Fri. Sep 20th, 2024

TULKARM: Large forces of the Israeli occupation army stormed Tulkarm city again this morning.

WAFA correspondent reported that the occupation vehicles, accompanied by two heavy bulldozers, stormed the city from its western entrance after withdrawing at dawn from Tulkarm camp, and imposed a tight siege on it.

She pointed out that the occupation forces imposed a curfew on Tulkarm camp, and prevented citizens from entering and leaving it, until further notice.

She added that the occupation forces deployed their vehicles at a number of intersections in the city, specifically the eastern neighborhood, Nablus Street, Shuweika Roundabout, Al-Quds Open University Street, and the vicinity of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, and obstructed ambulances and searched them and checked the identities of their crews.

Dozens of occupation soldiers were also deployed in several neighborhoods of the camp, and their snipers were on the roofs of tall buildings amid heavy gunfire, as low-altitude reconnaissance a
ircraft were circling the city’s sky since yesterday afternoon.

The occupation bulldozers, during their storming of Tulkarm camp yesterday and this morning, caused great damage to the infrastructure and citizens’ property in all its neighborhoods, including the electricity network, which led to a power outage in large parts of it.

Additionally, a Palestinian minor was killed Tuesday dawn by Israeli occupation forces during the ongoing raid on Tulkarm camp.

Medical and local sources said that Mohammad Kanaan was killed after being shot in the head by the occupation forces’ snipers while he was with his father in one of the camp’s neighborhoods, while his father was shot in the waist by the occupation forces. .

They were both transferred to the government hospital of the martyr Thabet Thabet.

The occupation forces continue to storm Tulkarm camp, tightening the siege on it, and deploying snipers in its vicinity on the tall buildings that reveal it, while drones did not stop flying at a low altitude.

Israel
i occupation forces also stormed the suburb of Ezbet al-Jarad, east of Tulkarm city, and raided a house after besieging it amidst the firing of sound bombs, belonging to local resident Ashraf Abu Sabil, and searched it, and subjected everyone present in it to interrogation and investigation. No detentions were reported.

Meanwhile, the occupation forces continue to close the two gates of the Jabara Bridge at the southern entrance to the city of Tulkarm in both directions for the second day in a row, and prevented vehicles from passing.

The Israeli aggression on the West Bank since last Wednesday until now has resulted in the killing of 31 civilians, including 18 in Jenin, 6 in Tulkarm, 4 in Tubas, and 3 in Hebron, which raises the death toll in the West Bank since October 7, 2023 to 683.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA