The Israeli raids on the Nur Shams and Fawwar refugee camps adopted a sample of lethal assaults which have killed greater than 300 individuals within the West Financial institution since October 7, say medical doctors and politicians.
Fawwar, occupied West Financial institution — It was one o’clock at evening when the casualties began arriving at Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital within the metropolis of Tulkarem.
There have been six of them, all with important wounds, mentioned Dr Iyad al-Aqqad, the hospital’s medical director. They had been victims of an Israeli bombing on the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, throughout a raid that began on the evening of December 26 and continued into the early hours of the next day.
It was the second time in 24 hours that Israeli forces had stormed the camp, coming into a number of properties, and dropping at the least two bombs, together with on an industrial facility. Israeli troopers are sometimes accused — each within the occupied West Financial institution and within the Gaza Strip — of not permitting ambulances to succeed in the wounded promptly. That’s what occurred in Nur Shams too, say witnesses and medical doctors — a two-hour delay throughout which the six males had been bleeding.
By the point they had been delivered to al-Aqqad’s hospital, it was too late to avoid wasting them.
The six joined a ballooning record of Palestinians killed within the West Financial institution by Israeli troopers and unlawful settlers since October 7, when a Hamas assault on southern Israel sparked a lethal warfare of retribution targeted on — although not restricted to — Gaza. Since then, Israeli bombing and artillery assaults have killed greater than 21,000 individuals in Gaza, whereas Israeli troopers and settlers have killed greater than 300 individuals within the West Financial institution. No less than 56 individuals have been killed in Tulkarem governorate itself, in keeping with the Shireen Observatory, a non-profit group that tracks killings and arrests by Israeli forces.
Tens of hundreds extra have been injured in Gaza and the West Financial institution. Quickly after the six victims of the Israeli bombing on Nur Shams arrived early on December 27, a number of different Palestinians with accidents from the assault had been delivered to Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital. Three of them had critical accidents to their higher our bodies.
And all of them had harrowing tales to narrate to the medical doctors.
Radwan Balibla, the top of the Tulkarem Docs’ Syndicate, mentioned a soldier had stabbed one of many victims within the neck whereas he was being moved to the hospital in an ambulance. Others mentioned they’d been crushed within the ambulances.
“They were told, ‘We do not want you to reach the hospital and survive’,” Balibla advised Al Jazeera.
Simply hours later, Israel launched one other raid, this time within the Fawwar refugee camp close to Hebron. As Israeli troops entered properties and occupied the streets for hours, they confronted confrontations with locals and responded by opening hearth.
Ahmed Muhammad Yaghi, 17, and Ibrahim Majed al-Titi, 31, had been killed. Ambulance crews within the camp supplied first support to them and transferred them to Yatta Governmental Hospital, however they died because of their important accidents. Six different injured individuals had been transferred to hospitals to obtain therapy.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, the consultant of the Fatah motion within the Fawwar camp, Muhammad Abu Esh, mentioned Israeli forces are storming the camp on an nearly every day foundation. Israel’s military has additionally closed the entrances to the camp since October 7, hampering the motion of Palestinians by stopping entry and exit. In the meantime, amid more and more frequent raids, the variety of detainees has additionally grown to 100 in Fawwar.
Abu Esh mentioned Israel had deployed snipers inside buildings and homes through the raid this week. But, he added, “Israel is mistaken if it thinks it is scaring the people al-Fawwar”, particularly its youngsters. “No attacks ever will.”