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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47 Palestinians Killed, 226 Injured, Mostly Children, Women, and Aid Seekers,

Which Brings the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on the Gaza Strip to 61,944 and the Injuries to 155,886

by August 17, 2025

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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 the Gaza Strip, based on the reliable data reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza:

By August 17, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 74,975.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (61,944) and those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 13,031+). 

By August 17, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 155,886.

By August 17, 2025, according to news report, 1,020 Palestinians who were killed, 6,988 who were injured, and 18,540, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023.                                

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Note about the number of Palestinians, who were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces in the Wet Bank:

Palestinian Prisoners’ institutions reported that 662 Palestinians, including 39 children and 12 women, were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, including Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), during July 2025.

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), and Al Dhameer Association for Human Rights stated in a report issued Sunday that the total number of kidnappings of Palestinians in the West Bank, since the start of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, has risen to more than 18,500, including over 570 women and about 1,500 children.

Source: Palestine Information Center, August 10, 2025.

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Note About the Missing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip:

On February 26, 2025, the Palestinian Center for Political and Development Studies announced that the number of the missing in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 14,000 people, including 2,000-3,000 held in Israeli occupation prisons, without releasing any information on their fate.

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47 Palestinians were killed, 226 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, bringing the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 61,944 and the injuries to 155,886, by August 17, 2025.	The Israeli fascist regime continues to implement a systematic policy of engineered starvation against more than 2 million people in Gaza, including more than 1 million children, by August 17, 2025.
While capitulated governments of the world are passively watching 47 more Palestinians were massacred, 226 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, on August 17, 2025.	70 Palestinians were killed, 385 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, on August 16, 2025.
Palestinian-American nurse, Amanda Nasir, in Nasir hospital, said that the healthcare sector in Gaza is collapsing, due to the Israeli genocidal war, which intensified malnutrition and starvation, August 17, 2025.	47 Palestinians were killed, 226 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, bringing the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 61,944 and the injuries to 155,886, by August 17, 2025.
The funeral procession of the Palestinian teenager, 'Hamdan Abu 'Aalya, who was executed by the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Al-Mughayyir, in the West Bank, on August 17, 2025.	As the Israeli-imposed starvation intensifies, Palestinian children lining up to get some of the soup food from a local charity in Al-Nusayrat, in central Gaza Strip, on August 17, 2025.

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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 ۚ فَإِذَا جَاءَ وَعْدُ الْآخِرَةِ لِيَسُوءُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَلِيَدْخُلُوا الْمَسْجِدَ كَمَا دَخَلُوهُ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَلِيُتَبِّرُوا مَا عَلَوْا تَتْبِيراً ‎(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. Then, when the latter (final) promise came, they (your enemies) will sadden your faces, and to enter the Masjid (in Jerusalem), as they entered it the first time, and will destroy what they had taken over with (total) destruction (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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Gaza death toll rises to 61,944 as Israel continues to bomb the Strip

GAZA, August 17, 2025 (WAFA, PIC) –

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 61,944, the majority of whom are children and women, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, on October 7, 2023.

The Ministry added that the death toll has risen to 155,886 since the start of the aggression, while a number of victims remain under the rubble, unable to be reached by ambulances and civil defense teams.

The Ministry indicated that 47 people were killed including 9 who were recovered, and 226 wounded others were taken to hospitals in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.

The death toll and injuries since March 18, when the occupation violated the ceasefire agreement, has reached 10,400 and 43,845 others were wounded.

The Ministry explained that the number of slain aid-seekers taken to hospitals over the past 24 hours reached 14, with 132 injured, bringing the total number of slain aid-seekers at hospitals to 1,938, and the total number of injured to 14,420.

Gaza hospitals recorded seven deaths due to starvation and malnutrition over the past 24 hours, including two children, bringing the total number to 258, including 110 children.

K.T.

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Dozens massacred, wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza

Sunday 17-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation army continued, last night and on Sunday, to carry out intensive deadly strikes and target civilians in different areas of the Gaza Strip, especially in Gaza City.

According to local media sources, Israeli forces also continued today to detonate and bomb more homes and displace families in the Gaza Strip, further deepening the dire humanitarian crisis as the population grapples with worsening famine.

According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter in Gaza, Israeli attacks have continued across the Gaza Strip, including an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City that killed a citizen and injured others.

Some civilians suffered injuries after being struck by boxes of airdropped aid in al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis.

The Israeli army also launched aerial attacks on tents in the east of the bombed site of Tayba apartment buildings, killing four people and injuring others, including children.

Several casualties were reported, including seven martyrs, after Israeli drones bombed an area near the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City.

More people were martyred or injured in Israeli attacks on aid seekers near distribution points in separate areas of Gaza.

Seven people, including two children, were pronounced dead due to starvation and malnutrition, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

The Israeli army also launched attacks on other areas of the Gaza Strip last night and today, killing and wounding more civilians, including children and women.

Meanwhile, several Palestinians in Gaza were pronounced dead after they succumbed to injuries they sustained in recent attacks. 

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Several civilians, including two aid seekers, killed in northern Gaza by Israeli fire

GAZA, August 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

Several civilians, including two aid seekers, were killed this evening by Israeli occupation gunfire in the northern Gaza Strip.

A medical source confirmed that two civilians were killed and several others injured after Israeli forces opened fire on people seeking aid in the Zikim area, northwest of the Gaza Strip.

In a separate attack, a young man was killed when Israeli warplanes bombed the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

Medical sources in Gaza hospitals reported that since dawn today, 42 civilians, including 22 aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli occupation fire across various areas of the Gaza Strip.

T.R.

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Dozens injured by Israeli gunfire while waiting for aid northwest of Gaza

GAZA, August 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

 The field hospital of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in the al-Saraya area received this evening more than 40 injuries among civilians who were waiting for aid in the northwestern part of the Gaza Strip.

Earlier, a medical source confirmed that two civilians were killed and several others injured by Israeli occupation gunfire in the Zikim area, northwest of the Strip. A young man was also killed in an airstrike that targeted the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

 The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 61,944, the majority of whom were women and children, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in October 2023. At least 155,886 others have also been injured.

This toll remains incomplete, as many victims remain trapped under rubble, inaccessible to ambulance and rescue crews.

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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 IOFs kidnap several Palestinians during raids in the West Bank

Sunday 17-August-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) stormed homes and kidnapped a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in different areas of the West Bank last night and Sunday morning.

According to local sources, the IOFs kidnapped MP Anwer Zaboun and two other citizens after ransacking their homes in Bethlehem City.

In Al-Khaleel (Hebron), the IOFs detained and abused over 10 citizens for several hours after ransacking their homes in the Wadi ash-Sheikh area of Bait Ummar town before releasing them later.

Two citizens were also kidnapped following an IOFs raid in the southern area of Al-Khaleel (Hebron) City.

In Ramallah, two brothers were taken prisoners following an IOFs raid in Umm Safa village.

In Nablus, the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped two young men from Burqa village and another one at the checkpoint of Dair Sharaf.

The IOFs also kidnapped four citizens, including three brothers, after raiding homes in Duma village, south of Nablus.

The Israeli occupation forces also broke into and ransacked the house of an ex-detainee in the new refugee camp of 'Askar in eastern Nablus before leaving without making arrests.

Two other citizens were kidnapped following overnight raids on several homes in Toubas City.

Two Palestinian workers were also kidnapped by the Israeli occupation apartheid regime police officers, during a raid in Israel (1948 occupied Palestine).

18 kidnapped.

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PPS: 48 female prisoners in Damon prison facing systematic repression

Sunday 17-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported on Sunday that the administration of Damon Prison carried out four assaults against female prisoners during the first half of this month.

In a press release, the group explained that the prison authorities assaulted the women by shackling them, forcibly removing them from their cells in a humiliating and degrading manner, forcing them to lower their heads, and taking them to the prison yard where they were further mistreated. In two of these assaults, tear gas and police dogs were used.

The PPS indicated that the assaults occurred between August 4 and August 14. It stressed that these attacks are not new but rather represent a consistent and systematic policy practiced by the prison system against all male and female detainees, which intensified significantly since the start of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.

It added that the conditions in which the female prisoners are held are tragic and harsh. Despite their efforts to confront these policies through collective resilience, they are deprived of even the most basic rights.

