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Israeli tear gas canisters set fire to lands near Tulkarem
TULKARM, Monday, May 03, 2021 (WAFA) – The heavy firing of tear gas canisters and stun grenades by Israeli forces caused fire to break out in Palestinian-owned lands in the village of Fa run, south of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, local sources confirmed.
Witnesses told WAFA that Israeli soldiers fired tear gas canisters and stun grenades toward Palestinian workers attempting to enter Israel via the apartheid barrier to reach their workplaces, causing nearby lands to catch fire.
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Apr. 3, 2021 9:16 PM
Not one empty bed is left in the coronavirus wards in Tul Karm in the West Bank. The city has two hospitals: a government-run one where a coronavirus ward was opened at the beginning of the pandemic, and one run by the Red Crescent Society that was converted into a coronavirus hospital when the government one was full.
The city has seven ventilators, 10 intensive care beds and only 33 beds in its coronavirus wards. Over the past week, 17 people in the district died of COVID-19, and the city is now under curfew at night and on weekdnds. The entire West Bank is at 94 percent occupancy for coronavirus beds at hospitals – in intensive care wards the number is 100 percent.
Figures have soared from just three in all of 2018 to 23 last year and 14 since the beginning of 2021; workers pass through breaches in security barrier