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 185 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 32 Palestinians Killed, 47 Injured, with a Death Toll of  33,207 and 75,933 Injuries

April 8, 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 8, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 40,207+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (33,207) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on February 7, 2024: 7,000+). 

By April 8, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 75,933, 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 8, 2024, 464 Palestinians who were killed, 3,721 who were injured, and 8,145, 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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Three Lebanese people were killed, several were injured, in an Israeli air strike on a house in Al-Sultaniya, including a 'Hizbullah commander, April 8, 2024	Palestinian novelist and political activist Waleed Daqqa, died by cancer after 38 years in Israeli occupation apartheid regime captivity, April 8, 2024
UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, says allowing the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza was a betrayal of humanity, in the form of death, devastation and now the shameful man-made famine, April 6, 2024	A Palestinian lifting his arm with a persistence V sign, as he rides his bicycle in Khan Younus, among the destruction inflicted by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, April 8, 2024
A displaced Palestinian couple returned to their house in Khan Younus, to find it destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces, April 8, 2024	On Day 185 of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, 32 Palestinians were killed, 47 were injured, with 62 percent of all buildings destroyed, file, April 8, 2024
Palestinians who were injured by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment arriving at Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital, in Dair El-Bala'h, April 8, 2024	Performing burial prayer in Dair El-Bala'h, on the Palestinian martyrs, who were killed by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on central Gaza Strip, April 8, 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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Three people killed in Israeli strike on Lebanon, including 'Hizbullah commander

Monday 8-April-2024

BEIRUT, (PIC)

Three people were killed in an overnight Israeli air strike in Lebanon, including a 'Hizbullah commander.

Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported that Israeli aircraft “raided an inhabited house” in Sultaniya, reporting “three martyrs and a number of wounded”.

It said the strike caused “huge damage” to nearby buildings and infrastructure and that at least 10 families were affected.

Meanwhile, a Lebanese security source told AFP that “a local commander from (Hizbullah’s) Radhwan unit” was killed in the Israeli strike along with two other members of the group.

The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the commander as 'Abbas Ja'afar. 

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Griffiths calls Gaza war “betrayal of humanity”

Sunday 7-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Israel’s war against the entire Palestinian population in Gaza Strip has escalated into a “betrayal of humanity,” the UN humanitarian chief said on Saturday.

This came in a statement made by Martin Griffiths, the outgoing under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief, on the eve of the six-month anniversary of the war.

“It is not enough for six months of war to be a moment of remembrance and mourning – it must also spur a collective determination that there be a reckoning for this betrayal of humanity,” Griffiths said.

“Each day, this war claims more civilian victims. Every second that it continues sows the seeds of a future so deeply obscured by this relentless conflict,” he added.

“For the people of Gaza, the past six months of war have brought death, devastation and now the immediate prospect of a shameful man-made famine,” he underlined. 

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'Hamas denies talks progress, due to  Israel’s “intransigence”

Monday 8-April-2024

CAIRO, (PIC)

A senior 'Hamas official in Gaza denied progress in Cairo talks, telling Al-Jazeera news network that “so far there is no progress” and blaming Israel’s “intransigence.”

The official also affirmed that the Hamas delegation has left Cairo on Monday for consultations.

This came after the Egyptian media outlet Al-Qahira reported early Monday, citing a senior Egyptian official involved in the talks, that talks in Cairo have made “significant progress on several contentious points of agreement.”

The state-linked Al-Qahira reported that Qatari and Hamas delegations had left Cairo and were expected to return “within two days to finalize the terms of the agreement.”

In a statement issued Sunday evening, the Hamas Movement said its delegation had arrived in Cairo and met with Egypt’s Minister of Intelligence in Cairo 'Abbas Kamil.

During the meeting, Hamas reiterated the demands the Movement issued in a March 14 proposal prior to a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that was passed on March 25.

The demands include a permanent ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, a return of the displaced, and an exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli captives being held in Gaza, the statement said.

The Movement also demanded relief for the Palestinian people and to begin reconstruction of the besieged Strip.

Since October 7, the Israeli occupation launched a massive aggression on the Gaza Strip, totally destroying residential neighborhoods, hospitals, buildings, towers, and civilian homes over the heads of their residents, amid total restrictions on water, food, medicine, and fuel supplies.

By April 7, 2024, more than 33,175 Palestinians were killed and 75,886 others were injured, during the ongoing genocide.

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

On April 8, 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 32 Palestinian civilians, and the injury of 47 others, in the past 24 hours. This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 33,207 and the injuries to 75,933, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.   

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Palestinian death toll since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, on October 7, rises to 33,207

GAZA, Monday, April 8, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Palestinian death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, since October 7th, 2023, has now soared to 33,207, medical sources confirmed on Thursday.

Sources added that at least 75,933 others have also been injured in the onslaught.

At least 32 people were killed and 47 others were injured in Israeli attacks that took place in the last 24 hours, they added.

The sources said that many victims are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are still unable to reach them.

K.T.

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US-backed Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip enters Day 185

Monday 8-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered Day 185 on Monday, 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.

The Israeli warplanes launched a fresh wave of airstrikes east of Dair El-Bala'h and on the Nusayrat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

A number of citizens were injured in a separate airstrike, targeting a house in the Khirbet Al-'Adas area, northeast of Rafa'h, south of the Gaza Strip.

Two more raids were also carried out against two agricultural lands east and south of Rafa'h. 

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Day 185 of Genocide: Palestinian civilians killed in the Israeli genocidal bombardment on Gaza Strip

GAZA, Monday, April 8, 2024 (WAFA) – 

A number of Palestinian civilians were Monday dawn killed and injured in a series of Israeli genocidal airstrikes and artillery shelling that targeted areas of the central and southern Gaza Strip on the 185th day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which has entered its 7th month.

Health sources in the Gaza Strip said that at least seven people were killed, and others were injured, in an occupation bombing in the center of the Gaza Strip and Shuja'iya camp.

WAFA correspondents said that the occupation warplanes targeted the city of Rafa'h and its surrounding areas with a series of violent raids, targeting homes, facilities, and agricultural lands.

He added that an Israeli occupation airstrike targeted Al-Brahma area in the city of Rafa'h, south of the Gaza Strip, while similar raids targeted the vicinity of Al-Kuwaiti Hospital and areas northeast of the city.

The occupation aircraft also launched two raids targeting the north of the Nusayrat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

A number of citizens were killed and others were injured on Sunday evening after the occupation targeted various areas in Al-Nusayrat camp and in Rafa'h in the Gaza Strip, where medical sources said that six people were killed and a number of others were injured with various injuries after the occupation warplanes targeted a commercial facility housing displaced persons in towers of 'Ain Jalout, south of the Al-Nusayrat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

In Rafa'h, south of the Gaza Strip, at least a young man was killed and a number of others were injured, after Israeli warplanes bombed citizens in the town of Al-Nasr, north of Rafa'h.

By april 7, 2024, Palestinian medical sources announced that the death toll in the Gaza Strip since the start of the occupation aggression had risen to 33,175, the majority of whom were women and children, while about 75,886 others were injured, while thousands were still missing under the rubble and on the roads.

K.T.

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GMO questions Israeli withdrawal from Khan Younus

Monday 8-April-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The government media office (GMO) questioned in a statement issued Sunday the Israeli occupation’s intentions regarding withdrawal from Khan Younus.

What is happening on the ground is different from what the occupation declares to the media, the statement reads.

The occupation closes all Gaza crossings and does not allow aid to enter, it pointed out.

Earlier Saturday, Al-Qassam Brigades declared the death of 14 Israeli occupation soldiers in Khan Younus clashes.

The Israeli occupation army was forced to end its operations before achieving its goals, the Brigades said.

“Every time the occupation army returned to areas where it was supposed to find no resistance, it was surprised by violent and qualitative resistance.”

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Palestinian Woman killed, others injured, in Israeli bombing of civilians homes in Gaza

GAZA, Monday, April 8, 2024 (WAFA) – 

A Palestinian woman was Monday killed, and a number of citizens were injured, as the Israeli occupation forces bombed citizens’ homes in the central and southern Gaza Strip.

Medical sources said that a female citizen was killed after Israeli forces bombed a house in Dair Al-Bala'h in the central Gaza Strip.

The same sources added that a number of civilians were injured as a result of the occupation artillery shelling of homes in the town of Al-Qarara, north of the city of Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip.

By April 7, in an initial toll, medical sources said that the death toll in the Gaza Strip since the start of the occupation’s aggression had risen to 33,175, the majority of whom were women and children, while the toll of the injured rose to about 75,886, while thousands are still missing under the rubble and on the roads.

K.T.

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

 

Palestinian woman shot dead by Israeli occupation forces near Toubas

TOUBAS, Monday, April 8, 2024 (WAFA) – 

A Palestinian young woman was Monday morning killed after she was shot by Israeli occupation forces at Tayaseer military checkpoint, east of Toubas.

Local sources said that the occupation forces fired bullets at a young woman as she was passing through the checkpoint.

Her identity remains unknown.

The same sources added that the Israeli occupation forces closed the checkpoint in both directions, causing a traffic blockage.

K.T.

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Terminally ill Palestinian prisoner Waleed Daqqa dies in Israeli custody

Monday 8-April-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

Imprisoned Palestinian novelist and political activist Waleed Daqqa, who was suffering from cancer, has died in Israel’s Shamir Medical Center, according to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs on Sunday.

Daqqa was from Baqa Al-Gharbiyya, a predominantly Palestinian city within the Palestinian territory occupied in 1948, and had served for 38 years in Israeli prisons, the commission added, before saying that he had died as a result of a “slow killing” policy carried out against ill prisoners by the Israeli prison administration.

