cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42849242

Zena Tahhan
Feb 07, 2026

Since the onset of the Gaza genocide, a staggering 10,000 Palestinians have been internally displaced across the West Bank, with entire villages emptied, dismantled, and erased. This is in addition to the more than 30,000 Palestinians displaced from the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams refugee camps in a large-scale Israeli military operation launched in January 2025, which marked the largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in one operation since the 1967 war. Over that same period, more than 1,000 Palestinians—nearly a quarter of them children—have been killed.

The scale and speed of displacement as a result of Israeli settler and military violence, home demolitions and access restrictions are only accelerating. Since the beginning of 2026, nearly 700 Palestinians have been displaced, affecting nine villages and herding communities, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).