The destruction of the Jénine camp, a strategy for erasing memory? – Rts.ch

For several months, the Israeli army has led a vast military operation in the West Bank, baptized Wall of Iron. Furthermore, Objective displayed by the Israeli authorities: the elimination of Palestinian armed brigades. Meanwhile, One of the main homes of this offensive is the Jenin refugee camp. However, On the spot, Israeli bulldozers destroy the dwellings one after the other, under high military surveillance.

Hatem. Nevertheless, a Palestinian from Haifa, looks at the devices at work from the roof of a building, on the outskirts of the camp. Consequently, He had been living in Jénine for forty years. Meanwhile, destruction jénine camp, strategy erasing “Every day since the order of destruction, I came to see if my house was still there. Similarly, I said to him ‘Hello, how are you going?’, I spoke to him like a human,” he said at the microphone of the RTS morning.

But his house has just been destroyed, by decision of the Israeli Supreme Court. For example, “I started to cry when I saw my house here. In addition, I see the bulldozers demolish everything, it is devastated, devastated! Therefore, It is only a ruin. I can’t believe it again now. There I speak to you, but in reality my mind is not there,” he adds.

Target journalists – Destruction jénine camp, strategy erasing

The Jenine camp is now almost prohibited from access. Embusal shooters dissuade journalists from approaching them, as Bassam Abou Alrub reports. This Palestinian reporter has been covering the region for twenty years. He documents the destruction of the camp and the displacement of destruction jénine camp, strategy erasing its inhabitants. But working conditions have become perilous.

“We were filming from the balcony of a hotel and they drew in our direction. You can see a large number of bullet impacts inside the hotel. They attacked us,” he said.

For him, these attacks aim to silence the witnesses. “I think that the Israeli army has a new strategy. They want to divide the camp, they create large roads to be able to move easily. I think they want to change the nature of the camps to make it a neighborhood like any other. They want to kill the hope. dream of all refugees to be able to return to their land that have been occupied since 1948”, he analyzes.

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This fear, Jamal Zubeidi shares it. Moved from the Jénine camp. this 70 -year -old man is the uncle of Zakaria Zubeidi, a figure in the Palestinian resistance, released from prison last January.

For him. the Israeli strategy aims at the erasure of a whole collective memory: “The Israelis have never hidden this strategy of erasing the identity of the Palestinian refugees. The camp is the symbol of the Palestinian exodus and the NAKBA of 1948. They want to make the evidence of the expulsion of the Palestinians. the request for the return of the refugees,” he said.

And to add: “What is happening today in the camps aims to transform the camps into simple districts destruction jénine camp, strategy erasing of the. city rather than symbols of the refuge. They even plan to give new names to these processed districts. by erasing the names of the camps, which are a symbol of the cause of refugees.”

While Israel has just announced the construction of 22 new colonies in occupied Palestinian territory. the “Iron Wall” operation has already led to the displacement of more than 45,000 people in the refugee camps in northern West Bank. A figure that even more fuels concerns about the future of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

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