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Testimony of the expulsion of a family in Balata

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""حشرونا بغرفة بعدها طلعونا من الدار وحكولنا ممنوع ترجعوا".. مواطنة تروي تفاصيل طردها من منزلها وتحويله إلى ثكنة عسكرية خلال اقتحام مخيم بلاطة شرق نابلس." - Source

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Events:

Expansion of Operation Iron Wall in Balata al-Balad (Nablus)

Operation Expands in Northern west Bank:

On June 18, during the night, five battalions from the Samaria Brigade entered the Balata refugee camp in Nablus as part of the expanded operations in northern West Bank and as part of Operation 'Iron Wall,' alongside police forces and Shin Bet according to the IDF spokesperson. (Other units operate simultaneously in Meithalun, Jenin in Qalqilya, Salfit and in Jayyous).

Several Israeli military vehicles stormed the camp, surrounded its entrances, and prevented entry and exit.

Snipers were positioned on the rooftops of some homes.

Israeli soldiers raided several homes, ransacked their contents, and forced some families to evacuate their homes, turning them into military barracks and detention and field investigation centers.

The forces searched of homes, arrested wanted individuals and confiscated weapons, combat equipment and military gear.

Translation of the testimony (by MIKU):

Woman: "They stuffed us into a room, myself and the kids and their kids(points at them), and their women, they stuffed us into a room. They slept and took off what's on their head and their shoulders and slept. And then they went away and then they said, they were there since 11 in the house, and they said now, "now you are not allowed to stay in the room", and we asked "when can we come back to the house", and they said, "you don't come back today, you can come back not tomorrow, until after tomorrow you can come back".

Reporter: "Where are you going now?"

Woman: "I'll go look for someone or some woman I can stay with"

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