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SvennoJ on 20 April 2024
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Israeli forces block Red Crescent ambulances in Nur Shams refugee camp

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said emergency ambulance crews are being obstructed from helping injured people in the Nur Shams refugee camp by Israeli forces.

According to the Palestinian state news agency, Wafa, Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank refugee camp stopped two ambulances and forced their injured occupants out of the vehicles to check their identification.

Four injured people, some suffering from bullet wounds, have been taken to hospital for treatment, Wafa said, citing a brief statement from the PRCS.

Earlier on Friday, a PRCS volunteer medic was shot in the foot while working to help the injured in the Nur Shams refugee camp, where Israeli forces have killed at least five people, including a teenager.

PRCS said in a post on social media that Israeli forces prevented an ambulance crew from reaching their stricken paramedic to transport him to hospital.

Israeli forces continue to carry out raids in West Bank’s Tulkarem

Palestinian media platforms have published footage documenting the Israeli forces firing illumination rounds into the sky over Tulkarem city in the occupied West Bank.

Other scenes also show Israeli military reinforcements pushing towards Nur Shams refugee camp, just east of Tulkarem, where a major Israeli operation is ongoing amid fierce clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters.



Translation: Israeli forces fire flare bombs into the sky above the city of Tulkarem in the West Bank.

Gun battles continue in Nur Shams between Palestinian fighters, Israeli forces

Nearly 34 hours later, the Israeli army is still operating in the Nur Shams refugee camp. At around 3am local time (00:00 GMT), confrontations between Palestinian fighters and the Israeli military broke out once again.

We are looking at, at least, five people killed and more than 60 military vehicles and bulldozers that have gone in and wreaked havoc on the Palestinian refugee camp. Residents are saying that this is some of the worst destruction that they have seen in decades.

Since the war in Gaza started, the Israeli army has really stepped up these raids. Since all of the attention was on Gaza, there wasn’t really a lot of focus on the West Bank. So the Israeli military has been going in and killing Palestinians – at least 473 have been killed in these near-nightly raids that the Israeli military has been engaged in.

You are also looking at nearly 8,300 arrests and nearly 5,000 people who have been wounded as well. During the war in Gaza in the last six months, the Israeli army has really stepped up these military operations.

Israeli military inflicts ‘worst destruction’ in decades on Nur Shams refugee camp







Deaths, injuries as Israeli military raids occupied West Bank communities

As well as the ongoing and deadly raid on Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have also raided the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, and Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah.

A 24-year-old Palestinian man was shot and injured during the military incursion into Beit Furik, the Wafa news agency reports, and where Israeli forces fired stun grenades, live bullets and used noxious gas against local Palestinians resisting the raid.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic shared video footage earlier capturing the moment an explosive device targeted Israeli soldiers in Beit Furik.