In a statement, the PLO’s Human Rights and Civil Society Department called the decision “a flagrant and deliberate violation of the most basic norms of international humanitarian law.”

The announcement by the occupying army is a dangerous escalation in the policy of collective punishment and ethnic cleansing against our people, it stressed.

The directives of the Palestinian leadership calls on all political, legal and humanitarian levels to stop this renewed aggression, which threatens to displace hundreds of Palestinian families, the text added.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) last night gave notice of the wave of demolitions within 24 hours.

The israelí forces released maps showing in red the homes to be destroyed and gave their inhabitants one day to evacuate their belongings.

Tulkarem Governor Abdullah Kamil condemned the move and called on the world to stop Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions.

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