PALESTINE
Wed 29 Jan 2025 12:43 pm - Jerusalem Time
Israeli occupation continues its aggression on Tulkarm, causing widespread destruction to the infrastructure
Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression on the city and camp of Tulkarm for the third day, causing widespread destruction to the infrastructure and citizens’ property, and displacing citizens from their homes.
A short while ago, a young man was shot in the head by an occupation sniper in the Hanoun Square neighborhood in Tulkarm camp. Citizens are calling for an ambulance to be brought in to take him to the hospital, as he is lying on the ground bleeding, while the occupation forces are preventing ambulances from entering the camp.
According to local sources, the occupation forces have sent more of their vehicles towards the city and its camp, which is under a tight siege, while their bulldozers continue to destroy the infrastructure in its neighborhoods, which has affected the water, electricity, sewage, internet networks, and public and private property.
It added that the citizens inside the camp's neighborhoods are living for the third day without water, electricity or communications, and they have become cut off from the outside world, and they are calling for their rescue and the provision of basic necessities, especially for the sick, children and the elderly.
This morning, the occupation forces forced the residents of the Shuhada neighborhood to leave their homes and leave the camp towards the city, joining a convoy of citizens who were forced to leave the camp since the first day.
All the camp's neighborhoods are witnessing a large deployment of occupation vehicles and soldiers, who are firing live ammunition intensively, storming homes and wreaking havoc and corruption, and subjecting citizens to interrogation and investigation. They have also forced a large number of them to leave under threat of arms.
In Tulkarm, the occupation forces continue their siege of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and the Israa Specialized Hospital, and obstruct the work of ambulances and their medical crews.
The occupation forces are deployed in the city’s various neighborhoods and streets, specifically the western, southern and eastern neighborhoods, obstructing the movement of vehicles, stopping them, searching them and forcing their passengers to return to their homes under threat of arms.
It also stops citizens, especially young men, detains them and abuses them after checking their identities.
In a later development, the occupation forces raided a number of citizens' homes in the western neighborhood of the city, some of which were turned into military barracks after their residents were expelled from them. They checked their identities and subjected them to interrogation, without any arrests being reported.
The occupation soldiers were seen trying to open old and abandoned houses in the western neighborhood, which belong to the Habayeb family, using heavy tools.
In addition, Tulkarm Municipality crews are working to repair the main water lines feeding parts of the city, located in the vicinity of Jamal Abdel Nasser Square, which were destroyed by the occupation bulldozers two days ago, causing water to be cut off from large parts of the city.
Last night, the young man Ayman Al-Naji was martyred in the Artah suburb, south of Tulkarm, bringing the number of martyrs in Tulkarm over the past two days to three, after the occupation bombed a vehicle in front of the entrance to Nour Shams camp, killing two young men who were inside it.
In the early hours of dawn today, the occupation bulldozers demolished the home of the family of the martyr Tamer Fuqaha in the Shuwaika suburb, north of the city, who was martyred in November of last year 2024.
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Israeli occupation continues its aggression on Tulkarm, causing widespread destruction to the infrastructure