Palestinians forced from West Bank refugee camps left in limbo as Israeli demolitions go on

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“They punished ordinary people. This is collective punishment.”

It’s been more than nine months since 54-year-old Nehaya al-Jundi last saw her home in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nur Shams, in the occupied West Bank, after being forced to evacuate by the Israeli military.

“They punished the infrastructure, the institutions and people of the camp.”

In a café in nearby Tulkarm, Nehaya speaks to the BBC about her family’s panicked flight, as Israeli troops stormed into the camp in early February.

For two days Nehaya watched and listened in terror as military bulldozers razed the area around her house.

“We were besieged inside our house and couldn’t leave,” she recalls, describing how power, water and internet connections were all severed.

Eventually, on 9 February, Nehaya escaped with her 75-year-old husband, Zaydan, and their teenage daughter Salma.

“When we got out, I was shocked by the damage in the area,” she says.