The Israeli occupation forces carried out – at dawn on Wednesday – a massive raid campaign in various cities and towns of the occupied West Bank, and declared the Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm a closed military zone and imposed a curfew there.
Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent said that declaring the occupation means completely prohibiting movement in the camp and preventing entry and exit from it, even for humanitarian cases. The occupation forces also have the authority to shoot anyone wandering around the area.
This came after large forces of the occupation army, accompanied by a number of bulldozers, stormed the city of Tulkarm from its western and southern axes and the Nour Shams camp, east of the city, amid reconnaissance aircraft flying over the city, its suburbs, and its camps at a low altitude.
The occupation forces surrounded the entrances to the camp from its northern side after announcing the imposition of a curfew there until “further notice,” according to leaflets they dropped at the camp. They deployed their snipers on the roofs of a number of buildings in its vicinity. The occupation forces also searched several homes in the camp and subjected their residents to interrogation.
Surrounding a hospital
As a result of the siege imposed by the occupation, violent clashes took place between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation forces, and successive explosions were heard at the western axis of the camp.
Immediately after they stormed the city, the occupation forces besieged the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in the city center and the Zakat Hospital west of Tulkarm.
According to Manhattan Tribune’s correspondent, the occupation soldiers prevented ambulances from heading to the camp, under the pretext that it was a “closed military zone,” and attacked citizens’ vehicles parked in the city’s streets.
The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) said that the occupation bulldozers demolished the memorial to the martyr Murad Al-Pasha in the suburb of Dhanaba, east of the city, on the way to the camp, while the occupation soldiers were deployed in the Al-Rashid neighborhood in the suburb, adjacent to the camp.
The occupation bulldozers destroyed the streets of Nour Shams camp, especially the main street, and the streets of a number of its neighborhoods and infrastructure, and destroyed public and private facilities.
It is noteworthy that the occupation forces stormed Nour Shams camp 4 days ago, and a number of roads and infrastructure were destroyed, and several homes were destroyed during that raid.
Storming peaceful communities
From another location, an Manhattan Tribune correspondent reported that Israeli forces stormed the municipality suburb and the Tahrir roundabout in the city of Hebron, and arrested a citizen in the municipality suburb area.
In the same context, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a citizen from the town of Dura, south of Hebron, after storming the town and searching his family’s home.
The correspondent stated that the occupation army, in the midst of the incursions it has been carrying out since the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood into the cities and towns of the occupied West Bank, its forces stormed the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank from several fronts.
An occupation force consisting of 15 military vehicles launched from the occupation camp in the town of Huwwara, south of Nablus.
The invading forces were stationed in the Al-Makhfiyah area in Nablus, and returned citizens’ vehicles that were trying to reach the area.
The occupation forces also arrested a young man from the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit, after he died at an occupation soldiers’ checkpoint west of the city of Nablus.
In a related context, a number of Palestinian citizens suffered from suffocation during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Al-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem.
The occupation forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades, and toxic tear gas at the citizens, causing a number of them to suffer from suffocation.
Since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, the Israeli occupation army has intensified its military operations in the West Bank and increased the pace of incursions and raids into towns and camps, leaving dozens of victims and hundreds of detainees.
