The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced that the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps in the northern West Bank have become uninhabitable due to the ongoing attacks by the Israeli occupation forces.

The agency said in a press statement, on Friday, that the extensive demolitions in these camps represent a new and disturbing pattern that leaves unprecedented effects on Palestinian refugees.

She stressed that these operations aim to permanently change the basic characteristics of these camps.

This aggression is the longest and most destructive since the Second Intifada, and has resulted in the largest wave of Palestinian displacement in the West Bank since 1967, as the occupation has forced about 40,000 people to be forcibly displaced from their homes.

UNRWA explained that the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps have been almost completely emptied of their residents, with widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure, including homes. Under these circumstances, Palestinians face the prospect of having no place to return to.

The agency indicated that its teams on the ground are working to meet the needs of the displaced, at a time when the humanitarian space in the West Bank continues to shrink continuously.

In a related context, the Minister of the Occupation Army, Yisrael Katz, announced that he had instructed the army forces to continue occupying Palestinian refugee camps in the northern West Bank until the end of this year.

Katz's statement came during his participation, on Friday, in the "Federal Zionism" conference in Tel Aviv, according to the newspaper "Israel Today".

Katz admitted that 40,000 people were displaced from the Palestinian refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams, due to the ongoing aggression for about 50 days.

Since the start of the war of extermination on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation army and settlers have escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which led to the martyrdom of about 930 citizens, the injury of nearly 7,000 others, and the arrest of 14,500 citizens.