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by IMEMC News
Jan 12, 2024

The Israeli occupation forces caused widespread destruction in the infrastructure of Nour Shams refugee camp, east of the city of Tulkarem, after besieging the camp for 24 hours.

On Friday morning, public works crews and the Tulkarm Municipality began removing rubble and dirt barriers and rehabilitating some streets, especially Nablus Street, which is considered the main entrance to the camp that connects the city to the villages and towns of Wadi Sha’ir and the rest of the West Bank.

The head of the emergency department in the Tulkarem municipality, Hakim Abu Safiya, told the Palestinian Wafa News Agency that the camp had suffered severe devastation in the infrastructure of sanitation, water and electricity, adding that there is no street inside the camp and its alleys that has not been destroyed.

Abu Safiya continued that the municipality and public works crews went directly to the camp immediately after the occupation withdrew, and worked to remove the rubble, open roads, and rehabilitate some of what had been vandalized.

The demolition of the camp’s infrastructure led to damage to the water, electricity, and communication networks, causing them to be completely cut off from its neighborhoods.

Citizens of the camp told our correspondent that the occupation bulldozers closed many of the entrances to the houses in the camp’s courtyard and closed its alleys with earth mounds and asphalt after deliberately bulldozing the streets, preventing them from leaving their homes.

They described this attack as the strongest in terms of widespread destruction of infrastructure.

The bullets fired by the occupation soldiers, massively and randomly, hit the windows and doors of houses, citizens’ property, and their shops, which exacerbated the suffering of citizens, whose property was destroyed, vandalized, and bombed in every raid, which inflicted heavy material losses.

The occupation forces, accompanied by four bulldozers, stormed the city of Tulkarm from its western axis and Nour Shams camp last night, and the storming continued until the dawn hours of today.

Our correspondent said that the occupation forces were stationed at the Aktaba roundabout, east of the city, where a military bulldozer placed dirt barriers in the vicinity of the roundabout after bulldozing it and vandalizing the street that connects it to the Iskan neighborhood street, before heading to Nablus and Iskan streets towards Nour Shams camp, which it imposed a strict siege on from all sides. directions, and deployed its snipers on the roofs of tall buildings surrounding it .

She pointed out that the occupation forces bulldozed Nablus Street adjacent to the main entrance to the camp, closed it with dirt barriers, and destroyed the stalls set up near the camp .

The occupation bulldozers closed the Al-Mahjar and Al-Sikka neighborhood streets in the vicinity of the camp with dirt berms, bulldozed the Martyrs’ Cemetery and the slaughterhouse streets, and stormed a square in the center of the camp and destroyed the infrastructure and citizens’ property there.

The occupation forces also stormed a number of buildings and citizens’ homes in the neighborhoods of the camp, specifically the slaughterhouse, al-Damj, and the Jabal al-Saliheen and al-Nasr mountains.

They conducted a wide search operation inside them, subjected their residents to interrogation, and turned the high-rise buildings into military barracks and sniper sites.

They deliberately caused interruptions and interference with the internet and communications lines in the camp, amid Reconnaissance planes fly over the city at a low altitude.

A local correspondent with the Wafa News Agency said that the Israeli occupation forces were stationed at the Aktaba roundabout, east of the city, where Israeli soldiers driving a D9 armored military bulldozer (built by the Caterpillar corporation in Peoria, Illinois) placed dirt barriers in the vicinity of the roundabout after bulldozing it and vandalizing the street that connects it to the Iskan neighborhood street.

The soldiers then drove to Nablus and Iskan streets and began besieging the Nour Shams camp, imposing a strict siege on from all directions, and deploying its snipers on the roofs of tall buildings surrounding it.

The Israeli occupation forces bulldozed Nablus Street adjacent to the main entrance to the camp, closed it with dirt barriers, and destroyed the market stalls set up near the camp.

The Israeli troops also closed the Al-Mahjar and Al-Sikka neighborhood streets in the vicinity of the camp with dirt piles, bulldozed the Martyrs’ Cemetery, and stormed a square in the center of the camp, bulldozing it.

The Israeli occupation forces also stormed a number of buildings and citizens’ homes in the neighborhoods of the camp, specifically the slaughterhouse, al-Damj, and the Jabal al-Saliheen and al-Nasr mountains.

They conducted a wide search operation inside them, subjected their residents to interrogation, and turned the high-rise buildings into military barracks and sniper sites.

They deliberately caused interruptions and interference with the internet and communications lines in the camp, amid reconnaissance planes flight over the city at a low altitude.