After destroying roadways and other infrastructure in West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, Israeli forces demolished multiple buildings at the weekend, causing loud explosions, Reuters reports.

“We stayed at home until the drone came to us and started calling for us to evacuate the house and evacuate the neighbourhood because they wanted to carry out an explosion,” said 39-year-old Khalil Huwail, a father of four who left with his family.

“We left in the clothes we were wearing. We couldn’t carry anything, that was forbidden,” he said.

“The camp is completely empty.”

After bulldozers and armoured vehicles were deployed near his home, he said, residents trudged away along rubble-strewn roadways to an assembly point where Red Crescent vehicles awaited.

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