The Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on the city and camp of Tulkarm for the fifth consecutive day, amidst widespread destruction of public and private property and infrastructure, and the bombing of homes.

On Friday morning, the occupation forces arrested five young men after besieging two houses in the city, amid heavy gunfire and intensive low-altitude reconnaissance flights.

Local sources reported that an occupation army force surrounded a house in the Engineers Housing between the Shuwaika and Iktaba suburbs east of the city, and demanded via loudspeakers that those inside the house surrender, while a special occupation army force supported by military vehicles surrounded another house in the southern neighborhood of the city.

She added that the occupation forces fired bullets and sound bombs intensively towards the two houses, amidst the outbreak of clashes in the area, without any injuries being reported.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested the two young men, Ammar and Ahmed Al-Aoufi, from the house they surrounded in the east of the city. They also arrested the young men, Ayman Marai, Majd Hadaydeh, and Moamen Abu Tamam, from the house they surrounded in the southern neighborhood.

At the same time, the occupation forces deployed large-scale infantry patrols in various neighborhoods of Tulkarm city, specifically the western neighborhood and Jamal Abdel Nasser Square in the center of the city, while continuing to seize commercial buildings there and turn them into military barracks and sniper locations.

The occupation forces continue their siege of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and the Israa Specialized Hospital, and their seizure of the tall commercial buildings surrounding them, while obstructing the work of ambulances and medical crews and subjecting them to inspection and field investigation.

Meanwhile, the occupation forces are blowing up a number of houses inside the neighborhoods of the besieged Tulkarm camp for the fifth consecutive day, after forcing their residents to evacuate them at gunpoint. Every now and then, the sounds of explosions are heard in the camp as a result of the bombings and the burning of tarpaulins in its neighborhoods.