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 207 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 5 Massacres, 47 Palestinians Killed, 61 Injured, with a Death Toll of  34,535 and 77,704 Injuries

April 30, 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 30, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 41,535+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (34,535) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on April 18, 2024: 7,000+). 

By April 30, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 77,704, 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 30, 2024, 493 Palestinians who were killed, 4,867 who were injured, and 8,516, 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.

More than 10,000 Palestinian women were killed (by April 17, 2024), 23,000 were injured (by March 8, 2024), but there are 2,100 women who are unaccounted for (by March 8, 2024).

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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A seriously injured Palestinian child who was one of the victims of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, receiving treatment on the floor of a hospital, file, April 30, 2024	Performing funeral prayer on some of the Palestinian martyrs who were massacred by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip, April 30, 2024
Palestinian Civil Defense crews searching for victims buried under the rubbles of their homes, which were destroyed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, April 30, 2024	Palestinian worker 'Hasan Mansiya was killed by Israeli occupation forces in Al-Dthahiriya, south of Al-Khaleel, Hebron, on April 30, 2024
More than 10,000 missing Palestinian civilians remain buried under the rubble of their homes, which were destroyed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, April 30, 2024	Pro-Palestine University of Georgia students protest the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, before the Police crackdown, April 29, 2024 red&black
Bidding farewell to the martyred Palestinian journalist Salim Abu Tuyour, who was massacred, together with his son, by an Israeli genocidal bombardment on their house in Al-Nusayrat, in Central Gaza Strip, April 30, 2024.	Some of the Palestinians who were martyred and injured by Israeli air strikes and bombardment on Gaza city, April 29, 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 (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.

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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Turkish citizen shot dead after stabbing Israeli policeman in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Tuesday 30-April-2024

 Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

A young man, believed to be a Turkish tourist, was shot dead on Tuesday morning after he allegedly stabbed and injured an Israeli occupation regime police officer in the Old City of  Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

Eyewitnesses said that police officers opened fire at the young man and killed him after he allegedly carried out the stabbing attack.

An Israeli occupation regime police source told the Hebrew media that the young man who allegedly carried out the stabbing attack near Al-Sahira Gate in  Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem's) Old City is a Turkish citizen who arrived in Israel in the last 72 hours, most likely as a tourist.

Israeli medical sources said that a policeman was moderately wounded in the attack.

Soon later, Israeli occupation regime police forces stormed a hotel in the holy city, where the slain Turkish citizen was staying.

Since the Israeli occupation regime launched its genocidal war on the  Gaza Strip, resistance operations, including stabbing, car-ramming and shooting incidents, have been on the rise in the West Bank and  Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

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MSF: The destruction of Gaza’s health system increases the number of fatalities

Tuesday 30-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said in a report issued on Tuesday that the destruction of the health system in the Gaza Strip due to the ongoing Israeli genocidal aggression increases the number of fatalities.

The MSF report, entitled Gaza’s Silent Killings, read: “The destruction of the healthcare system and the struggle for survival in Rafa'h, explained that the entire healthcare system in Gaza has been decimated and that men, women and children are at risk of acute malnutrition which leads to rapid deterioration of their physical and mental health.”

The report stated, “MSF teams working in the city of Rafa'h, south of the Gaza Strip, pointed out that the destroyed healthcare system and inhumane living conditions increase the risk of epidemics, malnutrition, and long-term psychological trauma.”

Sounding the alarm over the deterioration of health condition in the Strip, the report said, “ground offensive on Rafa'h would be unimaginably catastrophic,” calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.

The report mentioned serious difficulties in delivering medical supplies and humanitarian aid to Gaza due to Israeli occupation army’s restrictions and obstacles.

The Israeli occupation forces have been continuing its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip despite the UN Security Council’s immediate ceasefire resolution, and in challenge to the International Court of Justice’s ruling demanding Israel to take immediate measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

For 17 years, Israeli occupation forces have been besieging the Gaza Strip. The current Israeli war, however, pushed about 2 million out of 2.3 million Palestinians residing in Gaza to forced displacement amid catastrophic conditions. 

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Civil Defense: 10,000 people missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings across Gaza

Tuesday 30-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Civil Defense announced on Tuesday that more than 10,000 missing people are still under the rubble of hundreds of destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli aggression.

The estimated number of the missing people is not included in the Health Ministry announced death toll, which means the number of martyrs exceeds 44,000, the Civil Defense said in its statement.

The statement stressed that Civil Defense crews continued to carry out their humanitarian duty despite the lack of equipment, vehicles, and mechanisms necessary to search for the missing amid the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip for more than two hundred days.

It pointed out that thousands of citizens lost their lives because its crews have been prevented from reaching and rescuing them from under piles of rubble since the start of the Israeli aggression.

The Civil Defense received many calls from residents and volunteer youth teams to back up individual efforts and initiatives to exhume martyrs’ bodies from homes and residential buildings that were destroyed several months ago, the statement added.

Crews in northern Gaza have embarked on these tasks with the support of volunteers and teams using simple hand tools amid shortage in human cadre, capabilities, equipment, and heavy machinery. However, they were able to recover a number of completely decomposed bodies.

The statement stressed that with the lack of heavy equipment such as bulldozers and excavators, these efforts remain insufficient and do not meet the minimum needs necessary to recover the bodies of thousands of martyrs.

It was estimated that working with such primitive mechanism would take two to three years to retrieve those bodies, especially since UN officials estimated that the Israeli war left at least 37 million tons of debris across the Gaza Strip.

The Civil Defense warned that the continued accumulation of thousands of bodies under the rubble began to spread diseases and epidemics, especially with the onset of summer and the rise in temperatures, which accelerates the process of decomposition.

The Civil Defense renewed its appeal to all relevant parties including the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the International Committee for Civil Protection, and all workers and stakeholders in the humanitarian field to urgently intervene and push for the entry of heavy equipment needed to save the lives of the wounded and to recover the bodies of martyrs.

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182 UNRWA staff have been killed since start of Israeli aggression on October 7, says official

GENEVA, Thursday, April 30, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said that about 182 of the agency's employees had been killed since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

He added in a statements that UNRWA is able to withstand until next July after announcing new contributions, expressing his aspiration to continue its operations until next August.

Lazzarini stressed that most donor countries have resumed their funding for the agency, while a small number of countries have not yet decided to resume funding.

He pointed out that during this month, more food supplies have flowed in, but they are still insufficient in light of the difficulties facing aid convoys.

Y.S.

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MSF: The devastation of Gaza’s health system increases the number of fatalities

GAZA, Tuesday, April 30, 2024 (WAFA) -

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today that the devastation of the health system due to the ongoing Israeli genocidal offensive on the Gaza Strip increases the number of fatalities.

In a report titled GAZA’S SILENT KILLINGS: The destruction of the healthcare system and the struggle for survival in Rafa'h, MSF revealed that the entire healthcare system of the Gaza Strip “has been decimated” and that people were suffering from severe malnutrition, causing their physical and mental health to deteriorate.

“On 13 October 2023, more than one million Palestinian men, women and children were forcibly displaced into Rafa'h, an area the Israeli forces claimed would be safe. However, not only are military operations ongoing in Rafa'h, but the basic conditions for the survival of the civilian population are not in place. People in Rafah are exposed to serious risks of mental and physical harm, as witnessed by MSF teams within the primary healthcare centres and in the post-partum ward where MSF provides medical care in Rafa'h,” the report said.

Sounding the alarm over acute malnutrition, MSF said: “The Israeli authorities’ restrictions on commercial and humanitarian supplies entering Gaza have pushed the population to the edge of starvation. In a country where acute malnutrition was previously unseen, MSF has recorded an alarming upward trend in the number of children, pregnant women and new mothers with acute malnutrition. And yet MSF primary healthcare centers in Rafa'h give an insight into just a fraction of a much wider crisis, as conditions in north Gaza – to which MSF teams have no access – are reportedly much more dire.”

