Tulkarm - Saba:
The Israeli aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its two camps is entering its 101st day, amid new home demolitions, the seizure of others, and the forced displacement of Palestinian citizens from their homes.
The Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported, citing eyewitnesses, that the Israeli enemy announced last night its intention to demolish new buildings belonging to seven families in the Nour Shams camp. Each building contains several residential apartments. The families include: Junaidi, Muqbil, Alian, Sakran, Ghraifi, Suruji, and Fahmawi.
She noted that this escalation coincides with the enemy's commencement of a plan to demolish 106 homes and residential buildings in the Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps. The demolition process began over the past two days in the Manshiyya, Al-Maslakh, and Al-Jami' neighborhoods in Nur Shams camp, after forcibly evacuating their residents. Meanwhile, occupation bulldozers are stationed in the Al-Murabba'a Street area of Tulkarm camp.
WAFA noted that the Israeli enemy continues to seize homes and residential buildings on Nablus Street and the adjacent northern neighborhood, converting them into military barracks after forcibly evacuating their residents, with Israeli military vehicles stationed in the vicinity.
The agency added that since the early morning hours, the city has witnessed intense activity by enemy vehicles, patrolling the main streets, specifically around the Martyr Thabet Thabet Roundabout and the Government Hospital, as well as the streets of Haddadin, Al-Alimi, and Nablus. They obstructed the movement of citizens and vehicles, provocatively honking their horns and deliberately driving against traffic, with reconnaissance aircraft flying at low altitudes.
Israeli enemy forces also deployed with bulldozers and infantry units in and around the Nour Shams refugee camp, pursuing citizens as they headed to their homes threatened with demolition to confiscate their belongings. They detained a number of young men and took them to a military barracks at the camp entrance, where they were interrogated despite having received prior coordination for entry.
The city, its two camps, and its suburbs are subjected to a stifling siege and repeated raids, often accompanied by the firing of live ammunition and sound bombs, especially at night. This is in addition to systematic attacks on citizens' homes and infrastructure, which have transformed the camps and residential neighborhoods in some areas of the city into military barracks, after homes were seized and their residents forcibly expelled.
The ongoing Israeli aggression and escalation on the city of Tulkarm and its two camps have resulted in the deaths of 13 Palestinian citizens, including a child and two women, one of whom was eight months pregnant. Dozens have also been injured and arrested, and the infrastructure, homes, shops, and vehicles have been completely and partially demolished, burned, vandalized, looted, and stolen.
The aggression has also resulted in the forced displacement of more than 4,200 families from the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, home to more than 25,000 Palestinian citizens. More than 400 homes have been completely destroyed and 2,573 partially destroyed, while their entrances and alleys have been sealed off with earth mounds.
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