Editorial Note: The following news reports are summaries from original sources. They may also include corrections of Arabic names and political terminology. Comments are in parentheses.

Israeli Genocidal Air Strikes on Gaza Continue, Hundreds Killed in Al-Fakhoura School, Death Toll Rising to 12,250 +, and More than 30,000 injuries

November 18, 2023

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including death of more than 5,000 children and 3,300 women.

3,750 people are still missing under the rubble, including 1,800 children.

200 health care personnel, 22 civil defense members, and 51 journalists were also killed by the Israeli genocidal air strikes.

An Israeli genocidal air strike massacred hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Al-Fakhoura UN school in Jabalya, north of Gaza, on November 18, 2023	Scenes from the massacres committed by Israeli genocidal air strikes on Gaza Strip, on November 18, 2023
Scenes of the massacred displaced Palestinians in Al-Fakhoura school, in Jabalya, on November 18, 2023 pic	A view of Gaza city under Israeli genocidal air strikes, on November 17, 2023
Some of the Palestinian victims of the Israeli genocidal attack on Al-Fakhoura school in cloth coffins, readied for burial, on November 18, 2023	28 Palestinian civilians were killed in an Israeli genocidal air strike on Abu 'Hatab family house, in Khan Younus, on November 18, 2023

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).

"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).

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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.

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

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources:

http://english.wafa.ps/, https://english.palinfo.com/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/


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Editorial Notes about terms & names of people and places:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Israeli occupation army forces those present at Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital to evacuate it and move south

GAZA, Saturday, November 18, 2023 (WAFA) -

The Israeli occupation army today forced, via loudspeakers, those present in Al-Shifa Medical Complex, west of Gaza City, including patients, injured people, displaced persons, and medical staff, to evacuate it through one exit and to head on foot towards Al-Wa'hda Street and from there to Salah El-Din Street, and then to the south.

Medical sources in Gaza reported that 150 critically ill patients stayed in the hospital due to the difficulty of getting them out along with five doctors to care for them until they get evacuated.

Many doctors described the evacuation process as difficult. They were forced to raise white flags and walk difficult and destroyed roads, pushing patients on wheelchairs and sickbeds, and helping the wounded to walk the destroyed roads.

The occupation forces besieged Al-Shifa Medical Complex for nine days, destroyed its medical equipment, and caused the death of wounded people and a number of premature babies.

Several buildings were bombed and destroyed including the cardiac building on the western side of the complex.

Al-Shifa Medical Complex is affiliated with the Palestinian Ministry of Health. It is the largest medical center in the Gaza Strip. It was established in 1946 during the British Mandate and started as small kiosks providing medical care to patients. It developed over time and became the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip where 25% of the entire hospital workers in the Gaza Strip work.

Al-Shifa complex includes three specialized hospitals: Surgery, Internal Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, with a nursery for premature babies, in addition to the emergency department, intensive care unit, radiology, blood bank, and contains 500-700 beds.

M.K.

Palestinian Minister of Health: Israel is committing a genocide against hospitals in Gaza

RAMALLAH, Saturday, November 18, 2023 (WAFA) –

Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai Al-Kaila, said today that the Israeli occupation is committing a genocide against the entire healthcare system in the Gaza Strip, including hospitals, medical doctors, and patients.

Speaking at a press conference held at the ministry's headquarters in Ramallah, Al-Kaila called on the United Nations, international health organizations, and the International Committee of the Red Cross to exert pressure on Israel to allow the transport of the remaining children and patients from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza to hospitals in the West Bank or Egypt.

Al-Kaila held Israeli authorities fully responsible for their lives. She questioned, “How long hospitals, patients, and medical teams in Gaza and the West Bank would remain hostages to the onslaught, destruction, targeting, and blockade by the Israeli occupation forces without accountability or condemnation from the international community?”

She highlighted that no hospital in Gaza has the capacity to accommodate the massive number of wounded under nonstop Israeli bombardment. The Minister questioned Israel’s rationale behind preventing the entry of medicines and depriving patients of their right to receive treatment, especially children in need of oxygen, mothers in need of safe childbirth, and patients of kidney failure in need of dialysis.

"Where is the stance of doctors and healthcare professionals worldwide regarding the atrocities committed against their colleagues in the Palestinian healthcare sector in Gaza and the West Bank? They were once your fellow students in the United States, Europe, Russia, and Arab countries," Al-Kaila addressed the global health community.

The Minister expressed concern over the spread of numerous infectious diseases, including diarrheal diseases affecting over 50,000 individuals, predominantly children. Respiratory infections and skin diseases such as chickenpox and scabies have also surged in Gaza, she added, citing reports from the World Health Organization and UNICEF.

Al-Kaila called for an immediate cessation of the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, demanding a halt to the targeting, shelling, and blockade of medical and healthcare facilities.

The Health Minister emphasized the need to allow the entry of badly needed humanitarian and medical supplies into Gaza, especially fuel necessary for operation of power generators at hospitals. Additionally, she urged the admission of volunteer medical teams to support healthcare personnel in Gaza in treating patients and casualties.

M.N.

Al-Shifa Hospital Director: We are being annihilated

November, 18, 2023, GAZA, (PIC) +-

Director General of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya, said that all those inside the hospital are being annihilated, affirming that martyrs fall every single minute.  

In comments he made to Al Jazeera TV Channel, Dr. Abu Salmiya said the conditions in the hospital are catastrophic where there is nothing left there but death and corpses, as the Israeli army is still besieging the hospital. 

Dr. Abu Salmiya affirmed that the Israeli soldiers have blocked entry to the hospital’s central pharmacy and have been roaming freely inside the medical complex, which indicates that there is no resistance in it. 

He stressed that what has been allowed into the hospital of water and food supplies does not suffice more than 200 people while there are about 650 injured people along with thousands of displaced and medical personnel inside the complex. 

“We are being exterminated. Every passing day puts premature babies at greater risk of death. Yet, we have been doing our best to save their lives”, the hospital’s director said.

He pointed out that the incubators brought by the Israeli occupation forces have no value without electricity, stressing that they are of less quality than those already available at the hospital.

“Martyrs’ bodies are buried in a graveyard that has been dug beneath the hospital as our demands for the Israeli army to bring in fuel and to secure a safe exit for the wounded were declined”, he added.

The hospital has been turned into a big prison where patients and the displaced are subjected to genocide, he said. 

The conditions of the patients and the injured have been worsening because of lack of medications. The death toll has been daily escalating because of the failure to save the lives of the injured.

“To have all those people die in front of the whole world is definitely a war crime”, he said, pointing to the Israeli army's fabricated lies in which it claimed the presence of weapons in Al-Shifa hospital.

For its part, the Hamas Movement said that Israel was committing a genocide in the Al-Shifa hospital with American green light.

Hamas, in a statement on Friday, held US President Joe Biden and his administration responsible for the crime of ethnic cleansing practiced by the Israeli occupation forces in the hospital and for all the brutal crimes committed by those forces against women, children, and innocent civilians in all areas of the Gaza Strip.

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

‎ The occupation commits a horrific massacre in Al-Fakhoura School and the fall of at least 200 martyrs‎

‎18 November 2023 . at 18:27 Muscat Time ‎

‎Al-Roya, Vision - Agencies‎

‎On Saturday, the Israeli occupation forces committed a massacre at the Al-Fakhoura school of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in Jabalya refugee camp, north of Gaza, which shelters thousands of displaced people.‎

‎Palestinian medical and local sources said the Israeli occupation army shelled the Al-Fakhoura school, killing and wounding at least 200 people.‎

‎The sources pointed out that the bodies of the martyrs cover the corridors of the school, and there is difficulty in transporting the large number of martyrs.‎

‎The Ministry of Health in Gaza said hundreds of martyrs and wounded were killed in two massacres of the occupation in the schools of Al-Fakhoura and Tal Al-Za'tar.‎

‎Initial estimates indicate that dozens were killed as a result of the new massacre, at Al-Fakhoura School, while journalist 'Imad Zaqout told Al Jazeera tv that about 200 martyrs were killed in the new massacre.‎

‎According to medical sources, dozens of martyrs from the Al-Fakhoura massacre arrived at the Indonesian hospital.‎

‎Commenting on the Israeli bombardment of the school, Hamas said: "We will not leave this land and you will be held accountable for your massacre in Al-Fakhoura and your ongoing crimes against children and civilians, long or short."‎

‎The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that "the massacre of Al-Fakhoura School proves that Israel's declared war on civilians aims to empty the entire northern Gaza Strip of any Palestinian presence."‎

Israeli occupation regime army massacres displaced displaced Palestinian civilians, at al-Fakhoura School, in Jabalya

November 18, 2023, GAZA, (PIC) +-

The Israeli occupation army committed on Saturday a horrendous massacre at al-Fakhoura School in Jabalya, north of Gaza, killing about 200 civilians, mostly children and women, and wounding many others, according to different media sources.

According to eyewitnesses, the Israeli carried out an aerial attack on the UNRWA school, which is crammed with displaced families. Video footage showed a large number of martyrs and wounded civilians lying in pools of blood on different floors of the UNRWA school and in its courtyard.

The video scenes showed charred and dismembered bodies of children, women and others scattered in classrooms, passageways and other areas of the school.

A new massacre: Dozens of martyrs and wounded as a result of the occupation bombing a school housing displaced people in Jabalia‎

‎Gaza, 18-11-2023 Wafa -

Today, Saturday, the Israeli occupation forces committed a new massacre against the displaced Palestinian civilians at Al-Fakhoura School of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in Jabalya camp, north of Gaza, which led to the death of dozens of them, most of them children and women (according to initial accounts of PIC, the death toll was in hundreds).‎

‎According to medical sources, dozens of martyrs arrived at the Indonesian hospital in the heinous massacre committed by the occupation forces, in the school, which shelters thousands of displaced people in the northern Gaza Strip.‎

‎It is noteworthy that Al-Fakhoura School was subjected on the fourth of this month to direct bombardment by the occupation aircraft, during which at least 12 citizens were killed, and 54 were injured.‎

‎The massacres of the Israeli occupation regime in the Gaza Strip have not stopped since the beginning of the aggression on the seventh of last October, as schools, hospitals, educational institutions, mosques and public and private properties were among the focus of Israeli targeting.‎

Gaza: Israel’s genocide war on the Palestinian people enters day 43

November 18, 2023, GAZA, (PIC) +-

For the 43rd consecutive day, the Israeli massive carnage and genocidal war on the Palestinian people continue to claim more lives in the Gaza Strip as its army persists in bombing homes and buildings and targeting civilians systematically.

Since last night and Saturday morning, dozens of citizens have been martyred and many others have been wounded in renewed spates of aerial and artillery attacks on different areas of Gaza.

On Friday evening, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza estimated that the death toll surged to 12,000 martyrs, mostly women and children, while the number of the wounded citizens climbed to over 30,200, although the number of casualties is believed to be more than that as there are many civilians still under the rubble of buildings.

According to the latest developments, one citizen was martyred and at least one citizen was injured when an Israeli warplane bombed the house of the Abu Hilal family in Al-Ginaina neighborhood, east of Rafa'h.

An Israeli airstrike destroyed the cultural center of the Rafa'h municipality in Khirbit Al-'Adas area, injuring three citizens.

Two other citizens suffered injuries when the Israeli occupation terrorist army bombed an internet transmission station in Khan Younus.

Several casualties were reported after warplanes bombarded a residential block in al-Souk street in Bait Lahiya, north of Gaza, while citizens appealed for urgent help to save the wounded.

The Israeli army also bombed at dawn the Grand Mosque in Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, with no reported casualties.

At least 28 civilians were massacred and many others were wounded when the Israeli army bombed several apartments in the 'Hamad housing compound.

A number of casualties were also reported in Bait Lahyia, north of Gaza, following Israeli attacks on two homes.

Local sources and media outlets affirmed that Israeli warplanes continued last night and on Saturday morning to launch dozens of raids on different areas of Gaza, destroying homes and killing civilians, while ambulance and rescue crews are unable to reach many of the victims, especially in Gaza City and the north.

Dozens of civilians massacred by ongoing Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

GAZA, Saturday, November 18, 2023 (WAFA) –

 Dozens of innocent civilians were massacred and many others wounded today in a series of Israeli airstrikes in various locations across the Gaza Strip, further adding to the constantly rising death toll, according to local sources.

WAFA correspondent on the ground said Israeli warplanes targeted a residential building in the Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the confirmed death of four civilians so far and leaving dozens more injured.

In the Indonesian Hospital in Bait Lahiya, northern Gaza, medical sources reported that 60 casualties were admitted to the hospital due to the ongoing bombardment from various locations across the northern Gaza Strip.

In addition to the human toll, Israeli airstrikes destroyed a residential building in the vicinity of the Bait Lahiya Square in northern Gaza.

Emergency response teams, including medical and civil defense personnel, are facing extreme challenges in reaching the targeted areas, hindering the retrieval of the bodies of the victims and the evacuation of the wounded.

This situation is exacerbated by the fact that 26 out of the 35 hospitals in Gaza are currently out of service. The situation on the ground remains dire, with the civilian population bearing the brunt of the Israeli genocide in the besieged territory.

M.N.

 Gaza death toll surges to 12,000 as Israeli bloody war intensifies

November 18, 2023, GAZA, (PIC) +-

For the 43rd consecutive day, the Israeli occupation’s massive carnage continues to claim more lives in the Gaza Strip as its army persists in bombing homes and buildings and targeting civilians.

According to the Government Media Office (GMO), the Palestinian death toll from Israeli ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip has climbed to 12,000 since Oct. 7.

Out of the total victims, 5,000 were children and 3,300 were women, with more than 30,000 others injured, more than 70 percent of whom are women and children.

The Israeli occupation committed 1,270 massacres against the people of Gaza. 

GMO spokesman Ismail Thawabta pointed out that 3,750 people are still missing under the rubble, including 1,800 children.

He also added that 200 health personnel, 22 civil defense members, and 51 journalists were killed in the Israeli attacks.

The GMO added that 25 hospitals and 52 health centers have ceased operations in Gaza due to Israeli attacks and a shortage of fuel needed to operate power generators. 55 ambulances were also targeted in the attacks.

Along the same line, 76 mosques were completely destroyed, and 165 mosques were partially damaged, while three churches were targeted.

According to the Palestinian estimates, 95 government headquarters were destroyed along with 255 schools, of which 63 were out of service.

Thawabta stressed that Gaza's hospitals only provide health services to the sick and wounded and that the Israeli claims are false lies that do not deceive anyone.

On 42nd day of the aggression on Gaza, the massacres continue

November 17, 2023, GAZA, (PIC) +-

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued the bloody onslaught on the Gaza Strip for 42 consecutive days on Friday, intensifying airstrikes, shelling homes with occupants inside, invading the Shifa Medical Complex, and committing acts of genocide, while expanding ground incursions from multiple axes amidst fierce resistance.

PIC correspondents reported that the occupation forces continued their bombardment of Gaza through air, sea, and land, particularly targeting homes with occupants inside. The communication and internet blackout has made it extremely difficult to ascertain the results of the airstrikes.

Israeli warplanes targeted a house in eastern Gaza, while the helicopters gunships fired towards several areas.

Israeli warplanes carried out multiple airstrikes this morning in eastern Khan Younus and eastern Rafah, while the IOF conducted artillery shelling targeting Palestine Square, Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, and the center of Gaza City.

Three martyrs and a large number of injuries were reported as a result of the Israeli occupation's shelling of the Al-Qahwaji family's house in the middle of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis. Meanwhile, sounds of clashes were heard in the eastern governorate, without further details available.

The IOF fired smoke bombs in the Abu Iskandar area, Jabalya Camp, and the Sheikh Radhwan neighborhood in the northern part of Gaza City.

