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.

 

8,625 Palestinians Killed, 2,400 Under the Rubble, 21,800 Injured, in 25 days of the Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza

October 31, 2023 

 

Among those killed in Gaza, there were 3,542 children and 2,187 women.

123 Palestinians were killed, and 2,007 injured by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank.

Part of the Palestinian victims who were killed by the Israeli genocidal air strikes on Jabalya, on October 31, 2023	Some of the Palestinian victims who were killed by the Israeli genocidal air strikes on Jabalya, on October 31, 2023
Site of an Israeli genocidal air strike on Gaza, October 31, 2023	Site of the Israeli genocidal air strike on Jabalya, where 100 Palestinians were killed, 400 were injured, dozens under the rubble, file, October 31, 2023

A Palestinian man being given oxygen while still under the rubble, following one of the Israeli genocidal air strikes on Gaza, file, October 31, 2023	One hundred Palestinian civilians were killed, 400 were injured, dozens under the rubble, who were targeted by an Israeli genocidal air strike on Jabalya, on October 31, 2023
Children have been the main victims of the Israeli genocidal air strikes on Gaza, October 31, 2023	A view of Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood, which was devastated by Israeli genocidal air strikes on Gaza, October 31, 2023
The Orthodox Cultural Center in the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City after it was hit by Israeli missiles, file, October 31, 2023	Site of one of the Israeli genocidal air strikes on Gaza, October 31, 2023
Palestinian teenager, Mu'hammed Al-Kharraz,14, died of wounds he sustained yesterday from Israeli occupation soldiers' fire, in Zawata, Nablus, October 31, 2023	Palestinian elderly Raw'hi Sawafta, 70, has been shot and killed by the Israeli occupation forces in a raid in the West Bank city of Tubas, October 31, 2023

 

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).

 

"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).

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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 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.

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 the transliteration of Arabic 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 nams 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.

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Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza, through Denying Water, Food, Medicine, Fuel, and Electricity

“Amount of water trickling into Gaza is a drop in the ocean compared with desperate level of need” – Action Aid – Palestine

RAMALLAH, Monday, October 30, 2023 (WAFA) - 

Coordinator of Advocacy and Communication for Action Aid-Palestine, Riham Ja'fari, said that the amount of water trickling into Gaza is a drop in the ocean compared with the desperate level of need, stating that: “Families may face death by dehydration as the world watches.”

She said that Action Aid is in communication again with its staff and partners following Friday’s blackout. “They are telling us that the situation is catastrophic, scarcity of water is becoming life-threatening, and people are dehydrated and becoming sick. Many can’t access clean water for drinking and resort to drinking salty or unclean water.”

“Access to safe water and basic sanitation is a legal entitlement. All essential aid, including water, food, medicine, and fuel must be allowed into Gaza immediately and in sufficient quantity before people start to die from dehydration or disease. For as long as it continues, the deprivation of goods and services essential for life potentially constitutes collective punishment of the people of Gaza; this would be a serious violation of international humanitarian law.”

Action Aid maintained that at a bare minimum, people need 3 liters of water to drink per day and not become dehydrated. In Gaza right now, this tiny amount is no longer available, and many are resorting to drinking dirty or salty water. On top of this families are unable to clean themselves, their clothes, or flush toilets and the risk of deadly waterborne and other infectious diseases spreading is growing by the minute.

An Action Aid staff member in Gaza described the horrific situation stating: “Sadly, nowhere is safe in the Gaza strip, with no access to water or electricity. As a woman, I’m suffering. I don’t have access to the basic necessities of life. There is no water. I suffered during my period. There was no water available for me to get clean from my period blood. I couldn’t provide sanitary pads for my own needs throughout my period.”

Lack of water and the threat of waterborne diseases could cause a health catastrophe for hundreds of thousands of people and an alarming threat to the lives of pregnant and breastfeeding women and their newborn children, who are struggling to produce the milk they need to feed their babies and keep them alive, said a statement issued by Action Aid.

