PALESTINE
Thu 06 Feb 2025 8:48 am - Jerusalem Time
Updated: Israeli occupation continues its aggression on the West Bank governorates
Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on the West Bank governorates of Tubas, Tulkarm, and Jenin.
**Tulkarm**
The Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp, for the 11th consecutive day, amidst comprehensive destruction, mass displacement, and unprecedented military reinforcements.
After the early hours of dawn, the occupation forces fired randomly and intensively at citizens' homes in Tulkarm camp and Al-Sikka Street near the Iktaba suburb, without any injuries being reported.
WAFA news agency said that the occupation forces continue to push more additional military reinforcements, especially infantry, from the direction of the "Tsnaoz" military camp west of the city, passing through its streets leading to the camp.
She added that these forces are deployed heavily in front of the main northern entrance to the camp, and in the agricultural lands opposite it, and are conducting combing and searching operations there, as they seize several residential buildings surrounding and overlooking the camp, and have turned them into military barracks.
This deployment coincides with the widespread presence of occupation soldiers inside the camp's neighborhoods and alleys, with the deployment of large numbers of sniper teams inside the houses, who lie in wait for everything moving and shoot at it.
The camp is experiencing a tragic situation with a complete siege, including widespread raids on homes by the occupation forces 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 internet networks, 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.
Videos and photos captured by citizens inside the camp showed the massive destruction of homes in Al-Ghanem neighborhood, with partially destroyed homes and others completely burned, alleys filled with rubble, dilapidated infrastructure, and an area completely empty of residents, as if the place had been hit by an earthquake.
Citizens who are still in their homes in Qaqun neighborhood, trapped amidst the destruction, have appealed for urgent humanitarian aid to be sent to them, including food, water, medicines for the elderly and those with chronic diseases, and baby milk, especially with the interruption of water, electricity, and basic services as a result of this escalating aggression.
Yesterday, 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.
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.
Last night, 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.
A force of infantry soldiers stormed the Al-Adawiya Girls' School building, which is close to the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, and deployed snipers at its windows, while continuing its siege of the hospital, and using the adjacent Al-Adawiya Commercial Building as a military barracks, amidst a heavy presence of infantry soldiers at its entrances, obstructing the work of ambulances and medical crews.
**Tubas**
Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces continue their storming and siege of the town of Tamoun and the Far'a camp, south of Tubas, for the fifth consecutive day.
The occupation forces continue to send military reinforcements to Al-Far'a camp and the town of Tamoun, while all entrances to the two areas remain closed and a siege is imposed on them.
Water lines are still cut off from the town of Tamoun and the Far'a camp for the fifth day after the occupation forces bulldozed and destroyed water lines and infrastructure, in addition to the power outage in parts of the two areas.
The citizens of Al-Far'a camp and the town of Tamoun are increasingly in need of basic food supplies, in addition to baby milk, due to the ongoing siege, and the occupation forces are still not allowing them to enter, which makes the humanitarian situation very bad.
In the town of Tamoun, the occupation forces continued to raid dozens of citizens’ homes and arrest them. Yesterday, they arrested 11 citizens, in addition to the detention and field investigation operations. The occupation forces also continued to raid many homes in the Far’a camp and destroy their contents.
As the storming and siege continue, dozens of citizens are still forced to flee their homes on the outskirts of the town of Tamoun and the Far'a camp, where the occupation forces have turned them into military barracks.
Over the past two days, the occupation forces have carried out several bombing operations via drones on different areas of the town of Tamoun, which did not result in any injuries. Meanwhile, yesterday, they imposed a curfew in the town of Tamoun through loudspeakers until next Sunday, noting that the citizens have basically been unable to leave their homes since the beginning of the raid.
The town of Tamoun has been facing increasing agricultural losses since the beginning of the invasion due to the farmers’ inability to reach their lands, harvest their crops and care for them. In addition, livestock and livestock breeders have not been able to reach livestock and poultry farms until now, knowing that they need monitoring, watering and feed, which threatens the death of large numbers of them and the occurrence of major losses in this area.
The infrastructure in the town of Tamoun and the Far'a camp is also witnessing major destruction by the occupation bulldozers, coinciding with the ongoing storming and siege.
The occupation's drones and helicopters continue their intensive flights in the skies of Tubas Governorate, as the aggression continues, in which dozens of patrols participate, in addition to bulldozers, heavy machinery, and hundreds of soldiers. The occupation forces also continue to send military reinforcements to Tamoun and Al-Far'a camp.
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Updated: Israeli occupation continues its aggression on the West Bank governorates