Bulletin N°56 avril 2025 The Zionist entity seeks to erase the refugee camps of Jenin and Tulkarem
The Israeli army announced on March 30 its intention to reposition Palestinian refugee camps in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarem, as part of a large-scale military operation in the northern occupied West Bank, which has been ongoing since the end of January.
The plans aim to completely eliminate both camps and the one in Nur Shams, reducing them to neighborhoods within the two cities, with the aim of preventing them from serving as "incubators for terrorist organizations."
The situation in Nur Shams camp
On the ground, demolition operations are carried out daily, with the occupation army repeatedly warning hundreds of Palestinian families of the imminent destruction of their homes. Since the houses are considered purely military targets, the families have been unable to legally challenge the orders. The Zionists' plan is already being implemented in the Nur Shams camp. The army is dividing the camp into sections and opening main streets, each at least 10 meters wide and over 500 meters long.
House demolition doesn't just affect those directly affected. When a house is destroyed, all nearby buildings are affected due to the camp's layout, where space is limited. When the colonial military announces its intention to demolish 30 houses, it actually means that 100 will be destroyed, as all the houses are built vertically. So far, at least 500 houses in the camp have been completely razed, and hundreds more have been damaged. All 13,000 camp residents have been evicted, and all nearby residents have been displaced.
Make the camps uninhabitable
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth revealed that the occupation army's general plan in the Palestinian camps is to give free rein to its activities and create a new era for its security.
According to the newspaper, 200 homes were demolished in the Jenin camp and five kilometers of roads were built. In Tulkarem, fifteen homes were demolished and a 200-meter-long road was paved, all to facilitate access for Israeli forces if necessary. The newspaper states that the army's intention is to erase the refugee stories that are perpetuated by the camps.
Soldiers of the occupation army widen the streets, roads, and entrances within the camp itself to facilitate the entry of military vehicles and alter the geographic and demographic landscape. The Zionist authorities thus seek to reduce the population by demolishing homes and displacing refugees, thus creating a hostile environment until the camp becomes uninhabitable.
Zionists want to erase Palestinian history in Gaza
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced the killing of eight of its medics in Rafah. They were targeted by occupation forces while carrying out their humanitarian duty by traveling to the Hashashin area of Rafah to provide first aid to several people injured by the occupation army's shelling in the area. A ninth doctor remains missing. The Palestinian Red Crescent also found the bodies of six civil defense personnel and one UN staff member in the same area.
The Zionists' goal is to completely prevent humanitarian work. The occupation is targeting Red Crescent doctors, despite the protected status of their mission and the Red Crescent emblem, and is thus committing new war crimes before the eyes of the entire world. This is met with almost complete indifference from states, especially those with the means to exert influence to stop the Zionists, Western imperialists, and the Gulf petromonarchies.
On April 2, the Zionist colonial army bombed the UNRWA clinic sheltering displaced people in the Jabalia camp. At least 10 people were reported dead, including children, and a dozen others injured. The goal is to completely destroy the Gaza Strip's healthcare system, as has been the destruction of historic buildings and universities. The Zionists want to erase the Palestinian presence and, at the same time, forcibly prevent any resistance.
It should also be remembered that in order to prevent as much as possible the dissemination of the genocide they are perpetrating, the Zionists, since the beginning of the war, have killed more than 200 journalists, 400 have been injured and 51 are in the prisons of the colonial state.
The majority of the Israeli population tolerates or even encourages the massacres
The daily figures of the genocide, which have increased significantly since the resumption of bombing, are not reported in the Israeli media, and if they are, they are always scandalously minimized.
For example, Channel 12 News, Israel's main television station, reported that the 400 dead on the first day of the bombing were "militants," even though it is clear that the entire world is seeing the horrific images of dozens of babies and children being bombed to death. Many in France and elsewhere observing the genocide wonder how it is possible to lie so blatantly when the truth is so obvious.
How much longer will the media of the Zionist entity be complicit in the crimes of the genocidal government?
Perhaps after the shock of October 7, when the Zionists realized that the survival of their colonial and racist state was not assured, the reaction of insensitivity to the massacre of the Palestinians could be vaguely understood, but, after 18 months of massacres, which will enter the history books as an eternal shame, no excuse is possible, no fabrication either, there is a massive complicity of the population of the colonial state towards the massacres committed by the genocidal army.
The majority of Israeli public opinion, which opposes the war, believes that it endangers the lives of the hostages and that the fighting has been resumed for political reasons: the continuation of the Netanyahu government, which is under investigation for its corruption, and the return of the fascist Ben Gvir to the government fold.
If the resumption of war kills the hostages, it also kills masses of Palestinian men, women, children, and elderly people. Yet, "anti-war" Israelis continue to use euphemisms and not say out loud what is really happening. Even those who oppose the war refuse or are afraid to say that Gazans are also human beings. Because it is impossible to separate the pilot from the bomb. He is told to press the button and he does it. The majority of the population not only tolerates the massacres, but demands them, explicitly or tacitly. This is not a problem of cover-up or manipulation by the media . It is the fruit of a military-racist indoctrination that begins in kindergarten and continues until death. An indoctrination that needs destruction to justify the existence of Zionism.
There is something flawed in the narrative currently being presented by the liberal Jewish public in Israel as a struggle to save “Israeli democracy.” This struggle exists in the almost complete absence of reference to the deadly consequences of the war on Gaza and Gazans. Thus, in the “only democracy in the Middle East,” the opposition, the one fighting “far-right Netanyahu,” can reconcile the defense of “democratic values” with a situation in which, on the other side, tens of thousands of lives are being cut short in one fell swoop. It is possible for “left” Zionists to insist on freedom and justice without reference to the inconceivable human cost of this war, to devalue life in Gaza, which has become so cheap for Israel’s Jews, while calling for the preservation of Israeli bourgeois democracy.
This so misnamed "democracy" carries on its back such enormous and terrible destruction every day.
In conclusion
It is time for sincere defenders of Palestine, particularly in certain left-wing organizations in France, to become aware of this reality: the vast majority of what is commonly called "Israeli society" is complicit in the genocide because it adheres to the foundations of Zionism and, therefore, cannot denounce the genocide taking place two doors down from its doors.
The fundamental problem, the very source of the colonial conflict, of the war of national liberation, is Zionism. All the focus on "far-right Netanyahu" is a mistake or a distortion of reality. The desire to eradicate the Palestinian people is not only that of Netanyahu, but of all Zionists, since the founding project.
A just peace means the dismantling of settlements, the return of refugees, and an independent Palestinian state. The existence of a colonial state prevents such a peace. The workers of Israel cannot be free if they do not break with Zionism and continue to find themselves objectively and actively in the camp of the colonizers.
We need a state where all people enjoy equal rights and can live together, regardless of their origins - in this case, a democratic Palestinian state.
The Revolutionary Communist Party supports more than ever the fundamental demands of the Palestinian national liberation movement: a complete end to Zionist military aggression, the right of return for refugees, and the formation of a Palestinian state on the territory of Mandatory Palestine.