2024-05-06 10:09:34 GMT
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TULKARM– Israeli occupation forces continued the assault against the city of Tulkarm and its camp, amid destruction of citizens’ property and infrastructure, WAFA reported on Monday.
Large forces of the occupation army, consisting of 50 military vehicles, accompanied by four heavy bulldozers, stormed the city at dawn from its western and southern axes, and roamed its streets and neighborhoods, specifically the eastern, western, northern and central Jamal Abdel Nasser Square, before heading to Tulkarm’s refugee camp.
The occupation forces surrounded the camp from all its entrances by deploying their vehicles in the streets and neighborhoods leading to it.
They also deployed snipers in the high buildings at the entrance to the camp and adjacent and surrounding it, while infantry troops deployed in its neighborhoods, and imposed a curfew, amid heavy drones flying at low altitude.
The occupation bulldozers began to raze the streets of the camp’s neighborhoods, including the school neighborhoods at the entrance to the northern camp, Al-Hammam, Al-Shuhada’, Al-Sawalma, and Al-Murabba’a, and vandalized the infrastructure and citizens’ property, including vehicles, walls, and the entrances to a number of homes and shops, while completely isolating the neighborhoods from each other.
The occupation bulldozers also razed the front street of the district headquarters in the eastern neighborhood adjacent to one of the entrances to the camp, causing destruction in the infrastructure.
WAFA correspondent reported that the occupation forces raided citizens’ homes, searched them, destroyed their contents, subjected their owners to investigation and interrogation, and turned a large number of them into military barracks, while they blew up a number of homes inside the camp’s neighborhoods after their residents were expelled from them.
She added that confrontations took place in the camp, with explosions being heard and heavy gunfire being fired.
The continued aggression against the camp caused the interruption of electricity, water, and Internet lines, thus isolating it from the outside world.
Occupation vehicles were deployed in the vicinity of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital near the eastern entrance to the camp, Nablus Street adjacent to the northern entrance to the camp, the slaughterhouse roundabout, the vicinity of the district, Thanaba suburb adjacent to the camp, the vicinity of Al-Isra Hospital in the western neighborhood and various neighborhoods of the city, and prevented citizens from moving around.
The occupation forces prevented journalists from approaching the entrances to the camp, and expelled them from the place. They also prevented ambulances from entering the camp and searched them in search of those they claimed were wanted.
The Red Crescent Society reported that the occupation forces surrounded a group of volunteers inside the home of Abu Dayyah family in the neighborhood of Al-Hamam, and demolished the facades of the house, putting them in danger.
The Palestinian Directorate of Education suspended school hours in schools in the city, the suburbs, and the eastern town of Anabta, while the rest of the directorate’s schools were transferred to e-learning.