A mother sheltering in a UN school told Action Aid: "The water we drink is not suitable for human consumption. I mean, even animals can’t drink it. But we have no other choice, this is the only available water. We need to drink. We will die anyway, but our children cry and scream because of hunger and thirst." 

Once again, "Action Aid" called on world leaders to employ all available means to stop the ground offensive and air strikes, ensure a ceasefire is in place, de-escalate the violence, and protect civilians, particularly women and children. “The time for action is now.”

T.R.

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

 500 casualties in a new Israeli massacre in Gaza

GAZA, (PIC) +-

Israeli warplanes bombed the densely-populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday killing 100 civilians and wounding 400 in a preliminary estimate.

Dozens remain under the rubble of the destroyed buildings, medical sources said.

The health ministry spokesman said that the casualties in the Jabalia massacre might exceed those murdered in the shelling of the Ma’madani (Baptist) Hospital.

Local sources said that the warplanes fired 20 missiles and huge American-made bombs on a residential block that contains 20 houses, destroying them completely over the heads of their occupants.

Iyad Al-Buzom, the interior ministry spokesman, said that the Israeli warplanes dropped at least six bombs on the camp, each one weighing more than 1,000 kilograms. He added that the majority of those killed were women and children.

More than 120,000 citizens inhabit the Jabalya refugee camp, whose total area is 1.4 square kilometer.

The death toll in Gaza rises to 8,525, including 3,542 children, says the Palestinian Health Ministry

October 31, 2023

GAZA, (PIC) +-

At least 8,525 Palestinians, including 3,542 children and 2,187 women, have been killed in the ongoing Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7, the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday. An additional 21,543 Palestinians have been wounded.

The spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Ashraf Al-Qudra, confirmed that 18 massacres have been carried out in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, resulting in the killing of 216 people.

926 massacres have been carried out in the Gaza Strip, he said, leading to thousands of martyrs, while 2,000 of them are still under the rubble, including 1,100 children.

He asserted that 15 hospitals and 32 primary care centers have become out of service, and 25 ambulances have been bombed. 130 health personnel have also been killed in the attacks.

Al-Qudra pointed out that the Israeli occupation is still threatening the Turkish Friendship Hospital, urging Turkish President Recep Erdogan, not to allow the Turkish humanitarian landmark in Gaza to be destroyed.

He further said that the Israeli warplanes repeatedly targeted the vicinity of Al-Quds Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital.

He also called on Egypt to open the Rafa'h land crossing before the entry of medical aid, fuel, and medical delegations.

Israeli Genocidal Atrocities in Gaza Never Seen Before, Says MSF

October 31, 2023

GAZA, (PIC) +-

Médecins sans frontiers (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders reiterated its call on Monday for an immediate ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip to prevent more deaths and allow the entry of desperately needed humanitarian supplies.

MSF said in a statement: “Northern Gaza is being razed to the ground, but the entire Strip is also being bombed. There is no safe place in Gaza for civilians to take shelter.”

“The UN General Assembly resolution calling for a humanitarian truce has done nothing so far to rein in the widespread and indiscriminate violence against civilians in Gaza. The international community must take stronger action to stop the bloodshed,” it added.

“People are being killed and forcibly displaced from their homes, and water and fuel are running dangerously low. Atrocities are being committed on a scale never before seen in Gaza,” MSF added.

Hospitals are running out of medical supplies. Earlier this week, Dr. Mohammed Obeid, an MSF surgeon in Gaza, described the situation as following: “Hospitals are flooded with patients. Amputations and surgeries are being carried out without proper anesthesia. And morgues are flooded with dead bodies.”

The medical organization also underlined that the communication blackout has limited the ability of doctors to coordinate their work and help large numbers of patients who were seeking medical treatment. The fuel cut off also left thousands of the trapped people under the rubble as well as pregnant women and the elderly unable to seek desperately needed help. MSF lost contact with most of its workers due to the communication blackout. 

“Across Gaza, the number of injured people in need of urgent medical assistance far exceeds the capacity of the health system, which currently has around 3,500 beds. According to the local Ministry of Health, more than 7,760 people have been killed and 21,400 people have been injured in Gaza since October 7. So many victims in such a short time are unheard of, even compared with previous large-scale Israeli offensives,” MSF said.

“Health facilities such as Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where some MSF staff continue to work, are overwhelmed with patients. Israeli military orders to evacuate hospitals across northern Gaza are dangerous and inhumane,” it added.

The medical humanitarian organization stated that “As of Friday night, Al Shifa Hospital was at full capacity with patients seeking medical treatment, and tens of thousands of others seeking safe shelter. Under international humanitarian law, patients, health workers, and health facilities must be protected at all times.”

For his part, MSF International President Dr. Christos Christou said: “Helpless people are being subjected to horrific bombing. Families have nowhere to run or to hide, as hell is unleashed on them. Water, food, fuel, medical supplies, and humanitarian aid in Gaza need to be urgently restored. We need a ceasefire now.”

Christou underlined that “the entire population of Gaza, more than 2.2 million people, are suffering under the Israeli siege. This is collective punishment, which is prohibited under international humanitarian law.” 

He affirmed that Israeli authorities continue to prevent the entry of fuel into Gaza, which is essential for powering hospitals as well as the desalination plants that produce clean drinking water. 

“Prior to October 7, between 300 to 500 supply trucks crossed into Gaza every day, where most people were already dependent on humanitarian aid due to a years-long blockade. Since the Rafa'h border crossing reopened on October 21, only 84 aid trucks have entered Gaza, according to the UN humanitarian agency. This is a vastly inadequate response to the constant and growing needs in Gaza,” he explained.

“We are ready to increase our aid capacity in Gaza. We have teams on standby ready to send medical supplies and to enter Gaza to support the emergency medical response, as soon as the situation allows it. But as long as the bombing continues with the current intensity, any effort to increase medical aid will inevitably fall short,” Dr. Christou concluded. 

Dozens killed and wounded, most of them civilians, in the continuous Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip

GAZA, Tuesday, October 31, 2023 (WAFA) –

Dozens of Palestinians were killed and injured today in continuous and violent Israeli airstrikes on different areas in the Gaza Strip.

Strikes were recorded at two locations in al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City, where six people were killed at one location, at the Greek Orthodox Cultural Center in the Tel Al Hawa neighborhood west of Gaza City, which was hit by two missiles totally destroying it and damaging the Greek Orthodox school and nearby houses and businesses, and at al-Sabra area in Gaza City, where six people were killed and others wounded.

Airstrikes were also recorded in Rafa'h in the south of the Gaza Strip where two houses were targeted killing and wounding all those inside them.

The Ministry of Health said the number of people killed in Gaza since the start of the aggression on October 7 surged to 8525, including 3542 children, and 2187 women.

M.K.

Dozens of Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli massacres in Gaza

GAZA, Tuesday, October 31, 2023 (WAFA) - 

Israeli occupation regime warplanes Tuesday committed heinous massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of citizens, most of them children and women, in the ongoing aggression for the 25th day in a row.

WAFA correspondent, citing Abu Yousuf Al-Najjar Hospital in the city of Rafa'h, south of the Gaza Strip, said there were children killed and a number of injuries after Israeli warplanes targeted a house owned by 'Hijazi family, west of the city.

Israeli warplanes destroyed a four-story residential building from above its residents belonging to Habeeb family at Habeeb Junction in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, amid appeals for ambulances to quickly arrive due to the presence of a large number of dead and wounded, the majority of whom were children, women, and the elderly, lying under the rubble.

13 civilians, all of them women and children, were killed after Israeli occupation warplanes targeted a house in al-Zawayida area in the central Gaza Strip.

Israeli warplanes bombed the vicinity of the Gaza European Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, causing casualties among citizens.

A number of citizens were injured after Israeli warplanes bombed a house for Al-Raqab family in the town of Bani Suhayla, east of the city of Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation artillery violently bombed the neighborhoods of Al-Zaytoun, Al-Shuja'iya, and Al-Tuffa'h, east of Gaza City, and east of Jabalya, Bait 'Hanoun, and Shaikh Zuwyid, north of the Gaza Strip, with dozens of rocket, which fell on citizens' homes, causing dead and wounded.

Israeli warplanes bombed with missiles the residential towers area in Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, causing injuries among citizens.

Paramedics and citizens recovered 18 dead and a number of wounded after the occupation warplanes bombed a house owned by Abu Shammala family in the Al-Zawaida area in the central Gaza Strip. They were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the neighboring city of Dair El-Bala'h.

The Israeli occupation regime warplanes continue their fierce aggression against residential neighborhoods, property and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip for the 25th day in a row, claiming the lives of citizens and causing massive destruction of homes, buildings, towers and apartments.

K.T.

Fourteen members of two families killed in Israeli shelling of house in Gaza

GAZA, Monday, October 30, 2023 (WAFA) –

Fourteen members of two families were killed tonight in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Strip.

Fourteen people were killed in an Israeli bombardment of a house in the al-Da'wa area, in the said camp. The martyrs are from Al-Maqosi and Al-Bakri families, who were displaced from the north.

T.R.  

Five people killed, others injured in Israeli airstrikes on southern Gaza, Israel targets vicinity of Gaza's only cancer hospital for 2nd time

GAZA, Monday, October 30, 2023 (WAFA) –

Five civilians were killed and at least 15 others were injured this evening in Israeli airstrikes targeting a motorcycle and a vehicle in the al-Amal neighborhood to the west of Khan Younus city, in the southern besieged Gaza Strip.

In the meantime. Director of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza, Sub'hi Sukayk, reported that Israeli warplanes targeted the hospital again this evening after shelling its vicinity with air raids last night, which caused heavy damage to the hospital, including failure to some electro-mechanical systems, and endangered the lives of the exhausted number of medical staff, in addition to the hundreds of patients and wounded, and the thousands of people who sought refuge there.

The Friendship Hospital is the only hospital for cancer patients in the Gaza Strip.

T.R.

Dozens killed and injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

GAZA, Monday, October 30, 2023 (WAFA) -

Dozens of Palestinian citizens Monday evening were killed, in ongoing bombing by Israeli occupation aircraft on various areas of the Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent said that the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a house owned by Abu Rizq family in Rafa'h, south of the Gaza Strip, killing 7 citizens, noting that the search for missing people is still ongoing.

Two citizens were also killed in a raid east of Rafa'h, south of the Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent added that Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a house in the city of Rafah, killing two, while heavy artillery bombed citizens' homes east of the city of Rafa'h intensively and violently.

There were also a number of dead and several injuries in an Israeli bombing that targeted Tal Al-Qamar Hall, east of Al-Nusayrat in the central Gaza Strip, where there are displaced people.

A number of citizens were killed and others were injured in the bombing of a house in Al-Amal neighborhood, west of Khan Younus, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

A citizen was killed in three raids on Camp 2 in Al-Nusayrat.

K.T.

427 higher education students, 12 members of school staff killed in Palestine since start of Israeli aggression on Gaza on October 7 - Ministry

RAMALLAH, Monday, October 30, 2023 (WAFA) -

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research said today that 427 students and 12 members of the school’s staff in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, pointing out that 85% of the fatalities were recorded in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement, the ministry explained that the actual number of fatalities is likely to be higher as a result of the occupation’s round-the-clock bombardment and massacres and the presence of large numbers of victims who are still trapped under the rubble in the Gaza Strip.

The ministry indicated that 11 higher education buildings were completely or partially damaged, including nine in the Gaza Strip and two in the West Bank.

It pointed out that the entire educational process was disrupted in 19 higher education institutions in the Gaza Strip, which deprived 88,000 students of receiving their education since the start of the aggression.

In addition, there has been a disruption of face-to-face learning in all 34 higher education institutions in the West Bank, which serve more than 138,800 students, as a result of the difficulty and danger of commuting due to the occupation’s checkpoints and continuous attacks.

The ministry explained that there are hundreds of students and university staff detained in the West Bank, in addition to thousands of wounded in the Gaza Strip, whose numbers cannot yet be determined due to the critical field conditions.

It noted that the information and numbers included in the present statement are constantly changing and rising due to the continued aggression against the Strip and the attacks in the West Bank, including Jerusalem.

A.D./T.R.

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

Israeli Police Shoot and Kill a Palestinian in Occupied Jerusalem

 IMEMC, OCT 31, 2023

Israeli Border Police shot and killed, on Monday, a Palestinian young man after he allegedly stabbed and injured a Border Guard in occupied Jerusalem.

Media sources said that the Palestinian young man stabbed an occupation Border Guard with a knife and seriously injured him, on Nablus Street, when an Israeli police officer shot him dead.

Officers denied the young man, identified as, Adam Abu Al-Hawa, from Al-Tour town, any medical intervention, which caused him to bleed to death.

Later, on Monday evening, occupation forces stormed the town of Al-Tour town, in occupied Jerusalem and surrounded his family home, sparking protests among local Palestinian youths.

Soldiers closed off the area around the home and fired barrages of tear gas canisters at unarmed civilians, and fired flares in the sky.

In the following video the youth can be seen standing alone when police shot him dead, making no effort to arrest the young man.

It is important to note that Israeli forces shot and killed, on Monday, a Palestinian young man with special needs in Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

The army also killed four Palestinian young men, and injured nine others in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

The Israeli occupation forces killed a total of six Palestinians today, and another young man succumbed to gunshot wounds inflicted on him by illegal Israeli colonizers last week.

Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian elderly in Tubas

TUBAS, Tuesday, October 31, 2023 (WAFA) -

Palestinian elderly Raw'hi Sawafta, 70, has been shot and killed by the occupation forces in a raid in the West Bank city of Tubas.

Israeli special forces raided the city of Tubas and surrounded a house, before reinforcements from the Tayaseer military checkpoint followed, leading to the outbreak of confrontations, during which bullets, stun grenades, and poisonous gas were fired at citizens, resulting in nine citizens being injured by live bullets, including two.

They were in critical condition and were taken to the hospital. Later, Sawafta died as a result of his injuries.

With the death Sawafta, the death toll in the West Bank since October 7th rises to 124.

K.T.

Palestinian child succumbs to serious wounds by Israeli gunfire near Nablus

NABLUS, Tuesday, October 31, 2023 (WAFA) -

Medical sources Tuesday announced that a child died from his wounds sustained yesterday during the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the village of Zawata, west of Nablus.

Medical sources reported that the child, Mu'hammed Abdul Qadir Al-Kharraz,14, died as a result of being shot by live bullets in the pelvic area.

With the killing of Al-Kharraz, the number of slain Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7th rises to 123.

K.T.

Two Palestinians shot by Israeli forces in Jenin, Bethlehem

WEST BANK, Tuesday, October 31, 2023 (WAFA) - 

A Palestinian youth was injured by live bullets, while dozens suffered from suffocation at dawn on Tuesday, during violent confrontations that broke out between Palestinians and the occupation forces that stormed the town of Qabatya, south of Jenin.

Security sources and Qabatya Municipality Ambulance told WAFA that a Palestinian youth from the town was injured by a bullet in the hand, and another suffered a fracture in his leg during a fall after being chased by the occupation forces.

Dozens also suffered from suffocation due to inhaling tear gas during the violent confrontations between the youth and those forces that fired live bullets and gas bombs.

Meanwhile, a youth was injured by live bullets and 17 others were detained during the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the Duhaisha camp, south of Bethlehem.

