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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By Day 377 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Death Toll Rose to 42,438 and 99,246 Injuries, in Addition to 2,367 Martyrs and 11,088 Injured Civilians in Lebanon

October 17, 2024

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On Day 377 of US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 2 Massacres, 29 Palestinians Killed, 93 Injured, in the Past 24 Hours, with a Death Toll of  42,438 and 99,246 Injuries, by October 17, 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 October 17, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 52,438+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (42,438), those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 10,000+). 

By October 17, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 99,246.

By October 17, 2024, 757 Palestinians who were killed, 6,255 who were injured, and 11,365, 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).

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By October 17, 2024, according to initial reports, 17 Lebanese civilians were killed, 182 were injured, by the Israeli genocidal raids on Lebanon, in the past 24 hours. Thus, the Lebanese death toll, since October 8, 2023, has surged to 2,367 fatalities and more than 11,088 injuries.

Since September 23, 2024, the Lebanese death toll rose to 1,549 and the injuries to 4,687. 

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Rescue workers trying to carry the body of a Palestinian journalist who was one of the victims of an Israeli genocidal air strike on the Gaza Strip, October 16, 2024.	Medical doctors working in the Gaza Strip mentioned that the Israeli occupation soldiers systematically kill Palestinian children by shooting them, October 17, 2024.
US B-2 stealth bombers launched air strikes targeting five Yemeni locations in San’a and Sa'da, October 17, 2024.	28 of the displaced Palestinians were killed and about 150 were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation genocidal shelling of the Abu 'Husain shelter school, in Jabalya, on October 17, 2024.
Smoke rise from destroyed buildings that were hit by Israeli airstrikes on Qana village, south Lebanon, on October 16, 2024.	The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on the town of Qana in South Lebanon, depicting a scene of utter devastation and destruction, with residential buildings and civilian stores reduced to rubble, October 16, 2024.
Grieving the death of Palestinian family members who were massacred by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment in Dair El-Bala'h, on October 17, 2024.	Carrying to the hospital the martyred and the injured Palestinians who were massacred by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment in Dair El-Bala'h, on October 17, 2024.
25 Palestinians were killed, 150 were injured by an Israeli genocidal air strike on the Abu 'Husain school, which shelters displaced families in the Jabalya refugee camp, in an initial report, on October 17, 2024.	Funeral procession of the Palestinian elderly woman 'Hanan Abu Salama, 59, was martyred after being shot in the back by the IOFs while she was picking olives in her land near the Apartheid Wall in the town in the town of Faqqua, northeast of Jineen

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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.

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'Israel' pulverizes shrine, aggressively raids Lebanese South, Bekaa

By Al-Mayadeen English

October 17, 2023, at 14:21 Beirut local time

The Israeli occupation forces continue to target villages and towns in South Lebanon and Al-Biqaa', killing and injuring more civilians.

The Israeli aggression on Lebanon continues expanding and intensifying, particularly targeting the Lebanese South and Al-Biqaa', while the occupation forces commit the most horrific massacres against Lebanese civilians. 

Al-Mayadeen's correspondent in the south reported that the occupation forces detonated a religious shrine in the town of Muhaibeeb before withdrawing from the area, noting that the town is only 2.3 kilometers from the Lebanese border.

It is worth mentioning that the shrine destroyed was that of Prophet Benjamin, the son of Prophet Jacob, which dates back over 2000 years.

A video has circulated on social media showing the moment the occupation forces detonated explosive-laden buildings in the town, located in the Marji'youn district in southern Lebanon, including the shrine, as part of the systematic destruction of religious and cultural heritage sites.

The Israeli occupation army intensified its assaults after midnight until morning on villages in the districts of Soor (Tyre) and Bint Jubail, where its warplanes targeted the towns of 'Aita A-Sha'b, Arzoun, Shu'hour, Ma'raka, Toura, 'Haneen, Al-'Hawoush, the Qadmous area, and Faroun, amid heavy hovering of reconnaissance, unmanned, and military aircraft over the two districts, releasing illuminating bombs over the border villages adjacent to the Blue Line.

The warplanes targeted a house in the town of Dair Qanoun Al-Nahr, resulting in its destruction and inflicting damage on dozens of surrounding homes.

Meanwhile, reconnaissance drones continue to fly around the clock in the eastern sector, especially over the villages and towns of the Marji'youn district.

In the morning, Israeli warplanes carried out two airstrikes: the first on the vicinity of Al-Buwaidha near Mar Elias-Mari'ayoun, and the second on the town of Al-'Odyisa.

Israeli warplanes also conducted strikes on the towns of Arnoun and Anqoun, as well as the town of Al-Ri'hani in the Jezzeen area.

Around nine in the morning, the occupation launched an airstrike on a building in the town of Qanaarit in the Sayda district.

The National News Agency reported that heavy artillery shelling was non-stop overnight, targeting the towns of Al-Khiyam, Kfar Kila, the vicinity of Al-Tayba, Rab Thalatheen, Markaba, 'Houla, and the Marji'youn plain.

Additionally, warplanes struck at midnight around the Health Authority center in the Baydar neighborhood of the town of 'Habboush.

Last night in Tayr Debba, an Israeli genocidal airstrike killed three civilians.

Al-Biqaa' under attack 

In Al-Biqaa' region, Israeli aircraft targeted the Burghuz Valley with several airstrikes, as well as a house in the town of Qilya, leading to its destruction, with no reports of injuries.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation threatened to attack a building in the area of Sar'een Al-Ta'hta and another building in the area of Tamneen.

According to Al-Mayadeen's correspondent in the region, the occupation has launched over 900 airstrikes on Al-Biqaa' since the onset of the aggression against Lebanon.

During the past three hours, the Israeli occupation forces issued three evacuation warnings for several locations in Al-Biqaa' region. The bombardment began shortly after.  

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The Israel occupation forces commit more massacres in Al-Nabatiya, Al-Biqaa', killing and injuring dozens of Lebanese civilians

ByAl Mayadeen English Source: Agencies 16 Oct 2024 23:05

The Israeli occupation force continued to target villages and towns in South Lebanon and Al-Biqaa', killing and injuring more civilians.

The Israeli occupation army continued its widespread aggression against Lebanon, systematically targeting villages, towns, and cities in the south, Al-Biqaa' Valley, and the Southern Suburb of Beirut, intensifying the impact on local communities.

Aggression on the South 

In a final tally, 16 martyrs, including the mayorof Al-Nabatiya, were killed, while 52 were injured in the Israeli raid on the buildings of Al-Nabatiya Municipality and its Union of Municipalities, according to the Ministry of Health.

Four people lost their lives in an Israeli airstrike that struck a residence in the town of 'Haboush, in Al-Nabatiya district.

Amid the ongoing attacks in the south, hostile Israeli warplanes targeted the region between the towns of Maifadoun and Al-Nabatiya Al-Fawqa.

Around 6:45 pm today, Israeli occupation warplanes targeted the town of 'Ayta Al-Sha'b, following intermittent artillery shelling on the town and the outskirts of Al-Rumaish at 5:45 pm on Wednesday, according to the National News Agency.

At 4:30 pm, Israeli warplanes conducted a series of raids targeting the towns of Yater and Al-Sultaniya in the Bint Jubail district.

Additionally, Israeli raids targeted villages east of Sour, coinciding with the overflight of enemy reconnaissance drones and warplanes, along with the deployment of thermal balloons in the area.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese Red Cross announced in a statement that two paramedics were injured when the site they responded to in the southern town of Juwaya came under attack.

In a statement, the Red Cross clarified, “Following the raid on Jwaya in the south, two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances, along with their crews, departed at 4:30 pm on Wednesday after coordinating with UNIFIL. The crews arrived at the location by 4:52 pm and began searching for the injured to provide treatment and assistance.”

"At 5:10 pm, the site was struck, resulting in two paramedics sustaining minor injuries from shrapnel. The paramedics then returned with both vehicles to Jabal 'Aamil Hospital, where they underwent necessary medical examinations. Their condition is stable and not a cause for concern."

Aggression on Al-Biqaa'

In Al-Biqaa', Al-Mayadeen's correspondent reported that the number of martyrs has risen to 8, with over 30 people injured as a result of the raids that targeted the region on Wednesday.

He explained that the occupation conducted a raid on the town of Al-'Halaniya, as well as on the plains of Youneen and Taraya.

According to Al-Mayadeen's correspondent, the number of injured in the Israeli raid on Al-Yammouna increased to 15. Additionally, two martyrs and nine wounded individuals were reported following the Israeli aggression on the Ba'albek-Riyaq highway.

Fifteen people were also injured, including one serious injury, in an Israeli raid on the town of Al-Yammouna, northwest of Baalbek.

According to the Ministry of Health, yesterday's death toll reached 17 martyrs and 182 wounded distributed as follows:

South Lebanon: Three martyrs and 92 injuries; Al-Nabatiya: Nine martyrs and 49 injuries; Al-Biqaa': Five martyrs and 26 injuries; Ba'albek-Hirmil: 15 injuries.

With these figures, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, the death toll from the Israeli aggression since last year has risen to 2,367, in addition to 11,088 injuries.

138 airstrikes were recorded across various areas of Lebanon, primarily in South Lebanon and Nabatieh, over the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of attacks since the onset of aggression to 10,150, according to Nasser Yassin, the coordinator of the government emergency committee and Minister of Environment in the caretaker government.

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

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On October 17, 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 the Gaza Strip resulted in at least 2 main massacres, in which 29 Palestinian civilians were killed, and the 93 others were injured, in the past 24 hours (from a specific time of yesterday to a specific time of today). This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 42,438 and the injuries to 99,246, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.

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Death toll across Gaza Strip surges to 42,438, over 99,246 injured

GAZA, October, 17, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces committed two massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least 29 Palestinians and the injury of 93 others, according to medical reports.

Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has risen to 42,438 reported fatalities, with an additional 99,246 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

According to the same sources, 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 Israeli occupation forces continue to obstruct the movement of ambulance and civil defense crews.

Y.S.

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‎Targeting the Abu 'Husain School, Israeli shelling causes a massacre in Jabalya‎

Al-Araby TV, ‎17 October 2024‎

‎28 displaced Palestinians were killed and about 150 were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation genocidal shelling of the shelter school in Jabalya.

‎Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre after bombing a school housing displaced people in Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, resulting in many martyrs and dozens of injuries.‎

‎On October 6, the Israeli army announced the start of the invasion of the northern Gaza Strip for the third time since the beginning of the ‎‎aggression on Gaza‎‎on October 7, 2023, under the pretext of "preventing Hamas from regaining its strength in the area," while Palestinians say that Israel wants to occupy the area and displace its residents.‎

‎The Israeli aggression left more than 141,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and thousands missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.‎

‎New massacre in Jabalya refugee camp‎

‎In detail, 28 people were killed and dozens injured in Israeli shelling on the Abu Hussein primary school of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which shelters displaced people in Jabalya refugee camp.‎

‎As a result of the shelling, fire broke out in the tents of displaced people in the schoolyard, while the martyrs and wounded were transferred to Kamal 'Udwan and Al-'Awda hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.‎

‎Al-'Araby TV correspondent also said that "the massacre in the Abu 'Husain school shelter coincides with the incursion of the occupation mechanisms into the Jabalia refugee camp from the west."‎

‎At least 3 Palestinians were killed and others were injured earlier on Thursday, in the Israeli shelling of a tent at a school housing displaced people east of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip.‎

‎Earlier on Thursday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the toll of the Israeli aggression had risen to 42,438 martyrs and 99,246 injuries since the seventh of last October.‎

‎In its daily statistical report on the number of martyrs and wounded as a result of the Israeli aggression, the ministry said that "the occupation committed two massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, of which 29 martyrs and 93 injuries reached hospitals during the past 24 hours."‎

‎"A number of victims are still under rubble and on the roads that ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them," she said.‎

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Dozens massacred or injured in Israeli attack on UNRWA school in northern Gaza

Thursday 17-October-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

At least 22 Palestinian civilians were massacred and dozens were injured on Thursday evening when the Israeli occupation army bombed an UNRWA school sheltering displaced families in Jabalya refugee camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

According to medical sources, the Israeli army bombed the UNRWA-run Abu Hussein School, killing and injuring dozens of displaced people, including women and children.

The Israeli attack on the school happened as families gathered in classrooms to have lunch.

The death toll from the attack is likely to rise, the medical sources said.

Several casualties were reportedly evacuated to the hospitals of Kamal 'Udwan and Al-'Awda in northern Gaza, while ambulance crews are unable to transport other victims from the bombed school as a result of the Israeli siege on the area and relentless attacks.

Hospitals in the besieged northern Gaza Strip are already debilitated and unable to provide the minimum medical assistance for patients and wounded civilians.

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Nine civilians, including children, killed in Israeli airstrike on Al-Maghazi refugee camp

GAZA, October 17, 2024 (WAFA) –

Nine civilians, including children and women, were killed this afternoon in an Israeli genocidal airstrike on a residential building in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, located in central Gaza.

Local sources reported that the strike targeted a populated area within the camp, leading to the tragic loss of at least nine lives.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7, 2023, has so far resulted in 42,438 documented Palestinian fatalities, with an additional 99,246 individuals sustaining injuries, the majority of whom are women and children. 

Thousands are also feared dead under the rubble of destroyed structures across the war-torn enclave, with civil defense teams and emergency services unable to reach several areas due to safety concerns amid the indiscriminate Israeli attacks.

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Five civilians killed and others injured in Israeli airstrikes east of Dair El-Bala'h

GAZA, October, 17, 2024 (WAFA) – 

At least three citizens were killed and others were injured on Thursday when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a tent at a school housing displaced persons east of Dair El-Bala'h city in the central Gaza Strip.

Local sources reported that three citizens were killed and others were injured when the occupation forces bombed a tent at the gate of a school housing displaced persons in the Al-'Hikr area in Dair El-Bala'h. They were transferred to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

Two citizens were also killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment near the Al-Saraya junction west of Gaza City.

The occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, resulting in the killing of 42,409 citizens and the injury of 99,153 others, most of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of missing persons are still under the rubble.

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Medical and rescue teams retrieve six bodies south of Gaza

GAZA, October, 17, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Medical teams recovered the bodies of six slain Palestinians in the town of Al-Fakhari, east of Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip.

Local sources reported that medical teams recovered the bodies of six slain Palestinians from under the rubble of a house in the Al-Fakhari area, which was previously bombed by Israeli occupation fighter jets.

The occupation forces continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the killing of 42,409 citizens, and the injury of 99,153 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of missing people are still under the rubble.

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Israeli occupation army continues its siege of the northern Gaza Strip for the 13th day

GAZA, October, 17, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Israeli occupation forces continue their bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip for the 13th day, carrying out killings, blowing up homes, and forcibly displacing civilians.

The occupation army is pursuing a policy of systematic destruction of buildings and forcible displacement of citizens in the northern Gaza Strip, especially in Jabalya refugee camp, in light of the suffering of about 400 thousand citizens in the northern Gaza Strip from a strict siege.

The Civil Defense announced that 200 thousand citizens in Jabalya refugee camp have been living without food, drink or medicine for the 13th consecutive day.

The citizens insist on not being displaced to the southern Gaza Strip, despite the war and the intense pressure exerted by the occupation, and its efforts to put the health system in the northern Gaza Strip out of service, after it requested the "Kamal 'Udwan, Indonesian, and Al-'Awda" hospitals to evacuate on the tenth of this month.

Since the beginning of its aggression and new ground invasion of the northern Gaza Strip, the occupation has besieged the town of Jabalya and its camp, preventing residents from fleeing to neighboring Gaza City, and ordering them to flee only via Salah al-Din Street, which extends along the eastern Gaza Strip from north to south.

This is the third ground invasion carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in Jabalia camp since the beginning of the genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023.

On the ground, the occupation's drones opened heavy fire on citizens and their homes in Jabalia camp, and firefighting teams were able to extinguish a large fire in a house near Abu Rashid Pool in Jabalya refugee camp after it was bombed by the occupation.

The Civil Defense reported that war and artillery shelling with phosphorous bombs by the occupation army targeted Khalifa School, which houses displaced people behind Al-Shaikh Zayid Towers in northern Gaza.

The occupation's warships also opened fire towards the coast of Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, coinciding with artillery shelling that targeted the Sabra neighborhood in southern Gaza and the vicinity of the port area and the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood in the west of the city.

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

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An elderly Palestinian woman killed by IOF in Jenin while picking olives in her own land

Thursday 17-October-2024

Jineen, (PIC)

An elderly Palestinian woman died of her critical injury after being shot by Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) on Thursday morning in the town of Faqqua, northeast of Jineen, in the northern West Bank.

Local sources explained that 'Hanan Abu Salama, 59, was martyred after being shot in the back by the IOFs while she was picking olives in her land near the separation wall in the town.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its crews treated the injured woman, who was in a very critical condition, before she was transferred to hospital where she was proclaimed dead due to her critical injury.

In a related incident, IOFs and Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian farmers and foreign volunteers in the village of Kufr Al-Labad, east of Tulkarem, as well as in the towns of Qaryout, Jalud, and Qusra, south of Nablus, on Thursday morning and forced them to leave their lands. 

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Two young men injured by Israeli gunfire during raid in Bait Foureek

NABLUS, October 17, 2024 (WAFA) –

Two Palestinian young men were injured by gunfire from Israeli occupation forces this afternoon during a raid on the town of Bait Foureek, located east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Local sources reported that the Israeli military stormed Bait Foureek, sparking confrontations between residents and the armed forces.

During the confrontations, the two young men sustained gunshot wounds from Israeli gunfire, after which they were transported to a local medical center for treatment.

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IOFs launch a large-scale raid and kidnapping campaign in the West Bank

Thursday 17-October-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnapped a number of Palestinians, including ex-prisoners, after storming different areas in the West Bank.

In Nablus, the IOFs kidnapped the young man Qusay Al-Najjar and 4 other young men before being released at the “ 'Awarta” military checkpoint, where they were severely beaten.

The IOFs also stormed Tayaseer village, in Toubas, amid heavy gunfire, and re-kidnapped the ex-prisoner Mo'taz 'Abdul Bari from his family home in Qalqilya, only a month after his release from Israeli occupation apartheid regime jails.

In Salfeet, a Palestinian child suffered a gunshot injury in the thigh, when the IOFs stormed the city in large numbers, which led to the outbreak of violent clashes.

In Ramallah, the IOFs kidnapped the two young men, Mu'hammed Sar'han and 'Awda Kamal, after raiding and violently searching their homes in Silwad town.

Meanwhile, two brothers were kidnapped from their family house in Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

In Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), violent clashes erupted after midnight in 'Anata town after being raided by Israeli military vehicles amid heavy fire of sound and tear gas bombs.

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Israeli forces raid Al-Khaleel (Hebron)-area-town, search several local residents' homes

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), October, 17, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces raided the town of Dura, southwest of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), on Thursday, and broke into several homes.

Local sources said that the occupation forces, accompanied by several military vehicles, stormed the town , deployed in several neighborhoods, and raided a number of citizens' homes in the Krisa and Al-Abahar areas.

They further closed the main street near the cultural center and prevented citizens from moving.

The secondary schools in the town announced the suspension of classes due to the occupation's storming and deployment in the vicinity and entrances of some of those schools.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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

Thursday 17-October-2024

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

Scores of the illegal extremist Jewish settlers desecrated Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) on Thursday morning, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site.

According to local sources, dozens of settlers entered the Mosque through its Al-Maghariba Gate and provocatively toured its courtyards under police protection to mark what they call the Sukkot holiday.

The local sources said that the Israeli occupation police prevented many Muslim worshipers from reaching and entering the Mosque and imposed movement restrictions in the Old City of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) and its nearby areas at the pretext of securing the holy city for Jewish celebrations.

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Illegal Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers while picking olives south of Nablus

NABLUS, October, 17, 2024 (WAFA) – 

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers today attacked Palestinian farmers while they were picking olives in the villages of Madama, Rojeeb, and Qusra, south of Nablus.

Local sources reported that the colonists attacked citizens while they were attending their lands and picking olives in the village of Rojeeb, sprayed them with pepper gas, and forced them to leave.

In a related context, an illegal Israeli settler also attacked a citizen while he was picking olives in the village of Madama, south of Nablus, preventing him from completing his work, and forcing him to leave his land.

