‘Show of humiliation’ as Israeli army lays siege to West Bank’s Tulkarem

Palestinians look wide arrests, displacement successful the occupied territory arsenic Netanyahu pushes colony expansion.

Israeli forces person sealed disconnected entrances to Tulkarem successful the bluish occupied West Bank, further escalating a run of raids, arrests and collective punishment that has displaced thousands of Palestinians arsenic the subject relentlessly destroys Gaza.

Footage from Thursday nighttime shared by residents showed soldiers marching Palestinians successful lines done the streets successful what galore described arsenic a humiliating amusement of force.

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Tulkarem Governor Abdullah Kamil appealed to the planetary assemblage connected Friday, urging the United Nations General Assembly, the Human Rights Council, and humanitarian groups to enactment against what helium called “crimes” being committed against the city’s astir 100,000 residents.

Kamil said Israeli forces were “arbitrarily and unjustly” carrying retired wide arrests, storming homes, destroying spot and “terrorising children and women”, according to the Palestinian quality bureau Wafa.

On Thursday, Israeli forces successful Tulkarem were allegedly struck by what Israel called an explosive instrumentality that injured 2 Israeli soldiers.

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Doha, described “videos of the Israeli forces dragging hundreds and hundreds of Palestinians from their homes, from their cafes, from adjacent a store … successful a amusement of humiliation”.

“They’re trying to punctual everyone that if determination is immoderate incidental successful immoderate spot successful the occupied West Bank that they bash not similar … they’re going to ace down, not conscionable connected the perpetrators … but connected everyone successful that vicinity,” said Ibrahim.

She added that Israel’s crackdown has displaced “tens of thousands of Palestinians retired of their homes … rendering the city, the exile camps into shade towns”. Ibrahim said Palestinians spot this arsenic portion of a broader policy, with Israeli forces trying “to ace down connected Palestinians and truly … punctual them who has the precocious manus and power successful the occupied West Bank”.

Elsewhere successful the West Bank, 5 young Palestinians were changeable and wounded by Israeli forces successful the colony of Deir Jarir, Wafa reported. One of the injured was arrested earlier receiving aesculapian treatment, according to the colony council. Israeli soldiers besides closed the colony entranceway for respective hours.

Israeli troops stormed Nablus and the adjacent municipality of Beit Furik astatine dawn connected Friday, raiding respective neighbourhoods successful the Old City and surrounding areas.

Witnesses said shops were ransacked, portion successful Beitin, eastbound of Ramallah, Israeli soldiers seized a location and converted it into a subject barracks.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the raids, saying planetary soundlessness had emboldened Israel to property up with unilateral measures aimed astatine destabilising the territory.

‘There volition beryllium nary Palestinian state’

The escalation comes arsenic Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advances an amerciable colony enlargement program that would each but eliminate the anticipation of a Palestinian state.

On Thursday, helium signed an statement to propulsion guardant with operation successful the alleged E1 area adjacent the amerciable Israeli colony of Maale Adumim, respective kilometres to the eastbound of Jerusalem.

“We are going to fulfil our committedness that determination volition beryllium nary Palestinian state. This spot belongs to us,” Netanyahu declared astatine the signing ceremony, adding: “We are going to treble the city’s population.”

The project, which has been driven by far-right ministers successful the government, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, covers a 12sq km (4.6sq mile) agelong of onshore and foresees 3,400 caller homes for Israeli settlers. Critics accidental the program would chopped disconnected ample parts of the occupied West Bank from East Jerusalem portion linking unneurotic large colony blocs.

Palestinians presumption East Jerusalem arsenic the superior of their aboriginal state. Under planetary law, each Israeli settlements successful occupied territory are illegal, careless of whether they person Israeli authorities approval.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies