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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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As the Israeli Occupation Forces Abducted Madleen and its International Activists,

108 Palestinians Killed and 393 Injured, Which Brings the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on the Gaza Strip to 54,880 and Injuries to 126,227

June 8, 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 8, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 68,313+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (54,880) and those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 13,433+). 

By June 8, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 126,227.

By June 8, 2025, according to news report, 975 Palestinians who were killed, 6,824 who were injured, and 12,245*, 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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108 Palestinians were killed, 393 were injured, mostly children, women, and
elderly, by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, which brought the death toll in the
Gaza Strip to 54,880 and the injuries to 126,227, on June 8, 2025.
108 Palestinians were killed, 393 were injured, mostly children, women, and elderly, by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, on June 8, 2025 wafa

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, including children and women, June 8, 2025.

More than 100 Palestinians were martyred and over 300 others were injured during the first two days of 'Eidul Adh'ha holiday as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, June 8, 2025.
The Israeli occupation forces continue to demolish buildings, amid ongoing
assault on Toulkarm, on June 8, 2025.

For the first time, the French anti-terror prosecutor's office has opened two probes against French-Israeli citizens, over complicity in genocide and incitement to genocide over, June 8, 2025.

   

Injured and martyred Palestinians carried to Nasir hospital, in Khan Younus, following the massacres perpetrated by the Israeli genocidal air strikes on southern Gaza Strip, on June 8, 2025.

Some of the Palestinian civilians, who were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, were released to the Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital in Dair El-Bala'h, in an apparent bad health condition, June 8, 2025.
   
As starvation has reached a highest level, due to the ongoing Israeli blockade, Palestinians trying to get any amount of food provided by a local charity in Gaza City, on June 8, 2025. An overview of an area on the Gaza City shore crowded with tents of the displaced Palestinian families, whose homes have been destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces, June 8, 2025.

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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.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources:

http://english.wafa.ps/, https://english.palinfo.com/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/

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Survivor describes crawling under gunfire during deadly Gaza aid distribution, UNRWA reports

NEW YORK, June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) shared the testimony of a survivor of the deadly aid distribution in Gaza. The man, who supports a family of seven, recounted being forced to crawl for survival amid intense gunfire from Israeli occupation forces. He made an urgent plea to resume aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip via UNRWA.

“We spoke to people who survived the deadly Israeli-American aid distribution in Gaza,” UNRWA said in a post on X.

“Hungry people forced to crawl on the ground, surrounded by gunfire, desperately trying to secure food for their families, only to risk their lives and leave empty-handed.”

“We must return to delivering aid safely and at scale to all people in Gaza. The only way to do this is through the United Nations, including UNRWA,” the post added.

The man’s message said: “We arrived at 3:30 AM and waited for the signal to move forward... The gunfire was non-stop. We crawled on the ground until 4:45 AM, when the gunfire finally ended. People jumped up and started running. Many were injured as they ran. It was unlike anything I had ever seen.”

T.R.

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Madleen and its International Activists Abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces

Avila: We are on a historic mission to correct history

Sunday 8-June-2025

GAZA, (PIC, Agencies)

The Israeli occupation forces stopped and abducted Madleen, the boat bound to break the illegal Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, by providing food and medicine to the starving Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation forces abducted Madleen in the international waters, 100 kilometers off the Egyptian coast, and pulled the boat to the Israeli naval base at the occupied coast of Isdood (Ashdod).

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Thiago Avila, a Brazilian activist on board the Madleen, has said that his team is “on a historic mission to correct history at the gates of the Gaza Strip.”

In recent press remarks, Avila expressed his belief that history has proven that all ideologies based on hatred, such as the one adopted by the Israeli occupation state, are destined to disappear.

“The message I want to convey to everyone is: Do not fear their hatred or their violence (referring to Israel). Do not fear their oppressive power, because throughout human history, all empires have fallen, and all those ideologies based on hatred — which once seemed invincible — have also ceased to exist. It is the duty of the world’s peoples to fulfill the historical obligation — the moral commitment to correct history — and we are here for this mission,” Avila said.

“We call on everyone, wherever they are, to rise up and take action for Palestine, to protest for social justice, to stand up for building a world free from abuse, oppression, and environmental destruction, a world worth living in and worth risking our lives to build. We are on the path to achieving this, and we are confident that we will succeed,” Avila added.

“We hope to carry out this mission successfully so that history will record that we have been able to open this humanitarian corridor for the Palestinian people,” he said.

“We do not fear them. All they have is their bombs, their violence and their hate. We have all the rest. We have solidarity, we have hope, we have love and a global community of billions of people that are now uniting and starting to move on a beautiful uprising because they know deep in their hearts that starving children to death is wrong, that bombing hospitals, shelters and schools is wrong,” he affirmed.

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French authorities investigate Israelis over their role in Gaza genocide

Sunday 8-June-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The French anti-terror prosecutor’s office has opened two probes into “complicity in genocide” and “incitement to genocide” over French-Israeli citizens suspected of having blocked aid intended for the Gaza Strip as well as over the Israeli army forces’ wartime conduct.

The prosecutor’s office said the investigations were opened in the wake of two separate legal complaints and were to investigate possible “complicity in crimes against humanity” between January and May 2024.

Several sources with knowledge of the cases told the French news agency AFP that it was the first time in France to launch investigations into Israeli violations of international law in Gaza.

One investigation was opened in response to the Jewish French Union for Peace (UFJP) and a French-Palestinian victim, who jointly filed a complaint in November targeting French members of hardline right-wing groups “Israel is Forever” and “Tzav 9.”

It accused them of “physically” preventing the passage of trucks at border checkpoints controlled by the Israeli army.

In a separate case made public on the same day, the grandmother of two children with French nationality who were allegedly killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza filed a legal complaint in Paris, accusing Israel of “genocide” and “murder,” her lawyer said.

The French judiciary has jurisdiction when French citizens are involved in such cases.

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Killing and Injuring of Palestinians in Ghazza (Gaza) by Israeli Occupation Regime Forces

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Gaza death toll reaches 54,880 since start of Israeli aggression in October 2023 - Medical sources

GAZA, June 8, 2025 (WAFA, PIC) -

The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 54,880, the majority of whom were women and children, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression in October 2023. At least 126,227 others have also been injured.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that of the total casualties, 4,603 civilians have been killed and 14,186 have been injured since March 18, 2025, when the Israeli occupation resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip after breaking the ceasefire agreement.

The Ministry reported that 108 bodies and 393 injured individuals were brought to hospitals in Gaza during the past 24 hours.

The Ministry noted that the total number of people killed by the Israeli forces in aid distribution areas and transported to hospitals has reached 115, with more than 1,110 others injured.

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

T.R.

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Civilian casualties mount as Israeli army continues genocide in Gaza

Sunday 8-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, including children and women.

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.

According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporters in Gaza, Israeli attacks have continued across the Gaza Strip, including an Israeli shooting attack that killed at least four aid seekers and injured 70 others near a US-backed distribution center in western Rafa'h.

Several casualties were also reported following a similar shooting attack near an aid distribution point in the Netzarim area of central Gaza.

Separate Israeli attacks on Al-Mawasi area killed and injured several people, including two girl children who were inside a tent.

Other attacks on different areas of Jabalya Al-Balad area in northern Gaza claimed the lives of several people and injured many others.

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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Gaza: 100 killed and 300 injured during the first two days of 'Eidul Adh'ha

Sunday 8-June-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

More than 100 Palestinians were martyred and over 300 others were injured during the first two days of 'Eidul Adh'ha holiday as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s health ministry on Saturday.

The ministry pointed out that those casualties only included those who arrived at hospitals during the past 48 hours.

On the first day of Eid, Friday, 33 Gazans were killed, most of them following direct Israeli attacks on aid seekers near distribution points as well as on tents sheltering displaced families, according to medical sources.

On Saturday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said that the Israeli occupation forces committed a new massacre against aid seekers in Rafah, killing eight of them and injuring 61 others.

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 Israeli genocidal air strikes kill and injure civilians across Gaza

GAZA, June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

Several civilians were killed and others were injured by Israeli airstrikes targeting multiple areas across the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that five civilians, including two children, were killed after an Israeli drone strike targeted tents sheltering displaced persons in Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younus. In addition, a young girl succumbed to injuries she sustained in a previous Israeli strike on Khan Younus city.

In Rafa'h, four civilians were killed and 70 others were wounded by Israeli gunfire near an aid distribution center west of the city.

In central Gaza, one civilian was killed and others were injured by Israeli forces near another aid distribution site along what is referred to as the “Netzarim Corridor.”

Israeli forces also blew up homes and structures belonging to residents in Jabalya, in the northern part of the Strip, and in eastern Gaza City.

UNRWA Communications Director Juliette Touma said yesterday that the current aid distribution model in the Gaza Strip is not working. “It’s as if you’re inviting people to their own death,” she said.

The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has risen to 54,772. At least 125,834 others have also been injured.

T.R.

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Gaza: Dozens killed in Israeli airstrikes and shelling on several areas

GAZA, June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

Medical sources said that 31 Palestinian civilians were killed and others wounded on Sunday in a series of airstrikes and artillery shelling carried out by Israeli occupation forces on various areas of the Gaza Strip, mainly in Rafa'h, Gaza, Khan Younus, and Jabalya.

In the city of Rafa'h in the southern Gaza Strip, the death toll from Israeli occupation forces' firing of live ammunition at a group of civilians near an aid center affiliated with an American company west of the city rose to 13.

In Khan Younus, four citizens were wounded in an Israeli drone strike targeting a group of citizens in the northern city of Asdaa. The body of slain female Palestinian Ghadeer Ra-id Sha'ban Baraka was recovered from under the rubble in the town of Bani Suhayla, east of the city, following a bombing that targeted her home.

In Gaza City, two citizens were killed as a result of Israeli shelling targeting the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex west of the city, causing damage to the surrounding health facilities.

In the northern Gaza Strip, two citizens were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a group of citizens in the Jabalya Al-Balad area. The Israeli occupation army also destroyed  Al-Naqab and Al-Rafi'i schools in the same town, causing widespread damage to the infrastructure.

The Israeli occupation has continued its aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, resulting in the killing of 54,880 civilians, most of them children and women, and the injury of 126,227 others.

K.T.

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Four civilians killed in Israeli airstrike east of Khan Younus

GAZA, June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

Four civilians were killed on Sunday evening in an Israeli airstrike targeting the eastern area of Khan Younus in the southern Gaza Strip.

Local sources reported that an Israeli drone targeted a group of civilians in the Ma’an area east of Khan Younus, resulting in the killing of four people and the injury of others.

Israeli artillery also shelled Al-Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City, accompanied by the firing of smoke grenades in the area.

T.R.

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Three civilians killed in Israeli airstrike on Khan Younus

GAZA, June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

Three Palestinian civilians were killed and others were injured on Sunday evening in an Israeli airstrike targeting Khan Younus, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Local sources reported that a civilian was killed by live fire fired from an Israeli drone in the Al-Amal neighborhood, west of Khan Younus.

Two additional civilians were killed after an Israeli drone bombed a tent sheltering displaced persons in the industrial area west of the city.

T.R.

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21 civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza since dawn

GAZA, June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

At least 21 civilians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip since dawn Sunday, according to medical sources.

Eight people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Jabalya town in northern Gaza.

Medical teams also recovered the bodies of two civilians following an Israeli airstrike on the Ma'an area east of Khan Younus.

Five others, including two young girls, were killed after an Israeli drone targeted tents sheltering displaced families in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younus. Additionally, succumbed to injuries she sustained in a previous Israeli strike on Khan Younus.

In Rafa'h, four civilians were killed and 70 others were injured after Israeli forces opened fire near an aid center west of the city.

In central Gaza, one civilian was killed and several others were injured by Israeli gunfire near an aid distribution site at what is referred to as the “Netzarim Corridor.”

Israeli forces also blew up residential homes and civilian structures in Jabalya in the north and east of Gaza City.

Medical sources warned that fuel reserves at Gaza hospitals will last only two more days, and that the wounded are struggling to reach medical facilities in southern Gaza due to ongoing attacks and infrastructure collapse.

T.R.

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

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Palestinian farmer injured in Israeli army attack south of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

A Palestinian farmer sustained bruises and injuries today, after being assaulted by Israeli occupation soldiers while working on his land in the town of Al-Khadhir, south of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), according to a local official.

Ma'hmoud 'Abdullah, a member of the Agricultural Cooperative Association in Al-Khadhir, told WAFA that Israeli soldiers and a colonist stormed the Sahl Al-Rajm area, near the junction leading to the illegal Israeli settlement of Efrat, and physically assaulted a 63-year-old man while he was tending to his land with his wife and daughter.

Abdullah added that the soldiers briefly detained Subai'h’s wife and daughter before taking him toward the illegal Israeli settlement of Daniel. He was later released and left alone in the field with visible injuries.

He was taken to a hospital in Bethlehem for treatment.

Since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, farmers in Al-Khadhir have been systematically prevented from accessing their lands, facing repeated assaults, arbitrary detentions, and the seizure of their crops by Israeli forces and colonists.

T.R. 

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Dozens suffocate from tear gas during Israeli forces' raid on Nablus-area villages

NABLUS, June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

Dozens of Palestinians suffered from tear gas suffocation today during an Israeli military raid on the villages of Tell, southwest of Nablus, and Qaryut to the south, according to security and local sources.

Sources told WAFA that the Israeli forces stormed the villages amid the firing of live bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas canisters, leading to dozens of cases of suffocation among residents.

T.R.

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 Israeli occupation forces continue demolitions in Toulkarm camp for 3rd consecutive day amid long-running onslaught

Toulkarm, June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

For the third consecutive day, Israeli occupation forces continued the demolition of residential buildings in Toulkarm refugee camp, as their military onslaught on the city of Tulkarem and its camp entered its 133rd consecutive day, and the 120th day on Nour Shams refugee camp amid a significant escalation on the ground.

WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli bulldozers today resumed the destruction of dozens of residential buildings in the camp. The demolitions are part of an Israeli plan to raze 106 structures across Toulkarm and Nour Shams refugee camps, including 58 buildings in Tulkarem camp alone. These include over 250 housing units and dozens of commercial establishments.

Residents documented the extensive destruction in the targeted area, where an entire residential zone was reduced to rubble. Many homes were completely destroyed, others severely damaged, and debris covered large sections of the area, affecting surrounding buildings.

The ongoing Israeli aggression has so far resulted in the killing of 13 Palestinians, including a child and two women, one of whom was eight months pregnant, along with dozens of injuries and detentions. The onslaught has also caused massive destruction to infrastructure, homes, commercial properties, and vehicles.

According to the latest data, the escalation has forcibly displaced over 5,000 families from the two camps—more than 25,000 residents.

At least 400 homes have been completely destroyed, and 2,573 have been partially damaged. Meanwhile, the entrances to both camps remain sealed off with earth mounds, rendering them nearly devoid of life.

T.R.

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Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces issue demolition and construction halt notices against homes, structures in Salfeet

SALFEET, June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces on Sunday delivered eight demolition orders and notices ordering a halt to construction on homes and agricultural structures in the town of Bruqeen west of Salfeet, according to local officials.

Fareed Sabra, head of the Bruqeen municipality, told WAFA that six inhabited homes, each consisting of two floors and comprising a total of 12 apartments, were among the structures targeted for demolition.  In addition, two stop-construction notices were issued against agricultural barns.

Sabra noted that one of the homes slated for demolition is an old structure built several decades ago.

He added that Bruqeen is facing an intensified colonial campaign led by the Israeli military, involving land confiscation, bulldozing, and a surge in demolition and stop-work orders targeting Palestinian homes.

Last month, Israeli authorities issued 48 demolition notices across the occupied West Bank, including 21 in Ramallah, 18 in Salfeet, four in Toulkarm, three in Al-Quds (Jerusalem), and one in Nablus.

T.R.

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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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 Israeli occupation forces close off village near Nablus as the illegal Israeli settlers perform Talmudic rituals at village entrance

NABLUS, June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces Sunday evening closed the main entrance to the village of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya south of Nablus.

According to WAFA correspondent, dozens of Israeli colonists gathered at the village entrance and performed Talmudic rituals under the protection of Israeli soldiers, who closed the road and prevented Palestinian residents from entering or leaving the area.

T.R.

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  Illegal Israeli settlers assault Palestinian man south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

A Palestinian man sustained injuries and bruises on Sunday after being severely beaten by a group of the illegal Israeli settlers in Masafir Yatta south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

Israeli occupation forces also detained another Palestinian attempting to stop an attack against his home and property.

Anti-illegal Israeli settlement, activist Osama Makhamra told WAFA that armed Israeli colonists brutally attacked a man while he was herding livestock near Khirbet 'Huraibat Al-Nabi in Masafir Yatta. The man sustained various injuries and was transferred to the hospital for treatment.

Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers detained a resident of Khillet Al-Dab'a in Masafir Yatta after he confronted colonists who had vandalized the fence surrounding his home and allowed their livestock to graze on his agricultural land."

The Israeli occupation forces also sealed off the entrance to a home belonging to the Idris family in Jabir neighborhood, near the illegal colonial settlement of Kiryat Arba, built on privately owned Palestinian land east of Hebron.

T.R.

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 Illegal Israeli settlers steal sheep south of Nablus, attack owner and his wife

NABLUS, June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers stole several sheep and assaulted the owner and his wife on Monday morning in Khirbet Al-Taweel, east of 'Aqraba, south of Nablus, according to security sources.

Sources told WAFA that a group of colonists raided sheep pens belonging to a local resident in Khirbet Al-Taweel and stole several sheep.

The colonists physically assaulted the owner and his wife, spraying them with pepper spray before fleeing the area. They were transferred to a hospital for treatment.

It is worth noting that groups of Israeli colonists have formed gangs that systematically loot Palestinian property, with such attacks escalating significantly since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. Sheep thefts have been reported across several governorates.

T.R.

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Israeli occupation forces block agricultural road south of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), June 8, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces Sunday morning blocked an agricultural road in the town of Al-Khadhir south of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), according to local sources.

Mahmoud Abdullah, a member of the Agricultural Cooperative Association in Al-Khadhir, said that Israeli forces closed the Wadi Al-Abyar road by placing large blocks, effectively preventing farmers from accessing their land in several nearby areas

Israeli forces and colonists have recently escalated their attacks on agricultural land in Al-Khadhir, including land confiscation, bulldozing, and denying farmers access to their fields.

T.R.

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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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