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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Gazans Left Alone to the Israeli-Perpetrated Starvation

44 Palestinians Killed, 145 Injured, Which Brings the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on the Gaza Strip to 51,201 and the Injuries to 116,869

April 20, 2025

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

By April 20, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 64,730+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (51,201), those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 13,529+). 

By April 20, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 116,869.

By April 20, 2025, according to news report, 953 Palestinians who were killed, 6,991 who were injured, and 11,846*, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023.   

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(The Palestine Information Center reported that there were 925 deaths and 14,500 kidnappings but without mentioning how many were released, by February 27, 2025).  

Note About the Missing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip:

On February 26, 2025, the Palestinian Center for Political and Development Studies announced that the number of the missing in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 14,000 people, including 2,000-3,000 held in Israeli occupation prisons, without releasing any information on their fate.

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Palestinian young man, Sulayman Fawwaz Manasrah, a resident of Qabatya, was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces at the entrance to the illegal Israeli settlement of Homesh, April 20, 2025.	Palestinian political prisoner, Nasir Khaleel Al-Radayida, from Al-'Ubaydiya town in Bait La'ham, Bethlehem, due to deliberate medical neglect and poor healthcare in Israeli prisons, April 20, 2025.
Two Lebanese citizens were martyred and two others were injured by two Israeli air strikes on the towns of Al-'Hoala and Kawthariyet El-Saiyad in South Lebanon, April 20, 2025.	The Israeli occupation forces forced 10 families from the Jabal Al-Nasr area in Nour Shams refugee camp to evacuate their homes, file, April 20, 2025.
Dozens of Palestinians, mostly children, women, and elderly, were killed and injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes on the Gaza Strip, on April 20, 2025 pic	44 Palestinians were killed, 145 were injured, mostly children, women, and elderly, by the Israeli genocidal air strikes on the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll to 51,201 and the injuries to 116,869, by April 20, 2025.
The Israeli occupation forces demolished two houses belonging to families of two brothers in Ni'leen, in the West Bank, April 20, 2025.	Palestinian children trying to get some food from a local charity in Gaza City, amid starvation, due to the Israeli blockage of food supplies to the Gaza Strip, April 20, 2025.

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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 ۚ فَإِذَا جَاءَ وَعْدُ الْآخِرَةِ لِيَسُوءُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَلِيَدْخُلُوا الْمَسْجِدَ كَمَا دَخَلُوهُ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَلِيُتَبِّرُوا مَا عَلَوْا تَتْبِيراً ‎(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. Then, when the latter (final) promise came, they (your enemies) will sadden your faces, and to enter the Masjid (in Jerusalem), as they entered it the first time, and will destroy what they had taken over with (total) destruction (Al-Isra, 17: 7). 

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While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written human history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of Prophets David and Solomon , peace be upon them, and Solomon's son).

 After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus, peace be upon him, started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

No matter what the Zionists and their supporters do, they cannot change the will of God, Who promised the Holy Land to Abraham and his descendants, basically the Palestinian Muslims and Christians.

No matter how much persecution and aggression the Zionists and their supporters inflict upon the Palestinian people, they will never be able to force them out of the Holy Land, which Allah, praise to Him, promised for them, and kept His promise ever since.

This is a necessary brief background to understand the US-Backed Zionist Israeli continuous wars against the Arab nation generally, and the Palestinian people in particular, which included the wars of 1948, 1956, 1967, 1978, 1982, the brutal crushing of the two Uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2004), 2009, 2012, 2014, 2021, and the current genocidal war on Gaza (Since October 7, 2023), which has culminated a blockade of Gaza since 2007. In addition, the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime launched so many covert operations, raids, and air strikes on many Arab states since 1948.

The following news stories are just examples, not a systematic record, of the Israeli occupation government abuse, mistreatment, and violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

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

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44 Palestinians martyred, 145 injured in 24 hours in the Gaza Strip

Sunday 20-April-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 44 martyrs and 145 people suffering from different injuries following Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Sunday.

Since the Israeli occupation army resumed its genocidal war on Gaza on March 18, 2025, a total of 1,827 people have been killed and 4,828 others have been injured, according to the health ministry’s statement.

The new fatalities increased the death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, which started on October 7, 2023, to 51,201 martyrs. The number of the wounded also surged to 116,869 people.

Meanwhile, efforts are underway to recover the bodies of more martyrs who are still missing in different areas of the Gaza Strip.

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Civilian shot and killed by Israeli sniper drone east of Gaza City

GAZA, April 20, 2025 (WAFA) –

A Palestinian citizen was shot and killed by Israeli occupation forces on Sunday night in the eastern part of Gaza City.

WAFA correspondent reported that a civilian was killed by gunfire fired from an Israeli drone near Al-Shawwa Square in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

Since October 7, 2023, Israeli occupation forces have been waging a relentless aggression on the Gaza Strip, which has so far resulted in the killing of 51,201 people, the majority of whom are children and women, and the injury of 116,869 others.

This toll remains incomplete, as many victims remain trapped under rubble, inaccessible to ambulance and rescue crews.

T.R.

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 The Israeli occupation army continues to bomb homes and tents, massacre more civilians

Sunday 20-April-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation army continued last night and on Sunday to carry out deadly attacks on different areas of the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens of civilians.

According to local media sources, the Israeli occupation  forces also continued today to detonate more homes and displace families in the Gaza Strip, further exacerbating the dire humanitarian suffering of the population.

According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporters in Gaza, Israeli attacks have continued across the Gaza Strip, including a drone strike that killed five civilians and injured another one seriously at the junction of Soafa in the east of Rafa'h, south of Gaza.

Another Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to the family of Al-'Aqqad in eastern Khan Younus claimed the lives of a father and his son and injured four others.

A woman was also killed and four civilians were injured in an Israeli strike on a tent in Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younus.

In Gaza City, the Israeli army targeted a gathering of citizens in Wadi Al-'Arayis street in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, killing two of them.

Five other civilians were also martyred in an Israeli airstrike in Al-Tuffa'h neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

Last night, an aerial attack on a house belonging to the family of Darweesh killed four citizens and injured others in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in central Gaza.

The Israeli occupation army also launched attacks on other areas of the Gaza Strip last night and today, killing and wounding more civilians, including children and women.

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Al-Hams: Israel blocks medical supplies from entering Gaza hospitals

Sunday 20-April-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

Dr Marwan Al-Hams, Director of Field Hospitals in Gaza, stated on Sunday that the Israeli occupation is targeting all elements of the medical sector in the Gaza Strip, including hospital facilities and staff—both local and foreign.

In press remarks, Al-Hams emphasized that the Israeli occupation is deliberately preventing the entry of essential medical supplies, aiming to systematically dismantle the healthcare system.

He stressed that these measures have placed an overwhelming burden on Gaza’s already devastated medical infrastructure.

The Israeli army resumed its military campaign on 18 March 2025 with a new wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of at least 1,827 Palestinians and the injury of 4,828 others. This escalation followed the collapse of a ceasefire agreement brokered by the United States, Egypt, and Qatar, which had held for nearly two months.

With continued American support, Israel has carried out a sustained military assault on Gaza since 7 October 2023. The ongoing offensive has resulted in over 168,000 Palestinians killed and injured—most of them women and children—alongside more than 14,000 people still missing, according to local health authorities.

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

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Young Palestinian man shot dead by Israeli occupation forces south of Jineen

Jineen, April 20, 2025 (WAFA) –

A young Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Sunday night at the entrance to the illegal Israeli settlement of Homesh, south of Jineen.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that the General Authority for Civil Affairs informed it of the killing of 24-year-old Sulayman Fawwaz Manasrah, a resident of Qabatya. He was shot with live ammunition by Israeli forces at the entrance to the illegal Israeli settlement of Homesh, and his body was subsequently withheld.

Local sources had earlier reported hearing heavy gunfire near the entrance to the colony, which is built illegally on the lands of the town of Silat Al-Dthahr, south of Jineen. Eyewitnesses said they saw the body of a young man lying on the ground as Israeli forces gathered around it.

Earlier this evening, Israeli forces closed the main road connecting the cities of Jineen and Nablus, as well as the entrance to the town of Bizzariya, following an alleged shooting in the area.

With Manasrah’s killing, the number of Palestinians killed in Jenin governorate since the start of the Israeli onslaught on the city and its refugee camp has risen to 39.

T.R. 

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Asra Media Office: Wounded detainee Nasir Khaleel Al-Radayida died due to medical negligence

Sunday 20-April-2025

Bait La'ham (Bethlehem), (PIC)

Asra Media Office has confirmed that deliberate medical neglect and poor healthcare in Israeli prisons led to the death of wounded detainee Nasir Khaleel Al-Radayida.

Al-Radayida, 49, was kidnapped on 18 September 2023 after being shot by the Israeli occupation forces and was initially transferred to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in serious condition. Despite signs of stabilization, he later died at Hadassah Hospital following his transfer from Ofer Prison.

His death marks the second among Palestinian detainees in just four days, bringing the number of prisoners confirmed to have died in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023 to 65, including 40 from Gaza.

Since 1967, the total number of Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli custody has reached 302. Israel continues to withhold the bodies of 74 of them.

The Office described the accelerating rate of deaths in custody, amid complete international silence, as a full-fledged humanitarian catastrophe and an ongoing war crime against Palestinian detainees.

It emphasized that Al-Radayida’s death is further evidence that thousands of detainees continue to endure systematic and ongoing violations, including medical neglect, starvation, torture, and both physical and psychological abuse.

The Office renewed its call for urgent and serious intervention by international and human rights bodies—especially the International Committee of the Red Cross—to act swiftly to protect detainees and pressure Israeli authorities to halt daily abuses that endanger their lives.

It also called on the Palestinian public and the wider Arab and Islamic communities to mobilize in support of Palestinian prisoners and to reject the ongoing policy of systematic execution within Israeli detention facilities.

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Palestinian prisoner from Bait La'ham (Bethlehem) dies in Israeli custody

Sunday 20-April-2025

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Palestinian Authority’s civil affairs administration has informed the Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society that a Palestinian prisoner has died at Israel’s Hadassah Hospital.

According to WAFA news agency, prisoner Nasir Khaleel Al-Radayida, a 49-year-old from Al-'Ubaydiya town in Bait La'ham (Bethlehem), was transferred to Hadassah Hospital yesterday from Ofer jail, where he was pronounced dead today, Sunday.

The new victim brought to 65 the number of Palestinians who had died in Israeli jails and detention camps since October, 2023.

A few days ago, 20-year-old prisoner Mus'ab 'Udaili, from Nablus, was martyred at Soroka Hospital.

Those prisoners have now become among the victims of the systematic and unprecedented abuses perpetrated by the Israeli prison service against Palestinian detainees since the start of the genocidal war on Gaza. The Israeli violations against the prisoners, according to human rights reports, include physical torture, arbitrary punishment, denial of medical care, and other severe infringements on their rights.

In a related context, the 'Hamas Movement has mourned martyr Nasir Al-Radayida, who died in Israeli detention, accusing the Israeli occupation regime of slowly killing the Palestinian prisoners in its jails.

'Hamas described the incarceration conditions endured by the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails as “war crimes,” calling for international action to pressure Israel to end its violations against the detainees and hold its leaders accountable for their actions. 

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Palestinian child seriously injured in IOFs shooting in Nablus

Sunday 20-April-2025

NABLUS, (PIC)

A Palestinian child was seriously injured on Sunday afternoon when Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) raided Nablus City and fired live bullets at Palestinian citizens.

Palestinian Medical Relief Society said that its teams tended to the 16-year-old boy who was hit with a live bullet in the back.

The PIC reporter said that IOFs stormed the eastern area of Nablus City while firing live bullets at the citizens, wounding the boy.

He added that the IOFs installed a roadblock to the east of city and hampered the movement of citizens.

