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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69 Palestinians Killed, 362 Injured, Mostly Children, Women, and Aid Seekers,

Which Brings the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on the Gaza Strip to 61,499 and the Injuries to 153,575

by August 11, 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 August 11, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 74,567.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (61,499) and those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 13,068+). 

By August 11, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 153,575.

By August 9, 2025, according to news report, 1,019 Palestinians who were killed, 6,986 who were injured, and 18,506, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023.                    

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Note about the number of Palestinians, who were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces in the Wet Bank:

Palestinian Prisoners’ institutions reported that 662 Palestinians, including 39 children and 12 women, were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, including Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), during July 2025.

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), and Al Dhameer Association for Human Rights stated in a report issued Sunday that the total number of kidnappings of Palestinians in the West Bank, since the start of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, has risen to more than 18,500, including over 570 women and about 1,500 children.

Source: Palestine Information Center, August 10, 2025.

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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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Thirteen civilians were killed and 30 others were injured on Monday night by Israeli shelling targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip, August 11, 2025.	Five Palestinians, including a child, died, which brings the total number of the starvation-related fatalities to 222, including 101 children, due to the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, August 11, 2025.
Six Palestinian journalists were martyred by an Israeli genocidal air strike on their tent, near Al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza city, which brings the journalist death toll to 238, August 11, 2025.	Palestinian journalists Anas Al-Shareef, Mu'hammed Quraiqi', Ibraheem Dthahir, Mumin 'Ulaiwa, Mu'hammed Noafal, and Mu'hammed El-Khalidi, were massacred by an Israeli genocidal air strike, in Gaza, August 11, 2025.
Belongings of the five Palestinian journalists who were massacred by an Israeli genocidal air strike on their tent, near Al-Shifa hospital, in Gaza Strip, on August 11, 2025.	The Israeli occupation forces continued to carry out intensive deadly strikes which target civilians, in different areas of the Gaza Strip, particularly on eastern Gaza City, on August 11, 2025.
Widespread events and activities in support of the Palestinian people were held across Greece, including over 100 islands, cities, and tourist areas, on August 11, 2025.	Widespread events and activities in support of the Palestinian people were held across Greece, including over 100 islands, cities, and tourist areas, on August 11, 2025.
After the Israeli genocidal mass destruction of their homes displaced Palestinian family setting up their tents by the sea shore of Gaza City, August 11, 2025.	Palestinian paramedic, Dhiyaa Al-Bayouk, was injured while responding to a rescue call following an Israeli air strike on a home in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, in Gaza City, on August 11, 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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Gaza death toll surges to 61,499, casualties to 153,575

GAZA, August 11, 2025 (WAFA, PIC) –

The death toll from the Israeli genocidal aggression on the Gaza Strip Monday surged to 61,499 civilians, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The Ministry said that the total death toll in the Gaza Strip has climbed to 61,499, mostly women and children, since the onset of the genocidal aggression on the Strip on October 7, 2023.

The Ministry added that the toll of casualties since the outbreak of the aggression has also climbed to 153,575.

The Ministry pointed out that just within the last 24 hours, the bodies of 69 slain Palestinians, including one retrieved from the rubble, and 362 injuries were transferred to hospitals.

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes, killing at least 9,989 with 41,534 others wounded, according to medical sources.

The death toll of aid seekers who were killed at or near US-backed aid distribution points, reached 1,807 and the injuries to 13,012 of the aid seekers.

Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

The Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafa'h near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

K.F.

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Gaza: Heavy Israeli bombardments, attacks claim more civilian lives

Monday 11-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation army continued, last night and on Monday, to carry out intensive deadly strikes and target civilians in different areas of the Gaza Strip, especially in Gaza City.

Al Jazeera correspondents reported last night that the Israeli army launched concentrated bombardments – known locally as “fire belts” – on the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City.

They also reported loud booms and orange flashes and fires lighting up the sky over the bombed areas of Gaza City following a wave of intensive missile strikes.

According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter in Gaza, Israeli attacks have continued across the coastal territory, including a suicide drone strike in Gaza City that killed five journalists working for Al Jazeera satellite channel. Other people were killed and injured in the attack.

A drone also bombed a school sheltering a displaced family Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, in Gaza City, injuring several people.

Another airstrike on a tent sheltering a displaced family in Gaza City’s Al-Lababeedi street killed a couple and their child.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army detonated a number of buildings in the east of Gaza City.

In two separate incidents, Israeli forces shot dead a woman and a young man in Al-Shakoush area of Rafa'h, south of Gaza.

A citizen was martyred following an Israeli attack on a tent in Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younus, south of Gaza.

The Israeli army also massacred seven people in a drone attack on a house in Khan Younus,.

More people were martyred or injured in Israeli attacks on aid seekers near distribution points in southern and central Gaza.

Five people, including one child, were pronounced dead due to starvation and malnutrition, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

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

Meanwhile, several Palestinians in Gaza were pronounced dead after they succumbed to injuries they sustained in recent attacks.

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Five more Palestinians die due to starvation and acute malnutrition in Gaza

GAZA, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced the deaths of five Palestinians, including a child,  in the past 24 hours due to starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip.

This brings the total number of the starvation-related fatalities to 222, including 101 children.

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip continues to worsen, due to the blockade and shortages of food and medical supplies. The severe famine is intertwined with the genocidal war waged by Israel since October 7, 2023.

Since March 2, 2025, the occupying authorities have closed all crossings with the Gaza Strip, blocking the entry of most food and medical aid, further accelerating the spread of famine across the territory.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has warned that malnutrition among children under five doubled between March and June as a result of the ongoing blockade.

The World Health Organization confirmed that malnutrition rates in Gaza have reached alarming levels, with nearly one in five children under five in Gaza City suffering from acute malnutrition.

Y.S.

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13 civilians killed, 30 others injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza

GAZA, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) –

Thirteen civilians were killed and 30 others were injured on Monday night by Israeli shelling targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation forces targeted aid seekers in Al-Soudaniya area, northwest of the Gaza Strip, killing eight people and injuring others.

Five more civilians were killed in an Israeli bombing targeting a group of citizens in Dair El-Bala'h, in central Gaza.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that Al-Saraya field hospital received approximately 30 injured aid seekers in northern Gaza.

T.R.

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One Palestinian child killed, dozens injured in Israeli strikes on aid seekers in central Gaza Strip

GAZA, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) – 

A Palestinian child was killed and dozens were wounded on Monday after the Israeli occupation forces struck multiple civilians waiting for aid in the central Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.

They reported that Israeli forces targeted of a group of Palestinians near an aid distribution point on Salah al-Din Street, south of the Wadi Gaza area in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of one child and injuring four others.

Y.S.

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Family of eight killed in Israel strike on neighborhood in Gaza

GAZA, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) –

A family of eight was killed on Monday morning  in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

WAFA correspondents reported, citing medical sources, that a mother, a father, and six of their children from the Ru'hayim family were killed as a result of the Israeli airstrikes.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have launched an offensive on the Gaza Strip, killing 61,430 civilians, the majority of whom are children and women, and wounding 153,213 others. The death toll is not final, with a number of victims still under the rubble and in the streets, and ambulance and rescue crews are unable to reach them.

K.T.

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Gaza: 10 Palestinians killed in Israeli bombing of several areas

GAZA, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) –

Ten citizens were killed at dawn on Monday after Israeli warplanes bombed Gaza City and Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that seven citizens were killed and several others were injured when Israeli warplanes bombed a house in the western camp in Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip.

In Gaza City, three citizens were killed and others were injured after the Israeli occupation forces bombed a tent for displaced people on Al-Lababeedi Street in the city.

The Israeli occupation forces also blew up residential buildings east of Gaza City.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have launched an offensive on the Gaza Strip, killing 61,430 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and wounding 153,213 others. The death toll is not final, as a number of victims remain under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulances and rescue teams.

K.T.

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Seven Palestinians, including four journalists, killed by Israeli shelling in Gaza

GAZA, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) –

Seven Palestinian citizens, including four journalists, were killed on Sunday evening by an Israeli genocidal air strike, west of Gaza City.

WAFA correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation forces directly targeted a journalists' tent in front of Al-Shifa Hospital west of Gaza City, killing seven citizens, including fellow journalists Anas Al-Sharieef and Mu'hammed Quraiqi', correspondents for Al Jazeera, photojournalists Ibraheem Dthahir and Mu'hammed Noafal, and the crew's driver. Journalist Mu'hammed Sob'h was also injured.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have launched an offensive on the Gaza Strip, killing 61,430 citizens, the majority of whom are children and women, and wounding 153,213 others.

The death toll is not final, with a number of victims still under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and rescue crews unable to reach them.

K.T.

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Paramedic injured by Israeli gunfire in Gaza City

Monday 11-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

A paramedic from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society was injured on Monday evening while responding to a rescue call following an Israeli strike on a home near the University College, southwest of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

The Red Crescent reported that paramedic Dhiyaa Mu'hammed Sulayman Al-Bayouk sustained shrapnel wounds to his right shoulder from an artillery shell. He was immediately transferred to Al-Quds Hospital, where his condition was described as stable.

The General Directorate of Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip condemned the Israeli occupation’s ongoing disregard for international humanitarian law and treaties, pointing to its consistent refusal to approve the majority of coordination requests submitted by the directorate through international and humanitarian organizations since the end of the last ceasefire in March.

According to the directorate, the Israeli occupation has only approved 10% of a total of 300 coordination requests filed via humanitarian organizations.

It stressed that Israel’s rejection of these field coordination requests for humanitarian response has resulted in the deaths of more than 2,500 civilians who were injured in targeted areas.

The Civil Defense called on the international community to pressure the Israeli occupation to comply with and respond to coordination requests for its humanitarian missions.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, backed by full US support, has continued its assault on the Gaza Strip, in what has been internationally described as a genocide. The campaign includes killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, in defiance of International Court of Justice orders to halt operations and abide by international law.

The offensive has left over 213,000 Palestinians killed or wounded, the vast majority of them women and children, with more than 9,000 missing and hundreds of thousands displaced.

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

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Israeli occupation forces storm Nablus-area refugee camp

NABLUS, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) stormed Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, on Monday.

WAFA correspondent reported that IOFs stormed Balata refugee camp, deploying heavily in the alleys and neighborhoods, and raided a number of homes.

The operation is still ongoing.

K.T

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The Israeli occupation apartheid regime imposes heightened restrictions on legal teams visiting Palestinian detainees in its prisons

RAMALLAH, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said today that the Israeli occupation apartheid regime has imposed severe and heightened restrictions on legal teams monitoring the conditions of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, both during field visits and court sessions.

In a joint statement issued Monday, the two organizations said that, in addition to the restrictions imposed on lawyers since the start of the genocide, the prison administration had informed several lawyers that they were prohibited from conveying any family greetings or messages to detainees, and threatened to take punitive measures against any lawyer attempting to deliver such messages during visits or court sessions.

They emphasized that these measures are part of Israel’s efforts to fully isolate detainees from the outside world and their families, as the International Committee of the Red Cross continues to be prevented from visiting them, and their relatives have been barred from seeing them since the beginning of the genocide.

The statement added that, at the beginning of the war, Israel banned lawyers from visiting detainees, and after persistent efforts by specialized institutions, visits were resumed but with continued major obstacles. These included the deliberate declaration of a state of emergency by the prison administration upon the lawyer’s arrival to cancel the visit after a long journey, a practice repeated many times. Other obstacles included long delays in responding to visit requests, which could extend for two weeks or more, and sometimes several months, particularly in the case of detainees serving life sentences.

It was also reported that detainees have faced assaults and threats before or after meeting with their lawyers, along with the recent ban on a group of lawyers from visiting them for several consecutive months.

The statement further pointed to Israel’s continued crime of enforced disappearance against a large number of detainees from Gaza, by preventing legal teams from reaching them. Human rights institutions’ attempts in recent months, following certain amendments to regulations concerning Gaza detainees, have enabled visits to dozens of Gaza detainees, but only under extremely tight security measures.

T.R. 

