Earlier in the day, the Israeli occupation imposed a tight curfew on Tulkarm, shutting the metal gates at its southern and eastern entrances and preventing vehicles from passing. Live fire was also directed at residents and cars in the western neighborhood. Ambulances were denied access to the area, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. This attack comes as Tulkarm and its two refugee camps, Tulkarm and Nur Shams, enter the 229th consecutive day under Israeli assault, marked by daily raids, detentions, and severe restrictions on civilians and their property. This also came as the Israeli military claimed that two soldiers were lightly wounded in an explosion in Tulkarm on Thursday, adding that it had sent Israeli forces to encircle the city.Dozens of worshipers are being paraded in a humiliating manner by Israeli occupation forces from one of the mosques of Tulkarm, north of the occupied West Bank. This is a continuation of the ongoing Israeli abduction campaign in the city. pic.twitter.com/JRVzUoHUOj
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"It looks like a collective punishment and a kind of show of force," a Tulkarm resident said.In Tulkarm, the occupation stages its theater of humiliation. dozens of young men seized at random, chained shoulder-to-shoulder, paraded through the streets under the rifles of around 20 soldiers.
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Collective punishment dressed as “security,” designed to break spirit but instead… pic.twitter.com/o4dhMICFI2
According to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) on Thursday, over 19,000 Palestinians from the West Bank have been arrested by Israeli forces since the start of the genocide in Gaza in October 2023. The groups added that the recent Israeli mass arrests in Tulkarm within just a few hours are “part of the same widespread campaign of detentions that has been ongoing in the Gaza Strip since the war began.” “These scenes echo numerous past incidents in which civilians were subjected to field interrogations and collective arrests, often accompanied by systematic abuse and humiliation,” they added. Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim called the campaign a “show of humiliation”. Israeli forces are “trying to remind everyone that if there’s any incident in any place in the occupied West Bank that they do not like, that they see as threatening their forces … then they’re going to crack down, not just on the perpetrators, not just on the villages, but on everyone in that vicinity,” Ibrahim said.The Israeli army is carrying out mass detentions of Palestinians in the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank. pic.twitter.com/u5LuswaXtq
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