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.

On the 5th Brussels conference on "Supporting the Future of Syria and of the Region", the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reiterated its call to support Palestine refugees who are in Syria and in neighboring countries, said an UNRWA press release.

Rights groups say Israel's 'separation policy' is keeping apart dozens of families.

This programme awards scholarships to disadvantaged youth and in-service teachers. Launching in spring 2021, the new programme will grant 339 scholarships over the next eight years.

A study released today by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestinian Water Authority suggests that only four percent of households in the Gaza Strip have access to safely managed water, compared with 39.5 percent in the rest of Palestine.

According to the Committee, the imminent demolition of the 100 Palestinian homes in Silwan’s Al-Bustan will displace 1550 people, most of whom are women and children.

Since the launch of the project in April 2020, which has also been run in Jordan and Haiti, around 20 people have been fitted in Gaza, an enclave of two million Palestinians wedged between the Zionist regime, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Zionist regime’s occupation authorities forced a Palestinian to demolish his house in the East Jerusalem (Al-Quds) neighborhood of Silwan, according to local sources.

Mohammed Rashwan is worried for his family of 10 after a decision from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to reduce aid to Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says what Zionist regime’ is doing in demolishing Palestinian homes and displacing women and children is “a war crime” that can be punished under international law.

The Israeli occupation authorities demolished or confiscated 89 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank in two weeks and displaced 146 Palestinian citizens, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said.

Report: Zionist regime has demolished nearly 166,000 Palestinian homes since it was forged on the land of Palestine in 1948.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas slammed Israeli occupation for ethnically cleansing the Palestinians by proceeding with its policy of home demolitions.