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IOFs target journalists at the entrance of the besieged Jineen refugee camp

Sunday 20-April-2025

Jineen, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) targeted journalists on Sunday afternoon as they approached the vicinity of Jineen refugee camp, which has been under siege for 90 consecutive days.

Local sources reported that occupation soldiers fired gas canisters toward journalist Raya Arouq, a correspondent for Al-'Aalam News Channel, and cameraman Mu'hammed Abdul Khaliq, while they were present near one of the entrances of Jenin camp to cover the IOF assault on the camp.

The sources added that the IOFs prevent press crews from entering or even approaching the refugee camp to cover the events and document the destruction of homes, buildings, and citizens’ property.

Occupation forces continue their assault on Jenin and its camp for the 90th day in a row, including ongoing bulldozing and destruction of infrastructure.

The IOFs brought in military reinforcements from checkpoints surrounding the city, patrolling various areas, particularly around the camp, the industrial zone, the Internal Security Roundabout, and the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority security services in Jenin.

According to the media committee in Jineen refugee camp, around 600 homes in the camp have been destroyed, while nearly 3,000 housing units have become uninhabitable. This situation has severely impacted the local economy, with thousands of displaced residents losing their sources of income, leading to a significant increase in poverty rates within theJineen community and deepening the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the area.

The number of displaced people from the camp has reached approximately 21,000, scattered across Jineen Governorate — including 6,000 in Jenin city itself, 4,181 in the town of Burqeen, and thousands of others in housing facilities belonging to the Arab American University.

The aggression in Jineen city and its camp has resulted in the killing of 40 Palestinians, including two who were shot by Palestinian Authority security forces. These forces have been conducting a security campaign for 148 days, relentlessly pursuing resistance fighters and activists. This campaign has involved the arrest, brutal abuse, and torture of dozens of wanted individuals, as well as hundreds of citizens from Jenin camp, as part of a war targeting the popular support base of the resistance.

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Palestinian injured by IOFs gunfire, others kidnapped in West Bank

Sunday 20-April-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) injured one Palestinian citizen and kidnaped others in the West Bank last night and on Sunday morning.

According to local sources, the IOFs raided homes in 'Arraba town in southern Jineen and kidnaped two young men.

In Nablus, Israeli occupation forces stormed different neighborhoods of the Old City, with no reported raids on homes or kidnappings.

In Toulkarm, a young man suffered a bullet injury in his leg after an Israeli occupation soldier opened fire at him during his presence in Nazlat 'Eisa area, which is located near the separation wall.

The Red Crescent said its paramedics provided first aid for the wounded young man in the area before transporting him to the Thabit Thabit Hospital in Toulkarm.

In Al-Khaleel (Hebron), the IOFs kidnaped two citizens from the southern area of Al-Khaleel (Hebron) City and a 16-year-old teenager from Safa area in Bait Ummar town.

A young man was also taken prisoner during an IOFs raid in Dair Samit town, south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

In east Jerusalem, Israeli police forces kidnaped a young man from his home in Issawiya district, while a group of extremist settlers hurled stones at a bus carrying Palestinian citizens in Al-Shaikh Jarra'h neighborhood.

In Ramallah, the IOFs took over a house in Turmus Ayya town and turned it into a military post on Sunday morning.

Local sources said that Israeli soldiers forced Hasan Abdul-Qadir and his family to leave their home in Turmus 'Ayya and used it as military barracks, adding that Jewish settlers set up recently a new illegal outpost on Palestinian-owned lands belonging to local residents from the town.

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 IOF forces 10 families to displace from Nour Shams refugee camp

Sunday 20-April-2025

TULKAREM, (PIC)

 Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) continue their aggression on the city of Tulkarem and its refugee camp for the 84th consecutive day, and for the 71st day on Nour Shams camp, on Sunday amid a military escalation involving raids, assaults, evacuations, and forced displacement.

According to the media committee in Toulkarm, the IOFs forced around 10 families from the Jabal Al-Nasr area in Nour Shams refugee camp and the western part of the camp to evacuate their homes by force and threatened other families with eviction. The camp witnessed heavy gunfire, the storming of dozens of homes, and the vandalization of several citizens’ vehicles.

