10/4/2024–|Last updated: 10/4/202403:38 AM (Mecca time)
The national and Islamic forces in the occupied West Bank announced a comprehensive strike, today, Friday, in various governorates, to mourn the lives of the victims of the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation army in the Tulkarm camp (north), which resulted in the martyrdom of 18 Palestinians in a bombing that was the first of its kind launched by an Israeli fighter. In the West Bank since the second intifada in 2000.
In a statement yesterday evening, Thursday, the forces called for activities in all contact zones and military checkpoints, and to adhere to unity and struggle to end the occupation, in the face of committing a new massacre in the Tulkarm camp, and the continuation of the war of extermination to which the Palestinian people are exposed throughout the occupied Palestinian territory.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) considered the Israeli air strike on Tulkarm camp a dangerous escalation in the occupation’s continuing aggression against the West Bank and evidence of its brutality and bankruptcy in light of its failure on the ground to break the resolve of the Palestinian people and their escalating resistance.
In a statement yesterday evening, Thursday, the movement called on the Palestinians in the West Bank to stage mass demonstrations of anger in all governorates, and to work to escalate the confrontation and clash with the occupation and its settlers in all regions.
For its part, the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) called in a statement to make Friday a day of anger, escalation and a comprehensive strike at all points of contact, in revenge for the souls of the martyrs of the Tulkarm camp.
On Thursday evening, the Palestinian government called on the international community to take action to put an end to Israel’s crimes in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank.
In a statement, she affirmed the continuation of her efforts to expose the crimes of the occupation internationally and in international courts, and to hold Israel accountable for its escalating crimes.
In this context, Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina, in a statement, held the occupation government fully responsible for the repercussions of this heinous crime against the Palestinian people, including children, women and the elderly.
He said that it comes as a continuation of the comprehensive war waged by this right-wing government (headed by Benjamin Netanyahu) against the Palestinian people, their land, and their sanctities, which has dragged the region into more violence and instability.
Abu Rudeina held the American administration accountable for the consequences of the continuous and escalating aggression against the Palestinian people for nearly a year, and called on it to intervene immediately to stop these Israeli massacres, which it supports with weapons, money, and political cover.
Press sources: Martyrs and injured in the occupation’s bombing of a café inside Al-Hamam neighborhood in Tulkarm camp#Al-Aqsa Flood #Gaza_Strip #Lebanon pic.twitter.com/bPbRbk7Zay
– Quds Press Agency (@QudsPress) October 3, 2024
Details of the massacre
This came after a massacre that left 18 Palestinians dead and others injured in an aerial bombardment, the first of its kind in the West Bank since the second intifada in 2000. A fighter plane targeted the Tulkarm camp in the northern occupied West Bank.
The official Palestinian News Agency reported that the raid targeted residential areas, including a popular café in the camp.
The agency reported that the occupation aircraft bombed with at least one missile the Al-Hamam neighborhood in the Tulkarm camp while a number of citizens were present, which also led to dozens of people being injured with varying injuries, according to the Ministry of Health.
She indicated that civil defense vehicles and ambulances rushed to the scene, where the martyrs and wounded were transferred to the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in the city of Tulkarm.
As for the Israeli army, which carried out the massacre, it said in a statement that a fighter plane carried out a raid in Tulkarm in cooperation between the army and the General Security Service (Shin Bet), and claimed that it had liquidated the Hamas operations official in the city of Tulkarm, Zahi Yasser Abdel Razzaq Awfi.
The Israeli media said that it was the first time since the second Palestinian Intifada (2000-2005) that a warplane launched a raid on the Tulkarm camp.
In parallel with its devastating war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the occupation army and settlers have escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
The Israeli attacks in the West Bank resulted in the killing of 723 Palestinians, including 160 children, and the injury of more than 6,200 others, in addition to the arrest of more than 11,000 Palestinians, according to official Palestinian sources.
With the absolute support of the United States, Israel is waging a genocidal war on Gaza that has resulted in more than 138,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing persons, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
