Palestinian shot dead in ongoing Israeli offensive in Nur Shams camp

TULKARM: The Israeli occupation army today shot dead a Palestinian in the course of its ongoing offensive in Nur Shams refugee camp, east of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, according to WAFA correspondent. She said that a young man was killed by the Israeli military gunfire at the Nur Shams camp neighbourhood of ad-Damg. She added that the gun-toting soldiers were preventing ambulances from approaching the scene. The occupation army today unleashed a large-scale aggression against Nur Shams refugee camp, triggering confrontations and causing extensive destruction. The army, accompanied by two bulldozers, one of them a D9, stormed and imposed a strict siege on the camp, deploying military vehicles on all axes leading to the camp and closing the main street amid the flying of reconnaissance aircraft in the area. Israeli bulldozers deliberately destroyed main streets, alleyways, water and wastewater networks on their way to and inside the camp, and tore down walls, stores and parts of houses in the camp. Additionally, the Israeli forces sealed off the entrances of the camp with earth mounds and targeted electricity poles and wires along the main Nablus Street adjacent to the camp, causing power outages in parts of the area. Scores of soldiers showed up at dozens of houses in the camp, broke inside, conducted thorough searches, dragged the occupants to a single room and interrogated them. Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA