(24 Feb 2025)
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Jenin, West Bank – 24 February 2025
1. Wide of white smoke rising following explosions in Jenin refugee camp
2. Israeli military tank seen in distance between houses
3. Wide of Nazmi Turkman, 53, displaced from Jenin refugee camp
4. Various of Turkman holding mobile phone
5. Wide of mattress
6. Various of Turkman family making and drinking coffee
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nazmi Turkman, 53, displaced from Jenin refugee camp:
"Right now, I’m living here waiting to return to the Jenin camp. We are staying here in this association until we can go back to Jenin camp. Every day, we try to go back to the camp, hoping to enter, but they (the Israeli army) prevent us. They’ve set up checkpoints, placed tanks, and stationed soldiers. Even drones are flying above the people. No one is allowed to enter the camp at all. God willing, we will return soon."
8. Laundry hung outside
9. People walking in corridor
10. Wide of Turkman family
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nazmi Turkman, 53, displaced from Jenin refugee camp:
"I am here with my brothers and my cousins. We are around 25 people in total here. Some others are living in Burqin (town, west of Jenin) as displaced people. And some others are in Qabatiya, some in Tulkarem. It’s a process of displacement — officially. We have been displaced all over again."
12. Various of Turkman in shelter
13. Text on building, reading (Arabic) "Association for the Rehabilitation and Care of the Blind — Al-Noor Primary School"
14. Wide of association building
15. Mid of Jenin refugee camp
16. Skyline of Jenin refugee camp
STORYLINE:
Since Israel deepened its crackdown on the occupied West Bank, Nazmi Turkman, his wife and their four children were forced to flee their home in the Jenin refugee camp about a month ago.
They moved to a nearby care center-turned-shelter in Jenin city.
The 53-year-old and his family now wonder if they will ever be able to return — especially after Israel’s defense minister said troops will remain in parts of the territory for a year and tens of thousands of Palestinians who have fled cannot return.
"Every day, we try to go back to the camp, hoping to enter, but they (the Israeli army) prevent us," said Turkman.
They are now living in an association building for the rehabilitation and care of the blind.
The Jenin Camp, Tulkarm Camp and Nur Shams Camp were empty of residents after about 40,000 Palestinians left to escape Israeli military operations there.
The Israeli military said it was determined to stamp out militancy in those areas.
On Sunday, and for the first time in decades, Israeli tanks moved into the Jenin refugee camp, long a bastion of armed struggle against Israel.
"They’ve set up checkpoints, placed tanks, and stationed soldiers. Even drones are flying above the people," Turkman said.
Thirty-nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in recent camp operations, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The IDF said it has targeted gunmen and their facilities, with a view to preventing potentially imminent attacks.
Israel ordered West Bank operations stepped up after three empty buses exploded in a depot near Tel Aviv on Feb. 20. Police said homemade bombs, apparently planted by Palestinians, had detonated prematurely.
Israel launched the offensive in the northern West Bank on Jan. 21 — two days after the current ceasefire in Gaza took hold — and expanded it to nearby areas.
AP video shot by Aref Tufaha
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