The occupation intends to demolish 25 homes in Nour Shams camp

The Israeli occupation army intends to demolish 25 homes in Nour Shams camp, threatening between 90 and 100 Palestinian families with an unknown fate, according to local estimates.

This came after the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a petition submitted by the "Adalah" legal center to stop the demolition operations, considering that the authority to make this decision belongs to the military authority of the occupation army.

Christine Rinawi reported that this decision is a formal procedure that allows the occupation army to invade the area and begin implementing the demolition operations, noting that the demolition notices were delivered to the Palestinian side last Sunday.

The correspondent explained that this step comes within the framework of the ongoing aggression on Nour Shams camp since February last year, as part of a military operation named "Iron Walls" by the occupation army, which targeted a number of Palestinian camps, and included demolishing homes, bulldozing roads, and carrying out extensive arrest campaigns.

She added that these operations led to radical changes in the geographical features of the camp, after the occupation forces dug wide roads inside it, confirming, quoting Palestinian sources, that the upcoming demolition operations will prevent about half of the camp's residents from returning to their homes.

The occupation army had linked its previous withdrawal from the camp to a set of conditions, including stopping dealings with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which it describes as "terrorist," and transforming the camps from refugee gatherings into neighborhoods affiliated with neighboring cities, conditions that the Palestinian side rejected.

While the occupation army justifies the demolition operations as "operational requirements," Palestinians see what is happening as having political dimensions rather than security ones, aiming to undermine the right of return and the refugee issue, and affecting the core of the constants and Palestinian identity