Israeli warplanes carried out several airstrikes in the Austrian neighborhood west of Khan Younis.

The Secretary-General of the Al-A'hrar Movement, Khalid Abu Hilal, along with one of his sons and six civilians, were martyred in an Israeli airstrike last night on his house and neighboring houses on Al-Jalaa Street in the Sheikh Radhwan neighborhood in Gaza, according to the local newspaper Al-Quds.

Israeli warplanes launched dozens of airstrikes last night on the Sabra neighborhood and other neighborhoods in Gaza, with no details available about the casualties and the victims.

Israeli occupation forces are, meanwhile, still besieging Baptist Hospital in Gaza.

The occupation airstrikes resulted in the complete destruction of four houses in the Nusayrat Camp, causing 18 martyrs in addition to injuries and missing persons.

Israeli warplanes carried out multiple airstrikes on Jabalya Camp and the city of Jabalya and targeted the headquarters of Nama'a Radio in Jabalya, north of the Gaza Strip, resulting in numerous martyrs and injuries.

The IOF artillery shelled several areas in the northern Gaza Strip, including Jabalya, in addition to the Tuffa'h neighborhood, Shuja'iya neighborhood, and Yafa Street in Gaza City.

Director of Al-Wafa hospital in Gaza killed, doctors injured in Israeli shelling of hospital

GAZA, Friday, November 17, 2023 (WAFA) –

The director of Al-Wafa Hospital and Home for Elderly Care in the Al-Zahra area, in Gaza City, was killed and several doctors were injured in an Israeli airstrike launched against the hospital tonight.

Local sources said that Israeli warplanes launched an air raid against the El-Wafa hospital, which resulted in the killing of its director, and the injury of several doctors.

T.R.

Scores of Palestinians killed and injured in ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza

GAZA, Friday, November 17, 2023 (WAFA) –

Scores of civilians were killed and others injured tonight in the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a house in the Al-Qasaseeb neighborhood, in the northern Gaza Strip, killing three civilians and injuring others. Three sisters were reportedly killed and other members of the family were wounded in an Israeli shelling that targeted their home.

Israeli warplanes also shelled the Al-Fala'h school belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in the Zeitoun neighborhood to the south of Gaza City, which shelters displaced people, killing and wounding many civilians.

In the meantime, the Indonesian hospital in the town of Bait Lahiya, in the north, announced that since the early hours of this morning, the bodies of 120 civilians have been brought to the hospital from the province of Gaza and the North.

The occupation also launched intensive raids on the Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, and the vicinity of the Shaikh Zayid residential towers in the northern Gaza Strip town of Bait Lahiya, killing and injuring a number of people.

Eyewitnesses reported that dozens of bodies are still scattered on the ground in the Sabra neighborhood as rescue and ambulance crews face difficulty in reaching the area to evacuate the casualties.

Israeli airstrikes also bombed the al-Baraka area in the city of Dair El-Bala'h, in the central Strip.

In the meantime, the Israeli occupation forces continued their siege of Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its raids into its departments and wards, amidst fuel shortages, power cuts, and shortages of medical supplies, food, and safe drinking water.

Twenty-four patients and injured have died in the past two days at Al Shifa Hospital as a result of the power cut and failure to perform surgical operations after life-saving and medical equipment stopped working. Forces further prevented the access of the medical staff to the Central Pharmacy in the medical complex.

The number of people killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on October 7 has risen to more than 12,000, including 5,000 children and 3,300 women, while the number of wounded has exceeded 30,000; 75% of whom are children and women.

The number of missing has also risen to more than 3,750 citizens, including 1,800 children who are still under the rubble.

T.R.

 PCBS: 807,000 Palestinians still reside in northern Gaza

November 17, 2023, GAZA, (PIC) +-

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said that 807,000 Palestinians still reside in the Gaza and North Gaza governorates, while about 400,000 people have been displaced from the north to the central and southern governorates of the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli brutal aggression, which has entered its 42nd day on Friday.

The PCBS pointed out in a statement on Thursday, that the people residing in Gaza and North Gaza as of the evening of 11/11/2023 was estimated at 807,000, representing approximately 152,000 households, out of 1.2 million Palestinians who resided in those governorates before the beginning of the Israeli aggression.

The statement explained that about two-thirds of the population of the northern governorates still reside in the northern areas of Gaza Strip, while about a third of the population of the northern governorates comprising approximately 400,000 individuals were displaced to the central and southern governorates of Gaza Strip. 

It also highlighted that the Palestinians who still reside in Gaza and North Gaza include the localities of Umm al-Nasr, the Bedouin village, Bait Lahiya, Bait 'Hanoun, Jabalya and its camp, Al-Shati Camp, Gaza City, Madinat Al-Zahra, Al-Mughraqa, and Ju'hr Al-Deek.

The Central Bureau of Statistics mentioned that it has calculated the estimates on the number of citizens residing in Gaza and North Gaza based on actual datasets that monitored the reality in Gaza Strip before and during the aggression on Gaza Strip, using data from the Palestinian telecommunications companies and the Ministry of Telecom and Information Technology.

The statement came at a time when the Israeli army has been renewing its call on the people of the northern Gaza to move towards the south. The residents of those areas, however, expressed their refusal of displacement and proved their steadfastness by staying at their homes and neighborhoods. 

The displaced people were subjected to Israeli relentless bombardment, resulting in the death of dozens of martyrs on the roads that were claimed to be safe corridors by the Israeli army.  

Areas south of the Gaza Valley, which were claimed safe zones, were also subjected to Israeli raids, resulting in numerous massacres. Besides, the areas of Gaza City and the North Governorate, especially in Jabalia, witnessed Israeli successive massacres that left hundreds of martyrs.

For 42 days, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, leaving more than 11,500 martyrs, including 4,710 children and 3,160 women, as well as 29,800 injured, 70% of whom are children and women, according to official Palestinian sources.

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

Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in Tubas

TUBAS, Saturday, November 18, 2023 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation force this morning shot and killed Omar Sha'hrouri, 18, during a raid of Tubas, in the northern Jordan Valley, according to sources at the Red Crescent.

They said that three youths were injured by live bullets during confrontations, one of whom was said to be critical and was pronounced dead after arrival at hospital.

M.K.

After killing five people, the Israeli occupation forces return to Balata refugee camp to demolish home, roads

NABLUS, Saturday, November 18, 2023 (WAFA) –

A missile fired by an Israeli drone late last night killed five Palestinians in Balata refugee camp and injured two, and hours later, the army returned to the camp to demolish a home and destroy roads, according to WAFA correspondent and local sources.

WAFA correspondent said a drone fired a missile at Fatah headquarters in Balata killing five people and causing heavy damage in the area.

The Red Crescent said its crews dealt with seven serious injuries, five of whom were pronounced dead.

Hours after the drone attack, the Israeli occupation forces returned to the camp with a bulldozer where they blew up a house and destroyed roads, according to local sources.

They said the forces blew up a house in the market area destroying it in total and causing damage to nearby houses.

The bulldozer also destroyed roads in the camp and caused heavy damage to infrastructure and property.

M.K.

A Palestinian in his early 20s dies of Israeli bullet wounds in Jenin

JENIN, Friday, November 17, 2023 (WAFA) -

The Ministry of Health announced today that a young man died of wounds he sustained after being shot by the Israeli occupation army about a week ago in Jenin.

The ministry identified the young man as Jamal Masharqa, 21, from Jenin refugee camp.

Masharqa was shot by occupation forces in the chest and leg during their aggression against the city of Jenin and its refugee camp on November 9.

He was transferred to Ibn Seena Hospital in Jenin, where his injury was described as critical. He underwent surgical operations in an attempt to save his life until he was announced dead this evening.

With the death of Masharqa, the death toll in the West Bank has risen to 206 since the start of Israel’s comprehensive aggression against the Palestinian people on October 7.

A.D./T.R.

