[1][3][4] In 1950, the Tulkarm Camp was established by UNRWA in the city, comprising an area of 0.18 square kilometres (0.07 sq mi).

[5] During the early months of First Intifada on 26 April 1989 Izam Omar Hasan, aged 8, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers.

On the same day Samar Muhammad Manid, aged 9, was shot in the eye with a plastic bullet.

In March 1990, responding to questions from a member of Knesset, Minister of Defence Yitzak Rabin stated the army was active in Tulkarm at the time of the deaths and that in the case of the 9-year-old the Military Police Investigation was continuing; in the case of the 8-year-old an officer was reprimanded for firing five plastic bullets breaking operational orders, but it could not be established if he killed the boy because no autopsy was carried out.

[6] On 31 May Muhammad Hamadan, aged 8 months, was shot dead by soldiers while being carried by his mother in Tulkarm refugee camp.