Latest news with #PopularCommitteeforServicesin
Saba Yemen
19-02-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Israel keeps on assaulting Tulkarm
Tulkarm - Saba: The Zionist enemy continued its aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 24th consecutive day, and on the Nour Shams camp for the 11th day, amid a military escalation of demolition, bombing, and burning of homes and widespread destruction of infrastructure. The Palestinian News Agency said: The occupation forces sent more military reinforcements to the city of Tulkarm and its two camps (Tulkarm and Nour Shams), accompanied by the sound of gunfire and explosions, while storming the suburbs of Dhnaba east of the city and Artah south, raiding several homes and residential buildings, and arresting a number of citizens, including displaced persons from Nour Shams camp. The occupation forces spread out in various streets and neighborhoods of the city, and set up military checkpoints in them, stationed in the streets of Nablus connecting the camps of Tulkarm and Nour Shams, Shuwaika roundabout in the northern neighborhood, Abu Safiya junction in the eastern neighborhood, and Faroun roundabout in the south, while foot patrols roamed the streets of the city, specifically the vegetable market, and the street of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital. The occupation forces stopped the vehicles, searched them, checked the identities of their passengers, and prevented them from passing, while they intercepted young men, detained them, interrogated them in the field, and abused them, without any arrests being reported. Last night, an occupation military vehicle collided with a civilian vehicle on Nablus Street, where eyewitnesses reported that the occupation soldiers fired sound bombs at the vehicle, and prevented the ambulance crews from approaching it for a long time before allowing them to transfer the injured to the hospital. In the same context, Tulkarm camp witnessed a large-scale demolition of citizens' homes after 14 homes inside the camp were notified of the demolition, under the pretext of paving a street in the middle of the camp extending from the Agency area to the Balawneh neighborhood. The occupation bulldozers continued to demolish a number of houses in the camp since yesterday morning, while soldiers burned a number of others, amidst the sound of gunfire, as the targeted houses belong to the families: Abu Shahab, Sheikh Ali, Balidi, Al-Turki, Hajbi, Ibrahim, Abdul Razzaq, Qasim, Kanaan, Abed, Salem, Hajj Yusef, and Shahab. The head of the Popular Committee for Services in Tulkarm Camp, Faisal Salama, explained to "WAFA" that during this ongoing aggression, and according to statistics so far, 50 houses were destroyed and burned, and 300 shops were completely destroyed, in addition to the destruction and sabotage of a large number of vehicles, and thus the camp became lifeless, as water, electricity, and communications were cut off after the infrastructure was sabotaged and bulldozed, in addition to the displacement of 11,000 citizens out of 15,000 who lived in it. At the same time, the occupation forces continue their tight siege on Nour Shams camp, with infantry soldiers deployed in its neighborhoods, raiding and vandalizing homes, while burning down the home of the Faisal family in the Manshiya neighborhood. The occupation forces continue to seize two homes on Nablus Street, turning them into military barracks, with foot patrols deployed around them. At the same time, the occupation forces continue to close the gate of the Jabara checkpoint at the southern entrance to Tulkarm city for the 12th consecutive day, isolating the city from the villages and towns of Kafriyat and the rest of the West Bank governorates. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Ammon
29-01-2025
- Politics
- Ammon
For 3rd day in row, Israeli forces continue wide-scale military offensive on Tulkarm
Ammon News - For the third day in a raw, the Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression on the city and camp of Tulkarm, causing widespread destruction to the infrastructure and citizens' property. A short while ago, a young man was shot in the head by the occupation snipers in the Hanoun Square neighborhood in Tulkarm camp, where citizens are calling for the need to bring an ambulance to take him to the hospital, as he is lying on the ground bleeding, while the occupation forces are preventing ambulances from entering the camp. The occupation forces have pushed more of their vehicles towards the city and its camp, while their bulldozers continue to destroy the infrastructure in its neighborhoods, which has affected the water, electricity, sewage, internet networks, and public and private property. The local residents inside the camp neighborhoods have been living for the third day without water, electricity, or communications, so they have become cut off from the outside world, and they are calling for their rescue and the provision of basic necessities, especially for the sick, children, and the elderly. The occupation forces forced the residents of the Shuhada neighborhood this morning to leave their homes and leave the camp towards the city, joining a convoy of citizens who were forced to leave the camp since the first day. The head of the Popular Committee for Services in Tulkarm Camp, Faisal Salama, told WAFA in a statement yesterday that the camp is witnessing a large displacement of its citizens, and that more than 1,000 refugees were forcibly expelled from the camp. All the neighborhoods of the camp are witnessing a large deployment of occupation vehicles and soldiers, who are firing live ammunition intensively, storming homes and wreaking havoc inside them, and subjecting citizens to interrogation and investigation, and they forced a large number of them to leave at gunpoint. In Tulkarm city, the occupation forces continue their siege of the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and the Israa Specialized Hospital, obstructing the work of ambulances and their medical crews. The occupation forces are deployed in the city's various neighborhoods and streets, specifically the western, southern and eastern neighborhoods, and they obstruct the movement of vehicles, stop them, search them and force their passengers to return to their homes at gunpoint. In a later development, the occupation forces raided a number of citizens' homes in the western neighborhood of the city, which has turned some of the homes into military barracks after expelling their residents, and checked their identities and subjected them to interrogation, without any arrests being reported. Occupation soldiers were seen trying to open old and abandoned homes in the western neighborhood, which belong to the Habayeb family, using heavy tools. In addition, Tulkarm Municipality crews are working to repair the main water lines that supply parts of the city, located in the vicinity of Jamal Abdel Nasser Square, which were destroyed by the occupation bulldozers two days ago. On Tuesday night, the young man Ayman Al-Naji was killed in the Artah suburb, south of Tulkarm, bringing the number of Palestinians who were killed in Tulkarm over the past two days to three, after the occupation bombed a vehicle in front of the entrance to Nour Shams camp and killed two young men who were inside it. Earlier today, the occupation bulldozers also demolished the family's house of the slain Palestinian Tamer Fuqaha in the Shuweika suburb, north of the city, who was killed on May, 2024. WAFA
