TULKAREM, (PIC)
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have continued their aggression on Tulkarem city and its camp for the 86th consecutive day, and the 73rd day on Nur Shams camp, with a surge in the number of the displaced people to 25,000, while dispatching more military reinforcements to the area.
The Media Committee in Tulkarem said the IOF intensified its military presence in the city and its two camps and expanded bulldozing operations, affecting agricultural lands adjacent to the Nitzanei Oz settlement’s gate west of the city, where Israeli troops are deployed in its vicinity, preventing anyone from approaching the area.
The committee reported, in a press statement on Tuesday, that the IOF arrested four citizens from Thenabe town and Tulkarem camp, in a large-scale raid on citizens’ homes with Israeli occupation soldiers searching and sabotaging their contents.
The IOF also continued bulldozing, sabotaging and destroying the streets in Tulkarem camp, and closing its entrances with earth mounds and barbed wire, after forcibly displacing residents from their homes and turning them into military barracks.
The committee also revealed that the occupation soldiers deliberately terrorized the residents by firing live bullets in the Nur Shams camp, coinciding with a large-scale invasion of the camp, while continuing to forcibly evacuate residents from their homes.
It added that the IOF escalated chasing young men across Tulkarem, beating, arresting and detaining them for long hours, after confiscating their personal IDs and cell phones.
The IOF aggression on Tulkarem and its camps has resulted in the martyrdom of 13 citizens, including a child and two women, in addition to the injury and arrest of dozens, while the number of displaced people from Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps and the northern neighborhood rose to 25,000, after the IOF seized their homes and turned a number of them into military barracks.
The IOF has also destroyed and burned 300 shops in Tulkarem, completely destroyed 396 houses and partially destroyed 2,573 others in the two camps, in addition to closing their entrances and alleys with earth mounds.
