Editorial Note: The following news reports are summaries from original sources. They may also include corrections of Arabic names and political terminology. Comments are in parentheses.

 

On Day 193 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 5 Massacres, 46 Palestinians Killed, 110 Injured, with a Death Toll of  33,843 and 76,575 Injuries

April 16, 2024 

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Editor's Notes:  

Here are some initial (not final) statistics, which show the Israeli war crimes against humanity, during the current Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip:  

By April 16, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 41,843+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (33,843) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on April 9, 2024: 8,000+). 

By April 16, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 76,575, and more than 2,520 civilians have been abducted from Gaza Strip.

By April 7, 2024, the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip resulted in more than 116,061 martyrs, wounded and missing Palestinians, 70% of whom were children and women.

By April 7, 2024, 14,350 children were killed, constituting 44% of the total number of martyrs (over 33,175) in Gaza Strip.

By April 16, 2024, 470 Palestinians who were killed, 4,847 who were injured, and 8,238, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023 (Some of the detainees have been released).

By March 28, 2024, about 12,091 Palestinians, from both the West Bank and Gaza, have been detained in 2023. About half of them were detained after October 7. This included 1,085 children and 300 women.

By March 8, there were 8,900 Palestinian women who were killed, 23,000 who were injured, but there are 2,100 women who are unaccounted for (whither they are dead, injured, or abducted).

By January 17, 2024, about 661 detainees from Gaza are currently languishing in Israeli prisons as “illegitimate combatants” (the Israeli term for Palestinian fighters) in addition to more than 50 women from Gaza, who are detained in the Damon prison, noting that 8 women of whom have been recently released.

By March 4, 2023, the death toll included 13,420+ children, 8,900+ women (more than 72.8% of the accounted for victims), 364 doctors and medical staff, 132 journalists, and 48 civil defense workers. 

The total number of detainees in the occupation prisons until the end of December was 8,800, and the number of administrative detainees was 3,484.

By March 4, 2024, the Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation forces killed 364 health personnel, destroyed 155 health institutions, 32 hospitals, 53 health centers, 126 ambulances, displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, and destroyed 360,000 housing units, about and 60% of the buildings and infrastructure in Gaza Strip.

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GMO reveals latest statistics on Israeli genocidal war on Gaza

Saturday 3-February-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip revealed on Saturday the latest and most significant figures on the Israeli ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 7.

This announcement comes as the latest updates from the GMO, showing the scale of human and material damage that resulted from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, on its 120th day.

The statistics demonstrated latest updates on the numbers of martyrs, missing, and wounded people in addition to the sick, displaced and prisoners as well as numbers of damaged structures and infrastructure.

Below are figures released by the GMO about Israel’s violations over the period of 120 days since the start of its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

(2,325) Massacres (34,238) Martyrs and missing people. (27,238) Martyrs who arrived in hospitals. (12,000) Child martyrs. (8,190) Female martyrs. (339) Martyrs of medical staff. (46) Civil defense martyrs. (122) Journalist martyrs. (7,000) Missing, 70% of whom are children and women. (66,452) Wounded.

(11,000) Wounded people in need of travel abroad for treatment, (life-saving and critical cases). (10,000) Cancer patients facing the risk of death. (700,000) Wounded with infectious diseases as a result of displacement. (8,000) Cases of viral hepatitis infection due to displacement. (60,000) Pregnant women at risk due to the lack of health care. (350,000) Chronic patients at risk due to blocked medications.

(99) Cases of arrest among health personnel. (10) Cases of arrests among identified journalists. (2 million) Displaced people in the Gaza Strip.

(140) Government headquarters destroyed. (100) Completely destroyed schools and universities. (295) Partially destroyed schools and universities. (183) Completely destroyed mosques. (264) Partially destroyed mosques. (3) Destroyed Churches.

(79,200) Completely destroyed housing units. (290,000) Partially destroyed and uninhabitable housing units. (66,000) tons of explosives dropped on Gaza. (30) Hospitals knocked out of service. (53) Health centers knocked out of service. (150) Partially targeted Health institutions. (122) Destroyed ambulances. (200) Destroyed archaeological and heritage sites.

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A new mass grave of Palestinian civilians who were massacred by Israeli occupation forces at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, earlier this month, April 16, 2024	Martyr child Malak Haniyya died today of her wounds sustained by an Israeli genocidal air strike earlier, which massacred her father, two uncles, and four children, April 16, 2024
After attempting to go back to Gaza city, displaced Palestinians returned to  the south of Gaza Strip, when they were attacked by Israeli occupation forces, April 14, 2024	Armed illegal Israeli settlers killed two Palestinian civilians and injured three in  Khirbet Al-Taweel in the West Bank, file, April 16, 2024
Palestinians grieving over the death of family members, who were killed by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Rafa'h, April 16, 2024	Aftermath of the Israeli genocidal bombardment of some houses in Rafa'h, April 16, 2024

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

"مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَٰلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَىٰ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا"  (الْمَائِدَةُ ، 5: 32).

"وَمَنْ يَقْتُلْ مُؤْمِنًا مُّتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَاؤُهُ جَهَنَّمُ خَالِدًا فِيهَا وَغَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَعَنَهُ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُ عَذَابًا عَظِيمًا" (النِّسَاءُ ، 4: 93).

"إِنْ أَحْسَنتُمْ أَحْسَنتُمْ لِأَنفُسِكُمْ ۖ وَإِنْ أَسَأْتُمْ فَلَهَا ۚ " (الإسْرَاءُ ، 17: 7). 

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

"Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul, unless for a soul, or for corruption in the land, it is as if he had killed humankind entirely" (The Holy Quran, Al-Ma-ida, 5: 32).

"And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, wherein he will abide eternally, and Allah has become angry with him, and has cursed him, and has prepared for him a great torment" (Al-Nisa, 4: 93).

"If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if you do evil, (you do it) to yourselves" (Al-Isra, 17: 7). 

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While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written human history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of Prophets David and Solomon , peace be upon them, and Solomon's son).

 After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus, peace be upon him, started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

No matter what the Zionists and their supporters do, they cannot change the will of God, Who promised the Holy Land to Abraham and his descendants, basically the Palestinian Muslims and Christians.

No matter how much persecution and aggression the Zionists and their supporters inflict upon the Palestinian people, they will never be able to force them out of the Holy Land, which Allah, praise to Him, promised for them, and kept His promise ever since.

This is a necessary brief background to understand the US-Backed Zionist Israeli continuous wars against the Arab nation generally, and the Palestinian people in particular, which included the wars of 1948, 1956, 1967, 1978, 1982, the brutal crushing of the two Uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2004), 2009, 2012, 2014, 2021, and the current genocidal war on Gaza (October 7, 2023-Fruary 26, 2024), which has culminated a blockade of Gaza since 2007. In addition, the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime launched so many covert operations, raids, and air strikes on many Arab states since 1948.

The following news stories are just examples, not a systematic record, of the Israeli occupation government abuse, mistreatment, and violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources:

http://english.wafa.ps/, https://english.palinfo.com/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/


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Editorial Notes about terms & names of people and places:

1. Names of people and places have been standardized to match standard Arabic grammatical rules.

2. Underlined letters and letters preceded by an apostrophe are references to Arabic letter sounds, which does not exist in the English alphabet.

3. The English letter i is equivalent to the Arabic short vowel known as kasra, as in Ibraheem and Qasim as well as in the English words sit and bit. So, it is incorrect to use it as a long vowel for such Arabic names as Jameel and Jibreel.

4. The English letter e is equivalent to the Arabi short vowel known as fat'ha, as in A'hmed and Mu'hammed.

5. It is more accurate to refer to the land-grabbing Israelis, who establish illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, as illegal Israeli settlers, than referring to them as colonists.

The term colony is a reference to a large entity or a country, such as American states before independence. It was also a reference to Egypt, and India, when they were British colonies.

In addition, the term "colony" represents a positive nostalgic theme, in the minds of native speakers of English, particularly in America and Britain.

6. It is more accurate to use the verb "abduct" than the verb "detain," in reference to taking Palestinian citizens by force to prisons and interrogation centers, by Israeli occupation regime soldiers. This is because the presence of the Israeli occupation regime forces is illegal in the Palestinian territories, and they have no jurisdiction over the Palestinian people.

Click here for more about using the apostrophe and the underlining of letters in the transliteration of Arabic names.

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Shocking scenes: Discovery of mass grave for Palestinians killed and buried by IOFs in Al-Shifa complex courtyard

Monday 15-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Sources at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City have announced the discovery of a mass grave in the courtyards of the complex, following a days-long search. This is considered one of the first mass graves found within the complex.

Some doctors at the complex provided testimonies confirming field executions that targeted doctors and displaced individuals inside the complex.

Sources at the complex reported on Monday that teams from the Ministry of Health and the Civil Defense extracted multiple bodies that appeared to have been recently buried, during the period when the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) were present in the complex during their recent incursion.

Al-Jazeera channel aired graphic and painful scenes of numerous bodies buried in a mass grave. According to eyewitness accounts, many of them were executed by the IOF soldiers.

Among the scenes shown were the body of an injured person with a cast on his leg, and the body of an elderly person who appeared to have been a patient receiving treatment at the complex, in addition to several individuals who were only wearing underwear.

Medical and civil defense teams have extracted several bodies that were found beneath the rubble, having succeeded in retrieving nine bodies so far.

Criminal investigation teams, along with the Ministry of Health and the Civil Defense, continue to work on searching for more bodies within this mass grave, despite fears of being targeted by the IOFs.

Rights activists and legal experts have called for the intervention of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, emphasizing the need for an immediate investigation by an independent international organization, given the compelling evidence available.

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'Hamas decries Israeli ‘war crimes’ at al-Shifa Hospital as mass grave found

Monday 15-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement said the new mass grave discovered at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza is “horrifying”.

The Movement said the mass grave includes “several decomposing bodies” that Israeli forces, using military bulldozers, hid under the rubble before withdrawing from the medical complex earlier this month.

Israeli occupation forces have attacked and besieged the hospital several times since October 7, leaving it largely in ruins. Thousands of medical staff, patients, and displaced families were at the facility during the attacks, with witnesses saying hundreds lost their lives as a result.

The latest discovery indicates that there are “no limits” to what Israeli forces are willing to do, 'Hamas said.

Their crimes are continuing because of the international community’s silence in the face of this “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza, the Movement added.

“The series of ongoing violations, including the discovery of mass graves in Al-Shifa, cases of execution, and the hundreds of bodies that remain under the rubble … are clear and well-documented war crimes,” it said.

'Hamas called on the international community to bring those responsible to justice.

The Government Media Office (GMO) earlier confirmed that the Israeli occupationarmy executed 400 Palestinians in the Al-Shifa Hospital, noting that specialized crews were able on Monday to recover 9 bodies from a mass grave discovered in the health facility.

Some of the people who had been killed and buried appear to have been patients at the hospital and had medical bandages attached to their bodies, the GMO added.

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Euro-Med slams Israeli attacks on displaced civilians trying to reach homes

Tuesday 16-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has condemned the Israeli occupation army for attacking thousands of displaced Palestinian citizens as they attempted recently to return to their homes in Gaza City and northern Gaza and killing a number of them.

“The Israeli army has targeted thousands of Palestinians whom it had forcibly displaced, preventing them from going back to their areas of residence in the northern Gaza Strip by using live ammunition and artillery shells. This has resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries, including women and children, and forced the remaining Palestinians to return to their places of displacement,” Euro-Med said on Monday.

Euro-Med accused the Israeli army of deliberately attacking thousands of Palestinian civilians on Sunday, killing and wounding dozens of them and persisting in its crime of forced displacement by preventing displaced civilians from crossing from the center and south of the Gaza Strip into their areas of residence in the north, despite the end of hostilities in most of those areas.

Euro-Med described such Israeli actions as “crimes against humanity” and “war crimes.”

“Israel has been committing serious crimes for more than six months now, including forced displacement, which is intended to end Palestinian life in the Gaza Strip. These crimes are all part of Israel’s larger campaign of genocide.”

“As thousands of displaced people attempted to cross, via Wadi Gaza Bridge — an Israeli military checkpoint on the coastal road known as Al-Rashid Street — to return to their residential areas in the northern Strip, Israeli forces killed at least five Palestinians, including a woman and a girl, and injured dozens more.”

Euro-Med said it had received identical testimonies confirming that “the Israeli army forces fired tear gas bombs, live ammunition, including from quadcopter aircraft, machine guns from naval boats, and artillery shells directly and deliberately towards thousands of civilians trying to return home.”

Euro-Med called on “the international community to pressure Israel to cease all its crimes in the Strip and abide by the rules of war, which forbid the deliberate targeting of civilians under any circumstances.”

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Al-Rishiq: “A permanent ceasefire is the only assurance that will put an end to the massacres”

Monday 15-April-2024

DOHA, (PIC)

Member of the 'Hamas Political Bureau, 'Izzat al-Resheq, confirmed on Monday, that “a permanent ceasefire is the only way to ensure the safety of our people and put an end to the ongoing massacres and bloodshed.”

“There is no concession to complete withdrawal and the free return of the displaced,” Al-Rishiq declared, emphasizing that there is no other option than a genuine deal with the resistance and that attempts by Netanyahu and his administration to force the release of the prisoners have failed.

He brought up the fact that the occupation seeks a short-term agreement to free its prisoners, following which the genocide and war will continue.

Al-Rishiq  also affirmed that the occupation has not and will not succeed in achieving any kind of victory, even after more than six months of its aggression.

He emphasized that the targeting of civilians and all facets of civilian life by the occupation is a sign of defeat rather than an impending victory.

He concluded by emphasizing that Israel is a pariah and that international public opinion supports our people and their just cause.

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Killing and Injuring of Palestinians in Ghazza (Gaza) by Israeli Occupation Regime Forces

On April 16 2024, Dr. Ashraf Al-Qidra, the Spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip resulted in 5 massacres, which resulted in the killing of 46 Palestinian civilians, and the injury of 110 others, in the past 24 hours. This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 33,843 and the injuries to 76,575, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.   

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Gaza death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip surpasses 33,843

GAZA, Tuesday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) –

 The Palestinian death toll from Israel's deadly offensive against the Gaza Strip since October 7th, 2023, has now soared to 33,843, medical sources confirmed on Wednesday.

Sources added that at least 76,575 others have also been injured in the onslaught.

At least 46 people were killed and 110 others were injured in Israeli attacks that took place in the last 24 hours, they added.

The sources said that many victims are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are still unable to reach them.

K.T.

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Day 193 of Genocide: Palestinians killed and injured in Israeli bombardment in Gaza

GAZA, Tuesday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) –

A number of Palestinian civilians were Tuesday killed, and others sustained various injuries, in the ongoing Israeli occupation bombing on various parts of the Gaza Strip, for the 193rd day.

WAFA correspondent said that a number of people were killed and dozens others were wounded when the occupation warplanes bombed Al-Fakhoura Martyrs Mosque, west of the Jabalya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, amid massive destruction in neighboring homes.

In the center of the Gaza Strip, intense Israeli artillery and missile shelling continues on Al-Nusayrat refugee camp for the sixth day in a row, resulting in at least five casualties and significant property damage.

The occupation aircraft bombed a number of homes in Al-Mughraqa and the neighboring city of Al-Zahraa.

The occupation artillery also fired a number of shells in the western area of ​​Dair El-Bala'h.

In Beit Hanoun, in the north, the occupation forces detained dozens of young men, after abusing them, according to the testimonies of their families, and forced the women and children to leave two shelter schools and leave the town, while artillery shells were fired at them.

In Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip, occupation artillery bombed several neighborhoods, especially in the eastern regions of 'Abasan, Bani Suhaila, and Khuza’a, amid massive destruction of property and completely destroyed infrastructure.

K.T.

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Granddaughter of Isma'eel Haniyya dies of wounds sustained in Israeli airstrike

Monday 15-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The granddaughter of Hamas Political Bureau Chief Isma'eel Haniyya has succumbed Monday morning to wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike that targeted her family last week.

Martyr child Malak has joined her father and two uncles in addition to four of Isma'eel Haniyya’s grandchildren who were martyred in the Israeli massacre that was committed on the first day of Eidul-Fitr when their car was targeted in an Israeli airstrike.

This brings the number of Haniyya’s family members including his children and grandchildren who fell as martyrs in recent Israeli airstrikes to 7, and to 10 since the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza on October 7, 2023.

Last Wednesday, three of Haniyya’s sons (Hazim, Ameer, and Mu'hammed) and three of his grandchildren were martyred in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a civilian car at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, north of the Strip.

This brings the number of child martyrs who have been killed in the Israeli aggression on Gaza since the beginning of the war to approximately 14,000 children.

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At least eight civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes in the central Gaza Strip

RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) – 

At least eight civilians today were killed and others injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted vehicles in the Al-Tuffa'h neighborhood in central Gaza City.

Earlier today, three civilians were killed and dozens were wounded in Israeli genocidal airstrike targeting north of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The occupation warplanes also bombed a gathering of displaced people near Al-Nusayrat, while the occupation forces blew up a number of residential homes north of the camp.

Meanwhile, for the second day in a row, the occupation forces continued to force all families in Bait 'Hanoun to flee.

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, killing at least 33,843 Palestinians and injuring over 76,575 others.

Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

Y.S.

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Three Palestinians killed in Israeli bombing in central Gaza

GAZA, Tuesday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) –

Three Palestinian citizens were Tuesday killed, and dozens were injured, in Israeli occupation bombing of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

For the sixth day in a row, the occupation forces continue intense missile and artillery bombardment north of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, killing and injuring dozens, and causing significant destruction of property.

K.T.

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Scores of civilians killed by Israeli genocidal airstrikes targeting different areas in Gaza Strip

GAZA, Thursday, April 16 , 2024 (WAFA) –

A score of Palestinians today were killed and others injured in Israeli genocidal airstrikes that targeted different areas in the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources said that the Israeli warplanes targeted Al-Fakhoura Mosque west of the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, causing several causalities.

The airstrike also caused a massive destruction to the neighboring areas and homes.     

In the center of the Gaza Strip, intense artillery and missile shelling continues on the Al-Nusayrat camp for the sixth day in a row, resulting in the at least five casualties and significant property damage.

Meanwhile, the occupation aircraft bombed multiple homes in Al-Mughraqa and the neighboring city of Al-Zahraa.

The occupation artillery also fired a number of shells in the western area of Dair El-Bala'h.

Additionally, the occupation forces detained dozens of Palestinian men after abusing them.

The heavily-armed soldiers further forced the women and children to leave two shelter schools who seek refugee.

In Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip, occupation artillery bombed several neighborhoods, especially in the eastern regions, 'Abasan, Bani Suhaila, and Khuza’a, amid massive destruction of proprieties.

Y.S. 

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Killing, Injuring, and Abduction of Palestinians in the West Bank by Israeli Occupation Regime Forces 

 

Two Palestinians killed, three injured, by illegal Israeli settlers, south of Nablus

Monday 15-April-2024

NABLUS, (PIC)

Two Palestinians were killed, and three others were injured after a group of the illegal Israeli settlers brutally attacked Khirbet Al-Taweel area, east of the town of 'Aqraba, southeast of Nablus, on Monday evening.

Local sources affirmed that armed settlers stormed the town and brutally attacked local homes and sheep herders under military protection.

Violent clashes erupted during the raids, during which the Israeli occupation forces heavily fired live bullets. Two local youths were shot and killed during the clashes.

The mayor of 'Aqraba identified the martyrs as Mu'hammed Ibraheem Ghazi Bani Jama’ and Abd Mahir Faris Bani Fadhl, whose bodies are still held by the Israeli occupation apartheid regime.

Three other citizens also sustained different bruises and injuries after being brutally beaten by the illegal Israeli settlers.

Hundreds of the illegal Israeli settlers, often escorted by Israeli occupation soldiers, surrounded Palestinian villages and attacked residents and property across the occupied West Bank on Friday and Saturday.

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Israeli forces detain 25 Palestinians across the West Bank

Ramallah 4/16/2024 Wafa -

Israeli occupation forces overnight and Tuesday detained at least 25 Palestinians from the West Bank, including a child and former prisoners.

The Detainees' and Ex-Detainees' Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society explained that the arrests took place in the governorates of Qalqilya, Hebron, Jenin, as well as Bethlehem and Jerusalem.

Moreover, the occupation forces continue to carry out widespread raids and torture, severe beatings, and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to widespread sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes.

The Commission and the PPS added that the total number of arrests after the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7 last year amounted to more than 8,270, including those who were arrested from homes, through military checkpoints, those who were forced to surrender themselves under pressure, and those who were held hostage.

They pointed out that these arrest campaigns constitute the most prominent, consistent and systematic policies used by the occupation forces, adding that they are also one of the most prominent tools of the “collective punishment” policy, which also constitutes a central tool for the occupation forces in targeting citizens, in light of the comprehensive aggression against Palestinian people and the ongoing genocide in Gaza after October 7th. 

It is noteworthy that the data related to arrest cases includes those who were kept in detention by the occupation authorities and those who were later released.

K.T

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IOFs kidnap several Palestinians from West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Tuesday 16-April-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnaped last night and at dawn Tuesday a number of Palestinian citizens in West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) raids, amid clashes in some areas.

According to local sources, armed clashes broke out with resistance fighters after Israeli occupation forces stormed the eastern neighborhood of Jineen City.

The IOFs reportedly kidnaped five young citizens during its raid in Jineen City.

In Qalqilya, the IOFs kidnaped four citizens from their homes in 'Habla town and carried out raids in the city.

In Toulkarm, the IOFs stormed different areas of the city, especially Ezbet Al-Jarad suburb where they stole donations from the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque, and deployed snipers on its rooftop as well as on the roof of a nearby building while carrying out raids on homes in the area.

In Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), the Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Duhaisha refugee camp, interrogated local residents and kidnaped a number of young men.

Two young men were also taken prisoners during IOFs raids on homes in Al-Khaleel (Hebron) City.

In Nablus, the IOFs went on the rampage through Balata refugee camp, destroying roads and infrastructure and randomly opening fire at homes. They also stormed Burqa town in the north of Nablus and patrolled its streets.

Resistance fighters and local youths clashed with Israeli occupation forces in Balata refugee camp and Burqa town.

In Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), Israeli occupation police forces kidnaped a 12-year-old child called Yazan Kayala from his home in Shu'fat refugee camp, as well as other young men from the holy city.

The IOFs rounded up 25 Palestinians in the West Bank on Monday including a young woman and ex-prisoners. 

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Israeli occupation forces raid Nablus-area camp, raze facade of store

NABLUS, Tuesday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) -

Israeli occupation forces dawn on Tuesday stormed Balata camp, east of Nablus, according to local sources. 

The sources told WAFA that a number of military vehicles stormed several neighborhoods of the camp and deployed snipers on rooftops, but no detentions or raids on homes were reported.

The same sources added that the occupation forces bulldozed the facade of a commercial store named Al-'Arayshi Mall, for the fourth time in a row.

K.T.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

 

Dozens of the illegal Israeli fanatic settlers break intoAl-Aqsa Mosque, in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Monday 15-April-2024

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

Dozens of the illegal Israeli fanatic Jewish settlers broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), on Monday under Israeli police protection and performed Talmudic rituals.

Sources in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) Governorate said that 238 settlers stormed the holy Islamic site via Al-Maghariba Gate in groups led by rabbis.

They added that the settlers, who were heavily escorted by Israeli police officers, performed religious rituals during their tours of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime policemen were deployed at all gates of the holy Islamic site to block entry of Palestinians into their holy site during the settlers’ tour.

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Israeli occupation forces notify for demolition of houses West of Ramallah

RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Israeli occupation authorities today notified for the demolition of seven Palestinian-owned homes in the village of Dair Ibzai', west of Ramallah.

Sources said that heavily-armed soldiers issued demolition notices against seven houses and each of them occupied an area of 150 square meters, under the pretext that they were built without a permit license.

These policies are part of Israel's systematic practices aimed at forcibly displacing Palestinians for the benefit of colonial expansion.

Y.S.

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Illegal Israeli settlers set up a new illegal settlement outpost in northern Jordan valley

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Thursday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) – 

A group of illegal Israeli settlers this evening began the groundwork for a new illegal colonial outpost in the northern Jordan Valley.

Mo'taz Bisharat, an official in Toubas governorate, said that a group of colonists set up a colonial outpost to the east of road 60 near Al-'Ain Al-Hilwa community.

Illegal Israeli settlement activities in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention which expressly prohibits the relocation of the civil population of the occupying power to the land of the occupied.

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UN voices concern over illegal Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank

GENEVA, Thursday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The United Nations expressed its deep concern over the escalation of the illegal Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank.

UN urgently called on the Israeli occupation forces to immediately stop their participation and support for colonist's attacks against Palestinians and their properties.

"The Israeli authorities called for holding the occupation forces the full accountable for supporting such crimes,” Ravina Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the UN Human Rights Office, told reporters in Geneva.

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Israeli occupation authorities issue decision to seize 64 dunums of Palestinian land near Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

The Israeli occupation authorities issued a military decision to seize 64 dunums of citizens’ land in the Al-Bouira area, located north of the city of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), in order to establish a residential and industrial colony.

This decision targets a vital area of the city, as this step is a prelude to the displacement of residents from the area, who number approximately 8,000 citizens, to seize and control approximately 800 dunams.

This decision comes in conjunction with settlement expansion, the pace of which has increased in light of the war on the Gaza Strip and attention has been drawn to it.

Today, Tuesday, the mayor of Hebron, Tayseer Abu Sunaina, and members of the municipal council called for an emergency meeting with the people of the region and the owners of the targeted lands, in the presence of a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the trustee of the Tameem Al-Dari Endowment, Ahmed Al-Tamimi, the governorate, the Wall and Settlement Authority, the security services, and the Hebron Chamber of Commerce and Industry. and relevant institutions, to discuss the military occupation’s decision to seize citizens’ lands and establish a colony on them.

The attendees affirmed their rejection and denunciation of this decision, warning of the continuation and increase of daily violations and attacks by the colonialists against citizens, stressing the importance of following up on the file legally through the legal team assigned to this case, calling on the international community and human rights institutions to intervene urgently and quickly to stop this blatant violation, which threatens the explosion of the situation in the region.

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Israel carries out wide-scale raid and search campaigns across Jineen area

Jineen, Thursday, April 16, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces today conducted wide-scale raid and search campaigns during a military incursion into the town of 'Arraba, south of Jineen.

Security sources said heavily-armed soldiers broke into the town of 'Arraba, raided its neighborhoods and deployed their forces across the streets and alleys, where they carried out wide-scale home raids and searches

Neither damage nor casualties were reported though.

In a related context, Israeli forces further set up a flying military checkpoint at the entrance to Kafirat, stopped long line of vehicles, searched them, and checked the identities of their occupants, causing traffic jam.

The soldiers detained a Palestinian for a period before releasing him.

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