At dawn Saturday, Israeli forces bombed an apartment in a residential building, after invading the city of Tulkarem, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said that a large army force stormed Tulkarem city from its western entrance and headed east in the direction of the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of the city.
Sources added that occupation forces besieged a residential building in Al-Salam neighborhood and fired an “Energa” anti-tank grenade at an apartment in the building; no injuries were reported.
Military reinforcements arrived, accompanied by a D-9 armored bulldozer and an excavator which proceeded to knock out the walls of the apartment, destroying several citizens’ vehicles in the process.
Armed Palestinian resistance fighters exchanged fire with the attacking army, while soldiers imposed a siege on the neighborhood amid the sounds of explosions and reconnaissance drones; no injuries or arrests were reported.
Media sources said that Israeli forces summoned and detained the mother and father of one of the besieged young men, in an attempt to coerce him to surrender to the army; the identities of the detainees were not known at the time of writing this report.
Residents of the building reported receiving phone calls from the army commanding them to leave their homes before an excavator began demolishing the apartment’s walls.
