October 2023 Tulkarm Raid on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
/ref>
/ref> The invasion continued until approximately 6:35 AM on the same day. This invasion led to massive destruction of the streets and infrastructure in the city of Tulkarm and the city's two camps. The invasion began with Israeli military bulldozers bulldozing the “Sariat Al-Alam” roundabout in Tulkarm before besieging the city's Nour Shams camp, which witnessed violent clashes between the Tulkarm Brigade and the Israeli army, involving the Tulkarm Brigade detonating highly explosive devices. The Israeli army also bulldozed several streets in the Nour Shams camp in addition to bulldozing the “Saif Roundabout” in the city for the second time in less than two days, while firing flares into the sky at the site. At dawn, Israeli army forces moved to the Tulkarm camp in the city and began fierce clashes against the Tulkarm Brigade, coinciding with Israeli military bulldozers once again completely destroying the main streets and infrastructure in the Tulkarm camp.
On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and the city's Nour Shams camp with dozens of military vehicles accompanied by seven military bulldozers. The invasion continued until around afternoon on the same day. The invasion left immense destruction in the streets and infrastructure. The destruction was described as the largest in the history of the West Bank since Israel's occupation of the territory in 1967.
The invasion began with the Israeli army completely besieging both the government hospital and the Israa Specialized Hospital in the city center. The army deployed its vehicles in the commercial market area in the city center, checked the identities of journalists while they were covering the events, and deployed its snipers in several buildings. The army also besieged the Tulkarm camp in the city, and caused significant disruption to the city's communications and internet networks.
Four military bulldozers worked collectively to completely destroy the Younis Roundabout square in the middle of the city, which led to the disappearance of its features and the destruction of its infrastructure. The bulldozers, including the excavator, swept away Nablus Street in the area adjacent to the Nour Shams camp, turning it into a trench more than three meters deep and completely destroying it in addition to shops, homes, electricity, communications, internet, sewage, and water lines. The bulldozers also destroyed the Saif Roundabout square area and the surrounding shops, destroying it completely for the fourth time since March 2024. At the same time, the bulldozers penetrated deep into the Nour Shams camp and destroyed several homes and streets in it.
Following the Israeli withdrawal, the Tulkarm Municipality announced that "Nour Shams Camp in Tulkarm City is officially considered a
''Palestinian News Agency''. July 23, 2024. Archived fro
the original
on 07-23-2024. Retrieved 07-23-2024. The invasion continued until approximately 1:30 p.m. on July 23, and resulted in massive destruction, the “widest and most severe” to the infrastructure and streets in the center of the city and the Tulkarm camp. The devastation also led to the interruption of electricity, communications, the Internet, and water for long hours in many of the city’s neighborhoods, including Tulkarm camp. Five Palestinians were killed and many others were seriously injured.“15 hours in which the occupation left martyrs, injuries and great destruction in Tulkarm and its camp.”
''Palestinian News Agency''. July 23, 2024. Archived fro
the original
on 07-23-2024. Retrieved 07-23-2024. In Tulkarm camp, the invasion of the camp began with the Israeli army entering the city from its western and southern axes. Israeli bulldozers destroyed the infrastructure and streets in the camp, and an Israeli drone bombed the camp, killing five Palestinians that including two commanders in the Tulkarm Brigade. The Israeli army spokesman said in a brief statement that "an
The Israeli incursions in Tulkarm are a series of ongoing
Arabiyya al-Nuwab condemns the occupation army’s storming of the Palestinian city of Tulkarm today.
''Al-Masry Al-Youm''. December 17, 2023. Archived fro
the original
on 12-17-2023. Retrieved 12-17-2023. One of the largest incursions occurred on October 19, 2023, which lasted for about thirty continuous hours, leaving thirteen Palestinians dead and more than thirty wounded, as well as causing extensive destruction to homes, streets and infrastructure. The incursion on January 3, 2024, which lasted for about 40 hours, was also significant. Additional prominent incursion include the incursion on January 17, 2024, which lasted for about 45 continuous hours, leaving eight Palestinians dead and causing massive destruction, while the incursion of April 18, 2024 lasted for more than 60 continuous hours, leaving a large number of Palestinian citizens dead and causing immense destruction.
A young man was martyred in the town of Tamoun and great destruction occurred in the Tulkarm camps.
''Al-Ayyam''. January 5, 2024. Archived fro
the original
on 05-01-2024 . Retrieved on 01-05-2024 . The continuous incursion on Tulkarm represented the largest, longest, most extensive, and most destructive invasions on the West Bank since the
". ''Al-Akhbar''. January 19, 2024. Archived fro
the original
on 01-19-2024. Retrieved on 01-19-2024. The Israeli invasion of Tulkarm coincided with statements made by Israeli officials calling for the destruction of the city. On May 29, 2024, Israeli Finance Minister
''Fatah Media''. August 11, 2023. Archived fro
the original
on 12-27-2023. Retrieved 12-27-2023. The Tulkarm Brigade stated: "Our heroic
''Al-Araby Al-Jadeed''. January 4, 2024. Archived fro
the original
on 05-01-2024. Retrieved 01-05-2024. At the beginning of the invasion, the Israeli army distributed leaflets announcing a “
was raised on it, without any respect for sanctity, and the mosques were also violated and desecrated".
The Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian prisoners in Israel">Palestinian Prisoners’ Club confirmed that the field investigations carried out by the Israeli army against the residents of Nour Shams camp affected about 500 citizens, including children and women.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that its crews dealt with twenty-one injuries, seventeen of which were related to severe beatings and Israeli military
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the Israeli Ground Forces, the Israeli Air Force, an ...
invasions and operations on the West Bank
The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
city of Tulkarm
Tulkarm or Tulkarem (, ''Ṭūlkarm'') is a Palestinians, Palestinian city in the West Bank, the capital of the Tulkarm Governorate of the State of Palestine. The Israeli city of Netanya is to the west, and the Palestinian territories, Palestinia ...
and the city's two camps (Tulkarm camp
Tulkarm Camp () is a Palestinian refugee camp north of the West Bank in the city of Tulkarm, established in 1950 on 0.18 km2 by the UNRWA. It is the second largest refugee camp in the West Bank, as well as one of the most densely populated. ...
and Nur Shams camp) in 2023 and 2024, in part due to the city being the stronghold of the Tulkarm Brigade
The Tulkarm Brigade or Tulkarm Battalion () is a Palestinian militias in the West Bank, Palestinian militant group in the West Bank which is affiliated with various Palestinian political factions. The Tulkarm Brigade appeared first in March 20 ...
. The invasions of the city took place before and during the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
On October 7, 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinians, Palestinian militant groups launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 ...
that erupted on October 7, 2023. The Israeli invasion of Tulkarm was met with Palestinian
Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine.
*: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...
, Arab
Arabs (, , ; , , ) are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa. A significant Arab diaspora is present in various parts of the world.
Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
, Islam
Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...
ic, and international condemnation.Arabiyya al-Nuwab condemns the occupation army’s storming of the Palestinian city of Tulkarm today.
''Al-Masry Al-Youm''. December 17, 2023. Archived fro
the original
on 12-17-2023. Retrieved 12-17-2023. One of the largest incursions occurred on October 19, 2023, which lasted for about thirty continuous hours, leaving thirteen Palestinians dead and more than thirty wounded, as well as causing extensive destruction to homes, streets and infrastructure. The incursion on January 3, 2024, which lasted for about 40 hours, was also significant. Additional prominent incursion include the incursion on January 17, 2024, which lasted for about 45 continuous hours, leaving eight Palestinians dead and causing massive destruction, while the incursion of April 18, 2024 lasted for more than 60 continuous hours, leaving a large number of Palestinian citizens dead and causing immense destruction.
A young man was martyred in the town of Tamoun and great destruction occurred in the Tulkarm camps.
''Al-Ayyam''. January 5, 2024. Archived fro
the original
on 05-01-2024 . Retrieved on 01-05-2024 . The continuous incursion on Tulkarm represented the largest, longest, most extensive, and most destructive invasions on the West Bank since the
Second Intifada
The Second Intifada (; ), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against Israel and its Israeli-occupied territories, occupation from 2000. Starting as a civilian uprising in Jerusalem and October 2000 prot ...
.Tulkarm under siege: The enemy resumes the "second intifada". ''Al-Akhbar''. January 19, 2024. Archived fro
the original
on 01-19-2024. Retrieved on 01-19-2024. The Israeli invasion of Tulkarm coincided with statements made by Israeli officials calling for the destruction of the city. On May 29, 2024, Israeli Finance Minister
Bezalel Smotrich
Bezalel Yoel Smotrich (; born 27 February 1980) is an Israeli far-right politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister of Finance since 2022. The leader of the National Religious Party–Religious Zionism, he previously served as a Kn ...
said that "terror must be eliminated everywhere, even if it means turning Tulkarm into a city like Gaza"; on May 30, 2024, Smotrich also said that "if terrorism continues, we will turn Tulkarm into a city like the Gaza Strip
The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine. I ...
"; and on July 4, 2024, Smotrich again called for the destruction of Tulkarm, saying: "Tulkarm must become a city of ruins".
March 2023
March 10, 2023 storming operation
On March 10, 2023, Israel announced a military operation in the city of Tulkarm, which includes the headquarters of the Tulkarm Brigade. Violent armed clashes broke out in the city at dawn between members of the brigade and the invading Israeli army forces. The clashes included members of the Tulkarm Brigade targeting Israeli army forces with explosive devices. The Tulkarm Brigade said in a brief statement at dawn that its members "are fighting the battle of the martyrs on the land of the city of Tulkarm. The sons of the Rapid Response are still fighting the battle of dignity and have inflicted casualties and losses on the enemy".May 2023
May 6, 2023 storming operation
On the morning of May 6, 2023, Israeli special forces carried out a military operation in Tulkarm camp in Tulkarm city and assassinated two Palestinians from theQassam Brigades
Al-Qassam Brigades, also known as the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (EQB; ), are the military wing of the Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islamist organization Hamas. Led by Mohammed Deif until his death on 13 July 2024, Al-Qassam Brigades are ...
in Tulkarm Brigade after clashing with them. They were “Samir Salah al-Shafi’i” (22 years old) and “Hamza Jamil Khrioush” (22 years old). Israel accused them of carrying out several shooting operations against various checkpoints, settlements, and Israeli vehicles in the Tulkarm area.
May 11, 2023 incursion
At dawn on May 11, 2023, Israel launched a large-scale military operation in the Nur Shams camp in the city of Tulkarm against the Tulkarm Brigade. The operation lasted for four hours with the participation of more than 200 Israeli soldiers. The operation left widespread destruction in the camp and resulted in the death of a 66-year-old Palestinian citizen.May 30, 2023 incursion
At dawn on May 30, 2023, Israel launched a large-scale military operation in the Nur Shams camp against the Tulkarm Brigade. At the time of the operation, this storming of the camp was the largest in years, and the military operation lasted for more than five hours while involving large Israeli military reinforcements and the assistance ofbulldozer
A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large tractor equipped with a metal #Blade, blade at the front for pushing material (soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock) during construction work. It travels most commonly on continuous tracks, ...
s and reconnaissance aircraft
A reconnaissance aircraft (colloquially, a spy plane) is a military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance with roles including collection of imagery intelligence (including using Aerial photography, photography), signals ...
. During the storming, an Israeli soldier from the Duvdevan Unit
Unit 217, frequently called Duvdevan (), is a ''mistaʽaravim'' unit in the Commando Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces.
It is notable for its undercover operations in urban areas, during which its operators often wear civilian clothing t ...
was moderately injured by an explosion caused by a homemade explosive device
An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery shell, attached to a detonating mechan ...
detonated by the Tulkarm Brigade.
July 2023
July 24, 2023 incursion
At dawn and during the morning of Monday, July 24, 2023, Israel invaded the Nur Shams camp in the city of Tulkarm against the Tulkarm Brigade with more than 60 military vehicles, representing the largest raid on the city at the time since the Second Intifada. The Israeli forces destroyed the streets of the camp by bulldozing them with military bulldozers, with the invasion resulted in thirteen injuries on the Palestinian side. The Tulkarm Brigade also detonated explosive devices on Israeli vehicles in the city, including a highly explosive device on an Israeli military bulldozer, which damaged it. Immediately after the withdrawal of the Israeli forces and the widespread destruction in its wake, Palestinian PresidentMahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas (; born 15 November 1935), also known by the Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Mazen (, ), is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the second president of Palestine and the President of the Palestinian National Authority, P ...
issued instructions to undo the damage caused by the invasion. Crews from the Tulkarm Municipality, the Ministry of Public Works, the Ministry of Local Government, the Civil Defense, and the Energy Authority began working to repair the destroyed roads, water, electricity, and sewage lines. Following the Israeli withdrawal, the camp was inspected by the Minister of Local Government Majdi Al-Saleh, and the Director General of Civil Defense Major General Al-Abd Ibrahim Khalil, at the behest of the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh
Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh (; born 17 January 1958) is a Palestinian politician, academic, and economist who served as Prime Minister of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority from 2019 to 2024. On 26 February 2024, he and h ...
, and under the directives of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas.
August 2023
August 4, 2023 incursion
At dawn on Friday, August 4, 2023, Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and the Tulkarm camp in the city. During the invasion, a Palestinian was killed in the area surrounding the flagpole square in the city. During the invasion, violent clashes broke out between the Israeli army and the Palestinian Tulkarm Brigade, and the Israeli army deployed itssniper
A sniper is a military or paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with telescopic si ...
s in several buildings in and around Tulkarm camp, while the Tulkarm Brigade detonated explosive devices in Tulkarm camp.
August 11, 2023 incursion
At dawn on Friday, August 11, 2023, the Israeli army invaded the city of Tulkarm and the Tulkarm camp in the city. During the invasion, a Palestinian was killed in the Al-Maslakh Street area of the city, and 8 other Palestinians were injured during the invasion, one of whom was described as critically injured. Violent clashes took place in the Tulkarm camp between the Israeli army and the Tulkarm Brigade.“A martyr and 8 injuries during the occupation’s storming of Tulkarm camp.”''Fatah Media''. August 11, 2023. Archived fro
the original
on 12-27-2023. Retrieved 12-27-2023. The Tulkarm Brigade stated: "Our heroic
mujahideen
''Mujahideen'', or ''Mujahidin'' (), is the plural form of ''mujahid'' (), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in ''jihad'' (), interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the commun ...
continue to target the occupation forces and vehicles storming Tulkarm camp with heavy volleys of bullets and explosive devices on several fronts". The Tulkarm Brigade added: "Our mujahideen in the engineering unit were able to detonate a number of explosive devices in the occupation vehicles and hit them directly". The brigade also said: "With the determination of the true believers, our mujahideen were able to target an occupation army position inside Tulkarm camp with direct volleys of bullets, and our mujahideen were able to target the occupation snipers’ positions inside the camp with heavy volleys of bullets".
The head of the Palestinian National Council
The Palestinian National Council (PNC; ) is the legislative body - in Arabic, the ''Majlis'' - of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The PNC is intended to serve as the parliament that represents all Palestinians inside and outside th ...
, Rawhi Fattouh
Rawhi Fattuh (, also transliterated as Rauhi Fattouh; born 23 August 1949) is the current Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Chairman of Palestinian Legislative Council, having held the position since February 2020. He had previousl ...
, commented on what happened in Tulkarm, warning of an escalation of the situation by saying: “The continuation of this policy will lead to an escalation of the situation, and to more tension and instability that will affect everyone, and we will not suffer and pay the price alone.”
August 20, 2023 incursion
Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and the Tulkarm camp in the city at dawn on Sunday, August 20, 2023, which resulted in four Palestinians being injured with various injuries. The invasion lasted for more than two hours. The Israeli army deployed its snipers in various neighborhoods and areas of the city, and the wounded Palestinians were transferred to Martyr Dr. Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and Al-Israa Specialized Hospital in the city.August 27, 2023 incursion
At dawn on Sunday, August 27, 2023, the Israeli army invaded the city of Tulkarm and the Tulkarm camp in the city. During the invasion, five Palestinians were injured, and the invasion continued for more than four continuous hours, with the participation of dozens of Israeli military vehicles. The Israeli army sent new military reinforcements to the city of Tulkarm and the Tulkarm camp in the city, while violent armed clashes took place around Thabet Thabet Hospital in the center of the city simultaneously with violent clashes in the Tulkarm camp. The Tulkarm Brigade reported that it had engaged in violent clashes with the Israeli army in Tulkarm camp. The Tulkarm Brigade said in a statement: "Our fighters were able to confront with all their might the occupation forces and vehicles that had penetrated the camp and targeted them with heavy and direct volleys of bullets. They carried out a number of ambushes and detonated a number of highly explosive (Saif 1) bombs on more than one axis. With God’s help and empowerment, the engineering unit in the brigade detonated a number of (Saif 1) bombs in the occupation vehicles, causing direct damage to them and directly damaging a vehicle".September 2023
September 5, 2023 incursion
Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and the city's Nur Shams camp at dawn on Tuesday, September 5, 2023, using more than 80 Israeli military vehicles that included bulldozers. The invasion resulted in the killing of a Palestinian and the injury of two others, one of whom was in critical condition. Israeli bulldozers razed the streets and infrastructure in the camp. Palestinian Minister of Public Works and Housing Muhammad Ziyara said on September 5, 2023, that "under the directives of the Palestinian President and Prime Minister, the Ministry’s crews began early hours to open the roads and assess the damage to the infrastructure and streets".September 24, 2023 incursion
At dawn on Sunday, September 24, 2023, Israel returned and invaded the city of Tulkarm in addition to the city's Nour Shams camp. This invasion led to the killing of two Palestinians by Israeli forces, while an Israeli soldier was wounded during the invasion. Israeli bulldozers destroyed infrastructure and streets in Nour Shams camp, and Palestinian Minister of Public Works and Housing Muhammad Ziyara said: "Under the directives of President Mahmoud Abbas, crews began, since the morning hours, to open roads, secure buildings, and assess the damage to infrastructure and streets". On September 24, 2023, the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation said in response to the Israeli invasion of Tulkarm that it "strongly condemns the escalation of crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the occupied Palestinian territory, which today led to the martyrdom of two Palestinian youths and the destruction of infrastructure in the Nour Shams refugee camp east of Tulkarm". The organization said that "these Israeli attacks constitutewar crimes
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hos ...
and crimes against humanity
Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians. Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during both peace and war and against a state's own nationals as well as ...
". The organization also called on "the international community
The international community is a term used in geopolitics and international relations to refer to a broad group of people and governments of the world.
Usage
Aside from its use as a general descriptor, the term is typically used to imply the ...
to pressure Israel, the occupying power, to put an end to its repeated crimes and violations and to provide international protection for the Palestinian people".
The Union of Radio and Television of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; ; ), formerly the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, is an intergovernmental organisation founded in 1969. It consists of 57 member states, 48 of which are Muslim-majority. The Pew Forum on ...
also condemned this Israeli invasion of Tulkarm, according to a statement issued by the Union on September 24, 2023.
October 2023
October 5, 2023 incursion
Two days before Hamas launched its incursion into Israel, Israeli forces invaded the Tulkarm refugee camp in Tulkarm on October 5, 2023. According to the Israeli military, this invasion resulted in five Israeli soldiers being injured by bomb explosions, three of whom were seriously injured and two of whom were moderately injured.October 19–20, 2023 incursion
On the thirteenth day of the Hamas attack on Israel, Israel launched a large-scale military operation on Tulkarm and the city's two camps (Nour Shams Camp and Tulkarm Camp). During the operation, thirteen Palestinians were killed and a number of others were injured, while an Israeli officer was killed and nine other soldiers were injured.November 2023
November 1, 2023 storming operation
At dawn on Wednesday, November 1, 2023, Israel stormed the city of Tulkarm, which led to the outbreak of violent armed clashes. During the storming, a Palestinian citizen was killed by Israeli army bullets.November 6, 2023 military operation
On November 6, 2023, the Israeli Yamam forces carried out a special operation in the city of Tulkarm, during which they assassinated Jihad Shehadeh, the commander of the Tulkarm Brigade Rapid Response Group, by firing about 100 bullets at the vehicle he was riding in. He was accompanied in the vehicle by Izz al-Din Raed Awad, the commander of the Tulkarm Brigade Al-Qassam Group, and the brigade members Moamen Saed Balawi and Qassem Muhammad Rajab. Their four bodies arrived at Thabet Thabet Hospital in the city of Tulkarm with several features missing and their limbs scattered due to the intensity of the bullets that were fired at them atpoint-blank range
Point-blank range is any distance over which a certain firearm or gun can hit a target without the need to elevate the barrel to compensate for bullet drop, i.e. the gun can be pointed horizontally at the target. For targets beyond-blank range ...
. Their deaths were announced by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
November 13–14, 2023 incursion
On the evening of November 13, 2023, Israel launched a large-scale military operation to invade several neighborhoods of Tulkarm city, including Tulkarm camp in the center of the city. The invasion continued for two days, lasting sixteen continuous hours. During the invasion, seven Palestinians were killed and twelve others were injured, four of whom were seriously injured according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Dozens also suffered fromasphyxia
Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body which arises from abnormal breathing. Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia, which affects all the tissues and organs, some more rapidly than others. There are m ...
.
First day of the incursion (November 13, 2023)
Israel began its invasion of the city of Tulkarm at approximately 10:00 pm PSST on Monday, November 13, 2023, with Israeli special forces storming the city primarily in the vicinity of the Tulkarm camp. A clash broke out, killing two Palestinians. This was followed by the entry of Israeli army forces into the city from the Khadouri crossing with dozens of military vehicles and bulldozers.Second day of the incursion (November 14, 2023)
At dawn, Israeli forces began using their military bulldozers to raze several streets in the city's neighborhoods and in Tulkarm camp, destroying Palestinian infrastructure and vehicles. Suicide drones also bombed several targets inside Tulkarm camp, killing and wounding a number of Palestinians. On the morning of the same day, Israeli bulldozers began demolishing several memorials in the city; they destroyed the stone columns at the entrance to Tulkarm camp and completely destroyed theYasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, Presid ...
monument in the Zenobia Junction area of the city.
On the afternoon of the same day, the violent clashes extended to the city center area, and Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters towards Thabet Thabet Hospital, which led to “dozens of citizens and medical staff suffering from suffocation,” according to a statement by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, before Israeli forces withdrew from the city.
November 21–22, 2023 incursion
Coinciding with the ongoingIsraeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
The Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip is a major part of the Gaza war. Starting on 7 October 2023, immediately after the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Hamas-led attack on Israel, Israel began bombing of the Gaza Strip, bombing the Ga ...
, Israel returned and invaded the neighborhoods of Tulkarm city, including Tulkarm camp. This invasion resulted in the killing of six Palestinians and the injury of many others.
At 11:30 p.m. PSST on the evening of Tuesday, November 21, 2023, Israel invaded Tulkarm city, including Tulkarm camp. At dawn on Wednesday, November 22, 2023, Israeli forces bulldozed streets inside and around Tulkarm camp in the city using military bulldozers. Israeli suicide drones also bombed several targets inside Tulkarm camp, killing several Palestinians.
During the invasion, Israeli forces imposed a comprehensive siege around Thabet Thabet Hospital and Al-Israa Specialized Hospital in the city. They also stormed the emergency department
An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the Acute (medicine), ...
of Thabet Thabet Hospital and arrested one of the wounded patients inside. Israeli forces also searched multiple ambulance
An ambulance is a medically-equipped vehicle used to transport patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals. Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient during the transport. Ambulances are used to respond to ...
s transporting the wounded to the city's hospitals.
November 30, 2023 incursion
At approximately 1:00 AM PSST on Thursday, November 30, 2023, Israeli forces, accompanied by heavy military bulldozers andtracked vehicles
Continuous track or tracked treads are a system of vehicle propulsion used in tracked vehicles, running on a continuous band of treads or track plates driven by two or more wheels. The large surface area of the tracks distributes the we ...
, invaded the city of Tulkarm and its neighborhoods, including the Tulkarm camp. This invasion continued until 7:30 a.m., and resulted in the arrest of ten Palestinians from various parts of the city. This invasion of Tulkarm coincided with the 2023 Gaza war ceasefire
A temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip took effect from 24 November 2023 to 30 November 2023, during the Gaza war.
The initial agreement, mediated by Qatar, stipulated a four-day break ...
.
During the invasion, Israeli forces surrounded the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in the city, intercepted and searched several ambulances, and subjected their drivers to interrogation
Interrogation (also called questioning) is interviewing as commonly employed by law enforcement officers, military personnel, intelligence agencies, organized crime syndicates, and terrorist organizations with the goal of eliciting useful informa ...
. They deployed snipers on the roofs of tall buildings in the city, and toured and stormed various streets and neighborhoods in the city. They dropped leaflets demanding that those wanted by Israel surrender themselves. Israeli military bulldozers also completely razed several streets in the eastern neighborhood of the city, which led to the destruction of city infrastructure and water, sewage
Sewage (or domestic sewage, domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced by a community of people. It is typically transported through a sewerage, sewer system. Sewage consists of wastewater discharged fro ...
, electricity
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwel ...
, and communications networks
A telecommunications network is a group of nodes interconnected by telecommunications links that are used to exchange messages between the nodes. The links may use a variety of technologies based on the methodologies of circuit switching, messag ...
. Following the Israeli withdrawal on the same day, the Minister of Local Government, Majdi al-Saleh, and the Mayor of Tulkarm, Riyad Awad, visit the destroyed streets to investigate their conditions.
December 2023
December 6–7, 2023 incursion
Israeli forces returned to invade Tulkarm again, several days after their previous invasion. At approximately 11:40 PM PSST on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, Israel invaded the city's neighborhoods and two camps (Tulkarm Camp and Nour Shams Camp) with a large number of military vehicles and bulldozers. The invasion continued until approximately 7:30 AM on Thursday, December 7, 2023. During the invasion, Israel sent additional military reinforcements to the city. During the invasion, Israeli military bulldozers razed streets in the city and its two camps, caused power outages in several neighborhoods and large areas in the city. The Israeli army also surrounded the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in the center of the city and prevented ambulances and medical crews from leaving it. The Israeli army searched Palestinian ambulances in the city streets. During the invasion, the Tulkarm Brigade Rapid Response Group announced that it had injured two Israeli soldiers in Tulkarm camp during violent clashes. The Tulkarm Brigade also said in a statement: "Our soldiers are still confronting the occupation forces throughout the city".December 16–17, 2023 incursion
Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and the city's two camps (Tulkarm camp and Nour Shams camp) Saturday evening, December 16, 2023, with several military vehicles accompanied by military bulldozers. The invasion continued until approximately 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 17, 2023. This invasion resulted in the killing of five Palestinians in the Nour Shams camp, some of whom were killed by aerial bombardment from drones, while others were injured. During the invasion, violent clashes broke out between the Israeli army and the Tulkarm Brigade fighters, and Israeli military bulldozers razed several streets and infrastructure in the city's two camps, leaving "massive destruction." Israeli forces also partially destroyed four houses in the Nour Shams camp, and the Israeli army deployed snipers on the roofs of tall buildings in various parts of the city.Mosque
A mosque ( ), also called a masjid ( ), is a place of worship for Muslims. The term usually refers to a covered building, but can be any place where Salah, Islamic prayers are performed; such as an outdoor courtyard.
Originally, mosques were si ...
s in Tulkarm called on citizens via loudspeakers to confront the Israeli forces.
The Israeli army confirmed in a statement that it “carried out air operations in Tulkarm targeting a number of armed terrorist groups that opened fire, threw explosives, and threatened the lives of the forces.”
The Palestine Red Crescent Society
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS; ) is the humanitarian organization that is the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in the State of Palestine, which includes the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
...
said that "the occupation forces prevented ambulance crews from entering the Nour Shams camp to transport the injured, despite coordination through the International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate. The organization has played an instrumental role in the development of rules of war and ...
".
The Tulkarm Brigade said that its fighters targeted Israeli forces on all fronts of the city, and that it had repeatedly ambushed Israeli soldiers and their vehicles with explosive devices. The Tulkarm Brigade statement read: "Our soldiers are now confronting the Israeli forces storming the city of Tulkarm and its camps using Amir 1 explosive devices. Our fighters are targeting the occupation forces on all fronts and repeatedly ambushed enemy soldiers".
The Tulkarm Brigade managed to detonate an Israeli armored vehicle with an explosive device, which destroyed parts of it and caused debris to fall from it, forcing the Israeli army to withdraw it from Tulkarm. The Tulkarm Brigade said: "The explosive device directly hit the Tiger vehicle, which led to its detonation. These are its remains. This vehicle is known for transporting occupation soldiers. We confirm that the soldiers who were inside it were injured, despite the enemy’s concealment".
The Egyptian House of Representatives strongly condemned the Israeli storming of Tulkarm. The head of the Arab Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives, Egyptian MP Ahmed Fouad Abaza, said: "The storming of Tulkarm by large forces of the occupation army requires rapid intervention from the international community, with all its countries and organizations in general, and the United States of America
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguo ...
in particular, to expedite the adoption of all measures to implement Egypt
Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
’s vision, led by President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film and television
*'' Præsident ...
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has been serving as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014.
After the 2011 Egyptian revolution and 201 ...
, to force the occupation government to immediately stop its attacks against the Palestinians".
The national and Islamic forces in Tulkarm Governorate
The Tulkarm Governorate () is an administrative district and one of the 16 Governorates of Palestine, located in the north-western West Bank. The governorate's land area is 268 square kilometres. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau o ...
announced a comprehensive strike in all aspects of life for Sunday, December 17, 2023, in condemnation of the invasion and mourning for the souls of the Palestinian dead. With this invasion, the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in Tulkarm since October 7, 2023 had reached 51.
December 23–24, 2023 incursion
At 10:40 p.m. PSST on the evening of Saturday, December 23, 2023, Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and the city’s two camps with dozens of military vehicles accompanied by “D9” military bulldozers coming from the city’s western axis (Crossing 104). This invasion continued until 6:30 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, December 24, 2023 onChristmas Eve
Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas, the festival commemorating nativity of Jesus, the birth of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus. Christmas Day is observance of Christmas by country, observed around the world, and Christma ...
.
The Israeli army sent more military reinforcements amidst violent clashes between the army and the Palestinian Tulkarm Brigade. The invasion left behind destruction in the streets and infrastructure of the Nour Shams camp after it was leveled by Israeli military bulldozers. The bulldozers also destroyed a section of the city’s “Younis Roundabout,” and also destroyed private cars and civil and governmental facilities.
December 25–26, 2023 incursion
Only a few hours after the Israeli army withdrew from Tulkarm in the previous invasion, the Israeli army returned and invaded the city and its two camps at approximately 11:10 p.m. PSST on Monday evening, December 25, 2023, with dozens of military vehicles and military bulldozers. This invasion continued until approximately 8:00 am on Tuesday morning, December 26, 2023. During the invasion, Israeli bulldozers destroyed walls, vehicles and streets in Nour Shams camp, while a UN vehicle was destroyed in the camp. The Israeli army blew up three Palestinian homes in the camp, and bombed a building under construction near the "HamdallahWater Well
A well is an excavation or structure created on the earth by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water. The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The ...
" in the city with Energa missiles.
December 27, 2023 incursion
Only a few hours after the previous Israeli withdrawal from the city of Tulkarm, the Israeli army returned and invaded the city and its two camps with dozens of military vehicles, wheeled and tracked military bulldozers at approximately 12:00 a.m. PSST on Wednesday morning, December 27, 2023. The invasion continued until approximately 7:15 a.m. in the morning of the same day, and resulted in the killing of six Palestinians in anairstrike
An airstrike, air strike, or air raid is an offensive operation carried out by aircraft. Air strikes are delivered from aircraft such as blimps, balloons, fighter aircraft, attack aircraft, bombers, attack helicopters, and drones. The official d ...
in the Nour Shams camp, as well as the injury of multiple Palestinians.
The invasion began with the Israeli army storming the city center, including the Orthodox Church
Orthodox Church may refer to:
* Eastern Orthodox Church, the second-largest Christian church in the world
* Oriental Orthodox Churches, a branch of Eastern Christianity
* Orthodox Presbyterian Church, a confessional Presbyterian denomination loc ...
, Khadouri Street, Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 a ...
Square, and an old garage complex, occurring in parallel with storming the city’s Nour Shams camp. The invasion then extended to the city’s Tulkarm camp, with Israeli military bulldozers destroying infrastructure.
During the invasion, the Israeli army bombed a target inside the Nour Shams camp with drones, killing six Palestinians and wounding others. The Israeli army also bombed an abandoned house in the city’s employee housing neighborhood with Energa shells and blew up a Palestinian vehicle.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society stated that the Israeli forces prevented its crews from reaching the Nour Shams camp. The Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in the city announced the arrival of all Palestinian victims and wounded from the invasion to the hospital an hour after the Israeli army prevented ambulances from reaching the hospital.
The Palestinian factions in Tulkarm had declared a comprehensive strike day for all aspects of life in Tulkarm Governorate in mourning and condemnation of the invasion.
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (; AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency.
With 2,400 employees of 100 nationalities, AFP has an editorial presence in 260 c ...
reported that the Israeli army refused to immediately comment on its military operation in Tulkarm.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation released a statement on December 27, 2023 commenting on the Israeli invasion of Tulkarm, saying that it “strongly condemns the continued crimes of military aggression carried out by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people, which led to the martyrdom of six people in the city of Tulkarm.”
The United Nations published in a statement on December 28, 2023, stating that “Israel used a drone against the population in Tulkarm.”
December 30–31, 2023 incursion
Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and its two camps at approximately 10:45 p.m PSST on Saturday evening, December 30, 2023. The invasion continued until 10:00 am on Sunday, December 31, 2023, the last day of the year 2023. Dozens of Israeli military vehicles, including tracked and wheeled military bulldozers, participated in the invasion, causing immense destruction especially in the Nour Shams Camp. Several Palestinians were injured as a result of this invasion, and dozens of others were arrested. Immediately after the Israeli army entered the city of Tulkarm, the Tulkarm Brigade issued a statement on December 30, 2023, saying, “We are fully prepared to confront this cowardly, fearful enemy who will pay dearly tonight for his crimes.” From the beginning of the invasion until its end, the Israeli army completely besieged both Al-Israa Specialized Hospital and Thabet Thabet Hospital in the city, while the army searched Palestinian ambulances heading to and from both hospitals. During the invasion, the Israeli army bombed two sites in the Nour Shams camp with drones, resulting in Palestinian casualties. Israeli drones also bombed two sites in the Tulkarm camp, resulting in two injuries, one of which was serious. This invasion caused massive destruction in the Nour Shams camp, including the demolition and bombing of ten houses of which some were multi-story buildings, the destruction of fifteen Palestinian vehicles, and complete destruction of the camp infrastructure. The Israeli army also destroyed Palestinian vehicles at the entrance to the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in the city.January 2024
January 3–4, 2024 incursion
At approximately 12:05 a.m. PSST on Wednesday morning, January 3, 2024, Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and the city’s two camps with dozens of military vehicles accompanied by D9 bulldozers and wheeled military bulldozers. At the time, the invasion was the largest, most widespread, longest, and most destructive invasion of Tulkarm since the Second Palestinian Intifada. This invasion led to immense destruction in the two camps, and the invasion continued for approximately forty continuous hours until approximately 3:45 pm on Thursday, January 4, 2024. During the invasion, twenty-one Palestinians were injured, while Israel announced that three of its soldiers were injured, one of them seriously.“West Bank: A martyr in Tamoun and the occupation forces withdraw from Tulkarm and its two camps.“''Al-Araby Al-Jadeed''. January 4, 2024. Archived fro
the original
on 05-01-2024. Retrieved 01-05-2024. At the beginning of the invasion, the Israeli army distributed leaflets announcing a “
curfew
A curfew is an order that imposes certain regulations during specified hours. Typically, curfews order all people affected by them to remain indoors during the evening and nighttime hours. Such an order is most often issued by public authorit ...
until further notice,” and completely surrounded both the Al-Israa Specialized Hospital and the Thabet Thabet Hospital in the city, searching Palestinian ambulances heading to and from the hospitals, and checking the identities of all those entering and leaving the hospitals.
An Israeli army drone fired a rocket into Tulkarm camp, wounding a number of citizens. The army also opened fire on a gathering of journalist
A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism.
Roles
Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...
s stationed opposite of the besieged Nour Shams camp.
The Israeli military bulldozers caused immense massive destruction in Tulkarm camp and Nour Shams camp, including streets, infrastructure, residential buildings, and shops. In both the Tulkarm camp and the Nour Shams camp, the Israeli army almost entirely destroyed the camp’s streets and infrastructure. In Nour Shams camp, the Israeli army also blew up a hall and six houses, while destroying dozens of other houses.
In this regard, Tulkarm Mayor Riyad Awad said: "The occupation deliberately destroyed the infrastructure in Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps, which caused power outage
A power outage, also called a blackout, a power failure, a power blackout, a power loss, a power cut, or a power out is the complete loss of the electrical power network supply to an end user.
There are many causes of power failures in an el ...
s and water network outages, due to the occupation striking a number of main lines feeding the camps, in addition to bulldozing the streets and destroying the sewage network, and wastewater
Wastewater (or waste water) is water generated after the use of freshwater, raw water, drinking water or saline water in a variety of deliberate applications or processes. Another definition of wastewater is "Used water from any combination of do ...
began to flow into the streets". He also reported that, "The destruction of the water, electricity, sewage networks and streets constitutes a huge burden on the municipality".
A Fatah
Fatah ( ; ), formally the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (), is a Palestinian nationalist and Arab socialist political party. It is the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and ...
leader said, "Nour Shams camp witnessed massive destruction, as if an earthquake
An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from those so weak they ...
had struck it, and the losses amounted to tens of millions of dollars. What happened in the camp is similar to what is happening in the Gaza Strip. Houses were destroyed, they were tampered with, dozens of houses without windows or doors, the roads were completely destroyed and the infrastructure of electricity, water and sewage was bulldozed". The leader added, "Part of the nowiki/>UNRWA">UNRWA.html" ;"title="nowiki/>UNRWA">nowiki/> UN flag
The flag of the United Nations is a sky blue banner containing the United Nations' emblem in the centre. The emblem on the flag is coloured white; it is a depiction of the world map in the azimuthal equidistant projection (centred on the North ...fractures
Fracture is the appearance of a crack or complete separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress (mechanics), stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacemen ...
during field arrests of young men, three injuries from shrapnel, and one injury from live bullets. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society also said that the Israeli army prevented Palestinian ambulance crews from reaching the injured despite its prior coordination through the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The Tulkarm Brigade said that it detonated explosive devices against Israeli army forces, in addition to detonating a car bomb
A car bomb, bus bomb, van bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles.
Car bombs can be roug ...
remotely on the main street in the Nour Shams camp directly against an Israeli force, which led to the killing and wounding of Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli army announced that three of its soldiers were injured, one of them seriously, during the invasion, and several Israeli army vehicles were damaged, forcing the army to withdraw them from Tulkarm.
January 8–9, 2024 incursion
On the evening of Monday, January 8, 2024, the jointIsraeli Special Forces
Special forces units in the Israel Defense Forces encompass a broad definition of specialist units. Such units are usually a regiment or a battalion in strength.
Sayeret (, pl.: ''sayarot''), or ''reconnaissance'' units in the Israel Defense F ...
(the Israeli Army
The Israeli Ground Forces () are the Army, ground forces of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The commander is the GOC Army Headquarters, General Officer Commanding with the rank of major general, the ''Mazi'', subordinate to the Chief of the Gen ...
, the Israeli Police
The Israel Police (; ) is the civilian police force of Israel. As with most other police forces in the world, its duties include crime fighting, traffic control, maintaining public safety, and counter-terrorism. It is under the jurisdiction o ...
, and the Shin Bet
The Israel Security Agency (ISA; , (GSS); ), better known by the Hebrew acronyms, acronyms Shabak (; ; ) or Shin Bet (from the abbreviation of , "Security Service"), is Israel's internal Security agency, security service. Its motto is "''Magen ...
) carried out an assassination operation against three young Palestinian men from the Tulkarm Brigade near the Al-Qaisi Mosque in Tulkarm. Shortly after the assassination, Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and its two camps on the same day at approximately 11:00 PM PSST on Monday, January 8, 2024. The invasion continued until 7:00 AM on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, and resulted in the injury of nine Palestinians by Israeli shelling.
In an immediate response to the assassination, the Tulkarm Brigade announced the start of a "large-scale operation until further notice", and the Palestinian Foreign Ministry commented on the scene of an Israeli military vehicle running over one of the three Palestinian dead after killing him, saying, "Running over a Tulkarm martyr is a moral degradation and a translation of official Israeli instructions and incitement, and reflects a fascist
Fascism ( ) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement. It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural soci ...
, colonial, racist
Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one Race (human categorization), race or ethnicity over another. It may also me ...
mentality", while Hamas called it a "cowardly assassination".
The invasion began with an intensive Israeli deployment in the center of Tulkarm city, with the Israeli army surrounding ambulances around Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in the city at the same time as the Israeli army beginning to impose a siege on Tulkarm camp. During the invasion, two Israeli bulldozers and two wheeled bulldozers began the process of leveling streets in the city of Tulkarm and inside the Tulkarm camp, such as the street leading in front of the Tulkarm Municipal Court and the Bilal bin Rabah Mosque in the city and other streets. The invasion then expanded to include the Nour Shams camp in the city, as the camp also witnessed the leveling of streets.
The Tulkarm Brigade said that it detonated explosive devices against Israeli army vehicles and soldiers, including an explosive device that targeted an Israeli military bulldozer in Tulkarm camp, causing it to be damaged, which required the Israeli army to withdraw the damaged bulldozer from Tulkarm.
