A 9‑year‑old child was injured on Sunday after Israeli occupation soldiers directly fired a sound bomb at her head near Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern West Bank. Dozens of residents also suffered from suffocation due to the heavy use of toxic gas.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) confirmed that its medical teams treated the child inside the refugee camp after the army invaded it, stressing the severity of targeting children with such weapons.
The PRCS stated that its medics transported the child to a hospital in Tulkarem city for further treatment and checkup.
Meanwhile, dozens of displaced residents from Nur Shams, joined by international solidarity activists, staged a sit‑in at Jabal al‑Nasr adjacent to the refugee camp, protesting the ongoing onslaught.
They chanted national slogans affirming the right of families to return to their homes from which they were forcibly expelled under the ongoing aggression.
The area witnessed large reinforcements and deployment of Israeli military vehicles and soldiers, who occupied rooftops of seized homes, while surveillance and reconnaissance drones hovered overhead.
Later, the forces fired barrages of toxic gas toward the sit‑in to disperse participants, causing widespread suffocation, particularly among children.
The invasion of Nur Shams camp has now continued for the 288th consecutive day, resulting in forced displacement of residents, widespread demolition of homes, and near‑total destruction of infrastructure. At the same time, Israeli aggression against the city of Tulkarem and its camp has persisted for 301 consecutive days.
In related news, a Palestinian young man died of previous wounds inflicted on him by Israeli forces in Dura town, southwest of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
The Shireen Observatory reported that the young man Adel Khaled Qazzaz, 26, succumbed to injuries he sustained days earlier in the town of Dura, southwest of Hebron.
Also on Sunday, Israeli forces shot and killed Birzeit University student Baraa Khairi Ali Maali (20 years old) during a settler attack in the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.
Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces and colonizers have killed 247 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 50 children and 7 women.
Since the beginning of the year, occupation forces and illegal settlers have killed 80 Palestinians in Jenin, 44 in Nablus, 31 in Tubas, 25 in Hebron, 21 in Ramallah, 17 in Tulkarem, 10 in Jerusalem, 9 in Bethlehem, 6 in Qalqilia, 3 in Salfit, and 1 in Jericho, according to the Shireen Observatory.
In the Gaza Strip, the overall death toll since October 7, 2023 has increased to 69,756 including women and children, while at least 170,946 Palestinians have sustained various degrees of injuries as a result of Israel’s military onslaught.
