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Friday, January 2, 2026

Israel escalates West Bank demolitions amid illegal settlement expansion

Bulldozers flatten refugee housing while Israel approves 126 settler housing units and targets UN agencies.

A man drives a pick-up truck loaded with furniture as residents from the Nur Shams refugee camp return to their homes on December 17, 2025 to retrieve belongings before the Israeli military's demolition of residential buildings in the camp, near Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank [File: Zain Jaafar/AFP]
Jan. 1, 2026 - Israeli forces have begun demolishing dozens of buildings housing Palestinian families in the northern occupied West Bank, forcing mass displacement as winter sets in, and leaving communities scrambling for shelter.

Israeli military bulldozers and cranes tore through residential blocks in the Nur Shams refugee camp on Wednesday, flattening homes that housed about 100 families. Thick clouds of dust rose over the camp as residents watched from a distance, according to an AFP news agency journalist at the scene.

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