During the invasion, the Israeli army bombed a house in Tulkarm camp with a drone, resulting in nine Palestinian injuries, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
January 11–12, 2024 incursion
At approximately 10:15 p.m. on Thursday, January 11, 2024, the Israeli army invaded the city with dozens of military vehicles accompanied by four tracked and wheeled military bulldozers. The invasion continued until approximately 7:00 am on Friday, January 12, 2024. The invasion led to widespread destruction of streets and infrastructure inside and around the city's Nour Shams camp, and Israeli bulldozers razed a section of "Al-Sikka Street" and the area around the "Iktaba Roundabout" in the city. The Tulkarm Brigade said that it confronted the invasion in the Nour Shams camp and engaged in violent clashes. During the invasion, the Tulkarm Brigade detonated a "highly explosive" explosive device in an Israeli D9 bulldozer in the Nour Shams camp, setting it on fire. The Tulkarm Brigade said in a statement that the bulldozer had been "taken out of service, and those inside were killed and injured." The Tulkarm Brigade also said that its engineering unit had "detonated an explosive device in a Nimr military jeep in the Nour Shams camp, which turned into a ball of flames, and achieved confirmed injuries".January 17–19, 2024 incursion
At approximately 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, Israel launched a massive invasion of the city of Tulkarm and the Tulkarm refugee camp in the city with dozens of Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers. The invasion extended to include the city's Nour Shams refugee camp, and continued until approximately 12:40 a.m. on Friday, January 19, 2024, for approximately 45 continuous hours. The operation represented the longest and most violent invasion of Tulkarm since the Second Intifada. The invasion resulted in the killing of eight Palestinians and the serious injury of others, while an Israeli soldier was seriously injured. The invasion began with the Israeli army completely besieging the Tulkarm camp in the city, and Israeli military bulldozers began a complete process of leveling the camp's streets. The Israeli army also besieged Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and the Al-Shifa Ambulance Center in the city center, Al-Israa Specialized Hospital in the western part of the city, and the Palestinian Red Crescent Emergency and Ambulance Center in the southern part of the city, searching Palestinian ambulances. Israeli drones bombed the city's Tulkarm camp several times during the invasion, killing four Palestinians immediately in an airstrike in Tulkarm camp. Another Palestinian was killed during violent clashes in Tulkarm camp, while a sixth Palestinian was killed near Muscat School in an Israeli shooting attack on his vehicle, a seventh Palestinian was killed in the city's Nour Shams camp, and an eighth Palestinian was killed in Tulkarm camp after he was left bleeding on the ground for hours while Israeli forces prevented an ambulance from reaching him. Israeli drones also bombed a Palestinian ambulance belonging to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, destroying it and injuring two of its crew members with moderate and serious injuries. The Israeli army reported that one of its soldiers was seriously injured in the violent clashes in Tulkarm camp and was transferred to the hospital to receive medical treatment. Several Israeli army vehicles were also damaged by explosive devices detonated by the Tulkarm Brigade, which forced the army to withdraw these vehicles from Tulkarm. The Israeli army forces launched a wide-scale arrest campaign that included dozens of residents of Tulkarm camp, and transferred them to a field investigation center on Al-Sikka Street. The Israeli bulldozers left behind unprecedented destruction in the streets, infrastructure, homes, and shops in Tulkarm camp. The Israeli army also blew up several homes in the camp. At approximately 3:30 pm on the same day, Wednesday, January 17, 2024, the large Israeli invasion extended to the city's Nour Shams camp, which also witnessed violent clashes and significant destruction in the streets and infrastructure as a result of several hours of demolition from bulldozers. The invasion extended to the Nour Shams camp again at approximately 6:00 am on Thursday, January 18, 2024, which led to violent clashes in the camp, during which the Tulkarm Brigade detonated multiple explosive devices. Israeli bulldozers bulldozed streets and facilities in the camp again, and the Israeli army blew up houses in the camp, simultaneously with the violent armed clashes, detonation of explosive devices, and total siege of the Tulkarm camp. After 45 hours since the start of the invasion, Israel announced the end of this military operation, saying that its forces "searched about 1,000 buildings and found more than 400 explosive devices, some of which were buried under roads. Five laboratories for producing the charges and four monitoring centers were destroyed, and 37 wanted persons were arrested, including senior officials". The UN spokesman commented on this invasion, saying that it resulted in "making more than 20 homes uninhabitable in the Nur Shams and Tulkarm refugee camps, in addition to civilian casualties."January 29–30, 2024 incursion
At approximately 9:50 pm on Monday, January 29, 2024, Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and the city's two camps with dozens of military vehicles and bulldozers. The invasion continued until approximately 5:40 am on Tuesday, January 30, 2024. This invasion left behind extensive destruction to the streets and infrastructure, and caused a widespread interruption of the water network in the city and its two camps for days. Israeli military bulldozers (two crawler bulldozers and two wheeled bulldozers) razed streets in the city and the camps. They razed a section of Al-Sikka Street in the city, in addition to razing streets inside Nour Shams camp and Tulkarm camp. The bulldozers also destroyed the entrances to the Al-Salam Mosque and the Muadh bin Jabal Mosque in Tulkarm camp.February 2024
6–7 February 2024 incursion
Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm at approximately 11:40 Palestine time on Tuesday evening, February 6, 2024, with the invasion focusing on the city's Nour Shams camp. The invasion continued until approximately 5:40 a.m. on Wednesday, February 7, 2024. Dozens of Israeli military vehicles, including tracked and wheeled military bulldozers, participated in the invasion, leaving massive destruction in the streets of Nour Shams camp. At approximately 1:30 p.m. on the same day, Israel returned and invaded the city of Tulkarm, specifically Nour Shams camp, with special forces followed by reinforcements and bulldozers, where it carried out an assassination operation against three Palestinians after besieging them in a building in Nour Shams camp. The operation continued until 7:40 p.m. on the same day. The three Palestinian dead were Moatasem Ali Dama (a commander in the Tulkarm Brigade), his cousin Islam Ibrahim Ali Dama, and Ziad Ali Hashem Dama. They were assassinated after being surrounded by the Israeli army in a house at the Nour Shams camp. The Israeli army bombed the house with missiles and destroyed it with bulldozers. The Palestinian Ministry of Health later announced their deaths. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that the Israeli army had prevented ambulances from entering the Nour Shams camp to evacuate the dead and wounded during this large-scale military operation.February 18, 2024 incursion and special military operation
Israeli special forces carried out a raid and special military operation at the Tulkarm camp in Tulkarm city on Sunday morning, February 18, 2024, which resulted in the killing of two Palestinians and the wounding of others by gunfire. Israeli forces assassinated the leader of the Tulkarm Brigade, Muhammad Ahmad Fayez Al-Awfi, and his companion after besieging them in a house, while an Israeli soldier was seriously injured. At approximately 10:00 PSST on Sunday morning, February 18, Israeli special forces stormed Tulkarm camp in Tulkarm city in two civilian vehicles and surrounded the house, followed by large Israeli military reinforcements and three Israeli military bulldozers. The first bulldozer was wheeled, the second was tracked, and the third was a truck-mounted excavator. The invasion continued until approximately 1:45 pm, when the Israeli army forces withdrew while taking the body of Al-Awfi with them. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that the Israeli army obstructed the work of medical crews and prevented ambulances from reaching the wounded in the camp. The Israeli army announced in an official statement that an Israeli soldier was seriously injured during clashes with Palestinian gunmen in the Tulkarm camp during this military operation. An Israeli military helicopter had landed in the vicinity of Tulkarm city to evacuate Israeli army casualties.March 2024
March 3–4, 2024 incursion
On the evening of March 3, 2024, Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm, focusing specifically on the city's Nour Shams camp. The invasion continued until the dawn of March 4, 2024. Several Israeli military vehicles and military bulldozers participated in the invasion, leaving behind massive destruction, especially in a part of the city's "Nablus Street", which the Israeli army had dug several meters underground under. The invasion led to violent clashes between the Tulkarm Brigade and the Israeli army, during which the Tulkarm Brigade detonated "highly explosive" devices that damaged two Israeli "Tiger"armored personnel carriers
An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is a broad type of armoured military vehicle designed to transport personnel and equipment in combat zones. Since World War I, APCs have become a very common piece of military equipment around the world.
Acc ...
and also damaged an Israeli wheeled military bulldozer, which required the Israeli army to withdraw it from Tulkarm by towing it with a crawler military bulldozer.
March 9, 2024 incursion
Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm, and in particular the city's Nour Shams camp, at approximately 12:30 a.m. on March 9, 2024, with dozens of Israeli military vehicles and tracked and wheeled military bulldozers. The invasion continued until approximately 8:15 a.m. on the same day, leading to massive destruction of the infrastructure and streets of Tulkarm. During the invasion, Israeli military bulldozers completely razed the city's "Saif Roundabout" and "Bir al-Hamdallah Roundabout" streets, and violent clashes broke out between the Tulkarm Brigade and the Israeli army. The Tulkarm Brigade also detonated "highly explosive" explosive devices, one of which directly hit an Israeli military bulldozer, forcing the Israeli army to withdraw it from Tulkarm by towing it with another military bulldozer."Young men target occupation bulldozers with an explosive device and clash around Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm"/ref>
March 11, 2024 incursion
Only a few hours passed since the last invasion before the Israeli army returned at approximately 12:15 AM on Monday, March 11, 2024, the first day ofRamadan
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (''Fasting in Islam, sawm''), communal prayer (salah), reflection, and community. It is also the month in which the Quran is believed ...
in the Palestinian territories.Occupation forces storm Tulkarm city and Nour Shams camp amid clashes and destruction of infrastructure . "/ref> The invasion continued until approximately 6:35 AM on the same day. This invasion led to massive destruction of the streets and infrastructure in the city of Tulkarm and the city's two camps. The invasion began with Israeli military bulldozers bulldozing the “Sariat Al-Alam” roundabout in Tulkarm before besieging the city's Nour Shams camp, which witnessed violent clashes between the Tulkarm Brigade and the Israeli army, involving the Tulkarm Brigade detonating highly explosive devices. The Israeli army also bulldozed several streets in the Nour Shams camp in addition to bulldozing the “Saif Roundabout” in the city for the second time in less than two days, while firing flares into the sky at the site. At dawn, Israeli army forces moved to the Tulkarm camp in the city and began fierce clashes against the Tulkarm Brigade, coinciding with Israeli military bulldozers once again completely destroying the main streets and infrastructure in the Tulkarm camp.
