IOF officer wounded as unit withdraws from Tulkarm
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The IOF surrounds a house owned by Palestinian Salama Badran, under the excuse that it was harboring those responsible for an operation that killed two settlers last November.
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Occupation soldiers deploy around the house they targeted in their invasion, in Tulkarm, Saturday (Palestinian media)
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Saturday during the IOF's invasion in Tulkarm, an officer in the "Al-Yamam" unit was injured and hospitalized as they withdrew from the town of Deir al-Ghosun in the occupied West Bank.
Our correspondent said that the withdrawing force after 12 hours included an Israeli military vehicle that was transporting several individuals, including martyrs and likely wounded Palestinians, from the vicinity of the besieged building.
Salma Badran owned the house that the occupation had besieged and Israeli occupation forces raided the building under the pretext that it housed several wanted Palestinian Resistance fighters.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas mourned 4 of its fighters, after they rose to martyrdom during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces, for more than 15 hours, in Deir Al-Ghusoun in Tulkarm, in the northern West Bank.
The martyrs were: Tamer Raafat Abdel Rahman Faqha (32 years old), Alaa Adeeb Abdel Jaber Shreiteh (45 years old), Asal Bashir Tawfiq Badran (42 years old), Adnan Tayseer Kamel Samara (40 years old).
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Photos of the Al-Qassam Brigades martyrs that rose in Deir Al-Ghusoun in Tulkarm, occupied West Bank
Resistance fighters reportedly confronted the force on Friday night and continued to defend their positions in the area up until Saturday noon. Due to the extended confrontations, the Israeli occupation ordered multiple reinforcements to the battle scene, after failing to complete their mission on Friday night.
The Israeli occupation first claimed that the building housed two Palestinian Resistance fighters who executed an operation in November 2023, which killed Israeli settlers, Al Mayadeen's correspondent explained.
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— قناة الميادين (@AlMayadeenNews) May 4, 2024
Furthermore, Al Mayadeen's correspondent said that Israeli occupation forces detained a Palestinian after he emerged from under the rubble of the destroyed home.
As journalists covered the unfolding developments in the town, Israeli occupation forces directly targeted a number of reporters, injuring one journalist.
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Several others suffered from suffocation after occupation forces shot tear gas canisters at them.
Israeli forces also worked on cutting off the electricity from the entire town, during the raid. The occupation's military also cut off emergency services attempting to tend to a Palestinian man who was shot dead by occupation forces in the area.
The occupation forces also stormed the city of Dura, south of al-Khalil in the West Bank, and fired stun grenades and tear gas.
The IOF conducted patrols in different parts of the city before withdrawing toward the military tower in the Khursa neighborhood, south of the city.
The occupation forces also stormed the areas of Qizoun, Shaaba Junction, and Wad al-Hariya, in addition to the town of Sa'ir north of al-Khalil, firing stun grenades and tear gas at the locals confronting their incursion in the village of al-Raihiya, south of al-Khalil.
