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

On Day 273 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 3 Massacres, 58 Palestinians Killed, 160 Injured, with a Death Toll of  38,069 and 87,605 Injuries

July 5, 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:

By July 5, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 45,069+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (38,069), those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on April 18, 2024: 7,000+). 

By July 5, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 87,605.

By July 5, 2024, 569 Palestinians who were killed, 5,235 who were injured, and 9,520, 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).

By May 6, 2024, the Palestinian death toll in Gaza included 7,797+ children and 4,959 women (52% of the total).

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The Palestinian Government Media Office death toll data (which includes media reports and family member reporting online):

By May 21, 2024, the Palestinian death toll in Gaza included 15,000+ children (43%).

By March 4, 2024, the death toll also included 13,420+ children, 8,900+ women (more than 72.8% of the accounted for victims), 364 doctors and medical staff, 132 journalists, and 48 civil defense workers. 

By May 25, 2024, the Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation forces killed 493 health personnel and kidnapped 310 others of them.

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

By March 4, 2024, the Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation forces killed 493 health personnel and kidnapped 310 others of them (May 25, 2024), destroyed 155 health institutions, 32 hospitals, 53 health centers, 126 ambulances, displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, and destroyed 360,000 housing units, about and 60% of the buildings and infrastructure in Gaza Strip.

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Seven Palestinian civilians were killed, several others were injured by Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces, during their terrorist raid on Jineen, July 5, 2024	Displaced Palestinians forced again and again to leave their homes, tents, or shelters from a place to another, fleeing the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment, July 5, 2024
Four Palestinians were killed and one seriously wounded in an Israeli bombing of a house in Jineen City, on July 5, 2024	The Israeli occupation apartheid regime is using water as a weapon against the Palestinian civilian population by reducing the amount of water available to them, July 5, 2024
Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment of Al-Shuja'iya neighborhood, in Gaza city, where dozens of Palestinians were killed and injured, while thousands fled their homes, July 5, 2024.	Martyred and injured Palestinian civilians arriving in Al-Aqsa hospital in Dair El-Bala'h, after being attacked by Israeli genocidal air strikes on various areas of central Gaza Strip, July 5, 2024.

 

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

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

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

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

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is a necessary brief background to understand the US-Backed Zionist Israeli continuous wars against the Arab nation generally, and the Palestinian people in particular, which included the wars of 1948, 1956, 1967, 1978, 1982, the brutal crushing of the two Uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2004), 2009, 2012, 2014, 2021, and the current genocidal war on Gaza (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.

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

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


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Editorial Notes about terms & names of people and places:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'Hamas delegation meets 'Hizbullah leader

Friday 5-July-2024

BEIRUT, (PIC)

A senior delegation of the 'Hamas Movement met in Beirut with the Secretary General of 'Hizbullah party 'Hasan Nasrullah, a party statement said on Friday.

It added that the discussions tackled latest field and political developments in Palestine in general and in Gaza in particular.

They also exchanged views regarding the negotiations on a ceasefire deal in Gaza and affirmed their commitment to maintaining field and political coordination until targeted goals are achieved.

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EU condemns Israel’s latest move to expand illegal settlements in West Bank

Thursday 4-July-2024

BRUSSELS, (PIC)

The EU has condemned on Thursday the Israeli occupation apartheid regime latest move to further expand the illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank.

“The European Union condemns the planned so-called legalization of five Israeli settlement outposts and the announcement of thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement.

Also condemning Israel’s ongoing policies of dispossession in the West Bank, the statement added: “The ongoing efforts aiming at establishing facts on the ground and risking leading to a de-facto annexation must stop.”

The statement also warned that Israel’s policy of building settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories violates international law, worsens tensions, and damages efforts to achieve a two-state solution, and called on Israel to reverse those decisions.

“In line with its longstanding common position and UN Security Council Resolutions, the EU will not recognize changes to the 1967 borders unless agreed by the parties,” it stressed.

Israel’s Cabinet last week approved steps aimed at “legalizing” settlement outposts in the West Bank and imposing sanctions on the Palestinian Authority. 

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Euro-Med: Israel uses water as a weapon in its genocidal war on Gaza Strip

Thursday 4-July-2024

GENEVA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime is using water as another weapon against the Palestinian civilian population by deliberately reducing the amount of water available to them, especially potable water sources, imposing famine, and purposefully causing the death of over 2.3 million people as part of its genocide war, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor revealed in a new press release issued on Thursday.

The Euro-Med field team observed significant damage to a desalination plant in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, as a result of direct Israeli targeting. This also resulted in the killing of a young man, who was filling a gallon with water, and the wounding of other individuals.

The station, which provided services to at least 50,000 people in several nearby residential neighborhoods, sustained significant damage after being bombed by the Israeli army with a GBU missile that broke through multiple stories and detonated on the first floor.

As summer temperatures rise, the people of the Gaza Strip are facing significant challenges in getting access to water, the statement reads.

Estimates show that since October of last year, the per capita share of water in the Gaza Strip has decreased by 97% due to the extensive destruction of water infrastructure. As a result of the war, the per capita share of water in the Strip has decreased to between 3 and 15 liters per day, while in 2022 it was approximately 84.6 liters per day.

Continued destruction and devastation by the Israeli occupation army renders the Gaza Strip unlivable, particularly after destroying nine out of ten water tanks and half of the water networks, or 350 km out of 700 km.

According to UN estimates, about 96 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip (2.15M people) face high levels of acute food insecurity. While the whole territory is classified in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), over 495,000 people (22 percent of the population) are still facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 5). In this phase, households experience an extreme lack of food, starvation, and exhaustion of coping capacities.

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More than 3,080 Israeli violations in the West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), in June

Thursday 4-July-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Palestine Information Center (MUTA) announced that it has documented 3,080 Israeli violations committed by Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) and illegal fanatic Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Jerusalem during last June.

According to MUTA’s monthly report, the IOFs carried out 188 demolitions and destructions of Palestinian property, the majority of which were monitored in Al-Khalil (57), Nablus (36) and Jericho (25).

About 36 Palestinians were martyred in the West Bank and Jerusalem and 204 others, including women, children, and elderly, were wounded by the IOFs and settlers, while the number of the Israeli shooting attacks during the same period amounted to 155.

During the month of June, several Israeli assassinations were carried out by the IOFs in the city of Qalqilya, Balata refugee camp in Nablus and Nour Shams refugee camp, east of the city of Toulkarm.

In addition, around 678 arrests took place in the West Bank, including 58 against Jerusalemites, while the number of settlers who stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque reached 4,590.

The MUTA Center documented 12 settlement activities including land confiscation and bulldozing, opening roads, and approving the construction of new illegal settlement units in the West Bank, while the settlers’ attacks jumped to 151 incidents.

The number of the Israeli attacks on places of worship and sanctities reached 21 offensives, with 60 closures of roads and places, while the number of installed fixed and temporary checkpoints across the West Bank and Jerusalem reached 518.

The governorates of Nablus, Al-Khalil, and Ramallah were the governorates that witnessed most of the Israeli violations, with 534, 523, 483 attacks respectively.

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WFP: Two million citizens in Gaza suffer food insecurity

Friday 5-July-2024

NEW YORK, (PIC)

The World Food Program (WFP) warned on Thursday that two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which is subject to a devastating Israeli war, suffer from food insecurity.

The WFP voiced concern about “shrinking operational space for aid agencies in Gaza because of Israel preventing access to the Karam Abu Salem commercial crossing.”

The UN foundation published a video showing quantities of food parcels being packed in its warehouse in Abu Rawash area in central Egypt in preparations for dispatch to “vulnerable families in Gaza.”

In a similar context, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that “the children in Gaza are dying or watching their parents killed” as a result of the attacks launched by Israel on the Strip.

This came in Guterres’ speech before the 24th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, held in the Kazakh capital, Astana.

He added, “Gaza’s children are dying, suffering serious injuries and psychological trauma, and watching their parents killed and their homes destroyed.”

The Secretary-General stressed that the scenes experienced by Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip “must stop.”

He called for “an immediate ceasefire for humanitarian reasons in Gaza, ending bloodshed, and increasing life-saving aid.”

He stressed that there is also a need for “a clear commitment and a road map to guarantee the two-state solution and the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.”

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza has killed 38,011 people, and wounded 87,445 others, in addition to the displacement of about 1.9 million people, according to UN data.

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

On July 5, 2024, the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip resulted in several massacres, in which 58 Palestinian civilians were killed, and 160 others were injuerd, in the past 24 hours. This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 38,069 and the injuries to 87,605, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.   

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Day 273 of Israel's genocide: Casualties in ongoing airstrikes across Gaza

GAZA, Friday, July 5, 2024 (WAFA) -

Early this morning, a number of civilians were killed and others injured in airstrikes and artillery bombardments by Israeli occupation forces across the Gaza Strip, as the aggression entered its 273rd day.

In Gaza City, emergency and rescue teams retrieved the bodies of four individuals and several injured following an Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to Al-Bardaweel family in the Daraj neighborhood. The casualties were transported to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the city.

Meantime, Israeli artillery targeted eastern parts of the Shuja'iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, amidst heavy gunfire that destroyed several residential buildings in the area.

Additionally, rescue teams recovered the bodies of five individuals, including three children, after Israeli forces struck their home on Gaza Street in old Jabalya town, north of the Strip. They were transferred to Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in neighboring Bait Lahya.

Simultaneously, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its teams transferred the body of one individual killed and three others injured, who were hit by Israeli drone airstrikes east of Jabalya refugee camp, to Kamal 'Udwan Hospital.

Furthermore, the Red Crescent retrieved the body of another individual killed east of Rafah in southern Gaza, and transported him to Nasir Medical Complex in Khan Younus.

Israeli artillery also targeted Al-Nasr area northeast of Rafa'h, coinciding with an incursion by Israeli military tanks into the outskirts of the neighborhood east of the city.

In Khan Younus, the Palestinian Red Crescent confirmed the killing of at least one Palestinian and other injuries in an Israeli airstrike targeting their home in Bani Suhaila town east of the city. They were taken to Nasser Medical Complex in the city.

Additionally, Israeli forces deployed illuminating flares in southeastern Khan Younus, while an airstrike targeted an uninhabited house in 'Abasan town east of the city.

Moreover, the Israeli occupation forces targeted northwest of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip with artillery and gunfire, as well as northern areas of al-Zahra City in central Gaza.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7, 2023, has so far resulted in 38,011 documented Palestinian fatalities, with an additional 87,445 injuries, according to the latest updates released by the local health authorities in the region.

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Israeli genocidal airstrikes on Gaza and Jabalya result in casualties, including 3 children

GAZA, Friday, July 5, 2024 (WAFA) -

Several civilians were killed and others injured late last night due to Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City and Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Local sources confirmed the killing of several individuals following an Israeli attack on a populated house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City.

In the meantime, five people, including three children, were killed in the Israeli strikes on Jabalya.

Additionally, sources noted that Israeli artillery targeted locations in Bait Lahya, northern Gaza, and Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central region of the enclave.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7, 2023, has so far resulted in 38,011 documented Palestinian fatalities, with an additional 87,445 injuries, according to the latest updates released by the local health authorities in the region.

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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters Day 273

Friday 5-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered Day 273 on Friday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different areas and massacre more civilians.

Reporters for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that the Israeli occupation army continued to bomb homes and attack citizens in different areas of Gaza during the past 24 hours.

The Israeli forces have continued their ground invasion of large neighborhoods in Rafa'h, since May 7, while storming the Shuja’iya neighborhood for the ninth day amid air and artillery bombardment.

Meanwhile, the Israeli artillery bombed Al-Nasr, Al-Fukhari, and Al-Shawka towns, east of Rafa'h.

The Israeli forces also blew up residential buildings in Al-Shuja'iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, while fresh airstrikes targeted the eastern areas of Gaza City.

On the other hand, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said that a Palestinian was killed and three others wounded in a drone attack on Al-Sikka Street, east of the Jabalya camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Along the same line, a man, his wife, and three children were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their house in Jabalya Al-Balad, north of Gaza.

Two women were also killed, and several others injured in a similar attack on the “Bardaweel” family house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City.

The Israeli artillery targeted “Al-Shawwaf” family house, southeast of Khan Younus, killing two people.

In Khan Younus, a man was killed, and his wife was injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Radhwan family house.

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Israeli genocidal airstrikes on Gaza and Jabalya result in casualties, including 3 children

GAZA, Friday, July 5, 2024 (WAFA) -

Several civilians were killed and others injured late last night due to Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City and Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Local sources confirmed the killing of several individuals following an Israeli attack on a populated house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City.

In the meantime, five people, including three children, were killed in the Israeli strikes on Jabalya.

Additionally, sources noted that Israeli artillery targeted locations in Bait Lahya, northern Gaza, and Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central region of the enclave.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7, 2023, has so far resulted in 38,011 documented Palestinian fatalities, with an additional 87,445 injuries, according to the latest updates released by the local health authorities in the region.

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

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Seven Palestinians killed, several injured in Israeli onslaught on Jineen

Jineen, Friday, July 5, 2024 (WAFA) -

This morning, a deadly incursion by the Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces, into the city of Jineen and its refugee camp, resulted in the murder of seven Palestinians and left several others seriously injured.

Wisam Bakr, director of the Jineen Governmental Hospital, confirmed that six individuals killed were brought to the hospital, alongside individuals critically wounded. The casualties occurred following a drone strike by Israeli occupation forces targeting a group of people in Jenin refugee camp. The body of the seventh martyr, Hammam 'Hashash, was subsequently taken away by the Israeli occupation forces.

The Ministry of Health identified the five martyrs as A;hmed Basim Al-'Amouri, 20, Qusay Amjad Hazouz, 23, Fo-ad Iyad Al-Ashqar, 25, Yaseen Al-'Aridhi, 30, Mu'hammed Mahmoud Jabareen, 54, and the borthern Hammam, 23, and Hareth Hashash, 19, 

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its teams responded to two serious injuries near Ibn Seena Hospital in the city. One victim, an 18-year-old, sustained a gunshot wound to the neck inflicted by Israeli forces and was rushed to the hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, Ibn Seena Hospital confirmed receiving another critical head injury case.

Israeli military units reportedly stormed the city with multiple military vehicles, encircling a house in the western part of the city. The forces used loudspeakers to demand the surrender of one of those inside, before attacking the house with shoulder-fired missiles, setting the house on fire.

WAFA correspondent added that confrontations erupted between locals and Israeli occupation forces near the besieged house on the outskirts of Jenin refugee camp, amidst reports of additional injuries.

Furthermore, there have been reports of power outages in some areas inside Jenin camp and in the city itself, due to Israeli forces targeting electricity transformers with gunfire.

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Israeli occupation forces injure five Palestinians, including woman, in Bait Ummar

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Friday, July 5, 2024 (WAFA) –

 Five Palestinian civilians, including a woman, were injured by live ammunition this afternoon during an Israeli military raid on the town of Bait Ummar, north of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

Mu'hammed 'Awad, a local activist, reported that Israeli forces stormed the town and opened fire on civilians, resulting in a woman sustaining shrapnel injuries to her hand and four young men being wounded in their lower limbs. They were subsequently rushed to the hospital for treatment.

Additionally, dozens suffered from suffocation due to inhaling tear gas fired by the Israeli occupation forces, and they received field treatment on-site.

'Awad reported that the Israeli occupation soldiers also raided several areas within the town, threw sound grenades towards residents inside a mourning house, and conducted rooftop searches on several homes.

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Clashes erupt in IOFs raids of Qalqilya, Nablus

Friday 5-July-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces (IOFs) violently stormed Qalqilya and Nablus cities of West Bank at dawn Friday.

Local sources said that the IOF troops stormed Qalqilya in large numbers and deployed throughout its neighborhoods and streets before raiding several homes.

The IOF also broke into Nablus and raided “Ras Al-'Ain,” “Al-Dha'hiya,” “Khallet Al-'Amoud,” and “'Haret Al-Yasmina” neighborhoods amid heavy firing of live ammunition and teargas bombs.

Violent clashes erupted during the raids, while no injuries or arrests were reported.

However, Israeli special forces arrested a young man in Qalqilya.

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Israeli occupation forces assault brothers, kidnap one in Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Friday, July 5, 2024 (WAFA) –

 Israeli occupation forces assaulted two Palestinian brothers and kidnapped one of them this morning after raiding their home in the city of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), south of the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian security sources reported to WAFA that Israeli occupation forces kidnapped Shareefuddeen Riyadh Abu Ramouz after raiding his home and physically assaulting him.

The soldiers beat Shareefuddeen during the attack, according to the sources. Additionally, they physically assaulted his brother Ayoub and reportedly stole 40,000 shekels from inside the house.

Human rights organizations have continuously raised concerns over the treatment of Palestinians under Israeli military occupation, citing incidents of arbitrary kidnappings, violence, and property seizures.

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Injuries in clashes with IOFs and illegal settlers across the West Bank

Friday 5-July-2024

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

Dozens of Palestinians have been wounded on Friday during fierce clashes with Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) and fanatic settlers in different parts of the West Bank.