March 20–21, 2024 incursion
At approximately 10:20 pm PSST on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and the city's Nour Shams camp with more than fifty military vehicles accompanied by heavy military bulldozers. The invasion continued until approximately 8:45 am on Thursday, March 21, 2024, and resulted in the killing of four Palestinians and the injury of several others, in addition to the heavy destruction of the city's streets. A few hours before the invasion, Israel had bulldozed the street surrounding the Al-Murabitun Mosque in the city twice on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Following this, the invasion began with the Israeli army besieging the city center and the Nour Shams camp in the city, where Israeli army vehicles were deployed on Paris Street, the area around Thabet Thabet Square, and the area around Tulkarm Governmental Hospital in the city center. At the beginning of the invasion, the Israeli army bombed a target in the Nour Shams camp with a drone, killing two Palestinians immediately and wounding others. The Israeli army then killed two more Palestinians during violent armed clashes in the camp. The Israeli army declared a curfew in the Nour Shams camp, deployed snipers in the area, turned several houses intomilitary barracks
Barracks are buildings used to accommodate military personnel and quasi-military personnel such as police. The English word originates from the 17th century via French and Italian from an old Spanish word 'soldier's tent', but today barracks ar ...
, and demolished the home of a wanted Palestinian.
This invasion led to the largest recorded amount of destruction to the streets of Tulkarm city, as Israeli military bulldozers razed streets, causing immense damage. Streets that were destroyed included the street surrounding the Al-Murabitun Mosque, the section of Al-Sikka Street extending from the Bir Al-Hamdallah Roundabout to the Saif Roundabout, the street surrounding the Saif Roundabout, and the section of Nablus Street extending from Saif Roundabout to the end of Nour Shams Camp.
April 2024
April 8, 2024 incursion
At approximately 1:00 AM PSST on Monday morning, April 8, 2024 (the dawn of day 29 of Ramadan), Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and the Tulkarm camp with dozens of military vehicles and bulldozers. The invasion continued until approximately 5:30 AM on the same day, and left behind destruction to infrastructure and streets. The Israeli army completely surrounded the Tulkarm camp in the city, leading to violent clashes breaking out which included several explosions. Israeli tracked and wheeled bulldozers also razed a section of the street in front of the Al-Murabitun Mosque in the city, a section of the street surrounding the Al-Alam Roundabout, and a section at the beginning of Al-Balawneh Street around the Tulkarm camp. Israeli army vehicles were deployed in the city center, specifically in the Gold Market area and Gamal Abdel Nasser Square.April 18–20, 2024 incursion
On the evening of April 18, 2024, Israeli army forces invaded the city of Tulkarm and the Nour Shams camp from the western axis of the city, accompanied by military bulldozers. Israeli forces surrounded the Nour Shams camp, passing through the square of Al-Alimi court,Al-Quds Open University
Al-Quds Open University () is an independent, distance education public university in Palestine. It was created by a decree issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1991.
QOU is the first Open Learning institute in the Pales ...
Street, Nablus Street, Iktaba roundabout, and the employees’ housing. The Israeli army imposed a tight siege on the Nour Shams camp, deployed its vehicles on all the axes of the camp leading to it, and closed the main street adjacent to its entrances. At the same time, reconnaissance aircraft flew over the camp at a low altitude.
During the second day of the invasion on April 19, 2024, three Israeli soldiers were injured during an exchange of fire with Palestinian resistance fighters in the camp, and the Israeli army continued to raid a number of homes while carrying out arrest operations.
During the third day of the invasion on April 20, 2024, the Israeli army spokesman announced that nine Israeli soldiers were wounded with varying degrees of injury by Palestinian gunfire in the Nour Shams camp.
At approximately 11:30 p.m. on the third day of the invasion, the Israeli army withdrew from Tulkarm, marking the end of the longest, largest, and most violent invasion into the city up to that point since the Second Intifada. Palestinian ambulances were able to enter the camp after the Israeli army vehicles withdrew, retrieving the bodies of fourteen dead Palestinians. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that their bodies arrived at the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.
On April 19, the Palestinian presidency condemned what it described as "the new crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the city of Tulkarm, including the Nour Shams and Tulkarm camps". On April 20, 2024, the head of the Palestinian National Council
The Palestinian National Council (PNC; ) is the legislative body - in Arabic, the ''Majlis'' - of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The PNC is intended to serve as the parliament that represents all Palestinians inside and outside th ...
, Rawhi Fattouh
Rawhi Fattuh (, also transliterated as Rauhi Fattouh; born 23 August 1949) is the current Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Chairman of Palestinian Legislative Council, having held the position since February 2020. He had previousl ...
, condemned what he described as "the heinous crime and massacre".
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation said it "strongly condemns the military aggression" on the Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm in a statement on April 20, and renewed its "call on the international community to assume its responsibilities towards obliging the occupation forces to stop their military aggression and ongoing violations throughout the occupied Palestinian territories and to provide protection to the Palestinian people".
May 2024
May 6, 2024 incursion
At approximately 12:20 AM Palestine Summer Time (PSDT) on Monday, May 6, 2024, the Israeli army invaded the city of Tulkarm and the city's two camps with dozens of military vehicles accompanied by five wheeled and tracked military bulldozers. The invasion continued until approximately 11:00 p.m. on the same day. This invasion resulted in the killing of a Palestinian by Israeli army gunfire and the injury of others, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure and streets. The invasion of Tulkarm city began with the Israeli army besieging the Nour Shams camp and bulldozing streets in the camp before completely besieging Tulkarm camp, blowing up houses in it and bulldozing entire streets inside of it. The Israeli army also bulldozed streets in the city, including the street in front of the entrance to the Tulkarm District headquarters. The Israeli army besieged the downtown area that includes Thabet Thabet Hospital, which the Israeli army also besieged. The Israeli army blew up a medical center belonging to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society inside the Tulkarm camp.May 16, 2024 storming operation
At approximately 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 16, 2024, PSDT, Israel stormed the center of Tulkarm city, accompanied by a military bulldozer. The Israeli army was stationed in the areas surrounding Gamal Abdel Nasser Square, Tulkarm Orthodox Church, the International Red Cross headquarters, the entrance to Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital, Thabet Thabet Square, Shuweika Roundabout, and Bank Street. The Israeli army deployed snipers on the roofs of tall buildings in the center of the city, which led to the killing of three Palestinians by gunfire in the city center and the injury of at least five others. The raid continued until approximately 3:40 a.m., during which the Israeli army raided a number of exchange offices in the city and completely blew up one of these offices. A general strike spread throughout Tulkarm Governorate on Thursday, May 16, 2024, in response to a call to action from the Palestinian national and Islamic forces.July 2024
July 1, 2024 incursion
At 3:45 PSDT on Monday morning, July 1, 2024, Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm, Nour Shams camp, and the entrance to Tulkarm camp in the city with dozens of military vehicles accompanied by four bulldozers, two of which were tracked. The invasion continued until 1:00 pm on the same day. The invasion left massive destruction to the infrastructure, streets, traffic light network, main water lines, and caused the postponement of the Palestinian high school exam. The invasion also led to the killing of two Palestinians (a child and a woman) and the injury of others. Israel announced the killing of one of its soldiers and the injury of others during the invasion, in addition to the bombing and significant destruction of an Israeli " Tiger " vehicle. This invasion came only hours after an Israeli air strike on a house in the Nour Shams camp on Sunday afternoon, June 30, 2024, which led to the killing of "Saeed Jaber", one of the leaders of the Tulkarm Brigade. The invasion began with the destruction by Israeli bulldozers of the Al-Younis Roundabout area in Tulkarm, followed by the destruction of Al-Sikka Street and Iktaba Roundabout in the city. After that, the Israeli forces and their bulldozers moved to Nablus Street in the city, which they largely destroyed. The Israeli army once again razed what remained of the “Saif Roundabout” area after completely destroying it twice in March 2024. The Israeli forces then penetrated deeper into the Nour Shams camp, causing violent clashes to erupt with the Tulkarm Brigade detonated explosive devices, one of which hit an Israeli armored vehicle, destroying it "significantly" and injuring those inside. This prompted the Israeli army to bring in a heavy military logistical vehicle to tow the damaged vehicle. The Israeli army also transferred its wounded soldiers from Tulkarm to the Israeli Sna'oz camp adjacent to the city, followed by the landing of an Israeli military helicopter in the camp, transporting the wounded soldiers. On the same day, Israel announced the death of one of its soldiers, 22-year-old Major Yehuda Gato, the driver of the vehicle, and the serious injury of another as a result of the explosion, all of whom belonged to theDuvdevan unit
Unit 217, frequently called Duvdevan (), is a ''mistaʽaravim'' unit in the Commando Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces.
