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 427 of US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 2 Massacres, 32 Palestinians Killed, 95 Injured, in the Past 24 Hours, with a Death Toll of  44,612 and 105,834 Injuries

by December 6, 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 6, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 54,612+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (44,612), those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 10,000+). 

By December 6, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 105,834.

By December 6, 2024, 7923 Palestinians who were killed, 6,571 who were injured, and 10,303*, 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 blew up a residential block near the Kamal 'Udwan Hospital, resulting in the killing of several civilians and the injury of others, December 6, 2024.	32 Palestinians were killed, 95 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes on the Gaza Strip, December 6, 2024.
Director of Kamal 'Udwan Hospital Dr Abu Safiya and his staff following the Israeli occupation attack on the Kamal 'Udwan hgospital, in northern Gaza Strip, December 6, 2024.	The scene inside the Kamal 'Udwan hospital in Bait Lahya, after the Israeli occupation forces attack, which killed and injured dozens of Palestinians there, December 6, 2024.
Palestinian young man Mustafa Al-Masha was killed by the Israeli occupation forces in the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, December 6, 2024.	The Israeli occupation forces kidnapped the three Palestinian journalists, Mo'tasim Saqf Al-'Hait, Momin Samreen, and 'Hatim Hamdan, in Sinjil, north of Ramallah, December 6, 2024 pic
The funeral procession of the Palestinian martyr Mustafa Al-Masha, who was killed by the Israeli occupation forces in the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, December 6, 2024.	Carrying the Palestinian martyrs, who were killed by Israeli genocidal air strikes on Al-Buraij refugee camp, to shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital, in Dair El-Bala'h, December 6, 2024.
Palestinian Muslim worshippers performing the Friday prayer at Al-Farooq masjid, which was partially destroyed by an Israeli genocidal air strike on Al-Nusayrat refugee camp earlier, after they had cleaned it off the rubble, December 6, 2024.	Carrying the Palestinian martyrs, who were killed by Israeli genocidal air strikes on Gaza city, to Al-Ahli hospital, on December 6, 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.

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

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32 Palestinian martyrs in 3 Israeli massacres in southern Gaza in the past 24 hours

Friday 6-December-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Ministry of Health announced on Friday that the Israeli occupation army committed two massacres in the southern areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing 32 people and injuring 95 others.

It added in its daily report that the northern Gaza areas were not included in the count of casualties due to the difficulty in maintaining contact with the hospitals there.

The ministry said that the death toll of the Israeli aggression on the Strip has surged to 44,612 martyrs and the number of the wounded mounted to 105,834 since October 7, 2023.

A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews have been prevented by the Israeli army from reaching them, it added. 

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Israeli genocidal war on Gaza enters Day 427

Friday 6-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 427th 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 occupation army’s large-scale genocidal campaign in northern Gaza, especially in Jabalya and Bait Lahya, has entered day 63, 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.

A number of citizens were injured in the early morning hours when the Israeli forces bombed a group of Palestinians near the Al-Madkhal School east of Rafa'h city in the southern Gaza Strip.

The PIC reporter affirmed that Israeli tanks surrounded Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in the Bait Lahya project north of Gaza and used several Palestinian detainees as human shields to raid the hospital and demand those inside to gather in its yard.

A number of citizens were martyred this morning, Friday, as a result of the Israeli occupation forces bombing a residential block in the town of Bait Lahya.

Meanwhile, a number of citizens were killed this morning in an Israeli bombing of a residential area in Bait Lahya, while two citizens were killed in a similar attack on Al-Rafei' School, which shelters displaced people in Jabalya.

Three more citizens were killed in an Israeli air strike on Khirbet Al-'Adas, north of Rafa'h city.

The Israeli forces also blew up a large number of residential buildings in Gaza City and Rafa'h City, south of the Strip.

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20 Palestinians, including children, killed in Israeli airstrike on Al-Nusayrat

GAZA, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) —

At least 20 Palestinians, including six children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in central Gaza on Friday evening, according to local sources.

WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli warplanes targeted a house that had been evacuated prior to the attack. The bombing resulted in the murder of 20 people, including six children and five women, with several others wounded in neighboring homes. 

Some of the victims were later identified and transported to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Dair El-Bala'h.

In a separate incident, a young girl was killed when Israeli artillery shelled tents housing displaced families near the western part of Al-Nusayrat.

Meantime, medical sources reported that the death toll in Gaza since the early morning of Friday has risen to 63, including 35 victims from northern Gaza, as the Israeli occupation army continued its assault on the enclave.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in at least 44,612 documented Palestinian fatalities, with over 105,834 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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Two civilians killed in Israeli shelling of central Gaza

GAZA, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) -

Two civilians were killed on Friday in an Israeli bombing in the center of the Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent reported that two civilians were killed and a third was seriously injured in the occupation’s bombardment of eastern areas in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the middle of the Strip.

The occupation aircraft also shelled houses and buildings in conjunction with forces’ vehicles in the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.

Israeli warplanes struck homes and buildings while military vehicles simultaneously opened fire in the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.

The number of people killed since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7th, 2023, has surged to 44,612. Some 105,834 others have been wounded.

Thousands of victims are still trapped under the rubble or scattered on the roads, as ambulance and civil defense teams are facing tremendous difficulties in reaching them due to the relentless Israeli shelling.

T.R.

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Six Palestinians killed, others injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and Rafa'h

GAZA, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) –

Six Palestinians were killed and several others were injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and Rafa'h on Friday evening, according to local sources.

In Gaza City, four people were killed and others injured when Israeli warplanes targeted a gathering of civilians on Kashkou Street in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood. 

Meanwhile, two more individuals were killed in a separate airstrike west of Rafa'h, located in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in at least 44,612 documented Palestinian fatalities, with over 105,834 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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Israeli occupation forces raid Kamal 'Udwan hospital in Gaza, force medical staff and patients to leave, detain many

(WAFA Archive)

GAZA, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) -

 Israeli forces raided the Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in Bait Lahya, located in the northern Gaza Strip, forced the medical staff and patients to leave, and detained many of those present inside.

WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli occupation forces blew up a residential block near the Kamal 'Udwan Hospital, resulting in the killing of several civilians and the injury of others. They also stormed the hospital, forced out the medical staff and patients and detained several people present inside.

Kamal 'Udwan Hospital has been subjected to a strict siege by the occupation forces for nearly two months now, blocking the delivery of medicine, food, medical staff, ambulances and all essential services needed by the hospital.

The people of Bait Lahya continue to suffer relentless bombardment, widespread devastation, starvation and a prolonged siege. Thousands have been forced to flee after the occupation forces raided their shelters during the escalating military operation that began on October 5, 2024.

T.R.

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Israeli shelling of northern and southern Gaza leaves dozens killed and many injured

GAZA, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) -

Dozens of civilians were killed and many were wounded on Friday morning in an Israeli shelling that targeted different areas in the northern and southern war-torn Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent confirmed that Israeli forces bombarded a residential block in the vicinity of the Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in Bait Lahya, leading to the killing of over 30 civilians and the injury of many others.

Two civilians were also killed in the occupation’s bombardment of the Ra'afi school in the town of Jabalya, where displaced people are seeking refuge.

Three citizens were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Khirbet Al-'Adas area north of the city of Rafa'h.

A significant number of people are still missing under the rubble of homes in Bait Lahya. Bodies and the wounded are also scattered on the streets, unreachable by anyone. The occupation forces are blocking ambulances and medical teams from entering the area, targeting anyone who tries to approach.

The occupation forces also blew up a large number of residential buildings in Gaza City and in the southern Strip’s city of Rafa'h.

WAFA correspondent said that Israeli forces violently shelled the central Gaza City Governorate, especially the outskirts of the village of Al-Musaddar and the refugee camps of al-Maghazi and Bureij.

By December 5, 2024, the Israeli occupation’s ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, has so far resulted in the killing of 44,580 civilians, mostly women and children, and the injury of 105,739 others.

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.

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

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Palestinian youth killed by Israeli occupation forces in Nablus

NABLUS, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) -

A Palestinian man was killed by Israeli gunfire during a raid on Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, early this morning, according to Palestinian security sources.

The sources confirmed that 23-year-old Mustafa Ahmad Masha was shot in the head during confrontations that broke out as Israeli military vehicles stormed the camp. 

Initially, Masha was critically injured, but he later succumbed to his wounds after being taken to a local hospital.

According to sources, the occupation forces prevented ambulances' access to the injured youth for several hours, before permitting his transfer to the hospital.

The slain Palestinian, Masha, was a freed prisoner released from Israeli custody on August 21 after serving two years in prison. He is the fourth member of the Masha family to be killed this year in the Balata refugee camp by the Israeli forces.

T.R.

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Another Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli custody

Friday 6-December-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

A Palestinian detainee died in Israeli custody on Thursday (December 5, 2024), marking the second death in Israeli prisons within 24 hours, prisoners’ affairs groups said.

'Alaa Marwan 'Hamza Al-Ma'hallawi, 42, from Gaza, died at Israel’s Assaf Harofeh Hospital after he was transferred from the Naqab (Negev) prison in November, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement.

His death came one day after Mu'hammed Waleed 'Husain 'Ali, 45, from the West Bank, died a week after being kidnapped and transferred to the Jalamah interrogation center.

The statement said Al-Ma'hallawi was detained by Israel on Dec. 21, 2023. He had no chronic illnesses before his arrest, and was only suffering from a problem in one of his eyes, according to his family.

The two groups said that Al-Ma'hallawi, a father of four, was arrested on the same day his father was killed in Gaza.

The new death brought the number of Palestinian detainees who died in Israeli prisons since last year to 49, including 30 from Gaza, according to Palestinian figures.

Estimates put the number of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons at around 10,300, but no information is available about the number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli army from Gaza.

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Four Palestinians injured by live bullets during Nablus-area confrontations

NABLUS, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) -

Four Palestinians were wounded on Friday after being shot by Israeli forces’ live gunfire during confrontations in Bait Foureek, east of Nablus, according to local sources.

Sources reported that four Palestinians were injured by live ammunition in their lower extremities during confrontations that broke out in Bait Foureek.

Update to follow.

T.R.

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Israeli occupation forces kidnap three journalists north of Ramallah

RAMALLAH, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) —

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped three Palestinian journalists on Friday evening near the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

Local sources and eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli forces detained the journalists — Mo'tasim Saqf Al-'Hait, Momin Samreen, and 'Hatim Hamdan— after assaulting them at the entrance to Sinjil.

The same sources confirmed that in addition to the three detained journalists, four other journalists were also held for a short period. They were released later, though they too were subjected to abuse. The journalists released include Kareem Khamaysa, Hadi Sabarna, Ma'hmoud Khulaif, and Mu'hammed 'Awwad.

This incident is part of an ongoing pattern of harassment and detentions by Israeli occupation authorities targeting journalists working in the occupied Palestinian territories, where media professionals often face restrictions on their freedom to report.

M.N. 

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Israeli forces attack Palestinian worshippers west of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), December 6, 2024 (WAFA) -

Israeli forces Friday attacked Palestinian worshippers in the village of Husan west of Bethlehem, according to a local official.

Rami Hamamra, the head of the 'Husan village council, said Israeli troops fired sound bombs at the worshippers as they exited the Abu Bakr Al-Siddeeq mosque at the village's eastern entrance following the Friday noon prayers.

This assault is part of a recurring pattern of Israeli forces' attacks on 'Husan's residents.

T.R.

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Illegal Israeli settlers continue their attacks against Palestinians and their properties across West Bank

RAMALLAH, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) -

A group of the illegal Israeli extremist settlers Friday carried out a series of attacks against Palestinians and their properties across multiple West Bank areas, according to local and official sources.

According to the mayor of Silwad, Ra-id 'Hamid. dozens of colonists broke into Al-Burj area near Silwad, erecting tents, raising Israeli flags and displaying banners with racist slogans. This area is considered an archaeological site and is frequently encroached upon by colonists.

Another group of colonists attacked Palestinian residents in the Bireen area east of Yatta in the Hebron Governorate and threatened to expel them from the area to make way for colonial expansion.

Coordinator of the popular committees against the wall and settlements in southern Hebron, Ratib Al-Jubour, reported that the colonists attacked the home of a Palestinian resident, warning him and his family they would be expelled to facilitate the expansion of colonies.

In the meantime, Israeli occupation forces and colonists continued the expansion of the colony of Susiya, built illegally on Palestinian lands in the Masafir Yatta area, south of Hebron. Activists reported new construction activity at the colony’s site.

Meanwhile, colonists continued to plow dozens of dunums of land in the village of Jiftlik north of Jericho and the Jordan Valley. A'hmed Abu Ghanim, the head of the Jiftlik village council, informed WAFA that colonists have been working on land north of the village for the past week. This area, spanning over 100 dunums, is being prepared for seizure and cultivation, particularly for the cultivation of grapes.

Each year, as the rain-fed farming season nears, colonists begin plowing large swathes of Palestinian-owned land in different parts of the Jordan Valley. Colonists plant crops while preventing the rightful Palestinian owners from working in their fields.

T.R.

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Illegal Israeli settlers prevent Palestinian from grazing his livestock in northern Jordan Valley

JORDAN VALLEY, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) -

A group of the illegal Israeli extremist settlers Friday prevented a Palestinian young man from grazing his livestock in the Al-Farisiya area in the northern Jordan Valley, according to local sources.

Sources said that the illegal Israeli extremist settlers prevented a Palestinian resident from grazing his sheep near his family's tents in the Al-Farisiya area and forcibly kicked him out of the pastures.

The settler violence against Palestinians and their properties has dramatically increased since the onset of Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people on October 7th, 2023.

Last summer, colonists stole citizens' tents and belongings, along with frequent raids on the community, particularly at night, instilling fear among residents, especially women and children.

The pastureland available to local livestock owners in the northern Jordan Valley has been severely reduced due to the colonists' takeover of lands.

T.R.

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Israel's Smotrich announces Israel will dismantle civil administration in West Bank

TEL AVIV, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) -

 Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich unveiled plans to shut down the Civil Administration in the West Bank, marking a key step in his broader plan to annex the West Bank to Israel.

Smotrich said the plan had been discussed with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was planned to be carried out during the presidency of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

"We have a significant opportunity alongside the new U.S. administration to create full normalization and bring government ministries here," Smotrich said, according to Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli daily newspaper in Tel Aviv.

Smotrich explained that work was underway to bring this vision to the table.

“I have also spoken with the designated Israeli ambassador to Washington, Yehiel Light, and we aim to achieve significant progress on this issue,” he stated.

“This is a vision for the Day of Reckoning, and we can achieve it,” said Smotrich.

The closure of the Israeli Civil Administration unit, which claims to provide civil services to approximately 250,000 Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank, is a crucial step in the Israeli government's plans to annex the West Bank.

Area C makes up 60% of the West Bank and falls under full Israeli military and administrative control, as per the Oslo Accords.

T.R.

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The largest since Oslo Accords, Israel confiscates 24,000 dunums (6,000 acres) in the West Bank

Friday 6-December-2024

NAZARETH, (PIC)

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the confiscation of 24,000 dunums (6,000 acres) in the West Bank, classifying them as state lands.

Israeli Channel 14 said this announcement is a dramatic step, expected to affect regional planning and change the face of the region.

“At the right time, today we completed a complex process to announce 24,000 dunums (6,000 acres) of new state lands in the West Bank,” Smotrich said.

“This process creates a settlement sequence, builds land reserves for Israel to develop settlements, infrastructure and roads, and guarantees that we will continue to strengthen the settlements, and we are here to stay,” he added.

According to Channel 14, the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim east of occupied Jerusalem would be expanded by approximately 2,600 dunums to the south to create a settlement chain linked to the settlement of Kedar.

Other settlements such as Migdal Oz and Susya in the southern West Bank and Yafit in the Jordan Valley will also be expanded.

This declaration constitutes nearly half of the land declared since 1993 (about 50,000 dunums (12,500 acres) were declared as state land by last year), which makes the current move one of the largest land confiscations in recent decades, since the Oslo Accords.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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WHO reports at least 12,000 patients in Gaza need medical evacuation

GENEVA, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) –

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that at least 12,000 patients in Gaza urgently require medical evacuation due to the ongoing Israeli genocide in the region. 

WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus shared this update on Friday, highlighting the severe medical crisis caused by the 14-month-long Israeli military assault in Gaza.

According to Dr. Tedros, a medical evacuation operation has successfully transported 8 patients out of Gaza with the assistance of the European Union’s Civil Protection Mechanism. Five patients were flown to Belgium, two to Spain, and one to Romania for necessary medical treatment.

Dr. Tedros expressed gratitude to the governments of these countries for their support in receiving the patients and to all partners and organizations that have helped facilitate the operation. He emphasized that the situation remains critical, with thousands more patients in need of urgent evacuation for medical care.

M.N. 

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'Hamas: Bombing Kamal 'Udwan Hospital shows Israel’s insistence on ethnic cleansing in Gaza

Friday 6-December-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement said bombing and storming Kamal 'Udwan Hospital shows Israel’s insistence on carrying out ethnic cleansing and forced displacement against Palestinians in northern Gaza.

In a statement on Friday, Hamas called on the World Health Organization to send an international committee to investigate the Israeli repetitive crimes against Kamal 'Udwan Hospital and the entire health system in Gaza.

It stressed that Israel’s storming of the Martyr Kamal 'Udwan Hospital, which led to the martyrdom of more than 30 people in addition to dozens of wounded and missing under the rubble, is an insistence on implementing its campaign of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement, and its criminal destruction of all life aspects in the northern Gaza, especially hospitals.

It also called on the international community, the United Nations, and its institutions to break its shameful silence towards Israeli brutal crimes and to take urgent measures to stop the ongoing violations of the Israeli occupation.

For its part, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that Israel is systematically working to forcefully put hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip out of service, through direct and repeated military targeting, imposing a stifling siege, and killing, injuring and arresting patients, the wounded and medical staff, while continuing its crime of forced displacement against all Palestinian residents in northern Gaza.

The Euro-Med Monitor reported in a statement on Friday that the Israeli occupation forces continued their military attacks against civilians in the Bait Lahya Project in northern Gaza early this morning, launching violent raids targeting homes and streets before besieging Kamal 'Udwan Hospital, which is still partially operating along with two other hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip.

It called on the International Committee of the Red Cross and the World Health Organization to take all necessary measures to reach hospitals in northern Gaza, secure the entry of medicines, medical supplies, food, and medical staff, and to assume their responsibilities to ensure the protection of patients, the wounded and medical staff, and provide them with humanitarian assistance.

The Euro-Med renewed its call to all states and the UN to implement their international legal obligations to stop the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip, impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel, hold it accountable and punish it for all its crimes, and to take all effective measures to protect Palestinian civilians there, prevent their forced displacement and ensure their return to their areas of residence.

It also demanded the release of all Palestinian detainees who have been arbitrarily arrested and allow all forms of humanitarian food and non-food aid, especially life-saving aid, to enter quickly and without obstacles in a manner that meets the needs of all residents of the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern areas, and ensure the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation army from the entire Gaza Strip.

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WHO: Gaza’s Kamal 'Udwan Hospital struck with ‘no warning’

Friday 6-December-2024

GENEVA, (PIC)

The World Health Organization (WHO) said that the Israeli army issued no warning for the strike on the Kamal 'Udwan Hospital that killed four of its medical staff.

WHO spokesman Richard Peeperkorn said “there was no official warning or evacuation order before the bombing of … the hospital, only rumors that spread panic.”

