Date: November 28, 2025
The department called on the international community to assume its responsibilities in curbing the occupation's racist policies targeting camps and its displacement plans.
============================================================================================ The PLO's Refugee Affairs Department condemned the Israeli occupation army's decision to issue military orders to demolish 24 residential buildings in Jenin camp, housing hundreds of families, and its ongoing aggression against the Tulkarm, Nur Shams, and Al-Far'a camps, as well as its targeting of institutions and centers in Shu'fat camp. This is part of its ongoing war, which began at the start of this year, against Palestinian camps in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.
The department affirmed in a statement issued by its media office today (Friday) that the systematic demolition of homes in refugee camps in the northern West Bank, particularly in Jenin camp, and the targeting of institutions in Shuafat camp in occupied Jerusalem, by the occupying power, constitute an extension of the forced displacement process and the implementation of a plan to empty Palestinian refugee camps and erase their existence. This aims to liquidate the refugee issue and eliminate the right of return, and falls within the broader framework of the occupation's plans to consolidate its control and annex the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
The demolition of homes belonging to innocent civilians in Jenin camp and the ongoing destruction and displacement operations in the northern West Bank camps are considered war crimes and ethnic cleansing, and violations of international humanitarian law, the UN Charter, and relevant UN resolutions.
The department explained that since the beginning of this year and the start of the Israeli military aggression against Jenin camp, the Israeli occupation government has committed crimes of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement against civilians in the camp. It has partially or completely destroyed more than 700 homes and facilities, displacing over 4,000 families in a war crime and a violation of international humanitarian law, the UN Charter, and its resolutions. The Israeli military aggression also resulted in the destruction of hundreds of homes in the Tulkarm, Nur Shams, and Al-Far'a camps, displacing thousands of families.
The department warned against the continuation of the occupation state's crimes, which undermine security and stability in the region. It emphasized that the absence of a policy of deterrence and punishment has emboldened the Israeli occupation government to persist in its crimes and violations of international norms and laws, including international humanitarian law, and to disregard recent Security Council resolutions issued after October 7, 2023, most recently Resolution 2803, adopted on November 17, 2025.
It called on the international community to assume its responsibilities in curbing the occupation's policies and its racist displacement plans, and to address the destruction, displacement, and flagrant human rights violations perpetrated against the camps in the northern West Bank, particularly Jenin and Shu'fat camps, since the start of the aggression on January 21, 2025. It further called for providing international protection for the camps in accordance with international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, and for holding the Israeli occupation state accountable for its crimes of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement against the Palestinian people, as a legal and moral obligation, in accordance with its commitments under international law, to protect the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and to safeguard the multilateral international order.
