TULKARM: Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression against the city of Tulkarm and its camp, causing massive destruction to Palestinians’ property and infrastructure.
A large military force, accompanied by two military bulldozers, stormed the city at dawn from its western, northern and southern entrances.
The occupation forces surrounded the Tulkarm camp from all its entrances, deployed their military vehicles in the streets and neighborhoods, while snipers were deployed on the rooftops of several buildings and shops.
A number of military vehicles were stationed at the entrances to Al-Isra Specialized Hospital in the western neighborhood and in the vicinity of Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital near the camp, preventing the entry or exit of residents into and out of the said hospitals.
The occupying military forces also surrounded an ambulance center in the southern neighborhood of the city, where they detained its crews, searched the ambulance vehicles, and prevented them from practicing their
job.
The occupation bulldozers proceeded to raze the entrance to the northern camp, Al-Wakala Schools Street, and Al-Okasha Neighborhood Street, and vandalized the infrastructure and citizens’ property, including vehicles, walls, and the entrances to a number of homes and shops,
The forces reportedly vandalized and damaged the memorial of the slain Palestinian Mahdi Al-Helu during the raid.
Intense confrontations between local reidents and occupation soldiers erupted following the raid, during which the occupation forces fired heavy live bullets, while sounds of explosions and live gunfire were heard from inside the city and its camp.
In a related context, Israeli forces stopped a vehicle on Nablus Street in Tulkarm, took its passengers out, detained and interrogated them for hour.
During the raid, Israeli forces detained two ex-prisoners and a third one after breaking into their houses and caused damages to their contents from different areas and neighborhoods of the city of Tulkarem.
The Directorate o
f Education in Tulkarm announced that schools in the city and its camps would be postponed until nine o’clock in the event that the occupation forces leave.
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA