Refugees

Palestinians forced to destroy their own homes to avoid the large demolition costs and fines charged by Zionist regime's municipality.

The United Nations (UN)’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says the Zionist regime’s ongoing onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip has left more than 52,000 Palestinians displaced and nearly 450 buildings destroyed or badly damaged in the coastal enclave.

The government press office in Gaza said that the Zionist regime’s aggression against Gaza, which started on Monday, resulted in great financial losses and extensive destruction to infrastructure, homes and services.

Zionist regime’s Police officers reportedly assaulted the protesters and beat up some of them, and also asked those protesting inside the homes slated for evacuation to leave them.

Hamas denounces in the strongest terms the resolution by the European Parliament announced on Wednesday condemning the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) over school curricula’s content.

The UN agency said in a report that the demolition led to the displacement of 13 Palestinians, and damaged the livelihoods of about 90 others.

Zionist regime’s occupation authorities issued demolition notices to 13 houses inhabited by Palestinians in the village of Qabalan, south of the occupied northern West Bank city of Nablus, reported Wafa news agency.

The Zionist forces demolished a Palestinian Bedouin village in the southern Negev region for the 186th time despite the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The Zionist authorities demolished and forced people to demolish, or seized 58 Palestinian-owned structures across the West Bank and displaced 81 people, including 42 children in March 2021.

In February and March, Zionist regime’s courts approved the eviction of seven Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Al-Quds. Illegal settlers will benefit from this.

Over the last couple of weeks, Zionist regime’s occupation troops shot and wounded 53 Palestinian citizens during raids across the occupied West Bank.

International law views West Bank as occupied territory and considers all Jewish settlement-building activity there illegal.