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 270 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 3 Massacres, 25 Palestinians Killed, 81 Injured, with a Death Toll of  37,925 and 87,141 Injuries

July 2, 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 2, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 44,925+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (37,925), those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on April 18, 2024: 7,000+). 

By July 2, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 87,141.

By July 2, 2024, 559 Palestinians who were killed, 5,228 who were injured, and 9,487, 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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25 Palestinians were killed, 81 were injured by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on the Gaza Strip, on July 2, 2024	After the martyrdom of Shams News journalist, Mu'hammed Abu Shari'a, the number of journalists who were killed by the Israeli genocidal attacks rose to 153, July 2, 2024
Four Palestinian young men were assassinated by an Israeli drone attack on the Nour Shams refugee camp, in Toulkarm, July 2, 2024	At least 12 civilians were killed and others were injured by an Israeli genocidal airstrike targeting a house in the city of Dair Al-Bala'h, in central Gaza Strip, on July 2, 2024
UN humanitarian coordinator for Gaza, Sigrid Kaag, told UN Security Council that there needs to be a full and permanent ceasefire for aid to flow into Gaza, July 2, 2024	353 schools and universities were bombed, became shelters for displaced Palestinians, and 8,672 students were martyred,  in the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, July 2, 2024
Funeral of the Palestinian woman, Nisreen Al-Dhameeri, and the child Mu'hammed 'Ali Sir'han, who were martyred by the Israeli occupation in Toulkarm, July 1, 2024.	Some of the martyrs who were massacred by Israeli occupation force in central Gaza Strip, being prepared for burial in Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital in Dair El-Bala'h, July 2, 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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UN: There needs to be a full and permanent ceasefire for aid to flow into Gaza

Wednesday 3-July-2024

NEW YORK, (PIC)

The UN humanitarian coordinator for Gaza, Sigrid Kaag, has briefed the Security Council on the latest situation in the Gaza Strip, saying not enough aid has been entering Gaza.

Kaag stressed that until there is a full and permanent ceasefire, getting aid into Gaza is like “running up a hill. It’s very, very difficult.”

She said, among other things, they need a better deconfliction mechanism to get aid into Gaza.

“They also needed more assurances that they could get basic supplies in to not only people in Gaza … but also to UN staff and personnel,” she said. They include doctors who still lack basic supplies to help the wounded.

Kaag focused on the need for UN teams to have more “diversified routes coming into Gaza” and said she is engaged in talks with Israeli officials to potentially reopen the vital Rafah border crossing.

She further talked about if they could get these aid mechanisms in place and working to their full capacity. She sees that as part of the reconstruction efforts.

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8,672 Palestinian students martyred, 353 schools and universities bombed in the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza

Tuesday 2-July-2024

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Ministry of Education and Higher Education announced that 8,672 Palestinian students have been martyred and 14,583 students injured since the beginning of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip and the West Bank which started on October 7 last year.

The ministry explained in a statement on Tuesday that the number of students who have been martyred in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli aggression reached more than 8,572, and the number of the wounded students mounted to 14,089, adding that 100 students have been martyred, 494 injured, and 349 arrested in the West Bank.

The ministry indicated that about 497 teachers and administrators have been martyred and 3,402 injured in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with more than 109 arrested in the West Bank.

Around 353 government schools, universities, university structures, and 65 UNRWA education facilities have been bombed and vandalized in the Gaza Strip, with 139 of them severely damaged, and 93 completely destroyed while 133 government schools were used as shelter centers in the Strip, the ministry elaborated, adding that about 57 schools in the West Bank have been stormed and vandalized as well.

The ministry said that 620,000 students in the Gaza Strip are still deprived of enrolling in their schools since the beginning of the aggression, while most of the students are suffering from psychological trauma and difficult health conditions.

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UNRWA: 250,000 set to be displaced in new Khan Younus escalation

Tuesday 2-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

In an alert detailing another night of heavy bombardment across the Gaza Strip, the UN agency assisting Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said that Gazans fleeing the southern city have had to erect shelters at the water’s edge because displacement camps are already packed at the coast.

Just weeks after people were forced to return to a devastated Khan Younus, Israeli authorities have issued new evacuation orders for the area, the UN agency said.

“Yet again, families face forced displacement. We estimate that 250,000 people will have to flee. Even though nowhere is safe in Gaza.”

Today, the Israeli forces intensified the bombing of Khan Younus in preparation for a new large-scale military operation as part of the ongoing genocide war.

“It’s another devastating blow to the humanitarian response here, it’s another devastating blow to the people, the families on the ground. It seems that they’ve been forcibly displaced again and again,” said UNRWA. 

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153 Palestinian journalists martyred since the start of the aggression on Gaza

Tuesday 2-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Government Media Office (PGMO) in the Gaza Strip revealed on Monday that the number of journalist martyrs has risen to 153 journalists, including men and women, since the start of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

The PGMO said in a press statement that the number of journalist martyrs increased after the death of Mu'hammad Abu Shari'a, who works for Shams News Media Agency.

The Israeli occupation forces have been waging a bloody aggression and genocide war against civilians in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, resulting in the martyrdom of more than 37,900 people and the injury of 87,060 others, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble.

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Israel's extremist finance minister threatens to stop power supply to besieged Gaza

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, July 2, 2024 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime extremist finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, threatened in a post on X to immediately stop the power supply to the besieged Gaza Strip.

“The decision to supply Gaze with power means handing over Gaza with our own hands, particularly hospitals,” which he alleged are terrorist centers, asking to stop what he described as “this foolishness.”

Earlier today, residents in the Gaza Strip said the Gaza Power Generating Company started work on Salahuddeen Road west of the central Gaza city of Dair El-Bala'h to restart a desalination plant and restore the sanitation system.

T.R.

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UN says Israel prevented entry of aid sent to Gaza

NEW YORK, Tuesday, July 2 2024 (WAFA) – 

The United Nations said that Israel prevented the arrival of more than half of the aid sent to the northern Gaza Strip last June.

This came in a press conference by United Nations spokesman Stéphane Dujarric, in which he explained that the displaced people in Gaza suffer from a major shortage of shelter materials or vital supplies.

He pointed out that distributing humanitarian aid through Karm Abu Salim border gate is almost impossible due to security problems and fuel shortages.

Dujarric pointed out that unexploded ordnance in Gaza poses a great danger, especially to children, pointing out that a 9-year-old girl was killed in Khan Younus last Saturday because of these munitions.

He added that Israel prevented the arrival of more than half of the 115 planned aid missions to northern Gaza during June.

K.T.

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

On July 2, 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 3 massacres, which resulted in the killing of 25 Palestinian civilians, and the injury of 81 others, in the past 24 hours. This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 37,925 and the injuries to 87,141, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.   

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25 Palestinians killed, 81 injured in 3 Israeli massacres in Gaza in the past 24 hours

Tuesday 2-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The health ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation army committed three massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 25 civilians and injuring over 81 others.

In a statement, the health ministry said that the toll of the ongoing bloody Israeli aggression, which started on October 7, 2023, has jumped to 37,925 martyrs and 87,141 injuries.

“A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads as ambulance and civil defense crews have been prevented by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) from approaching them,” the ministry added.

Since October 7 last year, the IOFs have been launching a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, resulting in more than 120,000 martyrs, wounded and missing, 70 % of them were children and women, in addition to the displacement of two million people and the massive destruction in homes and infrastructures that affected more than 60% of the buildings, amid a tight siege, a suffocating humanitarian crisis, and an unprecedented famine especially in northern Gaza.

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At least 17 civilians killed and others injured in Israeli airstrikes on different areas in Gaza

GAZA, Tuesday, July 2 2024 (WAFA) – 

At least 17 civilians were killed and others were injured in the ongoing Israeli airstrikes that targeted different areas in the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that at least five civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a market near Al-Shaymaa Mosque in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

The occupation warplanes targeted a group of civilians while they were filling water in the vicinity of Al-Shaymaa Mosque.

Meanwhile, the occupation fighter jets launched a series of raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip, as the raids focused on the city of Rafa'h and Khan Younus governorate.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said it expects 250,000 people to be forced to flee the city of Khan Younus, even though there is no safe place in Gaza.

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 37,900, mostly women and children. Over 87,060 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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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters day 270

Tuesday 2-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 270 on Tuesday, 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.

The Israeli forces have continued their ground invasion of large neighborhoods in Rafa'h, since May 7, while storming the Shuja’iya neighborhood for the sixth day amid air and artillery bombardment.

The Israeli aircraft launched an air raid on Al-Qarara town, northeast of Khan Younus, and a second airstrike west of Rafa'h.

At least eight people and several injured people arrived at Nasir Medical Hospital following a series of air raids east of Rafa'h and Khan Younus.

The Israeli warplanes also launched fresh air raids on Tel al-Hawa, southwest of Gaza City.

Similar air strikes also targeted southern Khan Younus, bombing the Ibn Al-Qayyim Center and a house in 'Abasan al-Kabira, east of the city.

Along the same line, several people were injured after being targeted in an Israeli attack in the vicinity of the Al-Matahin Junction, north of Khan Younus.

Another residential house was bombed in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, leaving several civilians injured.

An Israeli air strike also targeted the vicinity of 'Abdullah 'Azzam Mosque in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

5 people, including a child, were killed in a similar attack in Khan Younus.

Meanwhile, several airstrikes were reported in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, coinciding with an Israeli artillery shelling.

Also in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, several people were injured in an airstrike on the Abu Jalala family house.

The Israeli artillery renewed its bombardment on the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Casualties reported in new Israeli attacks against civilians in different parts of Gaza

GAZA, Tuesday, July 2, 2024 (WAFA) –

At least 12 civilians were killed and others were injured tonight in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in the city of Dair El-Bala'h in the central Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent said that the bodies of 12 people were brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Dair El-Bala'h, following an airstrike by the occupation forces on the Sulayyim family house in the city.

Additionally, three citizens were killed in an Israeli drone attack targeting citizens in the Al-Mansura area within the Shuja'iya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City.

The occupation forces also bombarded a residential block in the neighborhood and launched an airstrike east of the neighboring Al-Tuffa'h neighborhood.

Three civilians were also killed in an Israeli airstrike against the western parts of Rafa'h, in the southern Gaza Strip. The occupation’s artillery also shelled the area, along with central Rafa'h.

Medical sources reported that the bodies of at least 31 civilians, including children and women, arrived at the Strip’s hospitals since dawn today.

The number of civilians killed in the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has so far risen to 37,925, the majority of whom are children and women. The number of injuries has reached around 87,141.

Thousands of victims remain trapped under the rubble and scattered on the streets, as rescue and ambulance teams face severe difficulties in reaching them.

T.R.

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

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Four Palestinians killed in Israeli drone raid on Nour Shams refugee camp in Toulkarm

TOULKARM, Tuesday, July 2, 2024 (WAFA) -

The Ministry of Health said that four Palestinians were killed just before midnight on Tuesday in an Israeli drone raid on Nour Shams refugee camp, east of Toulkarm, in the northern occupied West Bank.

Medical sources at Thabit Thabit Governmental Hospital in Toulkarm said four young men were killed tonight in an Israeli drone shelling of Nour Shams refugee camp east of TToulkarm.

Sources at the hospital told WAFA that four young men succumbed to critical injuries they sustained after being targeted in an Israeli drone attack on central Nour Shams camp.

The Ministry of Health identified the four slain Palestinians as Yazeed Sa’d Adil Shafe’, 22, Nimr Anwar A'hmed Hamarsha, 25, Mu'hammed Yasir Raja Sha'hada, 20 and Mu'hammed 'Hasan Ghanim Knoh, 22.

WAFA correspondent said a huge explosion was heard in the city of Toulkarm after an occupation drone fired a missile targeting a neighborhood in the middle of the camp.

The killing of the four youths brings the number of Palestinians killed in Toulkarm over the past 24 hours to six.

On Monday, a woman and child were killed during the occupation's incursion into the city of Toulkarm and the camp of Nour Shams. The woman was killed by shrapnel injuries in the neck and back, and the child was shot and killed by an Israeli occupation forces bullet to the head.

The Israeli occupation forces broke into the camp on Monday, carrying out a large-scale military assault that lasted for over seven hours and resulted in the killing of a woman and a child and the destruction of infrastructure and residents’ properties.

On Sunday, 24-year-old Sa'eed 'Izzat Jabir was killed and five others, including two seriously, were injured after an occupation plane bombed a house in Al-Manshiya neighborhood in Nour Shams refugee camp.

The number of people killed in the West Bank since the start of the massive Israeli genocidal war on the Palestinian people on October 7, 2023, has risen to 560, including 136 children. In addition, some 5,300 others have been wounded.

T.R.

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Three Palestinians, Including child, injured by Israeli forces fire in Nablus-area confrontations

NABLUS, Tuesday, July 2, 2024 (WAFA) -

Two Palestinian youths and a child were shot by Israeli forces’ live bullets during confrontations that broke out tonight in the town of Baita, south of Nablus.

The spokesman of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Ahmad Jibril, said ambulance crews dealt with the injury of three Palestinians; one youth was struck in the stomach and another in the foot, during confrontations that erupted following an Israeli military incursion into the town of Baita. A child was also shot in the hand.

T.R.

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Two Palestinians shot, injured by Israeli gunfire during Nablus raid

NABLUS, Tuesday, July 2 2024 (WAFA) – 

A 21-year-old young man was Tuesday injured by live bullets in the foot during confrontations that broke out after the Israeli occupation army stormed Al-Quds Street in the city of Nablus.

WAFA correspondent said that Israeli forces stormed Al-Quds Street near Balata refugee camp, amid heavy gunfire in the area, injuring a youth in the foot.

Meanwhile, a 28-year-old young man was also injured after being chased by Israeli soldiers and was treated on the field.

He pointed out that the occupation forces closed 'Awarta and Bait Foureek checkpoints, and tightened military measures at the checkpoints spread around the city of Nablus.

K.T.

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A Palestinian child injured by Israeli gunfire in Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Tuesday 2-July-2024

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), (PIC)

A Palestinian child was shot and injured by Israeli gunfire in Al-Khaleel (Hebron) on Tuesday evening.

The Palestinian Red Crescent affirmed, in a brief statement, that a 16-year-old boy suffered from gunshot injuries in the thigh in Khallet Hadour, and was transferred to the hospital for treatment.

On the other hand, the Israeli forces arrested a young man in the Shuyoukh town, north of the city.

Local sources reported that the Israeli forces chased a Palestinian vehicle before arresting the driver.

Earlier Tuesday, at least 18 Palestinians were arrested from different areas in the occupied West Bank. 

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Israeli occupation forces detain 22 Palestinians from the West Bank

GAZA, Tuesday, July 2 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Israeli occupation forces detained at least 22 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, including children and former prisoners, 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 took place in Bethlehem governorate, while the rest were distributed among the governorates of Ramallah, Jenin, Hebron, Nablus, Tubas, and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

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 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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IOFs kidnap 18 Palestinians in the West Bank

Tuesday 2-July-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnapped 18 Palestinians after breaking into several areas in the West Bank at dawn on Tuesday.

In Al-Khaleel (Hebron), the Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Samou’ town and kidnapped two young men after breaking into and violently searching their family houses.

The Israeli occupation forces also set up several military checkpoints at the entrances to the city and its neighboring towns and closed a number of main and secondary roads with iron gates, cement cubes, and earth mounds.

The IOFs also kidnapped two brothers in Nablus, and two young men in Silat Al-Dthahr and Al-Fandakumiya towns, south of Jineen.

Violent raids were also reported in Al-Zababda and Raba towns in Jineen.

In Ramallah, the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped two young men after storming their family houses in Silwad town.

Similar raids were also reported in Bait Ur Al-Ta'hta and Sinjil towns in Ramallah and the Jabal Al-Taweel neighborhood in Al-Beerih.

Meanwhile, the IOFs rounded up ten Palestinians in different areas of Bethlehem, including a 17-year-old teen.

On the other hand, Palestinian resistance fighters confronted the Israeli military raids in several areas in the West Bank early on Tuesday.

Local sources reported that resistance fighters used live fire and homemade explosive devices to address an IOF violent raid into Nablus, Al-Khaleel (Hebron), and Jineen.

Violent clashes erupted in Bait Ummar town, north of al-Khalil, while several people were injured in the Al-'Arroub camp raid.

Toulkarm also witnessed armed clashes, which resulted in the death of an Israeli soldier.

Violent clashes were also reported in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Israeli occupation forces demolish Palestinian-owned house in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Tuesday 2-July-2024

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces demolished a Palestinian-owned house in the “Wadi Al-Joaz” neighborhood in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) on Tuesday afternoon.

Palestinian sources in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) reported that the demolished house belongs to the citizen 'Hamdan Siyam, noting that a young man was detained during the demolition process while journalists were prevented from covering the event.

Earlier Tuesday, the Israeli forces demolished another house in Al-Jiftlik, north of Jericho, belonging to the citizen Khaleel Moosa Jahaleen.

Also in Aree'ha (Jericho), a two-story building under construction was demolished in Al-'Auja.

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Israeli occupation forces demolish house near Aree'ha (Jericho)

Aree'ha (Jericho), Tuesday, July 2 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Tuesday morning demolished a Palestinian-owned house in the village of Al-Jiftlik, north of Aree'ha (Jericho).

WAFA correspondent said that the occupation forces, accompanied by a bulldozer, stormed the village and began demolishing the house of Khaleel Mousa Jahaeein, whose area is estimated at 130 square meters and which houses 10 people.

It is noteworthy that the occupation forces demolished, last night, a two-story building under construction in Al-'Auja, north of the city of Aree'ha (Jericho), belonging to members of Nujoom family.

K.T.

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In a collective punishment step, Israeli forces demolish family home of Palestinian detainee in Nablus

NABLUS, Wednesday, July 3, 20234 (WAFA) -

In a collective punishment step, the Israeli occupation forces demolished after midnight on Tuesday the family home of a Palestinian detainee in the village of Duma south of Nablus, whom Israel accuses of allegedly carrying out an attack that resulted in the killing of a colonist.

Chairman of Duma Village Council, Suleiman Dawabsha, told WAFA that large Israeli military forces, reinforced by three military bulldozers, stormed the said village and cordoned off the two-storey family home of detainee, A'hmed Samir Dawabsha, before punitively demolishing it.

Dawabsha was detained by the occupation from his home on April 22, after he allegedly killed a colonist.

Israel resorts to punitively demolishing the family homes of any Palestinians – as a means of deterrence - accused of being involved in attacks against Israelis, a policy that Israel does not use against Israeli settlers who were involved in fatal attacks against Palestinians.

Al-Haq human rights group slammed the punitive home demolition of Palestinians suspected of being involved in attacks against Israelis, as a collective punishment and that in accordance with humanitarian law and human rights law, it is assessed as a war crime and a crime against humanity.

B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, says: “The people who bear the brunt of the [punitive] demolitions are relatives – including women, the elderly, and children – whom Israel does not suspect of involvement in any offense.”

It said that, “Since this constitutes deliberate harm to innocents, it is clear that even if house demolition had the desired deterrent effect, it would, nevertheless, remain unlawful.”

Amnesty International, argued that the Israeli authorities’ claim that such demolitions are effective in dissuading potential attackers “is entirely irrelevant in the eyes of International humanitarian law, which places clear limits on the actions which an occupying power may take in the name of security, and the absolute prohibition on collective punishment is one of the most important of these rules.”

“Collective punishment is never permissible under any circumstances.”

T.R.

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Illegal Israeli settlers set up mobile homes, caravans on Palestinian land; a prelude for establishing a new colonial outpost

​ Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), Tuesday, July 2, 2024 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers tonight set up mobile homes and caravans in the wilderness of Taqou', east of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), according to a local official.

'Hasan Braijiya, researcher on the wall and colonial affairs, informed WAFA correspondent that colonists placed several mobile homes and caravans in the wilderness of Tuqou', in an apparent prelude to establishing a new colonial outpost.

He said the occupation has been preventing landowners in the said area from accessing their land since the start of its aggression on October 7th, 2023.

​Colonists have recently escalated their attacks against the wilderness of Taqou’, where dozens of mobile homes and caravans have been set up in several areas to establish new colonial outposts.

T.R. 

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Three Palestinians injured in an Israeli settler attack near Nablus

NABLUS, Tuesday, July 2, 2024 (WAFA) -

Three Palestinians were injured tonight in an Israeli colonists’ attack against citizens' vehicles near the village of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya, south of Nablus, according to local sources.

Sources reported that colonists from the illegal colony of ‘Eli’, backed by Israeli occupation soldiers, blocked the main road linking the cities of Ramallah and Nablus and attacked dozens of Palestinian vehicles with stones, resulting in the injury of three citizens and causing damage to several cars.

The setter violence against Palestinians and their properties has dramatically increased since the onset of Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people on October 7th, 2023.

The indiscriminate violence by Israeli colonists against Palestinian civilians and their properties has been widely condemned.

Several countries have imposed sanctions against Israeli colonists accused of committing acts of violence against the Palestinian people in the West Bank.

T.R. 

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Illegal Israeli settlers storm Bedouin community near Aree'ha (Jericho)

Aree'ha (Jericho), Tuesday, July 2 2024 (WAFA) – 

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers Tuesday stormed 'Arab Al-Mulai'hat Bedouin community, northwest of the city of Aree'ha (Jericho).

The general supervisor of the "Al-Baidar" organization for defending the rights of Bedouins, 'Hasan Al-Mulai'hat, said that about six colonists riding horses, from the settlement outposts adjacent to Al-Mulai'hat Arab community, stormed the community, threatened its residents, and demanded that they leave the area on pain of losing their lives.

He explained that the Bedouin communities are seeing processes of ethnic cleansing and forced displacement that are expanding through the threat to Bedouins’ lives, strength, and livelihood, and demonstrates the consistency of the Israeli occupation government with its colonizers to deport the Bedouin communities.

K.T.

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Israeli colonists break into Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), Tuesday, July 2 2024 (WAFA) - 

Groups of Israeli colonists, under the protection of Israeli police, Thursday morning broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

Eyewitnesses said that dozens of colonists entered the holy site in groups, conducted provocative tours throughout the compound, and performed Talmudic rituals.

During the incursion, Israeli police imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshippers to the mosque.

Additionally, Israeli police intensified the restrictions at the gates of the Old City, effectively turning the area into a military zone.

K.T. 

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