Armed clashes between Israeli forces, Palestinian fighters, along with sounds of explosions reported in Jenin's eastern neighborhood - Anadolu Ajansı

There is little help for those driven from their homes, with the Palestinian Authority strapped for cash and the main U.N. agency hampered by Israeli laws.

Israel launched a major military incursion in the northern West Bank in August, which it called “Operation Summer Camps.” It sent armored vehicles into the cities of Jenin and Tulkarem, severing water and electricity and leading Palestinians to ration food, residents told CNN.

Israeli bulldozers have demolished large areas of the now virtually empty Jenin refugee camp and appear to be carving wide roadways through its once-crowded warren of alleyways, echoing tactics already employed in Gaza.

Israeli tanks have moved into the occupied West Bank for the first time in decades in what Palestinian authorities call a “dangerous escalation.”

The tanks rolled in Sunday, shortly after the defense minister said troops will remain for a year in parts of the territory and that tens of thousands of Palestinians who fled cannot return.

Fatima Tawfeeq, 63, has lived through numerous Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank. She witnessed Israel’s takeover of the Palestinian territory in 1967 and lived through Israel’s crackdown during the first and second intifadas,

Watching her granddaughter sleep in cramped quarters for displaced Palestinians, Sanaa Shraim hopes for a better life for the baby, born into a weeks-long Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank.