Tulkarem – Sunday Update: Israeli occupation forces have escalated their invasions, violations and assaults on residents and properties in Tulkarem, situated in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
On Sunday, Israeli forces conducted widespread invasions across Tulkarem and its surrounding areas, accompanied by intensified patrols on foot and in vehicles. These violations were marked by heightened aggression targeting civilians and their homes.
Local sources reported that Israeli forces stormed the Abu Leifa building in the eastern neighborhood near Tulkarem refugee camp, as well as several other homes.
Residents were detained for hours while soldiers searched apartments before forcing them to evacuate the building, claiming the area had been designated a closed military zone.
On Nablus Street, Raed Younis, a man in his seventies, sustained injuries after being violently assaulted by Israeli soldiers while attempting to inspect his home.
Soldiers had set the house ablaze, surrounded the property, and blocked Nablus Street, preventing the movement of vehicles and residents.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society confirmed that its teams transported Younis to the hospital after he suffered severe injuries from the assault.
Younis’s home had been seized by Israeli forces approximately two months ago and converted into a military outpost, along with other nearby residential buildings.
In addition, Israeli soldiers also deployed around the Shweika roundabout, north of the city, firing live ammunition and sound grenades while detaining residents and vehicles in the area.
In a related incident, Israeli forces abducted Qatada As’as, a young man from Nur Shams refugee camp, while he was in the camp’s eastern neighborhood.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces raised their flag over the home of the Abu Dayya family in Jabal Al-Nasr, located in Nur Shams refugee camp. The house had been converted into a military outpost some time ago.
Meanwhile, the military tightened its siege on the camp, closing its entrances with earth mounds.
Israeli forces continue to deploy reinforcements to Tulkarem, its suburbs, and its two refugee camps, using the Shweika roundabout and Al-Alimi Street as entry points from the Nitzanei Oz military roadblock to the west. Foot patrols were also reported in the Al-Rasheed neighborhood of Thannaba.
On Saturday, Palestinian medical sources have confirmed the death of a Palestinian man who succumbed to serious wounds he suffered when an Israeli soldier shot him two months ago near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
The sources said Israeli soldiers shot and critically injured the Palestinian, Ahmad Ibrahim Nassasra, 21, two months earlier when the army invaded Beit Furik, east of Nablus.
On Friday Israeli forces fatally shot a Palestinian child in the village of Salem, east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Media sources said that occupation forces critically injured a child after shooting him in the chest with live ammunition during a military incursion into Salem village, on Friday afternoon.
Sources added that the child, Abdul Khaliq Musab Jabour, 16, was rushed to hospital for his critical injuries where doctors attempted live-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation which was unsuccessful; later pronouncing him dead.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces killed the Palestinian child, Mahmoud Mithqal Ali Abu Al-Haija (12 years old), on Wednesday in the town of Al-Yamoun. west of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces have killed 131 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 24 children and 5 women, according to the Shireen Observatory.
Israeli Occupation forces and paramilitary colonizers have killed 55 Palestinians in Jenin, 20 in Tubas, 20 in Nablus, 14 in Tulkarem, 5 in Hebron, 5 in Bethlehem, 4 in Ramallah, 3 in Qalqilia, 2 in Salfit and 3 in Jerusalem.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have killed 966 Palestinians, including 196 children, 22 women, 16 elders and 1 journalist, in the occupied West Bank.
279 were killed in Jenin governorate, 210 in Tulkarem, 112 in Nablus, 87 in Tubas, 82 in Hebron, 63 in Ramallah and Al-Biereh, 53 in Jerusalem, 36 in Qalqilia, 26 in Bethlehem, 12 in Jericho and Northern Plains, and 6 in Salfit.
In the Gaza Strip, Israeli attacks have claimed the lives of more than 52,243 Palestinians, including 18,000 children and over 12,400 women. Entire families have been wiped out, with over 2,180 families losing both parents and all their children. Additionally, more than 5,070 families have been reduced to a single surviving member.
Rescue and civil defense teams continue to face immense challenges in retrieving victims trapped under rubble amid relentless bombardment.
The toll on healthcare workers has also been devastating, with over 1,400 doctors and medical staff killed, alongside 113 members of civil defense teams.
These figures remain incomplete, as many victims remain under rubble or on the streets, inaccessible to emergency and rescue teams in various parts of the destroyed Gaza Strip.
