(29 May 2025)
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Tulkarem, West Bank – 29 May 2025
1. Various of Tulkarem refugee camp residents carrying their belongings through rubble and leaving the camp
2. Wide of Israeli soldier standing on rubble and watching resident leaving
3. Displaced resident carrying furniture
4. Man carrying belongings
5. Various of Ahmad Abol-faiah, displaced resident of Tulkarem refugee camp moving a refrigerator
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Abol-faiah, displaced resident of Tulkarem refugee camp:
"Our building consists of four floors. Four families live there. There is coordination, they (Israeli soldiers) only let two people from the family go in, out of five people. But as you can see, the (Red) Crescent took out a washing machine for us, it was a big struggle to get it out. They faced humiliation, insults and were wronged after a struggle. Most of our belongings were brought outside the house, placed on the ground. They won’t let them take (move) it. What will two people be able to take? Nothing."
7. Abol-faiah carrying rolled carpets near an ambulance
8. People walking, Israeli soldiers in background
9. Israeli soldier checking a man’s identification
10. Mid of Israeli soldier
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Abol-faiah, displaced resident of Tulkarem refugee camp:
"Even if we want to go back to our homes, there are no homes. There isn’t even infrastructure. Our homes are not there, we might go just for visits to the place. The camp is uninhabitable because as you can see what the situation is like – there is no infrastructure, no health services, no homes. There are many who if they decide to go back to their homes, they would find that half of the home had been destroyed. There are people whose homes are fully gone (destroyed)."
12. Establishing shot of Husam Hassan, displaced resident of Tulkarem refugee camp, driving a donkey cart
13. Residents and Israeli solders on muddy street
14. Soldiers interacting with locals amid rubble
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Husam Hassan, displaced resident of Tulkarem refugee camp:
"I have my house (facing demolition), and I have my son (whose house) was threatened with demolition. My son left to Jordan with his family, and I couldn’t remove our belongings. They used my house as a military barracks and they (the Israeli soldiers) used it for sleeping. The last time, I went to my house I unfortunately saw their underwear and dirt on the beds. This never happened in the (19)48 war or the Six Day War (of 1967)."
16. Various of residents unloading belongings
17. Various of residents loading belongings onto vehicle
18. Wide of residents gathering at the entrance of Tulkarem refugee camp
STORYLINE:
Palestinians in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank loaded mattresses, blankets, refrigerators, washing machines and other belongings onto vehicles on Thursday, before the planned Israeli demolition of their homes.
"Even if we want to go back to our homes, there are no homes. There isn’t even infrastructure," said Ahmad Abol-faiah, a displaced resident of Tulkarem refugee camp.
The Israeli military has been carrying out an operation in the West Bank over the past several months that displaced, at its height, approximately 40,000 Palestinians.
It had emptied and largely destroyed several urban refugee camps in the northern West Bank, like Tulkarem and Nur Shams, that housed the descendants of Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes in previous wars.
That’s the largest displacement in the West Bank since Israel captured the territory in the 1967 Mideast war.
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