Israeli assault on Tulkarem camp displaces 12,000: Official
The Israeli army’s ongoing offensive on the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank has forced 12,000 Palestinians from their homes, according to a local official.
“The occupation authorities are still occupying and besieging the Tulkarem camp and displacing its residents at gunpoint,” Deputy Governor Faisal Salama said in a statement.
“The Israeli forces are still wreaking havoc in the houses, streets, alleys, and all facilities in the camp,” he added.
Salama said 40 buildings in the camp comprising 100 residential apartments have been destroyed by Israeli forces since their raids began last month after the start of the ceasefire in Gaza.
“The Israeli army burned 10 houses and demolished nearly 300 shops in the camp,” he added.
Israel demolishes more homes in occupied West Bank amid raids
Israeli forces demolished two mobile homes in the al-Bustan neighbourhood of Silwan town, located south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem.
Local sources cited by the Wafa news agency said 10 Palestinians from two families lived in the mobile homes, after Israeli authorities demolished their homes in the same neighbourhood three months ago.
Israeli forces also stormed the eastern area of the town of al-Issawiya, northeast of the occupied East Jerusalem, and bulldozed a house, agricultural greenhouses and livestock pens and uprooted trees.
The demolitions come amid a series of Israeli raids in Hebron and in Nablus, where more military vehicles were deployed.
Israeli settlers injure disabled Palestinian in Jordan Valley
A group of Israeli settlers has injured a disabled Palestinian while he was grazing his livestock in Khirbet Ibziq in the occupied West Bank’s northern Jordan Valley.
A local official in Tubas told the Wafa news agency that the settlers attacked the 20-year-old shepherd and injured him in the thigh. The Palestine Red Crescent Society confirmed that its crew transported the man to hospital after he was stabbed.
Israeli forces storm Nablus, wound elderly Palestinian man
The Israeli army continues to storm the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, with military reinforcements and a heavy deployment of forces in the western area of the Old City.
The target of the raid was not immediately known.
Sources told Al Jazeera that an elderly Palestinian man has been transferred to hospital to receive treatment after Israeli forces opened fire and wounded him in the waist.
Israeli soldiers also fired tear gas at journalists and medical crews in the vicinity of the Old City in an attempt to disperse them and keep them away from the area.
Israeli army blocks Palestinians from re-entering Jenin refugee camp
The Israeli army barred displaced Palestinians from returning to their homes in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank.
An Anadolu news agency cameraman captured scenes of Palestinian families attempting to return to Jenin surrounded by a heavy Israeli military presence, including tanks stationed in the area.
Abir Gazawi, a Palestinian woman displaced from the camp for 35 days, said she tried to return to her home in the camp to collect some personal items ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which begins in early March, but Israeli troops prevented her from doing so.
“I tried to enter the camp today with 10 of my friends to gather some belongings and personal papers before Ramadan, but we were surprised by the huge presence of the occupation forces,” said Gazawi.
The army detained her and her friends for an hour-and-a-half before preventing them from entering.







