Friday, September 4, 2026

Between Dec 2024 and Jan 2026, Israel’s “Operation Iron Wall” expelled the entire populations of Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps, killed 102 Palestinians, including 21 children, and largely destroyed the emptied camps, making them uninhabitable. The Operation raises concerns of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing, and appears aimed at entrenching the Israeli occupation and undermining the viability of a Palestinian state. Read the report:

UN Human Rights Palestine

📢New @UNHumanRights report: Destruction of Palestinian refugee camps in northern West Bank

Between Dec 2024 and Jan 2026, Israel’s “Operation Iron Wall” expelled the entire populations of Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps, killed 102 Palestinians, including 21 children, and largely destroyed the emptied camps, making them uninhabitable. The Operation raises concerns of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing, and appears aimed at entrenching the Israeli occupation and undermining the viability of a Palestinian state. Read the report: 🔗

Thematic Report - Destruction of Palestinian refugee camps in northern West Bank (Dec. 2024 – Jan. 2026)

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04 September 2026

Summary

This report documents the destruction of the Palestinian refugees camps of Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarm in the occupied northern West Bank. It covers actions by Palestinian and Israeli security forces between December 2024 and January 2026, and documents in particular the Israeli "Operation Iron Wall", which entailed the use of of means and tactics designed for war and not law enforcement, caused deaths and injuries, widespread destruction, and the forced displacement of the entire populations of the three camps. The actions, along with incitement coming from Israeli settler leaders to destroy the refugee camps and reestablish Israeli settlements, appeared to pursue the aim of progressively erasing the refugee status and identity of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank, and consolidating and prolonging Israel’s unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory - in particular in the northern West Bank, the area with the greatest Palestinian territorial contiguity and least fragmentation.

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Destruction of Palestinian refugee camps in northern West Bank December 2024 - January 2026)

Contents
Executive summary page 2
Introduction and background page 3
Palestinian security forces’ Operation Protect the Homeland page 5
Israeli security forces’ Operation Iron Wall page 6
Targeted killings and other unlawful killings page 8
Methodical, forced displacement of Palestinians page 9
Shooting, detaining and abusing those attempting to return to their homes page 11
Hardships and denial of return page12
Mass destruction of homes, community services and infrastructure page 14
Widescale demolition of private and public property page 14
Endorsement by the Israeli judiciary of demolitions for military purposes page17
Applicable legal framework page19
Recommendations page 24

https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/thematic-report-destruction-palestinian-refugee-camps-northern-west-bank

Israel ‘organised and prepared’ to remove Gaza population if US gives green light, Katz says

Munther Isaac منذر اسحق

@MuntherIsaac

Sep 3

Israeli officials casually discuss ethnic cleansing, speaking of Palestinians as a “surplus population” to be removed—as though the only question is where to send them.

This is blatant racism. And the world is not merely watching; it is actively facilitating it.

According to the report from France 24:

“Israel has plans ready to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip but is waiting for the United States to figure out where to take them, the Israeli defence minister said Wednesday.

"There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration,"

The Israeli government "is organised and prepared to get them out – by sea, by air, by every way possible", he said.

Drone photo of Gaza City destruction after Israeli military bombardments taken October 15, 2025. AP

Israel is "organised and prepared" to remove Palestininians from Gaza "by every way possible", Defence Minister Israel Katz told reporters Wednesday, adding that there was no alternative "solution" to crisis. The Israeli government was simply waiting for the US to figure out where to take the displaced Gazans, he said.

02/09/2026

By: FRANCE 24

Israel has plans ready to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip but is waiting for the United States to figure out where to take them, the defence minister said Wednesday.

"There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration," Defence Minister Israel Katz told a conference hosted by Israeli news site Ynet and newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

The Israeli government "is organised and prepared to get them out – by sea, by air, by every way possible", he said.

The US embassy referred requests for comment to the State Department in Washington.

