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Israel\u2019s military actions resulting in the displacement of entire Palestinian populations<\/a> in three refugee camps in the occupied West Bank \u201cappear to amount to collective punishment and raise concerns of ethnic cleansing\u201d, a United Nations Human Rights report has found.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s Operation Iron Wall in January and February 2025 killed 102 Palestinians and displaced more than 33,000 residents from the Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps, said the report, titled Destruction of Palestinian refugee camps in northern West Bank.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n Displaced Palestinians reported being told by Israeli officers that there would be no more refugee camps and that they should \u201call go to Jordan\u201d.<\/p>\n Such large-scale, long-term and systematic displacement of the Palestinian population could amount to a crime against humanity of forcible transfer, the report<\/a> by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Friday.<\/p>\n It stressed that the use of air strikes, armoured bulldozers and controlled detonations to render entire areas uninhabitable and prevent the return of residents, in the absence of imperative military necessity, is not permissible under international law.<\/p>\n \u201cThe way Operation Iron Wall has been conducted suggests its aim was to expel as many Palestinians as possible and to make way for more illegal Israeli settlements, in further violation of international law,\u201d said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk.<\/p>\n