"Israeli forces arrested at least 1,000 Palestinians in a single day on Thursday during a wide-ranging raid on Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, Abdullah Kamil, the governor of the Tulkarem area, told local media. The raid came following a roadside bomb attack on an armored Israeli military vehicle earlier in the day, taking place near a checkpoint outside the city. The attack wounded two Israeli soldiers, according to the Israeli army radio."
"Kamil added that Israeli forces imposed a total closure on Tulkarem and conducted a campaign of home searches across the city, describing it as a "systematic policy." The explosion that targeted the armored vehicle as it exited Checkpoint 104, west of Tulkarem, was the first armed Palestinian action in the northern West Bank since the Israeli army forcibly expelled the residents of the refugee camps of Tulkarem and Jenin from their homes earlier this year."
Israeli forces arrested at least 1,000 Palestinians during a single-day raid on Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. The raid followed a roadside bomb attack on an armored Israeli military vehicle near a checkpoint that wounded two Israeli soldiers. Israeli forces imposed a total closure on Tulkarem and conducted citywide home searches, described by the governor as a "systematic policy." The explosion hit the vehicle as it exited Checkpoint 104 and was the first armed Palestinian action in the northern West Bank since residents were expelled from the Tulkarem and Jenin refugee camps earlier this year. Those camps were emptied during an assault dubbed " Operation Iron Wall." The Israeli army vowed to remain in the camps for at least a year to end armed resistance groups, and the Tulkarem Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.
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