Editorial Note: The following news reports are summaries from original sources. They may also include corrections of Arabic names and political terminology. Comments are in parentheses.

On Day 269 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 2 Massacres, 23 Palestinians Killed, 91 Injured, with a Death Toll of  37,900 and 87,060 Injuries

July 1, 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:

By July 1, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 44,900+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (37,900), those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on April 18, 2024: 7,000+). 

By July 1, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 87,060.

By July 1, 2024, 555 Palestinians who were killed, 5,222 who were injured, and 9,465, 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).

By May 6, 2024, the Palestinian death toll in Gaza included 7,797+ children and 4,959 women (52% of the total).

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The Palestinian Government Media Office death toll data (which includes media reports and family member reporting online):

By May 21, 2024, the Palestinian death toll in Gaza included 15,000+ children (43%).

By March 4, 2024, the death toll also included 13,420+ children, 8,900+ women (more than 72.8% of the accounted for victims), 364 doctors and medical staff, 132 journalists, and 48 civil defense workers. 

By May 25, 2024, the Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation forces killed 493 health personnel and kidnapped 310 others of them.

By January 17, 2024, about 661 detainees from Gaza are currently languishing in Israeli prisons as “illegitimate combatants” (the Israeli term for Palestinian fighters) in addition to more than 50 women from Gaza, who are detained in the Damon prison, noting that 8 women of whom have been recently released.

By March 4, 2024, the Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation forces killed 493 health personnel and kidnapped 310 others of them (May 25, 2024), destroyed 155 health institutions, 32 hospitals, 53 health centers, 126 ambulances, displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, and destroyed 360,000 housing units, about and 60% of the buildings and infrastructure in Gaza Strip.

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A half naked hand-cuffed Palestinian civilians used as a human shield by Israeli occupation soldiers in Gaza city, which is a heinous war crime and a violation of the international law, July 1, 2024	An injured Palestinian mother and her injured children, receiving treatment, following Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip, July 1, 2024
After his release, Al-Shifa hospital director, Doctor Mu'hammed Abu Salmiya, says the situation in Israeli prisons is tragic, July 1, 2024	Palestinian prisoners from Gaza who were released from Israeli occupation prions showed signs of emaciation, physical and psychological exhaustion, and torture, July 1, 2024
One civilian today was killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the town of Khuza’a, east of the city of Khan Younus, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 1, 2024	Israeli occupation forces continued their onslaught against Nour Shams refugee camp, Toulkarm, causing extensive destruction to its infrastructure and properties, July 1, 2024
Grieving the death of family members who were massacred by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment in Khan Younus, July 1, 2024	Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian man and injured five others during their raid on Nour Shams refugee camp, in Toulkarm, in the West Bank, July 1, 2024.

 

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.

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

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


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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 verb "abduct" than the verb "detain," 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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UNRWA: Humanitarian response is impossible in Gaza with Israel’s restrictions on aid

RAMALLAH, Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) – 

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) today said that Israel's severe restrictions on the arrival of aid to the Gaza Strip make providing a humanitarian response extremely difficult, if not impossible."

This came according to spokesperson for UNRWA, Louise Wateridge, in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) about restricting the entry of aid into the Strip, and the UN agency published its content on its account on X.

Wateridge added that the restrictions imposed by the Israeli authorities on the arrival of aid to Gaza make providing a humanitarian response “extremely difficult, if not impossible.”

“We need predictable access to be able to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza,” she stressed.

Describing the suffering of relief teams in Gaza, Wateridge said, “We are struggling to obtain the approval of the Israeli authorities to enter and deliver aid, with the aim of ensuring the safety of our teams and the safety of the aid at the same time.”

She affirmed, “We have doctors and nurses working in Gaza, but what is the benefit of their presence when medicine is not available due to the strict Israeli restrictions?”

Y.S.

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Al-Rishiq calls for holding Israeli leaders accountable for using Palestinian civilians as human shields in Gaza

Monday 1-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Member of the 'Hamas political bureau 'Izzat Al-Rishiq has called for holding the Israeli occupation government accountable for using Palestinian detainees as human shields in the Gaza Strip and bringing its leaders to trial.

“The Nazi occupation army’s use of Palestinian detainees as human shields during its terrorist operations in the Gaza Strip is a full-fledged war crime, a flagrant violation of all rules of war and the prisoners’ rights, and a disregard for all international conventions, laws and agreements,” Al-Rishiq said in a statement on Monday, commenting on a video aired by Al Jazeera satellite channel.

Al-Rishiq affirmed that the crime of human shields is part of many crimes and violations the Palestinian detainees are exposed to by Israeli forces, “including all forms of brutal revenge such as starvation, humiliation, abuse, deliberate medical neglect, deprivation of food and medicine, bone breaking, slow killing and field executions.”

The Hamas official urged the international community to condemn this crime and called on the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court to add the use of Palestinians as human shields to Israel’s war crimes files.

Al Jazeera showed on its channels on Sunday exclusive footage of Palestinian prisoners being used as human shields by the Israeli occupation army in Gaza.

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Gaza: Hospitals to stop providing vital services in two days

Monday 1-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Gaza’s remaining hospitals, health centers and oxygen stations will stop working within 48 hours as the fuel needed to operate generators has almost run out, the health ministry warned in a statement on Sunday.

“This situation was expected … because the occupation has restricted the entry of fuel shipments as well as basic supplies such as medicine and food as part of its tight siege on the Strip,” the health ministry said.

The ministry said that the fuel supplies started to run out despite the harsh measures that had been taken to reduce fuel consumption.

The ministry appealed to all UN and international humanitarian organizations to intervene quickly to provide the hospitals and health centers in Gaza with their fuel needs as well as power generators and spare parts for maintenance.

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After his release, Al-Shifa hospital director, Doctor Mu'hammed Abu Salmiya, says the situation in Israeli prisons is tragic

Monday 1-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

In his first statement after his release from Israeli jails on Monday morning, the director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Dr. Mu'hammed Abu Salmiya, affirmed that the situation in the Israeli prisons is tragic.

Abu Salmiya told reporters that “the prison situation is tragic and very difficult, which requires decisive measures from the resistance and the Arab peoples to free the prisoners.”

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) released on Monday 50 detainees from the Gaza Strip, including Abu Salmiya, who was kidnapped after his forced evacuation from Al-Shifa Medical Complex on November 23, 2023.

Abu Salmiya stressed that the prisoners are unprecedently going through too difficult conditions amid shortage of food and drink supplies and being subjected to insults, in a situation they have not ever witnessed since the Nakba in 1948.

“The Israeli occupation forces have been targeting everyone and arresting everyone without exception. There are medical personnel who have been martyred under torture inside the Israeli prisons,” he added.

Abu Salmiya stressed that “the IOF exposed its criminality by targeting medical personnel, journalists, women and men and destroying everything in the Gaza Strip.”

“However, we will rebuild the Gaza Strip from scratch, and we will restore Al-Shifa Medical Complex from which we were arrested,” he vowed. 

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 'Hamas: The conditions of Gazan released prisoners expose Israel’s criminality

Monday 1-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement said the conditions in which the Gazan prisoners were released from Israeli occupation prions on Monday showing signs of emaciation, physical and psychological exhaustion, as well as obvious signs of torture, expose the criminal behavior of the fascist Israeli occupation government, which defies all humanitarian laws by committing war crimes daily in Gaza.

In a statement, Hamas referred to the testimony of the director of al-Shifa Medical Complex, Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, who was released earlier today, about the tragic conditions that Gazan prisoners have been experiencing inside Israeli prisons and detention centers, including doctors, the elderly, the sick, and the wounded.

Abu Salmiya said that they have been exposed to the most horrific practices and crimes, including torture, starvation, and insults.

The Movement stressed in a press statement on Monday that the ongoing Israeli crimes against defenseless civilians in the Gaza Strip have exceeded all limits, and what prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers are exposed to is carried out based on Israeli occupation government’s orders as part of its fascist policy to target and exterminate the Palestinian people with full support of the US administration, which is complicit in the Israeli flagrant violations of the international laws.

The Movement called on the international community, the United Nations, and the UN institutions to “work immediately to stop this massacre carried out by the Nazi occupation government,” stressing the necessity of “protecting prisoners and civilians in areas of conflict.”

'Hamas also called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to take action and reveal the fate of thousands of Palestinian detainees who have been kidnapped by the Israeli occupation army from the Gaza Strip and forcibly disappeared in inhumane conditions.

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

On July 1, 2024, Dr. Ashraf Al-Qidra, the Spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip resulted in 2 massacres, which resulted in the killing of 23 Palestinian civilians, and the injury of 91 others, in the past 24 hours. This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 37,900 and the injuries to 87,060, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.   

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Israeli occupation forces commit two massacres in Gaza over the past 24 hours

GAZA, Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) –  

Israeli occupation forces committed two massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at least 23 Palestinians and the injury of 91 others, according to medical sources.

Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has risen to 37,900 reported fatalities, with an additional 87,060 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

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

Y.S

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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters day 269

Monday 1-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 269 on Monday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different areas and massacre more civilians.

Reporters for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that the Israeli occupation army continued to bomb homes and attack citizens in different areas of Gaza during the past 24 hours.

According to media sources, a girl child was martyred when an Israeli warplane bombed a car in the east of Khan Younus.

Another citizen was killed and others were injured following an Israeli artillery attack on the northern area of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in central Gaza.

An unknown number of casualties, including martyrs, were reported in the afternoon when a warplane bombed a house belonging to the family of Abu Rouk in Khuza’a.

A man and his wife were also killed when the Israeli army targeted them near Al-Shaikh Radhwan pool in Gaza City.

More casualties were reported in other areas of Gaza following Israeli aerial, artillery and shooting attacks last night and today. 

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Palestinian killed by Israeli bombing central Gaza

GAZA, Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) – 

A Palestinian was Monday evening killed in an Israeli occupation bombing of Al-Buraij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

Local sources said that occupation artillery targeted citizens' homes east of Al-Buraij refugee camp, killing one and injuring others.

The occupation artillery also bombed the vicinity of Al-Sanafour Junction in Al-Tuffa'h neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

The Israeli occupation forces' aggression against the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, has so far killed more than 37,900 citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, and injured more than 87,060 others, in an infinite toll, as the toll is still incomplete because thousands of victims remain under the rubble.

K.T.

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One civilian killed and others injured in an Israeli reconnaissance plane east of Khan Younus

GAZA, Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) – 

One civilian was killed and several others were injured as an Israeli reconnaissance plane bombed a civilian vehicle east of the city of Khan Younus.

Local sources reported that a reconnaissance plane bombed the vehicle in the center of the town of Bani Suhaila, resulting in the killing of one civilian and the wounding of several others.

Y.S.

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One civilian killed and others injured in Israeli shelling of Khuza’a town, east of Khan Younus

GAZA, Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) – 

One civilian today was killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the town of Khuza’a, east of the city of Khan Younus, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Local sources reported that occupation artillery bombed the town of Khuza’a, killing one civilian and wounding several others.

Simultaneously, the occupation warplanes targeted Al-Mansoura Street in Al-Shuja'iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, and northwest of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The number of civilians killed since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, on October 7, 2023, has reached more than 37,877, mostly women and children. Over 86,969 others have been injured.

Thousands of victims remain missing; either buried under the rubble or scattered on the roads, as rescue teams face tremendous difficulties in reaching them.

Y.S. 

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

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Two Palestinians killed, others injured by IOFs gunfire in Toulkarm

Monday 1-July-2024

TOULKAREM, (PIC)

A Palestinian teenager and a woman were martyred on Monday morning after the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) stormed Toulkarm City and its refugee camp (Nur Shams), amid intensive gunfire.

A medical source at the Thabit Thabit Hospital identified the martyrs as 15-year-old Mu'hammed Sir'han and 47-year-old Nisreen Damiri.

Four other citizens reportedly suffered bullet injured during the IOFs raid in Toulkarm and Nour Shams refugee camp.

According to local sources, the IOFs wreaked havoc on public and private property, including roads, water pipelines and cars, during seven hours of brutal aggression in Toulkarm and the camp.

The sources added that Israeli occupation forces blew up a house in the central area of the camp belonging to brothers Mu'hammed and Mahmoud Al-Zind, which led to a blaze inside it and damaged nearby houses.

The IOFs stormed Toulkarm and its refugee camp at dawn, encircled them with forces, prevented the local residents from entering or leaving them and deployed snipers at windows of some tall buildings and on rooftops.

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The Israeli occupation army continues its large-scale aggression against Nour Shams

TULKARM, Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Israeli occupation forces continued today their onslaught against Nour Shams refugee camp, east of the city of Toulkarm, causing extensive destruction to its infrastructure and residents’ properties.

Local sources said that the occupation forces accompanied by military tanks and vehicles broke into the camp and imposed a strict siege on it, preventing people from leaving or entering the camp. 

 The forces further deployed their snipers on the roofs of several buildings and surrounding the camp.

The occupation bulldozers have been bulldozing and destroying the camp's infrastructure since 4:00 am local time. They also deliberately vandalized public and private property along Nablus Street, and destroyed the main water line feeding the camp.

At dawn today, the occupation forces stormed the city of Toulkarm, accompanied by four military bulldozers from its western axis, and roamed its main streets, specifically Al-'Alimi, Al-Sikka, and Nablus Streets, amid intense flights of reconnaissance  warplanes.

Meanwhile, the occupation bulldozers also destroyed the vicinity of the al-Younis roundabout in the northern neighborhood of the city and the vicinity of the Aktaba roundabout east of Toulkarm.

Earlier yesterday, an Israeli drone bombed a house in al-Manshiya neighborhood in Nour Shams camp, killing Saeed the 24- year- old Izzat Jaber and wounding five others, including two in serious condition.

With the killing of Jabir, the number of Palestinians who were killed by Israeli forces in Toulkarm since the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip began on October 7, 2023 now rises to 114.

Y.S.

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Israeli occupation forces detain 16 Palestinians from the West Bank

RAMALLAH, Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Israeli occupation forces detained at least 16 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, including a female student at Beer Zait University, children, and former prisoners, in addition to five civilians from Gaza residing in the West Bank, according to the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

In a joint statement, the two organizations said that the detention operations were concentrated in Ramallah and Al-Beerih governorates, while the others took place in Hebron, Nablus, and Tubas governorates.

They clarified that this figure includes those detained from their homes, at military checkpoints, those who surrendered under pressure, and those taken as hostages.

Israeli occupation forces detained more than 9,465 Palestinians from the West Bank, including Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), since the start of the ongoing Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

Israeli occupation forces continue their campaign of arrests through raids, extensive harassment, brutal beatings, threats against detainees and their families, alongside widespread acts of sabotage and destruction of civilian homes, the statement added.

Y.S.

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At least 9,450 Palestinians detained in West Bank since Oct. 7

Monday 1-July-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

At least 20 more Palestinians were detained by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in violent raids in the West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups on Sunday.

The new arrests brought the number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank since Oct. 7, to 9,450, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement.

The new arrests were carried out in the cities of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Toulkarm, Nablus, and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), the Commission added.

“The detainees were subjected to abuse, severe beatings, and threats against their families, in addition to widespread acts of sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes,” the statement said.

Separately, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs accused Israel of waging a “war of starvation” against women prisoners in its custody.

Women detainees endure “hunger strikes, food deprivation, and lack of medical treatment, alongside physical and psychological abuse during strip searches, and ongoing threats against their families,” it said.

According to the commission, there are currently 78 female prisoners in Israeli custody, with 71 held in the Damon Prison, including three from the Gaza Strip.

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Palestinian youth injured near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) –

A Palestinian youth was Monday evening shot during confrontations with Israeli occupation forces in the village of 'Arora, northwest of Ramallah.

Security sources told WAFA that a young man was injured by live bullets in the foot during the confrontations that broke out after Israeli forces stormed the village of 'Aroura, during which soldiers fired live bullets, stun grenades, and poison gas towards citizens.

The same sources added that the occupation forces detained an 18-years-old youth after beating him during the raid, and released him later.

K.T.

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Israeli occupation forces blow up a house in Nour Shams refugee camp

TULKARM, Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Israeli occupation forces blew up a house in Nour Shams refugee camp, east of the city of Toulkarm, causing extensive destruction to its infrastructure and residents’ properties during their large-scale aggression against the camp, which lasted for seven hours.

The occupation forces, accompanied by military tanks and bulldozers, blew up a house belonging to two siblings, causing fire to break out inside the targeted house.

The forces further prevented civil defense crews from reaching the targeted house.

Local sources said that the occupation forces accompanied by military tanks and vehicles broke into the camp and imposed a strict siege on it, preventing people from leaving or entering the camp. 

 The forces further deployed their snipers on the roofs of several buildings and surrounding the camp.

The occupation bulldozers have been bulldozing and destroying the camp's infrastructure since 4:00 am local time. They also deliberately vandalized public and private property along Nablus Street, and destroyed the main water line feeding the camp.

At dawn today, the occupation forces stormed the city of Toulkarm, accompanied by four military bulldozers from its western axis, and roamed its main streets, specifically Al-'Alimi, Al-Sikka, and Nablus Streets, amid intense flights of reconnaissance  warplanes.

Meanwhile, the occupation bulldozers also destroyed the vicinity of the Al-Younis roundabout in the northern neighborhood of the city and the vicinity of the Iktaba roundabout east of Toulkarm.

Earlier yesterday, an Israeli drone bombed a house in Al-Manshiya neighborhood in Nour Shams camp, killing Sa'eed the 24- year- old 'Izzat Jabir and wounding five others, including two in serious condition.

With the killing of Jabir, the number of Palestinians who were killed by Israeli forces in Toulkarm since the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip began on October 7, 2023 now rises to 114.

Y.S.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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New settler attack on a Nablus town

Monday 1-July-2024

NABLUS, (PIC)

A group of  the illegal Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian-owned agricultural lands in 'Aseera Al-Qibliya town, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank on Sunday afternoon.

The head of the 'Aseera Al-Qibliya village council, Hafidth Sali'h, affirmed that the illegal Israeli Jewish settlers from the “Yitzhar” illegal settlement attacked the eastern area of ​​the town and set fire to agricultural lands before trying to attack local homes.

Local residents succeeded in confronting the settlers and forcing them to leave the town.

However, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town and attacked the residents with teargas bombs. 

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Illegal Israeli settlers set large swaths of agricultural lands on fire in Nablus

NABLUS, Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) – 

A group of  the illegal Israeli settlers today set fire to agricultural lands in the village of Madama, south of Nablus.

The head of the Madama village council, 'Abdullah Ziyada, said that a group Israeli colonists from the illegal colony of Yitzhar attacked the village and set fire large swaths of agricultural lands on fire.

The colonists also fired live bullets towards the residents who attempted to halt the fire.

Y.S.

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Illegal Israeli settlers assault and injure three Palestinians near Nablus

NABLUS, Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) – 

Three Palestinian were Monday evening injured in an attack by a group of  the illegal Israeli settlers on the village of 'Aseera Al-Qibliya, south of Nablus.

Sources in the Palestinian Red Crescent said that three people were injured as a result of attacks by colonists who attacked 'Aseera al-Qibliya.

The sources said that one of them was injured as a result of being severely beaten, while the other two were injured by stones being thrown at them. They were injured in the head and foot, and one of them was taken to the hospital.

K.T.

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Palestinians suffer from suffocation following a settler assault near Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) – 

A number of Palestinians suffered from suffocation on Monday evening after Israeli colonists attacked them, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, in the village of Umm Al-Khair in Masafir Yatta, south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

Local sources told WAFA that colonists from the Karmiel colony and Shimoun colonial outpost, which were built on citizens' lands and property south of Hebron, attacked citizens in Shuaib community in the village of Umm al-Khair, threatened children and women to kill them and sprayed them with pepper gas, injuring a number of them.

Some of them suffered from suffocation, while the occupation soldiers fired live bullets, stun grenades and poisonous gas at citizens.

It is noteworthy that a diplomatic delegation from Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom visited the village of Umm Al-Khair today, studied the conditions there, and condemned the widespread demolitions that the village’s homes and facilities were subjected to last Wednesday by the occupation forces, which was the largest demolition operation seen in the West Bank since October 7th.

K.T.  

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Israeli occupation forces demolish house under construction in Umm Al-Fa'hm

RAMALLAH, Monday, July 1 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces today demolished Palestinian-owned house under construction in the city of UmmAal-Fa'hm, in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1948, under the pretext of construction without a permit.

The demolition operation was carried out under the protection of the Israeli police and its special forces, who prevented residents from leaving their homes and closed the streets leading to the location of the targeted house.

This step threatens hundreds of homes in Palestinian towns in the 1948 territories, including dozens in Wadi 'Aara area, where demolition orders were issued in recent months.

Y.S.

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