Tulkarm (UNA/WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces continue their ongoing aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the tenth consecutive day, amid military reinforcements and the forced displacement of hundreds of families from the camp under threat.
Tulkarm camp is going through difficult times with the continued siege imposed by the occupation, and the complete destruction of the infrastructure and public and private properties since the first day of the aggression, which were subjected to bulldozing, bombing and burning, and the accompanying raids on homes and the expulsion of their residents at gunpoint, and the seizure of them and their conversion into military barracks.
A WAFA correspondent said that the occupation forces sent more vehicles to the camp, and deployed infantry patrols in all its neighborhoods and surroundings, while seizing more homes and commercial buildings adjacent to it, specifically in the eastern neighborhood of the city, and Nablus Street adjacent to its northern entrance, towards the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.
The forced displacement of entire families from inside the camp towards the city continued under threat of arms, amid the efforts of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society crews who work daily to evacuate the elderly and the sick and transport them to shelters spread throughout the city and its suburbs and a number of villages and towns in the governorate.
Eyewitnesses from inside the camp told WAFA that the camp has become empty of its residents, and only a few families remain, living without the minimum necessities of life, with a severe shortage of food, water, medicine and baby milk, in light of the interruption of water, electricity and communications.
Eyewitnesses added that the occupation forces are spreading terror among the residents to force them to leave, by blowing up homes and shops, which is what happened yesterday when they blew up three homes and ripped out the doors in a barbaric manner. It was one of the most difficult days that passed throughout the aggression.
In Tulkarm city, the occupation forces arrested at dawn today the young man Abdullah Iyad Muhammad Abdullah after raiding a house in the eastern neighborhood. He is a resident of Nour Shams camp, and the citizens Munther Akbariya and his sons Hammam and Asem Akbariya from their homes in the Shuwaika suburb north of the city.
The occupation forces raided houses in the eastern neighborhood of the city, searched them, destroyed their contents, checked the identities of their residents, subjected them to field investigation, and seized the upper ones and turned them into military barracks after forcing their owners to leave.
Other houses were raided in the Aktaba suburb east of the city, belonging to the Al-Khawli, Al-Hawji and Sheikh Mazhar families, and their owners were investigated and detained for some time before being released, without any arrests being reported.
The occupation forces continue their siege of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, deploying infantry at its entrances, and seizing the adjacent Al-Adawiya Commercial Building since the first day of the aggression, turning it into a military barracks, while the occupation vehicles are stationed at its entrance near the hospital and preventing anyone from approaching the place.
The occupation forces are obstructing the work of ambulances and their medical crews around the hospital. Last night, they detained a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance while it was transporting a patient to the hospital. They checked the identities of the patient, his companion, and the ambulance officer and detained them for more than half an hour before releasing them.
