Israel seeks to ethnically cleanse West Bank by demolishing homes, Islamic Jihad says 

The Islamic Jihad Movement has slammed the Israeli occupation army’s demolition of 50 homes in a single day in Nur Shams refugee camp, near Tulkarm in the northern occupied West Bank, saying the occupation’s latest crime is part of its plan to ethnically cleanse the area of Palestinians.

“The Israeli aggression is a brutal assault that reveals the criminal face of this usurping entity,” the movement said in a statement yesterday, adding that this crime comes within a “systematic Zionist plan aimed at displacing our people from their land, and ethnically cleansing them and changing the demographic composition in the occupied West Bank, in preparation for annexing and Judaising it.”

The movement held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for these crimes, stressing that the Palestinian people will not leave their land, and will not give up their rights.

It also held the international community and UN organisations responsible for their “suspicious silence”, which provides Israel a cover to continue its aggression without deterrence.

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