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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64 Palestinians Killed, 278 Injured, Mostly Children, Women, and Aid Seekers,

Which Brings the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on the Gaza Strip to 62,686 and the Injuries to 157,951

by August 24, 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 24, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 75,713.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (62,686) and those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 13,027+). 

By August 24, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 157,951.

By August 24, 2025, according to news report, 1,020 Palestinians who were killed, 7,004 who were injured, and 18,684, 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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'Hamas announced appreciation to the brave step taken by Dutch Foreign Minister, Caspar Veldkamp, and other ministers, who resigned in protest at failure to approve sanctions against Israel, August 24, 2025.	Dr Muneer Al-Bursh, Director of the Palestinian Health Ministry, warned that the famine in Gaza reached Phase 5, stressing the need for a large-scale humanitarian response, August 24, 2025.
64 Palestinians were killed, 278 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, bringing the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 62,686 and the injuries to 157,951, by August 24, 2025.	64 Palestinians were killed, 278 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, bringing the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 62,686 and the injuries to 157,951, by August 24, 2025.
The Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the Palestinian village of Al-Mughayir, after four days of siege, kidnappings, thefts, raiding homes, land grab, and uprooting olive trees, on August 24, 2025 pic before and after	At least four Yemeni citizens were killed, and 71 others were wounded by the Israeli air strikes, which targeted several locations in the Yemeni capital San'a, including the presidential palace, August 24, 2025.
Arrival of the injured and martyred Palestinians, who were massacred by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, to Al-'Awda hospital in Al-Nusayrat, in central Gaza Strip, on August 25, 2025.	Grieving at Al-Shifa hospital the death of the Palestinian martyrs, who were massacred by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza City, on August 25, 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 62,686 amid ongoing Israeli genocide

GAZA, August 24, 2025 (WAFA) –

At least 64 Palestinians were killed and 278 others were injured in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocide in the region, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The Ministry confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 2023 has risen to 62,686 fatalities, with an additional 157,951 people sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

According to the Ministry, the death toll since Israel’s resumption of the genocide on March 18 after a two-month truce has also climbed to 10,842, in addition to 45,910 others injured.

Emergency services are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn enclave, as Israeli occupation forces continue to target ambulance and civil defense crews, according to the health authorities.

The Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip continues undeterred despite calls from the United Nations 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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Dozens of casualties in intense Israeli strikes on Gaza

Sunday 24-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.

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 strikes on homes in Gaza City’s as-Sabra neighborhood that killed eight people and injured others.

Other strikes on tents in Al-Qadisiyah displacement camp, west of Khan Younus, claimed the lives of four people, including two children, and injured others.

Another civilian was martyred in a drone attack in the east of Dair El-Bala'h City.

Israeli warplanes also carried out a wave of intensive strikes on the area of Jabalya Al-Nazla in northern Gaza. No immediate reports on casualties have been received.

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

Eight people, including one child, 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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Gaza: Eight people die of starvation, death toll climbs to 62,686

Sunday 24-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

During the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of at least 64 civilians, as well as 278 people suffering from different injuries following Israeli attacks, according to Gaza’s health ministry on Sunday morning.

Accordingly, a total of 10,842 people have been killed and 45,910 others have been injured since the Israeli occupation army resumed its genocidal war on Gaza on March 18, 2025.

The new fatalities increased the death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, which started on October 7, 2023, to 62,686 martyrs, including 2,095 aid seekers, the health ministry said.

The ministry added that the total number of the wounded also surged to 157,951 people, including 15,431 aid seekers.

The ministry also said that Gaza’s hospitals recorded eight new fatalities, including one child, in the past 24 hours due to starvation and malnutrition, bringing the death toll from the famine to 289 victims, including 115 children.

Meanwhile, efforts are underway to recover the bodies of more martyrs who are still missing in different areas of the Gaza Strip.

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Ten Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes on areas across Gaza

GAZA, August 24, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Four Palestinian civilians were killed and others injured on Sunday evening after an Israeli drone bombed a tent housing displaced persons west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

According to medical sources, an Israeli drone struck the al-Qadisiyah refugee camp west of Khan Yunis, resulting in the killing of four people, including two children.

In a separate incident, six Palestinians were also killed and others injured after Israeli artillery shelled civilian homes in the vicinity of al-Qayed Street in the al-Sabra neighborhood south of Gaza City.

