The Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression against the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 18th consecutive day and its fifth day on Nour Shams camp, with the continuation of the siege, house raids and forced displacement of citizens, accompanied by a campaign of widespread arrests.
This ongoing aggression has led to the widespread destruction of infrastructure and property, and forced thousands of citizens to flee their homes in Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps at gunpoint.
At dawn on Thursday, the occupation forces arrested a number of young men from the suburb of Thanaba, east of the city, after raiding their homes.
Last night, the occupation forces pushed more military reinforcements to the city and its camps, and deployed foot soldiers in the street and neighborhoods, amid extensive combing and search work in them, concentrated in the eastern and northern neighborhoods of the city, in addition to the lanes of the two camps.
The occupying forces continue their siege of the eastern neighborhood of the city, specifically Al–Muqata‘a Street and Abu Safiya Junction, seizing residential buildings and turning them into military barracks, knocking on the doors of houses, preventing citizens from leaving and moving, restricting them inside their homes and even preventing them from opening windows.
At the same time, the Israeli occupation forces fired live ammunition heavily and indiscriminately in Tulkarm refugee camp, specifically in the airport lane, amid raids on homes, causing destruction and vandalism, while continuing to seize a number of them and turn them into military barracks and sniper areas.
In Nour Shams refugee camp, Israeli bulldozers continue to demolish homes and destroy infrastructure inside their neighborhoods, specifically Manshiyya, coinciding with the sound of live bullets and the sound of huge explosions.
The demolition and vandalism coincided with the imposition of a tight siege by the occupation on the camp and its outskirts, turning it into a military barracks, raiding and vandalizing homes, and forcing their residents to leave them with threats and intimidation, at a time when the camp is witnessing a wave of large-scale displacement of the population, including women, children and the elderly, incurring the hardships of moving on foot amid the great destruction of the streets, rain and severe cold on the one hand, and intimidating the occupation, which fires heavily on the other hand and exposing them to danger.
