Three days under fire: Palestinians in Tulkarem describe the ‘most violent’ Israeli raid in years

from Mondoweiss

“Unprecedented terror” continues to haunt Palestinians in the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, two days after the Israeli army concluded its 52-hour-long invasion of the camp, in which it killed 14 Palestinians, nine of whom at least were unarmed civilians, according to residents.

On Thursday night, April 18, the Israeli army announced that it had launched “a large operation” in Nur Shams, the two-square-kilometer camp adjacent to the city of Tulkarem, in the northwest of the occupied West Bank. The invasion was to target the ‘Tulkarem Brigade’, which has operated in the camp since 2022.

“This isn’t the first time that the occupation has raided Nur Shams, but this time it was different because the occupation forces used unprecedented violence during the raid,” Baraa al-Ghoul, a resident of Nur Shams, told Mondoweiss. “In previous raids, if an armored vehicle reached a dead-end in the camp’s alleys, it made a U-turn and looked for a different way through. This time they just demolished whatever they found in front of them,” he said...

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