[News] ‘For the resistance’: Tulkarem residents face Israeli airstrikes and assassinations

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‘For the resistance’: Tulkarem residents face Israeli airstrikes and
assassinations By Shatha Hanaysha
<https://mondoweiss.net/author/shatha-hanaysha/> July 1, 2024
<https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/for-the-resistance-tulkarem-residents-face-israeli-airstrikes-and-assassinations/>
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On Monday, July 1, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the killing
of a child and a woman and the injury of 4 Palestinians by the bullets of
Israeli forces during a raid on Nur Shams refugee camp and Tulkarem refugee
camp in the northern West Bank.

During the raid, which started on Sunday, June 30, Israeli aircraft bombed
a house in Nur Shams, assassinating Saeed Ezzat Jaber, 24, one of the
leaders of the Nur Shams Brigade.

The Nur Shams Brigade is an armed resistance group affiliated with the
al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

“They cannot overpower us on the ground, so they resort to bombing and
missiles with warplanes,” a member of the Nur Shams Brigade told
*Mondoweiss*. “My message to the occupiers is that if they fight us from
the sky, we will come out to them from below the earth.”

On Sunday afternoon, the Israeli aircraft bombed a house in the
Al-Manshiyya neighborhood in Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, resulting
in the killing of a young man and the injury of five others, two of whom
are in critical condition.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army radio reported that a drone bombed an apartment
it had been monitoring for some time, believing that members of the Nur
Shams Brigade had been present. Local sources, however, said that the
bombing was carried out by a missile from an Israeli warplane and that it
targeted a three-story house.

Photos captured by *Mondoweiss* during the funeral of the martyred Jaber
showed injuries to members of the Nur Shams Brigade who were present inside
the house that was bombed and survived the assassination attempt.
[image: Injured resistance fighters from the Nur Shams Brigade, Tulkarem.
(Photo: Shatha Hanaysha/Mondoweiss)]Injured resistance fighters from the
Nur Shams Brigade, Tulkarem. (Photo: Shatha Hanaysha/Mondoweiss)

One member of the Nur Shams Brigade told *Mondoweiss* that the airstrike
was a cowardly assassination operation.

“After assassinating commander Saeed Ezzat, the occupation announced that
its operation had failed because it did not succeed in killing the
Brigade’s leader, Abu Shuja,” he said. “The occupation thinks that by
killing us, it defeats us. But this is a victory for us. The occupation
cannot overpower us on the ground, so it resorts to bombing and killing
from the air.”

The Israeli army released a video of the moment the house was bombed in the
al-Manshiyya neighborhood, one of the most densely packed neighborhoods in
Nur Shams. The bombing caused damage to over 10 houses surrounding the
targeted house.

While touring the neighborhood, *Mondoweiss* observed that dozens of homes
were damaged. Some of the houses had their contents completely destroyed,
and windows were shattered over residents’ heads.

Ali Abbas, who lives in al-Manshiyya, said that he woke up at exactly 2
p.m. to the sound of the bombing.

“We couldn’t comprehend what had happened,” he told *Mondoweiss*. “Dust
filled the place, and the windows shattered over our heads. It was a
powerful strike. We didn’t understand what had happened in the
neighborhood. When we went out into the street, we found a three-story
building completely bombed.”

Taghreed Amarne, another resident, told *Mondoweiss* that her house was
only one meter away from the house targeted by the army, stating that she
had been sleeping and woke up to find the rubble of her home and its
furniture over her head, causing her to panic.

“There is no safety. I was in the bedroom, and my husband — he’s a man in
his seventies. I started running like crazy looking for him over the
glass,” Amarna said. “I give my home as a sacrifice to the resistance. What
matters is that the fighters are safe. Money and houses can be replaced. I
am not sad about my home. We are saddened by the loss of our young men. I
don’t care about the house. We will remain steadfast in our homes, and we
will not leave them until liberation.”

“We are like a miniature Gaza,” she adds. “Just as the Israelis bombed
houses on them, today they bombed ours. They bombed us while feeling safe
in their homes…but this will not make us retreat or leave our homes. On the
contrary, what happened today made me hold onto my home even more because I
know I am in the right.”
*Resistance strikes back*

Early on Monday, Israeli forces also stormed the city of Tulkarem,
besieging the entrances to the Nur Shams refugee camp and deploying snipers
on residential buildings. Palestinian resistance engaged in armed clashes
with the invading forces.

Israeli military vehicles headed towards Nur Shams, imposing a siege on the
camp. Meanwhile, Israeli bulldozers destroyed infrastructure within the
camp and along the adjacent street. They also began to sabotage and
excavate main roads in Tulkarem.

Israeli soldiers raided several homes and high-rise buildings surrounding
the camp, deploying snipers on rooftops. Confrontations erupted at the
entrance of Tulkarem refugee camp as military vehicles passed nearby,
accompanied by the sound of explosions in the area.

Journalists’ cameras captured the towing of an Israeli military armored
vehicle, a  Panther-model troop, which had been hit by a homemade explosive
device in Nur Shams.

The same model of military vehicle was destroyed in Jenin last week when
the Jenin Brigade conducted a “double ambush”
<https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/israeli-officer-killed-16-others-injured-in-jenin-refugee-camp-during-army-invasion/>
that killed an Israeli officer and injured 16 other soldiers.

The al-Quds Brigades in the West Bank announced through its Telegram
channel that its fighters in the Tulkarem Brigade
<https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/the-tulkarem-brigades-men-in-the-sun-resist-in-search-of-freedom/>
continued to confront the Israeli forces that stormed the Nur Shams camp
from the early hours of the morning.

In its statement, the Brigade announced that its fighters had damaged
Israeli military vehicles during the raid, stating, “The world saw today on
its screens how we turned their military pride and armored carriers into a
laughing stock, dragged away in defeat.”
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