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PALESTINE

Wed 09 Apr 2025 11:18 am - Jerusalem Time

Israeli occupation continues its aggression on Tulkarm, amidst destruction and devastation.

The Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 73rd consecutive day, and on the Nour Shams camp for the 60th day, amidst widespread raids, arrests, and acts of vandalism and terror that targeted the city's neighborhoods and suburbs, Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.


Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the city from its southern entrance with two Eitan armored vehicles and a number of military vehicles, and patrolled its main streets, passing through Al-Alimi Street in the west, and Al-Younis Roundabout in the northern neighborhood, reaching the Shuweika and Artah suburbs, before withdrawing later along the same road.


She added that the occupation forces raided the home of the Hashesh family in the Shuweika suburb and began searching.


The city also witnessed intense activity by occupation forces, particularly in the eastern neighborhood, the Peace Roundabout, and the old Nablus Garage Street. Israeli forces drove against traffic, stopping vehicles across the street to prevent vehicles from passing, amid intense firing of live ammunition and sound bombs to terrorize civilians.


Israeli occupation forces also took up positions around the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, specifically in the area close to Tulkarm refugee camp and the Awad family's office. They arrested and detained the young men, subjecting them to field investigations, without recording any arrests from the area.


In a related context, the occupation forces arrested three young men at dawn today from different areas of the city and its suburbs: Muhammad Abu Zant while he was near the old Nablus garage street, Suhaib Abu Laifa from his home in the southern suburb of Kafa, and Amara Marai from the Rashid neighborhood in the eastern suburb of Dhnaba.


The occupation forces also raided the Ezbet al-Tayah suburb, southeast of Tulkarm, and stormed the home of Abdul Hamid al-Sudani, carrying out extensive searches that included vandalism and destruction of the home's contents.


Israeli occupation forces dispatched military reinforcements to the Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps, deploying infantry units inside their neighborhoods, storming and vandalizing homes, converting a number of them into military barracks, and firing live ammunition. Explosions were heard from time to time.


In Nour Shams camp, occupation forces deployed in the Jabal al-Nasr area, raiding residents' homes while firing sound bombs inside, and repeated explosions were heard in the area.


The occupation forces continue to seize homes and residential buildings on Nablus Street and the city's northern neighborhood, transforming them into military barracks with their vehicles stationed around them. Meanwhile, they are restricting citizens' movement on the street, sections of which have been closed off with earth mounds in both directions.


Last night, Israeli occupation forces set up a flying checkpoint at the Jabara Bridge gate at the southern entrance to the city, subjecting vehicles to a thorough search and inspecting passengers' IDs and mobile phones. A second iron gate was also installed at the Anab military checkpoint east of the governorate, obstructing the movement of vehicles coming from the West Bank governorates to or from Tulkarm.


The occupation's systematic and ongoing aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its two camps resulted in the martyrdom of 13 citizens, including a child and two women, one of whom was eight months pregnant. Dozens were also injured and arrested, and more than 4,000 families were forcibly displaced from the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps, along with dozens of families from the northern neighborhood of the city after their homes were seized and a number of them converted into military barracks.


The aggression also caused widespread destruction to the infrastructure, including homes, shops, and vehicles, which were completely and partially demolished, burned, vandalized, looted, and stolen. The occupation forces completely destroyed 396 homes and partially destroyed 2,573 others in the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps, in addition to closing their entrances and alleys with earth mounds.

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