Israeli occupation soldiers continued their aggression on the city of Tulkarem and Tulkarem refugee camp for the 41st consecutive day, and for the 28th day on the Nur Shams refugee camp, amid additional military reinforcements, home invasions, destruction and shooting at citizens.
Media sources reported that the soldiers pushed military reinforcements towards the city and its refugee camps, deployed their vehicles and infantry teams in the streets and neighborhoods, and stationed around the perimeters and entrances of the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, accompanied by the firing of live rounds, concussion grenades and flares.
The army’s vehicles and armored bulldozers continue to be deployed in front of homes and residential buildings that they have seized and turned into military centers on Nablus Street, which connects the two refugee camps.
Also, the soldiers continue to stop and search Palestinian cars, inspect the citizens’ IDs, and detain dozens for questioning.
In the Tulkarem refugee camp, occupation soldiers chased groups of citizens after they entered the refugee camp and tried to reach their homes to check on them and collect what they could of their belongings.
Eyewitnesses reported that the soldiers fired live rounds and concussion grenades at the Palestinians, detained many of them, forced them to leave the camp, and threatened to shoot them if they returned.
They added that the soldiers were seen installing surveillance cameras on the rooftops of homes inside the refugee camp that they had occupied and turned into military centers.
The refugee camp is witnessing massive destruction of infrastructure and homes that have been completely or partially demolished, vandalized, and burned, while the remaining ones have been turned into military centers, accompanied by extensive explosions inside, which are heard intermittently.
The Israeli occupation forces pushed military reinforcements into the Nur Shams refugee camp, which remains under a tight siege, accompanied by continued home invasions, forcing residents to evacuate, and turning the properties into military barracks.
This coincides with the destruction caused by their bulldozers to the infrastructure and the complete demolition of homes in the Manshiya neighborhood as part of their plan to open roads and change the geographical features of the camp, where they demolished more than 28 homes in one week.
Media sources reported that after midnight, the army fired flares over the Maslakh neighborhood in the Nur Shams refugee camp, amid extensive searches and combing operations in the area.
In a press statement, the Popular Committee for Services in the Nur Shams refugee camp confirmed that the policy of home demolitions and forced displacement pursued by the occupation forces is part of collective punishment aimed at displacing citizens and breaking their will.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) stated that the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams refugee camps in the northern West Bank have become uninhabitable due to the ongoing aggression and massive destruction by the occupation forces.
It explained that this aggression is the longest and most destructive since the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 and has resulted in the largest wave of Palestinian displacement in the West Bank since 1967, with the occupation forcing around 40,000 Palestinians to be displaced from their homes.
UNRWA pointed out that the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams refugee camps have been almost entirely evacuated of their residents, amid widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure, including homes, and under these circumstances, citizens face the possibility of having no place to return to.
The ongoing aggression on the city and the refugee camps has resulted in the death of 13 citizens, including a child and two women, one of whom was eight months pregnant, in addition to the injury and abduction of dozens, and the forced displacement of more than 9,000 citizens from the Nur Shams refugee camp and 12,000 from the Tulkarem refugee camp.
Since the beginning of this year, Israeli soldiers have killed at least 96 Palestinians, including 16 children and 2 women, in the occupied West Bank: 43 in Jenin, 18 in Tubas, 14 in Tulkarem, 11 in Nablus, 5 in Hebron, 2 in Bethlehem, 1 in Jerusalem, and 1 in Qalqilia.
