The Israeli occupation's aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp entered its 14th day, as the occupation forces expanded the scope of their aggression to include the Nour Shams camp east of the city, in a dangerous escalation that resulted in widespread destruction of the infrastructure and forced residents to leave their homes.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces sent large military reinforcements, including heavy machinery and bulldozers, to Nour Shams camp at dawn on Sunday, and launched raids and incursions that targeted dozens of homes in its vicinity, amid heavy live ammunition fire and the sounds of huge explosions, with reconnaissance aircraft flying at low altitude.

She added that the occupation forces imposed a complete siege on the camp from all sides, after seizing residential buildings in the Dhnaba suburb, the employee housing neighborhood in the Iktaba suburb, and the adjacent Al-Salam neighborhood, expelling their residents, seizing their vehicle keys, and forcing them to head out of the city on foot, in the bitter cold and dangerous atmosphere, and turning them into military barracks and sniper locations.

Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces raided homes in the Jabal al-Nasr and Jabal al-Salihin neighborhoods in the camp, forced their residents to leave at gunpoint towards the town of Kafr al-Labad, turned them into military barracks, and imposed a curfew.

The occupation bulldozers began to level Nablus Street adjacent to the entrances to the camp, starting from the Martyr Saif Abu Labda roundabout, and the Slaughterhouse neighborhood street, destroying the infrastructure destroyed by previous incursions, and deliberately disrupted the internet networks in the area.

The Red Crescent Society in Tulkarm said that the occupation prevented its crews from entering the camp after receiving a report of injuries.

The occupation forces arrested a number of citizens in the Aktaba suburb after raiding the homes of citizens, including: Muhammad Salit, Muhammad and Abdullah Kamal Qarawi.

In Tulkarm camp, the occupation forces are still deploying large numbers of infantry in all its neighborhoods and alleys, raiding homes, most of which have become empty and destroyed after their residents were expelled from them, and continuing to seize tall buildings and turn them into sniper platforms and fire live ammunition randomly.

Infantry forces were deployed along Nablus Street adjacent to the entrances to Tulkarm camp, amid combing and searching operations in agricultural lands and between homes and facilities, while seizing a residential building in the area and turning it into a military barracks and sniper locations.

In Tulkarm, the occupation forces tightened their measures in the eastern neighborhood of the city, raiding dozens of citizens’ homes, specifically in the Diab neighborhood, the slaughterhouse neighborhood, and the Muqata’a neighborhood. They searched them, destroyed their contents, checked the identities of their residents, and seized the records of their surveillance cameras.

It also continues its siege of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, where soldiers are stationed at the hospital’s two gates, obstructing the work of ambulances and medical staff, while it continues to seize the surrounding commercial buildings.

In addition, late last night, the occupation forces closed the Jabara Bridge checkpoint at the southern entrance to Tulkarm city, and prevented vehicles from entering or exiting.

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