“The population has been exposed to six months of grueling conflict, with a death toll exceeding any other war in the twenty-first century. Even those who have fled to allegedly safe areas are still unsafe. While MSF mental health teams continue to support this traumatized population and maintain a hope that people will eventually recover from their experiences, it is impossible to build resilience and coping mechanisms until a basic sense of safety is restored.”

Highlighting the looming threat of disease outbreaks, MSF said: “The threat of disease outbreaks looms over Rafa'h. People’s living conditions are horrific, particularly with the lack of clean drinking water and the accumulation of rubbish and untreated sewage in the streets – a direct result of the blockade imposed by Israeli authorities on fuel entering Gaza. Initial predictions anticipate that health-related excess mortality rates caused by this conflict will be in the tens of thousands; these are Gaza’s “silent killings””.

It warned that “Gaza’s health system stands shattered; its road to recovery will be long and uncertain – spanning years, if not decades” and stressed the need for “an immediate, sustained and durable ceasefire.”

K.F.

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UGA administration responds to pro-Palestine encampment, arrests

LILLY KERSH 

Red & Black, April 29, 2024 

University of Georgia spokesperson Greg Trevor speaks to UGA students and Athens community members demonstrating at the lawn outside of Old College in Athens, Georgia, on Monday, April 29, 2024. They are demonstrating in support of Palestine, and join hundreds of college students across the United States in a nationwide movement.

Around 10 a.m. on Monday morning, University of Georgia administration released a statement in response to pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ encampment and the arrests on North Campus.

Earlier that morning, around 25 demonstrators set up tents and a netted barricade on the Old College front lawn, joining college campuses across the country in demonstrations in support of Palestine. Sixteen arrests were made as police cleared signs and tents from the quad.

In a statement sent to UGA students, faculty and staff, administrators said that the encampment “crossed a line and violated our policies.”

The Archnews email said the demonstrators did not make a required reservation under the Freedom of Expression Policy, and that the demonstration blocked sidewalks and building entrances and used amplified sound, which also violated university policy. Student Affairs and the UGA Police Department made demonstrators aware of the policies, according to the statement.

According to the statement, demonstrators were advised repeatedly, for more than an hour, that the encampment had to be removed.

According to UGA policy, university community members are legally allowed to demonstrate in both designated free speech zones on campus and any outdoor, publicly accessible area of campus. These zones include the Tate Student Center Plaza, Memorial Hall and the lawn in front of the Zell B. Miller Learning Center. Camping and tenting on campus are not permitted.

Student Affairs personnel gave the demonstrators the opportunity to make a reservation and relocate to a designated forum, according to the university’s statement Monday morning. When demonstrators refused these options, and after multiple warnings that they would be arrested for trespassing, UGAPD arrested 16 demonstrators.

Any students, faculty or staff members arrested could also face further disciplinary action by UGA, according to the statement.

“Let us make it abundantly clear that while the University of Georgia staunchly supports freedom of expression, we will not cede control of our campus to groups that refuse to abide by University policy and threaten the safety of those who live, work and study here,” the university statement read. “The University of Georgia remains an institution where ideas, viewpoints and scholarship can be openly expressed and debated.”

A watermelon earring sits on the lawn of Old College at the University of Georgia's campus in Athens, Georgia, on Monday, April 29, 2024. The watermelon is a symbol of the pro-Palestinian movement in support of Palestine in the Israel-Hamas war.

Pro-Palestine demonstrators gathered at the Arch in downtown Athens on Monday afternoon in support of the 16 arrested on campus earlier that day. Following several pro-Palestine encampments set up at colleges around the country, a group of demonstrators held an encampment at the Old College in North Campus that lasted for an hour and a half before UGA police and administration shut it down. 16 of the initial demonstrators were arrested, sparking outrage and prompting the rally at the Arch.

With hummed chatter, strums of guitars and people working on arts and crafts scattered throughout the front lawn outside Old College at North Campus at 8 p.m. on Monday, April 29, it may be hard to believe that 16 University of Georgia students and Athens community members were arrested there almost 12 hours prior.

UGA students join nationwide encampment movement in support of Palestine

Pro-Palestine demonstrators create community after arrests, tension continues

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

On April 30, 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 5 massacres, which resulted in the killing of 47 Palestinian civilians, and the injury of 61 others, in the past 24 hours. This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 34,535 and the injuries to 77,704, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.   

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47 Palestinian martyrs in 5 Israeli massacres in Gaza in the past 24 hours

Tuesday 30-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces have committed over the past 24 hours five massacres against families in the Gaza Strip. 47 martyrs and 61 wounded as a result of these massacres arrived in hospitals, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health on Tuesday.

This brings the toll of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip, since last October 7, 2023, to 34,535 martyrs and 77,704 injuries, the Ministry announced in its daily report.

A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews have been prevented from approaching them, it elaborated.

Since October 7 last year, the Israeli occupation forces have been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, resulting in tens of thousands of martyrs, wounded and missing, in addition to the displacement of two million people and a massive destruction of homes and infrastructure that affected more than 70% of the buildings in the Gaza Strip which has been since then under a suffocating siege and witnessing a stifling humanitarian crisis and an unprecedented famine, especially in Gaza and its north. 

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Seven Palestinians killed, 32 others injured in Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip

GAZA, Tuesday, April 30, 2024 (WAFA) –

Seven Palestinians were killed and at least 32 others were injured today in Israeli bombardment on the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes against the northern and western parts of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, killing four Palestinians and injuring 15 others.

He added that Israeli warplanes launched three airstrikes on the Gaza city neighborhood of Al-Zaytoun, killing three and injuring 10 others.

The fighter jets also targeted the Jabalya town and refugee camp in the northern Strip, injuring seven, including three children.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation artillery shelled the Al-Buraij and Al-Maghazi refugee camps in the central Strip, the neighborhoods of Tel Al-Hawa, Shaikh 'Ijleen and Al-Zaytoun in the city of Gaza, as well as vicinity of Shaikh Zayid towers in Bait Lahya.

In the southern Strip, the artillery targeted civilian houses in the eastern area of the city of Khan Younus.

This came as search and rescue teams recovered six decomposed bodies from Al-Amal neighborhood, west of Khan Younus, as search operations are still underway to recover other bodies from under the rubble.

The search and rescue teams managed to recover 24 bodies, including those of a child and women, up this morning following Israeli airstrikes on houses across the city of Rafa'h in the southern Strip.

By April 29, 2024, currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, killing at least 34,488 Palestinians and injuring over 77,643 others.

Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

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 Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

K.F.

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Israeli genocidal air strikes kill and injure civilians in Gaza

GAZA, Monday, April 29, 2024 (WAFA) -

Three civilians were killed and others were injured tonight in an Israeli airstrike on a home in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

An Israeli drone targeted a house in the al-Tuffa'h neighborhood in Gaza City, killing two other civilians and wounding several others. The attack coincided with the occupation’s bombing of the Al-Daraj and Shaikh Radhwan neighborhoods in the city.

Israeli fighter jets launched raids on areas west of Rafa'h, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and on the eastern outskirts of the town of Bait 'Hanoun in the northern Strip.

Since dawn today, the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 34, including 26 people in Rafa'h.

Meanwhile, the occupation artillery bombed the eastern part of Jabalya in the northern Strip, the Ju'hr Al-Deek area in the central Strip and the southern areas of Gaza City.

By April 29, 2024, the Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression against the Gaza Strip since the 7th of October last year, killing 34,488 people and injuring 77,643 others, while thousands of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads as ambulance and rescue crews are unable to reach them.

A.D./T.R.

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

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IOFs kill Palestinian worker after assaulting him in the West Bank

Tuesday 30-April-2024

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) killed a Palestinian workman after chasing and assaulting him in Al-Dthahiriya town, south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), at dawn Tuesday.

Local sources said that a worker called 'Hasan Mansiya was martyred after Israeli soldiers chased him as he was en route to his job.

'Hurriya News quoted local sources as saying that soldiers detained and savagely assaulted Mansiya before throwing him off a building in Al-Dthahiriya town.

The sources added that Mansiya died of critical injuries after being thrown from the building.

