TULKARM: Four Palestinians were Wednesday killed and others were injured in an occupation drone bombing that targeted Al-Tammam neighborhood in Tulkarm camp.
Eyewitnesses from inside the camp told WAFA correspondent that a drone targeted a group of youths in Al-Tammam neighborhood inside the camp, killing a number of them and seriously wounding others.
The Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed that its crews transported the bodies of four slain Palestinians from inside the camp to the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarm.
Sources at Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital said that the four youths were identified as Ahmed Tariq Noman Faraj, 18, Walid Ibrahim Muhammad Ghanem, Ahmed Moin Theeb Mahdawi, 36, and Ahmed Musa Mutlaq Badawi.
The occupation forces prevented ambulances and the Palestinian Red Crescent from entering the camp to transport the injured from the targeted location.
The occupation forces surrounded the site of the bombing and foot patrols were deployed in its vicinity.
The Isr
aeli occupation forces have continued their aggression against the city of Tulkarm and its camp since 4:30 in the morning, amid acts of vandalism and destruction of citizens’ property and infrastructure.
Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression against the city of Tulkarm and its camp, causing massive destruction to Palestinians’ property and infrastructure.
A large military force, accompanied by two military bulldozers, stormed the city at dawn from its western, northern and southern entrances.
The occupation forces surrounded the Tulkarm camp from all its entrances, deployed their military vehicles in the streets and neighborhoods, while snipers were deployed on the rooftops of several buildings and shops.
A number of military vehicles were stationed at the entrances to Al-Isra Specialized Hospital in the western neighborhood and in the vicinity of Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital near the camp, preventing the entry or exit of residents into and out of the said hospitals.
Intense confront
ations between local reidents and occupation soldiers erupted following the raid, during which the occupation forces fired heavy live bullets, while sounds of explosions and live gunfire were heard from inside the city and its camp.
During the raid, Israeli forces detained two ex-prisoners and a third one after breaking into their houses and caused damages to their contents from different areas and neighborhoods of the city of Tulkarem.
The Directorate of Education in Tulkarm announced that schools in the city and its camps would be postponed until nine o’clock in the event that the occupation forces leave.
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA