Injuries as Israeli forces shell Tulkarem, occupation continues arrests in the Bank

The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that nine people were injured by shrapnel as a result of the Israeli occupation army's aerial bombardment of a house in Tulkarem camp, while the occupation forces continue to storm cities and towns in the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli forces again entered the city of Tulkarem, deployed in all its streets and connected it to the surroundings of the Tulkarem camp, which besieged it from all its entrances and deployed snipers on the roofs of the high buildings surrounding it. They were accompanied by additional reinforcements and military bulldozers from the western axis of the city, as reconnaissance planes circled over the city and the camp.

The incursion came hours after an earlier incursion in which the occupation killed three Palestinians by direct bullets to the head, and arrested a fourth, in the suburb of Iktaba in the east of Tulkarem, raising the number of martyrs in the West Bank to 340 since last October 7.

Meanwhile, local sources said that explosions and exchanges of fire can be heard in Tulkarem camp from time to time.

The Tulkarem Brigade, which is part of the Al-Quds Brigade, said its fighters clashed with the occupation forces in Tulkarem, resulting in confirmed injuries and the departure of a number of vehicles from the service that stormed the Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps.

The battalion added that it had thwarted a number of attempts to penetrate deep into the Tulkarem camp and to damage and damage a number of Israeli vehicles during the clashes.

Eight Palestinians were also wounded by Israeli army gunfire after they stormed the old Askar camp near the city of Nablus from several axes.

The IDF initially prevented Red Crescent crews from entering the camp, but later ambulance crews were able to reach the injured.

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In Ramallah, a young Palestinian was shot and wounded by the occupying forces during their incursion into the city before they later withdrew.

Occupation forces also stormed the Ain Misbah neighborhood and arrested the father and brother of the President of the Birzeit University Student Council. They engaged in confrontations during which the occupation opened fire at young Palestinians, one of whom was shot in the back.

In Hebron, the Israeli occupying forces withdrew from Al-Fawar camp (south of the city) after raiding it, destroying a mural of martyrs there, burning pictures of martyrs, arresting three young men, searching citizens' homes and destroying their contents.

Clashes also broke out during the occupation forces' storming of the house of Prisoner Mohammed Manasra (who has been detained for two weeks with his son) in the town of Bani Naim, east of Hebron, in search of his other son, who was not in the house at the time of the incursion.

Photographs published by Palestinian podiums showed the arrest of two Palestinian young men by the Israeli occupation forces during their incursion into Al Fawar camp in southern Hebron governorate in the West Bank.

In Qalqilya, the Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the city after arresting a number of Palestinian youth, including the father of one wanted by the occupation forces.

The occupying forces stormed the city of Qalqilya from all its axes, accompanied by several military vehicles, and clashes took place between Palestinian youths and the occupation forces in more than one area.

The Prisoners' Affairs Committees had earlier reported that the number of Palestinians detained in the West Bank since October 7 had risen to 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, increasing the frequency of incursions, raids, and arrests.

Source: Al-Jazeera + agencies