In a press statement on Sunday, ts on the camp, which has become nearly empty of residents who were forcibly displaced from their homes.

The committee noted that IOFs bulldozers carried out excavation operations on the completely destroyed streets inside the camp and blocked its western entrance with earth mounds. Meanwhile, IOFs continue to be deployed in various neighborhoods of the camp, seizing homes and closing many entrances with barbed wire.

It added that occupation forces intensified their presence in the city of Tulkarem, firing sound bombs heavily at vehicles and civilians. They pursued young men around Jamal Abdul Nasir Square and arrested one of them. The forces also raided a number of commercial shops, subjecting those inside to field interrogation in the eastern neighborhood of the city.

The incursions also extended to the Dthinnaba suburb and the Salam neighborhood in the east of the city, where the occupation army stormed several homes and conducted wide-scale searches and interrogations. At the same time, the IOF continues to seize homes and residential buildings on Nablus Street and the adjacent northern neighborhood, turning them into military barracks after forcing residents to evacuate by force.

The IOFs ongoing aggression and escalation in Tulkarem city and its camps have led to the martyrdom of 13 citizens, including a child and two women — one of whom was eight months pregnant — in addition to the injury and arrest of dozens. More than 4,000 families have been displaced from Tulkarem and Nour Shams refugee camps, along with hundreds of residents from the city’s northern neighborhood after their homes were seized and some turned into military posts.

The aggression has caused massive destruction to infrastructure, homes, commercial shops, and vehicles, which have been completely or partially destroyed, burned, vandalized, looted, and stolen. A total of 396 homes were completely destroyed and 2,573 partially damaged in Tulkarem and Nour Shams camps. Their entrances and alleys have also been blocked with earth mounds.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Note: Despite the Trump administration support for the Israeli occupation apartheid regime, the U.S. official policy is still considering the Israeli settlement activities in the Palestinian territories as illegal.

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Dozens of the illegal Israeli settlers defile Al-Aqsa Mosque under police guard

Sunday 20-April-2025

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

Scores of the illegal Israeli settlers desecrated Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) on Sunday morning and later in the afternoon, 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 Maghariba Gate and provocatively toured its courtyards under police protection.

During their tours at the Islamic holy site, the settlers received lectures from rabbis about the alleged temple mount and a number of them provocatively performed provocative dances and Talmudic prayers.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation police imposed movement and entry restrictions on Muslim worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque’s entrances and gates and prevented many of them from entering the holy site.

On Saturday, the Israeli police prevented Palestinian Christians from entering Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) to attend the Holy Saturday (Holy Fire) ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

The Israeli police also barred the Vatican’s ambassador to Palestine from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to attend the Holy Saturday prayers. Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana, who represents the Holy See, was stopped at a police checkpoint and denied entry to the holy site despite his diplomatic status and the sanctity of the occasion.

Many Christian worshipers were also exposed to assaults and arbitrary arrests at the hands of Israeli police officers as they tried to enter the church and celebrate the holy day’s events.

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Illegal Israeli settlers attack citizens’ property in Wadi Qana northwest of Salfeet

SALFEET, April 20, 2025 (WAFA) –

Illegal Israeli settlers attacked the property of Palestinian citizens on Sunday night in the Wadi Qana area near the town of Dair Istya, northwest of Salfeet, according to a local activist.

Anti-colonial activist, Nadthmi Salman, reported that a group of colonists vandalized agricultural property belonging to several Palestinian residents in the area.

Salman explained that the attack involved damaging agricultural equipment and cutting down and breaking several trees.

He pointed out that these attacks are part of the ongoing colonial escalation targeting Palestinian land and property in Wadi Qana, in an attempt to impose a new reality on the ground.

T.R.

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Illegal Israeli settlers torch crops, steal cars and equipment in West Bank

Sunday 20-April-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

Hordes of the illegal Israeli settlers rampaged through different areas of the occupied West Bank on Saturday, setting fire to crops and stealing cars and equipment belonging to Palestinian citizens.