In Qusra, colonists further forced citizens to leave the olive fields, and seized a vehicle used to transport them and transport the olives after the harvest.

Since the beginning of the olive harvest season, Nablus villages and towns have been suffering from repeated attacks by the occupation and its colonists, forcing citizens to leave their lands, assaulting them, and seizing their crops.

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UN experts: Israel must stop violent settler attacks on Palestinian farmers

Thursday 17-October-2024

NEW YORK, (PIC)

Palestinian farmers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank are facing the most dangerous olive season ever, UN experts said on Wednesday.

The intimidation of farmers, restriction of access to lands, severe harassment and attacks by the illegal Israeli armed settlers and the Israeli occupation forces further undermine the food sovereignty of Palestinian families and are yet another attack on Palestinian self-determination, the experts warned.

“In 2023, the harvest was marred by a sharp increase in movement restrictions and violence by Israeli occupation forces and settlers,” the experts said.

“Last year, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, faced the highest level of Israeli settler violence, including settlers physically assaulting Palestinians, setting fire or damaging their property and crops, stealing sheep, blocking them from accessing their land, water and grazing areas, causing a record number of Palestinians to be displaced after being forced to leave their homes and lands. Last year, Israel also seized more Palestinian land than in any year in the past 30 years.”

“The olive harvest is central to Palestinian life and culture. The Palestinian people’s relationship to olive trees, which can live for hundreds of years, is also about their relationship to their ancestors and to their future,” the experts said. “Restricting olive harvests, destroying orchards and banning access to water sources is an attempt by Israel to expand its illegal settlements.”

Palestinian farmers, who rely heavily on the olive harvest for their livelihood, face enormous challenges, threats and harassment in accessing their olive trees. In 2023, more than 96,000 dunums of olive-cultivated land across the occupied West Bank remained un-harvested due to Israeli-imposed restrictions, resulting in the loss of 1,200 metric tons of olive oil, amounting to US$10 million.

“This situation is expected to worsen as Israeli authorities have increasingly revoked or failed to issue “prior coordination” permits, which are necessary for farmers to access their lands in certain areas,” the experts warned. “During the 2023 season, nearly all of these approvals were cancelled, and agricultural gates along the West Bank Barrier were largely closed, further obstructing access.”

They urged Israeli forces to refrain from interfering with this year’s olive harvest, and concentrate their efforts on withdrawing the occupation and dismantling the colonies, as stated by the International Court of Justice on 19 July 2024 and reaffirmed by the General Assembly on 18 September 2024.

“Israel is under international legal obligation to first and foremost end their occupation of Palestinian land, which amounts to annexation including through racial segregation and apartheid, immediately cease all new settlement activities and evacuate all settlers from the occupied Palestinian territory. It is also under the obligation to provide full reparation for the damage caused by its human rights violations to all persons concerned, including by returning land, and allowing displaced Palestinians to return to their homes,” they said.

The experts said they were following the situation closely and will continue to call for protection, including through a foreign presence acting as a buffer between the Palestinians and their aggressors, and to protect Palestinian farmers and their families.

The Special Rapporteur on the right to food will be presenting his thematic report “Starvation and the right to food, with an emphasis on the Palestinian people’s food sovereignty” to the General Assembly on 18 October.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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Palestinian leader reveals the true intention of the Israeli military operation in northern Gaza

Wednesday 16-October-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

A senior source in the Palestinian resistance operations room said on Wednesday that the Israeli occupation’s operation in northern Gaza and Jabalya refugee camp is devoid of any military objective contrary to what it claims.

The source explained in statements to Aljazeera TV channel that “the operation’s main goal is to complete the destruction of all homes in Jabalya refugee camp for displacement purposes.”

He pointed out that “the Israeli occupation forces storm Jabalya refugee camp at night and plant explosive barrels among homes and withdraw from it during the day to avoid direct clashes with the resistance fighters.”

“The occupation army destroyed entire neighborhoods in Jabalya refugee camp in the past 12 days,” the source pointed out.

Northern Gaza, especially Jabalya refugee camp, is subjected to ongoing genocide crimes and a stifling siege that block the entry of food, water, and medicine supplies.

