IOF withdraw from Tulkarm amid heavy confrontations against Resistance
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Following a three-day siege of the Nur Shams Refugee Camp in Tulkarm, Israeli forces have withdrawn their soldiers after facing challenging confrontations with the Palestinian Resistance.
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Scenes from the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm after the Israeli siege ended, allowing rescue teams to enter, April 20, 2024. (Military Media)
Al Mayadeen's correspondent in occupied Palestine reported that Israeli occupation forces partially withdrew their soldiers from the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank, following a three-day siege.
Reportedly, the IOF shut the Hamra checkpoint in the town of al-Aghwar after Resistance fighters carried out several shooting operations against their soldiers.
Our correspondent also relayed that an Israeli military jeep was targeted and fired at in Ramallah, in the West Bank.
This coincides with the announcement of the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Nur Shams after a three-day siege during which several Palestinians were martyred, while others were detained by the IOF.
The Israeli occupation consequently revealed that seven soldiers were wounded throughout their offensive, two of whom had sustained moderate injuries.
Earlier, the Palestinian Red Crescent stated that the death toll in the Nur Shams camp had risen to 14 martyrs in an incomplete tally.
What has been happening for 3 days now in Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm? pic.twitter.com/fjA2UnpWyk
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'The Resistance will persist'
A statement issued by Hamas called on Palestinians for an "uprising" as a response to the IOF's massacre in the camp.
The movement reported the "mobilization of the Palestinian people, who have been on high alert, to ignite the battle against the criminal Zionist occupation across all areas of confrontations in the West Bank and occupied al-Quds."
Hamas also stated that "the martyrdom of innocent Palestinians in Tulkarm, who have bravely and willfully confronted the occupation, proves that Zionist crimes would not cease and would not bring peace, and that the Resistance will persist, generation after generation, until victory and liberation."
It also encouraged all Palestinians in the West Bank to adhere to the public strike on Sunday and to light all confrontation areas against the occupation on fire. Moreover, the movement called for all the free people's rifles to be aimed at the Israeli occupation and its settlers.
On its part, the Fatah movement also announced a public strike on Sunday and called for escalation against the Israeli occupation "to avenge our people's blood in Tulkarm and Gaza". It called for full unity, cooperation, and mobilization in support of Tulkarm and Gaza.
⚡️Al-Quds Brigades - Tulkarm Battalion:
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Publishes a video “We will lure them from where they do not know.” pic.twitter.com/uox8i4e3op
A call to intensify confrontations
The Al-Mujahideen Brigades mourned “with more pride, dignity, nobility, and defiance, the righteous martyrs of the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm, who died in confrontations with the forces of the criminal Zionist enemy.”
It affirmed that "the crimes of the extremist Zionist government in Tulkarm and the West Bank were an extension of the monstrous Israeli aggression on the resilient Gaza Strip and a continuation of the enemy's defeated attempts to break the Resistance's will and remove it from the hearts of our youth, who persist in the quest for liberation and salvation."
The movement condemned the international community's silence, holding the US administration and its Western allies accountable for the occupation's crimes against Gaza and the West Bank and Palestinians everywhere.
Al-Mujahideen also denounced the policy of surrender that the authority's Oslo team instated, and the normalization of relations that some Arab regimes sought were all a result of the Israeli army's greed and the will of its criminal government to commit its crimes against the West Bank.
The Resistance movement further called on Palestinians in the West Bank and al-Quds to raise the flame of the Intifada against fascist, monstrous Zionism, so that their resistance would equal that of Gaza, which has been fighting for over six months, "because these murderers will only tremble at the sound resistance and confrontation."
Al-Mujahideen urged all armed factions and individuals capable of bearing arms to intensify the confrontation against the Israeli occupation which continues to violate the earth, the people, and the sacred symbols.
'Until victory'
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced in a report on Saturday the targeting of military checkpoints across the West Bank under the banner of Al-Aqsa Flood and in response to the occupation's crimes against the Palestinian people.
It affirmed that its fighters were able to engage the occupation's military checkpoints with heavy fire and clash with its forces at the same locations simultaneously, achieving direct hits until the movement's forces retreated safely.
The brigades noted that their operations would remain consistent until the revolution brought victory.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the number of martyrs in the West Bank since October 7 has risen to 483.
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