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.

 

On Day 188 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 63 Palestinians Killed, 45 Injured, with a Death Toll of  33,545 and 76,094 Injuries

April 11, 2024 

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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 Gaza Strip:  

By April 11, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 41,545+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (33,545) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on April 9, 2024: 8,000+). 

By April 11, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 76,094, and more than 2,520 civilians have been abducted from Gaza Strip.

By April 7, 2024, the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip resulted in more than 116,061 martyrs, wounded and missing Palestinians, 70% of whom were children and women.

By April 7, 2024, 14,350 children were killed, constituting 44% of the total number of martyrs (over 33,175) in Gaza Strip.

By April 11, 2024, 464 Palestinians who were killed, 3,725 who were injured, and 8,168, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023 (Some of the detainees have been released).

By March 28, 2024, about 12,091 Palestinians, from both the West Bank and Gaza, have been detained in 2023. About half of them were detained after October 7. This included 1,085 children and 300 women.

By March 8, there were 8,900 Palestinian women who were killed, 23,000 who were injured, but there are 2,100 women who are unaccounted for (whither they are dead, injured, or abducted).

By January 17, 2024, about 661 detainees from Gaza are currently languishing in Israeli prisons as “illegitimate combatants” (the Israeli term for Palestinian fighters) in addition to more than 50 women from Gaza, who are detained in the Damon prison, noting that 8 women of whom have been recently released.

By March 4, 2023, the death toll included 13,420+ children, 8,900+ women (more than 72.8% of the accounted for victims), 364 doctors and medical staff, 132 journalists, and 48 civil defense workers. 

The total number of detainees in the occupation prisons until the end of December was 8,800, and the number of administrative detainees was 3,484.

By March 4, 2024, the Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation forces killed 364 health personnel, destroyed 155 health institutions, 32 hospitals, 53 health centers, 126 ambulances, displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, and destroyed 360,000 housing units, about and 60% of the buildings and infrastructure in Gaza Strip.

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GMO reveals latest statistics on Israeli genocidal war on Gaza

Saturday 3-February-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip revealed on Saturday the latest and most significant figures on the Israeli ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 7.

This announcement comes as the latest updates from the GMO, showing the scale of human and material damage that resulted from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, on its 120th day.

The statistics demonstrated latest updates on the numbers of martyrs, missing, and wounded people in addition to the sick, displaced and prisoners as well as numbers of damaged structures and infrastructure.

Below are figures released by the GMO about Israel’s violations over the period of 120 days since the start of its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

(2,325) Massacres (34,238) Martyrs and missing people. (27,238) Martyrs who arrived in hospitals. (12,000) Child martyrs. (8,190) Female martyrs. (339) Martyrs of medical staff. (46) Civil defense martyrs. (122) Journalist martyrs. (7,000) Missing, 70% of whom are children and women. (66,452) Wounded.

(11,000) Wounded people in need of travel abroad for treatment, (life-saving and critical cases). (10,000) Cancer patients facing the risk of death. (700,000) Wounded with infectious diseases as a result of displacement. (8,000) Cases of viral hepatitis infection due to displacement. (60,000) Pregnant women at risk due to the lack of health care. (350,000) Chronic patients at risk due to blocked medications.

(99) Cases of arrest among health personnel. (10) Cases of arrests among identified journalists. (2 million) Displaced people in the Gaza Strip.

(140) Government headquarters destroyed. (100) Completely destroyed schools and universities. (295) Partially destroyed schools and universities. (183) Completely destroyed mosques. (264) Partially destroyed mosques. (3) Destroyed Churches.

(79,200) Completely destroyed housing units. (290,000) Partially destroyed and uninhabitable housing units. (66,000) tons of explosives dropped on Gaza. (30) Hospitals knocked out of service. (53) Health centers knocked out of service. (150) Partially targeted Health institutions. (122) Destroyed ambulances. (200) Destroyed archaeological and heritage sites.

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Leader of 'Hamas, Isma'eel Haniyya, mourned the assassination of his three children and grandchildren by an Israeli genocidal air strike, on April 10, 2024	Ameer, Mu'hammed, and 'Hazim, sons of Isma'eel Haniyya, were assassinated along with three of their children, in an Israeli genocidal air strike on their car in Gaza City, while a fourth child was injured and taken to hospital, April 10, 2024
An injured Palestinian little girl who survived an Israeli genocidal air strike on Al-Rimal neighborhood, in Gaza City, file, April 11, 2024	Five members of Aseela family were killed in Jabalya, 14 more were killed in Al-Nusayrat by Israeli genocidal air strikes, April 10, 2024
Grieving and burial prayer at Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital, for the Palestinian martyrs, who were killed by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment in central Gaza Strip, April 11, 2024	The day of 'Eidul Fitr at the tent camp of the displaced Palestinians from northern Gaza Strip, which is located at the Egyptian-Palestinian border, April 10, 2024

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 ۚ " (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" (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 (October 7, 2023-Fruary 26, 2024), 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.

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 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 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.

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

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Haniyya: My sons’ blood sacrifice on the path to liberating Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Al-Aqsa Mosque

Thursday 11-April-2024

DOHA, (PIC)

Head of 'Hamas’s political bureau Isma'eel Haniyya has mourned his sons and grandchildren, who were martyred on the first day of 'Eidul-Fitr holiday, describing their blood as a “sacrifice on the path to liberating Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

“I thank Allah for the honor He has bestowed upon us with the martyrdom of my three sons and some grandchildren,” Haniyya said in remarks published by Hamas’s media office on Wednesday.

“With such pain and blood, we create hopes, a future and freedom for our people, our cause, and our nation,” Haniyya added.

“We will not hesitate, we will not retreat, and we will continue to be on our way to liberate Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque,” he said.

“Such sacrifices will only make us more adherent to our principles and our land,” he stressed, adding that “there is no difference between my children and other martyrs of the Palestinian people.”

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Three sons of 'Hamas leader, Isma'eel Haniyya, and their children assassinated by an Israeli genocidal air strike

Wednesday 10-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) assassinated three sons of the 'Hamas leader, Isma'eel Haniyya and three of their children, in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza, on Wednesday evening.

Local sources said that Ameer, Mu'hammed, and 'Hazim, the sons of Haniyya, were assassinated in an IOFs genocidal air strike on their car along with three of their offspring, while a fourth child was injured and taken to hospital.

Haniyya, reacting to the Israeli assassination of their children and grandchildren, said that it was an honor for his family that his sons were martyred, adding that around 60 of his extended family members were killed in the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip.

“Such crimes will only boost our steadfastness and insistence on upholding our principles,” he added.

“The enemy is in big illusion if it thinks that killing my sons will make us change our positions,” Haniyya underlined.

For its part, the Palestinian Government Media Office (PGMO) in Gaza said in a statement on Wednesday that the IOFs committed yet another massacre on the first day of the holy 'Eidul-Fitr by targeting the car in which the sons of Haniyya and their children were aboard.

The PGMO strongly condemned the continuing Israeli massacres, adding that 125 martyrs were transferred to hospitals over the past 24 hours. 

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Palestinian Government Media Office calls for pressuring Israel to stop its “genocidal war” on Gaza

Thursday 11-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Government Media Office (PGMO) has called on the free world’s countries to do their best to stop Israel’s criminal war on the Gaza Strip, whose people are marking the Eid al-Fitr holiday with more grief and pain as the Israeli occupation army persists in its genocidal and ethnic cleaning war.

In a statement on Wednesday, PGMO stressed the need for pressuring the Israeli occupation regime to end its aggression against Gaza.

“The occupation continued to carry out its criminal and military practices on the morning of Eid, with its warplanes flying over the Gaza Strip and its tanks firing missiles continuously in blatant disregard for the feelings of the Muslim nation and our Palestinian people,” PGMO said.

“The occupation killed the joy of Eid in the Gaza Strip and deprived children, women and the Gaza people of celebrating the blessed occasion and enjoying its beautiful atmosphere,” PGMO added.

PGMO held the US administration and president Joe Biden in person responsible for providing the occupation regime with the green light and weapons to continue its genocidal crimes in Gaza.

It also held the international community for its failure to stop Israel’s crimes and massacres against the civilians, children and women in Gaza.

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Russia and the United Nations call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

MOSCOW, Thursday, April 11, 2024 (WAFA) -

Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the UN Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza conflict during talks in Moscow, according to the Russian foreign ministry.

The Russian foreign ministry stressed following a meeting in Moscow the importance of an immediate ceasefire and the provision of safe and unhindered access to all those affected and in need in Gaza.

