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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">‘For the resistance’: Tulkarem residents face Israeli airstrikes and assassinations</h1>
<span class="gmail-post-author"><span class="gmail-by">By</span> <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/author/shatha-hanaysha/" title="Posts by Shatha Hanaysha" class="gmail-author gmail-url gmail-fn" rel="author">Shatha Hanaysha</a></span>
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<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/for-the-resistance-tulkarem-residents-face-israeli-airstrikes-and-assassinations/" class="gmail-date-link">July 1, 2024</a>
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<img src="cid:ii_ly4jas3o0" alt="IMG_8011-770x515.jpg" width="394" height="264"><br><p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>The Nur Shams Brigade is an armed resistance group affiliated with
the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic
Jihad.</p>
<p>“They cannot overpower us on the ground, so they resort to bombing
and missiles with warplanes,” a member of the Nur Shams Brigade told <em>Mondoweiss</em>. “My message to the occupiers is that if they fight us from the sky, we will come out to them from below the earth.” </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Photos captured by <em>Mondoweiss</em> 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.</p>
<img width="394" height="263" src="https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8146-1024x683.jpg" alt="Injured resistance fighters from the Nur Shams Brigade, Tulkarem. (Photo: Shatha Hanaysha/Mondoweiss)" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 25px;">Injured resistance fighters from the Nur Shams Brigade, Tulkarem. (Photo: Shatha Hanaysha/Mondoweiss)
<p>One member of the Nur Shams Brigade told <em>Mondoweiss</em> that the airstrike was a cowardly assassination operation. </p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>While touring the neighborhood, <em>Mondoweiss</em> observed that
dozens of homes were damaged. Some of the houses had their contents
completely destroyed, and windows were shattered over residents’ heads.</p>
<p>Ali Abbas, who lives in al-Manshiyya, said that he woke up at exactly 2 p.m. to the sound of the bombing. </p>
<p>“We couldn’t comprehend what had happened,” he told <em>Mondoweiss</em>.
“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.”</p>
<p>Taghreed Amarne, another resident, told <em>Mondoweiss</em> 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. </p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<h2><strong>Resistance strikes back</strong></h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The same model of military vehicle was destroyed in Jenin last week when the <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/israeli-officer-killed-16-others-injured-in-jenin-refugee-camp-during-army-invasion/">Jenin Brigade conducted a “double ambush”</a> that killed an Israeli officer and injured 16 other soldiers. </p>
<p>The al-Quds Brigades in the West Bank announced through its Telegram channel that its fighters in the <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/the-tulkarem-brigades-men-in-the-sun-resist-in-search-of-freedom/">Tulkarem Brigade</a> continued to confront the Israeli forces that stormed the Nur Shams camp from the early hours of the morning.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
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