DUBAI, December 26. /TASS/. The Israeli Defense Forces troops are conducting another series of raids in the West Bank city of Tulkarm and its suburbs, the Al Jazeera TV channel reported.

According to it, more than 100 combat vehicles and bulldozers entered the Palestinian Nur Shams refugee camp, the exits of which are blocked. Similar operations are underway in the suburbs of Atil, the villages of Deir al-Ghusun and Zeita.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 when militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian movement Hamas staged a surprise attack on Israeli territory from Gaza, killing residents of Israeli borderline kibbutz settlements and taking over 200 hostages, including women, children and the elderly. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians, and has been delivering air strikes on Gaza as well as some parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also underway in the West Bank.