Security sources told WAFA correspondent that a large force of the occupation army stormed the camp amidst gunfire, which resulted in injuring a 20-year-old youth with live ammunition in the foot.

K.T.

Three Palestinians injured with live fire in confrontations to the north of Ramallah and occupied Jerusalem

JERUSALEM, Monday, October 30, 2023 (WAFA) –

Three Palestinians were shot and injured tonight during confrontations that broke out with the Israeli army in the towns of ‘Anata and al-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, as well as in Dura Al-Qar’ village to the north of Ramallah, said local sources.

Two people were injured with live bullets in confrontations that broke out in 'Anata and al-Ram towns. One was struck with a live bullet to the pelvis and the other was shot in the foot. Their medical condition was described as moderate.

Confrontations also broke out in Dura Al-Qar’ village following a military incursion, during which a youth was shot in the hand with live fire.

T.R.

Several Palestinians injured by Israeli gunfire in Tubas

TUBAS, Tuesday, October 31, 2023 (WAFA) -

Seven Palestinians were Tuesday injured by live bullets, including two critically, during confrontations with Israeli occupation forces in the city of Tubas, in the northern West Bank.

WAFA correspondent said that special forces in the occupation army, stormed the city, followed by military reinforcements from the Tayaseer military checkpoint, leading to confrontations, which resulted in seven citizens being injured by live bullets, including two serious injuries, after which they were taken to the hospital to receive treatment.

K.T.

Fourteen Palestinians, most of them minors, wounded with live bullets in confrontations near Nablus

NABLUS, Monday, October 30, 2023 (WAFA) -  

At least 14 Palestinians, most of them minors, were injured this evening by live bullets during confrontations with Israeli occupation forces in the village of Zawata, west of Nablus, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

PRCS reported that at least 11 people, most of whom are minors, were injured by live bullets; including a gunshot head wound, during the confrontations that broke out between youths and the occupation forces in the village of Zawata.

Medical sources said that an ambulance was also targeted by the military forces and struck by several bullets. No one was injured in the attack.

K.T./T.R.

Abduction of Palestinians by Israeli Occupation Regime Soldiers

 60 Palestinians abducted in IOF West Bank raids

October 31, 2023

WEST BANK, (PIC) +-

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) abducted 60 Palestinians in pre-dawn raids across the West Bank, including a woman and an MP.

The abductions were accompanied by violent raid and search campaigns in Bethlehem, al-Khalil, and Nablus, Jineen, Salfit, Tulkarm, Ramallah, and Occupied Jerusalem. The IOF arrested 17 Palestinians in Bait La'hm (Bethlehem) and 11 others in al-Khalil. 11 more Palestinians were rounded up in Nablus, and six others in Jenin.

In Tulkarm, four youths were detained, including two ex-prisoners, while three others were kidnapped in Ramallah. Since Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas started its military operation, “Al-Aqsa Flood,” against the Israeli army, the IOF has escalated its arrest campaigns in the West Bank and Jerusalem, kidnapping hundreds of Palestinians, including citizens from Gaza and workers in 1948 Occupied Palestine. Since the start of the year, 6,500 Palestinians have been arrested in Israeli daily raids in the West Bank towns and cities.

Israeli occupation forces abduct 52 Palestinians from the West Bank

RAMALLAH, Monday, October 30, 2023 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation forces today abducted 52 Palestinians in raids at their homes throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, according to various sources.

In the Bait La'hm (Bethlehem) area, the forces roundel up 17 Palestinians from various areas.

In Al-Khaleel (Hebron) district, the Israeli occupation soldiers abducted 11 people.

In addition, 11 were abducted from the Nablus district, six were abducted in Jenin city in the north of the West Bank, four others abducted from the Tulkarm, and three from Ramallah district.

K.T.

