Tulkarm - Saba:
Israeli enemy forces continue their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 73rd consecutive day, and for the 60th day on the Nour Shams camp, amid widespread raids, arrests, and acts of vandalism and intimidation that have affected the city's neighborhoods and suburbs, Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
Local Palestinian sources reported that the enemy stormed the city from its southern entrance with two Eitan armored vehicles and a number of military vehicles. They patrolled its main streets, passing through Al-Alimi Street in the west and Al-Younis Roundabout in the northern neighborhood, reaching the Shuweika and Artah neighborhoods, before later withdrawing along the same road.
They added that during the raid, Israeli forces raided the home of the Hashhash family in the Shuweika neighborhood and began searching.
The city also witnessed intensive activity by Israeli forces, particularly in the eastern neighborhood, Al-Salam Roundabout, and the old Nablus Garage Street. These forces drove against traffic and parked their vehicles across the streets to prevent vehicles from passing, amid intense firing of live ammunition and sound bombs to intimidate residents.
Israeli forces also positioned themselves around the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, specifically in the area near Tulkarm refugee camp and the Awad family home. They arrested and detained young men and subjected them to field investigations, with no arrests recorded in the area.
In a related development, Israeli forces arrested three young men from various areas of the city and its suburbs at dawn today.
Israeli forces also raided the Ezbet al-Tayah suburb, southeast of Tulkarm, and stormed a citizen's home. They carried out extensive searches, including vandalizing and destroying the home's contents.
Israeli forces dispatched military reinforcements to the Tulkarm and Nour Shams refugee camps, deploying infantry units within their neighborhoods. They raided and vandalized homes, converting several into military barracks, and fired live ammunition, amid occasional explosions.
In the Nour Shams refugee camp, Israeli forces deployed in the Jabal al-Nasr area, raiding citizens' homes, firing sound bombs inside them, and hearing repeated explosions in the area.
Israeli forces continue to seize homes and residential buildings on Nablus Street and the city's northern neighborhood, transforming them into military barracks and positioning their vehicles around them. Meanwhile, they are restricting Palestinian citizens' movement on the street, sections of which have been closed off with earth mounds in both directions.
Last night, enemy forces set up a flying checkpoint at the Jabara Bridge gate at the southern entrance to the city, subjecting vehicles to a thorough search, and inspecting passengers' IDs and mobile phones. A second iron gate was also installed at the Anab military checkpoint east of the governorate, disrupting the movement of vehicles coming from the West Bank governorates to and from Tulkarm.
The systematic and ongoing Israeli aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its two camps has resulted in the deaths of 13 Palestinian citizens, including a child and two women, one of whom was eight months pregnant. Dozens more have been injured and arrested, and more than 4,000 families have been forcibly displaced from the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, along with dozens of families from the northern neighborhood of the city after their homes were seized and a number of them converted into military barracks.
The aggression also caused extensive destruction to infrastructure, homes, shops, and vehicles, which were completely and partially demolished, burned, vandalized, looted, and stolen. The occupation forces completely destroyed 396 homes and partially destroyed 2,573 others in the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, in addition to blocking their entrances and alleys with earth mounds.
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