The Israeli occupation army pushed military reinforcements into the city TulkarmHe continued his raids into several townsWest Bank The occupation, which has so far resulted in the martyrdom of 4 Palestinians and the arrest of 15 others since dawn on Tuesday, according to Palestinian sources.
Sources said that the Israeli occupation army sent military reinforcements to the city of Tulkarm, accompanied by bulldozers, and deployed its snipers in several locations in the city and in the vicinity of the Nour Shams and Tulkarm camps.
Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli occupation forces began bulldozing streets and infrastructure in several locations in the city of Tulkarm.
Sources reported to Al Jazeera that armed clashes took place between resistance fighters and the Israeli occupation army in the Tulkarm camp in the northern West Bank.
The occupation forces stormed Tulkarm at dawn today, surrounded a house in the Thanaba neighborhood and arrested a Palestinian citizen.
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Raids and searches
In Tubas Governorate, the Israeli army continues its operations in the Al-Far’a refugee camp, south of the governorate, while raiding and searching several homes.
In Burin and Madama, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, the Israeli occupation army continues a military operation during which it carried out a series of raids that affected dozens of homes, as its forces wreaked havoc in the homes of citizens in the two towns and arrested a number of residents.
Eyewitnesses said that the occupation army closed roads in the towns of Burin and Madama with dirt barriers and imposed a curfew there.
Martyrs
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death of 4 Palestinians and the injury of others by bullets from the Israeli occupation forces, during raids and aerial bombardments in the town of Tammoun in Tubas Governorate and the village of Al-Shuhada in Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
The Ministry explained that two martyrs from one family were subjected to an aerial bombardment carried out by the occupation forces on a house in the village of Al-Shuhada near Qabatiya, south of Jenin.
The Ministry of Health also announced that two other Palestinians were killed by occupation bullets during a military operation carried out this morning in the town of Tammoun and the neighboring Al-Far’a camp in Tubas Governorate. The occupation detained the body of one of the martyrs.
The Tubas Battalion, affiliated with…Al-Quds Brigades Its fighters detonated explosive devices and clashed with the occupation forces.
4 martyrs in Israeli bombing of Jenin and Tubas
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Escalation
The Israeli occupation has escalated its incursions and military operations in the West Bank since dawn today, which affected many cities and towns, including the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, Tammoun, south of Tubas, Tulkarm and its two camps, the city of Qalqilya, and the towns of Burin and Madama, south of Nablus.
In Jenin, the occupation forces stormed the town of Qabatiya, reinforced with bulldozers and about 30 military vehicles, and Israeli military forces deployed extensively in a number of villages in Jenin amid heavy drone flights.
Sources told Al Jazeera that drones targeted Palestinians in the village of Al-Shuhada, south of Jenin. Palestinian medical sources also reported that two Palestinians were martyred in a bombing of the village.
Sources also reported to Al Jazeera that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the villages of Burin and Madama, south of Nablus, and carried out raids and searches of a number of homes in the two villages.
The town of Qaffin, north of Tulkarm, was also raided, as Israeli army vehicles roamed the town’s streets and alleys “amid a reconnaissance plane flying at a low altitude.”
As for the central West Bank, Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army stormed the Jalazoun camp and the village of Budrus, north of the city of Ramallah.
The Israeli army also stormed the towns of Al-Ram, Al-Eizariya, and Abu Dis, north and east of Jerusalem.
Israeli forces raided and searched homes in Al-Eizariya, but no arrests were reported, according to Wafa Agency.
Palestinian media reported that the Israeli occupation army was sending large numbers of its forces to storm the town of Jabal Mukaber in occupied Jerusalem.
Arrests
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club and the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission of the Palestine Liberation Organization said that the Israeli occupation army arrested 15 Palestinians, including a child and former prisoners, during the campaign of raids it launched today in various areas of the occupied West Bank.
The arrests were distributed among the governorates of Hebron in the south of the West Bank, Qalqilya, Tulkarm and Jenin in the north, and Ramallah in the center of the occupied West Bank, according to the statement.
The two institutions confirmed that the occupation forces continue to carry out widespread raids and abuse during arrest campaigns, accompanied by severe beatings and threats to detainees and their families, in addition to sabotage and destruction of Palestinian homes that are subject to searches.
The two organizations said that the Israeli occupation has arrested 11,600 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the start of the ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
