The policy of house demolitions, revocation of residency rights, and the construction of illegal settlements on plundered Palestinian lands led to the displacement of at least 57,000 others in the occupied West Bank alone, including 15,000 due to the construction of the apartheid wall.
The total number of Palestinian refugees exceeds 7 million, establishing a record in terms of the number of refugees worldwide. With over 11 million Palestinians worldwide, this means that three-quarters of them are refugees.
According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), one-third of registered Palestinian refugees live in 58 refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. The remaining two-thirds live in the diaspora around the world. Israel continues to violate international law through its policy of forced displacement and ethnic cleansing against unarmed Palestinian civilians. The latest example is the 2023 war, which claimed nearly 30,000 martyrs, leading to the displacement of 1.5 million Palestinians from all areas of the Gaza Strip to its south in complex and inhumane conditions of oppression, fear, killing, displacement, starvation, and deprivation of housing, food, medical care, and education. This suffering is the most severe humanity has faced in 200 years, compounded by 17 years of suffocating blockade and a series of successive aggressions.