TULKARM, February 15, 2025 (WAFA) – For the 20th consecutive day, the Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp, and on the Nour Shams camp for the seventh day, amid a military escalation that led to the killing of 11 people, and further destruction of infrastructure.
WAFA correspondent said that after midnight last night, the occupation drones dropped explosive bombs in the eastern neighborhood of the city near Abu Safiya factories, and in the vicinity of the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, which led to huge explosions without any injuries being reported.
She added that the occupation forces sent additional reinforcements of its soldiers through the Tsnaoz military checkpoint west of Tulkarm, accompanied by police dogs, who were deployed in various streets and neighborhoods of the city, specifically Al-Alimi Street and the southwestern street, Nablus Street adjacent to Tulkarm camp, and the Shuwaika and Al-Younis roundabouts in the northern neighborhood.
The occupation forces detained the two young men, Duas Ahmed Shehadeh and Muhammad Amarneh, from the vehicle they were riding in on the street of the court complex, and detained another young man near Shuweika roundabout in the city without knowing his identity.
Last night, the General Authority of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Health announced the killing of three young men by the occupation's bullets last Wednesday in Nour Shams camp.
Meanwhile, the occupation forces seized more homes in the eastern neighborhood of Tulkarm, and turned them into military points after forcing their residents out, while continuing to seize residential buildings around the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps and deploying snipers inside them.
The occupation forces continue to impose a tight siege on the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, and are deployed in the streets and alleys, while raiding homes, vandalizing them and destroying parts of them, including walls and roofs, accompanied by heavy firing of live ammunition at everything that moves.
The occupation bulldozers caused great and widespread destruction to the infrastructure in the streets of the two camps and the Nablus Street connecting them, and severe damage to the electricity, water and communications networks, which caused them to be completely cut off from them, in addition to the damage that occurred to homes and shops, after they were completely and partially demolished by the occupation bulldozers.
Initial estimates, according to field observations and official data provided by the Governor of Tulkarm, indicate that the number of homes completely destroyed by the occupation during this ongoing aggression in Tulkarm camp was at least 22, 300 partially destroyed, and 11 burned. In Nour Shams camp, the occupation forces completely destroyed 13 homes, partially destroyed 60 homes, and burned two homes.
The occupation forces continue to expel the residents of Nour Shams camp from their homes, forcing them to leave the camp, which witnessed a wave of displacement during the first day of the aggression with hundreds of families under threat and intimidation, heading to shelters in the city, its suburbs, and its villages, to be added to the thousands of citizens who were displaced from Tulkarm camp during the past days.
Calls for help continue from citizens who have not left their homes on the outskirts of Tulkarm camp, about their fate from the danger threatening them in light of the tight siege on the camp and the interruption of electricity, water, and communications, and the severe shortage of food, drinking water, milk, and medicine.
At the same time, the occupation forces continue to close the gate of the Jabara checkpoint at the southern entrance to the city of Tulkarm for the eighth consecutive day, isolating the city from the villages and towns of Al-Kafriyat, and the rest of the West Bank governorates.
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