Israeli forces set fire to Nour Shams refugee camp during Eid as West Bank onslaught rages

Israeli forces have set fire to homes in Nour Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarm during Eid al-Fitr as the large-scale onslaught in the northern West Bank continues unabated.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Monday that the Zionist war machine besieged the refugee camp, deploying bulldozers in al-Manshiya and al-Maslakh neighborhoods, where they have been carrying out house raids and damaging infrastructure.

Numerous Palestinian residents have been displaced due to the attacks, particularly in the areas of Jabal al-Nasr and Jabal al-Salihin on the outskirts of the camp.

Eyewitnesses said many of the Palestinian families have been forcibly removed from their homes by the Israeli regime forces as they torched and demolished the Palestinians' shelters.

Israeli media quoted military sources as saying that plans are underway to completely wipe out the Tulkarm, Jenin, and Nur Shams refugee camps across the occupied region.

The Israeli regime forces' destructive operations are being carried out on a daily basis affecting hundreds of Palestinian families who have been displaced from their homes.  

Israeli army plans to wipe out refugee camps from occupied West Bank

Media reports say Israel plans to dismantle refugee camps across the occupied West Bank.

Meanwhile, at least seven Palestinian men, one of them a former prisoner identified as Abdullah Alaria have been detained by the Zionist forces in their attack on Tulkarm. Two of them were released at dawn after being beaten.

Also, Zionist forces have killed more than a dozen Palestinians, including a child and two women -- one of whom was pregnant -- in Tulkarm and its refugee camps since the beginning of the latest offensive.

At least 4,000 families have been displaced as the Israelis totally leveled 396 homes and partially razed 2,573 more.

In addition, an estimated 24,000 people have been forced to leave from both the Tulkarm and Nour Shams camps. Numerous families were also forced to flee from the northern neighborhoods of the city.

The continued military assault has further resulted in widespread destruction, including the demolition of homes, businesses, and vehicles, many of which have been either completely or partially destroyed, burned, looted, or damaged. The entrances to both refugee camps and their alleyways have been blocked by dirt mounds, further isolating the population.

Also, law-breaking Israeli settlers on Sunday evening assaulted Palestinians and torched a barn to the south of Ad-Dhahiriya city, southwest of the southern occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil, according to a resident.

Tamer Abu Sharkh said that a group of settlers descended upon their dwellings of Khirbet Umm as-Simsim and attacked his family members.

He added that the assailants torched a livestock barn and attempted to set sheep on fire before withdrawing from the area.

Israeli settlers’ violence against Palestinians and their property regularly talks place in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by regime's judicial authorities.

Settlers’ violence include torching property and mosques, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, and attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

An estimated 700,000 Israelis permanently occupy illegal settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds in violation of international law.

Israel regime forces have occupied the West Bank since 1967, subjecting Palestinians to checkpoints, arbitrary arrests, home demolitions, land seizures, settlement expansion and frequent raids, severely restricting every aspect of their lives.

The Palestinian land located west of the Jordan River is home to approximately 3.3 million Palestinians.

Al-Khalil is the most populous of its 11 governorates with about 842,000 Palestinian residents. Al-Quds follows with 500,000, Nablus with 440,000, Ramallah and al-Bireh with 377,000 and Jenin with 360,000, respectively.

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