Without international action, ‘West Bank will become a new Gaza,’: EU’s Borrell
The European Union foreign policy chief has said that a new front was being opened with a clear objective of turning the West Bank into a new Gaza. Addressing the Arab League in Cairo, Joseph Borrell argued “without action of the international community, the West Bank will become a new Gaza.”
He added that Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is working to make it impossible to create a future Palestinian state and that a ceasefire agreement initiated by US President Joe Biden is unlikely to be signed because “those waging the war have no interest in putting an end to it.”
UN Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator to Gaza Sigrid Kaag also addressed the Arab body asserting that an immediate ceasefire must take place for the necessary humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank’s Tulkarem: Ministry
The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health has said that two Palestinians – a man and a woman – were killed in the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem. The ministry said the man was brought to Tulkarem Governmental Hospital and the woman to al-Isra Hospital, both located in the city.
Neither has been identified yet, and the ministry added that eight others were wounded when Israeli forces opened fire as they raided Tulkarem.
Israeli forces raid Red Crescent centre in Tulkarem
Israeli forces have raided the Palestine Red Crescent Society emergency centre in Tulkarem after surrounding it and ordering paramedics and other crew members to leave, the PRCS said on X.
🚨 The Israeli Occupation forces are currently storming the Palestine Red Crescent EMS center in #Tulkarm, have surrounded it, and are ordering the crews to evacuate the center. #WestBank #IHL #NotATarget pic.twitter.com/jz0qy1u12g
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) September 10, 2024
Israeli forces arrest two paramedics in Tulkarem
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said two of its personnel were arrested by Israeli forces inside its emergency centre in the northern occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem
🚨Israeli Occupation forces arrest two EMTs from inside the #Tulkarm EMS center.#NotATarget #IHL #WestBank pic.twitter.com/f9z3zLwI0X
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) September 10, 2024
Red Crescent slams Israeli attack on staff in Tulkarem
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) condemned the Israeli military’s assault on one of its crews earlier today in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.
It said Israeli forces fired live rounds at a volunteer paramedic as he provided first aid to an injured person in Tulkarem refugee camp. The paramedic was not wounded.
Israeli forces also arrested two other paramedics from inside the Tulkarem emergency medical services centre after raiding it. They were later released.
“Since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip, the PRCS has documented more than 750 violations against its medical missions, patients, and injured individuals in the PRCS’s ambulances in the West Bank.”
🚨The Palestine Red Crescent Society condemns the Israeli occupation's assaults on its crews today in #Tulkarm, where Israeli forces targeted one of the PRCS's volunteer EMTs with live bullets while he was providing first aid to an injured person in Tulkarm camp.
⭕The Israeli… pic.twitter.com/geizaG2yUy
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) September 10, 2024
Israeli raids on Palestinian communities continue
The Wafa news agency is reporting several Israeli military actions in the occupied West Bank this evening.
Its correspondents said that Israeli forces have bulldozed Nablus Street near the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem and that the army continues to destroy infrastructure elsewhere in the camp, specifically near the Martyr Saif Abu Labda roundabout at the entrance to the camp, and the streets of the al-Ayada neighbourhood.
Israeli forces also blew up a warehouse, without causing any reported injuries or deaths, in Aktaba, a suburb east of Tulkarem.
Israeli has also begun raids on Anabta, Kafr al-Labad and Qaffin in the north. Clashes have broken out and the sound of heavy gunfire can be heard. Elsewhere, Wafa reported that Israeli forces stormed the town of Silwan, close to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli forces storm Tubas, declare curfew
The Israeli military has stormed the occupied West Bank city of Tubas and declared a curfew, the Wafa news agency reports.
Reconnaissance drones and helicopters have been seen in the skies above Tubas, according to Wafa, while Israeli forces have also besieged the Turkish Government Hospital and closed the area surrounding the facility.
Israeli military raids have been reported elsewhere in the occupied West Bank. They include:
- The city of Nablus
- The Nur Shams camp in Tulkarem
