The Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 34th consecutive day, and on the Nour Shams camp for the 21st day, coinciding with the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, and have escalated the forced displacement of citizens after forcing them to leave their homes under threat of arms.

WAFA reported that the occupation forces forced citizens last night to evacuate their homes in Jabal al-Nasr neighborhood in Nour Shams camp east of Tulkarm, in light of the tight siege imposed on it, while raiding homes, vandalizing their contents, and converting some of them into military barracks, using them as sniper and surveillance sites.

A number of citizens, men, women and children, were seen carrying some of their belongings as they left the camp on foot, in the bitter cold weather, while the occupation soldiers fired live bullets intensively to terrorize them.

The occupation forces also burned houses in Al-Manshiya neighborhood, which led to fires breaking out inside them, amidst great and complete destruction of the infrastructure, and the destruction of roads and public and private property.

Since the first day of the Israeli aggression, the camp has witnessed a large displacement movement among its residents, including women, children, the elderly and the sick, concentrated in the neighborhoods of Al-Manshiya, Al-Maslakh, Jabal Al-Nasr and Jabal Al-Salihin, where their number exceeded 5,500 displaced persons, who headed to shelters and the homes of their relatives in the city, its suburbs and its countryside.

A few days ago, the occupation forces notified the demolition of 11 houses in Nour Shams camp in the coming days, under the pretext of paving a road starting from the camp square towards Al-Manshiya neighborhood.

In this context, the occupation forces sent military reinforcements to the city and towards the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, and patrolled the streets and alleys, and were stationed along the Nablus Street linking the two camps, while they are still seizing residential buildings on the aforementioned street, turning them into military barracks, and deploying snipers inside them.

The occupation continues to impose a tight siege on the two camps, preventing entry or exit from them, and deploying infantry units around them and inside the neighborhoods and alleys, while raiding and vandalizing homes, destroying their contents, and subjecting citizens inside them to interrogation.

During the ongoing aggression on the city and its two camps, the occupation forces caused great and complete destruction to the infrastructure of electricity, water, sewage and communications networks, which led to the interruption of basic services to the entire camps, and exacerbated the suffering of the citizens who were still in their homes.

The military bulldozers also left behind unprecedented destruction in roads and residential neighborhoods, in addition to the complete and partial destruction of property, including homes and shops. The latest was the complete demolition of 26 buildings in Tulkarm camp, while 13 citizens were martyred, including a child and two women, one of whom was eight months pregnant.

Amidst the continued tight siege on the camps, the appeals of the citizens who are still in their homes and living in difficult and harsh conditions continue, to secure the arrival of their basic needs of food, water, medicine and baby milk, and to work on repairing the water and electricity networks, at a time when the occupation is obstructing and preventing the work of relief crews while they are trying to deliver the basic necessary materials to them.

This morning, the occupation forces arrested the two young men, Tayseer Mahmoud Al-Hajjar, after raiding his home in the eastern neighborhood of Tulkarm and vandalizing its contents, and Ahmed Al-Qarout from his home in the western neighborhood of the city.

The occupation forces continue to close the gate of the Jabara checkpoint at the southern entrance to the city of Tulkarm for the 22nd consecutive day, isolating the city from the villages and towns of Al-Kafriyat and the rest of the West Bank governorates.