1/4/2024–|Last updated: 1/4/202411:42 AM (Mecca time)
A Palestinian was martyred at dawn today, Thursday, in the town of Tammoun in the northern West Bank, at a time when the occupation forces continued their storming of the city of Tulkarm and its two camps.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Tammoun, south of the city of Tubas in the West Bank.
Palestinian medical sources announced that the young man, Asid Bani Odeh (29 years old), was killed by occupation bullets during the storming of Tammoun, which raises the death toll to 325 since the seventh of last October.
The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported that the Israeli army stormed homes in Tammoun and deployed in several neighborhoods. Violent confrontations and clashes also took place in the town, and the sounds of strong explosions were heard.
Escalation in Tulkarm
In Tulkarm, the occupation forces continue, for the second day in a row, to storm Palestinian homes in the neighborhoods and suburbs of the city and its two camps.
“Wafa” said that the Israeli occupation raided the southern neighborhood of the city, searched residential apartments, detained their residents, subjected them to field investigation, and deployed its snipers on the roofs of buildings.
The Palestinian agency added that the occupation bulldozers continue to bulldoze and destroy infrastructure and main streets in the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps.
Anadolu Agency quoted eyewitnesses as saying that sounds of armed clashes were heard from time to time in Tulkarm and its two camps.
The witnesses added that the occupation imposed a siege on neighborhoods in the two camps.
Palestinians shared video clips of demolition of buildings, shops, and infrastructure in Nour Shams camp.
The damage caused by the Israeli forces after raiding Tulkarm refugee camp. 3.1.24
Destruction caused by the occupation in Tulkarm camp pic.twitter.com/vhonRADKaK
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) January 3, 2024
Storms and arrests
The occupation forces also stormed Beit Furik, Burqa, Qasr, Qusin, and the Fatayer neighborhood in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
The occupation forces arrested a young man from the town of Qusin, west of Nablus, according to the Palestinian News Agency.
In the southern West Bank, the occupation forces stormed the city of Hebron and the town of Dura, drove their vehicles through several neighborhoods and streets, and raided several homes, searched them, and tampered with their contents.
In Bethlehem, the occupation forces stormed the city from the northern entrance, and were stationed near the Nissan roundabout. They also stormed a house in the Karkafa neighborhood, and arrested 3 young men from the town of Husan, west of the city.
In Ramallah, the occupation forces raided buildings and arrested two young men. They also stormed the town of Beit Rima, northwest of the city, raided several homes, and arrested a number of young men.
The number of Palestinians detained from the West Bank in Israeli prisons since October 7 has risen to 5,600, after more than 50 Palestinians were arrested in various parts, according to a joint statement issued by the Commission for Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs of the Palestine Liberation Organization. (official), and the Palestinian Prisoners Club (private).
The occupation army intensified its military operations in the occupied West Bank, and the pace of incursions and raids into towns and camps increased, leaving dozens of martyrs and wounded, in conjunction with an ongoing aggression against Gaza for 90 days, which as of Wednesday left 22,313 martyrs and 57,296 injured, most of them children and women, and massive destruction in Infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, according to the sector authorities and the United Nations.