The Israeli occupation forces continue the aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 18th consecutive day and the fifth day on the Nour Shams camp, as the siege, raids on homes and forced displacement of citizens, accompanied by a wide-scale arrest campaign, continue.
This ongoing aggression has led to widespread destruction of infrastructure and property, and forced thousands of civilians to flee their homes in the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps at gunpoint.
This morning, the occupation forces detained a number of young men from the Dhnaba suburb east of the city after raiding their homes.
Last night, the occupation forces sent more military reinforcements to the city and its camps, and deployed infantry soldiers in the streets and neighborhoods, amidst extensive combing and search operations, concentrated in the eastern and northern neighborhoods of the city, in addition to the alleys of the two camps.
The occupation forces continue imposing the siege on the eastern neighborhood of the city, specifically Al-Muqata’a Street and Abu Safiya Junction, and seize residential buildings and turn them into military outposts.
They also knock on the doors of homes, prevent citizens from leaving and moving, and restrict them inside their homes and even prevent them from opening the windows.
At the same time, the occupation forces fired live bullets intensively and randomly in Tulkarm camp, specifically in the airport neighborhood, while raiding homes and wreaking destruction and vandalism in them, while continuing to seize a number of them and turn them into military barracks and sniper locations.
The suffering of civilians who have not left their homes on the outskirts of the camp is exacerbated as a result of the tight siege and continuous attacks on the camp.
Their appeals for the delivery of food supplies, drinking water, medicines and baby milk, continue, in light of the worsening humanitarian suffering resulting from the interruption of all basic services such as water, electricity and communications after the occupation destroyed the camp’s infrastructure.
In Nour Shams camp, the occupation bulldozers continue to demolish homes and destroy the infrastructure inside its neighborhoods, specifically Al-Manshiya, coinciding with the firing of live bullets and huge explosions.
The demolition and destruction coincided with the occupation imposing a tight siege on the camp and its outskirts, turning it into a military barracks, raiding and vandalizing homes, and forcing their residents to leave them by threats and intimidation, at a time when the camp is witnessing a large wave of displacement of residents, including women, children and the elderly, enduring the hardships of moving on foot amidst the great destruction of the streets, rain and severe cold on the one hand, and the intimidation of the occupation, which is firing heavily on the other hand, exposing them to danger.
Yesterday, the occupation forces used the loudspeakers of the camp mosque in the Al-Ayada neighborhood to demand that citizens evacuate their homes and leave them immediately.
Additionally, Israeli occupation forces continue to close the gate of the Jabara Bridge at the southern entrance to the city of Tulkarm, separating it from the villages of Al-Kafriyat for the sixth consecutive day.
