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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Dozens of Hungry Palestinians Shot at Rafa'h Aid Site,

37 Palestinians Killed and 136 Injured, Which Brings the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on the Gaza Strip to 54,418 and the, Injuries to 124,190

June 1, 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 June 1, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 67,861+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (54,418) and those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 13,443+). 

By June 1, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 124,190.

By June 1, 2025, according to news report, 974 Palestinians who were killed, 6,805 who were injured, and 12,185*, 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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37 Palestinians were killed, 136 were injured, mostly children, women, and elderly, by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, which brought the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 54,418 and the injuries to 124,190, on June 1, 2025.	37 Palestinians were killed, 136 were injured, mostly children, women, and elderly, by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, on June 1, 2025.
Palestinian political prisoners held in the Israeli Megiddo prison are suffering from ongoing policies of starvation and physical abuse, particularly targeting child detainees, June 1, 2025.	The Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre in southern Gaza, killing at least 30 aid seekers and injuring 120 others, in an initial report, near a US-run aid distribution site in the west of Rafa'h, June 1, 2025.
Palestinian children grieving, at the Nasir hospital, the death of family members, who were massacred by the Israeli genocidal air strikes on Khan Younus, on June 2, 2025.	Site of an Israeli genocidal air strike on Masjid Al-Ansar, in Dar El-Bala'h, in central Gaza Strip, June 2, 2025 .
Hungry Palestinian children trying to get some food from a local charity in Al-Nusayrat, in central Gaza Strip, as the Israeli-imposed starvation has reached the highest levels, due to the ongoing Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, June 2, 2025.	Hungry Palestinian children trying to get some food from a local charity in Gaza City, as the Israeli-imposed starvation has reached the highest levels, due to the ongoing Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, June 2, 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: Hospitals receive 37 martyrs, death toll climbs to 54,418

Sunday 1-June-2025

GAZA, (PIC, WAFA)

During the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 37 civilians who were martyred in fresh Israeli attacks, including the bodies of five other people who were reported missing in previous attacks.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, on Sunday, 136 citizens were also injured following Israeli attacks in the past hours.

Accordingly, a total of 4,149 people have been killed and 12,190 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 54,418 martyrs, the health ministry stated.

The ministry added that the total number of the wounded also surged to 124,190 people.

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 occupation army commits horrifying massacre against aid seekers in Gaza

Sunday 1-June-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre on Sunday morning in southern Gaza, killing at least 30 aid seekers and injuring 120 others near a US-run aid distribution site in the west of Rafa'h.

According to the Palestinian Government Media Office (PGMO) in Gaza, the death toll from Israeli attacks on aid seekers at US aid distribution sites has risen to 39 martyrs in less than a week.

More than 220 others have been injured since the establishment of these distribution sites in southern Gaza.

The number of casualties is likely to increase as Israeli forces continue to open fire at and bomb aid seekers near aid distribution points.

PGMO said that the Israeli army turned aid distribution sites from humanitarian aid points into traps for mass killings, affirming that “what is happening is a systematic use of aid as a weapon of war to extort starving civilians.”

PGMO called on the UN and its Security Council to shoulder their legal responsibilities towards Gaza and work on having the border crossings reopened for the entry of aid without restrictions.

PGMO also called for urgently forming an independent international committee to investigate and document Israel’s massacres against aid seekers.

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Dozens of civilians killed, injured amid Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza

Sunday 1-June-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation army continued last night and on Sunday to carry out deadly attacks on different areas of the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens of civilians.

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

Since dawn today, at least 40 Palestinians have been reportedly martyred in Israeli attacks on different areas of the Gaza Strip.

According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter in Gaza, Israeli attacks have continued across the Gaza Strip, including an Israeli strike on homes in Sheikh Gaza City’s Radhwan neighborhood that killed one civilian and injured dozens.

The Israeli occupation army also bombed a house in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing two civilians, including an infant, and injuring nine others.

Another Israeli attack on a gathering of citizens waiting for aid trucks near the Ta'hliya rotary in Khan Younus claimed the lives of at least eight of them.

Dozens of people were massacred and injured in the morning when Israeli forces opened fire at aid seekers near a US-run distribution point in the west of Rafa'h.

