October 2023 Tulkarm incursion
Part of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
Date19−20 October 2023[1]
Location
Tulkarm, West Bank
Resulted inIsraeli withdrawal[1]
Parties
Casualties and losses
1 policeman killed[4]
10 policemen wounded[5]
13 killed[1]

Israel carried out raids at dawn on 19 October 2023 in Tulkarm and two refugee camps (Nur Shams and Tulkarm Camp) in the West Bank. During the operation, 13 Palestinians were killed and 25 others were injured. One Israeli police officer was killed with 10 others wounded by a IED. The invasion came on the thirteenth day of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war.[4]

Incursion

19 October

Israeli forces began invading the city at three o'clock in the morning on Thursday, 19 October 2023, and operations were particularly concentrated in the city's Nour Shams camp, in addition to the city's neighborhoods and the city's Tulkarm camp.[6]

At the beginning of the invasion, Israel used a group of military bulldozers to bulldoze the streets inside and around Nour Shams camp and destroyed the infrastructure. It also arrested a group of Palestinians and took control of a group of Palestinian homes in the city's neighborhoods.

About 12 hours after the start of the invasion, Israel used military helicopters loaded with missiles as air cover in the sky of the city for the first time since the second Palestinian intifada. Israel also bombed a group of Palestinians in the Nour Shams camp with a suicide plane, killing them.[7]

The Al-Quds Brigades group in the Tulkarm Battalion said that its members fired bullets at Israeli infantry forces and snipers inside the Tulkarm camp, and that they achieved casualties.[8]

The Israeli army announced that one of its officers was killed and 9 of its soldiers were injured as a result of the explosion of a Palestinian explosive device in the Nour Shams camp. The injured soldiers were transferred to the Israeli Meir Hospital.[9]

20 October

Explosions continued in the city at dawn and in the morning of the second day of the invasion, Friday, 20 October 2023, and the Tulkarm Battalion announced that a number of other Palestinian armed battalions and groups had been able to reach Tulkarm and support the Tulkarm Battalion in its fighting.[10]

At seven o'clock in the morning, Palestine time, on 20 October 2023, Israeli forces withdrew from the city and its two camps after an invasion that lasted for 30 continuous hours, leaving major destruction to the infrastructure, roads, and buildings, and destruction to the electricity, water, and Internet networks.[1]

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the number of Palestinians killed reached 13, including 5 children, “during the massacre committed by the occupation army.” The dead and injured were transferred to Thabet Governmental Hospital in the city.[11][12]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Asmar, Ahmed (20 October 2023). "Israeli army withdraws from Nour Shams refugee camp in West Bank". Anadolu Agency. Archived from the original on 22 October 2023. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
  2. ↑ "The West Bank tinderbox". Al-Ahram. 24 October 2023. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Tulkarm Battalion carries out strikes, offensive operations, ambushes, & bombings". Saba News Agency. 20 October 2023. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  4. 1 2 "12 Palestinians, 1 Israeli police killed in West Bank refugee camp clashes-Xinhua". Archived from the original on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
  5. 1 2 "Israel-Palestine war: Palestinians killed by Israeli drone during raid in occupied West Bank". Middle East Eye. 19 October 2023. Archived from the original on 20 October 2023. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
  6. ↑ "9 more Palestinians killed by Israeli army in West Bank, bringing death toll to 77". aa. Archived from the original on 21 October 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  7. ↑ "Eight Palestinians killed in West Bank clashes with Israeli forces". tbsnews. 19 October 2023. Archived from the original on 21 October 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  8. ↑ "Israeli raid on West Bank camp kills 12 Palestinians, officials say". reuters. Archived from the original on 20 October 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  9. ↑ "Israeli border officer, 13 Palestinians killed in West Bank clashes, airstrike". timesofisrael. Archived from the original on 19 October 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  10. ↑ "Nour Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm under tight Israeli army siege, streets bulldozed". wafa. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  11. ↑ "Massacre in Tulkarm... 13 Palestinians killed and the killing of one Israeli soldier in Nour Shams camp". alquds. Archived from the original on 21 October 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  12. ↑ "13 Palestinians killed in an Israeli assault on Nour Shams refugee camp". wafa. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
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