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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138 Palestinians Killed, 452 Injured, Mostly Children, Women, and Aid Seekers,

Which Brings the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on the Gaza Strip to 57,268 and the Injuries to 135,625

by July 4, 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 July 4, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 70,675+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (57,268) and those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 13,407+). 

By July 4, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 135,625.

By July 4, 2025, according to news report, 992 Palestinians who were killed, 6,917 who were injured, and 12,574*, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023.   

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(The Palestine Information Center reported that there were 925 deaths and 14,500 kidnappings but without mentioning how many were released, by February 27, 2025).  

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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138 Palestinians were killed, 452 were injured, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, by the Israeli genocidal attacks, bringing the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 57,268 and the injuries to 135,625, by July 4, 2025.	Amnesty International reported that Israel uses starvation as a weapon of genocide against the Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, including through the Israeli-imposed aid distribution system, July 4, 2025.
Several Palestinian civilians were killed and injured by the Israeli occupation forces bombardment and air strikes on Khan Younus, southern Gaza Strip, on July 4, 2025.	138 Palestinians were killed, 452 were injured, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, by the Israeli genocidal attacks, on July 4, 2025.
The Gaza Civil Defense chief, Mahmoud Basal, said the Israeli occupation army prevents rescue teams from rescuing people who are trapped under the rubble, in residential areas in eastern Gaza City, July 4, 2025.	UN official Francesca Albanese presented a report, in which she showed that the Israeli occupation regime as racist colonial capitalism, where economic interests are intertwined with colonial and racist structures, July 4, 2025.
Grieving the Palestinian family members, who were massacred by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, targeting Al-Shafi-i School, which shelters displaced families, Gaza City, on July 5, 2025.	Carrying, to the cemetery, the bodies of the Palestinians martyrs, who were massacred by the Israeli occupation forces fire on Al-Mawasi tented area, west of Khan Younus, in southern Gaza Strip, on July 5, 2025.
Flying debris as a result of an Israeli genocidal air strike on Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, in central Gaza Strip, which led to the killing and injuring of dozens of Palestinians, on July 4, 2025.	Carrying, to Al-Shifa hospital, the injured and martyred Palestinians, who were massacred by an Israeli genocidal air strike, while they were trying to get fresh water from a desalination plant in Gaza City, on July 5, 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 Strip hospitals receive 138 martyrs in the past 24 hours

Friday 4-July-2025

GAZA, (PIC, WAFA)

During the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of at least 138 civilians, as well as 452 people suffering from different injuries following Israeli attacks, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, on Friday morning.

Accordingly, a total of 6,710 people have been killed and 23,584 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 57,268 martyrs, including 714 aid seekers who were killed at or near US-backed distribution points, the health ministry said.

The Ministry added that the total number of the wounded also surged to 135,625 people, including 4,837 aid seekers.

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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 Israeli forces target Palestinian medics in northern Gaza, injuring two

GAZA, July 4, 2025 (WAFA) –

Two paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society were injured today after being targeted by Israeli occupation forces in Jabalya Al-Balad, north of Gaza City.

According to WAFA correspondent in Gaza, the medics were struck while carrying out their duties, providing emergency aid to the wounded in the area. 

The attack resulted in injuries to both medics, who were subsequently transferred to the Al-Saraya Field Hospital for treatment.

M.N.

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Day 637: Israel continues its bloody genocide across Gaza

Friday 4-July-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation army has continued its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip for the 637th consecutive day, through relentless air and artillery bombardment and killing of starving and displaced civilians, all under the political and military backing of the United States and with unprecedented silence and betrayal from the international community.

The PIC correspondents reported that Israeli forces have launched dozens of airstrikes and committed more massacres amid the worsening displacement crisis affecting over two million people suffering under severe famine.

Latest Developments

Medical sources in Gaza hospitals confirmed that several civilians have been martyred in Israeli air raids on the Strip since dawn on Friday.

A number of civilians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli strike targeting a home this morning in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

At least 15 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on tents sheltering displaced people west of Khan Younus.

Two other people were killed in a strike targeting a tent for displaced people near the British hospital in Mawasi of Khan Younus.

Young man Ashraf Khaleel Mu'ammar also succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younus days ago.

According to the Ministry of Health, the death toll has surpassed 57,113 martyrs, with over 135,173 wounded, and more than 11,000 missing. Famine has already claimed dozens of lives, while over two million Palestinians live in forced displacement under catastrophic conditions.

Among the martyrs are 6,572 children, and among the wounded, 23,132 are children, all following Israel’s violation of the ceasefire agreement on March 18, 2025.

Since the Israeli occupation army turned limited aid distribution points into death traps on May 27, approximately 652 Palestinians have been killed, 4,537 injured, and 39 reported missing. The so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” with Israeli-American ties and rejected by the UN, is being used as a tool to impose a formula of submission and death under the cover of “humanitarian work.”

The occupation forces have killed 1,581 medical workers, 115 civil defense personnel, 220 journalists, and 754 police officers and aid security staff.

Israel has committed more than 15,000 massacres, targeting over 14,000 families, with around 2,500 families completely wiped from the civil registry.

According to the Government Media Office and UN sources, the genocide has destroyed over 88% of Gaza’s buildings, with total estimated losses exceeding $62 billion, while occupation forces now control 77% of Gaza’s territory through invasion, firepower, and forced displacement.

The Israeli military has completely destroyed 149 schools, universities, and educational institutions, and partially damaged 369 others.

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Civilians killed and injured in Israeli shelling of Al-Nusayrat camp in central Gaza

GAZA, July 4, 2025 (WAFA) —

Two civilians were killed and several others were injured by the Israeli occupation forces bombardment, targeting a group of Palestinian civilians in Al-Hasayna area, west of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in central Gaza.

WAFA correspondent reported that the Israeli military opened fire on the group of civilians, resulting in the killing and wounding of several people.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, the occupying power, has been waging a genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, marked by mass killings, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, while ignoring international calls and binding orders from the International Court of Justice to end the aggression.

This genocide has resulted in over 192,000 civilians killed and wounded, mostly women and children. Additionally, more than 11,000 people remain missing, hundreds of thousands have been displaced, and a famine has claimed countless lives, including dozens of children.

T.R.

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Gaza: Civilians killed and wounded as Israel bombs homes in Jabalya and Al-Tuffa'h

GAZA, July 4, 2025 (WAFA) —

Fourteen civilians were killed and dozens more were wounded after Israeli forces bombed two homes in Al-Zaytoun and the Al-Tuffa'h neighborhoods in the war-torn Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent reported that ten civilians were killed and several others were critically injured after an Israeli shelling that targeted a home in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

In a second Israeli attack in the Al-Zarqa area in Al-Tuffa'h neighborhood of east Gaza City, another four civilians were killed and numerous others were wounded and burned.

T.R.

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 Israeli strike targeting aid seekers in central Gaza kills four people, injures others

GAZA, July 4, 2025 (WAFA) -

Four civilians were killed and several others were injured on Friday evening in an Israeli artillery strike targeting a group of civilians waiting for aid near Wadi Gaza Bridge in the central Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn to around 70, including children and women.

Since the early hours of Friday, Israeli attacks across the Strip have targeted aid seekers, tents, civilian homes, and gatherings of civilians.

Medical sources also reported that the death toll from the massacre committed by Israeli forces in a strike on the Al-Dada family home in Jabalya in northern Gaza has risen to 11.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, the occupying power, has been waging a genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, marked by mass killings, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, while ignoring international calls and binding orders from the International Court of Justice to end the aggression.

This genocide has resulted in over 192,000 civilians killed and wounded, mostly women and children. Additionally, more than 11,000 people remain missing, hundreds of thousands have been displaced, and a famine has claimed countless lives, including dozens of children.

T.R.

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Gaza Civil Defense: Israel is blocking rescue efforts as civilians cry out from under rubble

Friday 4-July-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Civil Defense in Gaza accused the Israeli occupation army on Thursday of deliberately preventing rescue teams from reaching bombed residential areas in eastern Gaza City, where dozens of civilians remain trapped under the rubble — some still alive and pleading for help.

Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said that “the occupation army is refusing to allow our crews to reach targeted residential homes in areas east of Gaza City, despite the presence of missing persons alive under the rubble, whose cries for help are reaching us.”

He reported that the Israeli army has intensified its attacks on residential neighborhoods in Al-Zaytoun, Al-Shuja’iya, and Al-Tuffa'h over recent days, causing catastrophic destruction to over 200 homes and buildings and resulting in heavy casualties.

“About 82 people are still missing under the rubble, some of them alive, and we are receiving their cries for help from under the rubble,” Basal said. “We continue to receive desperate appeals from families to rescue their missing relatives, but the ongoing shelling and lack of coordination make intervention nearly impossible,” he added.

Basal stressed that Civil Defense crews are making tireless efforts to coordinate access to areas deemed extremely dangerous, but face repeated refusal from the Israeli army. He added that rescue workers are being directly targeted, and that there are no safe corridors to access the devastated areas.

He called for the urgent establishment of secure humanitarian corridors and immediate international logistical support to allow rescue teams to operate without obstruction. “We hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for targeting civilians and rescue crews, and for worsening the humanitarian disaster in Gaza,” Basal said.

Since dawn Thursday, Israeli forces have killed at least 102 Palestinians — including children and women — and injured dozens more in scattered attacks using both shelling and gunfire.

Civil Defense crews are facing an unprecedented crisis amid widespread devastation and a collapse of operational capacity. Between 80% and 90% of the agency’s vehicles, equipment, and machinery have been destroyed by Israeli forces, according to Basal, leaving rescue workers to rely entirely on their own limited physical efforts.

Their work is further complicated by the presence of unexploded ordnance and remnants of war in destroyed buildings, which Basal described as turning every rescue mission into a “death trap.”

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has waged what rights groups and international observers have increasingly described as a genocide in Gaza, marked by large-scale killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, in defiance of repeated international calls and binding orders from the International Court of Justice to cease hostilities.

Backed by the United States, the Israeli genocidal war has left more than 192,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, the majority of them women and children. Over 10,000 people remain missing, while hundreds of thousands have been displaced, and a famine is sweeping the enclave, claiming lives — including many children — by the day.

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

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Three Palestinians injured in renewed settler attack on Sinjil town in Ramallah

RAMALLAH, July 4, 2025 (WAFA) -

Three Palestinian residents were injured on Friday evening during a renewed colonists’ attack on the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, according to a local official.

 Mu'taz Tawafsha, head of Sinjil municipality, said residents of the town of Sinjil and the nearby Al Mazra‟a Al-Sharqiya village fended off an attack by dozens of the illegal Israeli settlers against the southern area of Jabal Al-Batin.

The Palestine Red Crescent reported that two residents were hospitalized with injuries sustained during the colonists’ attack. Locals managed to rescue a young man whom colonists had attempted to abduct after assaulting him.

Earlier in the day, colonists launched an attack against the town, damaging several vehicles by smashing windows and slashing tires, including one belonging to the Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission and another belonging to a foreign media organization.

In this context, the villagers in both areas, together with the Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, successfully dismantled a recently established colonial outpost on Palestinian residents’ land in the area.

Residents managed to burn down and demolish the pastoral outpost set up by the colonists to the west of the town.

T.R. 

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Fresh Israeli raid and kidnapping campaign across West Bank

Friday 4-July-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces launched a widespread assault across the West Bank overnight and into Friday morning, marked by kidnappings, forced evictions, and property destruction, accompanied by violent settler attacks.

In Jericho, settlers forcibly expelled around 20 Palestinian families from their homes in the 'Arab Al-Mulai'hat community north of the city, an act of forced displacement that adds to the intensifying Israeli settlement expansion in the Jordan Valley.

In al-Khalil, Israeli forces stormed the Wadi Al-Jawaya area in the town of Yatta. They raided the Abu Sunaina neighborhood in the southern part of the city, where they vandalized a commercial shop during the incursion.

The town of Kobar, north of Ramallah, also witnessed new military raids, as did the city of Qalqilya in a parallel operation.

In Tulkarem, Israeli soldiers stopped a vehicle at the Al-Younus roundabout and arrested its occupants. Their identities remain unknown.

In Nablus, the Israeli occupation army escalated its operations, entering the city through the Al-Tur checkpoint and deploying along Street 24 and near Rafeedya Hospital.

Settlers also attacked Palestinian-owned land on Jabal Qummas, south of the town of Baita, sparking intense clashes. During the confrontations, Israeli soldiers fired live bullets at Palestinian youth.

Additionally, settlers cut down trees on lands in the town of Bureen, located between the bypass road and the Yitzhar settlement.

In Jenin governorate, the Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Ya’bad and arrested high school student 'Omar 'Imad 'Atatra after storming his home.

They also besieged a house in Jineen city, ordering those inside to surrender. Residents were forcibly evacuated before a young man was arrested from within.

Tensions continue to escalate across Palestinian governorates amid ongoing Israeli army and settler violence, amid renewed local calls for increased resistance and confrontation.

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 IOFs raid mourning tent for martyr Ayman Abu Dawood in Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Friday 4-July-2025

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) raided the mourning tent of martyr Ayman Abu Dawood in Al-Khaleel (Hebron) in the southern West Bank on Friday, detaining several mourners.

According to local sources, the IOFs stormed the mourning tent in Wadi Al-Hariyya, vandalized its contents, and fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters at the people present, also smashing chairs.

The IOFs troops reportedly kidnapped 15 mourners and forcibly expelled the rest from the area.

On Thursday morning, Ayman Abu Dawood, a former prisoner who had been deported to the Gaza Strip, was killed alongside two other former detainees released in the Wafaa al-Ahrar exchange deal, in an Israeli airstrike targeting them in Gaza.

The Asra Media Office reported that the Israeli strike killed the deported ex-detainees Mahdi Shawar and Ayman Abu Dawood, both from al-Khalil, and Bassam Abu Sunaina from Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

Abu Dawood had been deported to Gaza in 2013 after going on a hunger strike in protest of his re-arrest shortly after being freed in the prisoner exchange deal. Israeli authorities issued a three-month detention order against him and then agreed to deport him to Gaza in exchange for ending his hunger strike.

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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 residents and tents in northern Jordan Valley

JORDAN VALLEY, July 4, 2025 (WAFA) –

Armed illegal Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian residents and their tents today, Friday, in the village of Khirbet Al-Farisiyah, located in the northern Jordan Valley, in the northeastern West Bank.

According to local sources, a group of colonists stormed the 'Ain Al-Ghazal area in Khirbet Al-Farisiyah, where they intimidated residents and targeted their tents.

The northern Jordan Valley has been witnessing almost daily assaults by colonists. These incidents include attacks on homes, physical intimidation of residents, and assaults. 

The settlers have also been reported to chase Palestinian herders from grazing lands, forcefully remove them, and steal their livestock.

M.N

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Residents of Ramallah-area town succeed in removing illegal Israeli settler grazing outpost

RAMALLAH, July 4, 2025 (WAFA) —

Residents of Al-Mazra'a Al-Sharqiya town, northeast of Ramallah, and the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission removed a colonial grazing outpost recently erected on the town’s land.

Residents, together with the Commission, managed to burn and demolish the grazing outpost recently established by colonists west of the town.

In a related incident, a group of the illegal Israeli settlers vandalized and damaged a vehicle belonging to the Commission.

T.R..

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Three Palestinians injured in renewed settler attack on Sinjil town in Ramallah

RAMALLAH, July 4, 2025 (WAFA) -

Three Palestinian residents were injured on Friday evening during a renewed attack by illegal Israeli settlers on the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, according to a local official.

 Mu'taz Tawafsha, head of Sinjil municipality, said residents of the town of Sinjil and the nearby Al Mazra‟a Al- Sharqiya village fended off an attack by dozens of colonists against the southern area of Jabal al-Batin.

The Palestine Red Crescent reported that two residents were hospitalized with injuries sustained during the colonists’ attack. Locals managed to rescue a young man whom colonists had attempted to abduct after assaulting him.

Earlier in the day, colonists launched an attack against the town, damaging several vehicles by smashing windows and slashing tires, including one belonging to the Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission and another belonging to a foreign media organization.

In this context, the villagers in both areas, together with the Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, successfully dismantled a recently established colonial outpost on Palestinian residents’ land in the area.

Residents managed to burn down and demolish the pastoral outpost set up by the colonists to the west of the town.

T.R.

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Palestinians confront settler assault on Sinjil lands amid escalating settlement efforts

Friday 4-July-2025

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

Residents of Sinjil and Al-Mazra’a Al-Sharqiyya towns in the Ramallah district clashed with Israeli settlers on Friday after a group of fanatic settlers stormed Palestinian lands in the Al-Tal and Al-Batin areas, setting fires and blocking access to agricultural property.

The confrontation erupted following a mass march by residents from Bil’een and Al-Mazra’a Al-Sharqiyya toward lands threatened by settlement expansion north of Ramallah.

According to local sources, settlers had closed roads leading to the Jabal Al-Batin and Al-Tal areas, south of Sinjil, and gathered under Israeli occupation forces (IOF) protection in a tent they erected at the archaeological site of Khirbet Al-Tal.

As more settlers arrived, they ignited fires on Palestinian farmland and obstructed residents’ attempts to access their property. The Sinjil municipality reported that settlers have previously stolen wheat harvests and turned large areas of land into inaccessible military zones and outposts, inflicting significant economic losses on local farmers.

According to the municipality, nearly half of Sinjil’s land has been seized or isolated through military designations and expanding settlement activity. The town is now encircled by barbed wire fencing, and the IOF frequently conducts preemptive incursions to secure settler access, especially around the Tal area, which lies between Sinjil and Al-Mazra’a Al-Sharqiyya.

In a further blow to residents, the IOF last year issued notices to confiscate 30 dunums of land and began constructing a four-meter-high fence along Route 60. The barrier, which stretches over a kilometer, will effectively isolate Sinjil from the main road and cut off access to more than 8,000 dunums of agricultural land located behind the wall.

Residents and local officials warn that these measures are part of a larger colonization plan aimed at displacing Palestinian farmers and consolidating control over strategic lands.

The people of Sinjil have vowed to continue resisting these efforts, calling on international bodies to intervene and hold Israeli accountable for escalating settler violence and land theft.

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Illegal Israeli settlers assault Palestinians and burn farmland in escalating West Bank attacks

Friday 4-July-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

Three Palestinians were injured early Friday morning after being physically assaulted by Israeli settlers, and eight others suffered from toxic gas inhalation during a violent Israeli occupation forces’ (IOF) raid on the town of Baita, south of Nablus.

According to local sources, a group of settlers launched a pre-dawn attack on the home of Samir Abu Zaytoun in the Qamas area near Jabal Sabee'h.

The settlers attempted to set the house on fire and beat three residents who tried to prevent the arson. Shortly after, IOF troops stormed the town, firing live bullets, tear gas, and stun grenades. Eight residents were treated for suffocation due to the inhalation of tear gas.

Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, settlers cut down trees on farmland between the bypass road and the illegal Yitzhar settlement near the town of Burin, south of Nablus. The attack caused significant damage to agricultural lands owned by Palestinian residents.

In another incident in Jericho, Jewish settlers—under the protection of the IOF—forced around 20 Palestinian families to evacuate their homes in the 'Arab Al-Mulai'hat neighborhood north of the city. The forced displacement was carried out under direct threat, in a move that local residents say is aimed at clearing the area for future settlement expansion.

These attacks are part of a sharp rise in settler violence across the West Bank, which has prompted popular and factional calls to confront the escalating aggression and increase the presence of Palestinians in threatened areas.

The Hamas Movement condemned the surge in settler assaults, home demolitions, land confiscations, and construction of new outposts, emphasizing that such actions would not break the Palestinian will, but rather strengthen the people’s resilience and commitment to their land and rights.

Hamas also warned the occupation of the consequences of unleashing settlers to carry out violent campaigns, stressing that the Palestinian people and their resistance will not remain passive in the face of continued injustice. “The occupation will reap nothing but disappointment and defeat from its oppression,” the Movement emphasized.

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Education Ministry condemns Israeli forces' attack on school in Jericho

RAMALLAH, July 4, 2025 (WAFA) -

 The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education condemned the Israeli forces’ attack on the Bedouin Al-Ka’abna Mixed Primary School in Jericho, which involved its demolition and forcible evacuation, thereby depriving children of their inherent and internationally protected right to education. The Ministry also denounced the forced displacement of Palestinian residents from the Arab al-Malihat Bedouin community.

In its statement, the Ministry underscored that this assault not only targets an educational institution but also jeopardizes the future of Palestinian children and their right to secure learning environments. The Ministry added that the attack exposes the occupation's systematic policy of dismantling the foundational elements of Palestinian existence, particularly in areas subjected to ongoing threats of displacement and expulsion.

The statement affirmed that this act constitutes a flagrant violation of all international charters and conventions, particularly the agreements related to children's rights.

The Ministry called upon international human rights and humanitarian organizations, as well as United Nations agencies, to bear their legal and humanitarian responsibilities and pressure the occupation authorities to halt their violations and restore the right of al-Ka'abneh children to education and a dignified life.

It reaffirmed its unwavering commitment to safeguarding the right to education across all regions, pledging to persist in its endeavors to facilitate students' return to their classrooms, despite the formidable challenges at hand.

T.R.

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 Israeli occupation forces set up military checkpoint, disrupt movement west of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), July 4, 2025 (WAFA) –

 Israeli occupation forces today erected a military checkpoint at the main entrance to the western rural area of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem) Governorate, significantly disrupting the movement of local residents.

According to local sources, the checkpoint was set up near the bridge in the 'Aqabet 'Hasna area, which serves as the main access point to several Palestinian towns, including Bateeir, Na'haleen, 'Husan, Wadi Fukeen, and Al-Khadhir.

Soldiers stopped vehicles, carried out thorough inspections, and checked citizens’ identification cards, causing a major traffic jam in the area.

Residents expressed frustration at the delays and the repeated military presence, which they say hampers daily life and adds to ongoing tensions in the region.

M.N

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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Francesca Albanese’s Report: From the economy of occupation to the economy of genocide

Friday 4-July-2025

GENEVA, (PIC)

In recent decades, the structure of Israel’s occupation of Palestine has undergone a profound transformation, shifting from a traditional settler-colonial project to an integrated system of control and exclusion, built on economic profit and international complicity.

In her report presented to the 59th session of the Human Rights Council (16 June – 11 July 2025), the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, offers an unprecedented analysis of the occupation’s structure from both economic and legal perspectives.

The report, titled “From the Economy of Occupation to the Economy of Genocide,” not only documents violations but also deconstructs the globalized capitalist system that transforms occupation into a profitable genocidal enterprise.

The Israeli occupation regime as racist colonial capitalism The report focuses on a model of domination known as “racial colonial capitalism,” where economic interests are intertwined with colonial and racist structures. In the Palestinian context, the Israeli settler-colonial project stands as a living example of this model, where tools of displacement, replacement, and spatial control combine within an exploitative economic logic driven by multinational corporations, banks, investment funds, and academic institutions.

Since the beginning of the Zionist project, entities such as the Jewish National Fund were established to purchase Palestinian land and uproot its indigenous population. This evolved into a comprehensive system consisting of more than 371 settlements and outposts, funded and supported by an international network of profit-driven entities.

From displacement to genocide

The report underscores that the decisive shift in the nature of the occupation began in October 2023, with the intensification of aggression against Gaza, transforming the occupation into a more brutal form characterized by genocide.

Field evidence and official data indicate that more than 85,000 tons of bombs were dropped on Gaza in less than a year, with the number of casualties exceeding 179,411, including both those killed (martyrs) and wounded. Additionally, 70% of buildings and 81% of agricultural lands were destroyed.

The report affirms that these crimes were neither random nor isolated but rather the outcome of an intertwined military-economic structure, where weapons and new technologies are tested on the ground and later marketed as “field-proven.”

Corporations at the heart of the crime The report traces the complex relationship between the occupation and a network of international corporations that either support or profit from it, clarifying that these entities are not peripheral but represent a core pillar of the occupation.

These corporations include:

• Weapons manufacturers: Elbit Systems, Lockheed Martin, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)

• Technology companies: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Palantir

• Heavy machinery companies: Caterpillar, Volvo, Hyundai

• Energy companies: Chevron, BP, Glencore

• Academic institutions: MIT, TUM, Edinburgh University

Technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and biometric surveillance are used to develop tools of repression, while heavy machinery is deployed for the systematic demolition of Palestinian neighborhoods.