US President Donald Trump, at the start of his second term, stunned much of the world by calling for all two million Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip.

Trump spoke of developing the Mediterranean territory, devastated by Israeli bombardment since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, into a luxury resort destination.

Trump walked back the idea following strong pushback, including from Egypt – the only country other than Israel to border Gaza.

The proposal was also condemned by Palestinians themselves, for whom any effort to force them off their land would recall the "Nakba", or catastrophe – their mass displacement during Israel's creation in 1948.... READ MORE https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260902-israel-organised-and-prepared-to-remove-gaza-population-if-us-gives-green-light-katz

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POWER ... a 2026 Poem by Anne Selden Annab

POWER

Billionaires hoard wealth in part,

by deploying a small fraction

of their ginormous wealth to persuade-

persuading leaders to vote for data centers

and shape public policies

that build Billionaire wealth

and increasing political influence:

The VORTEX spins...

Erasing democracy.

Erasing equality.

Erasing justice.

Erasing security for most people,

excluding, of course, the Billionaires' own personal empires-

the influencers they train, the puppets they prop up,

the politicians they own,

the armies they build to bully US.

Massive Data Centers

hide Billionaire corruption

and cover up Billionaire greed

in a trillion different ways...

Human history online is rewritten

bit by bit, to empower

and reward Billionaires even further.

A bloodless coup d'état

to impoverish We The People

individually and collectively.

A global game of get get get

more wage slaves

to cook the food and clean the toilets

on the mega-yachts and in the McMansions

More wage slaves

for whatever whims and itches

the Billionaires and their

calculating Data Centers might feel.

Thursday, September 3, 2026

Symbols of Palestine- Palestinian artist- Fedaa Boqaileh, 1948... "I dream of a gallery … one day , exact vision here… where people can smell the jasmine, hear the oud,share a coffee and sit to admire falasteen…"

Palestinian artist- Fedaa Boqaileh, 1948

juthur1948

I dream of a gallery … one day , exact vision here… where people can smell the jasmine, hear the oud,share a coffee and sit to admire falasteen…

And for a moment, they understand that home is more than a place, it is something carried, remembered, and lovingly recreated, somewhere dreamt…

Until that gallery exists, I’ll keep drawing it into being…-Fedaa

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbgwVFnizd4/

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Ben-Gvir did not come into power in a vacuum: he was helped into his position by an international community that has afforded Israel complete impunity

Arwa Mahdawi

Ben-Gvir posts Palestinians on conveyor belts to detention camps. The world is silent

Arwa Mahdawi

Thu 3 Sep 2026 06.00 EDT

Let me introduce you to Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of Israel’s far-right Jewish Power (Otzma Yehudit) party, the minister of national security, and an almost cartoonishly evil man. You’ll have heard his name before: he made international news when he filmed himself taunting bound activists who had been detained trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. But you might not be familiar with many of his recent shocking comments, because they haven’t been widely covered by much of the US media.

Let’s start with an AI-generated video that Ben-Gvir posted on Twitter/X on Sunday and then deleted. It shows portly Palestinian prisoners being loaded on to a conveyor belt and going into a detention camp, then emerging emaciated. The caption is “we promised – we delivered!” which seems to be a reference to the national security minister’s promise to worsen conditions for Palestinian prisoners. An ambitious goal, considering conditions are already hellish: Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has likened the prisons where Palestinians are kept to “torture camps”.

I’m being diplomatic with my summary of this latest video, by the way. I suggest you go watch it yourself to fully take in how awful it is. (It may have been deleted, but it lives on online). If the podcaster Hasan Piker had tweeted something similar, with Israelis as the subject rather than Palestinians, it would be front-page news. US lawmakers, all of whom seem to be obsessed with Piker, would be demanding that the podcaster be punished.

Ben-Gvir, by the way, has some imaginative ideas for punishment. One of his sick fantasies is to put crocodiles in moats around prisons where Palestinians are held to stop prison breaks. The plan is now on hold because Israeli rights groups have said it is cruel to crocodiles.

