Israeli authorities have intensified measures to transfer a large number of people from Palestinian cities and communities for a long time, according to OhchrBureau of the occupied Palestinian territory.
On June 18, the High Planning Council of the Israeli civil administration published a directive to reject all the building permits and planning submitted by the Palestinians to Masafer Yatta, in the south of the hills of Hebron, in the region designated by the Israeli authorities under the name of the 918 shooting area.
The decision was based on the reason that the Israeli army needs the “military training” region, the Office of Rights said.
Demolitions
In recent months, Israel has considerably accelerated home demolitions, as well as arbitrary arrest and the ill -treatment of Palestinians and human rights defenders. This occurs alongside intensification of movement restrictions in and around Masafer Yatta, to force the Palestinians, noted the office.
At the same time, the Israeli settlers of neighboring outposts led daily attacks and the harassment of the Palestinians, including the elderly, women and children, to force them to leave.
“The recent directive of the Israeli civil administration actually opens the way to the Israeli army to demolish the existing structures in the region and expel about the approximately 1,200 Palestinians, who have lived there for decades,” said the OHCHR.
“This would be equivalent to a forced transfer, which is a war crime. This could also constitute a crime against humanity if it was committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack on any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack. »»
Some 6,463 Palestinians were forcibly moved following the demolition of their houses by Israel between October 7, 2023 and May 31, 2025, according to the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Office, Ochha,,
This figure does not include around 40,000 Palestinians displaced by three refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarem due to intensive Israeli operations in the north of the West Bank since January.
During the same period, more than 2,200 Palestinians were forcibly moved by settlers and access restrictions.
More risky communities
Ohchr added that countless other Palestinian communities are faced with the same forced trip. He said that on June 10, the municipality of Jerusalem would have issued demolition notices for the whole village of a Nu’man, which houses 150 people.
The village, which is located near Bethlehem, was cut off from the rest of the West Bank by building the separation wall and incorporated within the unilaterally declared limits of Israel of the municipality of Jerusalem unilaterally. Most Palestinians have not received Jerusalem identification cards, which actually makes them incapable of accessing services in East Jerusalem or the rest of the West Bank.
“These demolition opinions seem to be another stage of Israel to worsen the coercive environment and forcibly transfer the Palestinians in the village and consolidate the annexation of this land,” said the office.
EXPOLS in East Jerusalem
Meanwhile, the Palestinians in East Jerusalem also occupied the continuous threat of forced expulsion of their homes and their land.
The OHCHR said on June 16 and 22, the Israeli Supreme Court approved the expulsion of five Palestinian families, 37 people, their homes in the Batn El Hawa district of Silwan on the basis of discriminatory laws which allow Jewish people to recover lost goods in the 1948 war, while refusing the same rights.
In addition, the Israel Land land authority published expulsion notices on June 11 for residences at Umm Tuba. The 150 Palestinians affected were informed that the land was registered with the Jewish National Fund under the “Title on the Land”.
“These expulsions are part of a concerted campaign of Israeli state organizations and settlers, which target the Palestinian districts to grasp the Palestinian houses and extend the Jewish colonies,” said the Ohchr.
The office stressed that these acts violated international law, which prohibits the confiscation of private property in occupied territory, as the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (Icj) Last July.
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