Tulkarem, occupied West Financial institution –Israeli forces have killed a younger Palestinian man and severely injured one other throughout a big raid on a refugee camp within the northern occupied West Financial institution metropolis of Tulkarem, damaging infrastructure within the camp.
The Palestinian Ministry of Well being introduced 21-year-old Ayed Samih Khaled Abu Harb lifeless at 8:15am (06:15 GMT) on Tuesday, noting he was shot within the head. A funeral procession was held for him at 11am.
Israeli forces, with armoured tractors, stormed the overcrowded Nur Shams refugee camp from a number of fronts at daybreak, inciting armed resistance from Palestinian fighters.
They bulldozed the highway resulting in the camp, which is minutes from Tulkarem metropolis, and destroyed a variety of houses and outlets, in addition to infrastructure, earlier than withdrawing three hours later.
‘They destroyed all the things’
Taha al-Irani, head of the camp’s fashionable committee, spoke to Al Jazeera from the camp on Tuesday in regards to the degree of destruction and the shock of Abu Harb being killed and one other man injured.
“I need to guarantee you that the martyr [Ayed], was simply standing at his entrance door when he was killed, and the person in important situation is a taxi driver who was headed to work,” al-Irani, 50, mentioned.
“It’s complete destruction within the camp … The primary highway tying the camp to different cities – to Tulkarem, Nablus, Ramallah – was partially destroyed.”
Nur Shams refugee camp, established in 1952, is without doubt one of the two camps in Tulkarem and was constructed to deal with Palestinian refugees from the Haifa space following the 1948 Nakba, or ethnic cleaning of Palestine by Zionist militias.
Mohammad Abu Talal, a 39-year-old grocery store proprietor, informed Al Jazeera: “The military entered with bulldozers and tractors. They destroyed the store, they destroyed all the things.”
In a press release, the Tulkarem Directorate of Schooling introduced that faculties could be suspended on Tuesday.
232 Palestinians killed this yr
With the loss of life of Abu Harb, the variety of Palestinians killed by the Israeli military because the starting of this yr has risen to 232.
The Israeli military mentioned it arrested 21 Palestinian “wished suspects” in a single day on Tuesday alone. The whole variety of Palestinians held in numerous types of Israeli detention is within the 1000’s.
The Israeli military has been militarily occupying the West Financial institution, the place some three million Palestinians reside, for 56 years.
Over the previous two years, Palestinian armed resistance has reorganised and risen in prominence, significantly within the north of the occupied West Financial institution. In response, Israel has been trying to crush this resistance by way of near-daily raids on Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps that just about all the time lead to casualties.
Nur Shams was focused in one other current large-scale Israeli raid on July 24, throughout which a minimum of 13 Palestinians have been injured, together with 4 with reside ammunition and 9 by shrapnel. Israeli forces additionally broken infrastructure badly throughout that raid, forcing the Palestinian Authority to dedicate a portion of its funds to the camp’s reconstruction.
“Thank God that we haven’t put out tenders for reconstruction of roads and infrastructure [after the earlier raids] but,” mentioned al-Irani.
On August 5, the Israeli military raided the camp and shot 18-year-old Mahmoud Abu Sa’an within the head at point-blank vary, killing him, the Well being Ministry mentioned. Abu Sa’an had simply graduated from highschool.
“If the Israeli thinks that he can obtain safety and peace by way of his oppression and these crimes that he carries out, he’s delusional. This might not come except Palestinians are given their rights, to reside in dignity of their state,” mentioned al-Irani.
Reporting by Ayman Nobani in Nur Shams refugee camp.