Casualties, including three children, were also reported when an Israeli drone opened fire at civilians near another aid distribution point in central Gaza.

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

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.

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Several Palestinians killed and injured in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza's refugee camp

GAZA, June 1, 2025 (WAFA) –

Several Palestinians were killed and others injured on Sunday evening after Israeli aircraft bombed the Nuseirat refugee camp and Gaza City.

Medical sources reported that five citizens were killed and others were injured after the Israeli occupation bombed a house south of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

A child was killed and several others were injured after Israeli artillery shelled the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.

Israeli artillery also shelled the northeast of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, and renewed shelling of the al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have launched an offensive on the Gaza Strip, killing 54,418 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and wounding 124,190 others. This is a preliminary toll, as a number of victims remain under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulance and rescue crews.

K.T.

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One Palestinian killed, several injured in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

GAZA, June 1, 2025 (WAFA) – 

At least one Palestinian was killed and several others were injured on Sunday evening following an Israeli airstrike that targeted a group of civilians in Gaza City, according to local sources.

Medical teams also recovered the body of a slain Palestinian from the Be’er al-Na’jeh area in northern Gaza.

Meanwhile, Israeli artillery carried out heavy shelling on the southeastern outskirts of the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

The attack is part of an ongoing Israeli military campaign that began on October 7, 2023. According to the latest figures, the offensive has killed at least 54,418 Palestinians—most of them women and children—and injured 124,190 others.

Hundreds of victims are still trapped under rubble or in areas unreachable by emergency crews.

Y.S.

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 Israeli occupation forces shelling kills four people, injures dozens in strike on displacement camp in southern Gaza

RAMALLAH, June 1, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Four Palestinians, including a child, were killed and dozens of civilians were injured on Sunday evening after Israeli artillery shelled a displacement camp near the “Dream” wedding hall in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younus in southern Gaza, according to local sources.

Israeli artillery also targeted eastern neighborhoods of Gaza City, while airstrikes hit the northwestern outskirts of Khan Younus. 

The bombardment comes amid Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023. According to medical sources, the death toll has risen to 54,418, the majority of whom are women and children. Another 124,190 people have been injured. The toll is expected to rise, as many remain trapped under rubble of the targeted buildings.

Emergency teams emphasized that they are unable to reach numerous victims due to ongoing shelling and the destruction of key infrastructure.

Y.S.

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 Israeli occupation forces destroy Gaza’s only dialysis Hospital in northern Gaza Strip, deepening health crisis

RAMALLAH, June 1, 2025 (WAFA) – 

The Israeli occupation forces on Sunday evening completely destroyed the Noura Al-Ka'bi Dialysis Hospital, in the northern Gaza Strip.

The hospital,  the only facility in northern Gaza providing kidney treatment and locating in an area serving tens of thousands in Bait Lahya, Bait 'Hanoun, Jabalya, and Umm Al-Nasr, had been struggling to operate after repeated Israeli strikes in recent months. Before its destruction, only eight dialysis machines remained functional.

Simultaneously, the Israeli occupation forces also bombed several residential buildings in Gaza City.

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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Palestinians kidnaped, assaulted by the IOFs in the West Bank

Sunday 1-June-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

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

According to local sources, the IOFs detained and brutalized dozens of citizens following raids on several homes in Fa'hma village, south of Jineen.

The sources added that the IOFs released most of the detainees and kidnapped two of them during its campaign in the village.

In Nablus, the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped three young men from Baita town, Al-Nasiriya village, and Dair El-'Hatab village.

The IOFs also raided the house of a female ex-detainee in Dair El-Hatab village and interrogated her.

The Israeli occupation soldiers also detained and assaulted a citizen at a military checkpoint in Nablus before releasing him.

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The Israeli occupation army declares the West Bank village of Khilet El-Dhaba' as a “closed military zone”

Sunday 1-June-2025

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation army declared Khilet El-Dhaba' village in Masafir Yatta, south of al-Khalil, a closed military zone today, Sunday.

Local activist Osama Makhamra said that Israeli forces stormed the village, forced the local residents and a number of foreign activists to leave the area, and demanded a list containing the names of the villagers.

“The Israeli declaration of the village as a closed military zone is part of an Israeli policy aimed at Judaizing and controlling Palestinian lands in Masafir Yatta, whose residents are facing persecution and killing,” Makhamra added.

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Palestinian political prisoners in Israel’s Megiddo prison face starvation and beatings

Sunday 1-June-2025

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

Palestinian political prisoners held in the Israeli occupation apartheid regime Megiddo prison are suffering from ongoing policies of starvation and physical abuse, particularly targeting child detainees.

According to human rights sources on Sunday, prisoner Fadi Ibraheem Al-Shami, 24, from Nablus, who was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces on May 11, 2023, and has a court hearing scheduled for June 22, 2025, has lost 22 kilograms due to persistent starvation practices imposed on detainees across Israeli prisons.

They also reported that 15-year-old detainee Qais Nasir Mu'hammed Shihada was beaten multiple times during his time in the Etzion detention center and during his transfer to prison. He was arrested from his home on April 20, 2025.

Further details were provided about the arrest of 17-year-old 'Hamza 'Omar Mu'haysin from Al-Arroub refugee camp, who was also taken from his home on April 20, 2025. He is currently held in Section 5, Room 11, in Megiddo jail and was subjected to multiple beatings during his arrest.

The sources noted that the administration of the prison, which consists of nine sections, each comprising 72 prisoners, sometimes reduces the duration of daily outdoor time, which is supposed to be a full hour.

The human rights organizations also highlighted the growing spread of scabies among prisoners in Megiddo prison, with medications proving ineffective due to poor hygiene and lack of ventilation. Food portions are also extremely minimal, barely sufficient to sustain life.

The Israeli occupation continues to commit violations against the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem since the beginning of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. More than 17,000 arrest cases have been recorded so far, not including thousands of additional arrests in Gaza. These statistics account for all individuals detained, regardless of whether they remain imprisoned or were later released.

As for the arrest of women, 537 cases have been recorded since the start of the war, including women from the 1948 occupied territories, the West Bank, and Jerusalem, as well as women from Gaza who were detained within the West Bank. This number does not include Gaza-based women detainees, estimated to be in the dozens.

The number of detained children from the West Bank and Jerusalem has reached at least 1,360.

Arrest operations have been accompanied by escalating violations including brutal beatings, abuse, threats against detainees and their families, widespread destruction of homes, confiscation of vehicles, money, and gold jewelry, and the destruction of infrastructure—particularly in the Tulkarem and Jenin refugee camps. Authorities have also demolished the homes of prisoners’ families, taken relatives as hostages, and used detainees as human shields.

Since the start of the war, at least 70 prisoners have died in Israeli custody, with their identities publicly confirmed. Among them, 44 were detainees from Gaza. Dozens of other Gaza prisoners are also believed to have died, though their names and the circumstances of their deaths remain undisclosed due to Israel’s ongoing policy of enforced disappearance.

Causes of death have included torture, starvation, medical neglect, and the intentional spread of disease and epidemics in prisons. Sexual assaults and rape have also been reported, marking this period as one of the bloodiest in the history of the Palestinian prisoner movement.

Israeli authorities are still holding the bodies of 68 out of the 79 known prisoners who have died since the beginning of the war.

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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 two Palestinian siblings and smash their vehicle in Ramallah

RAMALLAH, June 1, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers attacked two Palestinian siblings east of Ramallah on Sunday evening, beating them severely and destroying their vehicle, according to eyewitnesses.

The incident occurred in Al-Wadi Al-Shami area, near the village of Burqa, where a group of the illegal settlers reportedly under the protection of Israeli forces—assaulted Ghassan Abdul Jabir and his younger brother, 'Imad.

Witnesses said the two siblings were physically beaten and briefly detained by the colonists before being released. Their car was also reportedly smashed during the attack.

Y.S.

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Illegal Israeli settlers storm and block main entrance of the West Bank village of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya

Sunday 1-June-2025

NABLUS, (PIC)

A horde of the illegal Israeli settlers closed on Sunday morning the main entrance of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus, under military protection.

Local sources said that dozens of settlers stormed and blocked the main entrance of the village, where they embarked on performing Talmudic practices and provocative dances.

The settlers, who were carrying Israeli flags, threatened local residents to prevent them permanently from leaving and entering their village.

It was the third time within one week those settlers closed the village’s main entrance as part of practices aimed at harassing the residents and increasing their daily suffering.