Y.S. 

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At least seven Palestinians killed, dozens injured in Israeli strikes on northern and central Gaza

GAZA, August 24, 2025 (WAFA) – 

At least seven Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured on Sunday evening by Israeli occupation forces' fire in the northern and central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that six  people were killed and 86 others were injured as a result of the occupation's targeting of people waiting for humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip.

In a separate incident, one Palestinian was killed and several others were injured following Israel's targeting of people waiting for aid east of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

Since March 2, 2025, the occupation authorities have closed all crossings with the Gaza Strip, blocking the entry of most food and medical aid, causing widespread famine within the Strip.

Since October 7, 2023, the occupation forces have launched an offensive on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of 62,686 Palestinians, the majority of whom were children and women, with 157,951 reported injured.

Hundreds of victims still under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulance and rescue crews.

Y.S.

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

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 Israeli forces raid Jenin-area-village, set fire to Palestinian farmland

Jineen, August 24, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Al-'Arqa in the Jineen Governorate, raiding and searching a house, according to local sources.

Following the raid, no detentions were reported thought.

Israeli troops also set fire to a Palestinian-owned land in the Marj Ibn 'Aamir plain, with thick columns of smoke seen rising from the area.

Y.S.

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Palestinian injured by Israeli gunfire in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Sunday 24-August-2025

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

A Palestinian citizen suffered a bullet injury on Saturday evening when an Israeli occupation soldier opened fire at him in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

According to local sources, a citizen was injured by Israeli gunfire during his presence in an area near the separation wall in al-Ram town, north of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

The Red Crescent, for its part, said its paramedics provided first aid for a citizen suffering a bullet injury in his leg in al-Ram town and evacuated him to the hospital.

In Ramallah, several citizens suffered from their exposure to tear gas after Israeli forces stormed Shuqba village.

Israeli forces also stormed different towns and villages in Ramallah province, with no reported arrests.

In a separate incident, groups of the illegal Israeli settlers raided two homes in the villages of Bureen and Sarra in Nablus province and assaulted local residents.

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After four-day campaign, IOFs withdraw from the West Bank village of Al-Mughayir

Sunday 24-August-2025

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) withdrew this morning, Sunday, from Al-Mughayir village in the northeast of Ramallah after four days of tight siege and different violations.

According to local officials and media sources, the Israeli occupation forces carried out kidnappings, violent raids on homes, and thefts, during their four-day campaign in the village. They also assaulted and terrorized family members, wreaked havoc on olive groves, and started building a settler road on swaths of Palestinian-owned land.

After the IOFs withdrew from the village, local residents headed out to assess the damage, particularly the destruction that happened in olive groves, where hundreds of trees were reportedly uprooted and crushed.

Some villagers started in the morning to replant olive trees that had been uprooted by IOFs bulldozers around their village.

Despite withdrawing from inside Al-Mughayir, Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers are still being deployed around the village, where they are working to build a new settler road.

The aggressive IOFs raid on the village followed claims by the illegal Israeli settlers living in a nearby illegal outpost that one of them had been injured by a Palestinian.

During its campaign in the village, the IOFs assaulted and interrogated many citizens, kidnaped 14 of them, and stole about 20,000 shekels, and damaged and seized 15 vehicles, according to deputy chief of the village council Marzouq Abu Na’eem.

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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 brutally assault elderly man and young farmer picking grapes in Hebron

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), August 24, 2025 (WAFA) – 

An elderly Palestinian man and a young farmer were injured on Sunday when a group of the illegal Israeli settlers attacked them while they were picking grapes in the Khirbet El-Qit area, north of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

'Hal'houl Mayor Jamal Mil'him said that dozens of the illegal Israeli settlers physically assaulted 60-year-old Mustafa Abdul Qadir Mil'him and 'Aayid Yousuf Mil'him with stones and clubs, causing them critical injuries.

He added that the illegal Israeli settlers' attacks have recently escalated in lands near the illegal outpost of  Karmei Tzur, located north of Al-Khaleel (Hebron)., as part of a policy aimed at restricting Palestinian farmers and preventing them from accessing their lands.

Medical sources at Al-Khaleel (Hebron) Governmental Hospital reported that the casualties were admitted with severe head injuries and received treatment.

Y.S.

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Groups of the illegal Israeli settlers storm Palestinian areas, attack citizens and property in the West Bank

Sunday 24-August-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers prevented, on Sunday morning, Palestinian farmers from reaching their swaths of land in the northern Jordan Valley, north of the occupied West Bank.

Local sources reported that armed settlers intercepted farmers as they were on their way to their lands in the Khilat Khadhir El-Farisiya area of the northern Jordan Valley and told them to leave the area.

Over the past few years, daily settler violence and crimes forced local residents to leave their homes in the same area.

In another incident, another group of settlers stormed the Bedouin community of Shallal El-'Auja in northern Jericho, where they harassed the local residents and verbally attacked them, causing panic among the families.

An armed settler reportedly seized a house and stayed inside it during the settler raid on Shallal El-'Auja.

Such settler provocative practices happen almost on a daily basis in the community, according to local sources.

In Al-Khaleel (Hebron), a Palestinian elderly man was injured when the illegal Israeli settlers assaulted him in 'Hal'houl town.

Meanwhile, settlers from the Israeli illegal Havat Ma’on settlement bulldozed swaths of land belonging to Palestinian citizens in Al-'Hamra area of Masafir Yatta, south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

Other fanatic settlers grazed their sheep on swaths of cultivated land in Khirbet Qawawis hamlet in Masafir Yatta, damaging crops.

Another settler group contaminated drinking water wells in the 'Hamroush community in the east of Sa’ir town by washing their livestock and swimming inside them, with the aim of spreading diseases.

Settlers also stormed the Shakara community in the east of Douma town, south of Nablus.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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Hamas values “brave and ethical step” taken by Veldkamp, other Dutch ministers

Sunday 24-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Hamas Movement has appreciated what it called the “brave and ethical step” that was taken by Dutch foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp and other ministers, who resigned in protest at their cabinet’s failure to approve additional sanctions against Israel.

“The resignations of these Dutch ministers reflect a principled stance that embodies humanitarian values and highlights commitment to the foundations of international law,” Hamas said in a statement on Saturday evening.

“Their resignations have sent a powerful message calling for urgent action to stop the fascist aggression against innocent civilians,” Hamas added.

Hamas urged the world’s governments and those with a clear conscience to make every effort to impose sanctions on the Israeli occupation state and pressure it to end its genocide and starvation campaign in the Gaza Strip.

All ministers and state secretaries from Nieuw Sociaal Contract (NSC) resigned on Friday after Veldkamp quit in protest over blocked sanctions against Israel, according to local news reports.

Veldkamp announced his resignation after a tense ministerial meeting, saying he could not carry out the foreign policy he deemed necessary in response to Israel’s latest military offensive in Gaza City and the approval of new settlement plans in the West Bank.

“We have, as a cabinet, already taken quite a number of steps. The Netherlands does not have to be ashamed of that. But I felt resistance in the cabinet against further measures in connection with what is happening in Gaza City and on the West Bank,” Veldkamp told reporters after the meeting.

“I have insufficient confidence that in the coming weeks or months that will be different, if I am so limited in my space to conduct the policy that I consider necessary. I am going home to write a resignation letter,” Veldkamp added.

His decision came one day after he told the House of Representatives that he would introduce additional measures against Israel, calling them “necessary” in a letter to lawmakers, but coalition partners opposed the new steps.

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Hundreds rally in Thessaloniki in solidarity with Gaza, condemn Israel’s ongoing genocide

GAZA, August 24, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Thessaloniki, northeastern Greece, on Sunday in solidarity with Gaza and to condemn what they described as Israel's  ongoing genocide against Palestinians since October 2023.

The demonstration, which included members of labor unions, youth cadres from left-wing parties, university students, and academics, began at White Tower Square, one of Thessaloniki's most prominent landmarks.

Participants held up banners reading "Murderer Israel," "Stop the Genocide," and "Freedom for Palestine." Some also placed models of shrouded children in front of the US Consulate in Thessaloniki to protest the killing of Palestinian children by Israel in Gaza.

Protesters called on the international community, particularly the European Union, to take immediate action and not stand idly by in the face of "Israeli massacres that have amounted to genocide."

The demonstration also included the distribution of leaflets that read: "The Palestinian people are not alone... All workers and peoples must unite in a single front for peace and freedom."

Similar demonstrations are expected to take place in several areas of the city throughout the day in Athens.

Y.S.

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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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