This comes just a week after the WHO facilitated the entrance of an Indonesian emergency medical delegation to the hospital for the first time in 60 days. The facility had run out of most supplies, including fuel.

Peeperkorn said the fact that the attack on the hospital had taken place after Israeli authorities had allowed the entry of the medical delegation was particularly troubling for the staff and patients.

“Within one week, they feel forced, scared, whatever, to leave,” Peeperkorn said at a Geneva news briefing. “That is extremely concerning and should never happen.”

The hospital was “minimally functional”, he said. According to the WHO, about 12,000 patients across Gaza need medical evacuation but only 78 have been evacuated so far.

Gaza’s Ministry of Health said the three main hospitals in northern Gaza are barely functioning and have been under repeated attack since Israel sent tanks into the northern town of Bait Lahya and nearby Bait 'Hanoun and Jabalya in October.

The ministry on Friday accused the Israeli military of committing a “war crime” in Kamal 'Udwan Hospital by perpetrating “all forms of killing and violence inside and around it.”

“The injured who remained inside are in critical condition and need immediate medical care,” it added.

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Medical sources: Situation at Kamal 'Udwan hospital and its surroundings in northern Gaza is catastrophic

GAZA, December 6, 2024 (WAFA) -

Medical sources reported on Friday that the situation inside and around Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in Bait Lahya, in the northern war-torn Gaza Strip, has reached catastrophic levels. The hospital is overwhelmed with casualties, including four medical staff members who have been killed.

With only two inexperienced surgeons remaining to perform surgeries, they were forced to operate on 20 severely injured patients despite their lack of expertise, said a source at the scene.

The Indonesian medical team; the only medical staff left to perform surgeries, was forced to leave and head towards a checkpoint. With medical supplies nearly depleted, hundreds of injured individuals still await treatment.

According to the sources, the Indonesian medical team was the first to be forced to leave the hospital.

A source working inside Kamal 'Udwan Hospital said Israeli forces carried out a series of airstrikes on the northern and western sides of the facility, accompanied by heavy and direct gunfire. Soon after, two individuals entered the hospital with a loudspeaker and ordered the evacuation of all patients, displaced people and medical staff. They forcibly gathered everyone in the hospital yard and demanded their removal to a nearby checkpoint. The soldiers later returned, instructing that one companion per patient or displaced person be allowed to assist with the evacuation.

The source described the scene as shocking, noting the presence of hundreds of bodies and wounded individuals on the streets near Kamal 'Udwan Hospital. The source warned that the overall situation in northern Gaza, particularly around the hospital, was catastrophic.

Israeli forces struck the oxygen generators at Kamal 'Udwan Hospital last night, worsening an already critical situation. According to another source, medical services in northern Gaza have collapsed under the weight of continuous attacks.

The source further reported that Israeli forces are continuing to target Kamal 'Udwan Hospital and its surrounding area with drone strikes, severely affecting the already strained healthcare system in the Strip in blatant disregard of international laws and conventions.

The source confirmed that the situation in southern and central Gaza is equally critical.

T.R.

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UNICEF: The situation in northern Gaza is horrific

Friday 6-December-2024

GENEVA, (PIC)

UNICEF Communication Specialist Tess Ingram said that the situation in northern Gaza is “horrific,” stressing that the aggression against civilians must be stopped immediately.

Ingram said, in a statement issued on Friday, that all services have been disrupted due to the ongoing aggression for more than two months.

She explained that the continuous targeting of the civilian infrastructure and health system in the northern Gaza Strip has led to more civilian casualties, most of whom are children, due to the lack of health services or the complete closure of hospitals.

“Our colleagues have seen children searching for food due to extreme hunger and collecting plastic materials for heating.”

She concluded by saying that “the lives of children are threatened not only by bullets and shelling but also by the deteriorating living conditions.”

Israel launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, killing nearly 44,612 people, most of them women and children, and injuring over 105,834.

The second year of the genocide in Gaza has drawn growing international condemnation, with officials and institutions denouncing the attacks and blocking of aid deliveries as a deliberate attempt to destroy the population.

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

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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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