In a separate incident, a group of settlers released their cattle into swaths of land planted with different crops in the west of Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley.

Since last night, settlers have been grazing their livestock on swaths of cultivated land belonging to local residents in the Qa’oun plain, west of Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley.

A few months ago, settlers set up an illegal outpost in the area, which they have since used as a launching point for their attacks on the villagers and their lands.

In Salfeet, other settlers stole an agricultural tractor in Marda village belonging to a local resident.

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Illegal Israeli settlers attack Palestinian citizens, property in the West Bank

Sunday 1-June-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

A number of Palestinian citizens suffered injuries and property sustained damage on Saturday when a horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked different areas of the West Bank.

According to local sources, dozens of settlers attacked the eastern entrance of Dair Dibwan town in eastern Ramallah before local residents confronted them and tried to fend them off. Several citizens suffered minor injuries during the settler attack.

In western Ramallah, settlers escorted by soldiers assaulted Palestinian citizens in the area between Ni’leen town and Qibya village and forced them to leave their own agricultural lands before allowing their sheep to roam freely and destroy crops.

Another group of the illegal Israeli settlers herded their camels inside the Bedouin Al-'Auja community in northern Aree'ha (Jericho), causing damage to fodder supplies.

The same settlers also intentionally drained water tanks belonging to the local residents onto the ground.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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'Hamas calls for UN action to stop Israel’s deadly mechanism to deliver aid in Gaza

Sunday 1-June-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement has held the Israeli occupation and the US administration fully responsible for the massacres that were committed in recent days against aid seekers near US-run distribution points in the Gaza Strip and for the use of starvation as a weapon of war against the population.

“A brutal massacre has been committed today by the fascist occupation army when its forces targeted thousands of citizens who headed to one of the distribution centers, which deliver aid according to the Israeli mechanism in western Rafa'h, killing over 35 people and injuring over 150 others,” Hamas said in a statement on Sunday.

“This massacre has vindicated further the fascist nature of the occupation and its criminal objectives behind this mechanism, as it uses those centers under its control as traps to lure innocent hungry people and to carry out the most brutal forms of killing, humiliation and abuse against them,” 'Hamas added.

'Hamas called on the UN and its Security Council to take urgent and binding measures compelling the Israeli occupation to halt this deadly aid delivery mechanism and to work on reopening Gaza crossings and ensuring the flow of humanitarian aid and its delivery by UN institutions.

The Movement also urged the UN to send an independent international committee to Gaza to investigate these systematic crimes committed against civilians and to hold Israeli war criminals accountable for their actions.

More than 35 people were killed and scores were wounded on Sunday morning when Israeli forces attacked civilians near US-run aid distribution points in Gaza.

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Egypt and Qatar: Our efforts continue to bridge gaps and reach a Gaza ceasefire agreement

Sunday 1-June-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The states of Egypt and Qatar announced on Sunday that they are continuing their intensive efforts to bridge gaps and overcome points of contention to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip. These efforts are based on the proposal put forward by US envoy Steve Witkoff and aim to resume indirect negotiations on that basis.

In a joint Egyptian-Qatari statement, Cairo and Doha reaffirmed their commitment, in coordination with the United States, to intensify efforts to overcome the obstacles facing the negotiation process.

The two countries called on all parties to demonstrate responsibility and to support the mediators’ efforts to end the crisis in Gaza and restore stability and calm to the region.

They also expressed hope for the swift conclusion of a temporary 60-day truce that would lead to a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The statement noted that such an agreement would allow for the resolution of the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the Strip, the reopening of border crossings, and the entry of humanitarian and relief aid—ultimately paving the way to end the war entirely and begin reconstruction by the plan adopted at the emergency Arab summit in Cairo on March 4, 2025.

On Saturday evening, the Hamas Movement announced that it had delivered its response to the “Witkoff proposal” to the mediators. The response, Hamas said, aims to ensure a “permanent ceasefire, a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and the uninterrupted flow of aid to our people in the Strip.”

The US envoy Steve Witkoff rejected Hamas’s response, stating that it was “completely unacceptable.”

Witkoff said, “I have received Hamas’s response to the US proposal, and it is unacceptable and will only set us back.”

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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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