Documentation of the Israeli abuse of power, mistreatment of humanity, and perpetration of the genocidal war on the Palestinian people in the  Gaza Strip.

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On Day 448 of US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 3 Massacres, 37 Palestinians Killed, 98 Injured, in the Past 24 Hours, with a Death Toll of  45,436 and 108,038 Injuries

by December 27, 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, based on the reliable data reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza:

By December 27, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 55,436+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (45,436), those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 10,000+). 

By December 27, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 108,038.

By December 26, 2024, 840 Palestinians who were killed, 6,608 who were injured, and 10,680*, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023, including 310 women and 640 children (Some of the detainees have been released).

* The number of the Palestinians detainees who remain in the Israeli occupation prisons has been updated today (December 5, 2024), by Wafa, to be 10,300.

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The Israeli occupation forces gave the Palestinian medical staff, wounded, and patients in Kamal 'Udwan hospital, in northern Gaza, 15 minutes to leave, then burned it, on December 27, 2024.	The Israeli occupation forces forced Palestinian doctors, medical staff, and  patients to evacuate the Kamal 'Udwan hospital in northern Gaza Strip, half naked in extremely cold weather, on December 27, 2024.
Palestinian teenager, Zain Al-'Atatra, was killed by the Israeli occupation forces in Ya'bad, south west of Jineen, on December 26, 2024.	A Palestinian man uses a mattress to pull away a victim following the Israeli genocidal strikes around the Kamal 'Udwan hospital on December 6, 2024.
At Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital in Dair El-Bala'h, Palestinians grieving and funeral prayer on the family members who were killed by the Israeli genocidal air strikes on central Gaza Strip, December 27, 2024.	Palestinian family members grieving the death of A'hmed Al-Zaharna, who froze to death in his tent in Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younus, by the cold weather and the lack of the adequate shelter, clothing, and heating, due to the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, December 27, 2024.
Carrying the Palestinian martyrs who were massacred by the Israeli genocidal air strike on Al-'Harara family in Al-Sabra neighberhood, in Gaza city, December 27, 2024.	Performing funeral prayer on the five Palestinian journalists who were killed by an Israeli genocidal air strike on their vehicle, in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, in central Gaza Strip, on December 26, 2024.

 

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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 (Since October 7, 2023), 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.

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

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The Israeli occupation forces commit three massacres in Gaza, over the past 24 hours

GAZA, December 27, 2024 (WAFA) -

The Israeli occupation army committed three massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, resulting in the killing of 37 civilians and the injury of 98 others, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The number of people killed since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7th, 2023, has surged to 45,436, the majority of whom are children and women. Some 108,038 others have been wounded.

Thousands of victims remain trapped under the rubble or scattered on the roads, as ambulance and civil defense teams are facing difficulties in reaching them due to the continued Israeli attacks, the massive amount of debris and the shortage of fuel and heavy equipment.

This toll remains incomplete, as thousands of victims remain trapped under rubble or scattered along the roads, inaccessible to ambulance and rescue crews due to the relentless Israeli shelling and massive amount of debris.

T.R.

Note: These figures only include the dead and injured Palestinians who have  been accounted for by the Palestinian hospitals. The victims who are not carried to the hospitals are not accounted for.

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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters Day 448

Friday 27-December-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

In the midst of catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians — half of them children, the Israeli occupation army continued, for the 448th consecutive day, to pound and target different areas and massacre more civilians in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern areas.

Reporters for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said on Friday that the Israeli occupation army carried out attacks on several homes, civilian targets and shelter centers in different areas of Gaza during the past 24 hours, killing and injuring dozens of citizens.

The Israeli army’s large-scale genocidal campaign in northern Gaza, especially in Jabalya and Bait Lahya, has entered day 84, where its forces continue to intensively bomb homes and shelters and attack civilians while imposing a tight siege on the entire area.

Deliberate Israeli attacks on ambulance and civil defense workers already deprived northern Gaza of any rescue services.

Two dead bodies arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after being rescued by medical teams from the Abu Al-'Ajeen area east of Dair El-Bala'h in the central Gaza Strip.

This morning, the Israeli forces stormed Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in northern Gaza and forced most of the patients and medical teams to head towards Al-Fakhoura School and arrested a number of them.

The Israeli forces set fire to the houses in the surrounding areas after destroying most of them over the past few days with booby-trapped robots.

Several citizens were injured in an Israeli bombing near the 'Halawa land in Jabalya Al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian woman also died of the wounds she sustained several days ago in an Israeli airstrike on her family home in Al-Nasr neighborhood, east of Rafa'h.

Dr. A'hmed Al-Zaharna, who works in the European Gaza Hospital and the Red Cross Field Hospital, died of severe cold, as he was found dead inside his tent in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis.

Meanwhile, four citizens were killed in an Israeli attack on the Abul Baidh family home in Al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City.

A girl was also killed after the Israeli occupation army targeted her family’s home in the Al-Sidra area in Gaza City.

The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 45,399, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Thursday.

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Health worker dies in Khan Younus due to ‘extreme cold’

Friday 27-December-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian medical worker, A'hmed Al-Zaharna, who was among the crews working at the European Gaza Hospital, has died because of “extreme” weather conditions, according to a statement by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

His body was found inside his tent in Al-Mawasi area, west of the city of Khan Younus, southern Gaza.

“This incident comes in light of the difficult humanitarian conditions that displaced citizens are experiencing, as the suffering of Gaza residents increases due to low temperatures and the lack of heating means in tents,” the ministry said.

A fourth Palestinian baby has died due to extreme cold in Gaza over the past 72 hours, as hundreds of thousands of people displaced by Israel’s war struggle to keep warm in flimsy tents.

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Israeli occupation forces set fire to Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in northern Gaza

Gaza, December 27, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces set fire on Friday to Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in Bait Lahya in northern Gaza, which is the largest hospital in the area and serves over 400,000 citizens, according to local reports.

Witnesses confirmed that the Israeli military forcibly evacuated patients, the injured, medical staff, and journalists from the hospital. The hospital is the only operational medical facility in northern Gaza that provided critical medical services to the community before being set ablaze.

The fire destroyed key departments, including operating rooms, the laboratory, the emergency unit and the ambulance services.

Communication with those inside the hospital was completely cut off after Israeli forces surrounded the building.

Reports indicate that the army ordered the approximately 350 people inside, including 170 medical staff, to gather in the courtyard in preparation for a military raid. The fate of those individuals remains unknown.

T.R.

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IOFs storm Kamal 'Udwan Hospital, contact lost with its administration

Friday 27-December-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Contact has been lost with the administration of Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in northern Gaza after Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) encircled it and gave the medical staff, wounded and patients 15 minutes to gather in its courtyards.

A media source said on Friday, the IOFs surrounded Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in the Bait Lahya Project early this morning and asked its director, Dr. 'Husam Abu Safiya, to gather those inside in the courtyard within 15 minutes, in preparation for storming the hospital.

A medical source confirmed later that the IOF had indeed stormed the hospital.

According to medical sources, 350 people are in Kamal 'Udwan Hospital, including 75 injured and sick people, in addition to their companions, and 180 medical staff and personnel in the hospital’s various departments.

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At least 15 Palestinians killed in a house bombing north of Gaza City

Friday 27-December-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

At least 15 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured on Thursday evening in Israeli airstrikes targeting a residential house in Gaza City.

Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza affirmed that 53 people were killed and many others were injured as a result of an Israeli shelling that targeted a house for displaced people in Al-Shaikh Radhwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.

The Civil Defense said that its crews were able to retrieve 5 martyrs from the targeted house, while rescue teams are continuing to search for injured people and bodies under the rubble.

A second Israeli shelling later targeted a house in the Yafa area of ​​the Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City, killing at least five people and wounding many others, several more people remain trapped under the rubble of the destroyed house.

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Two Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in Dair El-Bala'h

GAZA, December 27, 2024 (WAFA) –

Emergency teams in the Gaza Strip today retrieved the bodies of two children who were killed by Israeli occupation forces in Dair El-Bala'h, central Gaza, according to local sources.

WAFA correspondent reported that the bodies of the two victims, identified as 16-year-old Yusuf Ibrahim Abu Mu'harib and 14-year-old Mu'hammed Ghiyad Abu Mu'harib, were recovered from the Abu Al-'Ajeen area, east of Dair El-Bala'h in the central part of the Gaza Strip.

Meantime, a number of individuals were killed and several others injured in an Israeli drone attack in Jabalya Al-Balad area, located in the northern Gaza Strip.

According to local sources, the victims were targeted by an Israeli drone, leading to fatalities and injuries. 

The identities of the individuals have not yet been disclosed, and the exact number of casualties remains unconfirmed. 

At least 14,500 Palestinian children have been killed in Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip since last year, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said earlier this week.

More than 45,436 people, mostly women and children, have been killed and over 108,038 injured since the outbreak of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza in October 2023, according to local health authorities.

Last month, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

M.N.

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Israeli genocidal airstrikes kill nine civilians in Gaza, including women and children

GAZA, December 27, 2024 (WAFA) –

At least nine Palestinians, including women and children, were killed early this Friday morning by the Israeli genocidal airstrikes targeting Gaza City and Rafa'h.

According to local reports, four individuals were killed when Israeli forces bombed a house belonging to the Abul Baidh family in Al-Shuja'iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City. Additionally, a young girl was killed following an attack on her family’s home in the Sidra area of Gaza City.

In Rafah, a woman succumbed to injuries sustained when Israeli airstrikes hit their home in the Nasr neighborhood, east of the city.

Simultaneously, three Palestinians were also killed and several injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to the 'Harara family near the Al-Istijaba Mosque in Al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in at least 45,436 documented Palestinian fatalities, with over 108,038 others injured.

Thousands of victims are feared trapped under rubble, inaccessible to emergency and civil defense teams due to Israeli attacks.

Israel's genocidal attacks continue unabated despite calls from the UN Security Council for an immediate ceasefire and directives from the International Court of Justice urging measures to prevent genocide and alleviate the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.

M.N.

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IOFs storm Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in northern Gaza, set fire to premises

By Al-Mayadeen English

December 27, 2024

Al-Mayadeen correspondent in Gaza noted that with the targeting of Kamal 'Udwan Hospital, all hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip have gone out of service.

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) conducted Friday a harrowing assault on Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in northern Gaza, setting five of its sections on fire after raiding it, abducting patients and medical staff, and forcing them to strip.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the fire had begun spreading to all buildings of the hospital, adding that the occupation forces burned the operations and surgery sections, as well as the laboratory, maintenance, and emergency units.

In an alarming escalation, the IOFs launched an airstrike in the vicinity of the hospital, after storming its premises and forcibly displacing 300 patients. Many of these patients, who were dependent on life-saving medical devices, were left in the open, exposed to the harsh cold, further endangering their fragile health.

IOFs also thoroughly searched the patients and medical staff, adding to the trauma.

After forcibly displacing the patients and hospital staff, the IOFs abducted the patients, along with residents from surrounding areas, and gathered them in the yard of Al-Fakhoura School amid harsh weather conditions.

The move has been condemned as a grave violation of international humanitarian law, highlighting the Israeli military's disregard for the sanctity of medical facilities and the welfare of the vulnerable in Gaza.

Inevitable fate northern Gaza people will be death

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza noted that with the targeting of Kamal Adwan Hospital, all hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip have gone out of service.

On his part, the Director of hospitals in the Gaza Strip underlined that "the free world must intervene immediately to stop the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip," pointing out that medical staff are being subjected to abuse by Israeli forces in various hospitals across the strip that they are storming.

The suspension of services at Kamal Adwan Hospital deprives the people of northern Gaza of medical care, the director said, warning that under the current situation, the inevitable fate of the people in the area will be death.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, received a clear threat from the occupation that he will be arrested this time.

Hamas condemns the attack as a war crime'

In response to the latest Israeli assault, Hamas condemned the actions as a "war crime" added to a growing list of atrocities committed by "Israel" against the Palestinian people. The group slammed the international community for its continued inaction on protecting civilians and medical facilities.

It further accused the US of complicity in the ongoing aggression, calling the Israeli military’s actions “Zionist war crimes” committed amid global silence.

The movement held the Israeli occupation and the US administration fully responsible for the lives of patients, the injured, and the medical staff working in the hospital. This follows their complete isolation from means of communication and reports of abuse, the arrest of several individuals, and their transfer to an unknown location.

Hamas urged the international community, including the United Nations, to break its silence and take immediate action to halt the Israeli ongoing genocide in Gaza. The group called for measures to ensure accountability for the Israeli entity's atrocities, demanding that Israeli officials face justice for their crimes against humanity.

IOF target al-Awda Hospital with direct gunfire

In yet another attack on hospitals in Gaza, IOF fired on the al-Awda Hospital and its surrounding areas in northern Gaza earlier today. The bombardment followed the detonation of a remote-controlled explosive device near the facility in the early morning hours.

Concurrently, the Ministry of Health in Gaza has confirmed the death of Dr. Ahmed al-Zaharneh, a physician at the European Gaza Hospital, who passed away due to the extremely cold conditions in Gaza, with his body discovered in his tent in the Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Over 10 Palestinians killed in ongoing Israeli airstrikes

Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported that more than 10 Palestinians have been killed, with at least 30 others injured, most of them women and children, in a series of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since the early hours of Friday morning, amid intensified attacks on the northern part of the Strip.

Among the targeted areas was the Halawah land in Jabalia al-Balad, northern Gaza, where several Palestinians were injured. Additionally, Israeli forces targeted a home in the al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, killing five Palestinians and injuring three others.

In the al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, another home was hit. However, Civil Defense teams were unable to reach the site to rescue the injured, as the occupation had previously and categorically refused any coordination with the Red Cross.

The scale of destruction and loss of life continues to escalate as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepens, with medical and civilian facilities increasingly under attack.

