The Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 41st consecutive day, and for the 28th day on the Nour Shams camp, amid military reinforcements, raids on homes, and shooting at citizens.

The WAFA news agency said that the occupation forces sent military reinforcements towards the city and its two camps, deployed their vehicles and infantry units in the streets and neighborhoods, and were stationed around and at the entrances to the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, accompanied by the firing of live ammunition, sound and light bombs, and the sound of explosions being heard.

The occupation forces and heavy bulldozers continue to be present in front of the houses and residential buildings that they seized and turned into military barracks, on Nablus Street, which connects the two camps, where the soldiers stop and search vehicles, in addition to checking the identities of citizens and detaining them for interrogation.

In Tulkarm camp, the occupation soldiers chased groups of its residents as they entered the camp and tried to reach their homes to inspect them and collect whatever belongings they could from them.

Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces fired live bullets and sound bombs at the citizens, detained a number of them, forced them to leave the camp, and threatened to shoot them if they returned again.

Eyewitnesses added that occupation soldiers were seen installing surveillance cameras on the roofs of houses inside the camp, which they had seized and turned into military barracks.

The camp is witnessing a comprehensive destruction of the infrastructure, and of the houses that were completely and partially demolished, vandalized and burned, while the rest of them were converted into military barracks, accompanied by extensive bombing operations inside it, the sound of which can be heard at intermittent intervals.

The occupation forces sent military reinforcements to Nour Shams camp, which is witnessing a tight siege, accompanied by its continued raids on homes and forcing their residents to evacuate them by force, and turning them into military barracks, coinciding with the destruction caused by its bulldozers to the infrastructure and the complete demolition of homes in the Al-Manshiya neighborhood as part of its plan to pave roads and change the geographical features of the camp, as it demolished more than 28 homes in one week.

Local sources reported that after midnight, the occupation forces fired flares over the slaughterhouse neighborhood in Nour Shams camp, amid extensive search and combing operations in the area.

In a press statement, the Popular Committee for Services in Nour Shams Camp confirmed that the policy of house demolitions and forced displacement pursued by the occupation forces is part of the collective punishment aimed at displacing citizens and breaking their will.

The ongoing aggression on the city and the camps resulted in the martyrdom of 13 citizens, including a child and two women, one of whom was eight months pregnant, in addition to the injury and arrest of dozens, and the forced displacement of more than 9,000 citizens from Nour Shams camp, and 12,000 from Tulkarm camp.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) stated that the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps in the northern West Bank have become uninhabitable due to the ongoing aggression by the occupation forces.

She explained that this aggression is the longest and most destructive since the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, and has resulted in the largest wave of Palestinian displacement in the West Bank since 1967, as the occupation forced about 40,000 people to be forcibly displaced from their homes.

UNRWA indicated that the camps of Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams have been almost emptied of their residents, in light of the widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure, including homes. Under these circumstances, citizens face the possibility of having no place to return to.