‘For the resistance’: Tulkarem residents face Israeli airstrikes and assassinations
Aftermath of the targeting of a three-story building in Nur Shams refugee camp in an Israeli airstrike, 30 June 2024
Shatha Hanaysha reports in Mondoweiss on 1 July 2024:
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.