It is notable for its undercover operations in urban areas, during which its operators often wear civilian clothing t ...
as part of the Oz Brigade
The 89th Brigade "Oz" ("Courage" in Hebrew) is a special forces brigade of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It was established in December 2015. The new brigade, dubbed the Commando Brigade, is composed solely of infantry special-operations units ...
.
At noon, the intensity of armed clashes between Tulkarm Brigade members and the Israeli army escalated at the entrance to Tulkarm camp as Israeli vehicles and bulldozers surrounded the entrance to the camp, which led to the killing of two Palestinians (a child and a woman) in Tulkarm camp by Israeli army bullets. Several Palestinians were also injured in the city's neighborhoods and camps, as announced by the director of Tulkarm Governmental Hospital and the Palestinian Ministry of Health. In addition, Israeli bulldozers destroyed the traffic light network in the Zenobia Junction area in the center of the city at noon.
The Palestinian Ministry of Education had announced at eight o'clock a.m. the postponement of the unified Palestinian high school exam (English language
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples th ...
exam) in the morning for all schools in Tulkarm Governorate due to the ongoing Israeli invasion of Tulkarm, which was planned to be administered that morning.
Hours prior to this, Israel had bombed a house in the city's Nour Shams camp on Sunday afternoon, June 30, 2024, with three missiles from an aircraft. The missiles killed Saeed Jaber, the leader of the Tulkarm Brigade, and wounded five other Palestinians who were taken to the Tulkarm Governmental Hospital, with two in critical condition.
A few hours after the Israeli withdrawal, the Israeli army bombed the Nour Shams camp with a drone on the evening of Tuesday, July 2, 2024, instantly killing four Palestinians.
July 9, 2024 incursion
On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and the city's Nour Shams camp with dozens of military vehicles accompanied by seven military bulldozers. The invasion continued until around afternoon on the same day. The invasion left immense destruction in the streets and infrastructure. The destruction was described as the largest in the history of the West Bank since Israel's occupation of the territory in 1967.
The invasion began with the Israeli army completely besieging both the government hospital and the Israa Specialized Hospital in the city center. The army deployed its vehicles in the commercial market area in the city center, checked the identities of journalists while they were covering the events, and deployed its snipers in several buildings. The army also besieged the Tulkarm camp in the city, and caused significant disruption to the city's communications and internet networks.
Four military bulldozers worked collectively to completely destroy the Younis Roundabout square in the middle of the city, which led to the disappearance of its features and the destruction of its infrastructure. The bulldozers, including the excavator, swept away Nablus Street in the area adjacent to the Nour Shams camp, turning it into a trench more than three meters deep and completely destroying it in addition to shops, homes, electricity, communications, internet, sewage, and water lines. The bulldozers also destroyed the Saif Roundabout square area and the surrounding shops, destroying it completely for the fourth time since March 2024. At the same time, the bulldozers penetrated deep into the Nour Shams camp and destroyed several homes and streets in it.
Following the Israeli withdrawal, the Tulkarm Municipality announced that "Nour Shams Camp in Tulkarm City is officially considered a disaster area
A disaster area is a region or a locale that has been heavily damaged by either natural, technological or social hazards. Disaster areas affect the population living in the community by a dramatic increase in expense, loss of energy, food and se ...
". The National Action Movement announced that the city of Tulkarm and its two camps were now a disaster area in need of urgent reconstruction and consular visits.
The Palestinian government condemned what it described as Israeli aggression on Tulkarm and the unprecedented destruction of the Nour Shams camp, the infrastructure, and the main electricity and water lines in the city. The National Union of Civil Society Organizations in Tulkarm Governorate also called on the Palestinian government to urgently invite consuls and international institutions to see the extent of the destruction brought on the city.
The Minister of Local Government, Sami Hijjawi, the Minister of Public Works, Ahed Bseiso, and the Director General of Civil Defense, Al-Abed Ibrahim Khalil, inspected the extent of the destruction in Nour Shams camp. Palestinian governmental and civil institutions announced that Israel had completely or partially destroyed dozens of Palestinian homes in the Nour Shams camp.
July 22–23, 2024 incursion
Israel invaded the city of Tulkarm and the Tulkarm refugee camp in the city at approximately 10:45 p.m. on July 22, 2024, with dozens of Israeli military vehicles and seven military bulldozers.“The occupation continues its aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp: 5 martyrs and widespread destruction of infrastructure and property.”''Palestinian News Agency''. July 23, 2024. Archived fro
the original
on 07-23-2024. Retrieved 07-23-2024. The invasion continued until approximately 1:30 p.m. on July 23, and resulted in massive destruction, the “widest and most severe” to the infrastructure and streets in the center of the city and the Tulkarm camp. The devastation also led to the interruption of electricity, communications, the Internet, and water for long hours in many of the city’s neighborhoods, including Tulkarm camp. Five Palestinians were killed and many others were seriously injured.“15 hours in which the occupation left martyrs, injuries and great destruction in Tulkarm and its camp.”
''Palestinian News Agency''. July 23, 2024. Archived fro
the original
on 07-23-2024. Retrieved 07-23-2024. In Tulkarm camp, the invasion of the camp began with the Israeli army entering the city from its western and southern axes. Israeli bulldozers destroyed the infrastructure and streets in the camp, and an Israeli drone bombed the camp, killing five Palestinians that including two commanders in the Tulkarm Brigade. The Israeli army spokesman said in a brief statement that "an
air force
An air force in the broadest sense is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army aviati ...
plane attacked gunmen during the military operation" and the Tulkarm Brigade announced that it had detonated several explosive devices, one of which hit an Israeli bulldozer and damaged it, which prompted the Israeli army to drag it out of Tulkarm using another bulldozer.
In the city center, Israeli bulldozers razed part of Government Hospital Street in addition to Muqata’a Street and two Israeli tracked bulldozers destroyed the vegetable market in the city center and the vicinity of Gamal Abdel Nasser Square.
In the western neighborhoods of the city, two Israeli bulldozers destroyed the electricity, communications, and internet networks, poles, and cables on Yaffa Street, Al-Fadhiliyah Street, Khadouri Roundabout, and Hilmi Hanoun School Street, and also demolished part of the wall of Hilmi Hanoun School, while crushing nearby parked vehicles and uprooting trees.
In the eastern neighborhoods of the city, Israeli bulldozers destroyed Muqata’a Street, destroyed the Martyrs’ Monument, demolished part of the wall of the Local Government and Public Works Directorates, bulldozed the Abu Safiya Junction Street along with other streets, and destroyed several parked vehicles.
The Israeli army described the invasion as a military operation in a series of counter-terrorism operations in Tulkarm, while Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Mustafa condemned what he called a "brutal attack" on Tulkarm during the weekly government session on the morning of July 23, 2024.
August 2024
August 3, 2024 incursion
At approximately 4:50 am on Saturday, August 3, 2024, the Israeli army entered accompanied by bulldozers and completely destroyed the “Al-Alimi Roundabout” (the Palestinian flagpole square) in the city and its surroundings, leading to its comprehensive destruction. The Israeli army then withdrew from the city at approximately 5:50 a.m., killing five Palestinians north of the governorate in an airstrike. The Israeli army then returned at 10:00 a.m and invaded the city in a more widespread area, including the Tulkarm camp. The invasion continued until 2:00 p.m., during which the Israeli army killed four more Palestinians in a new airstrike east of the city and bringing the Palestinian death toll to nine, in addition to massive destruction. This invasion led to great destruction in the western and eastern neighborhoods of the city and the Tulkarm camp in the center of the city. In the eastern neighborhoods, Israeli bulldozers destroyed several walls and completely smashed many vehicles. In the western neighborhoods, forces completely razed the Al-Alimi Roundabout and its surroundings. In the Tulkarm camp, bulldozers again razed the streets of the camp, leaving great destruction amidst violent clashes.August 28, 2024 incursion
Israel launched a large-scale military operation into both Tulkarm andJenin
Jenin ( ; , ) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, and is the capital of the Jenin Governorate. It is a hub for the surrounding towns. Jenin came under Israeli occupied territories, Israeli occupation in 1967, and was put under the administra ...
involving hundreds of IDF soldiers.
January 2025
On 27 January 2025, Israel formally expanded its " Iron Wall" military operation into Tulkarm.See also
*Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
During the Gaza war, Israeli forces have carried out multiple ground incursions, occasionally accompanied by airstrikes, into several Palestinian cities and refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied territories, Israeli-occupied West Bank, includi ...
* List of military engagements during the Gaza war
* Outline of the Gaza war
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Wikipedia articles available about the Gaza war. It is an evolving list.
Top level articles
* October 7 attacks
* Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip (2023–pre ...
* Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2023
A timeline is a list of events displayed in chronological order. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events.
Timelines can use any suitable scale representing ti ...
* Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2024
A timeline is a list of events displayed in chronological order. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events.
Timelines can use any suitable scale representing ti ...
References