Israel raids Tulkarem (West Bank) after bombing its refugee camp
The Israeli army carries out a raid in the Tulkarem area, northwest of the West Bank, after bombing the nearby Nur Shams refugee camp on Sunday, in an operation that killed an Islamic Jihad leader, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. “The Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Tulkarem at dawn on Monday,” the agency reported about the raid, the development of which the Army confirmed to EFE, without adding further details.
The city, shelter for dozens of members of the Tulkarem Brigade, which brings together different armed factions of Fatah and Islamic Jihadbecame the scene of armed combat between the militiamen and the Israelis at the military entrance.
Following Sunday’s attack, in which one Palestinian was killed and five others were injured (two seriously), a large number of military vehicles and two excavators They moved into the city today and crossed the central streets of Al Alami, Al Sikka and Nablus, heading towards the refugee camp.
“Our fighters detonated various explosive devices “The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah political party, which is also present in the area, launched a high-powered attack, which they had prepared in advance, against several enemy vehicles and soldiers,” announced in a statement the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah political party, which is also present in the area. Regarding this incident, the Israeli army radio indicated that an armored vehicle ran over a bomb during the raid, without indicating whether there were any casualties.
The armed clashes occur after the Army attacked a house in Nur Shams with an explosive drone on Sunday, killing Saeed Izzat Jaber, 24, ‘one of the most prominent founders and leaders’ of the Tulkarem Brigade, as Islamic Jihad defined it when notifying his death.
The territory lives its greatest spiral of violence since the Second Intifada, and so far in 2024 at least 223 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, most of them suspected militants or attackers, but also civilians, including some 44 minors, according to EFE’s count, after closing 2023 as the deadliest year in two decades with more than 520 deaths.
On the Israeli side, so far in 2024 15 people have died: twelve in nine Palestinian attacksincluding six uniformed personnel and six civilians (five of them settlers living in the West Bank); a soldier in Jenin in January who detonated an explosive with her vehicle; a special forces policeman who was fatally wounded during a raid in Tulkarem in May; and an Israeli soldier killed during a raid in Jenin in June.
