Twenty-four homes have been razed in the West Bank village of Jinba as RT finds families searching through the rubble<\/p>\n
Israeli forces have demolished dozens of buildings in the Palestinian village of Jinba in the occupied West Bank, leaving around 180 people homeless, including 85 children, RT correspondent Charlotte Dubenskij has reported. Visiting the community after the operation, she found families gathering belongings among the rubble.
\nIsraeli military and police accompanied by heavy machinery entered Jinba on Wednesday and destroyed 24 homes, as well as agricultural structures, solar panels, and water tanks. It was the third large-scale demolition in the Masafer Yatta area in three weeks.
\n\u201dWhen they came back, they said, \u2018Where is our house?\u2019 Then the crying and screaming started,\u201d one resident told RT, recalling the reaction of children returning after the demolition. \u201cThe house itself does not break me. I built it. They demolish it. And we rebuild it.\u201d
\n\u201cWhat breaks my heart is a little child who stayed in the Sun all day,\u201d he added, saying his two-month-old granddaughter had been left without shelter.<\/p>\n
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B\u2019Tselem, an Israeli human rights group that monitors Israel\u2019s policies in the Palestinian territories, has accused Israel of systematically dismantling Palestinian communities in the area. \u201cThis is ethnic cleansing in broad daylight,\u201d the group said, adding that the international community \u201cknows exactly what is happening, yet continues to allow it.\u201d B\u2019Tselem has documented the destruction of other homes and infrastructure across Masafer Yatta this month.
\nJinba lies inside Firing Zone 918, an area Israel designated for military training in the 1980s. Israel\u2019s High Court ruled in 2022 that residents had failed to prove permanent residence there before the firing zone was established, clearing the way for demolitions.<\/p>\n
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In other parts of the West Bank, Israeli military bulldozers have also uprooted Palestinian olive trees days before the annual harvest. \u201cThey left us with nothing,\u201d a farmer in Deir Nizam near Ramallah told Reuters on Wednesday after trees on his land were torn from the ground.
\nAddressing the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Jordan\u2019s King Abdullah II accused Israel of pursuing a broader policy of displacement in the West Bank. \u201cWhat is unfolding across the West Bank is not a series of isolated acts,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a name for that: forced displacement. And that is a war crime.\u201d
\nIsrael has rejected accusations over its conduct and launched a campaign accusing the UN and its critics of repeatedly spreading false claims about the country. However, across the Palestinian territories, communities are being squeezed until they have little choice but to pack up and leave, Dubenskij says.
\nWatch the full report below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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