According to local sources, several settlers infiltrated into Khirbet Susya hamlet in Masafir Yatta, south of al-Khalil, and set alight a swath of cultivated land, destroying its crops.

In eastern Nablus, a group of settlers escorted by soldiers stole equipment and trucks from Palestinian workers as they were embarking on setting up a new power line for the village of Bait Dajan.

Local sources said that settlers, with the help of soldiers, attacked electricity workers and local residents near Bait Dajan village, clashed with them, and stole three trucks and equipment from them.

In the northern Jordan Valley, settlers reportedly stole water pumps used for irrigating agricultural lands.

Local official Arif Daraghma reported that settlers stole pumps used for delivering water to swaths of Palestinian land planted with crops in Khirbet Al-Dair in the northern Jordan Valley, adding that they also vandalized solar panels in the area.

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Israeli occupation forces close western entrance to village southeast of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), April 20, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces closed on Sunday evening the western entrance to the village of Al-Minya, southeast of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), according to a local official.

Zayid Kawazba, head of Al-Maniya Village Council, told WAFA that Israeli forces, accompanied by a bulldozer, raided the village and bulldozed the western entrance near the secondary school located on the main colonial road, closing it off with earth mounds.

The occupation forces have recently escalated their attacks on the village, which have included assaults on farmers and shepherds, as well as the seizure of agricultural produce.

T.R.

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Israeli occupation forces close main road connecting cities of Jineen and Nablus

NABLUS, April 20, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces closed on Sunday night the main road connecting the cities of Jineen and Nablus, according to local sources.

Israeli occupation forces shut down the Homesh military checkpoint northwest of Nablus, along with the entrance to the village of Bizzariya, following an alleged shooting attack in the area.

Since the ceasefire in Gaza went into effect on January 19, the Israeli occupation has intensified its military measures in the West Bank, erecting checkpoints and installing iron gates at the entrances of Palestinian towns and cities.

According to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, the number of military checkpoints and iron gates set up by the occupation across the West Bank has reached 898. This includes 18 gates installed since the beginning of 2025 and 146 gates erected after October 7, 2023.

T.R.

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Editorial Notes about terms & names of people and places:

1. Names of people and places have been standardized to match standard Arabic grammatical rules.

2. Underlined letters and letters preceded by an apostrophe are references to Arabic letter sounds, which does not exist in the English alphabet.

3. The English letter i is equivalent to the Arabic short vowel known as kasra, as in Ibraheem and Qasim as well as in the English words sit and bit. So, it is incorrect to use it as a long vowel for such Arabic names as Jameel and Jibreel.

4. The English letter e is equivalent to the Arabi short vowel known as fat'ha, as in A'hmed and Mu'hammed.

5. It is more accurate to refer to the land-grabbing Israelis, who establish illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, as illegal Israeli settlers, than referring to them as colonists.

The term colony is a reference to a large entity or a country, such as American states before independence. It was also a reference to Egypt, and India, when they were British colonies.

In addition, the term "colony" represents a positive nostalgic theme, in the minds of native speakers of English, particularly in America and Britain.

6. It is more accurate to use the verbs "abduct" and "kidnap" than the verbs "detain" and "arrest," in reference to taking Palestinian citizens by force to prisons and interrogation centers, by Israeli occupation regime soldiers. This is because the presence of the Israeli occupation regime forces is illegal in the Palestinian territories, and they have no jurisdiction over the Palestinian people.

Click here for more about using the apostrophe and the underlining of letters in the transliteration of Arabic names. 

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Names of some of the Palestinian cities, as pronounced in standard Arabic, and their foreign names in parentheses: 

Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Nusayrat

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Aree'ha (Jericho)

Al-Zaytoun (al-Zeitoun)

Bait (Beit)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Dair El-Bala'h

Jineen (Jenin)

Khan Younus (Khan Younis)

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Person's names as pronounced in standard Arabic:

A'hmed, 'Hasan, Mu'hammed, Younus, Yousuf,  

'Hasan Mulai'hat,

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Conflict terminology

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime (the Israeli government)

Illegal Israeli settlers (instead of settlers, colonists)

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers

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