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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70 Palestinians Killed, 356 Injured, Mostly Children, Women, and Aid Seekers,

Which Brings the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on the Gaza Strip to 62,192 and the Injuries to 157,114

by August 21, 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 21, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 75,219.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (62,192) and those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 13,027+). 

By August 21, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 157,114.

By August 21, 2025, according to news report, 1,020 Palestinians who were killed, 6,997 who were injured, and 18,640, 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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70 Palestinians were killed, 356 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, bringing the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 62,192 and the injuries to 157,114, by August 21, 2025.	70 Palestinians were killed, 356 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, bringing the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 62,192 and the injuries to 157,114, by August 21, 2025.
The UNRWA warned that child malnutrition in the Gaza Strip has tripled in less than six months as the Israeli ongoing genocidal war and blockade strangle humanitarian access, August 21, 2025.	'Adnan Abu 'Hasna, of theUNRWA warned that the Gaza Strip is facing an unprecedented humanitarian tsunami, as a result of the Israeli policies, during the ongoing Israeli genocidal war, August 21, 2025.
Dr Mu'hammad Abu Salmiya of Al-Shifa hospital, warned that more than million people are at risk if Israeli occupation forces launch a ground invasion into Gaza City, as the medical system cannot serve them, August 21, 2025.	Seven Palestinians were killed and 18 others injured, following an Israeli strike that targeted a gathering of aid seekers near an aid distribution point , south of the Wadi Gaza area in central Gaza, August 21, 2025.
A number of the  Israeli genocidal air strikes destroyed a tent area sheltering displaced Palestinian families in Dair El-Bala'h, in central Gaza Strip, killing and injuring people living there, August 21, 2025.	Site of an Israeli genocidal air strike on a tent sheltering one of the displaced Palestinian families in Gaza City, killing and injuring the family members living there, August 21, 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 surges to 62,192 as Israel continues the genocide

GAZA, August 21, 2025 (WAFA, PIC) –

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported, on Thursday, that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 62,192, the majority of whom are children and women, since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023.

The Ministry added that the number of injuries has risen to 157,114 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 also reported that 70 people were killed and 356 others were wounded and 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 10,646 and 45,073 wounded.

The Ministry explained that the number of slain aid-seekers taken to hospitals over the past 24 hours reached 18, with 117 injured, bringing the total number of fatalities to 2,036, and the total number of injured to 15,046.

In the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip recorded two deaths due to starvation and malnutrition, bringing the total number to 271, including 112 children.

K.T.

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Dozens killed, injured amid intense Israeli attacks in Gaza

Thursday 21-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

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

According to local media sources, Israeli forces also continued today to detonate and bomb more homes and displace families in different areas of 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 a drone attack on a group of farmers that killed five of them in the east of Al-Asdaa City, north of Khan Younus.

Casualties were also reported following a dawn strike on an apartment in Gaza City’s Al-Shaikh Radhwan neighborhood.

Four civilians were martyred following an Israeli attack on a gathering of displaced citizens outside a school in ash-Shati refugee camp in the west of Gaza.

In central Gaza, the Israeli army destroyed an entire displacement camp, including all its tents, in Dair El-Bala'h City after forcing its residents to leave it.

In Gaza City, Israeli forces continued to detonate and bomb homes in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood. Over 450 homes and buildings were destroyed in the past few days.

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

Two other people were pronounced dead today 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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Seven Palestinian aid seekers killed by Israeli gunfire

Thursday 21-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

Seven Palestinians were killed and 18 others injured on Thursday evening, following an Israeli strike that targeted a gathering of aid seekers near an aid distribution point on Salah al-Din Street, south of the Wadi Gaza area in central Gaza.

Medical sources at Al-Awda Hospital reported receiving seven martyrs and dozens of injuries following Israeli shelling and gunfire on citizens while they attempted to obtain humanitarian aid.

Since the first day of the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation”, points for aid distribution in Gaza have turned into death traps. Incidents of shooting at aid seekers have become increasingly frequent, with rising casualties among those desperate for help as the pace of Israeli massacres escalates.

The genocidal war against the Gaza Strip continues for the 685th consecutive day, amid a worsening humanitarian and living crisis. Citizens in the enclave face the ravages of war while under a tight siege that denies them food and medicine.

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Airstrike on school in Al-Shati Camp kills five, injures others

GAZA, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter on Wednesday evening killed five civilians and injured others in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that Israeli fighter jets targeted Asmaa School sheltering displaced people in the refugee camp, claiming the lives of five civilians and injuring others.

Earlier, a mother and her child were killed in Israeli shelling targeting a group of civilians in Al-Zarqa area of the al-Tuffa'h neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.

Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing at least 10,576 with 44,717 others wounded, according to medical sources.

In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 58 slain Palestinians, including two retrieved from the rubble, and 185 casualties were admitted to Gaza hospitals.

Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 62,122 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 156,758 others.

Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafa'h near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

K.F.

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 Israeli airstrikes kill eight, including four children, in Gaza

GAZA, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

Eight Palestinians, including four children, were killed on Thursday evening as Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians in the Al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.

WAFA correspondent reported that the latest airstrike renewed a series of bombings in the area, leaving 14 others injured. Earlier in the day, an initial strike in the same neighborhood had killed three other civilians.

In a separate attack, Israeli artillery shelled the eastern area of Al-Shaikh Radhwan neighborhood, killing a young girl and injuring several others, including children.

According to local health authorities, Israeli forces have killed a total of 12 Palestinians since dawn in Gaza City and Khan Younus. Among the victims are five individuals who were waiting for humanitarian aid when they were struck by Israeli gunfire and shelling.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in at least 62,192 documented Palestinian fatalities, with over 157,114 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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Three civilians killed in Israeli strike targeting group of civilians south of Gaza city

GAZA, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

Three civilians were killed on Thursday evening in an Israeli airstrike targeting a group of civilians in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli warplanes struck a gathering of civilians in Al-Sabra, resulting in the killing of three people.

Earlier, Israeli artillery shelled the eastern area of Al-Shaikh Radhwan neighborhood, killing a young girl and injuring several others, including children.

Since dawn today, Israeli forces have killed 12 civilians, including five aid seekers, in Gaza City and Khan Younus.

The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has risen to 62,192. At least 157,114 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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Palestinian child killed, others injured in Israeli strikes in Gaza City

GAZA, August 20, 2025 (WAFA) –

A Palestinian child was killed and others, including children, were injured on Thursday in an Israeli shelling of Al-Shaikh Radhwan neighborhood in Gaza City, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that Israeli artillery targeted the eastern part of Al-Shaikh Radhwann neighborhood, killing a girl and wounding others, including children.

The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has surged to 62,192 Palestinians, with nearly 157,114 reported wounded.

Y.S.

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Two Palestinians die due to starvation and acute malnutrition in Gaza

GAZA, August 20, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced the deaths of two Palestinians within the past 24 hours due to starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip.

This brings the total number of the starvation-related fatalities to 271, including 212 children.

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip continues to worsen, due to the blockade and shortages of food and medical supplies. The severe famine is intertwined with the genocidal war waged by Israel since October 7, 2023.

Since March 2, 2025, the occupying authorities sealed off all crossings with the Gaza Strip, blocking the entry of most food and medical aid, further accelerating the spread of famine across the territory.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has warned that malnutrition among children under five doubled between March and June as a result of the ongoing blockade.

The World Health Organization confirmed that malnutrition rates in Gaza have reached alarming levels, with nearly one in five children under five in Gaza City suffering from acute malnutrition.

Y.S.

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Ten Palestinian civilians killed, others injured by Israeli strikes and machine gunfire in Gaza

GAZA, August 20, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Ten Palestinian civilians were killed and others were wounded, including three aid seekers, on Thursday in Israeli shelling and gunfire in the Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City, Salah al-Din Street, central Gaza Strip, and the city of Khan Yunis in the south.

An Israeli drone strike that targeted northwest of Khan Younus claimed the lives of five people from Al-Astal family, according to WAFA correspondent.  

Three Palestinians were also killed and another was wounded when the Israeli occupation targeted a gathering of citizens near an aid center on Salahuddeen Street in the central Gaza Strip.

Two more Palestinians were killed and others were critically wounded when an Israeli drone struck a gathering of citizens in Al-Zarqa area of Al-Tuffa'h neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.

The Israeli military continued widespread destruction and shelling in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, al-Sabra, central and southern Gaza City, and Jabalya, north of the Gaza Strip.

Y.S.

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UN warns Gaza’s humanitarian crisis worsening amid rising shelter shortages

GAZA, August 20, 2025 (WAFA) – 

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) confirmed that the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is deteriorating, with "Palestinians being killed and injured daily, and famine and malnutrition continuing to worsen."

The UN office warned in a statement that there is a major shelter crisis. Meeting the current shelter needs of approximately 1.4 million people requires 3,500 trucks loaded with tents, plastic sheeting, and basic household supplies, not counting any future displacement that would increase needs.

The UN office also voiced alarm towards delivering such supplies, describing it  a challenge due to ongoing restrictions.

The office called for facilitating relief and humanitarian aid, stressing the need to maintain the crossing leading to the north and Gaza City for the delivery of shelter materials.

Y.S.

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Enduring hell: Gaza detainees face severe Israeli torture and terror behind bars - Prisoners' Institutions

RAMALLAH, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

Nearly two years into the Gaza genocide and severe crimes against Palestinian political detainees held in the Israeli occupation’s prisons continue. Those abducted from the occupied Gaza Strip are enduring the worst levels of torture and abuse compared with any other detainees, said a briefing issued by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

The Commission and PPS released this new briefing based on testimonies obtained – under strict conditions - by lawyers during visits to detainees conducted between late July and mid-August. The visits were conducted specifically in the underground “Rakevet” section of Ramla Prison, and the “Sde Teiman” military camp, both notorious for systematic torture of Palestinians detained from occupied Gaza.

In the underground “Rakevet” section of Ramla Prison, detainees came to their lawyers’ visits weeping, terrorized.

All detainees had been threatened and beaten prior to seeing their lawyers. Prison guards attempted to force detainees to lie to their lawyers and tell them that everything is “excellent.” Lawyers were forbidden from sharing any information about detainees’ families, who remain in Gaza, or the ongoing genocide.

Key testimonies revealed the continued practice of beatings and finger-breaking, along with total isolation—detainees are denied sunlight and allowed out to the yard every other day for 20 minutes, handcuffed and forced to keep their heads down.

Mattresses are distributed at night and removed in the morning, forcing prisoners to sit on metal beds all day. Guards deliberately humiliate them with insults, including forcing them to curse their own mothers and families, alongside constant threats and psychological terror. Several prisoners came to their visits weeping and terrorized. One appeared to have been severely beaten—his face covered in tears, marks on his wrists from the handcuffs. He was unable to speak about what happened to him, only trying to signal to the lawyer with his eyes. His case is not isolated; all detainees showed severe psychological distress, with fear dominating the entire lawyers’ visit.

The interrogation period stands out as one of the clearest reflections of the level of torture and grave violations inflicted by interrogators against detainees abducted from occupied Gaza.

Detainee (A.Y.): "I was arrested in December 2023 and taken to the 'barracks,' where I stayed for eight days. During that time, I was subjected to four days of 'disco' interrogation. Later, I underwent further interrogation by the intelligence services and the army, then I was transferred to Asqalan Prison, where I was held in a cell for a month without knowing day from night, and subjected to very harsh military interrogations.

They would strap me to a chair and then throw me to the ground while my hands and feet were bound. I was beaten daily for 30 days straight. I currently suffer from torn chest muscles and severe pain due to prolonged shackling of my arms behind my back. After Asqalan, I was moved to Ofer Prison, where I was shown a screen with a map to locate my home and was questioned about several locations in Gaza."

Detainee (Y.D.): "I was interrogated in the field for an hour, then transferred to the 'barracks,' where I was beaten, and then placed under the 'disco' interrogation method, where I was severely beaten, suspended in stress positions, and lost consciousness several times. They poured water on me to wake me up. The beating was so violent that my handcuffs came off twice. I was struck violently on the head, and my hair was pulled out. Now I suffer from rib fractures and I can’t sleep. The torture also caused a tear in my left ear, vision impairment, and kidney pain."

Detainee (A.B.): "I was arrested on the second day of the war. I was already suffering from a jaw injury and had undergone surgery. After my arrest, I was transferred to Asqalan Prison, where I was held for a month and a half and was subjected to military interrogation. They put me in stress positions including the ‘mozeh’ (banana) position, during which I was beaten. This continued for 17 days, including once for 5 consecutive days. The interrogators would grab my testicles and beat me on them, trying to pressure me into confessing. They also blindfolded me and threw me from the chair to the ground. After being transferred to Ramla Prison, I was subjected to another round of interrogation, during which the guards broke my fingers."

Hunger and Disease Dominate Testimonies

All detainees who were visited confirmed they are suffering from extreme hunger — one described the situation as “famine.” They are given extemely small portions of food, often inedible. Detainees collect these scraps to form a single evening meal. The amount of food provided to an entire cell is barely enough for one person. Most are experiencing severe weight loss, emaciation, and extreme exhaustion, along with worsening illnesses and health conditions.

In addition to deliberate starvation, diseases and infections continue to spread — most notably scabies skin disease, which has become one of the most pressing health issues facing the prisoners. The prison system has actively continued to its spread by depriving detainees of basic hygiene and medical care, and refusing to eradicate it.

Main Facts About Palestinians Detained from Gaza

Since the start of the genocide, Israeli occupation forces have detained thousands of civilians from across the Gaza Strip — including women, children, the elderly, the wounded, as well as medical and press personnel.

In addition to the abuses mentioned in this briefing, Israeli occupation forces have carried out other severe acts such as rape, including raping detainees to death, as well as torturing and starving them to death.

The occupation also continues to commit the crime of enforced disappearance against hundreds of detainees abducted from Gaza, refusing to disclose their identities or locations of detention. To this day, the International Committee of the Red Cross is denied access to visit them.

Due to some recent legal amendments, human rights organizations have managed to uncover the fate of hundreds of detainees, gaining access to most prisons and detention camps — including “Sde Teiman”, a key site of documented torture and medical abuse, and the underground Rakevet section of Ramla Prison.

Amid these severe abuses, dozens of detainees have been killed in custody, in addition to others extrajudicially executed upon arrest. Of the 76 identified martyred political prisoners since the genocide began, 46 were people arrested from Gaza.

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 woman and her son injured in Israeli settler attack in the West Bank

Thursday 21-August-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

A Palestinian woman and her son suffered injuries on Thursday morning when a group of the illegal Israeli settlers assaulted them in the east of Bethlehem, south of the occupied West Bank.

The Red Crescent said that its paramedics provided medical assistance for a woman and her son and transported them to the hospital after they were assaulted by settlers in Al-Minya village, southeast of Bethlehem.

It added that the wounded citizens suffered head injuries.

Chief of the village council Zayid Kawazba said that armed settlers broke into the house of Abu Khalil Jabbareen and assaulted his wife, Siham, and his son, Rafat.

Israeli forces also stormed the same village after local residents tried to fend off the settlers and kidnaped Kawazba’s eldest son, Khalil. 

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 Israeli occupation forces open fire at Palestinian youth in central Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces on Thursday opened live fire at a Palestinian youth in the Tel Rumaida area in central Al-Khaleel (Hebron), according to local sources.

Sources told WAFA that Israeli forces stationed at the military checkpoint in the Tel Rumaida neighborhood opened live fire at the youth, whose identity remains unknown until the moment.

There was no immediate confirmation of any injuries, and further details are awaited.

T.R.

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Israeli occupation forces kidnap at least 17 Palestinians in West Bank raids

RAMALLAH, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) -

The Israeli occupation forces today kidnapped at least 17 Palestinians during military raids into multiple West Bank areas, according to local and security sources.

In Ramallah, Israeli forces detained six Palestinians during home raids in Al-Am'ari refugee camp south of Ramallah and the village of Dair Ibzi west of the governorate.

In Toulkarm, the Israeli occupation soldiers detained another six Palestinians after raiding their homes, including a freed detainee. The ex-detainee was released in the latest exchange deal with Israel after being detained in 2018 and sentenced to nine years in jail.

Meanwhile, in Al-Khaleel (Hebron) area, four Palestinians were detained after Israeli occupation forces raided, searched, and wreaked havoc inside their homes.

Israeli occupation forces also detained two young men after raiding their families' homes during a military incursion into the Fari'a refugee camp, south of Toubas.

Local sources reported that Israeli soldiers assaulted a young man during the raid, causing him bruises that required his transfer to the hospital.

T.R.

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Israeli occupation forces demolish residential room, agricultural facility east of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

 Israeli occupation forces demolished today a residential room in the village of 'Arab Al-Rashayida, east of Bethlehem, according to a security source.

A security source told WAFA correspondent that an Israeli army force stormed the village and began demolishing a room owned by a local citizen, as part of the ongoing Israeli policy to tighten the noose on Palestinian residents in the eastern area of the governorate.

The village and its surrounding areas are frequently targeted by Israeli forces through demolitions and expulsion orders, deepening the residents’ suffering and threatening their steadfastness on their land.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces also demolished an agricultural structure in the village of Al-Khas, east of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem).

The head of the village council, Khadhir 'Hamdan, told WAFA that Israeli forces raided the eastern area of the village and demolished a 40-square-meter agricultural facility.

'Hamdan noted that the owner received a demolition notice about a month ago with an unreasonably short deadline, adding that the targeting of agricultural structures is part of a systematic policy to tighten the noose on farmers, deprive them of their livelihoods, and restrict both residential and agricultural expansion in the area.

T.R.

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 Israeli occupation forces raid Al-Mughayir village in Ramallah, declare it closed military zone

RAMALLAH, August 20, 2025 (WAFA) –

 Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, on Thursday morning.

Ameen Abu 'Alia, head of the Al-Mughayyir village council, told WAFA that an Israeli army force stormed the village, during which they fired sound bombs. However no injuries were reported.

Abu Alia added that the occupation forces closed shops, imposed a curfew in the village, sealed off its entrance, and declared it a closed military zone. Meanwhile, dozens of colonists gathered at the village entrance.

He further noted that Al-Mughayir has been subjected to repeated attacks by both Israeli forces and colonists, including incidents where residents received threatening phone calls and text messages from colonists.

Y.S.

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 Israeli occupation forces impose curfew on civilian neighborhoods in Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) imposed a curfew on several neighborhoods in the Old City of Al-Khaleel (Hebron) on Thursday and raided several homes.

Activist 'Aarif Jabir told WAFA that the IOFs escalated the repressive measures against residents in most neighborhoods of the Old City, imposing strict curfews in the Jabir, Salayma, and Wadi al-Hussein neighborhoods east of the city. They raided and searched several homes in these areas and checked the IDs of their owners.

He added that the IOFs have been imposing repressive measures on more than 11 neighborhoods in the Old City since October 7, 2023. Since then, they have been subjected to an evening curfew and a complete curfew on Fridays and Saturdays.

They also prevent residents from leaving their homes and impose strict restrictions on their movement. They are also subjected to daily harassment by IOF soldiers and armed settler groups.

K.T.

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 Israeli occupation forces continue large-scale raid on Al-Mughayyir village near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces have continued their major military incursion into the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, since early Thursday morning. The raid has involved assaults on residents, destruction of property, and damage to agricultural land.

Ameen Abu 'Ulayya, head of the village council, told WAFA that the Israeli army sealed off the two main entrances to the village, preventing movement in or out—including for ambulances.

Troops also forced local shop owners to close their businesses and severely restricted residents' movements within the village.

According to Abu Elayya, the Israeli military has deployed reinforcements, including infantry units, across all areas of the village. Soldiers were seen spreading out through neighborhoods, and several parked vehicles were damaged during the raid, as shown in video footage from the scene.

Soldiers also stormed several homes, including that of the family of martyr 'Hamdan Mousa Abu 'Ulayya, who was killed last Saturday evening. Residents reported being assaulted during these home invasions.

Abu Elayya recounted that, after reports emerged of an attack on the martyr's family, a phone call was made to one of the sons. However, the call was answered by an Israeli soldier, and screams could be heard in the background, suggesting the family was under assault.

Local sources confirmed that two young men from the Abu 'Ulayya household sustained fractures and bruises due to severe beatings.

The village council is currently in contact with international organizations in an effort to allow medical teams access to homes where emergency calls have been made.

Meanwhile, Israeli bulldozers began leveling farmland east of the village, adjacent to Route 458. The area, planted largely with olive trees, is now being systematically destroyed.

According to Abu 'Ulayya, six Israeli military vehicles, including three armored bulldozers were dispatched to the area, where hundreds of olive trees have already been uprooted and vast tracts of land—over 2,000 dunums—are being razed by the Israeli forces.

M.N.

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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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Illegal Israeli settlers attack Palestinian vehicles south of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles on Thursday evening near the southern entrance of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), south of the occupied West Bank.

Local sources told WAFA that a group of colonists gathered at the roundabout near the illegal Gush Etzion colonial bloc, built on Palestinian-owned land south of Bethlehem. They blocked the main road connecting Jerusalem and Hebron and pelted Palestinian cars with stones, causing damage to several vehicles.

In response to the assault, many residents were forced to take an alternative route through the Al-Manshiya area to avoid further attacks.

Such acts of violence by colonists continue to pose a daily threat to Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, often occurring under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.

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 Injuries reported in an illegal Israeli settlers’ attack on residents in Masafer Yatta, in Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), August 21, 2025 (WAFA) -

Several Palestinian residents sustained injuries and bruises on Thursday as a result of an attack carried out by a group of the illegal Israeli settlers against residents of Masafir Yatta south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron). The attack also caused extensive damage to residents’ homes and property, according to a local activist.

Activist Osama Makhamra told WAFA that a group of armed colonists from the colony of Susiya, built illegally on Palestinian-owned land, stormed a residential area located near the colony in Masafir Yatta.

The settlers physically assaulted residents, injuring an elderly man and inflicting head wounds that required his transfer to the hospital for treatment.

Several others sustained bruises and were treated at the scene.

The settlers also vandalized property, smashing the windows of a house and damaging several civilian vehicles and two agricultural tractors belonging to two families in the area.

In a separate attack, armed colonists chased Palestinian shepherds in the area of Al-Mufaqara and attacked their livestock with sticks, killing two sheep and injuring several others.

T.R.

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Illegal Israeli settlers brutally assault Palestinian woman, her son in Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)-area village

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), August 20, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers brutally assaulted a Palestinian woman and her son in the village of Al-Minya, east of Bethlehem, according to local sources.

The head of the village council, Zayid Kawazba, said that a group of colonists broke into the western area of ​​the village and raided the home of the Abu Khalil Jabarin family.

During the raid, the colonists assaulted 50 -year-old Siham Jabarin and her son, Rafat, who were both subsequently transferred to the hospital.

He added that the occupation forces raided the area and detained the family's eldest son, Khaleel Jabbareen.

Kawazba affirmed that Israeli troops provide protection to the colonists during such attacks against Palestinian residents and their proprieties, as part of a clear policy aimed at displacing them from their own lands.

He emphasized that the village of Al-Minya, which has a population of approximately 3,000, has been afflicted by the ongoing colonist attacks, which have included the closure of its main entrances from the western and southern sides, in addition to the closure of the high school since the beginning of the aggression.

Kawazba pointed out that colonists had previously seized approximately 250 dunams of the village's land and built a solar power plant to supply electricity to the Ma'ale Amos and Ibi Hanahel illegal outposts, both built on Kisan lands.

He appealed to the international community and human rights organizations to urgently intervene to halt the attacks by the occupation forces along with its colonists, which have besieged the village and restricted the daily lives of its residents.

Y.S.

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Israeli occupation forces demolish horse shed in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) town of Silwan

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces on Thursday demolished a horse shed in the East Jerusalem town of Silwan.

According to Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) Governorate, Israeli bulldozers tore down the shed in the Wadi Qaddoum neighborhood of Silwan.

Additionally, Israeli forces raided the Ras Khamees neighborhood in the Shu'fat refugee camp, northeast of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem). However, no confrontations or detentions were reported during the incursion.

T.R.

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Foreign Ministry calls on UNESCO to assume its responsibilities in protecting Palestinian archaeological sites from the dangers of Judaization and annexation

RAMALLAH, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates called on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to uphold its responsibilities in protecting Palestinian archaeological sites from the dangers of Judaization and annexation.

This statement follows the Israeli occupation authorities’ recent announcement designating 63 sites in the West Bank as Israeli heritage sites.

The Ministry condemned this announcement as a blatant violation of international law, the Geneva Conventions, and signed agreements.

The statement said the classification of the sites comes as part of a colonial plan to seize control of 2,400 sites across the West Bank by force of occupation, within the framework of a colonial ideology pursued by the occupation government to intensify the crimes of gradual annexation, alter the West Bank’s features and identity, impose new realities on the ground, and change its geography and demographic reality.

The Ministry described the designation of these sites as one of the largest acts of piracy and theft of Palestinian land for purely colonial purposes, carried out under flimsy pretexts and baseless claims unsupported by any documented historical evidence. It condemned the move as an open crime of falsifying history and the present.

The Ministry added that this also constitutes another form of settler colonialism targeting the civilization of the Palestinian people and their archaeological and historical sites.

The Ministry called on the international community to act swiftly to expose this crime and confront the Israeli narrative being promoted to intensify settler presence and control over these sites, the majority of which are located in the heart of Palestinian cities and towns.

The Ministry reiterated that these plans threaten the possibility of realizing the State of Palestine on the ground, through the Judaization of these sites and the erasure of their identity. Therefore, swift international recognition of the State of Palestine contributes to safeguarding the prospects of implementing and preserving the two-state solution, the statement concluded.

T.R.

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The Israeli occupation apartheid regime issue eviction orders to 17 families in Um Tuba, south of occupied Jerusalem

RAMALLAH, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime delivered eviction notices to 17 Palestinian families living in the Al-Mashahid neighborhood of Um Touba village, located south of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

According to the orders, the homes in question are allegedly built on land claimed by the so-called Jewish National Fund (JNF).

The Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Governorate reported that the Israeli municipality has posted signs in the neighborhood bearing the signature of the Israel Land Authority, warning residents not to enter the lands, claiming they are under confiscation and that existing homes are subject to seizure.

The move is part of ongoing efforts to displace Palestinian residents from their homes and expand control over land in occupied East Jerusalem, despite international condemnation of such practices.

M.N.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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In a meeting with settler rabbis, Katz pledges total destruction of Gaza City

Thursday 21-August-2025

NAZARETH, (PIC)

Israeli war Minister Yisrael Katz vowed to destroy Gaza City in the same way his occupation forces devastated Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

This came during a meeting he held with a delegation of senior rabbis and rabbis of settlements in the northern occupied West Bank, according to a statement issued by his office on Thursday. The meeting, which lasted about an hour and a half, was held at the Army Ministry headquarters with the participation of the official in charge of the so-called “Hilltop Youth.”

During the meeting, the rabbis praised Katz’s stance calling for the continuation of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and urged him to “do whatever it takes to settle the battle.” Katz responded by affirming his commitment to completing the military operation, telling them: “Gaza City will look like Beit Hanoun.”

The army minister added that “the army’s operations will be carried out to the maximum extent possible, with the goal of recovering all the hostages (Israeli captives) and achieving a strategic decision that will harm Hamas.”

Katz’s meeting with the rabbis came a day after thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) protested on Wednesday evening, simultaneously blocking major roads in central and northern Israel in response to the arrest of draft evaders from their community, according to Israeli media.

The Haredim continue their protests against military service following a June 25, 2024 ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court obligating them to enlist and barring financial aid to religious institutions whose students refuse military service.

Katz’s remarks coincided with an announcement by the prime minister’s office on Wednesday that Netanyahu had instructed the acceleration of the occupation of Gaza City, while mediators had been waiting for more than 48 hours for Tel Aviv’s response to the truce proposal approved by Hamas.

The Israeli occupation army spokesperson Effi Defrin said that the military had already occupied the outskirts of Gaza City, but it remains unclear when the full-scale ground assault will begin.

Hamas had announced its acceptance of the proposal put forward by Egypt and Qatar, which lays out a path toward a comprehensive agreement to end the war. The proposal includes a temporary suspension of military operations for 60 days and the exchange of Palestinian prisoners for the release of half of the Israeli captives in Gaza.

With US support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, through killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international appeals and orders by the International Court of Justice to stop. The Israeli genocide has so far left 62,122 martyrs, 156,760 wounded, more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that has claimed the lives of 263 people, including 112 children.

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 Israel’s E1 settlement plan poses existential threat to Palestinian statehood, says Government Communication Center

RAMALLAH, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Government Communication Center said that Israel’s E1 colonial settlement plan, long in preparation, is now moving forward, posing an existential threat to the geographic and demographic integrity of a sovereign, viable, and contiguous State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

In a statement, the Government Communication Center stressed that the Plan is part of Israel's systematic effort to undermine the possibility of realizing a Palestinian state, compromise its geographic and demographic unity, and perpetuate the division of the West Bank into isolated areas, submerged in a colonial environment to facilitate eventual annexation.

“If implemented, this plan will not only deepen the cycle of forced displacement and settlement expansion but also irreversibly undermine the viability of the two-State solution, which remains the cornerstone of international consensus for peace,” the statement read.

“At this critical juncture, we appeal for your principled stance and leadership. The international community must act to prevent the implementation of this colonial plan and to safeguard both the Palestinian people’s rights and the prospects of a just and lasting peace, as well as to preserve the credibility of the international rules-based order,” said the Government Communication Center in a statement.

According to the statement, the Israeli E1 settlement plan seeks to:

Isolate Jerusalem from its Palestinian surroundings and cut the geographic and demographic continuity between Jerusalem and the Palestinian communities, thereby undermining the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.   Isolate the northern West Bank from its southern part and turn it into disconnected enclaves subject to the movement restrictions of the occupation authorities.   Expand the borders of East Jerusalem through the annexation of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement bloc.   Expel and displace the Bedouin communities once again from their lands.   Increase the number of Jews in Jerusalem at the expense of the original Palestinian population, especially after removing Palestinian communities such as Kafr ‘Aqab, Anata, and Shu‘fat.  

The occupation authorities also seek to displace 46 Bedouin communities in the eastern slopes and the Jordan Valley in order to implement their Judaization and colonial settlement schemes and to empty the eastern borders of Palestinian presence, which cover an area of about one million dunums, said the statement.

