The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that 9 people were injured by shrapnel as a result of the Israeli occupation army’s drone bombing of a house in Tulkarm camp, while the occupation forces continue to storm cities and towns of the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli forces again stormed the city of Tulkarm, and deployed in its various streets that connected it to the vicinity of the Tulkarm camp, which it besieged from all its entrances. They deployed their snipers on the roofs of the tall buildings surrounding it, and sent in additional reinforcements and military bulldozers from the western axis of the city, coinciding with the flight of reconnaissance planes in the airspace of the city and the camp.
This raid comes hours after a previous raid during which the occupation forces killed three Palestinians with direct bullets to the head, and arrested a fourth, in the Aktaba suburb, east of Tulkarm, which raised the number of martyrs in the West Bank to 340 since the seventh of last October.
Meanwhile, local sources said that sounds of explosions and exchanges of gunfire are heard in Tulkarm camp from time to time.
For its part, the Tulkarm Battalion – affiliated with the Al-Quds Brigades – said that its fighters clashed with the occupation forces in Tulkarm, which led to confirmed casualties and the withdrawal of a number of vehicles from service that stormed the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps.
The battalion added that it thwarted a number of attempts to penetrate deep into the Tulkarm camp, and damaged a number of Israeli vehicles during the clashes.
Eight Palestinians were also injured by Israeli army gunfire after they stormed the old Askar camp near the city of Nablus from several directions.
Israeli army forces initially prevented Red Crescent crews from entering the camp, before ambulance crews were later able to reach the injured.
Storms and arrests
In Ramallah, a young Palestinian man was injured by bullets from the occupation forces during their storming of the city before they later withdrew.
The occupation forces also stormed the Ain Misbah neighborhood and arrested the father and brother of the president of the Birzeit University Student Council. Confrontations took place during which the occupation forces opened fire on the Palestinian youths, and one of them was hit in the back.
In Hebron, the Israeli occupation forces withdrew from Al-Fawwar camp (south of the city) after they raided it, where they destroyed a mural of the martyrs there, burned pictures of the martyrs, arrested 3 young men, searched citizens’ homes, and destroyed their contents.
Confrontations also broke out during the occupation forces storming the house of prisoner Muhammad Manasra (who has been detained for two weeks with his son) in the town of Bani Naim, east of Hebron, searching for his other son, who was not in the house at the time of the storm.
Pictures published by Palestinian platforms showed the Israeli occupation forces arresting two young Palestinians during their storming of Al-Fawwar camp, south of Hebron Governorate in the West Bank.
In Qalqilya, Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent said that the Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the city after arresting a number of young Palestinians, including the father of one of those wanted by the occupation forces.
The occupation forces stormed the city of Qalqilya from all its frontiers, accompanied by several military vehicles, and confrontations took place between Palestinian youths and the occupation forces in more than one area.
The Prisoners’ Affairs Commissions reported earlier that the number of Palestinians detained in the West Bank since October 7 has increased to about 5,730.
Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the occupation army has intensified its military operations in the West Bank, and increased the pace of incursions, raids, and arrests.
