Tulkarm – Ma’an – The Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression on Tulkarm camp on Tuesday evening, leaving behind extensive destruction to the infrastructure and citizens’ property, after forcing them to leave their homes.
The head of the Popular Committee for Services in Tulkarm Camp, Faisal Salama, said that there is an aggression and forced displacement against Tulkarm Camp currently taking place, and that this time is one of the most difficult raids carried out by the occupation forces, as they forced most of the camp’s residents to leave their homes, starting from the ‘Muqata’a neighborhood’ in the south and up to the ‘Madaris neighborhood’ in the north, in a forced displacement with an unknown fate.
Salama added that the occupation forces, accompanied by police dogs, raided homes, spreading fear and terror among children and women, forcing them to leave, seizing citizens’ mobile phones, and turning a number of homes into military barracks and sniper positions.
He explained that the occupa
tion burned a number of houses after their owners were forced to leave them, and demolished some of them with its bulldozers, which destroyed and swept away the streets and infrastructure destroyed by previous incursions, in a move aimed at destroying what remains of the camp and making it uninhabitable.
The occupation forces arrested a number of young men, and used some of them as human shields in the alleys of the camp.
The bulldozing operations affected the infrastructure and citizens’ properties in the following neighborhoods: Hamam, Al-Shuhada, Al-Muqata’a, Al-Raba’a, Al-Balawneh, Al-Ghanem, and Al-Madaris.
The occupation forces sent more military vehicles to the city of Tulkarm and its camp, amid intensive low-altitude reconnaissance aircraft flights.
The Tulkarm Endowments Directorate announced the opening of a number of mosques in the city and its suburbs (Dhanaba, Iktaba, and Shuwaika) to receive those stranded due to the occupation’s storming of the city and its camp.
The occupation forces raid
ed the Return Center in Tulkarm camp, detained its six-person staff, turned it into a military barracks, and deployed snipers at its windows.
In a later development, the teaching staff and a number of students from Tulkarm Elementary School in Tulkarm camp were evacuated after being besieged for long hours inside the school, in light of the heavy deployment of occupation forces inside the camp’s neighborhoods.
A number of children from the “Fulla” kindergarten were also evacuated after they were unable to return to their homes following the occupation forces’ storming of the city this afternoon. They were detained in the pharmacy of the Martyr Thabet Governmental Hospital.
The occupation forces are besieging Al-Israa Specialized Hospital and Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, obstructing the work of ambulance crews, stopping patients and citizens as they enter or leave them, checking their identities and subjecting some of them to interrogation.
Earlier today, two citizens were killed by Israeli
occupation forces in Tulkarm.
The Ministry of Health reported that the martyr Ahmed Majdouba (24 years old) arrived at Tulkarm Governmental Hospital, and a female martyr arrived at Al-Isra Hospital, succumbing to their injuries from the occupation forces’ bullets. Ten citizens were also injured, including one seriously.
The occupation forces surrounded the Red Crescent Society’s ambulance center in the southern neighborhood of Tulkarm, before the occupation soldiers raided the headquarters and detained the ambulance crews.
The occupation forces stormed the city from its western side at noon today, and demanded through loudspeakers that shop owners close their shops and leave the markets, which caused severe traffic jams, coinciding with the occupation forces’ deployment at the entrances to the city amidst intensive flights of reconnaissance planes in the sky of the region. They also stormed Tulkarm camp and began to bulldoze the infrastructure, and closed the entrances to Al-Ghanem neighborhood with earth
mounds.
Source: Maan News Agency