TULKARM, January, 29 2024 (WAFA) – For the third day in a raw, the Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression on the city and camp of Tulkarm, causing widespread destruction to the infrastructure and citizens' property.

A short while ago, a young man was shot in the head by the occupation snipers in the Hanoun Square neighborhood in Tulkarm camp, where citizens are calling for the need to bring an ambulance to take him to the hospital, as he is lying on the ground bleeding, while the occupation forces are preventing ambulances from entering the camp.

The occupation forces have pushed more of their vehicles towards the city and its camp, while their bulldozers continue to destroy the infrastructure in its neighborhoods, which has affected the water, electricity, sewage, internet networks, and public and private property.

The local residents inside the camp neighborhoods have been living for the third day without water, electricity, or communications, so they have become cut off from the outside world, and they are calling for their rescue and the provision of basic necessities, especially for the sick, children, and the elderly.

The occupation forces forced the residents of the Shuhada neighborhood this morning to leave their homes and leave the camp towards the city, joining a convoy of citizens who were forced to leave the camp since the first day.

The head of the Popular Committee for Services in Tulkarm Camp, Faisal Salama,  told WAFA in a statement yesterday that the camp is witnessing a large displacement of its citizens, and that more than 1,000 refugees were forcibly expelled from the camp.

All the neighborhoods of the camp are witnessing a large deployment of occupation vehicles and soldiers, who are firing live ammunition intensively, storming homes and wreaking havoc inside them, and subjecting citizens to interrogation and investigation, and they forced a large number of them to leave at gunpoint.

In Tulkarm city, the occupation forces continue their siege of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and the Israa Specialized Hospital, obstructing the work of ambulances and their medical crews.

The occupation forces are deployed in the city's various neighborhoods and streets, specifically the western, southern and eastern neighborhoods, and they obstruct the movement of vehicles, stop them, search them and force their passengers to return to their homes at gunpoint.

In a later development, the occupation forces raided a number of citizens' homes in the western neighborhood of the city, which has turned some of the homes into military barracks after expelling their residents, and checked their identities and subjected them to interrogation, without any arrests being reported.

Occupation soldiers were seen trying to open old and abandoned homes in the western neighborhood, which belong to the Habayeb family, using heavy tools.

In addition, Tulkarm Municipality crews are working to repair the main water lines that supply parts of the city, located in the vicinity of Jamal Abdel Nasser Square, which were destroyed by the occupation bulldozers two days ago.

On Tuesday night, the young man Ayman Al-Naji was killed in the Artah suburb, south of Tulkarm, bringing the number of Palestinians who were killed in Tulkarm over the past two days to three, after the occupation bombed a vehicle in front of the entrance to Nour Shams camp and killed two young men who were inside it.

Earlier today, the occupation bulldozers also demolished  the family's  house of the slain Palestinian Tamer Fuqaha in the Shuweika suburb, north of the city, who was killed on May, 2024.

Y.S