TULKARM: A Palestinian youth was Thursday killed by occupation forces in the ongoing aggression against the city of Tulkarm and its two camps for the second day in a row, whereas a house was blown up by the forces, who burned another, and severely beat a number of civilians, amid widespread destruction of the infrastructure.
Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital said that Mohammad Faisal Dawas, 28, after he was shot by an occupation sniper in Nour Shams camp, east of Tulkarm.
Local sources told WAFA that the occupation forces blew up the house of local resident Omar Hussein Amara in the Tulkarm camp, after forcing its residents to leave, which led to its complete damage, while the houses adjacent to it were damaged.
The occupation forces, accompanied by military bulldozers, stormed Al-Manshiya neighborhood in Nour Shams camp in the east, and began bulldozing and vandalizing the infrastructure, and demolishing the house of local resident Abu Youssef Shehadeh, confrontations erupted. The sounds of huge
successive explosions were heard in the area.
WAFA correspondent said that the occupation forces pushed large military reinforcements towards Tulkarm camp, from the western entrances of the city, after deploying large numbers of infantry inside its alleys and neighborhoods, while storming and searching citizens’ homes, harassing their owners, and converting some of them into military points and interrogation centers.
Tulkarm: One killed, house bombed on Day 2 of Israeli assault
The raids also affected shops and public facilities, including Al-Salam Mosque, which was stormed and vandalized. Additionally, the Abu Ghazala family home in Al-Akasha neighborhood in the camp was burned.
Hundreds of citizens as young as 16 years old were detained by the occupation forces, who took them to field investigation centers in homes inside and outside the camp.
A number of civilians who were later released told WAFA correspondent that the occupation soldiers assaulted a large number of them, severely beat them, abused t
hem, and threatened them. They were also detained for long hours, transferred from one place to another, and then released in distant places, specifically at crossings and military checkpoints.
They added that a number of the freed people were transferred to the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital to receive treatment as a result of being subjected to severe beatings by the occupation soldiers, while a number of others were forced to go to some mosques and the Tulkarm district headquarters, which were declared open to receive the freed people because the occupation prevented them from returning to the camp until they withdraw from it.
The occupation vehicles bulldozed the entrance to Dhanaba suburb near the Tulkarm camp, near the Al-Firdaus Mosque, while the occupation soldiers broke the windows of civilians’ vehicles, near the Shweika roundabout in the northern neighborhood of the city.
The occupation forces detained a number of youths after raiding their homes in a residential building on Al-Sikka
Street in Tulkarm, and subjecting them to beatings and abuse.
The ongoing storming of Tulkarm and its camps was accompanied by overflights of Israeli drones at low altitude.
The Directorate of Education in Tulkarm said that schools are suspended for today in the city and its suburbs, while the rest of the governorate’s schools shifted to e-learning, due to the continuing difficult security situation in the city.
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA