TULKARM: The Israeli occupation army today unleashed a large-scale aggression against Nur Shams refugee camp, east of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm.

The occupation army launched Thursday evening a large-scale 17-hour-long onslaught against the Nur Shams refugee camp, triggering confrontations and causing extensive destruction.

The army, accompanied by two bulldozers, one of them a D9, stormed and imposed a strict siege on the camp, deploying military vehicles on all axes leading to the camp and closing the main street amid the flying of reconnaissance aircraft in the area.

Israeli bulldozers deliberately destroyed main streets, alleyways, water and wastewater networks on their way to and inside the camp, and tore down walls, stores and parts of houses in the camp.

Additionally, the Israeli forces sealed off the entrances of the camp with earth mounds and targeted electricity poles and wires along the main Nablus Street adjacent to the camp, causing power outages in parts of the area.

Scores of s
oldiers showed up at dozens of houses in the camp, broke inside, conducted thorough searches, dragged the occupants to a single room and interrogated them.

They turned some houses into military outposts, deployed snipers and prevented ambulances from entering the camp to evacuate patients, causing an elderly man to die.

A young man sustained a shrapnel injury. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where medics described his condition as stable.

During the raid, the occupation forces detained three youths from various parts of the city of Tulkarm, bringing the total number of those detained from the city since the onset of the aggression to six.

The heavily armed soldiers beat up a man, inflicting bruises and injuries across his body and requiring him to be rushed to a hospital.

They opened fire at several journalists present on the scene to cover the raid. No injuries were reported though.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA