PALESTINE
Wed 05 Feb 2025 9:56 pm - Jerusalem Time
Israeli occupation sends military reinforcements to Tulkarm camp amid widespread field escalation
This evening, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces sent more additional military reinforcements, especially infantry, to Tulkarm camp, in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression against it and the city for 10 days.
Our correspondent said that infantry forces were deployed in large numbers in front of the main northern entrance to the camp, and were deployed in the agricultural lands opposite it, and conducted combing and searching operations there, after seizing several residential buildings surrounding and overlooking the camp and turning them into military barracks.
A short while ago, the occupation forces stormed Al-Adawiya Girls' School, which is near Al-Shaheed Thabet Hospital, and deployed snipers at its windows.
She added that this deployment coincides with the widespread presence of occupation soldiers inside the camp's alleys and neighborhoods, with the deployment of large numbers of sniper teams inside the houses, who lie in wait for everything moving and shoot at it.
The occupation forces continue to impose a tight siege on the camp, amidst extensive raids on homes in a barbaric manner, vandalizing and destroying them, and expelling those present in them and threatening them with weapons, which led to the displacement of thousands of residents from all its neighborhoods, leaving only hundreds who live on the outskirts of the camp, specifically the Qaqun neighborhood.
The escalating Israeli aggression on the city and its camp has caused unprecedented and comprehensive destruction in the camp, affecting the entire infrastructure of electricity, water, communications and the internet, in addition to the total and partial destruction of dozens of homes, shops and institutions, and their exposure to burning and bombing, which has deepened the suffering of the camp and the remaining residents.
Citizens from inside the camp were able to monitor the massive destruction that befell the homes in Al-Ghanem neighborhood. A video clip showed partially destroyed homes and others completely burned, their alleys filled with rubble, dilapidated infrastructure, and an area completely empty of residents, as if the place had been struck by an earthquake.
Citizens who are still in their homes in the Qaqun neighborhood, trapped amidst the destruction, continue to appeal for urgent humanitarian aid to be sent to them, including food, water, medicine for the elderly and chronically ill, and baby milk, especially with the interruption of water, electricity, and basic services as a result of this escalating aggression.
Eyewitnesses told WAFA that the situation inside the camp is catastrophic, and the situation is getting worse day after day, in light of the occupation’s deliberate cutting off of the camp from the outside world, preventing aid from reaching the residents, and spreading fear and terror among them by firing live ammunition at homes, putting their lives at risk.
The occupation army prevented the Palestinian Red Crescent Society crews, who were distributing aid to the residents inside the camp, from continuing the distribution process under the pretext that the deadline it had set for them had expired, and forced them to leave.
Today, the forced displacement of entire families from inside the camp towards the city continued under threat of arms, amid the efforts of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society crews who work daily to evacuate the elderly and the sick and transport them to the shelters spread throughout the city and its suburbs and a number of villages and towns in the governorate.
In the city of Tulkarm, infantry forces were deployed heavily in the eastern neighborhood of the city, and they raided homes, specifically those located at the Abu Safiya junction adjacent to and close to the camp, while smashing and vandalizing their contents, checking the identities of their residents and subjecting them to interrogation, and converting a number of them into military barracks.
In a new development, the occupation forces stationed around the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital fired heavy bullets at the live broadcast cameras of the local "Peace" TV, while they were covering the aggression on the camp, which caused the broadcast to be completely cut off.
The occupation forces continue their siege of the Martyr Thabet Governmental Hospital, and are using the adjacent Al-Adawiya Commercial Building as a military barracks, with a heavy presence of infantry soldiers at its entrances, obstructing the work of ambulances and medical crews.
Large crowds of our people in the suburbs of Artah and Dhnaba bid farewell to the bodies of the two martyrs, Wahid Omar Wahid Madi from Tulkarm camp, and Ayman Naji from Artah, who were among four martyrs who were killed during the Israeli aggression on the city and its camp.
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Israeli occupation sends military reinforcements to Tulkarm camp amid widespread field escalation