Aggression and Attacks by Israeli soldiers and illegal settlers

Salfeet: Israeli occupation forces uproot olive trees, bulldoze hundreds of dunams

SALFIT, Tuesday, October 31, 2023 (WAFA) - Israeli occupation regime bulldozers Tuesday uprooted 12 olive trees and continued to bulldoze hundreds of donums of agricultural land in the village of Farkha, southwest of Salfeet.

Local sources told WAFA that the occupation bulldozers uprooted 12 olive trees owned by local resident Suleiman Rizqallah from the village of Farkha, as they continued to bulldoze hundreds of dunums of village land.

The head of the Farkha village council, Mustafa 'Hammad, explained that Israeli bulldozers from Al-Ras colonial outpost are continuing bulldozing for the third day in a row to implement a colonial plan and build a new road in Al-Batin area to connect it to Al-Matwi area northwest of the village, with the aim of facilitating the colonists’ access to these areas.

He pointed out that the construction of the road aims to seize and control hundreds of dunams for the benefit of establishing colonial projects, calling on the competent local, international and legal institutions to protect the region and support their efforts to preserve it from seizure.

'Hammad stated that the area being bulldozed and seized by the occupation is approximately 1,400 dunams, noting that there is a water spring in it, covering 25-30% of the village’s water needs.

A number of Bedouin families live in the area, and the colonists are constantly pursuing them in an attempt to remove them from the place, he added.

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Israeli settler shoots Palestinian farmer, forces him out of land

HEBRON, Tuesday, October 31, 2023 (WAFA) -  

An illegal Israeli settler Tuesday fired bullets at a Palestinian farmer while he was cultivating his land, in the town of Bait Ummar, north of Hebron.

Activist Mu'hammed 'Awad, told WAFA that a colonist from the Karmi Tzur settlement, under the protection of the occupation forces, opened fire at farmer Sameer Abdullah Al-Salibi, 55, from the town of Bait Ummar, while he was cultivating his land in Wadi Al-Wahadeen area, forcing him to leave it.

Awad pointed out that the farmer's vehicle was damaged by live bullets that targeted him as he was leaving his land, but he was unharmed.

It is noteworthy that since the beginning of the aggression against Gaza on October 7, the occupation soldiers and settlers have been preventing farmers in the town of Bait Ummar, north of Hebron, near the settlements, from working on their lands.

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Illegal sraeli settlers break into Jerusalem's Aqsa mosque

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, October 31, 2023 (WAFA) -

Dozens of illegal fanatic Israeli settlers Tuesday morning broke into the compounds of al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy protection from the Israeli police.

The extremist settlers, divided into groups, raided the holy Islamic Mosque from Al-Maghariba gate and took provocative tours in its compounds.

It added that the settlers performed Talmudic rituals in the eastern part of the Mosque.

This comes at a time as Israeli forces intensify measures against Palestinians coming from Jerusalem to enter the Mosque, inspecting their IDs and briefly detaining them.

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Israeli occupation forces blow up Palestinian house near Ramallah

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RAMALLAH, Tuesday, October 31, 2023 (WAFA) -

Israeli occupation forces at dawn on Tuesday blew up a Palestinian citizen’s house in the town of 'Arora, northwest of Ramallah.

The occupation forces imposed a curfew in the town of 'Arora, and forced the owners of the houses adjacent to the targeted house to evacuate in preparation for its bombing.

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Illegal Israeli settlers open settler-only road near Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM,  Monday, October 30, 2023 (WAFA) -

Israeli settlers Monday opened a settler-only road on the lands of the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem.

Hasan Barijiyah, an activist, told WAFA correspondent that a group of colonists opened a road on land belonging to citizen Hasan Al-'Arouj, adjacent to the illegal Israeli settlement of Takwa, which is located on citizens’ lands.

Settlers and occupation forces have escalated their attacks on citizens’ lands in Tuqu’ during the recent period, by closing the road leading to the Tuqu’ wilderness and preventing its owners from accessing it, in addition to demolishing tents and agricultural rooms, and bulldozing vast areas.

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