TULKARM: Israel’s military assault on the city and refugee camp of Tulkarm in the northern occupied West Bank today entered its third day, systematically sabotaging and destroying the vast majority of the city and camp’s infrastructure, according to WAFA correspondent.
She said that Israeli massive armoured bulldozers tore up tarmac streets and alleyways in the camp and ravaged through public and private properties.
In the Rabay’a neighborhood, an armored bulldozer razed the narrow street along with residents’ vehicles parked along the way, and in the al-Hadayda neighborhood, another bulldozer uprooted trees and tore down houses and stores. The same was reported in the al-Hammam, ad-Damj and al-Balawneh neighborhoods.
The heavy machineries blocked the alleyways of the camp with earth mounds, making it impossible for residents to navigate them, even on foot and compounding their suffering.
This came as the occupation forces blew up several houses in the camp, setting them on fire, destroying them and displ
acing the occupants.
In the city of Tulkarm, a bulldozer dug out the Shweika circle in the northern neighborhood, turning it into a pile of ruins.
Meanwhile, the occupation forces continue to deploy more military vehicles and bulldozers into the camp and the city, simultaneously while patrolling streets, intercepting vehicles and ambulances, inspecting them and interrogating passengers.
The gun-toting soldiers impeded the distribution of relief aid by the Red Crescent crews.
Additionally, the military bulldozers ploughed through a section of the Nablus Street, adjacent to the entrance of Nur Shams Camp, before they headed to storm the camp via its main entrance, at a time when the sounds of clashes could be heard.
Last week, the occupation forces launched their largest offensive on the occupied West Bank since the Second Intifada, attacking three cities – Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas – from land and air and killing at least 33 Palestinians and injuring 140 others.
Military bulldozers ploughed into critical
infrastructure, cutting off communications and resources from several Palestinian cities and refugee camps.
This is the latest move in a broader Israeli offensive, marked by almost daily arrests and killings, in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since the onset of the Israeli genocidal aggression on Gaza on 7 October 2023, which resulted in the killing at least of 40,861 Palestinians and injuring 94,398 others.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA