This evening, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces sent more military vehicles and bulldozers to the city of Tulkarm and its two camps (Tulkarm and Nour Shams), amid an escalation in the demolition, destruction and burning of homes.

According to local sources, the occupation bulldozers continued throughout the day the process of demolishing a number of houses in Tulkarm camp, which they started in the morning, while the soldiers burned a number of others, amid the sounds of gunfire. It was explained that the targeted houses belong to the families: Abu Shahab, Sheikh Ali, Balidi, Al-Turki, Hajbi, Ibrahim, Abdul Razzaq, Qasim, Kanaan, Abed, Salem, Hajj Yusef, and Shahab.

The occupation forces had notified the demolition of 14 houses inside the camp, under the pretext of paving a street in the middle of the camp extending from the Agency area to the Balawneh neighborhood.

The head of the Popular Committee for Services in Tulkarm Camp, Faisal Salama, said that the occupation forces immediately began demolishing the homes this morning without giving their owners enough time to take their belongings, adding that a number of citizens who were able to enter the camp were surprised by the extent of the destruction in their homes and their contents, and some of them were burned.

He explained that the aim of demolishing this number of houses, as each building has several floors housing dozens of families, is to reoccupy the camp and draw a military occupation map inside it to facilitate the movement of soldiers and vehicles, implement the annexation policy, and change its features.

Salama added: "We are talking about 62 invasions of Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps since the beginning of the Israeli aggression against our people in October 2023, and each invasion is more violent than the one before it, with crimes around the clock, and the comprehensive destruction of the infrastructure of sewage networks, water, electricity, communications, streets and roads, and the demolition, bombing and burning of homes."

Salama explained that this aggression is the longest, as it lasted for 23 days and is still ongoing, indicating that according to statistics up until now, 50 homes were destroyed and burned, and 300 shops were completely destroyed, in addition to the destruction and sabotage of a large number of vehicles, and thus the camp became lifeless, with water, electricity and communications cut off after the destruction and bulldozing of the infrastructure, in addition to the displacement of 11 thousand citizens out of 15 thousand who lived in it.

In the same context, the occupation forces set up military checkpoints inside the city of Tulkarm, and burned a house in the Nour Shams camp.

Our correspondent reported that the occupation forces set up checkpoints on Nablus Street, which connects Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, Shuwaika Roundabout Street in the northern neighborhood, Abu Safiya Junction Street in the eastern neighborhood, and Faroun Roundabout to the south, while foot patrols roamed the city streets, specifically the vegetable market and the street of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.

The occupation forces stopped the vehicles, searched them, checked the identities of their passengers, and prevented them from passing, while they intercepted young men, detained them, interrogated them in the field, and abused them, without any arrests being reported.

An occupation military vehicle collided with a Palestinian civilian vehicle on Nablus Street. Eyewitnesses told WAFA that the occupation soldiers fired sound bombs at the vehicle and prevented ambulance crews from approaching it.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that the occupation army detained the ambulance on Nablus Street, near Al-Firdaws Mosque, while it was on its way to transport an injured person as a result of the accident.