According to figures from the Palestinian Authority, around 17,000 people have now left Jenin refugee camp, leaving the site almost completely deserted, while in Nur Shams 6,000 people, or about two thirds of the total, have left, with another 10,000 leaving from Tulkarm camp.

Israeli military operations in the West Bank have led to the displacement of around 40,000 Palestinians, marking the largest civilian displacement in the region since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

The Israeli military launched a wide-scale operation last month against militants in several cities in the West Bank. Now, roughly 40,000 Palestinians have fled their homes — the highest since Israel occupied the territory nearly six decades ago,

As the truce between Israel and Hamas took hold on Jan. 19, radical Israeli settlers rampaged through West Bank towns, torching cars and homes.

To spend a rush hour these days at any of the traffic-snarled checkpoints outside Palestinian cities in the West Bank is to hear of the endless problems they have brought — families divided, money lost,