TULKARM, March 5, 2025 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 38th day, and on the 25th day, the Nour Shams camp, amid military reinforcements accompanied by a stifling siege, raids on homes and the forced displacement of their residents.
WAFA correspondent said that the occupation forces sent military reinforcements of vehicles and a fuel tanker last night from Nitsani Oz checkpoint west of the city, and were stationed around the Martyr Thabet Thabet Square, Al-Haddadeen Street and the old Al-Karajat Street, and raided the exchange shops in those areas after removing their doors, searching them and tampering with their contents.
She added that the occupation vehicles and bulldozers were present in front of the residential buildings that they seized on Nablus Street linking the "Tulkarm and Nour Shams" camps, while infantry squads were deployed in the main streets leading to the two camps, obstructing the movement of vehicles, stopping them, searching them, checking the identities of their passengers, and subjecting them to interrogation.
The occupation continues to impose its siege on Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, preventing entry or exit from them, and deploying its foot patrols around them and inside the neighborhoods, while raiding homes, vandalizing them, destroying their contents, and subjecting the residents inside them to interrogation, and forcing them to leave.
In Nour Shams camp, infantry soldiers were deployed at its entrances and around the cemetery, and raided homes and forced families from Jabal al-Nasr neighborhood to evacuate their homes at breakfast time by force.
They also raided homes in the al-Mahjar and al-Madaris neighborhoods, belonging to the al-Safouri and Hassan families, and detained the Fahmawi family inside the house for a long time, while searching it and ransacking it.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Tulkarm said that its crews were present in front of Nour Shams camp, to help the residents and stand by them after they were evacuated from their homes.
Meanwhile, a large force of the occupation army stormed the Jarad Estate east of Tulkarm, deployed infantry squads in its streets, raided a number of homes, searched them and vandalized their contents, the owners of which were identified as Khaled Al-Hamshari.
The occupation forces detained three young men from Tulkarm camp at dawn today, while they were in the Dhnaba suburb.
Later, the occupation forces raided homes and residential buildings in the city of Tulkarm and the Dhnaba suburb, and converted a number of them into military outposts after expelling their residents.
Tulkarm camp is seeing an intensive deployment of infantry soldiers in all its neighborhoods, raiding empty homes of their residents, who were forcibly displaced, and turning them into military outposts, accompanied by the occupation bulldozers carrying out extensive bulldozing of the completely destroyed infrastructure on Al-Wakala Street.
Eyewitnesses said that the camp is seeing movements of the occupation army and its bulldozers in a manner that raises concerns about this unprecedented escalation, and what accompanies it with heavy firing of live bullets and light bombs to terrorize the remaining residents in their homes.
The ongoing aggression on the city and its two camps resulted in the killing of 13 citizens, including a child and two women, one of whom is eight months pregnant, in addition to the injury and arrest of dozens, and the forced displacement of more than 9,000 citizens from Nour Shams camp, and 12,000 from Tulkarm camp, and what accompanied it of demolition, bulldozing and complete destruction of the infrastructure and homes that affected more than 25 homes from the two camps in recent days under the pretext of paving roads that penetrate their neighborhoods.
K.T