TULKAEM, February, 17, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces escalated their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp, which has continued for the 22nd consecutive day, and the ninth day on the Nour Shams camp.
WAFA correspondent reported that the occupation forces sent military reinforcements of heavy machinery and bulldozers to the city and its camps and began extensively bulldozing streets and vandalizing property.
In the eastern neighborhood of Tulkarm, especially in the area of the Muqata'a Street until the Abu Safiya intersection and the municipal slaughterhouse, the occupation forces bulldozed the streets in those areas, and caused massive destruction to the infrastructure, trees and vehicles, and closed some entrances with earth mounds.
In a later development, the occupation forces tightened their siege on the eastern neighborhood this evening, preventing its residents from leaving their homes, forcing shop owners to close their shops, pursuing citizens, detaining them, checking their identities, interrogating them in the field, and abusing them.
In Tulkarm camp, the occupation forces continued to bulldoze streets and houses, causing extensive damage, in addition to burning houses in Al-Samran neighborhood, including the house of the martyr Wassim Anbar, while hearing sounds of gunfire and explosions.
Eyewitnesses told WAFA that the situation in Tulkarm camp is becoming increasingly difficult, amid a state of fear and panic that has afflicted the residents who remained in their homes on the outskirts, especially in Al-Matar neighborhood, in addition to a severe shortage of basic and necessary supplies such as food, water, medicine and milk.
Eyewitnesses added that the occupation forces pursue anyone who leaves his home or tries to return to the camp, and shoot at him, and direct drones towards him to photograph him.
They confirmed that nothing inside the camp remains the same, as the occupation forces deliberately destroy the contents of the homes and throw everything inside them outside, including electrical appliances, furniture and clothes, with systematic sabotage and destruction of all aspects of life in the camp.
In the same context, the occupation forces continued their suffocating siege of Nour Shams camp, which included additional destruction of the infrastructure completely, extensive raids on homes and vandalism of their contents, demolition and bulldozing of other homes in the neighborhoods of Al-Manshiya, Al-Jami’, Al-Joura, Al-Shuhada, and Al-Madaris, and closing the entrances to homes and shops with barriers and rubble.
These attacks coincided with the occupation forces firing live ammunition and bombings from time to time, and low-flying reconnaissance aircraft.
The occupation forces had set up a checkpoint on Nablus Street connecting Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, stopped vehicles, checked the identities of their passengers, interrogated them, and detained a number of them. They also raided and searched homes in the area, seized two homes and turned them into military barracks.
Today, relief efforts continued from the competent authorities in Tulkarm, who worked to deliver food, medicine and water to a number of families trapped inside Nour Shams camp, in light of the difficult circumstances they are experiencing due to the occupation's aggression.
The Red Crescent crews also evacuated a number of elderly and sick people from the camp, and took them to shelters in the governorate.
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