Early Thursday morning, the Israeli army assassinated two Palestinians in Nur Shams refugee camp, in Tulkarem, in the northwestern West Bank, after firing a missile at them from a military drone.
Dr. Amin Khader, the head of Thabet Thabet governmental hospital in Tulkarem, has confirmed that the soldiers killed Abdul-Aziz Mahmoud Abu Saman, 22, and Ahmad Essam Fahmawi, 18.
Many military vehicles, including three armored bulldozers, invaded the city of Tulkarem and the Nur Shams refugee camp before initiating searches and destroying infrastructure.
Media sources in Tulkarem reported that many military vehicles, accompanied by three armored bulldozers, invaded the city from its western area, patrolling its main streets, specifically Al-Alami, Al-Quds Open University, and Nablus streets passing by the entrance of Tulkarem refugee camp, and heading towards Nur Shams refugee camp, east of the city.
The soldiers installed a strict siege on Nur Shams refugee camp, leading to protests, and fired barrages of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.
Palestinian resistance fighters also exchanged fire with the invading Israeli soldiers and armored military vehicles and detonated explosive charges near the armored vehicles.
The Israeli invasions and the destruction of infrastructure have also led to a power blackout in various parts of Tulkarem, Tulkarem refugee camp and Ektaba suburb.
On Wednesday night, undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated the Tulkarem refugee camp, in Tulkarem, and assassinated a Palestinian man, Husam Bassam Yousef Mallah, 30, after shooting him from point-blank range in a shop.
In related news, several Israeli military vehicles invaded the town of az-Zawiya, west of the central West Bank city of Salfit, before the soldiers stormed and ransacked homes.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 766 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 166 children, and injured 6,300.
The distribution of those killed in the West Bank is as follows; 201 in Jenin, 177 in Tulkarem, 81 in Nablus, 75 in Hebron, 59 in Ramallah, 59 in Tubas, 48 in Jerusalem, 30 in Qalqilia, 20 in Bethlehem, 12 in Jericho, 12 inside Israel, and 4 in Salfit.
In the Gaza Strip, Israel has now killed at least 43,163 Palestinians, including 17,210 children, 11,742 women, 1,047 medical staff, 182 journalists, 496 educators, 203 UNRWA workers, and 85 Civil Defense medics. and injured more than 101,510, largely children and women, in addition to the thousands who remain missing, largely under the rubble of bombarded homes, buildings, alleys, and streets across the coastal enclave since October 7, 2023.
