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After the Israeli Genocidal Air Strike on Gaza Baptist Hospital, Palestinian Death Toll Rose to 3,200, with 11,000 Injured

October 18, 2023 

Scenes from the Israeli massacre of Palestinians in the Baptist hospital in Gaza, October 17, 2023	The Israeli genocidal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza: Injured survivors are brought to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza city, October 17, 2023
Footage of the massacre Israel committed in an airstrike against the Baptist Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, killing and injuring hundreds of people, October 17, 2023	Some of the victims of the Israeli air strike on the Baptist Ahli hospital in Gaza city, on October 17, 2023
Site of a building destroyed in Gaza Strip by an Israeli air strike, October 18, 2023	Part of victims of the Israeli air strike on the Baptist Ahli hospital in Gaza city, on October 17, 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 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 David, Solomon, 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 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.

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/



With the exception of killings, the following news stories are just examples, not a systematic record, from: https://imemc.org/

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

After the Israeli massacre of Palestinians in the Baptist Ahli hospital, the Palestinian death toll rose to more than 3,200 and the injured to more than 11,000, while more Israeli genocidal air strikes continue on Gaza Strip. Palestine Today, October 18, 2023   بعد مجزرة المعمداني.. مجازر جديدة وارتفاع عدد الشهداء والجرحى باليوم الـ12 للعدوان على غزة الساعة 11:32 ص|18 أكتوبر 2023 صورة من مستشفى المعمداني فيسبوكتويترواتس ابتيليجرام فلسطين اليوم يتواصل العدوان "الإسرائيلي" الهمجي على قطاع لليوم الـ 12 على التوالي ، بقصف عنيف من الطائرات والزوارق الحربية، والمدفعية، التي تستهدف في مجملها المنازل والأبراج والبنايات السكنية، ما أسفر عن ارتقاء آلاف المواطنين وإصابة الآلاف في صفوف المدنيين، إلى جانب تدمير بالممتلكات العامة والخاصة، والبنية التحتية. وفي خضم ذلك، ارتكبت آلة القتل "الإسرائيلية" جريمة جديدة في المستشفى الأهلي المعمداني، طالت فيه البشر والشجر والحجر، لتخلف مئات الشهداء والاصابات، في مشهد يدمي القلب وسط تناثر الأشلاء في ساحة المستشفى، وعجز الطواقم الطبية والدفاع المدني في السيطرة على انقاذ الضحايا، لتكون الخسائر الأكبر من أي عدوان أو حرب مضت، استهدف فيها الاحتلال "الإسرائيلي" المواطنين الآمنين، فيما لم يسلم الصحفيين والمسعفين وجهاز الدفاع المدني من هذه الحرب الصهيونية المجنونة. وأعلنت وزارة الصحة في غزة، ارتفاع عدد الشهداء والجرحى في اليوم الـ12 للعدوان الاسرائيلي الهمجي على قطاع غزة وذكرت أن عدد الشهداء ارتفع إلى 3200 شهيدًا و11000 جريحًا منذ اليوم الأول، إلى جانب المئات من المفقودين تحت الأنقاض. كما قصفت طائرات الاحتلال منزلين لشقيقين في بلدة بني سهيلا شرق مدينة خان يونس، ما أسفر عن ارتقاء 12 شهيدا وعشرات الجرحى. بعد مجزرة المعمداني.. مجازر جديدة وارتفاع عدد الشهداء والجرحى باليوم الـ12 للعدوان على غزة | فلسطين اليوم (paltoday.ps)

 

In few hours, Israel kills more than 55 Palestinians in strikes at Gaza

GAZA, Wednesday, October 18, 2023 (WAFA) -

More than 55 people, most of them women and children, were killed today and dozens more were injured as a result of a series of Israeli strikes at homes in various places in the Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent said 27 people were killed after targeting a house in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip.

The occupation warplanes also bombed a house east of Khan Younus, resulting in the death of 12 people, including children and women, as the search continue for people buried under the rubble.

Four people were killed, including three women, in addition to dozens of injuries after targeting a house south of Khan Younus, and a number of people were killed in an Israeli airstrike at a house in al-Mughraqa, east of Gaza.

A number of people were also killed and wounded in the bombing of the homes of two siblings in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younus.

In addition, 12 people were killed in the bombing of a house near the Gaza port. A search is underway for people under the rubble.

The occupation warplanes also bombed a four-story residential building near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, resulting in deaths and injuries, including children and women.

In its aggression against Gaza, the occupation warplanes completely destroyed more than 4,500 residential buildings, including 12,000 housing units, while about 113,300,000 housing units were partially damaged, including 8,190 housing units that have become uninhabitable.

The Ministry of Health said more than 3300 people were killed in the Gaza Strip and 12,500 wounded since the start of the aggression on Gaza on October 7.

M.K.

Palestinians killed, others wounded, in new Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

GAZA, Wednesday, October 18, 2023 (WAFA) - 

Israeli occupation warplanes launched a series of strikes on various areas in the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding a number of Palestinians, in light of the continuing aggression against Palestinian people for the twelfth day in a row.

The raids targeted a house near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, killing and wounding many, including children and women.

The occupation aircraft also bombed two houses in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunus, killing and injuring a number citizens.

Israeli warplanes yesterday evening launched an airstrike against the Baptist Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing and injuring hundreds of people.

Sources said that Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike against the hospital, where thousands of displaced people were also seeking refuge after their homes were destroyed in the ongoing Israeli shelling, killing and wounding hundreds of people.

K.T.

Dozens killed in new Israeli bombing of areas in Gaza

GAZA, Wednesday, October 18, 2023 (WAFA) -

Medical and local sources Wednesday said that more than 30 Palestinians were killed in artillery, air and sea bombardment on all areas of the Gaza Strip.

The sources explained that about 30 Palestinians were killed after several homes were targeted in the northern Gaza Strip, while at least two were killed in a bombing that targeted a bakery in the Nusayrat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

They indicated that the bakery provides bread to the people of the camp and to the displaced from the northern areas of the Gaza Strip.

The sources added that at least two people were killed in a bombing that targeted a residential apartment in Khan Yunus, south of the Gaza Strip.

The intense artillery, air and sea bombardment targeted the North Gaza Governorate, specifically the Jabalia area, the Nusayrat camp, the Yarmouk neighborhood in central Gaza City, and an area in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood close to the site of the Baptist Hospital, where the occupation committed a crime that left hundreds of dead and injured Palestinians. 

The bombing also targeted citizens' homes in the governorates of the southern Gaza Strip, Rafa'h and Khan Younus, causing several casualties.

K.T.

Abduction of Palestinians by Israeli Occupation Regime Soldiers

Israeli forces detain 65 Palestinians in the West Bank

RAMALLAH,  Tuesday, October 17, 2023 (WAFA) –

In a wide-scale detention operation by Israeli forces, 65 Palestinians were arrested last night and Wednesday from several areas in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

According to the Palestinian Prisoner's Society and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees, Israeli soldiers detained 34 Palestinians from Hebron, 16 from Bethlehem, and the rest were from Nablus and Jerusalem.

Ever since the Israeli aggression began on Palestinians on October 7th, the number of Palestinians detained by Israeli forces has risen to 750 but the number doesn't include the detained workers from Gaza as organizations aren't yet able to confirm their actual numbers.

K.T.

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