Hundreds of Palestinian families flee West Bank camp ahead of Israeli demolition orders

‘I’m under siege’: The families fighting for their homes on the West Bank

Traversing the West Bank’s rugged mountains, the challenge is not finding recent victims of settler violence willing to tell their story. It is squeezing in time to meet them while navigating the maze of Israeli-controlled checkpoints and iron gates that make it difficult, and at times impossible, to travel between Palestinian cities and villages.

Hundreds of Palestinian families flee West Bank camp ahead of Israeli demolition orders

TULKAREM REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinians have fled a section of the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank after receiving Israeli demolition orders — joining tens of thousands of people to be displaced by an open-ended military offensive in the area. The residents loaded all of their earthly possessions — mattresses, blankets, washing machines — onto vehicles on Wednesday before taking one last glimpse of their …