The Israeli occupation has intensified deadly raids across the West Bank, staging strikes and incursions into several Palestinian cities and refugee camps.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) accompanied by bulldozers and military vehicles, launched a massive raid overnight on Tuesday on the Balata refugee camp in the Palestinian city of Nablus.
Local sources reported that the incursion involved the search and destruction of several Palestinian homes, as well as the damaging of streets within the camp.
A sizable military contingent, comprising approximately 30 military vehicles, encircled the Balata camp before conducting the raid, which unfolded amid airstrikes and surveillance by Israeli warplanes and drones. The incursion sparked intense clashes between the camp’s residents and the IOF, initiating at the southern entrance and subsequently spreading to various neighborhoods.
3 Palestinians were martyred as a drone struck their vehicle in the camp’s Al-Quds Street, according to local sources.
The Palestinians Mohammed Qattawi and the brothers Yazan and Saif Najmi who were killed by an Israeli air strike near Balata refugee camp in Nablus city. 17.1.24
الشهداء الذين ارتقوا بقصف طائرة مسيرة لمركبتهم قرب مخيم بلاطة شرق نابلس، هم الشقيقين سيف ويزن النجمي ومحمد القطاوي. pic.twitter.com/RZYPe2X9V4
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) January 17, 2024
For its part, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that Israeli occupation forces shot at one of its ambulances as it attempted to rescue those targeted in their car by an Israeli drone in the Balata refugee camp.
🚨The Israeli occupation forces prevented Palestine Red Crescent ambulance teams 🚑from entering Tulkarm camp to transport injuries there.#NotATarget ❌#IHL #WestBank #Tulkarem pic.twitter.com/C7knQsSSzL
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) January 17, 2024
Tulkarm Refugee Camp
In Tulkarm refugee camp, another deadly raid took place on Wednesday, with occupation forces deliberately vandalizing public and private properties, including civilian houses of the local residents, Palestinian media reported.
Several casualties were reported in an Israeli airstrike targeting a group of civilians in the camp, with media repoting 4 martyrs.
اربعة شهداء في مخيم طولكرم بعد استهدافهم بدرون انتحارية pic.twitter.com/VExESpgJ2W
— Hisham Abu Shaqrah | هشام أبو شقرة (@HShaqrah) January 17, 2024
Scenes from the ongoing Israeli raid into Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, where the occupying Israeli army is deliberately vandalizing public and private properties, including civilian houses of the local residents. pic.twitter.com/eGLOVs22CK
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 17, 2024
Clashes erupted shortly after occupation forces, accompanied by bulldozers and military vehicles, stormed the camp and laid siege to its entrances.
Elsewhere in Al-Khalil (Hebron), Israeli occupation forces arrested at least 8 Palestinians after raiding their houses and vandalizing properties.
5 more Palestinians were arrested by IOF in Bethlehem, local sources reported.
Many Gazan workers were also detained as IOF carried out raids and arrest campaign in Qalqilya.
Source: Palestinian media
