When Israel informed the Palestinian authority of having planned to demolish dozens of buildings in crowded parts of a border city in the western Israeli West West, the notification triggered a panic.
Hundreds of Palestinians in the border city, Tulkarm, learned that they would probably not return to their homes at the end of an Israeli offensive system in the northern West Bank.
“They are causing a disaster,” said Nihad Al-Shawish, head of the service committee in the Nur Shams field in Tulkarm.
Since January, the Israeli army has conducted a large -scale military operation in three fields in northern West Bank, thinning tens of thousands of people and causing widespread destruction. Israeli officials, who say that the purpose of the campaign is to hit the militants and their weapons, have said that the military should be ready to remain in the fields for a year.
The military stated that the last demolition of the houses in Tulkarm had to make the two fields of the city, Tulkarm and Nur Shams, more accessible to the Israeli forces and to prevent militants from clinging there.
Many Palestinians believe that Israel is trying to transform the fields, which have hosted refugees and their descendants, into neighborhoods such as the rest of Tulkarm.
In the last few days, Israel has allowed some residents of the fields to return to their homes to collect their things.
Nasr Al-Jundi, 45, residing in Nur Shams, said he had only time to grab only some of his things on Tuesday, including clothing, television, a fan, a microwave and a jump pan.
“They are taking my dreams away,” he said.
Later, the residents of the field gathered on a nearby hill, looking at a bulldozer to break down the houses.