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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On Day 445 of US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 3 Massacres, 21 Palestinians Killed, 51 Injured, in the Past 24 Hours, with a Death Toll of  45,338 and 107,764 Injuries

by December 24, 2024

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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 Gaza Strip, based on the reliable data reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza:

By December 24, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 55,338+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (45,338), those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 10,000+). 

By December 24, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 107,764.

By December 24, 2024, 830Palestinians who were killed, 6,600 who were injured, and 10,652*, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023, including 310 women and 640 children (Some of the detainees have been released).

* The number of the Palestinians detainees who remain in the Israeli occupation prisons has been updated today (December 5, 2024), by Wafa, to be 10,300.

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21 Palestinians were killed, 51 were injured, mostly children and women, by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on the Gaza Strip, on December 24, 2024.	The Palestinian death toll in Gaza Strip rose to 45,338 and injuries to 107,764, with one child is killed every hour, by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment, by December 24, 2024.
The firefighter, Najeeb Sokkar, and his only child, Mu'hammed, were killed by an Israeli genocidal air strike on the civil defense headquarters, in Gaza City, on December 24, 2024.	A Palestinian boy inspects the rubble of a destroyed house and damaged cars following the Israeli airstrikes on Dair El-Bala'h, in central Gaza Strip, on December 22, 2024.
Israeli occupation forces carried out demolition and bulldozing operations in the towns of 'Hizma and Bait 'Haneena, in Al-Quds, Jerusalem, file, December 24, 2024.	Five Palestinian employees guarding and escorting aid trucks were martyred when an Israeli genocidal strike targeted them, in Dair El-Bala'h City, in central Gaza,  December 24, 2024.
Scenes of the daily life of the Palestinian population, who have been forced to live in tents after the Israeli mass destruction of their homes in the Gaza Strip, December 24, 2024.	Bait La'hm (Bethlehem) on the eve of Christmas, according to Western churches, dominated by isolation, due to the Israeli occupation regime forces restrictions, December 24, 2024.
Grieving the death of Palestinian martyrs in Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital in Dair El-Bala'h, who were killed by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on the central Gaza Strip, December 24, 2024.	Scenes of the Israeli occupation forces invasion of Palestinian city of Toulkarm, in the West Bank, December 24, 2024.

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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

"مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَٰلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَىٰ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا"  (الْمَائِدَةُ ، 5: 32).

"وَمَنْ يَقْتُلْ مُؤْمِنًا مُّتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَاؤُهُ جَهَنَّمُ خَالِدًا فِيهَا وَغَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَعَنَهُ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُ عَذَابًا عَظِيمًا" (النِّسَاءُ ، 4: 93).

"إِنْ أَحْسَنتُمْ أَحْسَنتُمْ لِأَنفُسِكُمْ ۖ وَإِنْ أَسَأْتُمْ فَلَهَا ۚ " (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" (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 across Gaza Strip surges to 45,338, over 107,764 injured

GAZA, December, 23, 2024 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation forces committed three massacres against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least 21 Palestinians and the injury of 51 others, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7, 2023 has risen to 45,338 reported fatalities, with an additional 107,764 individuals sustaining injuries, the majority of the victims are women and children, medical sources said.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, emergency services are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn enclave, as the Israeli occupation forces continue to obstruct the movement of ambulance and civil defense crews.

The Israeli genocidal onslaught continues unabated despite calls from the United Nations Security Council for an immediate ceasefire and directives from the International Court of Justice urging measures to prevent genocide and alleviate the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Y.S.

Note: These figures only include the dead and injured Palestinians who have  been accounted for by the Palestinian hospitals. The victims who are not carried to the hospitals are not accounted for. 

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Israeli genocidal airstrike on a fire station in Gaza kills a civil defense worker and his child

Tuesday 24-December-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Gaza civil defense service said that one of its members was martyred along with his child, and another one was injured in an Israeli genocidal airstrike on its headquarters in the central area of Gaza City on Tuesday afternoon.

The Israeli genocidal air strike on the civil defense headquarters, in Gaza City, claimed the life of the firefighter, Najeeb Sokkar, and his only child, Mu'hammed. Najeeb was preparing food for his son when the strike happened.

Another firefighter was seriously injured in the same strike.

In last September, the Israeli occupation army carried out an aerial attack on the same fire station, injuring four civil defense workers.

A recent similar attack on another civil defense center in an-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed four employees.

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Gaza: Five Palestinian aid guards killed by an Israeli genocidal airstrike

Tuesday 24-December-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Five Palestinian employees guarding and escorting aid trucks were martyred on Monday evening when an Israeli genocidal strike targeted them in Dair El-Bala'h City in central Gaza.

According to local and media sources, an Israeli drone bombed a car carrying workers escorting aid trucks near Al-'Awda factory in Sala'huddeen street, east of Dair El-Bala'h, killing five of them and injuring others in the area.

This was the second massacre the Israeli occupation army committed against humanitarian aid guards in Gaza in less than 24 hours.

On Sunday evening, an Israeli airstrike killed five aid workers in Al-Mawasi area, west of Rafa'h in southern Gaza. About 30 civilians waiting for aid delivery also suffered injuries in the same attack.

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Four civilians killed and others injured in Israeli airstrike in Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza

GAZA, December, 24, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Four civilians were killed and others were injured on Tuesday when the occupation warplanes bombed a building in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City.

In a non-final tally, the number of slain Palestinians since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7 has risen to about 45,338 civilians, and 107,764 injured, the majority of whom are women and children.

Y.S.

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Lazzarini: One child gets killed every hour in Gaza

Monday 23-December-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said that one Palestinian child is killed every hour in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing Israeli genocide.

In an X post, Lazzarini said that “killing children cannot be justified. These are not numbers. These are lives cut short.”

“Those who survive are scarred physically and emotionally. Deprived of learning, boys and girls in Gaza sift through the rubble,” he added.

“The clock is ticking for these children. They are losing their lives, their futures and mostly their hope,” he further said.

Some 96 percent of children in Gaza believe death is imminent, while 49 percent expressed a wish to die due to the relentless war, a new report by the Community Training Center for Crisis Management (CTCCM), supported by War Child Alliance, has revealed.

The study, based on interviews with over 500 Palestinian children and caregivers, highlights the devastating psychological impact of Israel’s ongoing military onslaught on Gaza’s children. It found that 92 percent of the children surveyed struggle to accept their reality. Many reported feelings of severe fear, aggression, withdrawal and pervasive hopelessness.

Helen Pattinson, CEO of War Child UK, described Gaza as “one of the most horrifying places in the world to be a child.” She called for immediate international action, urging a ceasefire as a critical first step.

“The international community must act now before the child mental health catastrophe we are witnessing embeds itself into multi-generational trauma, the consequences of which the region will be dealing with for decades to come. A ceasefire must be the immediate first step to allow War Child and other agencies to effectively respond to the intense psychological damage children are experiencing,” she warned.

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IOFs force the wounded and patients to evacuate the Indonesian Hospital, in Northern Gaza

Tuesday 24-December-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) forced the wounded and patients to evacuate the Indonesian Hospital in Bait Lahya town, in northern Gaza Strip, at dawn Tuesday.

Local sources reported that the IOF encircled the hospital and forced the wounded and patients to evacuate, amid artillery shelling targeting the hospital’s vicinity along with other areas of Bait Lahya and the Bait Lahya Project.

The sources explained that the wounded and patients were forced to leave on foot towards Gaza City.

The Ministry of Health said that the Israeli army is intensifying its targeting of the health infrastructure in the northern Gaza Strip over the past hours, by besieging and directly targeting the Indonesian Hospital, Kamal 'Udwan Hospital, and Al-'Awda Hospital, in a move aimed at putting them out of service.

The ministry stressed that the Israeli army is forcing the wounded and sick to evacuate the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, while it was bombing, around the clock without stopping, all departments of Kamal 'Udwan Hospital and its surroundings, with shrapnel scattered inside the hospital’s yards, causing terrifying sounds and serious damage.

It appealed to international and UN institutions and all concerned parties to urgently intervene to protect the health system in the Gaza Strip in the face of this fierce attack.

Israeli artillery also targeted the third floor of Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, causing serious damage inside it, while Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike on the Tel Al-Za'tar area, in Jabalya refugee camp.

