The Al-Jaleel Society for Care and Group-based Rehabilitation has offered important companies to disabled Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp for many years. However now, after repeated Israeli attacks, the centre has been destroyed, and its employees have found that it sits in an Israeli-designated demolition zone.
Al-Jaleel’s employees have acquired no official discover, however in early June, the Israeli military revealed an aerial map displaying a number of buildings within the space that had been set to be destroyed, together with the rehabilitation centre.
Zaid Am-Ali, senior advocacy officer for Palestine operations at Humanity and Inclusion, Al-Jaleel’s companion organisation, instructed Al Jazeera the explanation the organisations got was that the realm was being secured for navy and safety functions.
“This isn’t the primary time the centre has been focused, the Israeli navy has destroyed elements of it throughout earlier acts of demolition within the refugee camp and has breached and ransacked the centre and tampered with assistive units meant for individuals with disabilities,” Am-Ali stated.
Al Jazeera has reached out to the Israeli navy however has not acquired a response on the time of publication.
Supporting 1000’s of Palestinians
Al-Jaleel is a “vital lifeline”, Am-Ali stated, describing how the demolition of the centre would deprive weak communities in Jenin and the broader northern West Financial institution of its important companies.
It was established in 1991 because the Native Rehabilitation Committee, which turned an unbiased NGO in 2010 underneath the identify Al-Jaleel.
Because it first opened its doorways, Al-Jaleel has offered 1000’s of Palestinians with a variety of help and companies, particularly to these with mobility impairments ensuing from damage, sickness, or conflict-related trauma.
In addition to prosthetics, orthotics and bodily and occupational therapies, Al-Jaleel additionally provides psychological help for these affected by incapacity and persevering with violent assaults perpetrated by the Israeli navy, which has been attacking Jenin regularly for years, however has intensified operations for the reason that start of 2025.
“This is identical space that has been topic to an ongoing Israeli navy operation for years now, inflicting a variety of casualties and harm to civilian infrastructure,” Am-Ali stated.
Al-Jaleel’s skill to operate and supply care was severely compromised in April when an Israeli assault broken the constructing.
Though employees have since relocated and began working from one other location because of their displacement from the camp, they haven’t but been permitted to re-enter the organisation’s unique constructing to retrieve any tools that was spared through the April assault.
Workers had been instructed they’d be allowed to evacuate their tools on July 12, however had been then not allowed to take action by the Israeli navy.
It’s unclear when or if employees will have the ability to gather Al-Jaleel’s belongings earlier than the demolition takes place. With the realm now declared a closed navy zone, Al-Jaleel’s employees are being denied details about the constructing’s standing.
On the time of writing, the centre has not been demolished, however different buildings in its neighborhood have been torn down.
Violence in Jenin
Violence in Jenin has escalated considerably since January 21, when the Israeli navy launched “Operation Iron Wall” within the metropolis and the close by refugee camp.
In response to Israeli forces, the operation is an “antiterrorism” offensive, trying to crush Palestinian resistance efforts within the space.
The Israeli navy has for years tried to root out any type of armed resistance within the occupied West Financial institution, conducting raids which have escalated in severity for the reason that starting of Israel’s warfare on Gaza in October 2023. At least 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in that interval.
“Operation Iron Wall” – concentrating on Palestinian fighters within the northern West Financial institution – began in Jenin, however has since unfold to Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and al-Fara refugee camps.
On March 22, simply 60 days after the start of the offensive, the UN company for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reported that 40,000 Palestinian refugees had been displaced from refugee camps within the northern West Financial institution.
As well as, earlier this 12 months, Israeli authorities introduced that they deliberate to wipe out the Jenin refugee camp fully.
Since then, Israeli bulldozers have been tearing down industrial buildings and houses at an alarming charge.
Wafa, the Palestinian information company, reported on June 30 that greater than 600 properties and 15 roads in Jenin camp had been demolished.
On June 17, the Israeli Supreme Courtroom rejected a petition filed by Adalah, a authorized centre for Palestinian minority rights in Israel, on June 12 to halt the demolition of Jenin refugee camp.
The Supreme Courtroom authorised the Israeli navy to proceed with the destruction of practically 90 civilian buildings that housed a whole lot of Palestinian households.
“The Israeli Supreme Courtroom’s choice to uphold these operations, together with its 7 Could 2025 rejection of Adalah’s petition in opposition to the mass demolitions in Nur Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps, gives a false authorized cowl for insurance policies of pressured displacement and entrenched impunity,” stated Adalah.
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The potential demolition of Al-Jaleel suits right into a wider sample of Israeli assaults on Palestinian healthcare establishments.
The concentrating on of well being services, medical personnel and sufferers has been widespread throughout Israel’s warfare on Gaza. These actions are thought of warfare crimes underneath the 1949 Geneva Conference. Israel has justified the assaults as being a part of its struggle in opposition to Hamas and different armed teams, accusing them, with none overwhelming proof, of utilizing well being services as cowl for his or her bases and operations.
In response to the World Well being Group (WHO), a minimum of 94 % of all hospitals in Gaza are broken or destroyed.
Between October 7, 2023, and July 2, 2025, WHO recorded 863 assaults on healthcare within the West Financial institution. These assaults affected 203 establishments and 589 well being transports
In an announcement to Al Jazeera, WHO reported that, of the 476 authorities well being service supply items assessed by WHO and companions within the West Financial institution in June 2025, solely 345 are totally purposeful, 112 are partially purposeful, 9 are non-functional, and 1 has been destroyed.
That, Am-Ali believes, is being ignored amid the comprehensible concentrate on Gaza, the place Israel has killed greater than 58,000 Palestinians. And it’s permitting Israel to get away with its devastation of Palestinian life within the West Financial institution, and its destruction of significant centres like Al-Jaleel.
“These developments usually are not remoted incidents and are in clear violation of worldwide legislation, together with the prohibition on the acquisition of territory by drive underneath the UN Constitution and the Fourth Geneva Conference,” he stated.
