In the early hours of dawn today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank amid clashes with resistance fighters in the city, after the occupation soldiers withdrew from the town of Ya`bad, south of the city of Jenin, following clashes that resulted in the death of a 16-year-old boy and the wounding of others. This comes in the midst of the occupation’s escalation and incursions into several cities and towns in the West Bank.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the occupation forces stormed Tulkarm with a large number of vehicles and bulldozers deployed in the vicinity and entrances of Nour Shams camp amid clashes with resistance fighters.
Journalist Laith Jaar told Tel Aviv Tribune that at least 30 military vehicles of the occupation stormed the city of Tulkarm and besieged the Nour Shams camp amid clashes with resistance elements.
Palestinian platforms also published scenes that they said showed an Israeli vehicle being targeted with an explosive device in the city of Tulkarm.
#video | A military bulldozer was targeted with an explosive device in the city of Tulkarm pic.twitter.com/yznC0VhCFU
– Shehab News Agency (@ShehabAgency) December 6, 2023
This development comes after the occupation forces withdrew from the town of Ya`bad, south of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, leaving one dead and three wounded.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the boy, Omar Mahmoud Abu Bakr (16 years old), was martyred after being hit by an Israeli bullet in the chest, and 3 other citizens were injured by live bullets during the occupation forces’ storming of the town of Ya’bad. With the martyrdom of the boy Omar, the number of martyrs in the West Bank since Wednesday dawn has risen to 5 Palestinians, and to 265 since the beginning of the war on Gaza, which has entered its third month.
The occupation forces stormed the town of Ya’bad yesterday evening, Wednesday, where confrontations broke out with Palestinian citizens, during which the occupation soldiers fired live bullets and stun grenades.
Settler attacks
Meanwhile, local Palestinian sources said that settlers fired live bullets at Palestinian vehicles south of Bethlehem in the West Bank.
This comes in light of the incursions carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in the Bethlehem and Hebron governorates and other areas in the West Bank.
In this context, local sources said that the occupation forces stormed the town of Tarqumiya, west of Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
The city of Hebron witnessed an alert by the occupation forces after two shooting operations targeting the Haggai settlement and the Avraham Avino settlement, which is affiliated with the Kiryat Arba settlement.
During these raids in the past hours, the occupation forces arrested 60 Palestinians, including a woman and former prisoners, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.
The Prisoners’ Club said that since October 7, the occupation has arrested 3,640 people in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem.