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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100 Palestinians Killed, 513 Injured, Mostly Children, Women, and Aid Seekers,

Which Brings the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on the Gaza Strip to 61,599 and the Injuries to 154,088

by August 12, 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 12, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 74,656.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (61,599) and those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 13,057+). 

By August 12, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 154,088.

By August 12, 2025, according to news report, 1,019 Palestinians who were killed, 6,987 who were injured, and 18,509, 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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61 Palestinians were killed, 363 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, bringing the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 61,430 and the injuries to 153,430, by August 10, 2025.	The Hind Rajab Foundation of Brussels submitted an ICC complaint against the Israeli Generals who killed Al-Jazeera TV correspondent in Gaza, Anas Al-Shareef, and his our other colleagues, August 12, 2025.
The 'Hamas Movement has accused the Israeli occupation regime of persisting in engineering starvation and chaos against more than two million people in the Gaza Strip by denying them food, August 12, 2025.	The Israeli prison administration continues to impose systematic, abusive conditions on Palestinian prisoners, leading to widespread illness, life-threatening neglect, and starvation, August 12, 2025.
500 Palestinian infants are currently receiving hospital treatment due to hunger and severe malnutrition caused by the Israeli ongoing blockade and starvation policy, August 12, 2025.	American pediatrician Aqsa Durrani said that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is created by the Israeli genocide, deliberate cruelty, evil, relentless bombardment and a suffocating starvation, August 12, 2025.
61 Palestinians were killed, 363 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, on August 10, 2025.	61 Palestinians were killed, 363 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, mostly children, women, and aid seekers, bringing the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 61,430 and the injuries to 153,430, by August 10, 2025.
Grieving, at Al-Shifa hospital, the Palestinian martyrs who were massacred by the Israeli occupation forces, while they were waiting to get some food, at the Israeli-controlled aid central, in northern Gaza Strip, August 12, 2025.	Few Palestinian abductees, who were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza streets, were released to Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital in Dair El-Bala'h, after about 22 months in the Israeli brutal Israeli prison system, August 12, 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: Hospitals receive 100 martyrs, death toll climbs to 61,599

Tuesday 12-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC, WAFA, PIC)

During the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of at least 100 civilians (including 11 recovered bodies from the rubble), as well as 513 people suffering from different injuries following Israeli attacks, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, on Tuesday morning.

Accordingly, a total of 10,078 people have been killed and 42,047 others have been injured since the Israeli occupation army resumed its genocidal war on Gaza on March 18, 2025.

The new fatalities increased the death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, which started on October 7, 2023, to 61,599 martyrs, including 1,838 aid seekers who were killed at or near US-backed distribution points, the health ministry said.

The Ministry added that the total number of the wounded also surged to 154,088 people, including 13,409 aid seekers.

The Ministry also said that Gaza’s hospitals recorded five new fatalities in the past 24 hours due to starvation and malnutrition, bringing the death toll from the famine to 227 victims, including 103 children.

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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Israeli occupation forces launch intensive attacks across Gaza, killing and injuring dozens

Tuesday 12-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

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

According to local media sources, Israeli occupation forces also continued today to detonate and bomb more homes and displace families in the Gaza Strip, further deepening the dire humanitarian crisis as the population grapples with worsening famine.

According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter in Gaza, the Israeli genocidal attacks have continued across the Gaza Strip, including an Israeli genocidal airstrike that killed three citizens and injured others in Gaza City’s as-Sabra neighborhood.

Three people were also martyred in an Israeli genocidal air strike near Al-Shaikh Radhwan pool, in Gaza City.

The civil defense service said that 28 civilians were massacred in Israeli airstrikes on homes in Gaza City’s Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

A warplane also bombed an apartment belonging to the family of Abu Kameel in Gaza City’s Al-Sa'haba area, killing four people and injuring others.

Seven people were martyred and others suffered injuries in Israeli aerial attacks on two homes near the Farouk Mosque in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

In southern Gaza, Israeli strikes on tents in Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younus, killing a couple and their child as well as another child and his father.

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

Five people, including two children, 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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‎Two Martyrs and Wounded in Israeli Shelling on Al-Shaikh Radhwan Neighborhood in Gaza City‎

‎Gaza 12-8-2025 Wafa -

Two civilians were killed and others were injured, on Tuesday evening, in Israeli shelling on Gaza City.‎

‎Our correspondent reported that the shelling targeted a group of citizens in the vicinity of the second street in Al-Shaikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest of Gaza City.‎

‎Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have launched an aggression on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of 61,599 civilians, the majority of them children and women, and the injury of 154,088 others, in an inconclusive toll, as a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews are unable to reach them‎‎.‎

‎/W.A.‎

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 Israeli genocidal airstrikes kill nine civilians, in two massacres in Khan Younus, in southern Gaza Strip

GAZA, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation forces committed two massacres this morning in Khan Younus and Gaza City, killing nine civilians and wounding others.

Medical sources at Nasir Hospital in Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip, said that the bodies of five people and several wounded others were taken to the hospital as a result of the occupation forces' targeting of a tent in the Al-Majayda area in Khan Younus.

The sources at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City also announced the arrival of the bodies of four martyrs and several wounded as a result of the occupation forces' bombing of the Al-'Husari family home near Al-Farouk Mosque in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of the city.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation has continued its aggression against the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 61,499 citizens, the majority of whom are children and women, and the injury of 153,575 others, according to a preliminary toll. Victims continue to be trapped under the rubble and on the streets, with ambulance and rescue crews unable to reach them.

K.T.

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Seven Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

Gaza, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) –

Seven citizens were killed and others injured on Tuesday afternoon in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City.

WAFA correspondents, citing medical sources, reported that three citizens were killed and others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a gathering of citizens near Al-Maghribi Street in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

The same sources added that four people were killed and several others were injured when Israeli aircraft bombed an apartment in the Al-Sa'haba area in the center of the city.

They indicated that 48 citizens, including children and women, have been killed since dawn today by Israeli gunfire and shelling in several areas across the Gaza Strip.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation has continued its aggression on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of 61,499 citizens, the majority of whom are children and women, and the injury of 153,575 others, according to a preliminary toll.

Victims remain trapped under the rubble and on the streets, with ambulance and rescue crews unable to reach them.

K.T.

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Two children among five dead due to starvation in Gaza

GAZA, August 6, 2025 (WAFA) –

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip said on Tuesday  that five citizens, including two children, have died due to starvation and malnutrition, recorded by hospitals in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.

Medical sources said that the total number of victims of famine and malnutrition has risen to 227, including 103 children.

It is worth noting that the 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 a genocidal war waged by Israel since October 7, 2023.

Since March 2, 2025, the occupation authorities have closed all crossings with the Gaza Strip, preventing the entry of most food and medical aid, causing a famine outbreak within the Strip.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has warned that malnutrition among children under the age of 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, that the deliberate blockade and delays in aid have caused many lives lost, and that nearly one in five children under the age of five in Gaza suffers from severe malnutrition.

K.T.

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Israeli shelling injures Gaza paramedic responding to emergency

GAZA, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli shelling on Monday night targeted and injured a Palestinian paramedic while on a rescue mission in Gaza City, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

It said that PRCS paramedic Dhiyaa Al-Bayouk suffered shrapnel wounds to his right shoulder from an artillery shell. He was immediately transferred to Al-Quds Hospital.

The incident occurred as Israeli forces intensively shelled the vicinity of the University College in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

Al-Bayouk, whose condition is reported as stable, was responding to an emergency call after a home in the area was targeted in the attack.

Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians.

The death toll reached at least 9,989 with 41,534 others wounded, according to medical sources. In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 69 slain Palestinians, including one retrieved from the rubble, and 362 casualties were admitted to Gaza hospitals.

Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 61,499 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 153,575 others.

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

The Israeli aggression 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.

A.D./ K.F.

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

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Palestinian sustains wounds and bruises in Israeli attack south of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

BBait La'hm (Bethlehem), August 12, 2025 (WAFA) –

A Palestinian on Tuesday sustained wounds and bruises in an Israeli forces attack in Al-Khadhir town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that Israeli occupation forces showed up at a house in the town, conducted a thorough search, and physically assaulted the owner’s son, inflicting bruises and wounds across his body.

The casualty was rushed to a hospital for treatment.

K.F. 

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Israeli occupation forces kidnapped disabled man, two siblings in Salfeet

SALFEET, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped a Palestinian young man with disabilities and two brothers during a pre-dawn incursion  of the town of Kafr El-Deek, west of Salfeet.

According to local sources, the Israeli occupation soldiers detained Ramadhan Jasir El-Deekk, a man with special needs, along with brothers Zahi and Ameer Ibraheem El-Deek, following a large-scale raid on several  homes in the town.

In a separate incident, Israeli forces conducted large-scale raids on residents' homes early Tuesday in the village of Baqa El-Hatab, east of Qalqilya.

Local sources reported to WAFA that the occupation forces stormed the village from its main entrance, deployed in the western neighborhood and the Bayadir area, and searched several homes, including one belonging to the Abdul Ghani family.

Several Israeli military vehicles stormed the village of 'Hajja, east of Qalqilya, and patrolled its streets and residential neighborhoods.

Y.S.

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PPS: Disease outbreak and dire conditions put lives of 10,000 Palestinian prisoners at risk

Tuesday 12-August-2025

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Israeli prison administration continues to impose what rights advocates describe as systematic, abusive conditions on Palestinian prisoners, leading to widespread illness and life-threatening neglect.

According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), the vast majority of detainees interviewed in recent visits suffer from health problems, many of them chronic or severe.

In a briefing issued Tuesday, the PPS summarized findings from legal team visits to Israeli prisons between late July and early August 2025. Prisoners reported a rapid spread of diseases, most notably scabies, that has infected thousands and continues to spread, creating a deepening health catastrophe.

The PPS accused the prison administration of deliberately engineering conditions that strip detainees of their dignity, erode their mental resilience, and inflict long-term illnesses that are difficult to treat. It said these conditions are designed to physically and psychologically exhaust prisoners, sometimes leading to death.

The rights group classified the violations in three categories: torture, starvation, and denial of medical care, practices it says have resulted in the martyrdom of 76 prisoners since the start of the Gaza genocide, marking the bloodiest period in the history of the Palestinian prisoner movement.

While all prisoners face such abuses, the intensity varies by facility. In Gilboa prison, detainees have recently endured escalating repression, including severe beatings, electric shocks, the use of attack dogs, and further cuts to already minimal food rations. “Repression is frequent, occurring about once a week,” one prisoner said, describing routine physical assaults, electric shocks, and verbal abuse.

Ofer prison, once among the least affected, has been hit by an unprecedented scabies outbreak. Testimonies indicate that infected prisoners are deliberately housed with healthy inmates, accelerating the spread. Prisoners are forced to share the same blankets, dishes, and toilets under unsanitary conditions. Twelve inmates share a single bottle of shampoo, insufficient even for three people, and are allowed only one-minute showers, not every day.

Prisoners are also deprived of sunlight and ventilation, with some sections denied outdoor breaks for over a month under the pretext of preventing disease spread. Cells have been described as “ovens” due to extreme heat, poor air circulation, lack of clothing, and severe overcrowding.

The Negev and Megiddo prisons, both with histories of torture and prisoner deaths, continue to report cases of scabies and other undiagnosed illnesses. Female prisoners in Damon prison face similar conditions.

In the Ramla prison clinic, 22 detainees, including the wounded, kidney patients needing dialysis, and paralyzed inmates requiring constant care, are reportedly held in “tragic” conditions.

As of early August 2025, there are about 10,800 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, excluding detainees from Gaza held in Israeli occupation army-run camps. This is the highest number since the Second Intifada in 2000. Among them are 49 women, 450 children, and 3,613 administrative detainees, the highest proportion compared to convicted prisoners.

Additionally, 2,378 detainees are classified by Israel as “unlawful combatants,” not counting Gaza detainees in military camps.

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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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Illegal Israeli settlers re-establish outpost near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers re-established a colonial outpost on the lands of the town of 'Atara, north of Ramallah, on Tuesday.

The mayor of 'Atara, Nizar El-Mughrabi, told WAFA that more than 15 colonists stormed the "Jabal El-Khirba" area at the entrance to the town on Tuesday morning, erected two tents, and brought cows and sheep and released them into the lands surrounding the outpost.

It is worth noting that "Jabal El-Khirba," which covers an area of 2,000 dunams, is an archaeological site frequented by colonists from time to time as part of a settlement policy aimed at displacing the population.

He pointed out that settlers have attempted to establish 15 new colonial outposts since the beginning of July, most of which are agricultural and pastoral.

These include five in Al-Khaleel (Hebron) Governorate, two outposts each in Salfeet, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Jericho, one in Tubas, and another in Jenin.

It is noteworthy that dozens of colonists stormed the "Jabal El-Khirba" area at the entrance to the town yesterday, accompanied by a bulldozer.

They began paving a dirt road for the area and set up tents there.

The colonists stayed there for several hours before withdrawing from the area in the evening, only to return this morning.

K.T.

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  Illegal Israeli settlers graze their livestock on Palestinian residents' lands in Masafi Yatta

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), August 12, 2025 (WAFA) – 

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers released their livestock to graze on lands planted with seedlings and fruit trees in the Masafi Yatta area, south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), in a new attack on Palestinian property in the southern West Bank.

Anti-settlement activist Osama Makhamreh told WAFA that a group of colonists from the illegal outpost of  Mitzpe Yair and neighboring settlement outposts, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, released their cattle onto residents lands planted with seedlings and almond and olive trees in the villages of Aqwawis, Al-Fakhit, and Al-'Halawa.

Makhamra affirmed that the colonists seized a water well owned by the Abu Aram family in the village of Aqwawis, banning residents from accessing it in an attempt to seize their land for the expansion of colonies.

Makhamra called on international and human rights organizations to intervene to halt the armed practices of the occupation and colonists and to prevent the daily attacks on defenseless citizens in Masafi Yatta.

Y.S.

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Illegal Israeli settlers graze cattle on Palestinian farmland in northern Jordan Valley

JORDAN VALLEY, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers on Monday intentionally grazed their cattle on Palestinian agricultural land in the village of Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley, according to local sources.

The sources said that the colonists herded their cows on a 110-dunam watermelon-planted field belonging to Mu'hammed Sawafta.

Colonists’ violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

The settler violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, and attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

Approximately 1 million illegal Israeli settlers are living in colonies in the West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) in violation of international law.

A.D./ K.F.

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Israel turns two illegal West Bank outposts into new settlement neighborhoods

RAMALLAH, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) – 

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission has revealed a systematic plan to transform multiple large colonial outposts around the Eli colony, built on land in the villages of Al-Sawiya, Al-Lubban, and Qaryout, into large neighborhoods affiliated with the colony.

The commission's head, Minister Mu-ayyad Sha'ban, affirmed that the occupying state had recently approved several master plans aimed at implementing massive expansions in the Eli colony as part of lager strategy to separate the central West Bank from its northern part through a colonial bloc extending between the Shilo and Eli settlements and the surrounding outposts, in the area between the Ramallah and Nablus governorates.

Sha'ban noted that last July, the occupying state submitted a master plan for the settlement, numbered (Yush/7/237), which aims to build 50 new settlement units on an area of 8.6 dunams. The plan will be located on fragmented areas of the land on which the settlement is located.

 In the past few days, it approved two major plans, the first of which, numbered (Yush/5/237), covers an area of 638 dunams, with the aim of building 650 new settlement units to regularize a large settlement outpost east of Eli.

He added that in July, Israeli planning bodies reviewed 39 master plans—34 for West Bank settlements and 5 for settlements inside Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries. Of these, 22 were approved and 12 were deposited, amounting to 4,492 approved settlement units and 1,095 pending units over 5,268 dunums of Palestinian land.

In occupied Jerusalem, the municipality approved one plan and deposited four others, totaling 260 pending units on 46 dunums, with no new units approved.

Sha'ban emphasized that the occupying state is continuing to impose facts on the ground on Palestinian soil, which will fragment the Palestinian territory and impose a system of isolated enclaves to eliminate the possibility of a future Palestinian state.

He emphasized that the serious violations committed by the occupying state on the ground not only violate the capabilities and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, but also further violate international community resolutions, UN resolutions, and declared legal positions.

Y.S.

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Israeli occupation forces demolish house near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) demolished a house in the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah, on Tuesday.

Local sources reported that an IOF force, accompanied by a bulldozer, stormed the town and demolished the home of Mu'hammed 'Izzat Sub'h.

K.T.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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Palestinian Presidency condemns as “disgraceful” actions of businessman floated as Gaza governor

RAMALLAH, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Palestinian Presidency condemned on Tuesday evening the actions of a Palestinian businessman widely floated as a governor of postwar Gaza as “disgraceful”.

“Responding to statements made by Sameer 'Hulaila, in which he invoked the name of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and senior officials in connection with his disgraceful actions that circumvent the PLO and the PNA’s official position rejecting the separation of the Gaza Strip from the West Bank as part of an Israeli scheme, the Presidency condemns 'Hulaila’s statements and calls on him to stop spreading lies and attempting to cover up his shameful stance, which brings him under liability.”

The Presidency reiterated that “the Gaza Strip is an inseparable part of the State of Palestine, and that its administration is the exclusive responsibility of the PNA and the Palestinian government.”

K.F.

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Palestinian Foreign Ministry welcomes the joint statement the FMs of 26 states on Gaza

RAMALLAH, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Palestinian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry welcomed on Tuesday the joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of 26 states on the situation in the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry considered the statement as indicative of an “international consensus” on Gaza, and called on all states and international organizations to translate this consensus into practical and binding steps that would compel Israel, the occupying power, to halt its crimes against Palestinian civilians.

It also urged them to step up official international visits to the Strip accompanied by media representatives and journalists.

The ministry stressed the great importance of activating the role of the United Nations and the UN Security Council to oversee the implementation of relevant UN resolutions, and to adopt the New York Call, which suggests a wave of future recognitions of an independent Palestinian state could take place in the coming months, and implement its outcomes.

K.F.

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France says Gaza’s future must be part of the future Palestinian state

PARIS, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) –

France said on Tuesday that the future of Gaza must be part of the future Palestinian state, according to a statement by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported in Anadolu Agency.

“The future of the Gaza Strip must be part of a future Palestinian state led by the Palestinian Authority. France remains committed to implementing the two-state solution, the only one that can guarantee lasting peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians. This war must end now with a permanent ceasefire," the Ministry said.

The Ministry warned of a possible "disaster" and "escalation" if the Israeli government implements its military occupation plan in Gaza.

"The recent announcement by the Israeli government of a military occupation of northern Gaza, if implemented, would be a disaster and an escalation, with Israeli hostages and Gaza’s civilian population once again the first victims," the Foreign Ministry added.

It reaffirmed that France continues to support the deployment of a temporary international stabilization mission aimed at ensuring the security of both Israelis and Palestinians.

K.F.

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Brazilian President renews strong condemnation of Israeli military attacks in Gaza as genocide

RAMALLAH, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) -

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva renewed his country's strong condemnation of the Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip as genocide.

The Brazilian President also condemned the appalling humanitarian situation imposed on the Gaza Strip, which has resulted in the killing of thousands of innocent people, including an unacceptable number of women and children, the almost complete destruction of infrastructure, along with widespread famine, and recently, the killing of hundreds at food distribution centers.

This was stated in a letter from the Brazilian president to President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas, in which he expressed his appreciation for President Abbas’s letter sent to him last month.

The Brazilian president noted that he had focused on the suffering of the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip, as a result of Israeli military actions during a high-level meeting with the leaders of Chile, Colombia, Spain and Uruguay, entitled “Democracy Forever,” held in the capital Santiago, which addressed the difficult ordeal and grave suffering of the Palestinian people.

He said that Brazil, in close cooperation with international partners, is making concerted efforts to enhance the necessary political mobilization to reach a comprehensive ceasefire, leading to the end of these atrocities, the complete withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, the release of the hostages, and the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip.

The Brazilian president stressed that peace in the Middle East depends on the effective implementation of the two-state solution, in line with international law, leading to the establishment of a viable independent Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in security and peace, within borders that include the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

He stressed that the ability of the Palestinian government to provide public services to its people, requires lifting Israel’s financial blockade on Palestinian tax revenues, which constitutes a violation of international law, in particular the Paris Protocol on Economic Relation of 1944.

He reiterated Brazil's unwavering support for the Palestinian cause, and affirmed Brazil's firm commitment to the realization of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, foremost of which is their right to self-determination.

T.R.

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US doctor describes ‘deliberate cruelty’ in Gaza, calls Israel’s actions genocide

Tuesday 12-August-2025

NEW YORK, (PIC)

An American pediatrician and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA has given a harrowing account of the humanitarian and medical catastrophe in Gaza, describing it as a genocide in which Israel “deliberately uses cruelty and evil.”

In a blog post titled Humans of New York, Dr. Aqsa Durrani recounted her two-month humanitarian mission in Gaza, where she witnessed not only relentless Israeli bombardment but also what she described as a suffocating starvation campaign that targeted everyone, including medical workers.

She said the Israeli occupation forces imposed severe restrictions even on humanitarian staff, allowing her to bring in no more than seven pounds of food. “I’m a humanitarian doctor, why is there even a food limit? I’ve worked in places with extreme hunger, but in Gaza, Israel’s cruelty and malice are intentional,” she said.

“As a pediatric intensive care doctor, I am used to seeing children die as part of my work, but I have no words for what I saw in Gaza,” Durrani continued. She described treating children with missing limbs, severe burns, and other injuries, often without pain medication. “But the children don’t scream from the pain,” she said. “They scream: I’m hungry! I’m hungry!”

Durrani also spoke of the doctors and nurses working alongside her, many of them exhausted, malnourished, and living in tents, some having lost 15 or 20 family members.

She said she felt a deep sadness and an urge to stay when her mission ended, an emotion she had not experienced in nearly 20 years of humanitarian work. “I was ashamed as an American and as a human being that we could not stop this genocide,” she said.

Recalling her departure from southern Gaza, she described seeing Rafa'h reduced to rubble, then crossing into Israel where “life seemed normal.”

“The first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers at a table eating lunch,” she said. “I’ve never felt more nauseated in my life than when I saw that table full of food.”

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with US backing, has carried out a genocide in Gaza involving mass killings, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, defying international appeals and International Court of Justice orders to halt its actions.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, the genocide has killed 61,499 Palestinians, wounded 153,575, left more than 9,000 missing, and displaced hundreds of thousands. The siege has triggered famine, claiming the lives of many, including dozens of children. 

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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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