Medical sources announced, at dawn on Friday, the death of citizen Ahmed Riyad Ahmed Awad, who succumbed to his serious injuries after a military vehicle hit his vehicle in the city of Tulkarm.

The martyr Awad, a resident of the town of Deir al-Ghusun, north of Tulkarm, was injured along with his wife when a military vehicle traveling at high speed in the opposite direction of traffic hit the vehicle he and his wife were riding in on Nablus Street opposite Tulkarm camp. They were taken to the hospital, and doctors later announced his martyrdom.

With the martyrdom of Awad, the number of martyrs in Tulkarm and its camps during the Israeli aggression that has been ongoing for 26 days has risen to 12 martyrs, including a child (7 years old) and two women, one of whom is eight months pregnant.

The Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 26th consecutive day, and on the Nour Shams camp for the 13th day, amid military reinforcements, accompanied by destruction and vandalism of citizens’ homes and properties.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces sent military reinforcements towards the city and its two camps, and deployed their vehicles and soldiers in the streets and neighborhoods, concentrating on Nablus Street, which connects the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, and obstructed the movement of vehicles and citizens, and stopped them and subjected them to inspection and investigation.

Meanwhile, the occupation forces caused widespread destruction to citizens' homes and shops in Nour Shams camp, specifically in the Manshiyya neighborhood, and burned a residential building there, in addition to the extensive destruction of the infrastructure and water, electricity and communications networks.

Citizens who were able to enter the camp observed the extent of the destruction to their homes and public property, including the destruction and vandalism of the building of the Nour Shams Association for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled, which specializes in caring for a large number of people with disabilities from the camp and the city, through humanitarian and social programs.

Citizens described what happened in the Manshiyya neighborhood as an indescribable scene and unbelievable destruction. Houses were open, some destroyed, and others completely demolished. Burned vehicles were in the alleys of the camp, and shops were damaged, but their contents were not spared. The effects of the bombing, destruction, and sabotage filled every corner, and the camp was completely afflicted.

The occupation forces also continued their campaign of raids on homes in Nour Shams camp, searching them, destroying their contents, and interrogating their residents after detaining them for hours.

In Tulkarm camp, destruction covered its neighborhoods after the occupation bulldozers demolished more than 14 houses over the course of two days, leaving behind rubble and debris, as part of the escalation campaign targeting the camp, as part of a plan to open a street extending from the agency area to the Balawneh neighborhood, passing through the Al-Sawalmeh, Al-Shuhada, and Al-Khidmat neighborhoods, in addition to burning other houses and causing damage to several houses, and the complete destruction of the infrastructure that accompanied it.

In the same context, the occupation forces caused destruction and vandalism to the houses they seized in the eastern neighborhood of Tulkarm and turned them into military barracks, while the municipality crews opened the roads and removed the rubble and debris from the streets after the occupation withdrew from the neighborhood.

The occupation forces seized a third building on Nablus Street in the city and turned it into a military barracks, after forcing its residents to leave it by force.

At the same time, the occupation forces continue to close the gate of the Jabara checkpoint at the southern entrance to the city of Tulkarm for the 14th consecutive day, isolating the city from the villages and towns of Al-Kafriyat and the rest of the West Bank governorates.