13 West Bankers killed over the past 24 hours, Six Palestinians killed in Nablus, Tubas

November 18, 2023, WEST BANK, (PIC) +-

At least five Palestinians were killed and seven more injured in an Israeli strike on a building in Balata refugee camp, in the central city of Nablus, early on Saturday, while another Palestinian was shot and killed in Tubas.

The Palestinian Red Crescent earlier said its medics were dealing with five serious injuries from the blast, all of them young men ranging from 19 to 25 years in age.

In Tubas, an 18-year-old Palestinian was killed and two others injured as clashes erupted in Tubas after being stormed by Israeli forces in large numbers

The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that three young men suffered from gunshot injuries during the clashes. One of them was pronounced dead upon his arrival at the hospital. 

Earlier Friday, seven Palestinians were killed in Jenin and al-Khalil.

At least 186 Palestinians, including 51 children, have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since Oct. 7, according to UN figures. An additional eight have been killed by Israeli settlers. 

Israeli police attack students, teachers in East Jerusalem school

JERUSALEM, Saturday, November 18, 2023 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces today attacked students and teachers and fired tear gas canisters into a school in 'Aisawiyya neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem causing injuries and suffocation among the students, according to local sources.

They said the forces broke into the neighborhood and shot tear gas canisters into the neighborhood's high school and homes nearby, causing dozens of suffocation cases.

The forces also attacked students and teachers, injuring several who required hospitalization. Three students had fractures in the leg and arm, said the sources.

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Abduction of Palestinians by Israeli Occupation Regime Soldiers

Dozens of Palestinians rounded up in Israeli army raids across the occupied West Bank

RAMALLAH, Saturday, November 18, 2023 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation forces rounded up dozens of Palestinians in raids at their homes across the occupied West Bank, most of them from the city of Hebron, according to various sources.

Soldiers rounded up around 20 people from Hebron and two others from nearby towns.

Further north, in the village of Al-Jabaa, southwest of Bethlehem, soldiers detained seven workers from the Gaza Strip who were staying there after they were forced to leave their workplaces in Israel.

In Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley, where a 21-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed during the army’s raid of the city, two siblings were detained and held as hostages to have their sons turn themselves in.

Two youths were also detained in a raid of the ancient city of Jericho, and three others were detained in the village of Fasayil, north of Jericho.

Two siblings were also detained in the town of Beer Zait, north of Ramallah, after raiding and ransacking their family home.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

Illegal Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Masafer Yatta

HEBRON, Saturday, November 18, 2023 (WAFA) –

Illegal Israeli settlers today attacked Palestinian residents in Masafir Yatta in the south of the West Bank and seized their equipment, according to a local activist.

Ratib A-Jabour, an activist, said colonists in Israeli army uniforms attacked residents from Qowious community in Masafir Yatta and beat up two residents, including a 70-year-old man who was previously injured in similar attacks.

He said the colonists attacked homes, sabotaged property, and seized equipment in an effort to get the Palestinians to leave their lands.

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Soldiers and colonists collude to force Palestinian olive harvesters to leave their lands

NABLUS/BETHLEHEM, Saturday, November 18, 2023 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation soldiers and illegal Israeli settlers today attacked Palestinians harvesting their olive crops and forced them to leave their lands.

In the northern West Bank village of Burin, south of Nablus, colonists, backed by soldiers, attacked olive harvesters and stole their crops and the tools they used in the harvest, according to local sources.

Soldiers also forced olive pickers in the village of Al-Sawiya, south of Nablus, to stop the harvest and leave their lands, according to the head of the village council Mahmoud Hasan.

He told WAFA that the soldiers threw tear gas canisters at landowners picking their olives in the eastern part of the village, and prevented them from proceeding in their work forcing them to leave their land.

In the villages of Kisan and Nahaleen in the south of the West Bank, soldiers raided the two villages and prevented farmers from picking their olive crops, according to Hasan Breijia, from the Wall and Colonies Resistance Commission.

He said the soldiers raided the area north of Nahaleen while shooting in the area to force the farmers to leave their lands, and warned them against returning to them.

In the village of Kisan, the soldiers also prevented landowners from picking their olives in their lands located near illegal colonies.

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