GAZA (National Times) The Wafa news agency reports that Israeli forces are inflicting “widespread destruction” in the city and refugee camp of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank as a large-scale military operation in the area entered a third day.

Citing its correspondents on the ground, the agency said Israeli forces dropped bombs on the Tulkarem refugee camp, causing fires to break out in al-Shamaliya neighbourhood.

At least eight people sought treatment for suffocation, it reported.

Israeli snipers were stationed on roofs of tall buildings, while spy drones continued to fly at altitudes and bulldozers damaged infrastructure, with “no street or alley left without destruction,” it reported.

The Israeli siege of al-Israa and Thabet school was also ongoing, it added.

The continued Israeli operation in Tulkarem comes after Israeli forces killed three people, including a 15-year-old child on Tuesday, and destroyed power, water and sewage networks across the Tulkarem refugee camp.