Tulkarm - Saba:
The Zionist enemy continued its aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 24th consecutive day, and on the Nour Shams camp for the 11th day, amid a military escalation of demolition, bombing, and burning of homes and widespread destruction of infrastructure.
The Palestinian News Agency said: The occupation forces sent more military reinforcements to the city of Tulkarm and its two camps (Tulkarm and Nour Shams), accompanied by the sound of gunfire and explosions, while storming the suburbs of Dhnaba east of the city and Artah south, raiding several homes and residential buildings, and arresting a number of citizens, including displaced persons from Nour Shams camp.
The occupation forces spread out in various streets and neighborhoods of the city, and set up military checkpoints in them, stationed in the streets of Nablus connecting the camps of Tulkarm and Nour Shams, Shuwaika roundabout in the northern neighborhood, Abu Safiya junction in the eastern neighborhood, and Faroun roundabout in the south, while foot patrols roamed the streets of the city, specifically the vegetable market, and the street of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.
The occupation forces stopped the vehicles, searched them, checked the identities of their passengers, and prevented them from passing, while they intercepted young men, detained them, interrogated them in the field, and abused them, without any arrests being reported.
Last night, an occupation military vehicle collided with a civilian vehicle on Nablus Street, where eyewitnesses reported that the occupation soldiers fired sound bombs at the vehicle, and prevented the ambulance crews from approaching it for a long time before allowing them to transfer the injured to the hospital.
In the same context, Tulkarm camp witnessed a large-scale demolition of citizens' homes after 14 homes inside the camp were notified of the demolition, under the pretext of paving a street in the middle of the camp extending from the Agency area to the Balawneh neighborhood.
The occupation bulldozers continued to demolish a number of houses in the camp since yesterday morning, while soldiers burned a number of others, amidst the sound of gunfire, as the targeted houses belong to the families: Abu Shahab, Sheikh Ali, Balidi, Al-Turki, Hajbi, Ibrahim, Abdul Razzaq, Qasim, Kanaan, Abed, Salem, Hajj Yusef, and Shahab.
The head of the Popular Committee for Services in Tulkarm Camp, Faisal Salama, explained to "WAFA" that during this ongoing aggression, and according to statistics so far, 50 houses were destroyed and burned, and 300 shops were completely destroyed, in addition to the destruction and sabotage of a large number of vehicles, and thus the camp became lifeless, as water, electricity, and communications were cut off after the infrastructure was sabotaged and bulldozed, in addition to the displacement of 11,000 citizens out of 15,000 who lived in it.
At the same time, the occupation forces continue their tight siege on Nour Shams camp, with infantry soldiers deployed in its neighborhoods, raiding and vandalizing homes, while burning down the home of the Faisal family in the Manshiya neighborhood.
The occupation forces continue to seize two homes on Nablus Street, turning them into military barracks, with foot patrols deployed around them.
At the same time, the occupation forces continue to close the gate of the Jabara checkpoint at the southern entrance to Tulkarm city for the 12th consecutive day, isolating the city from the villages and towns of Kafriyat and the rest of the West Bank governorates.
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