The two officials also discussed the possibilities of reviving the peace process and settling the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, after the end of the war.

The meeting’s agenda included a detailed discussion of the current situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone, primarily in the Gaza Strip, with a focus on expediting a ceasefire.

T.R. 

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Nicaragua closes its embassy in Berlin due to the country's lawsuit for German aid to Israel

BERLIN, Thursday, April 11, 2024 (WAFA) -

Nicaragua closed its embassy in Berlin after filing an international legal case against Germany accusing it of “facilitating the commission of genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza via its arms exports to Israel.

According to the case, which has been filed at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Germany has violated its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention and other norms of general international law by participating in “the ongoing plausible genocide and serious breaches of international humanitarian law and other peremptory norms of general international law occurring in the Gaza Strip”.

Presenting the case to the ICJ, Nicaragua argued that Germany had violated its obligations to ensure that it had taken steps to avoid assisting Israel as the perpetrator of genocide.

To be noted, around 1000 Germans live in Nicaragua and a few hundred Nicaraguan nationals live in Germany.

Nicaragua presented its case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday, demanding the imposition of emergency measures to stop Berlin from providing Israel with weapons and other assistance.

“The case has great relevance not just for Gaza but also for all the states that manufacture weapons and supply states and other parties with weapons that are ultimately used to commit violations of international law, of humanitarian law, the convention against genocide and a whole host of other international measures that seek to protect civilian and other vulnerable groups,” said Raymond Murphy, a human rights lawyer and professor of law at the University of Galway.

A conservative estimate of casualties of the war, the number of civilians killed since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7 has risen to 33,482.  Around 76,049 people were injured and thousands are still missing under rubble and on the roads, as ambulances and rescue teams warn of their inability to reach them.

T.R.

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

On April 11, 2024, Dr. Ashraf Al-Qidra, the Spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip resulted in the killing of 63 Palestinian civilians, and the injury of 45 others, in the past 24 hours. This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 33,545 and the injuries to 76,094, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.   

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Death toll in Gaza since start of Israeli aggression on October 7 reaches 33,545

GAZA, Thursday, April 11, 2024 (WAFA) -

Medical sources announced today that the death toll in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, has risen to 33,545 people, most of whom were women and children. At least 76,094 were also injured.

Sources added that 63 citizens were killed and 45 others were injured in the last 24 hours alone.

Thousands of citizens are still missing under the rubble or scattered on the roads, as the occupation continues to prevent ambulances and civil defense teams’ access.

T.R.

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Eight civilians killed, several others injured in Israeli shelling of Gaza's Rafa'h City

GAZA, Thursday, April 11, 2024 (WAFA) -

Eight civilians were killed and others were injured today in an occupation bombardment of the eastern part of the city of Rafa'h, in the southern Gaza Strip.

According to medical sources, Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians in the vicinity of the Eastern Cemetery east of Rafa'h, killing five people.

Three civilians were also killed and others were injured in an Israeli shelling of the Al-Junaina neighborhood east of the city of Rafa'h.

T.R.

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Israeli warplanes strike different parts of Gaza City and Al-Nusayrat refugee camp - Several causalities and massive destruction reported

GAZA, Thursday, April 11, 2024 (WAFA) -

The Israeli occupation warplanes intensified since early dawn on Thursday their aerial strikes on different parts of Gaza City and Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, causing several casualties and massive destruction to property.

Local sources reported that the occupation war boats bombed the homes of civilians in the Al-Shati (Beach) refugee camp to the west of Gaza City.

The Israeli occupation also shelled a residential apartment and a school in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, killing five people and causing injuries to several others.

Israeli warplanes planes launched a series of fire belts on the northern part of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, targeting two mosques there.

The occupation military tanks also infiltrated the northern part of the said camp, amid the use of combat helicopters, destroying a large number of residential towers in the Zahra area.

By April 10, 2024, the total number of civilians killed since the onset of the Israeli aggression on October 7 has risen to 33,482. Around 76,049 people were injured and thousands remain missing under rubble or scattered on the roads, as ambulances and rescue teams continue to warn of their inability to reach them.

T.R.

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Three sons of 'Hamas leader, Isma'eel Haniyya, and their children assassinated by an Israeli genocidal air strike

Wednesday 10-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) assassinated three sons of the 'Hamas leader, Isma'eel Haniyya and three of their children, in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza, on Wednesday evening.

