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PALESTINE

Fri 18 Apr 2025 9:31 am - Jerusalem Time

For more than eighty days, the occupation continues its aggression on Tulkarm.

The Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 82nd consecutive day, and on the Nour Shams camp for the 69th day, amid an ongoing escalation on the ground, including raids, arrests, and abuse of citizens.


Local sources reported that occupation forces escalated their attacks last night and this morning on citizens and their homes in the city, its camps, and its suburbs, carrying out a series of raids and attacks in several areas, amid heavy gunfire and sound bombs.


In the center of Tulkarm city, occupation forces fired sound bombs at citizens in the areas of Martyr Thabet Thabet Square, Gamal Abdel Nasser Square, the vegetable market, the old Nablus garages, and the western neighborhood.


Israeli occupation forces forced shop owners to close their doors after raiding them, and detained two young men, Tariq Nasser Babaa and Khaled Jamal Al-Masry, in a shop in the western neighborhood, assaulting them.


Occupation armored vehicles also stormed the southern neighborhood of the city, coming from the direction of the Avnei Hefetz settlement, and headed towards Far'oun Street and Al-Salam Roundabout, heading towards the Artah suburb to the south.


In another development, occupation forces arrested Shaddai Hussein Ali Odeh "Al-Salman" after raiding his home in the southern neighborhood and assaulting him. He is a former detainee.


Infantry forces stormed the Dhenaba suburb, east of the city, and took up positions near the Attar platforms. They conducted extensive combing and search operations, while another infantry force deployed to the employee housing area in the Aktaba suburb, near the Nour Shams camp, where they proceeded to destroy surveillance cameras in citizens' homes.


Yesterday, the Iskan neighborhood witnessed raids on homes by occupation soldiers, who searched them, subjected residents to field investigations, and detained a number of young men for long hours, assaulting them with beatings.


Local sources reported that occupation soldiers stole sums of money and personal belongings from the home of Samir Khreiush in the Iskan neighborhood, including 35,000 shekels and 6,000 Jordanian dinars, in addition to cell phone chargers and perfume bottles. They also severely beat his son, Hani, and his nephew, Rashad Omar Khreiush.


In Nour Shams camp, occupation forces opened heavy fire on civilian homes in the Jabal al-Nasr area, destroying several surveillance cameras in the area. Meanwhile, the camp is witnessing a daily forced displacement campaign targeting residents of the Jabal al-Salihin and Jabal al-Nasr neighborhoods after raiding their homes.


Tulkarm camp is witnessing a heavy presence of occupation soldiers who have wreaked havoc and destroyed homes and their contents after raiding them, including those emptied of their residents after they were forcibly displaced. This coincided with the heavy firing of live ammunition and sound bombs, and bulldozing in the schools' neighborhood. They also arrested the young man, Ahmed Abdel Dayem, from inside the camp.


The occupation forces also continue to seize homes and residential buildings on Nablus Street and the adjacent northern neighborhood, forcing residents to evacuate them, while stationing their military vehicles and bulldozers in the vicinity.


The occupation's ongoing aggression and escalation against the city of Tulkarm and its two refugee camps resulted in the deaths of 13 citizens, including a child and two women, one of whom was eight months pregnant. Dozens more were injured and arrested.


It also resulted in the forced displacement of more than 4,000 families from the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps, along with hundreds of citizens from the city's northern neighborhood after their homes were seized and a number of them converted into military barracks.


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

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For more than eighty days, the occupation continues its aggression on Tulkarm.

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