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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During the two-year Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip (October 7, 2023-October 13, 2025), world governments were either active participant and accomplices of the genocide, or watched passively, without taking any actions to Stop it.

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7 Palestinians Killed, 6 Bodies Retrieved, 8 Injured, Mostly Children and Women, 

Which Brings the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on the Gaza Strip to 68,229 and the Injuries to 170,369,

by October 21, 2025 

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Editor's Notes:  

Here are some initial (not final) statistics, which show the Israeli war crimes against humanity, during the current Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, based on the reliable data reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza:

By October 21, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 78,942.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (68,229) and those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 10,713+). 

By October 21, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 170,369. 

By October 21, 2025, according to news report, 1,044 Palestinians who were killed, 7,269 who were injured, and 19,234 who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023.   

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Note about the number of Palestinians, who were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces in the Wet Bank:

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), and Al-Dhameer Association for Human Rights stated in a report issued Sunday that the total number of kidnappings of Palestinians in the West Bank, since the start of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, has risen to more than 18,500, including over 570 women and about 1,500 children.

Source: Palestine Information Center, August 10, 2025.

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Note About the Missing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip:

On February 26, 2025, the Palestinian Center for Political and Development Studies announced that the number of the missing in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 14,000 people, including 2,000-3,000 held in Israeli occupation prisons, without releasing any information on their fate.

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'Hamas leader and chief negotiator Khaleel El-'Hayya has expressed confidence that the Gaza ceasefire agreement will succeed and hold until the end, October 21, 2025.	Chairman of the 'Hamas Shoura Council, Mu'hammed, along with members of the Movement’s political bureau in Doha, met with the Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, and delegation, October 21, 2025.
The Hind Rajab Foundation submitted a request to the ICC, for the issuance of arrest warrants against 24 Israeli soldiers involved in the killing of the Palestinian little girl Hind Rajab and her family, October 21, 2025.	A young Palestinian man by an Israeli drone air strike in the town of Bani Suhayla, east of Khan Younus, in southern Gaza Strip, in addition to 6 others massacred by the Israeli forces today, October 21, 2025.
Abu Mahyoub tells of decades of the Israeli occupation torture of Palestinians in the Jordan Valley and their steadfastness, despite the daily raids and attacks of the illegal Israeli settlers‎, October 21, 2025.	Bassan El-Sinwar tells of a new suffering unfolding in Gaza, no less cruel than the rubble and the solid waste, Palestinians discovered that there was no room left for a tent or for a child to cross‎‎, October 21, 2025.
The freed Palestinian prisoner, 'Abdullah Far'han, who was kidnapped from Khan Younus by the Israeli occupation forces, tells of the horrors inflicted on Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation regime prisons, October 21, 2025.	Displaced Palestinian families return to their destroyed homes, in El-Shuja'iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, trying to start a new life among the mass destruction inflicted by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, October 21, 2025.
For a lack of tents and shelters, displaced Palestinian families took shelter in an El-Nusayrat Mosque, which was destroyed by the Israeli genocidal air strikes on central Gaza Strip, October 21, 2025.	Burying 54 corpses in a mass grave of Palestinian martyrs, who were returned through the Red Cross, after being killed by the Israeli occupation forces, while in Israeli custody, October 22, 2025.

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime forced a Palestinian family to demolish its own house in El-Tour town, east of Al-Quds, occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of unlicensed construction, October 21, 2025.	Israeli mass destruction of Gaza, enabled by weapons from NATO countries for two years, to maintain the Israeli occupation of Palestine, October 21, 2025.
The Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of raids, involving kidnappings, assaults, and acts of vandalism in different West Bank areas, October 21, 2025.	The Israeli occupation naval forces kidnapped three Palestinian fishermen inside the Palestinian waters, near Gaza City, marking new violations of the ceasefire agreement, October 21, 2025..

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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Death Toll from Israeli Aggression on Gaza Rises to 68,229

Gaza, October 21, 2025 (QNA) -

The number of casualties resulting from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, ongoing since Oct. 7, 2023, has risen to 68,229 martyrs, in addition to 170,369 injuries.

In the past 24 hours, Gaza hospitals have received 13 fatalities—seven of whom were killed in direct attacks by the occupation, and six whose bodies were recovered from beneath the rubble. An additional 8 people were reported injured, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported on Tuesday.

Since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10, 2025, a total of 432 bodies have been recovered, while 165 bodies have been received from the Israeli occupation forces, the Ministry noted, adding that many victims remain trapped under debris or in the streets, inaccessible to ambulance and civil defense teams.

The ceasefire agreement between 'Hamas and the Israeli occupation regime was reached in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Shaikh and took effect on October 10, 2025.  

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Palestinian man killed in new Israeli ceasefire violation

Tuesday 21-October-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

A young Palestinian man was killed on Tuesday by Israeli drone fire in the town of Bani Suhayla, east of Khan Younus in southern Gaza Strip, yet another violation in a series of breaches by the Israeli military since the ceasefire was declared.

Israeli military vehicles also opened heavy machine-gun fire in the area, while the sound of explosions was heard from the demolition of residential buildings east of the city.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Monday that the total number of bodies recovered since the ceasefire came into effect has reached 432 martyrs.

In its daily statistical report, the Ministry stated that within the past 24 hours, hospitals received 13 martyrs, seven killed in direct Israeli attacks and six whose bodies were recovered, along with 8 injured.

The Ministry also noted that many victims remain under the rubble or on the roads, as emergency and civil defense crews are unable to reach them.

It added that the death toll from Israel’s genocide campaign, which began on October 7, 2023, has now risen to 68,229 martyrs and 170,369 injuries.

Since the truce took effect on October 10, 2025, 80 people have been killed, 311 injured, and 432 bodies recovered.

The Ministry confirmed that the total number of bodies received from Israel via the International Committee of the Red Cross has reached 165.

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IOFs kidnap three Palestinian fishermen near Gaza shores

Tuesday 21-October-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnapped three Palestinian fishermen inside the Palestinian waters, near Gaza City on Tuesday, and opened fire in multiple areas across the Gaza Strip, marking new violations of the ceasefire agreement.

Chief of the fishermen’s committees, Zakariya Bakr, said that the Israeli occupation regime naval forces kidnapped three fishermen, after opening fire at their small boat, as they were fishing close to the shores of Gaza City.

The fishermen were identified as 'Abdullah El-'Absi, Mu'hammed Miqdad, and Bakr Abu 'Abdu.

Meanwhile, a citizen was injured when an Israeli drone opened fire at him in Bani Suhayla town, east of Khan Younus.

Israeli tanks stationed east of Khan Younus also fired multiple rounds at various locations since early this morning, according to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter.

A similar shooting attack happened in the east of Gaza City. There was no information about casualties.

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‎Gaza struggles to regain life from rubble‎

‎Gaza 21-10-2025 Wafa -

By 'Husain Nadtheer El-Sinwar‎

‎When the bombardment subsided and the bloodshed stopped, the citizens of the Gaza Strip breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the pain was over. But as soon as they lifted their heads from under the rubble, a new suffering unfolded, different but no less cruel: rubble and solid waste that flooded the streets and blocked roads, so that there was no room left for a tent or for a child to cross‎‎.‎

‎Behind every pile of rubble, hides the story of a house that has been demolished, a street that has vanished, or an unfinished dream‎‎.‎‎The ‎‎ Gaza Strip, which has endured two years of devastating war, is now facing another unspoken battle — a battle against waste and health and environmental risks that threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands‎‎.‎

‎Back to a Featureless City‎

‎In the east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Bassam El-Najjar returned to his neighborhood after months of displacement. The place was unknown at first glance, as everything that was once a house, street or school turned into dust and‎‎ ‎‎ashes.‎

‎"‎‎When we arrived, we found nothing to show us our homes," says al-Najjar, "even the mosques were gone, and the planes destroyed every landmark that could remind us of the place‎‎."‎

‎"The war has crushed everything, people, stone, trees, and wiped out the memory itself‎‎,"‎‎ he ‎‎adds.‎

‎Ibrahim Asfour, a resident from the town of Al-Mughraqa, said he returned to his old place after the ceasefire agreement: ‎‎"‎‎The destruction snatched the laughter of children, the sounds of cars, the call of vendors, and even the chirping of birds. Everything was suddenly silent‎‎." "‎‎When I get to my place, I can't identify our house or our mosque. Everything is gone. It is as if the city has been covered with a gray curtain of rubble and ashes‎‎."‎

‎Rubble and destroyed infrastructure‎

‎The destruction was not limited to buildings and homes. The war crushed every basic aspect of life: water and electricity networks, light poles, sewage systems, and even communication exchanges and parks‎‎.‎‎According to the ‎‎ data, 85%‎‎ ‎‎of the heavy machinery was destroyed, making the process of removing the rubble‎‎ almost impossible‎‎.‎

‎The ‎‎UN estimates that more than 60 million tons of rubble and solid waste must be removed from various areas of the Gaza Strip to reopen roads and access vital facilities such as hospitals and schools‎‎.‎ 

‎Death waste besieges IDP tents‎

‎On the outskirts of Khan Younis, where tents for displaced people have been erected, garbage piles up next to temporary housing. Salman Abu Abed, a citizen, describes the scene‎‎: ‎‎"‎‎The garbage surrounds us from every direction, mixing food scraps and dead animals, and emitting unbearable smells‎‎."‎

‎ ‎‎"‎‎Rodents and insects have become part of our daily lives, stinging children at night, spreading diseases. We die slowly, not by shelling, but by smells and poisons‎‎."‎

‎Abu ‎‎Abed pointed out that the site opposite the southern gate of Al-Aqsa University in Khan Younis has turned into a huge garbage dump, around which sewage collects and constitutes a "serious environmental and health hazard" that threatens the lives of thousands of displaced people living in the area‎‎.‎

‎Waste management is a formidable challenge‎

‎Jaco Sellers, the United Nations Development Programme‎‎ (UNDP) ‎‎ representative ‎‎in Palestine, says that solid waste management in Gaza "presents a major challenge" to reconstruction efforts‎‎.‎

‎"‎‎The programme oversees 47 temporary waste collection sites to ensure the safety of nearby communities," explains Sellers, adding‎‎,‎‎ ‎‎"‎‎Unfortunately, many displaced people live near these sites, but we are working to rehabilitate and cover them to prevent the spread of diseases‎‎."‎

‎Solid ‎‎waste treatment is a "very daunting task," Sellers said, noting that the program is currently focused on opening roads and facilitating access to health and education facilities as part of the reconstruction plan‎‎.‎

‎As part of the partnership agreement with the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, the Arab International Reconstruction Authority in Palestine and the United Nations Development Programme‎‎ (UNDP) ‎‎ continue ‎‎the work of removing rubble and opening vital streets in the Gaza Strip, as part of the Ministry's work plan in the Gaza Strip and its role in the Government Operations Room, which falls within the framework of the government's comprehensive plan for emergency response and recovery to reach reconstruction‎‎.‎

‎Alarming Numbers‎

‎Local sources in the Gaza Strip say that every street in Gaza has been damaged, and that the process of reopening the city is complicated in the absence of machinery and equipment‎‎.‎

‎In Gaza City, eight main water pumps were completely or partially shut down, causing large quantities of sewage to leak into the streets‎‎.‎

‎The Water Authority warns of groundwater pollution and the mixing of sewage with drinking water tanks, stressing that the city is on the cusp of an environmental disaster, especially with the approach of winter and the possibility of flooding of rainwater mixed with sewage‎‎.‎

‎In Khan Younus, it is estimated that‎‎400,000 ‎‎ tons of rubble and‎‎350,000‎‎ tons of waste must be removed, and more than 300 kilometers of water networks have been completely destroyed‎‎.‎

‎According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, since October 7‎‎, ‎‎2023, ‎‎ the occupation has completely destroyed ‎‎more than 102,067 buildings in the Gaza Strip, while about ‎‎192,812‎‎ buildings have been severely ‎‎ damaged, and the number of housing units that have been destroyed, in whole or in part, is estimated at ‎‎ least ‎‎330,500‎‎ In addition to the destruction of schools, universities, hospitals, mosques, and churches, in addition to thousands of buildings of economic facilities, and the destruction of all aspects of infrastructure, including streets, water and electricity lines, sewage lines, and the destruction of agricultural lands, to make the Gaza Strip an unlivable place.‎

‎Local and international institutions fear that the continued accumulation of waste and rubble will lead to waves of skin and respiratory diseases and environmental poisoning, especially in areas densely populated with displaced people‎‎.‎

‎But despite this grim landscape, there is still a real will in Gaza to restore life‎‎.‎

‎Tha-ir El-Astal, who returned to his area in the western line north of Khan Yunus‎‎, said:‎‎ ‎‎"‎‎We only dream that the calm will continue so that we can start removing rubble and garbage. Beneath them are the bodies of our loved ones, maybe the beginning of a new life‎‎."‎

‎Amid mountains of rubble and piles of rubbish, citizens are trying to catch their breath, restoring what can be restored with their bare hands, and holding on to the threads of hope in a war-weary city‎‎.‎‎ ‎

‎A.F.‎

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

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Palestinian youth shot as Israeli occupation forces raid El-Khaleel (Hebron)

El-Khaleel (Hebron), October 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

 A Palestinian youth was injured by live fire from Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday during a raid in the city of El-Khaleel (Hebron), south of the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources.

The sources reported that Israeli forces stormed the Eisa neighborhood of Hebron and opened live fire on civilians, injuring a 17-year-old boy with a gunshot to the thigh. He was transported by Red Crescent teams to the hospital for treatment.

During the raid, Israeli forces also stormed the Sharia School and an orphanage run by the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron. They confiscated computers, closed the main entrance after installing a new door, and shut down the facility.

M.N. 

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

Tuesday 21-October-2025

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

A Palestinian young man sustained a bullet injury on Monday evening when Israeli police forces opened fire at him in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

According to the Red Crescent, its paramedics provided a young man with first aid at the Qalandya checkpoint in northern Jerusalem and transported him to the hospital for further medical assistance.

In a separate incident, Israeli forces and settlers stormed the eastern area of Nablus City and performed Talmudic prayers at Joseph’s Tomb last night.

Israeli forces also kidnaped a young man from his workplace in Qaffeen town, north of Toulkarm, and stormed 'Attara town and Dair 'Ammar village in Ramallah province, without kidnappings. 

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IOFs kidnap, assault Palestinians, in West Bank raids

Tuesday 21-October-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) carried out a series of raids late last night into Tuesday morning, involving kidnappings, assaults, and acts of vandalism in different West Bank areas.

According to local sources, the IOFs kidnapped two young men from El-Am’ari refugee camp in Ramallah and another one from El-Beereh City.

In Nablus, the Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped a young man called Laith Khashana and assaulted his mother in the Old City.

The Israeli soldiers also wreaked havoc on the contents of a house and confiscated two cars in the Old City of Nablus.

The Red Crescent said that 11 Palestinians were injured during overnight clashes with the Israeli occupation forces who stormed the eastern area of Nablus City to provide protection for the illegal Israeli settlers visiting Joseph’s Tomb.

In Jineen, the Israeli occupation forces disguised in civilian clothing kidnapped a young man from his home in 'Anza village.

The Israeli occupation forces also raided several homes in Burqeen town, west of Jineen, savagely assaulted a young man and fired tear gas canisters at others.

In northern Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), the Israeli occupation regime policemen opened fire at a young man near the separation wall in al-Ram town, injuring him in the leg. He was rushed by a Palestinian ambulance crew to the hospital.

In a separate incident, a horde of the illegal Israeli settlers set fire to agricultural tents belonging to Palestinian citizens in the Ikhllal El-'Adthra area, east of El-Karmeel village, south of al-Khalil.

Another group of the illegal Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in the Wadi 'Ammar area of Turmus 'Ayya town, north of Ramallah. 

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IOAR forces a Palestinian Jerusalemite family to raze their home in Tour town

Tuesday 21-October-2025

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime (IOAR) forced, on Tuesday morning, a Palestinian family to demolish its own house in El-Tour town, east Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), under the pretext of unlicensed construction.

According to Maqdisi (Jerusalemite) sources, the Abu Rumaila family was forced to carry out the demolition themselves to avoid the heavy fines imposed by the Israeli municipality on those who rely on its crews for the task.

Hundreds of Palestinian Maqdisi (Jerusalemite) homes are threatened with demolition or appropriation as part of Israel’s Judaization plans in the occupied holy city.

The Maqdisi (Jerusalemite) Palestinians have no choice but to build without licenses because there are no structural maps that respond to the natural increase in their numbers.

The IOAR also imposes building restrictions on the Palestinian natives in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) and makes it hard for them to obtain construction licenses.

Israel’s systematic demolition of Palestinian homes in the holy city is believed to be aimed at psychologically destroying the Maqdisi (Jerusalemite) families in an attempt to force them to move from the city.

 

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Israeli forces raid Burin village south of Nablus, forcibly remove two families from their homes

NABLUS, October 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday evening raided the village of Burin, south of Nablus, and forcibly removed two families from their homes.

Local sources told WAFA that Israeli military vehicles stormed the village, set up a checkpoint at one of its entrances, and blocked Palestinian vehicles from passing.

The sources added that the soldiers forced shop owners to close their businesses and expelled two families from their houses, turning them into military posts.

M.N.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Note: Despite the Trump administration support for the Israeli occupation apartheid regime, the U.S. official policy is still considering the Israeli settlement activities in the Palestinian territories as illegal.

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Hundreds of the illegal Israeli settlers defile Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Tuesday 21-October-2025

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

Scores of the illegal Israeli settlers desecrated Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) on Tuesday morning and later in the afternoon, amid restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site.

According to the Islamic Awqaf Administration in the holy city, at least 693 of the illegal Israeli settlers entered the Mosque through its Maghariba Gate and toured its courtyards under police protection.

During their tours at the Islamic holy site, the settlers received lectures from rabbis about the alleged temple mount and a number of them performed provocative Talmudic prayers, especially in the eastern area of the Mosque and on the staircase leading to the plateau of the Dome of the Rock building.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation police imposed movement and entry restrictions on Muslim worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque’s entrances and gates and prevented many of them from entering the holy site.

In a related context, senior 'Hamas official Haroun Nasiruddeen has denounced a group of the illegal Israeli settlers for performing prayers on the staircase leading to the Dome of the Rock’s plateau, calling their practice “part of the blatant daily violations against the Islamic sanctity and identity of Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

Nasiruddeen also described this violation as “part of systematic Israeli efforts to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque temporally and spatially.”

He warned of an Israeli plan to transform Al-Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards into areas for Jewish worship, with direct backing from the Israeli occupation government and temple groups.

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Israeli forces close off East Jerusalem-area neighborhood to secure the illegal Israeli settlers' celebration of the so-called "Torch Day"

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

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) closed off El-Shaikh Jarra'h neighborhood in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), on Tuesday afternoon, with iron barriers to secure the illegal Israeli settlers' celebrations of the so-called "Torch Day."

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) Governorate explained that this closure restricted residents' movement and prevented them from entering their homes in their vehicles.

This annual recurrence reflects the Israeli policy of restricting the neighborhood's residents and tightening control over it.

The illegal Israeli settlers exploit the "Torch Day" to call for expanding their illegal settlement activities, in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) in general, and in El-Shaikh Jarra'h neighborhood in particular.

K.T.

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Illegal Israeli settlers uproot 60 olive trees in Masafir Yatta, south of El-Khaleel (Hebron)

El-Khaleel (Hebron), October 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

Illegal Israeli settlers on Tuesday evening uprooted 60 olive trees in the village of Susya, located in Masafir Yatta, south of El-Khaleel (Hebron).

Local activist Osama Makhamra said that a group of the illegal Israeli settlers uprooted and broke 60 olive trees belonging to two local brothers. The colonists also destroyed a fence surrounding the land and filled in a water well that was under construction.

They further released their cattle and sheep into vineyards and orchards in the Khallet El-'Hummus area, southeast of the town of Yatta, nearby.

M.N.

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158 attacks carried out by the Israeli occupation forces and illegal settlers against Palestinian olive pickers since the beginning of current season

RAMALLAH, October 21, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Mu-ayyad Sha'ban, head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, said that the Israeli occupation forces and illegal settlers have carried out a total of 158 attacks against olive pickers since the beginning of the current season.

In a press release issued by the commission on Tuesday, he added that commission teams monitored 17 attacks by the occupation army and 141 attacks by illegal settlers.

Sha'ban affirmed that these attacks ranged from violent physical assaults, arrest campaigns, restrictions of movement, denial of access, intimidation and terrorizing in all its forms, and direct gunfire, as occurred in the Tubas Governorate.

The attacks were concentrated in the Nablus governorate with 56 attacks, followed by the Ramallah governorate with 51 attacks, and then the Hebron governorate with 15 attacks.

Sha'ban said that this season, 57 cases of movement restrictions and intimidation of olive pickers were recorded, in addition to 22 cases of beating and assaulting farmers.

He added that this season, which coincided with the ongoing aggression against Palestinians, is the most difficult and dangerous in recent decades, due to the army and colonists' exploitation of wartime systems to commit crimes, supported by numerous policies and legislation that reinforce aggression, terrorism, and oppression, particularly the closure of governorates, the transfer of weapons to colonists' militias, and, most dangerously, their exemption from accountability and trial.

 He added that this season has witnessed an increase in the imposition of closed military zones on agricultural lands.

He pointed out that 74 attacks have targeted olive-growing lands this season, including 29 incidents of cutting, breaking, and bulldozing olive-growing lands, resulting in the destruction of a total of 795 olive trees.

Sha'ban emphasized that the occupying state continues its attempts to disrupt the Palestinian way of life, which is historically linked to the land as a source of livelihood and a way of life.

He added that the occupying state systematically and deliberately targets the olive season, given the emotional and authentic relationship between the Palestinian citizen and the land.

He emphasized that everything the occupying state is doing now falls within the framework of undermining the strong relationship with the land, as part of declared and clear plans to control Palestinian geography and prevent citizens from accessing it.

Sha'ban concluded by saying that Palestinians, by insisting on exercising their right to access their lands, ensuring the success of the season, and defying the occupation's decisions, have thwarted the colonists' plans and restored respect for the resilience of the Palestinians, who defy the occupation and break its measures.

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‎Abu Mahyoub: Decades of the Jordan Valley Torture and Its Steadfastness‎

‎Jordan Valley 21-10-2025 Wafa-Israa Gorani‎

‎Eight decades have passed since 'Hajj Rafi' Fuqaha (Abu Mahyoub) was born in Khirbet El-'Himma in the northern Jordan Valley, where his parents and grandfathers were born before him, and where he lived through prolonged torments since the occupation of the Jordan Valley in 1967 and the beginning of the nucleus of illegal Israeli settlement expansion there, to what he describes today as the most dangerous stage for the region and its people.‎

‎Abu Mahyoub recalls his early years in the Jordan Valley, where he was born in Khirbet El-'Himma two decades before the occupation of the Jordan Valley, and describes those years of his life as the last years of prosperity and goodness that the region witnessed before it entered six decades ago in a spiral of colonial ambitions that dismembered it and turned the lives of its inhabitants into a hell that is increasing year by year.‎

‎Abu Mahyoub, who lives in Khirbet as an extension of his fathers and grandfathers who lived there for a long time, says that the last two years have witnessed a serious escalation in the colonizers' attacks on the village and its residents, as is the case in many neighboring communities, and Khirbet El-'Himma is only one of many communities in the Jordan Valley that are under the weight of the most dangerous displacement project led by the colonizers with the full support of the occupation authorities.‎

‎In his interview with Wafa, he pointed out that the colonists' incursions into the village have been escalating over the past two years, leading to daily and round-the-clock attacks for about two months. ‎

‎"It is a method that we know very well, the colonizers have been using lately, daily attacks day and night, in which they use all means of threats and intimidation against the targeted communities to force them to leave, and this has happened repeatedly with many communities that have been displaced in recent months," he says.‎

‎Over the past two months, there has been hardly a day without colonizers incursions into the ruins, often punctuated by attacking citizens inside their tents, intimidating them, threatening them with weapons and demanding that they leave.‎

‎Abu Mahyoub had a bitter share of these attacks, and one of the most difficult of them was the one he suffered late last month during the colonizers' attack on the ruin and their storming of citizens' homes, as a result of which he suffered severe bruises and bruises.‎

‎Abu Mahyoub bitterly recounts the details of the attack on that day when the settlers stormed the village while riding in their vehicles, attacked the citizens' homes and started attacking them, beating women and children and spraying them with pepper gas, adding: "We went out to confront them and prevent them from our homes and families, on that day we were exposed to a severe danger from which we survived by the grace of God."‎

‎After that attack, the colonizers left and returned a short time later accompanied by a force of the occupation police, which in turn threatened the citizens not to confront the colonizers. "Their guilt is always forgiven, and we receive threats of imprisonment if we confront any attack," Abu Mahyoub said.‎

‎In one session, Abu Mahyoub reveals a large amount of oppression that has been extending for decades of violations by the occupation and the colonizers aimed at deporting them and turning their communities into an extension of the colonies that spread in their depths like cancer cells, carrying with them endless continuous suffering.‎

‎According to previous reports by the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B'Tselem): "Israel prevents Palestinians from using about 85% of the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea and uses this area for its own needs. "It prevents them from staying on these lands, building on them, grazing their sheep and cultivating their agricultural land."‎

‎Abu Mahyoub and his seven sons live with their families in two modest mud and stone houses that are more than the oldest colony in the area, and next to them are a number of tents and tin houses that the family built after its expansion and expansion. Loose tents are all that a Palestinian can live in the Jordan Valley and is prevented from building any concrete building, while at the same time he builds colonies that extend over thousands of dunams that have been stolen from their owners.‎

‎Abu Mahyoub had built a cement house more than forty years ago, but the occupation authorities demolished it during the first intifada in the late 1980s and prevented him from building any new building.‎

‎Khirbet El-'Himma is inhabited today by about 20 families who make a living from livestock farming, which has been facing the threat of extinction in all communities and farms in the Jordan Valley for years, and is today targeted by pastoral colonialism, which takes upon itself the displacement of population and pastoral communities.‎

‎The suffering of the shepherds in Khirbet El-'Himma has increased in a way that is difficult to describe, according to the citizens, with the establishment of a colonial pastoral outpost in 2016 in the nearby area of Khirbet El-'Himma, and this outpost is less than a kilometer away from the community, and its colonists pose a danger to all the surrounding communities, and the suffering of the people of El-'Himma has worsened rapidly with the establishment of a new pastoral outpost during the second half of this year on the outskirts of the village of Kardala and at a distance of about two kilometers from the community, and since then the suffering has taken shape More dangerous and fierce.‎

‎These two outposts, like other pastoral outposts that have become widely spread in the Jordan Valley and the eastern foothills of the West Bank, are considered as starting points for the colonists' attacks on the shepherds, their pursuit in the pastures and preventing them from entering them, in addition to their control over the remaining sources and water springs.‎

‎As a result, the number of livestock has decreased significantly in Abu Mahyoub, like other residents of Khirbet El-'Himma and the Jordan Valley in general, after owning more than 500 cattle and sheep about ten years ago, today he owns only 150 heads, barely providing for their needs of food and drink, after the colonists seized all the water sources and springs used by the shepherds, the last of which was 'Ain El-Himma, which the colonizers recently began to seize, as well as their seizure of pastoral areas and their fencing. The seizure of the majority of agricultural land that citizens used to cultivate with rain-fed crops and exploit them to provide livestock fodder.‎

‎The statistics of the Commission for Resistance to the Wall and Settlements indicate that the construction of colonial pastoral outposts has witnessed a serious increase during the last decade, and the number of outposts established in the West Bank until the end of last year 2024 reached a total of 137 agricultural and pastoral outposts, preventing citizens from reaching a total of 489 thousand dunams.‎

‎Fiqha describes what the Jordan Valley is witnessing now as the most dangerous thing he has witnessed throughout his life, as now the issue of survival has become the most dangerous, especially since the area has become permissible for the colonists who take it upon themselves to displace its communities, and with the absolute support of the occupation authorities, which feed the militias of the colonists who carry out the attacks, and provide all facilities and implement huge projects in the field of expanding the colonial construction.‎

‎The facts on the ground undoubtedly suggest that the colonizers today are leading the most dangerous phase in the history of the Jordan Valley, as with their violations and aggressions, which have reached very dangerous stages, they have become the executive arm of the occupation authorities to implement major colonial plans that began decades ago and have accelerated recently to annex the Jordan Valley and displace its residents.‎

‎The latest statistics of the Commission for Resistance to the Wall and Settlements show that more than 30 pastoral and Bedouin communities have been displaced during the past two years from their places of residence, especially in the areas of the eastern foothills and the Jordan Valley, coinciding with the war of extermination launched by the occupation on the Gaza Strip, and this figure reflects a dangerous acceleration in displacement operations due to the escalation of violence by the colonists.‎

‎Abu Mahyoub is anxiously watching what happened to these communities, and fears that all the communities in the Jordan Valley will suffer the same fate, but he confirms that he has lived most of his life in bitter toil and torment from the colonizers and the occupation authorities, and he insists on clinging to his land, and his children and grandchildren also confirm that there is no other place where they can live.‎

‎A.F.‎ 

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Palestine Investment Fund completes largest bond issuance in Palestine’s history

RAMALLAH, October 21, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) announced the successful completion of the largest bond issuance in Palestine's history, valued at $150 million over a five-year term. The issuance involved a group of local and regional banks operating in the Palestinian market.

The fund described the issuance as a strategic milestone in strengthening its financial position and diversifying funding sources for its developmental and strategic projects. The move aligns with PIF's three-year strategy, which focuses on investment in vital sectors supporting sustainable economic growth, including industrial infrastructure, energy, technology, healthcare, trade, agriculture, and the promotion of national products through strategic industries.

Seven banks participated in the subscription, according to the fund's statement: Bank of Palestine, Arab Bank, Housing Bank for Trade and Finance, Cairo Amman Bank, Bank of Jerusalem, Palestine Investment Bank, and the Jordan Kuwait Bank.

The issuance was executed through Ithmar Invest, which acted as financial advisor and issuance manager, while Aziz, Fouad & Raja Shihadeh Law Office served as the fund's legal advisor, in coordination with the Palestinian Capital Market Authority at all stages. Arab Bank – Palestine was appointed as trustee, paying agent, and registrar for the issuance.

The subscription was fully covered, reflecting strong confidence in the fund from both the Palestinian and regional banking sectors, underscoring the fund's financial strength, management efficiency, and the sustainability of its investments.

M.N.

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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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