The IDF has been invading refugee camps in the West Bank with the intention of destroying them to make way for settlements. The Palestinian resistance has been fighting them off every single day. The fighting has only grown more intense and so has the destruction left behind by the IDF
Resistance fighters from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade - Tulkarm Brigade (Rapid Response Groups) - take postitions during an israel raid on the city. (Photo: Unknown)
The Tulkarm Brigade is an umbrella group of fighters from various factions. First appearing in March 2022 with the goal of combating frequent israeli raids on Tulkarm.
LOCAL RESISTANCE FORCES USE EXPLOSIVES ON ISRAELI VEHICLES DURING WEST BANK RAIDS
📹 An improvised explosive device (IED) is detonated by local Resistance forces under an Israeli military vehicle as it penetrates the Nour al-Shams Camp in Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank, during a raid on the camp and Tulkarm City on Thursday by the Israeli occupation forces.
A statement from the Palestinian Prisoners Club says more than 4,655 people have been arrested in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces since October 7.
Israeli forces storm cities, towns and refugee camps in the West Bank on a daily basis. Earlier, [Al Jazeera] reported on an ongoing raid on the city of Ramallah, in which multiple Palestinians have been injured and one arrested.
-- "Thousands of Palestinians arrested since outbreak of war: Rights group" by Joseph Stepansky and Linah Alsaafin for Al Jazeera, 21 Dec 2023 18:55 GMT
From last night until Thursday morning, the Israeli occupation forces arrested at least (25) citizens from the West Bank, including children, and the arrest operations were concentrated in: Bethlehem Governorate, while the rest were distributed Arrests in the governorates of: Tulkarm, Hebron, Ramallah, Nablus, and Jerusalem.
The arrest campaign was accompanied by widespread harassment, severe beatings, and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to widespread sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes, and intimidation and threats that reached the point of direct shooting threats.
Thus, the total number of arrests after the seventh of last October rose to more than (4,655), and this total includes those who were arrested from homes, through military checkpoints, those who were forced to surrender themselves under pressure, and those who were held hostage.
-- "Summary of the arrest campaign carried out by the occupation for today 12/21/2023" from The Commission for the Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners and the Palestinian Prisoners Club, 21 Dec 2023
A general strike has been declared in the West Bank
A comprehensive strike in the occupied West Bank to protest Israel’s violent incursions paralysed life in the occupied territory on Sunday.
The strike came in response to calls from political forces, unions, and civil society organisations after the Israeli army raided the Tulkarm city and the Nur Shams camp in the northern West Bank.
At least 14 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military raids on the Nur Shams refugee camp, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Saturday.
Earlier Saturday, Faisal Salama, the head of the services committee in the Nur Shams camp, told Anadolu that the Israeli attack caused massive damage to infrastructure in the camp.
Parallel to its onslaught on the Gaza Strip since 7 October, the Israeli army has escalated raids and arrests in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem.
The Tulkarm Brigade is an umbrella group of fighters from various factions. First appearing in March 2022 with the goal of combating frequent israeli raids on Tulkarm.
RESULTS FROM ISRAELI OCCUPATION RAIDS ON THE WEST BANK OF PALESTINE
📸 Photo compilation showing the results from today's IOF raids on the Tulkarm and Nour al-Shams Refugee Camps in the West Bank.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a post on the social media platform X, the experience of the people of the Tulkarm and Nour al-Shams Refugee Camps have endured over the previous 36-hours is "a brutal replication of the Gaza Strip is being subjected to in terms of the comprehensive destruction and targeting civilians, including children, women, ambulances, medical teams and health centres, in a frantic Israeli urgency and calls from the ruling far-right to escalate violence and ignite more fires in the conflict zone."
"It has become clear to those countries that are seeking to understand that the ongoing episodes of genocide and the comprehensive destruction of Palestinian lives are the direct and continuous Israeli translation of the self-defense argument," the ministry added.