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Thu 19 Oct 2023 11:36 am - Jerusalem Time

Updated| 6 young Palestinians killed during the storming of Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm

Six Palestinian citizens were killed today, Thursday, after they were targeted by drones launched by the Israeli occupation army in Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm.


According to local sources, the occupation forces launched a drone towards a group of young men inside the camp, killing four of them and wounding dozens of people with various injuries. They were transferred to Thabet Thabet Hospital.


She added that the occupation forces stormed the camp and fired live bullets and poisonous gas at the citizens, leading to the outbreak of confrontations that are still continuing to this day.


The occupation forces also arrested a young man after sustaining a head injury, prevented ambulances from reaching him, and cut off electricity and water supply to the camp.


The Israeli occupation forces imposed a tight military cordon on Nour Shams camp, prohibited movement around it, and deployed their vehicles and bulldozers at its entrances and surroundings.


Local sources reported that large forces of the occupation army, accompanied by military bulldozers, stormed the camp from various sides, and deployed in its streets and neighborhoods, especially in the Al-Mahjar and Jabal Al-Nasr areas, while they raided dozens of citizens’ homes, wreaking destruction and vandalism, and taking them as places for their snipers.


The sources added that the occupation bulldozers destroyed sections of the main street of the camp known as Nablus Street, Cemetery Street, the monument of the martyr Saif Abu Libdeh at the entrance to the camp, and many streets branching between the houses.


The occupation forces destroyed citizens' vehicles parked in front of their owners' homes, wreaked havoc on public and private property in the camp's streets, blew up the walls of many of them, and occupied bulldozers closed the entrance to the camp with earth mounds.


The occupation forces arrested a number of citizens, known as: the two freed prisoners, the brothers Baraa and Abd al-Rahman Fathi Qaraawi, Izz al-Din Abu Dayyeh, Samer Jaber, Ali Jaber, Mahmoud Jaber, and Imad Jaber, after raiding their homes.


Violent confrontations broke out between young men and the occupation soldiers, who fired heavy bullets, hitting the facades and windows of houses and shops. The teenager Taha Mahameed (16 years old) was dead, and three other citizens were injured in the lower extremities and were transferred to the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.


The occupation forces set up military checkpoints at the main intersections of the city, and prevented the movement of citizens and their vehicles, especially on Shweika Street north of Tulkarm, the Western Neighborhood, and Pharaoh Street to the south.



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Updated| 6 young Palestinians killed during the storming of Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm

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