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

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Palestinian teen killed by IOFs in Jineen village

Friday 27-December-2024

 Jineen , (PIC)

A Palestinian teen was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) in Ya'bad village to the south west of Jineen on Thursday night.

Local sources said that 19-year-old Zain Al-'Atatra was martyred during the IOF raid into the village, adding that he was a university student.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society had earlier said that its crews transferred a seriously wounded youth to hospital, adding that he suffered serious gunshot wounds in his torso.

The IOFs raided the village in the evening and fired live bullets, sound bombs and teargas canisters on young men who threw stones at their vehicles.

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Two Palestinians injured by live ammunition during the Israeli occupation forces raid on Al-Jalazoan refugee camp

RAMALLAH, December 27, 2024 (WAFA) –

Two Palestinians were injured by live ammunition early this morning when Israeli occupation forces raided Al-Jalazoan refugee camp, located north of Ramallah.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, its teams in Ramallah and Al-Beereh responded to the incident, treating the two individuals who were shot with live rounds during the Israeli military incursion into the camp.

The raid is part of ongoing military attacks by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, often contributing to the escalation of tensions in the region.

M.N.

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Injured Palestinian arrested over alleged stabbing attack

Friday 27-December-2024

Al-Nasirah (Nazareth), (PIC)

An injured Palestinian was arrested by the Israeli police forces for allegedly carrying out a stabbing attack in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, on Friday morning.

A Jewish settler was proclaimed dead following the attack.

Hebrew media reported that the settler was critically injured, before announcing her death.

The Israeli police affirmed that the suspect was shot and arrested.

The incident reportedly occurred on Herzliya’s Kdoshei Hashoah Street. 

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Note: Despite the Biden administration total support for the Israeli genocidal war on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the U.S. official policy is still considering the Israeli settlement activities in the Palestinian territories as illegal.

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Israeli occupation municipality forces Palestinian to demolish his home in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Friday 27-December-2024

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

The Israeli occupation municipality of Jerusalem forced on Thursday the Maqdisi (Jerusalemite) Abu Zaid 'Awadhallah to demolish his own home in the town of Sour Bahir.

Abu Zaid 'Awadhallah said in press statements, “The municipal court issued a decision a week ago, stipulating that my home will be demolished within 48 hours.”

He explained that he filed an appeal to postpone the demolition, but the municipal court refused and insisted on implementing the demolition decision on the specified date.

He further elaborated that he had earlier submitted a request to license the house, but the Jerusalem municipality asked him to pay 60,000 shekels within two days to obtain the house maps, in addition to imposing other unaffordable conditions on him to prevent the house from being licensed.

'Awadhallah added that he had to demolish the house because municipal employees threatened him that if he did not implement the self-demolition decision, he would be forced to pay 160,000 shekels for the costs of the demolition process.

He pointed out that he has been paying a construction fine to the Israeli occupation municipality for two years, amounting to 35,000 shekels, as he paid 8,000 shekels every time the demolition decision was postponed.

The Maqdisi (Jerusalemite) Abu Zaid 'Awadhallah has been living in his house for 10 years, with his wife and four children, the oldest of whom is 22 years old and the youngest is 12.

The house is 75 square meters in area and consists of two rooms, a hall, a kitchen, and a bathroom, and is built of cement and reinforced iron.

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The Israeli occupation army prevents Palestinian farmers from working in northern Jordan Valley

JORDAN VALLEY, December 27, 2024 (WAFA) —

 The Israeli occupation forces today prevented several Palestinian farmers from continuing their work on their agricultural lands in the Umm Al-Qaba area in the northern Jordan Valley, northeast of the occupied West Bank.

Mahdi Daraghma, the head of the Al-Mali'h Village Council, reported that the Israeli military, acting under the influence of Israeli colonists, detained the farmers for over two hours. 

Subsequently, he added, the farmers were obstructed from completing the plowing of their lands in preparation for planting dry crops. The farmers were eventually expelled from the area by the Israeli forces.

As a result of ongoing colonist encroachment, large portions of agricultural land previously owned by Palestinian citizens have been effectively seized, leaving farmers unable to access or work their own fields.

M.N.

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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 verbs "abduct" and "kidnap" than the verbs "detain" and "arrest," 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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Names of some of the Palestinian cities, as pronounced in standard Arabic, and their foreign names in parentheses: 

Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Nusayrat

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Aree'ha (Jericho)

Al-Zaytoun (al-Zeitoun)

Bait (Beit)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Dair El-Bala'h

Jineen (Jenin)

Khan Younus (Khan Younis)

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Person's names as pronounced in standard Arabic:

A'hmed, 'Hasan, Mu'hammed, Younus, Yousuf,  

'Hasan Mulai'hat,

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Conflict terminology

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime (the Israeli government)

Illegal Israeli settlers (instead of settlers, colonists)

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers

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