I can’t stress enough that, in any discussion of Palestinian “prisoners”, it’s important to remember that many of these people have not gone through any sort of due process. Thousands of prisoners, including about 200 children, are held under “administrative detention”: a technocratic name for a dystopian practice.

To quote the B’Tselem definition: “In administrative detention, a person is held without trial without having committed an offense, on the grounds that he or she plans to break the law in the future. As this measure is supposed to be preventive, it has no time limit. The person is detained without legal proceedings, by order of the regional military commander, based on classified evidence that is not revealed to them.”

In other words: if you are Palestinian, heavily armed Israeli soldiers can come into your house in the middle of the night, drag you into a de facto torture chamber despite the fact that you haven’t committed a crime, and hold you there indefinitely without telling you why you’re being held or informing your family where you are.

When you hear the word “prisoner”, people like Ben-Gvir want you to think of dangerous terrorists who deserve everything they get. In reality, many are people like Layan Nasir: a 23-year-old woman who was taken away at gunpoint from her parents’ home for no clear reason and only made international news because she is a Christian... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/03/ben-gvir-palestinian-comments

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Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Israeli settler violence and escalating Israeli military operations alongside severe movement restrictions, demolitions and widespread displacement “have eroded Palestinian livelihoods and contributed to increased food insecurity...”

Food aid cutback in the occupied West Bank as health fears grow in Gaza

1 September 2026 Humanitarian Aid

Lack of funding has forced the World Food Programme (WFP) to slash aid to families in the West Bank by half even though needs have more than doubled over the past two years.

“We’re running out of funding, and that means that from today, some 200,000 people will lose access to critical assistance,” Shaun Hughes, WFP country director for Palestine, told journalists in Geneva on Tuesday.

He said intensified settler violence and escalating Israeli military operations alongside severe movement restrictions, demolitions and widespread displacement “have eroded Palestinian livelihoods and contributed to increased food insecurity”.

Pushed to the brink

At the same time, a crippling economic crisis “is pushing people to breaking point”, with unemployment more than doubling and over a third of the population struggling to meet their basic needs.

“Food may be available in the markets, but people simply cannot afford it,” he said, speaking from London.

Today, nearly a million people across the West Bank – over a quarter of the population – are now food insecure, he said, adding that “two years ago, that figure was 11 per cent.”

Families ‘in a chokehold’

During recent visits to the territory, Mr. Hughes saw families that used to earn a living from the land “now forced from their homes, their livelihoods destroyed” and facing incredible injustice and hardship.

“They now find themselves in a chokehold, unable to move freely to access land or jobs and so unable to afford food for their families,” he said.

In response to journalists’ questions, he said that the West Bank was not traditionally considered to be experiencing a food crisis, but that increasing pressures were exacerbating food insecurity.

He added that the very small cash transfers that WFP provided – about 50 shekels per person per month (less than $20) – had become a “real lifeline” for many people and would now be cut off due to the funding shortfall.

Gaza: Don’t look away

Turning to the Gaza Strip, Mr. Hughes said that WFP was also forced to reduce its cash assistance to 75,000 families in July.

He stressed that the recent slight improvements in food security indicators reported last month “should not create a false sense of security” as two thirds of the population still face critical and emergency levels of hunger.

He warned that if humanitarian food aid does not continue, “up to 90 per cent of the population will face high levels of acute food insecurity by the end of this year.”

WFP requires $386 million to avoid any further reductions in assistance provided in Gaza and the West Bank over the next six months, he said, urging continued international support and solidarity.

“As global crises multiply and domestic fiscal interests take over, there is a real danger that the world’s attention moves on from Palestine, but the needs of Palestinians, both in the West Bank and in Gaza, have not moved on,” he said.

“Now is not the time to look away.”... READ MORE https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168237

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