Earlier Thursday dawn, the Israeli army assassinated two young Palestinian men after firing a missile at them from a drone in Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, before dozens of military vehicles invaded the city and the refugee camp.
Updated at 3:30 pm on March 21, 2024
Israeli forces killed two additional Palestinian young men in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem, during a 10-hour-long incursion.
Medical sources announced the death of the young men, Ahmad Marwan Mohammad Abu Ali, 22, and Abdullah Mahmoud Al-Qaisi, 20, after occupation forces shot them with live ammunition.
It was added that their bodies were subsequently transported to the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.
First published at 6:40 am on March 21, 2024
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said the two slain Palestinians have been identified as Nidal Abu Obeid and Eyad Nidal Azmi Kanooh.
The PRCS said its medics faced enormous difficulties in entering the refugee camp, but were later able to take the corpses of the two slain Palestinians from a clinic.
Shortly after assassinating the two Palestinians, dozens of military vehicles invaded Tulkarem city and surrounded the refugee camp, before storming it, and using its bulldozers to destroy streets and infrastructure inside the refugee camp and around it.
The soldiers imposed a strict siege on the refugee camp, before invading many areas, especially in Jabal An-Nasr, Jabal Al-Salihin, and its western areas, and declared the refugee camp and its surroundings closed military zones, while the soldiers continued to storm and ransack homes while interrogating the families.
Medical sources said the soldiers partially demolished the home of Sameer Jaber, the father of Mahmoud Jaber, who was among five young men the Israeli army killed on Sunday, December 17, 2023.
The Israeli army also ordered the families in the Al-Manshiyya neighborhood in Nur Shams refugee camp to leave their homes, after storming and ransacking dozens of homes in the area and deploying sharpshooters on rooftops.
The army also forced families in the invaded homes into one room in their properties and interrogated dozens of Palestinians.
Media sources said the refugee camp’s invasion was part of a massive incursion into Tulkarem city, especially the western and the southern where more than fifty armored vehicles advanced into the city, especially around Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, the Sikka Street and Nablus Street near Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, while armed and surveillance drones flew overhead.
The Israeli Shin Bet and the army, who carried the joint operation, claim that Ahmad Barakat “was behind the killing of Meir Tamari” in May 2023, near the Hermesh illegal colony, and that he was also behind another attack the injured seven soldiers.
They also alleged that the two slain Palestinians were also planning more attacks against the army and the colonizers in the West Bank.
On Wednesday evening, the Israeli army assassinated three Palestinians and seriously injured a fourth, after firing a missile at their car near Jenin, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
The slain Palestinians are Mahmoud Bassam Rahhal, 30, Ahmad Hani Barakat, and Mohammad Al-Fayed, in their twenties.