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Israeli forces detain 10 Palestinians in West Bank raids

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, April 30, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces today detained at least 10 Palestinians in multiple raids across the occupied West Bank, according to security and local sources.

They said that the occupation forces rounded up four Palestinians and ransacked the houses of their families in the village of Rantees, northwest of Ramallah.

The occupation soldiers also rounded up another from the village of Shuqba, northwest of Ramallah, and ransacked his family house, turning it upside down.

In the northern West Bank, a convoy of army vehicles raided the town of 'Anabta, east of Toulkarm, where the soldiers muscled inside two houses, detained two residents and confiscated their mobile phones.

The soldiers broke into a furniture store in the area, smashing its door and wreaking havoc inside.

In the southern West Bank, the sources confirmed a similar raid in the village of 'Ailat 'Ali, east of Bethlehem, resulting in the detention of another.

The heavily-armed soldiers rounded up another and searched his family house in the town of Al-Khadir, south of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem).

Also in the southern West Bank, the occupation soldiers barged their way into an elementary school in the Old City of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), where they assaulted and detained an employee.

The sources confirmed similar raids in the town of Silat Al-Dthahr, south of Jineen, and 'Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, where the soldiers searched a number of houses and threatened the families to blow up the houses should some of their members fail to turn themselves to the army.

The occupation forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost daily across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.

These raids are conducted with no need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.

Under Israeli military law army commanders have full executive, legislative and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.

According to the latest figures from Al-Dhameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, there are currently 9,500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 200 child prisoners and 80 female prisoners.

This number includes approximately 3,660 Palestinians placed under “administrative detention”, which allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.

The mass arrest of Palestinians is nothing new. According to a 2017 report by Al-Dhameer, over the past 50 years, more than 800,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned or detained by Israel, this figure is now believed to be closer to 1 million. This means that about 40% of Palestinian men and boys living under military occupation have been deprived of their freedom. Almost every Palestinian family has suffered the imprisonment of a loved one.

K.F.

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IOFs kidnap several Palestinians in West Bank raids

Tuesday 30-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnapped last night and at dawn Tuesday a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in different West Bank areas.

According to local sources, Israeli forces stormed the eastern area of Nablus City and clashed with resistance fighters in the new 'Askar refugee camp.

Local sources said that Israeli occupation soldiers raided several homes in 'Askar refugee camp, ordered families to turn in their sons to the Israeli army within hours at the pretext they are wanted, and threatened to detonate some houses.

In al-Khalil, the IOFs stormed al-Khalil City and raided some homes in different neighborhoods, with no reported arrests.

In Bethlehem, the IOFs kidnapped a woman identified as Salwa 'Hamdan from her home in 'Ailat 'Ali village and a citizen identified as Mu'hammed Salah from his home in Al-Khadir town.

In Ramallah, Israeli occupation forces stormed Rantees village and kidnaped four ex-detainees from their homes a few days after their release from Israeli occupation regime prisons.

The Israeli occupation soldiers also kidnapped a teacher identified as Raja 'Hasan after ransacking his home in Shuqba village, west of Ramallah.

In Toulkarm, two young men were taken prisoners following IOFs raids on homes in 'Anabta town.

The IOFs also stormed Silat Al-Dthahr town in southern Jenin and other areas of the West Bank, without making kidnappings. 

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

 

Israeli occupation forces fire sound bombs at school near Jineen

Jineen,  Tuesday, April 30, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces Tuesday fired sound bombs at school students in the town of 'Arraba, southwest of Jenin.

Security and local sources told WAFA that the occupation soldiers raided 'Arraba, positioned themselves around the school area, fired sound bombs at the students, set up a military checkpoint, stopped vehicles, and checked citizens' identification cards.

The same sources added that the occupation soldiers raided the towns of Ya'bad, Silat Al-Dthahr and the village of 'Aineen.

No detentions were reported.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces fired tear gas canisters towards Tariq Bin Ziyad School in Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

WAFA correspondent in Hebron said that dozens of students and teachers at the school located in the southern region of Hebron suffered from suffocation as a result of inhaling toxic tear gas fired by the occupation forces inside and outside the school, adding that they were treated on the field.

K.T. 

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