Local sources said that Ameer, Mu'hammed, and 'Hazim, the sons of Haniyya, were assassinated in an IOFs genocidal air strike on their car along with three of their offspring, while a fourth child was injured and taken to hospital.

Haniyya, reacting to the Israeli assassination of their children and grandchildren, said that it was an honor for his family that his sons were martyred, adding that around 60 of his extended family members were killed in the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip.

“Such crimes will only boost our steadfastness and insistence on upholding our principles,” he added.

“The enemy is in big illusion if it thinks that killing my sons will make us change our positions,” Haniyya underlined.

For its part, the Palestinian Government Media Office (PGMO) in Gaza said in a statement on Wednesday that the IOFs committed yet another massacre on the first day of the holy 'Eidul-Fitr by targeting the car in which the sons of Haniyya and their children were aboard.

The PGMO strongly condemned the continuing Israeli massacres, adding that 125 martyrs were transferred to hospitals over the past 24 hours. 

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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters day 187

Wednesday 10-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 187 on Wednesday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different areas, and massacre more civilians, mostly children and women.

A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that the Israeli occupation army continued to attack different areas of Gaza, killing and injuring scores of citizens.

According to media sources, three sons of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyya were killed along with four grandchildren in an Israeli attack on a car in Al-Shati refugee camp in the west of Gaza City.

Last night, the Israeli occupation army bombed a house belonging to Aseela in the east of Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing five brothers and wounding their father.

14 civilians from the same family were also killed and many others were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Other casualties were reported in different areas of Gaza following Israeli aerial, artillery and shooting attacks last night and today.

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

 

IOFs kidnap several Palestinians in the West Bank and Al-Quds (Jerusalem)

Thursday 11-April-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens during dawn and morning raids in the West Bank and Al-Quds (Jerusalem) on Thursday, the second day of Eidul-Fitr holiday.

According to local sources, the IOFs kidnaped five citizens in Toulkarm City and its nearby areas. One of the detainees is Al-Shaikh Mahdi Al-Malla'h, a noted religious figure.

The IOFs also caused damage to a Palestinian vehicle traveling at the Younus rotary near Shuwaika suburb in Toulkarm and interrogated its driver.

In Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), the Israeli occupation apartheid regime police forces stormed Al-'Eizariya town and kidnaped two citizens after ransacking their homes.

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime police also announced they detained four Maqdisis (Jerusalemites), claiming they threw explosives and stones at a train in northern Al-Quds (Jerusalem).

In a separate incident, a horde of extremist illegal Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian house and a car in Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya town, south of Nablus, before local residents fended them off.

The same illegal settlers also assaulted and injured a citizen during its attack on the town. 

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to privately-owned Palestinian vehicle near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 11, 2024 (WAFA) –

Illegal Israeli settlers today set fire to a vehicle owned by a local Palestinian resident in the al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, according to security sources.

Sources told WAFA that several colonists broke into the al-Mughayyir village and set fire to a vehicle belonging to a citizen before they were confronted and forced out of the area by the local villagers.

T.R.

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Illegal Israeli settlers attack Nablus-area village at dawn, set fire to house and vehicle

NABLUS, Thursday, April 11, 2024(WAFA) –

Illegal Israeli settlers predawn on Thursday set fire to a house and a vehicle belonging to Palestinians in the town of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya, east of Nablus, according to local sources

Sources said that colonists snuck their way into the eastern part of the said town, setting fire to a house and a vehicle, before residents rushed to fend off the attack.

The illegal Israeli settlers also assaulted one of the residents, causing him fractures in his hand.

T.R.

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Israeli occupation forces tighten measures around Salfeet-area villages

SALFEET, Wednesday, April 10, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces Wednesday continued to tighten military measures in the towns and villages north and west of Salfeet.

Local sources said that the occupation army tightened measures on the village of 'Haris, north of Salfeet, and also closed the iron gate at the entrance to the town of Burqin and closed the entrance to the town of Qarawat Bani 'Hassan, west of the city, under the pretext of suspicion that an Israeli vehicle had been exposed to fire in the vicinity of the illegal Israeli setlement of Burkan, which was established on the lands of the village of 'Haris.

K.T.

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