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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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Armed illegal Israeli settlers attack Palestinian residents in Al-Khaleel (Hebron)-area towns, injuries reported

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), August 11, 2025 (WAFA) -

Several Palestinian residents were injured on Monday evening in an attack carried out by the illegal Israeli settlers  on the towns of 'Hal'houl and Soureef, in Al-Khaleel (Hebron) governorate.

WAFA correspondent reported that several armed colonists, under the protection of Israeli soldiers, attacked citizens in the towns of 'Hal'houl and Soureef, beating them severely. The attack caused several residents to suffer bruises and contusions across their bodies. They were all treated at the scene.

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers also destroyed a grape harvest belonging to the Karja family in the Hawawer area of 'Hal'houl town and stole another harvest.

Since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023, colonists’ violence against Palestinians and their properties has sharply increased. This indiscriminate violence targeting Palestinian civilians and their property has drawn widespread condemnation. In response, several countries have imposed sanctions on Israeli colonists accused of committing such violent acts in the West Bank.

T.R.

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 Illegal Israeli settlers uproot dozens of trees, damage irrigation pipes in Nablus

NABLUS, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers cut down dozens of trees on Monday in lands belonging to Palestinian resident Mu'hammed 'Abdul Raheem Nofal, in Dair Sharaf village, west of Nablus.

'Omar Nofal, deputy head of the village council, said that a group of the illegal Israeli settlers carried out an attack on the village, uprooting dozens of olive, pomegranate, citrus, and grape trees. The colonists also destroyed water pipes used to irrigate crops and trees.  

According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, colonists carried out 232 acts of vandalism and theft of Palestinian property in July alone, affecting vast areas of land. They also uprooted and  vandalized 2,844 trees, including 2,647 olive trees.

Y.S.

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Illegal Israeli settlers release livestock among Palestinian homes near Aree'ha (Jericho)

Aree'ha (Jericho), August 11, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers released their livestock among the homes of Palestinian residents in the village of Shallal El-'Auja, north of Jericho, on Monday morning.

The settlers' violations are part of a series of daily challenges facing the residents, aimed at harassing them and imposing colonial control over the area, exposing them to the risk of forced displacement.

K.T

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Illegal Israeli settlers force Palestinian shepherds to leave pastures near the Jordan Valley

JORDAN VALLEY, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers forced shepherds to leave their pastures in Al-Hamma in the northern Jordan Valley on Monday.

Local sources reported that armed illegal Israeli settlers forced the shepherds to leave their pastures in Al-Hamma and pursued them to areas close to their tents in the same area.

All areas of the northern Jordan Valley have witnessed a significant escalation in attacks by armed colonists against citizens and their property, including physical assaults, preventing them from grazing, stealing their livestock and property, and raiding their tents.

Due to these attacks, more than 25 Palestinian families have been displaced from their homes in the northern Jordan Valley since last summer, and three communities have been completely emptied. The number of Palestinian families in other communities has also decreased.

According to a report by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, issued in early August, the colonists' terror and the imposition of a coercive, repulsive environment, carried out under the systematic sponsorship of the official establishment in the occupying state, have led to the displacement of 33 Bedouin communities since October 7, 2023.

K.T.

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 Illegal Israeli settlers set new colonial outpost near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers established a new colonial outpost on Monday on lands in the town of 'Atara, northwest of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that dozens of colonists stormed the "Jabal El-Khirba" area at the entrance to the town, accompanied by a bulldozer.

They began paving a dirt road in the area and erecting tents there.

It is worth noting that the Jabal El-Khirba area, which covers an area of 2,000 dunams, is an archaeological site frequented by settlers periodically as part of a colonial settlement policy aimed at displacing the Palestinian population and threatening security and stability.

K.T.

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Illegal Israeli settlers attack Palestinian areas in Jordan Valley and Aree'ha (Jericho)

Monday 11-August-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

A horde of the illegal Israeli settlers attacked on Monday morning Palestinian areas in the northern Jordan Valley and Jericho, south of the occupied West Bank.

According to local sources, armed settlers forced Palestinian shepherds to leave pastoral lands in Al-'Hamma area of the northern Jordan Valley and chased them into their nearby hamlet.

For long months, the entire northern Jordan Valley area has been seeing a sharp rise in settler violations and crimes against Palestinian villagers and their property.

Over 25 local families had to leave their communities in different areas of the northern Jordan Valley in the past months following a wave of aggressive practices by settlers and soldiers.

Meanwhile, another group of settlers released their sheep into the village of Shallal El-'Auja in northern Jericho as part of their near-daily provocations in the area.

In a separate incident, a horde of settlers established a new illegal outpost on a swath of land they annexed from Attara town, northwest of Ramallah.

According to local sources, dozens of settlers with a bulldozer stormed the Jabal El-Khirba area of the town, where they embarked on building a road and pitching tents.

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 Israeli occupation forces raze lands, uproot trees near Nablus

NABLUS, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) began bulldozing lands belonging to the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, on Monday morning.

Fatin Sala'h, a member of the Burqa Land Defense Committee, told WAFA that the IOFs bulldozers began bulldozing and uprooting ancient olive trees in Al-Wadi area adjacent to the road between Jineen and Nablus, as part of a colonial plan to expand the roads.

K.T.

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Israeli police raid El-'Eisawiya, in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), impose fines on Palestinian vehicles

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), August 11, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation police raided the town of El-'Eisawiya, northeast of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), and issued fines to Palestinian-owned vehicles, local sources reported

The occupation police set up a military checkpoint in the center of the town and issued fines to multiple vehicles.

These fines are a punitive measure used by the occupation against Jerusalemites, imposed under flimsy pretexts.

Y.S.

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Israel halts construction in areas near Nablus

NABLUS, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation  apartheid regime notified several areas in the village of Duma, south of Nablus, on Monday, halting the construction there.

Duma Village Council head Sulayman Dawabsha told WAFA that Israeli forces stormed several areas south of the village and distributed notices declaring them archaeological sites, prohibiting work or agriculture there, based on the powers and laws of the Israeli government's antiquities department.

It is worth noting that the Israeli occupation apartheid regime had issued a few days ago a notice of seizure of the archaeological site in the town of Sebastya, northwest of Nablus, and the conversion of areas of its lands—one of the oldest and most important archaeological and historical sites in the West Bank—to become an "Israeli archaeological site."

K.T.

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Far-Right Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich calls for large-scale occupation in Gaza

RAMALLAH, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) – 

The extremist Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, called for the occupation of large parts of the Gaza Strip.

Smotrich told Kan, the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, "My plan is for large parts of Gaza to be under our control and sovereignty, and we can also settle there." He added, "This is the only way to maintain security. This is not the prime minister's plan. I know that."

During the recent security cabinet session, Smotrich expressed doubts regarding Prime Minister Netanyahu’s ability to achieve victory in the Gaza Strip.

The extremist minister opposed the gradual plan to occupy all of Gaza, as he wants a rapid and immediate occupation through a large-scale military operation, while reviving colony activities in the Gaza Strip.

Following Smotrich's statement, Knesset member Zvi Sukkot from his party threatened Netanyahu with calling early elections unless he adopted a "more aggressive war plan" for Gaza.

The Israeli security cabinet, known as the Cabinet, approved the occupation of Gaza City and the expansion of the aggression in the Strip at dawn on Friday.

According to Israeli media, the Cabinet unanimously approved a "military plan authorizing Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister, Yisrael Katz, to approve military plans."

The media added that the occupation's military plan will begin with the displacement of Gaza City's citizens southward, followed by the encirclement of the city, and then the implementation of additional incursions into population centers.

The military plan aligns with the demands of the extremist Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, to occupy the Gaza Strip and build settlements there.

Since October 7, 2023, the occupation forces occupied all of Gaza City, except small areas and stayed there for several months before withdrawing from most areas in April 2024.

Smotrich also issued instructions late last year to work on imposing sovereignty over the West Bank.

Y.S.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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Norway sovereign wealth fund sells investment in 11 Israeli companies

OSLO, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) -

Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, announced on Monday that it was selling its investments in 11 Israeli companies due to the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, according to the Local news website.

It reported that Nicolai Tangen, chief of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages the fund, saying the decision was taken "in response to extraordinary circumstances".

"The situation in Gaza is a serious humanitarian crisis. We are invested in companies that operate in a country at war, and conditions in the West Bank and Gaza have recently worsened," Tangen said in a statement.

On Tuesday, the Norwegian government said that it would review its sovereign wealth fund's investments in Israel after the country’s leading newspaper revealed it had a stake in an Israeli company that provides services to Israel’s armed forces, leading to a public outcry.

Aftenposten published an investigation on Monday saying that the $1.9 trillion fund had invested in the Israeli company, Bet Shemesh Engines, which provides jet engine parts to Israeli fighter jets that are being used in its genocidal war on Gaza.

Finance minister and former head of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, said in a statement it was understandable that questions are being raised about the fund's investments in the Israeli company, given that the fund is not supposed to invest in companies that enable states to violate international law, Verdens Gang reported on Tuesday.

“The war in Gaza is contrary to international law and is causing terrible suffering, so it is understandable that questions are being raised about the fund’s investments in Bet Shemesh Engines,” Stoltenberg said.

“In light of…the deteriorating situation in Gaza and the West Bank, I will today ask Norges Bank and the Council on Ethics to conduct a renewed review of the fund's investments in Israeli companies and Norges Bank's work on responsible management," Stoltenberg said.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store told public broadcaster NRK that the fund's investment in the Israeli company was “worrying”.

"We must get clarification on this because reading about it makes me uneasy," he added.

In May 2025, Norway's sovereign wealth fund decided to divest from Israel’s Paz Retail and Energy because it owns and operates infrastructure supplying fuel to Israeli colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The fund, the world's largest, owns 1.5 percent of listed shares across 9,000 companies globally. Worth $1.8 trillion, the Norwegian fund has been an international leader in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment field.

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Australia to recognize State of Palestine at UN in September

Monday 11-August-2025

SYDNEY, (PIC)

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Monday that Australia will officially recognize the State of Palestine in September, ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, saying the situation in Gaza has surpassed “the world’s worst fears” amid the ongoing genocide.

Speaking at a press conference in Canberra following a government meeting, Albanese said recognition would depend on commitments from the Palestinian Authority. He noted that he had discussed the matter with leaders of Japan, Britain, New Zealand, and Israel.

“There can be no future for Hamas in a Palestinian state,” Albanese said, pointing to what he called “a window of opportunity to achieve the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.”

He highlighted a “historic declaration” issued by Arab countries after the two-state conference chaired by Saudi Arabia and France in New York as a key factor in shaping Australia’s decision.

The “New York Declaration,” released at the end of July and hosted by the United Nations, reaffirmed Paris’ determination to recognize Palestine, a move soon echoed by Britain and Canada.

The declaration emphasized that the Palestinian Authority must be the sole governing authority over all Palestinian territories, supported by the international community. It endorsed the Palestinian Authority’s principle of “one state, one government, one law, one army,” and pledged support for disarmament and reintegration measures under a defined timetable with international backing.

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Widespread events held across Greece in support of Palestinian people

ATHENS, August 11, 2025 (WAFA) -

Widespread events in support of the Palestinian people were held across Greece. The events were organized by the Palestinian community in Greece, in cooperation with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Greece and the Global March to Gaza movement.

Events and activities took place in dozens of locations, including over 100 islands, cities and tourist areas, creating a remarkable and unprecedented scene of solidarity in the history of pro-Palestinian events in Greece.

The events conveyed clear messages rejecting the crimes of the Israeli occupation and affirmed the Greek people’s support for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.

Participants also called on the Greek government to realign its foreign policy toward the Palestinian cause in accordance with the popular stance supporting freedom, justice, and the right to self-determination.

This year’s activities and events extended to major tourist areas and Greek islands, where beaches, ports, and public squares hosted cultural and artistic sit-ins and events. Members of the Palestinian and Greek communities, alongside participants from various nationalities, took part in the events.

Observers believe that this widespread popular mobilization reflects the deep historical ties between the Greek and Palestinian peoples, established decades ago on shared values of resistance against occupation and injustice.

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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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