The statement also highlighted that the women suffer from hunger due to the small quantity and poor quality of food provided, some of which is spoiled and inedible. They also face insect infestations and skin conditions due to high temperatures and humidity, compounded by the lack of ventilation. There is also a severe shortage of essential feminine hygiene supplies.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Note: Despite the Trump administration support for the Israeli occupation apartheid regime, the U.S. official policy is still considering the Israeli settlement activities in the Palestinian territories as illegal.

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Dozens of settlers defile Aqsa Mosque

Sunday 17-August-2025

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)

Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site.

According to local sources, dozens of settlers entered the Mosque through its Maghariba Gate and toured its courtyards under police protection.

During their tours at the Islamic holy site, the settlers received lectures from rabbis about the alleged temple mount and a number of them provocatively performed Talmudic prayers.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation police imposed movement and entry restrictions on Muslim worshipers at the Aqsa Mosque’s entrances and gates and prevented many of them from entering the holy site.

In a related context, Palestinian religious and national figures and institutions have urged Palestinian citizens to intensify their presence at the Aqsa Mosque to protect it against desecration by Jewish settlers.

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Colonist storm Palestinian house, vandalize it near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, August 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

Colonists attacked a house in the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, on Sunday.

Local sources reported that a group of colonists raided the house of citizen Muhammad Abayat in the eastern area and attempted to assault him, causing material damage.

Residents confronted them and forced them to withdraw to the new outpost on Jabal al-Ras.

It is noteworthy that Israeli forces detained siblings Adam and Adham Muhammad Musleh from the village at dawn on Sunday.

K.T.

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Colonists attack village and town near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, August 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli colonists attacked this evening the village of Aboud, northwest of Ramallah Governorate, and the town of Deir Dibwan, east of the governorate, according to security sources.

Sources told WAFA that colonists attacked the Wadi al-Limoun area in Aboud and the outskirts of Deir Dibwan, and gathered in the area. However, no injuries were reported.

T.R.

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Settlers storm W. Bank areas, attack property

Sunday 17-August-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

A horde of extremist Jewish settlers stormed on Sunday Turmus Ayya village in the northeast of Ramallah and carried out an attack on a Palestinian car.

According to local sources, settlers wreaked havoc on a private car belonging to a Palestinian citizen and damaged its windows in Turmus Ayya village.

In Jericho, another group of settlers grazed their livestock on swaths of land and near homes belonging to the residents of the Shallal al-Auja community as part of a daily provocative practice aimed at forcing the villagers to leave the area.

Last night, settlers destroyed plastic tanks filled with water and pipelines in the Palestinian community of Nab’ Ghazal near al-Farisiya village in the northern Jordan Valley.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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Egypt rejects participating in displacement of Palestinians

CAIRO, August 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

Egypt has reiterated its categorical rejection of the displacement of the Palestinian people and called on countries not to participate in this heinous crime.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry stated that it "is following with deep concern the recent reports of Israeli consultations with some countries regarding accepting the displacement of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip to their territories. This is part of an unacceptable Israeli policy aimed at emptying the Palestinian land of its inhabitants, occupying it, and liquidating the Palestinian cause."

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs clarified in a statement issued on Sunday that Egypt, through its contacts with countries that have repeatedly agreed to receive the Palestinian people, has indicated its rejection of these reprehensible plans.

Egypt reiterated its categorical rejection of any Israeli plans aimed at displacing the Palestinian people from their historic land, whether in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, under any pretext, justification, or label, whether the displacement is forced or "voluntary" through policies of starvation, land confiscation, settlement, and making life impossible on Palestinian land.

Egypt also affirmed that it will not accept or participate in such displacement, considering it a historical injustice with no moral or legal justification. It will not allow it, as it will inevitably lead to the liquidation of the Palestinian cause.

It called on all peace-loving countries of the world to do so to refrain from involvement in this immoral crime, which contravenes all principles of international humanitarian law, constitutes a war crime and ethnic cleansing, and represents a clear violation of the four Geneva Conventions.

It also warned of the historical and legal responsibility that will fall on any party involved in this heinous crime, and the political consequences and repercussions it may have with regional and international dimensions.

K.T.

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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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