Mere days after Israel’s High Court of Justice ordered a detailed plan for the return of over 33,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced by Israeli forces from Tulkarem, Jenin and Nur al-Shams refugee camps, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the forced displacement is permanent. 

The difference between the occupied West Bank and Gaza is starting to diminish. In both areas, Palestinians have been declared terrorists. Israel subjected Gaza to genocide which displaced almost the entire remaining population, while enhancing forced displacement tactics, already normalised, in the occupied West Bank. In both areas, a permanent Israeli military presence became a new reality. 

In another move that reeks of permanence, the Israeli military started building a base in Jenin, under the pretext of security concerns prior to the return of the refugees. As happened in Gaza, the base was declared to be temporary.

In another move that reeks of permanence, the Israeli military started building a........

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