 Infrastructure as a tool of systematic killing

The report documents how civilian infrastructure has been weaponized as a means of mass killing. In the energy sector, fuel, electricity, and water have been deliberately cut off from Gaza, leading to the collapse of hospitals and desalination plants. In the agricultural sector, settler agriculture has been used as a tool for land seizure, while Palestinians have been deprived of water and livelihoods.

In the tourism sector, the occupation is normalized through the promotion of settlements by companies such as Airbnb and Booking.com. In global markets, settlement products are marketed without effective oversight, reinforcing the legitimization of annexation and settlement expansion.

Money rules: Genocide financing

The report highlights that the financing of genocide has not come solely from the Israeli government but from a global network of financial institutions.

Israeli government bonds worth more than $13 billion have been issued since October 2023, with major institutions such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and BNP Paribas investing in these bonds despite knowing that they fund the Israeli military.

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange index surged by 179% in less than a year, generating profits exceeding $157 billion, while Palestinians face siege, starvation, and systematic killing. These same institutions claim adherence to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles while investing in companies that manufacture tools of genocide.

Legal responsibility: From due diligence to criminal accountability Under international law, any corporation that contributes to, facilitates, or is linked to serious violations bears legal responsibility in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (2011). In some legal systems, corporations may also incur criminal liability, as occurred with German industrialists after World War II.

The report stresses that merely applying due diligence is insufficient. There must be an immediate and unconditional withdrawal from all business relations with the occupation, coupled with accountability for executives for their material and moral contributions to the crimes.

Dismantling profitability: Toward economic and political justice The report not only exposes the extent of international complicity but also reveals that the genocide in Palestine is not a deviation from the global system but its logical consequence. Economic institutions—supposedly neutral—have become part of the killing machine, contributing to financing, marketing, production, and normalization.

Therefore, ending Israeli occupation and apartheid is not achievable solely through political pressure but also requires dismantling the economic system that turns it into a profitable venture. Legal accountability, economic boycott, and restructuring the relationship between capital and human rights are today a moral and legal imperative.

“When life and death become subject to the decisions of investors, crimes turn into market indicators, and humanity becomes a victim of profitability.”

This analytical article is based on the Human Rights Council Report (2025) on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. All figures and quotations are derived from the original document issued by the United Nations.

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Amnesty International: Israel using starvation to carry out genocide in Gaza

Friday 4-July-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

Amnesty International has accused Israel of using starvation as a deliberate weapon of genocide against civilians in the Gaza Strip.

In a new report released Thursday, the rights group said the Israeli-imposed aid distribution system is not alleviating suffering but systematically deepening it, pushing Palestinians toward collapse.

“The evidence shows that Israel is intentionally creating inhumane living conditions to inflict material destruction on Palestinians — a core component of the crime of genocide,” said Amnesty Secretary-General Agnès Callamard.

The report highlighted testimonies from doctors and residents in Gaza City and Khan Yunis describing extreme hunger, disease, and despair.

Israeli occupation forces have repeatedly obstructed humanitarian aid, and Israel’s restrictive and militarized distribution methods have led to deadly chaos at aid sites.

Callamard noted the world’s focus on recent tensions with Iran has distracted from Israel’s ongoing acts in Gaza, where “a deadly combination of hunger and disease” is being weaponized to annihilate the population.

The report documents the deaths of at least 66 children since October due to malnutrition-related causes — a number likely undercounted due to lack of access to healthcare.

Over 18,700 children have been hospitalized for severe malnutrition in 2025 alone. Medical staff described seeing widespread cases of wasting, immune collapse, and psychological trauma among children.

“Roughly 15% of children we examine show signs of moderate to severe malnutrition,” said Dr. Suzanne Ma’ruf of Friends of the Patient Hospital. “This has become catastrophic.”

Amnesty also condemned Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid, reporting that more than 850 UN trucks are stuck at the Rafah border, while fuel and cooking gas have been blocked since March. Meanwhile, the destruction of Gaza’s farmlands and economy has exacerbated famine.

In its conclusion, Amnesty International called on the international community to act immediately to stop the genocide, lift the siege, halt arms transfers to Israel, impose sanctions on Israeli officials complicit in war crimes, and support accountability at the International Criminal Court.

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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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