TULKAREM, (PIC)
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) has been besieging a number of its volunteer paramedics inside a house in Tulkarem refugee camp, north of the West Bank, since the early morning hours while embarking on bulldozing parts of that building.
In a statement on Monday, the Red Crescent said that the IOF started, with no reason, to demolish the walls of a building while its paramedics were still inside it.
The Red Crescent added that it contacted the Red Cross to intervene to have those paramedics evacuated from the house.
Since the early morning hours, Tulkarem camp and its residents have been placed under tight Israeli military siege and curfew, while the IOF has embarked on bulldozing public and private property, including roads, cars, homes and stores.
The IOF also destroyed infrastructure in Tulkarem City and the nearby refugee camp of Nur Shams.
Meanwhile, resistance fighters exchanged fire with Israeli forces in the camp, amid sounds of sporadic explosions.
Local residents reported that Israeli soldiers ordered several Palestinian families to leave as-Sawalma neighborhood in the camp, encircled the Thabet Thabet Hospital in Tulkarem City and searched ambulances.
In a related context, al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas said that a group of its fighters along with others from different resistance factions clashed with the Israeli forces in Tulkarem camp and detonated homemade explosive devices at IOF vehicles traveling on a road in Anabta town, east of Tulkarem.
Resistance fighters also attacked the IOF and their vehicles in the camp with hails of bullets and some explosive devices.
The IOF has reportedly laid siege to Nur Shams camp and imposed a curfew on its residents, amid armed clashes with resistance fighters.
One citizen was injured in his head when an Israeli sniper opened fire at his car in Dinnaba neighborhood of Tulkarem City.
