220 Palestinians Killed in Gaza and the West Bank, Including 58 Children and 35 Women, in addition to 6039 Injuries, in Attacks by the Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Forces, May 17, 2021

220 Palestinians Killed in Gaza and the West Bank, Including 58 Children and 35 Women, in addition to 6039 Injuries, in Attacks by the Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Forces

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 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 David, Solomon, 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 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.

The following news stories are just examples of the Israeli occupation apartheid regime violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

The Palestinian Health Ministry announced on Monday midday that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks targeting Gaza and the West Bank in the past 10 days have reached 220 killed and 6039 Injured.

In the Gaza Strip, Israeli air, sea, and ground bombardment have left 198 killed including 58 children, 35 women and at least 1300 injured.

Meanwhile in the West Bank Israeli occupation forces killed 21 Palestinians, including one child, and injured 3728 people. Among those injured were 220 children and 22 women, the Health Ministry added.

In Jerusalem, Israeli troops killed one Palestinian man, and injured 1011. 487 were moved to medical centers for treatment, 60 of them in critical conditions and 204 moderate.

The ministry report showed that in the West Bank and Jerusalem, 441 people were injured by live gunfire, 172 by rubber-coated steel bullets, and 93 suffered effects of tear gas inhalation.

More Details provided in The Palestinian Health Ministry report:

Ramallah: 113 were injured 14 of them are in serious condition, 41 in moderate condition, and 52 in minor conditions
Hebron: 199 were injured, including 19 in a serious condition, 124 in a moderate condition, and 55 in a minor condition.
Bethlehem: 25 were injured, including two serious injuries, 13 in a moderate condition, and 10 lightly
Nablus: 135 injuries, including 20 in a serious condition, 57 in a moderate condition, and 58 in a minor condition.
Jenin: 70 injuries, including 6 in a serious condition, 13 in a moderate condition, and 51 in a minor condition
Tulkarm: 75 injuries, including 6 serious, 22 moderate and 47 minor
Salfit: 20 injuries, including 4 in a serious condition, 10 in a moderate condition, and 6 in a minor one
Tubas: 12 injuries, including 2 serious, 4 moderate and 6 minor injuries
Qalqilya: 59 injuries, including 3 in serious condition, 7 in moderate condition, and 41 minor in light
Jericho: 22 injuries, including 2 serious, 5 moderate and 15 minor injuries

At least seven Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed late Monday morning in renewed air raids on different areas of the Gaza Strip.

According to medical sources, one child was killed before noon when the Israeli occupation apartheid regime army bombed an area near al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza.

Israeli airstrikes also claimed the lives of three civilians as they were aboard a car at the junction of Abu Hasira in the west of Gaza City and two others in Abasan al-Jadeeda town (east of Khan Yunis) and al-Wehda neighborhood in Gaza City.

Several others reportedly suffered injuries in those aerial attacks, but there was no immediate information about their number.

The new victims brings the death toll from Israel’s aggression against Gaza — which started on May 10 — to at least 200 Palestinians, including 59 children and 35 women.

More than 1,305 others have also been wounded so far amid the intensive Israeli attacks on Gaza.

The number of casualties is expected to rise as Israel has intensified its deadly attacks on the densely-populated coastal enclave.

Several areas of Gaza, mainly Gaza City, came under heavy aerial and artillery bombardment after midnight and throughout the dawn and morning hours of Monday.

The attacks also spread panic among families and caused widespread destruction to more civilian homes, vehicles, infrastructure, and public and commercial facilities.

In the city of Lod, a state of emergency has been extended due to civil unrest following demonstrations in support of Palestinian safety in Jerusalem and Gaza.

On Monday morning, Palestinian residents of Lod began a march through the center of the city to demand an end to the violence perpetrated against them by Israeli ultra-nationalist gangs and by the Israeli occupation apartheid regime police.

Groups of Palestinians (with Israeli citizenship) are currently marching in Lod City Center, Central Israel. Clashes with ISF expected pic.twitter.com/xOwlGYLGZA

There have been numerous reports of street violence and vandalism over the past week directed at the Palestinian community in Lod. The city used to be a majority Palestinian town, but is now 70 percent Jewish Israelis and 30 percent predominantly Christian and Muslim Palestinian with Israeli citizenship.

Palestinians with Israeli citizenship face discrimination in housing, judicial and educational sectors, as well as freedom of movement and travel, to name a few.

Shirin al-Hinawi, a 33-year-old Palestinian resident of Lod said her house was set on fire when extremists threw a Molotov cocktail into her yard on Wednesday night. She, like many Palestinians experiencing ethnically motivated violence, said she was saddened by the lack of action by the police to protect her family.

She told a reporter with the New York Times, “We ran out of the house without clothes on. It was burning,” she said. “We are not living in Gaza. I’m an Israeli citizen, and we didn’t do anything,” she said with tears in her eyes.” Her statement alludes to the collective punishment that has historically been perpetrated against Palestinians, most recently this week in the shelling of Gaza by Israel, killing 192 Palestinians, 58 of whom were children and 33 women, 1230 wounded, as of the time of this article.

Israel claims the carpet bombing of Gaza is retribution for 7 small rockets launched from Gaza towards Israeli cities on Monday May 10th, following days of protests for human rights and police brutality In Jerusalem and other nearby cities. 10 people have been killed in as a result of the rockets sent from Gaza.

Lod, previously known as Lydda before the 1948 massacre and expulsion of residents by Zionist militias, has in recent years been referred to as a “mixed” city, the verbiage pointing at the State of Israel’s intention for an ethno-religious majority.

During the last few days, far right Israeli nationalist groups have been traveling to areas where Palestinians are known to live and perpetrating violence against civilians. There is evidence of coordination between these hate groups and police, as per a statement made and recordings published by Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights.

In Lod, a history of discrimination between Israelis and minority Palestinians has created an atmosphere of fear. A photograph on Twitter shows Greek Orthodox youths protecting their church building as reports like the one above of ethnically motivated violence from roaming right wing gangs bring fear to the Palestinians living in the area. Earlier this week, gravestones at a Muslim cemetery were defaced and a synagogue was set on fire, reports Haaretz.

After the synagogue was burned in Lod, Muslim leaders have spoken out and condemned the arson, and called on the Muslim community to help rebuild.

In Acre, Uri Buri, a Jewish-owned fish restaurant, was set fire to and some Palestinian residents said they were scared to leave home, as reported by IndiaTimes. In Jaffa, Palestinians were told to stay inside, Haaretz News Agency reports.

Tensions were said to be rising in Kafr Kana after to the arrest this week of Shiekh Kamal al-Khatib. Nine Arab Israelis were injured in demonstrations following the arrest, reported by Haaretz News Agency and Andalou Agency.

On Sunday, May 16th, two Palestinian youth were shot and injured with live ammunition fired by Israeli extremists in the al-Ashqariyeh neighborhood near Shufa’at refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem, according to witnesses. The youth were transferred to hospital Reported by WAFA news agency.

In the village of Kafr Manda on May 14th, a town in the northern district, 9.9 km, or 16 miles from Nazareth, an Israeli settler stabbed and injured a 23 year old youth at the entrance to the village, reports EgyptToday News Agency.

Many foreign airlines have canceled their flights to and from Israel due to recent escalation, only a few airlines continue to operate, including Ethiopian airlines, Aegean Airlines and Fly Dubai, according to Haaretz News Agency in an article posted May 16th.

Some Israelis with dual citizenship expressed their desire to leave until things have quieted down and return when they are able.

At Ben Gurion airport on Wednesday, a French-Israeli couple waited to board a plane to Paris a day after their original flight had been cancelled.“[We spend] half the time here [in Israel] and half the time in Paris, so we are going back home,” said the female passenger, 72, who declined to share her name. (Report by The National News Agency).

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime army is carrying out an extensive bombing attack on various parts of the Gaza Strip, in more than a hundred airstrikes at the time of this report.

Media sources said the army bombed dozens of homes, buildings, structures, public facilities, and even roads across the coastal region.

They added that medical and rescue teams are facing numerous challenges in reaching the bombarded areas, especially after the army fired missiles at many roads, including those near hospitals.

Most of the bombings took place in the western area around the Shifa Medical Center, north of the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza city.

Among the confirmed targets of the Israeli strikes is the Ansar tower which includes many governmental facilities, in addition to the al-Maqousi residential building, various major and minor roads in Remal, Tal al-Hawa, Sheikh Ejleen, Rashid Street, and the western area of the Zeitoun neighborhood.

There are many, including many women and children; however, the intensity of the bombings and the destruction of roads is still hindering search and rescue operations.

The army also targeted electric grids near the Gaza Power Plant, causing serious damage and electricity blackout.

Palestinian political and activism groups called for a general strike and mass protests on Tuesday in protest of the ongoing Israeli occupation apartheid regime offensive that is targeting Palestinians since 10 days.

On Monday, groups started to rally for the move via social media platforms and by early afternoon political groups and unions have joined the call.

The statements also called for mass protests all over the West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza and Palestinian communities in Israel in order to stop the Israeli ongoing attack against Palestinians.

According the Palestinian Ministry of Health the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks targeting Gaza and the West Bank in the past 10 days have reached 220 killed and 6039 Injured.

Israeli Occupation Aapartheid Regime Illegal Settlers and Soldiers, Shoot Three Palestinians In Jerusalem

Israeli occupation apartheid regime settlers shot, Sunday, two young Palestinian men while walking on the main road between Shu’fat and Beit Hanina, in occupied Jerusalem, while the soldiers shot a young man in Shu’fat.

Medical sources said a colonist shot Rauf Barakat in the abdomen while he was walking to his friend’s home, before Palestinian medics rushed him to the al-Makassed a hospital in Jerusalem.

The Palestinians had to undergo surgery that lasted for three hours, due to injuries to his intestines and liver.

In addition, a colonist shot Tamer Edrees with a live round in his arm before the assailant, and other colonists, attacked him.

Tamer said that Israeli colonists were driving five cars when they invaded the area, and about fifteen of them stepped out and started threatening to shoot the Palestinians, before opening fire.

He added that the Palestinians called the Israeli police once the colonists invaded their area, however, it took the police more than 45 minutes to arrive.

Once the police arrived, the officers fired gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets at the Palestinians to force them away.

In addition, the colonists infiltrated Shu’fat and tried to shoot the Palestinians, before the locals intercepted them, just shortly before the army invaded it started firing gas bombs and concussion grenades at the Palestinians, wounding a young man, identified as Mahdi al-Ammouri with a gas bomb in the forehead.

On Sunday afternoon, the soldiers killed a Palestinian, identified as Shaher Abu Khadija, 41, at the entrance of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem.

It is worth mentioning that, on Friday, the colonists fired many live rounds at Palestinian homes, and assaulted many Palestinians, in Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah as well as other parts of Jerusalem.

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Soldiers Injure Dozens Of Palestinians In West Bank

Israeli occupation apartheid regime soldiers continued Sunday, the extensive invasions into several parts of the occupied West Bank, leading to protests that were met with live rounds, gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated steel bullets, causing dozens of injuries among the Palestinians, including children, especially when the army fire gas bombs into a home.

Mahmoud Sa’adi, the director of the Jenin office of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), said the soldiers chased and injured a young man during protests near the al-Jalama military roadblock, east of Jenin before he was rushed to a hospital.

He added that dozens of Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, in addition to various cuts and bruises.

The head of the Jenin office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), Montaser Sammour, said the soldiers also abducted Baha’ Mahmoud Abu al-Hasan, 20, Mohammad Nidal Houshiyya, 20, near the al-Jamal military roadblock.

In addition, undercover Israeli soldiers abducted a teenage boy, identified as Mahmoud Raed Ba’jawi, in Jenin city.

Furthermore, the soldiers invaded Bani Neim town, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and attacked protesters, before shooting a young man with e rubber-coated steel bullet in the head, causing moderate wounds before he was rushed to a hospital.

The army also invaded Ethna town, west of Hebron, attacked protesters before shooting a young man in the leg.

Dozens of Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation in the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, after the army invaded it while the Palestinians were marching in solidarity with the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem.

In Hebron city, especially in the Zawiya area in the center of the city, the soldiers shot a young man with a live round in the leg, and another Palestinian with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the chest, and caused many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.

The soldiers also invaded the Wadi al-Harya area, south of Hebron, and attacked protesters, causing many Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

The soldiers also fired a barrage of gas bombs at a three-story home, owned by members of the al-Husseini family, in the center of Hebron city, causing a fire, and injuring many family members, including four children.

Palestinian Rescue teams and locals rushed to the property and started evacuating the family members from their home.

The family said they were sitting in their home when the soldiers fired live rounds, and high-velocity gas bombs into the building. The family suffered the severe effects of tear gas inhalation and due to smoke from the resulting fire, in addition to anxiety attacks among the children.

In Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, the soldiers fired gas bombs, concussion grenades, and live rounds at Palestinians, who protested the invasion, causing many injuries.

In addition, the soldiers attacked dozens of Palestinians and injured at least two, in Beit Hanina and Shu’fat, north of occupied Jerusalem. One of the wounded was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the abdomen, and the other Palestinian was shot with a concussion grenade in the head.

The army attacked the Palestinians in Beit Hanina and Shu’fat after they intercepted and deterred an attack by Israeli colonialist settlers into their communities. The soldiers fired many rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades. Undercover soldiers also infiltrated into Beit Hanina and abducted a young man.

In Silwan town in Jerusalem, the soldiers fired a barrage of gas bombs, causing fire, and injuring several Palestinians.

In Tulkarem, in northern West Bank, the soldiers invaded Ramin town, east of the city, and fired a barrage of gas bombs and concussion grenades at protesters, and homes.

The invasion took place while dozens of fanatic Israeli colonialist settlers gathered near the entrance of the town, in preparation for invading it.

Israeli colonists also hurled stones at Palestinian cars and many residents, in Wadi Fukin village, west of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, causing property damage.

The soldiers also invaded Husan village, west of Bethlehem, leading to protests in the center of the town, the eastern area, and around the local mosque. The army fired many gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated steel bullets, causing several injuries.

In Ramallah, in central West Bank, the soldiers invaded Nabi Saleh village, northwest of the city, and shot a young man with a live round in the abdomen, causing a moderate injury.

37 Palestinians killed by Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Airstrikes in Gaza, Including 8 children

Palestinian rescue services continued their efforts on Sunday afternoon to rescue more civilians from the rubble of the homes struck by Israeli occupation apartheid regime missiles. Israeli airstrikes on al-Wihda Street in the al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City started before dawn on Sunday and continued until the early hours of the morning.

According to the Health Ministry, most of the bodies pulled out of the rubble are children, bringing the death toll to 37, among them 8 children and 13 women. 50 more people were injured, among these were many women and children.

Medical sources said that ambulance and civil defense teams are carrying out searches under the rubble until the time of this report and numbers may increase as search and rescue operations continue.

Update May 16, 2021, @11:40 p.m.: A Palestinian woman, identified as Raja’ Sobhi Abu al-Auf, her daughters, Dima Rami Abu al-Auf, 16, and Mira, and her sons Amir and Yazan, were killed when the army fired missiles into Abu al-Auf residential tower in the al-Wihda Street in Gaza city.