Tulkarm - Saba:
Israeli enemy forces continue their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 86th consecutive day, and for the 73rd day on the Nour Shams camp, amid an ongoing escalation of incursions, raids, arrests, and the seizure of homes.
The Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported that enemy forces are continuing their extensive incursions into the city of Tulkarm and its suburbs. This morning, their vehicles patrolled the streets, driving against traffic, passing through the eastern neighborhood, the street of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Government Hospital, and Nablus Street, heading towards the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps.
The WAFA news agency reported that a military bulldozer began leveling agricultural land this morning near the Netzanioz Gate, west of the city, coinciding with the deployment of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the area, preventing any approach.
At dawn today, Israeli forces launched a large-scale raid on citizens' homes in the Dhanaba suburb east of Tulkarm, searching and vandalizing their contents. They arrested three citizens and arrested a former detainee from his home near Tulkarm refugee camp.
In a related development, Israeli soldiers fired heavy live ammunition late last night inside the Nour Shams refugee camp, coinciding with a large-scale raid on the camp. Israeli forces remained on high alert, while continuing to evacuate residents from their homes around Jabal al-Nasr and the western area of Nour Shams refugee camp, at gunpoint.
Late last night, two armored vehicles stormed the city from its southern entrance, roaming its main streets toward the eastern neighborhood, the Shahid intersection, and the Muqata'a Street toward the outskirts of Tulkarm camp, before heading to the Sha'rawiya area north of the governorate, passing through the Shuweika suburb.
Tulkarm city is witnessing a daily escalation in raids and arrests by Israeli forces as part of their ongoing aggression against it, its camps, and its suburbs. This includes the deployment of foot and mobile vehicles in the city's main neighborhoods, the pursuit of young men, assaulting them, arresting them, and detaining them for long hours after confiscating their IDs and mobile phones.
Tulkarm camp also witnesses a heavy Israeli presence, which continues to bulldoze, vandalize, and destroy the dilapidated streets and citizens' property. Its entrances are blocked with earth mounds and barbed wire, while its residents are now emptied of their homes after being forcibly displaced from their homes and converted into military barracks.
The Israeli enemy continues to seize homes and residential buildings on Nablus Street and the adjacent northern neighborhood, converting them into military barracks after forcibly evacuating their residents. Its vehicles and bulldozers are stationed in the vicinity.
The ongoing Israeli aggression and escalation against the city of Tulkarm and its two camps resulted in the deaths of 13 citizens, including a child and two women, one of whom was eight months pregnant. Dozens were also injured and arrested.
It also resulted in the forced displacement of more than 4,000 families from the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, comprising more than 24,000 citizens. Hundreds of residents were also displaced from the northern neighborhood of the city after their homes were seized and several were converted into military barracks.
The aggression left widespread destruction to the infrastructure, including homes, shops, and vehicles, which were partially or completely demolished, burned, vandalized, looted, and stolen. 396 homes were completely destroyed and 2,573 partially destroyed in the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, while their entrances and alleys were closed with earth mounds.
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