Tulkarm (UNA/WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on the city and camp of Tulkarm for the fifth consecutive day, amidst widespread bulldozing of public and private property and infrastructure, the bombing of homes, the dispatch of more military reinforcements, and the deployment of infantry patrols in the streets and neighborhoods.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that it continues to help evacuate citizens from the club area in Tulkarm camp after the citizens received evacuation orders from the occupation forces this morning..
She added that the ambulance crews have so far evacuated a number of patients, while the association's disaster management team has evacuated 150 citizens. .
A WAFA correspondent said that the occupation forces turned the city and the camp into military barracks after seizing a number of residential and commercial buildings in them, with a large presence of its soldiers and snipers who are firing randomly..
She added that infantry forces from the occupation army are deployed extensively in the main and side streets and between residential neighborhoods in the city, carrying out extensive combing and search operations, isolating neighborhoods from each other, pursuing citizens and vehicles and forcing them to return to their homes, amidst spreading a state of intimidation among them..
On Friday morning, the occupation forces arrested five young men after besieging two houses in the city, amid heavy gunfire, raiding neighboring houses and forcing their residents out under threat and abuse, in conjunction with intensive low-altitude reconnaissance flights.
A WAFA correspondent reported that an Israeli army force surrounded a house in the Engineers Housing Complex between the Shuweika and Iktaba suburbs east of the city, and demanded via loudspeakers that those inside the house surrender, while a special Israeli army force backed by military vehicles surrounded another house in the southern neighborhood of the city..
She added that the occupation forces fired bullets and sound bombs intensively towards the two houses, amidst the outbreak of clashes in the area, without any injuries being reported..
Local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested the two brothers, Ammar and Ahmed Hatem Al-Aoufi, from the house they surrounded east of the city. They also arrested the young men Ayman Marai, Majd Hadaydeh, and Moamen Abu Tamam from the house they surrounded in the southern neighborhood.
The occupation forces continue their siege of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and the Israa Specialized Hospital, seizing the tall buildings surrounding them, obstructing the work of ambulances and medical crews and subjecting them to search and field investigation..
The occupation forces continue their tight siege on Tulkarm camp, deploying infantry soldiers in its neighborhoods and snipers on tall buildings inside and around it, raiding and searching homes and forcing their residents to evacuate them at gunpoint, in addition to blowing up a number of homes inside the camp's neighborhoods..
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