nur Shams refugee camp
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kafr Al-Labad, West Bank – 10 February 2025
2. Various of a family taking belongings from a car
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nashat Salman, displaced person from the Nur Shams refugee camp:
"My wife, my children and I are seven people, and there were about 50 people in the building. The army came to us at about 3 in the morning (local time). They gave me seven minutes notice. They said that I have to evacuate my house in seven minutes. They demanded that the entire building, that houses 50 people, to be evacuated. We walked from the Nur Shams camp, fifty of us, to the village of Dhanaba on foot through the olive trees without help from anyone."
4. Wide of an area for sleeping
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nashat Salman, displaced person from the Nur Shams refugee camp:
"Some people came to us in the village of Dhanaba and then they transferred us to this shelter in Kafr al-Labad. Thank God, my wife, my children and the rest of the families who were with us arrived safely."
6. Various of people sitting in the shelter around fire
7. Wide of people in the shelter
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of Palestinians on Tuesday fled their homes in a refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank as the Israeli army escalated its raid against Palestinian militants.
Nashat Salman and his family were forced to leave their home in the Nur Shams refugee camp on Monday at around 3 in the morning (local time).
Israeli soldiers who arrived at their building "said that I have to evacuate my house in seven minutes," Salman said.
He and his family walked through a field of olive trees to the nearby village of Dhanaba.
He and his family now sleep on the floor of a crowded community center in the village of Kafr al-Labad.
They live on food donations and wear only the clothes they were able to bring.
But the toughest part, he says, is the uncertainty about how long he and his kids will have to stay in the shelter, as the Israeli military bulldozes roads and takes over houses in the camp.
Earlier this week, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the expansion of the crackdown on the northern part of the West Bank, which first targeted the Jenin refugee camp.
Since then, it has spread to other camps in the area, most recently Nur Shams.
The Israeli military did not respond to a request for comment as to why it was forcibly evacuating civilians from the camp.
Hundreds have fled from Nur Shams in recent weeks, both driven by force or by the miserable conditions, as part of a wider wave of displacement that the United Nations says has affected some 40,000 Palestinians in the northern West Bank in recent weeks.
AP video shot by Majdi Muhammad and Aref Tuffaha
Production: Jalal Bwaitel
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