Islam Jamil, a leader of the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, was martyred on Saturday in the Tulkarm camp after invading Israeli forces surrounded a building and engaged in hours of confrontations in the al-Salam neighborhood.

This comes shortly after the al-Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters targeted Israeli occupation forces in the al-Salam neighborhood and at the entrance to the Tulkarm refugee camp with heavy gunfire.

On their part, the resistance fighters of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, engaged in fierce battles with the invading occupation forces in the al-Salam Neighborhood.

"Our forces are raining down heavy fire on the infantry units surrounding the besieged house," the Brigades said.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades also noted that its fighters engaged in intense confrontations with the IOF around the besieged house using automatic weapons.

This comes as Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank early Saturday morning, advancing with several vehicles toward Nablus Street, adjacent to the Nur Shams camp.

IOF surrounded a house in the al-Salam neighborhood near the camp and targeted it with several Energa grenades, with no information provided at the time on the fate of those inside. The IOF also deployed additional reinforcements to the area and imposed a strict siege on it.

In a related development, the Palestinian Red Crescent announced that its teams in Tulkarm transported a Palestinian individual with a gunshot wound to the foot from the al-Salam neighborhood to the hospital for urgent medical care.

'Israel' uses parents as human shields in tactics against besieged son

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Ramallah confirmed that the IOF targeted an apartment they had surrounded with shells in Tulkarm.

Meanwhile, the IOF are persisting with their demolition and excavation operations surrounding the besieged apartment in the al-Salam neighborhood, east of Tulkarm. 

The IOF summoned the parents of one of the besieged youths, using them as human shields to pressure their son into turning himself in.

Residents reported receiving phone calls from the Israeli army, urging them to evacuate their homes in the apartment building where the besieged house is situated.

Violent confrontations erupted in the area, marked by powerful explosions and the ominous roar of low-flying reconnaissance aircraft overhead.