On Saturday, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man in the village of Nazlat ‘Isa, north of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank. Additionally, occupation soldiers assaulted a Palestinian journalist after storming his home in the city of Tulkarem amid the army’s ongoing onslaught against the city and its two refugee camps.
Media sources said that Israeli forces shot a young man on Saturday night while he was in the vicinity of the Apartheid wall, built on the expropriated lands of Nazlat ‘Isa village, north of Tulkarem.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews transported a 31-year-old man to the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarem after soldiers shot him in the leg with live ammunition.
Meanwhile, on Saturday evening, the army assaulted a journalist after invading his home in the Al-Rabay’ah neighborhood in Tulkarem city.
Media sources said that occupation forces brutally assaulted WAFA photojournalist, Wafa Awad, after invading and ransacking his home in Tulkarem city.
Awad reported that the army “attacked me brutally and cursed me repeatedly, then confiscated my press card, ID, and mobile phone.”
Sources added that Israeli soldiers stormed and ransacked more homes belonging to the Awad family in the Al-Hadayeida neighborhood of Tulkarem, confiscated their residents’ ID cards and cell phones, before blindfolding and abducting the child, Ahmad Raed Awad, 15, and taking him to an unknown location.
In related news, the Arab 48 News website reported that occupation forces abducted, on Saturday night, an unidentified young man at the Jamal Abdel Nasser roundabout in Tulkarem city.
The Israeli military has continued its aggression against the city of Tulkarem and the Tulkarem refugee camp for 83 consecutive days, and 70 days in the Nur Shams refugee camp east of the city.
Media sources said that military bulldozers razed more streets in the Tulkarem refugee camp, closing the western entrance with earth mounds, while soldiers remain heavily deployed in the camp.
Sources added that occupation forces forcibly displaced ten Palestinian families from their homes in the Nur Shams refugee camp and threatened others, while firing live rounds and spreading terror among its citizens.
Since the beginning of the ongoing incursion in the city and its refugee camps, the army has forcibly displaced more than 4,000 Palestinian families.
The army’s unprecedented assault has completely destroyed 396 homes and partially destroyed 2573 others in the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps.
