Tulkarm: For the sixth consecutive day, the Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp, causing destruction to citizens’ properties, homes, and infrastructure, which led to the forced displacement of dozens of families. In the city, foot patrols of the occupation army roamed the streets, especially in the western, southern, and eastern neighborhoods, raided citizens’ homes, searched them, checked IDs, and turned several residential and commercial buildings into military points, deploying snipers on rooftops.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA, eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces stationed in commercial buildings launched intensive drone operations throughout the night in the vegetable market area, while infantry soldiers stormed the western cemetery and conducted combing operations inside and around it. The WAFA correspondent said that the occupation forces are carrying out search operations in the city’s neighborhoods, setting up ambushes between trees, houses, and alleys, chasing citizens and vehicles, and forcing them to return to their homes.
The occupation forces continue to besiege the Shahid Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and the Israa Specialized Hospital, obstructing the work of ambulances and medical crews, subjecting them to searches, interrogating paramedics, and detaining them. In Tulkarm camp, the forces maintain a tight siege, deploying foot patrols in all neighborhoods, with snipers positioned on top of tall buildings inside and around the camp. Eyewitnesses told WAFA that the forces continue to force citizens in the camp to leave their homes in various neighborhoods.
These operations included destroying the contents of homes, blowing up, demolishing, and burning them, as a means of intimidating and pressuring citizens under the pretext of searching for wanted persons. This escalation, ongoing for six days, comes amid difficult humanitarian conditions exacerbated by the destruction of basic facilities and infrastructure in the camp by occupation bulldozers, accompanied by power outages, water, communications, and internet outages, and shortages of food, medical supplies, drinking water, and baby milk.
In addition, the efforts and initiatives of the Dignity and Relief Committee, formed by Tulkarm Governor Abdullah Kamil, continue to stand by the people of Tulkarm camp, supporting the families who were forced to leave their homes by the occupation. Associations, centers, and mosques in the city and its suburbs have received dozens of displaced people from the camp and those who were stranded and unable to reach their countries and villages.