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'Hamas, Jihad condemn German FM remarks, saying her remarks encourage Israel to commit more war crimes in Gaza

Wednesday 16-October-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement condemned, in the strongest terms, the German Foreign Minister’s Tuesday statements declaring that her government “is not ashamed of (Israel) targeting civilians and hospitals, as long as it provides security for Israel. This is part of our obligations.”

In a statement on Wednesday, Hamas said, “It is shameful that the German Foreign Minister, Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock, continues to enable and give cover to the Genocide committed by the Zionist occupation against our people in the Gaza Strip in a blatant bias against international humanitarian law.”

'Hamas held the German government fully responsible for the dangerous consequences of this statement, and its political, legal, moral and human repercussions.

It called on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to take the minister’s remarks as additional evidence of her government’s complicity in the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, and asked the ICJ to withdraw its rejection of the lawsuit filed by Nicaragua against Germany, on charges of violating the 1948 genocide prevention convention through providing Israel with weapons that it used in its ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip since October last year.

'Hamas called for taking immediate emergency measures to force Germany to stop its arms exports to Israel.

For its part, the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine strongly condemned Baerbock’s statements, in which she claimed that the Israel has the right to kill civilians in Gaza for its security.

The Islamic Jihad said in a statement on Wednesday, “these statements represent a serious justification for targeting civil sites, covering up Israeli crimes against civilians, and providing an unethical justification for random attacks that claim the lives of thousands and destroy infrastructure including schools, hospitals and citizens’ homes”.

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NYT rebuts pro-Israeli claims that its story on Gaza children being shot in head is “fabricated”

Thursday 17-October-2024

NEW YORK, (PIC)

The New York Times responded to viral claims that photos it published recently of children shot in the head in Gaza were “fabricated.”

The images were included in an op-ed article that cited dozens of volunteer healthcare professionals who described seeing children shot in the head and chest while serving in Gaza.

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma and general surgeon who served for two weeks in Khan Younus (Gaza) in March and April, wrote the article last week. He said he saw more than a dozen children shot in the head during those weeks and that he first thought it was the work of a “particularly sadistic soldier” before he heard similar accounts from others.

The article in question detailed his and dozens of other doctors’ chilling accounts of seeing patients — including children — wounded and killed by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza.

Baseless attacks on the New York Times’ essay, which quoted dozens of healthcare workers, were spread widely by pro-Israel social media accounts following its publication on October 9.

However, the editor of The New York Times opinion section issued a forceful statement last Tuesday refuting claims that the news outlet published fabricated or altered CT scan images as part of a recent essay featuring appalling firsthand accounts from US-based healthcare professionals who have worked in Gaza over the past year.

“A recent opinion essay gathered first-hand testimonies from 65 US-based health professionals who worked in Gaza over the past year, who shared more than 160 photographs and videos with Times Opinion to corroborate their detailed accounts of treating preteen children who were shot in the head or chest. Following publication, some readers questioned the accuracy of the accounts and the authenticity of three CT images shown. Those criticisms are unfounded,” New York Times editor Kathleen Kingsbury said.

Kingsbury affirmed that the report had been “rigorously edited” and verified, including through expert opinions and supporting photographs, which the outlet judged as too graphic for publication.

“Times Opinion rigorously edited this guest essay before publication, verifying the accounts and imagery through supporting photographic and video evidence and file metadata. We also vetted the doctors and nurses’ credentials, including that they had traveled to and worked in Gaza as claimed. When questions arose about the veracity of images included in the essay, we did additional work to review our previous findings. We presented the scans to a new round of multiple, independent experts in gunshot wounds, radiology and pediatric trauma, who attested to the images’ credibility. In addition, we again examined the images’ digital metadata and compared the images to video footage of their corresponding CT scans as well as photographs of the wounds of the three young children,” Kingsbury said.

“While our editors have photographs to corroborate the CT scan images, because of their graphic nature, we decided these photos — of children with gunshot wounds to the head or neck — were too horrific for publication. We made a similar decision for the additional 40-plus photographs and videos supplied by the doctors and nurses surveyed that depicted young children with similar gunshot wounds,” she added.

“We stand behind this essay and the research underpinning it. Any implication that its images are fabricated is simply false.”

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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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