For the 81st consecutive day, northern Gaza has been under Israeli siege and starvation amidst violent aerial and artillery bombardment amidst complete isolation from Gaza.

For the 61st day, the IOFs have been disrupting civil defense’s work in the northern Gaza Strip due to the ongoing Israeli aggression, leaving thousands of citizens there with no access to humanitarian and medical aid.

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

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Palestinian teen martyred by Israeli sniper fire in Toulkarm

Tuesday 24-December-2024

Toulkarm, (PIC)

A Palestinian teenager was martyred at dawn Tuesday when an Israeli sniper opened fire at him in Toulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

Local sources said that a teenager called Fat'hi Salim bled to death after an Israeli sniper opened fire at him in Al-Hadayda neighborhood of the refugee camp.

They added that the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) prevented an ambulance crew from entering the neighborhood to provide first aid for the teenager and attacked it with live ammunition.

Meanwhile, the IOFs laid siege to the refugee camp, intensified its presence in its streets, and deployed several snipers on rooftops of some tall buildings around it, who opened fire at any moving object or person.

IOFs bulldozers also embarked on destroying roads, walls, cars, stores and different structures, and blocked the camp’s main entrance with mounds of dirt and rocks.

The IOFs destruction of roads and infrastructure reportedly caused damage to the camp’s electricity grid and its internet and telecommunication services.

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in Toulkarm said that a group of its fighters detonated a number of explosive devices at IOFs vehicles and one bulldozer in the camp, affirming that the IOFs sustained losses.

Al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad in Toulkarm also showered the Israeli occupation forces in the refugee camp with bullets and detonated some explosive devices at them and their vehicles.

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An elderly Palestinian woman killed, others injured by an Israeli drone air strike on the Toulkarm refugee camp

Toulkarm, December, 24, 2024 (WAFA) – 

An elderly Palestinian woman was killed and three others were injured when an Israeli drone bombed a site in Tulkarm refugee camp.

Security sources reported that an Israeli drone bombed a gathering of citizens in the Al-'Hamam neighborhood in the Tulkarm refugee camp, killing an elderly woman and the serious injury of a young man, 28. 

They were all transferred to the Martyr Thabit Thabit Hospital.

Y.S.

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Three Palestinianss injured, one kidnapped, in Israeli raid in Nablus

NABLUS, December 24, 2024 (WAFA) -

Three Palestinians were injured and a fourth was detained after the Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Nablus and Balata camp to the east at dawn on Tuesday.

The Red Crescent said that its crews dealt with two injuries after storming Balata camp, and provided first aid to a young man who was injured by shrapnel from live bullets, and to a woman aged 49, who was injured as a result of being beaten, before they were transferred to the hospital, while a third was reported to have been injured by live bullets and was later detained by the occupation forces as the ambulance crews were prevented from reaching him.

Security and local sources reported that an occupation army force stormed the city of Nablus and Balata camp to the east, through the Awarta checkpoint, amidst gunfire and explosions.

They added that the occupation forces surrounded a house in Al-Tirawi neighborhood inside the camp, and detained a youth and spread out in several neighborhoods inside the camp.

The Director of Education at UNRWA announced that based on the situation in Balata and Toulkarm refugee camps, and in order to guarantee the safety and lives of students and teaching staff, school will be postponed until 8:30 and the situation will be monitored on the ground.

In addition, the sources indicated that the occupation forces stormed the western area of ​​Nablus city from the Dair Sharaf and Al-Murabba' checkpoints, raided a house in Al-Makhfiyya neighborhood, and raided a residential building near Al-Ain camp, and sounds of confrontations were heard in the area.

No detentions were reported, however.

K.T.

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Israeli occupation forces kidnap 15 Palestinians in the West Bank

RAMALLAH, December 24, 2024 (WAFA) —

 Israeli occupation forces kidnapped at least 15 Palestinians, including a wounded person, during a series of raids across the West Bank between Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

According to the Palestinian Prisoners' Society and the Palestinian Authority Commission for Prisoners' Affairs, the kidnappings took place in the governorates of Nablus, Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Toubas, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), Salfeet and Ramallah, amid widespread incursions and heavy-handed tactics by Israeli occupation soldiers.

They said that among the detainees were a wounded person who was shot by Israeli forces during a military raid in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus. The nature of his injury remains unknown.

The raids were accompanied by extensive searches, house demolitions, and the detention of several individuals without charge.

K.T.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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IOFs demolish two homes and a commercial facility in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Tuesday 24-December-2024

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) carried out on Tuesday demolition and bulldozing operations in the towns of 'Hizma and Bait 'Haneena in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

Local sources reported that Israeli bulldozers demolished this morning the house of the Maqdisi (Jerusalemite), Faris Sala'huddeen, which stretches over an area estimated at about 200 square meters, and another under-construction house, belonging to the Jerusalemite citizen Habis Ali.

The IOFs bulldozed many olive trees and stone chains during their storming of 'Hizma, the sources added.

Israeli bulldozers demolished also on Tuesday a commercial facility in the town of Bait 'Haneena, north of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

Local sources reported that IOF accompanied by a bulldozer stormed Bait 'Haneena in the morning and began demolishing a commercial store belonging to the citizen Mu'hammed Al-'Hal'houli, under the pretext of unlicensed construction.

The sources elaborated that Israeli troops closed the road leading to the demolished commercial store and prevented citizens from access to the area.

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Israeli occupation forces raze vast areas of Palestinian land, uproot olive trees near Saleet

SALFIT, December, 24, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation regime army bulldozers continued to raze vast areas of land in the village of 'Haris, west of Saleet, and uprooted dozens of olive trees.

Palestinian citizen A'hmed Dawood said that the occupation bulldozers have been razing since the morning hours, for more than two dunums in the Dthahr area on the western side of the village, for the benefit of the Israeli company Mekorot, which extends water lines to the illegal Israeli settlement outpost of Barkan, which is built on citizens' lands.

Dawood added that the occupation bulldozers caused the destruction of the land and uprooted dozens of olive trees, estimated to be between 10-12 years old, noting that the occupation army expelled him while he was heading to the land, and prevented him from being there, indicating that the lands in that area are surrounded by the industrial colonies of Netafim and Barakata.

Y.S.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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UN Relief Chief declares Gaza the most dangerous place for aid delivery

NEW YORK, December 23, 2024 (WAFA) -

Tom Fletcher, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, has raised alarm over the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, calling it the most dangerous region for aid delivery.

“We deal with tough places to deliver humanitarian support. But Gaza is currently the most dangerous, in a year when more humanitarians have been killed than any on record.”

Fletcher warned that North Gaza has been under a near-total siege for more than two months, raising the specter of famine. 

After concluding a trip to the Middle East, where he met with humanitarian teams in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, he said: “In January 2024, the International Court of Justice issued the first set of provisional orders, in the case on the application of the Genocide Convention in the Gaza Strip.”

“Less than a year later, the sustained intensity of violence means that there is nowhere that civilians in Gaza are safe. Schools, hospitals and civilian infrastructure have been reduced to rubble,” he added.

“South Gaza is extremely overcrowded, creating horrific living conditions and even greater humanitarian needs as winter sets in. Across Gaza, Israeli airstrikes on densely populated areas continue, including on areas where Israeli forces have ordered people to move, causing destruction, displacement and death.”

"As a result, despite the massive humanitarian needs, it has become almost impossible to deliver even a fraction of the aid that is so urgently required. The Israeli authorities continue to deny us meaningful access – over 100 requests to access North Gaza denied since 6 October," he noted.

“Meanwhile, in the West Bank, the situation continues to deteriorate, and the death toll is the highest we have recorded,” maintained the UN relief chief.

“In the past year, Israeli military operations resulted in the destruction of essential infrastructure such as roads and water networks, especially in refugee camps from which families have been displaced. Rising settler violence and home demolitions have resulted in displacement and growing needs. Movement restrictions are impeding people’s livelihoods and access to essential services – especially healthcare.”

He called on the international community to defend international humanitarian law, demand the protection of all civilians, release all hostages, defend UNRWA’s vital work and break the cycle of violence.

He further paid tribute to the humanitarians working to save the lives of civilians in these conditions.

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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