T.R.

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Over 20 states condemn Israel’s approval of E1 colonial project in occupied West Bank

RAMALLAH, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

Over 20 states condemned on Thursday the Israeli occupation authorities’ approval of the E1 colonial settlement plan in the occupied West Bank.

In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of 21 countries, as well as the EU, condemned Israel's E1 settlement plan and called for its immediate reversal in the strongest terms.

“The decision by the Israeli Higher Planning Committee to approve plans for settlement construction in the E1 area, East of Jerusalem, is unacceptable and a violation of international law,” the foreign ministers of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom said in a press statement.

They warned that the decision “brings no benefits to the Israeli people. Instead, it risks undermining security and fuels further violence and instability, taking us further away from peace.”

“The Government of Israel still has an opportunity to stop the E1 plan going any further. We encourage them to urgently retract this plan,” they added.

They affirmed that any “unilateral action by the Israeli government undermines our collective desire for security and prosperity in the Middle East.”

They urged the Israeli government to “stop settlement construction in line with UNSC Resolution 2334 and remove their restrictions on the finances of the Palestinian Authority.”

The Israeli occupation authorities have approved the construction of the E1 colonial settlement project in the occupied West Bank, in a move that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described as “erasing” a Palestinian state “not with slogans but with actions”.

“The Palestinian state is being erased from the table, not with slogans but with actions. Every settlement, every neighbourhood, every housing unit is another nail in the coffin of this dangerous idea,” Smotrich said.

The new project involves the building of 3,400 new colonial units on occupied Palestinian territory. The majority of them will be built near the existing Maale Adumim colony, in an area that aims to connect colonies in the occupied West Bank with occupied East Jerusalem.

The plan also includes 342 units in a new settlement in Asayil, in the south of the West Bank.

K.F.

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Houston: Activists set up tents in front of Israeli consulate; demand end to arm sales to Israel

TEXAS, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

Protesters set up tents in front of the Israeli consulate in Houston, Texas, demanding an end to arms sales to Israel and the lifting of the blockade on the Gaza Strip.

Activists named the open demonstration "Anas al-Sharif Camp" after the Palestinian journalist who was assassinated by the Israeli occupation forces along with five other journalists last week in the Gaza Strip.

They indicated that it will continue daily in honor of the slain journalists who were killed while performing their journalistic duty of conveying the truth about the ongoing massacre in Gaza.

Pro-Palestine activists participated in the demonstration to demonstrate their support for the Palestinian people and to emphasize their rejection of US policies that support Israel.

K.T.

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Finland summons Israeli ambassador over E1 colonial plan

HELSINKI, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Israeli ambassador to Helsinki on Thursday in protest against Israel’s approval of the E1 colonial plan east of occupied Jerusalem.

In a statement posted on its official X account, the ministry expressed "deep concern" over the Israeli Higher Planning Committee’s decision to advance settlement construction in the E1 area, as well as plans related to the seizure of Gaza.

The ministry also reiterated Finland’s call for the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza in accordance with international law.

The E1 plan, long condemned by the international community, is widely viewed as a move that would sever the northern and southern parts of the occupied West Bank, undermining the prospect of a contiguous Palestinian state.

M.N

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UK summons Israeli ambassador over E1 colonial settlement construction plan

LONDON, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

The UK summoned on Thursday Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely over Israel’s approval of the E1 colonial settlement construction plan in the occupied West Bank, according to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

The FCDO said in a press statement that “Tzipi Hotovely was summoned in response to the Israeli Higher Planning Committee’s decision to approve plans for settlement construction in the E1 area, East of Jerusalem.”

It noted that “the UK and 21 international partners have written to condemn this decision in the strongest terms.”

“If implemented, these settlement plans would be a flagrant breach of international law and would divide a future Palestinian state in two, critically undermining a two-state solution,” it warned.

The Israeli occupation authorities have approved the construction of the E1 colonial settlement project in the occupied West Bank, in a move that Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described as “erasing” a Palestinian state “not with slogans but with actions”.

“The Palestinian state is being erased from the table, not with slogans but with actions. Every settlement, every neighbourhood, every housing unit is another nail in the coffin of this dangerous idea,” Smotrich said.

The new project involves the building of 3,400 new colonial units on occupied Palestinian territory. The majority of them will be built near the existing Maale Adumim colony, in an area that aims to connect colonies in the occupied West Bank with occupied East Jerusalem.

The plan also includes 342 units in a new settlement in Asael, in the south of the West Bank.

K.F.

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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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