In Ramallah Governorate, Palestinians confronted dozens of Israeli fanatic settlers who attacked Um Safa town, north of Ramallah city.

Local sources reported that dozens of the illegal Israeli Jewish settlers from the Ateret illegal settlement, that was illegally established over the lands of Um Safa, stormed the outskirts of the town, cut water lines, and sabotaged Palestinian property before the citizens confronted them and forced them to withdraw. The IOF soldiers fired bullets as well as stun and tear gas grenades towards the young men, with no injuries reported, the sources added.

Meanwhile, a Palestinian elderly man sustained injuries this afternoon in an assault by Israeli settlers and troops in Masafer Yatta district and the city of Al-Khalil in the southern occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

The sources explained that a group of the illegal Israeli extremist settlers attacked Lesfeir hamlet in Masafir Yatta, south of Al-Khalil, where they physically assaulted the elderly Ma'hmoud Abu Qubaita, causing him injuries and bruises. The settlers also vandalized properties belonging to local residents.

In Al-Khaleel (Hebron), the IOFs stationed at a military checkpoint at Al-Shuhada Street, assaulted two Palestinians as they attempted to reach their homes in Tel Rumaida neighborhood.

Simultaneously, Israeli occupation forces stormed the nearby town of Bait Ummar, north of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), firing live ammunition and tear gas canisters towards the homes of citizens.

Meanwhile, several Palestinians suffocated on Friday afternoon during confrontations with the IOFs near Jabal Subai'h in the town of Baita, south of Nablus.

According to eyewitnesses, confrontations broke out following a military incursion into Jabal Subai'h, amid firing of live and rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades and tear gas bombs, which led to the suffocation of several people.

Residents of the town of Beita performed Friday prayer at Jabal Subai'h following calls by the town’s factional coordination committee.

The Israeli Cabinet has recently approved the legalization of the illegal Israeli settlement outpost of Evyatar which is built atop of Jabal Subai'h, along with four other illegal outposts in the West Bank.

Jabal Subai'h belongs to the lands of Baita, Qablan, and Yetma towns, south of Nablus, and has been witnessing peaceful popular resistance rallies in protest against the illegal Israeli settlement expansion of the Evyatar outpost.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Illegal Israeli settlers burn lands and property of citizens south of Jineen

Thursday 4-July-2024

Jineen,(PIC)

A group of the illegal Israeli Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian lands and properties in Al-Fandaqoumiya and Silat Al-Dthahr towns, south of Jineen, on Thursday.

Local sources reported that dozens of settlers stormed Al-Fandaqoumiya town and attacked local homes before setting fire to large agricultural lands planted with olive trees and fruit trees.

They also set fire to a house and vehicle belonging to a local resident, and attacked neighboring houses amid heavy gunfire.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces stormed the town and opened their machine gunfire at local citizens who tried to confront the settler attack.

The neighboring town of Silat Al-Dthahr also witnessed a similar settler attack.

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More than 3,080 Israeli violations in the West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), in June

Thursday 4-July-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Palestine Information Center (MUTA) announced that it has documented 3,080 Israeli violations committed by Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) and illegal fanatic Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Jerusalem during last June.

According to MUTA’s monthly report, the IOFs carried out 188 demolitions and destructions of Palestinian property, the majority of which were monitored in Al-Khalil (57), Nablus (36) and Jericho (25).

About 36 Palestinians were martyred in the West Bank and Jerusalem and 204 others, including women, children, and elderly, were wounded by the IOFs and settlers, while the number of the Israeli shooting attacks during the same period amounted to 155.

During the month of June, several Israeli assassinations were carried out by the IOFs in the city of Qalqilya, Balata refugee camp in Nablus and Nour Shams refugee camp, east of the city of Toulkarm.

In addition, around 678 arrests took place in the West Bank, including 58 against Jerusalemites, while the number of settlers who stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque reached 4,590.

The MUTA Center documented 12 settlement activities including land confiscation and bulldozing, opening roads, and approving the construction of new illegal settlement units in the West Bank, while the settlers’ attacks jumped to 151 incidents.

The number of the Israeli attacks on places of worship and sanctities reached 21 offensives, with 60 closures of roads and places, while the number of installed fixed and temporary checkpoints across the West Bank and Jerusalem reached 518.

The governorates of Nablus, Al-Khalil, and Ramallah were the governorates that witnessed most of the Israeli violations, with 534, 523, 483 attacks respectively.

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