TULKAREM, (PIC)
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have continued on Friday their aggression on Tulkarem City and Tulkarem refugee camp for the 61st consecutive day, and for the 48th day on the nearby Nur Shams camp, amid military escalation, intensive reinforcements and attacks on markets and shops.
After midnight, IOF infantry squads and military vehicles were deployed in the gold market in Tulkarem city center, blocking the movement of vehicles and citizens, interrogating a number of them in the field, and forcing them to leave the area under the pretext of the curfew.
They also stormed two shops for agricultural supplies in the area, searched them thoroughly, broke the gate of one of the shops, and sabotaged their contents.
At night, the IOF vehicles roamed the streets of the city against the direction of traffic, confusing and blocking traffic and hitting some vehicles.
Meanwhile, the IOF set up makeshift military checkpoints in several locations in the city, especially in the vicinity of the Pharaon roundabout in the south, and on the road connecting the suburb of Thenabeh and the town of Kufr al-Labad, which became an alternative route for vehicles after the IOF destroyed the Nablus Street at the main entrance to the city.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli occupation soldiers stopped the vehicles for long hours and conducted thorough searches, in addition to firing stun grenades at them.
The IOF pushed more reinforcements of military vehicles and bulldozers to Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, deployed in several neighborhoods, and imposed strict procedures on the movement of citizens and vehicles.
Tulkarem refugee camp witnessed a large military deployment in Al-Hadida and Al-Matar neighborhoods, where soldiers raided houses, broke down their doors and vandalized their contents, coinciding with the continued displacement of residents of Al-Hadida and Al-Rabaea neighborhoods after they were forced out of their homes.
In Nur Shams refugee camp, the occupation soldiers fired live bullets heavily and indiscriminately at dawn on Friday, while the occupation bulldozers closed several entrances in Jabal al-Nasr neighborhood with earth mounds, amid a tight siege in the camp, accompanied by the seizure of dozens of houses and turning them into military barracks.
In Nablus Street, IOF soldiers reinforced their presence at a military barracks they set up inside residential buildings after forcing their owners to evacuate them, coinciding with the destruction caused by their bulldozers in the street after closing its sections with earthen berms.
The aggression caused widespread destruction of infrastructure, houses, shops and vehicles, which were completely and partially demolished, burned, vandalized, and looted, with 396 houses completely destroyed and 2,573 partially destroyed in Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps, in addition to closing their entrances and alleys with earth mounds.