Daqqa is one of the most prominent and longtime Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody. He was arrested by Israel in 1986 for killing an Israeli soldier and has remained in prison since then. While in jail, he wrote several books, including a children’s story.

In 1999, he also got married while behind bars. Along with his wife, Sana Salama, he welcomed a daughter – Milad – in 2020, conceived after his sperm was smuggled out of prison.

In 2022, Daqqa was diagnosed with myelofibrosis – a rare form of bone marrow cancer that disrupts the body’s normal production of blood cells. Rights groups began pressuring Israel to release him on medical grounds.

Last year, Addhameer, a rights group that supports Palestinian prisoners, said that Daqqa was in “dire need of urgent medical attention”, accused Israeli authorities of denying him the treatment he was prescribed, and called for his “immediate release”.

But Israel refused to free him from prison early, setting his release date for 2025.

Hamas Movement said that it was renewing its “covenant with the prisoners until they gain freedom”, following the news of his martyrdom.

In a statement, Hamas mourned Daqqa and noted that “he died of deliberate medical negligence in the occupation prisons.” 

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Two Palestinians shot by Israeli forces during raid near Nablus

NABLUS, Monday, April 8, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Two Palestinian citizens were early Monday injured by Israeli occupation forces during a raid into Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, at dawn on Monday.

Sources in the Palestinian Red Crescent said that two civilians were injured, one of whom was injured by live bullets in the finger, and the other by shrapnel in the back.

Local sources told WAFA that a number of occupation vehicles and two bulldozers stormed the camp, as the occupation soldiers deployed snipers on the roofs of a number of houses, while the sounds of live bullets were heard. No injuries were reported, however.

The sources added that the occupation soldiers stormed one of the cultural centers in the camp and inspected it.

K.T.

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Israeli occupation forces detain 45 Palestinians from the West Bank

RAMALLAH, Monday, April 8, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces have conducted a series of political detentions across the West Bank since yesterday evening, detaining at 45 individuals, most of whom were released later.

In a joint statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) and the Prisoners Affairs Authority stated that the arrests were carried out in various governorates of the West Bank, including Hebron, where dozens of civilians were interrogated locally, and Toulkarm, Nablus, Ramallah, and Al-Quds (Jerusalem).

The statement further detailed that the Israeli occupation forces continue to implement widespread raid and arrest campaigns accompanied by brutal beatings, threats against detainees and their families, direct shooting with the intent to kill, as well as extensive destruction and sabotage of citizens' homes.

Thus, by April 8, 2024, the number of Palestinians who are politically detained since October 7th has risen to approximately 8145, including those apprehended from their homes, at military checkpoints, those who surrendered under pressure, and hostages, the statement added.

K.T.

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IOFs launch new kidnappings, raids across the West Bank

Monday 8-April-2024

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) carried out late yesterday and at dawn Monday a large-scale raid and kidnapping campaign throughout the West Bank.

In Toulkarm, the IOFs troops stormed the city from its western axis, accompanied by a number of military bulldozers, and started sweeping the streets and destroying the infrastructure.

Israeli reconnaissance planes were also seen hovering over the area.

The bulldozers also destroyed Duwwar Al-'Alami Street, damaging its infrastructure, especially the water network in the area, and the stairs of the court complex.

The IOFs then raided a local commercial store and detained and investigated its owner.

The IOF also imposed a tight cordon on the Toulkarm refugee camp and deployed snipers on the roofs of high-rise buildings.

In Qalqilya, the IOFs broke Jayyous town amid heavy firing of live bullets and sound bombs.

Local sources reported that the IOFs launched an extensive raid and search campaign targeting local homes and stores.

Similar raids were reported in 'Ain Al-Sultan camp, north of Aree'ha (Jericho).

In Al-Khaleel (Hebron), at least 19 Palestinians were detained in Doura town.

A woman was brutally attacked during her husband’s detention.

Four more Palestinians were rounded up in Al-Mughayir town in Ramallah.

As for Nablus, the IOFs troops stormed Balata refugee camp and deployed snipers on the rooftops, which led to the outbreak of violent clashes.

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Israeli forces storm Toulkarm city, refugee camp, amidst infrastructure damages

Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Tulkarm and its camp, amid systematic destruction of infrastructure. (Wafa Awwad/WAFA Images)

TULKARM, Monday, April 8, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces Monday dawn stormed the city of Toulkarm and its camp, amid systematic destruction of infrastructure.

WAFA correspondent said that a number of occupation vehicles, supported by two bulldozers, stormed the city from its western axis and advanced towards Courts Square.

She added that the occupation bulldozers began to raze a part of Western Street in the vicinity of Al-Murabitoon Mosque in the area, while drones flew at a low altitude.

The occupation bulldozers also destroyed the area in Al-'Alami Street, damaging its infrastructure, especially the water network in the area, and the courtyards of the court complex.

Another military force of 15 vehicles stormed the city from its southern entrance, coming from the Avnei Hefetz colony near the village of Shoufa, and was stationed in the southern neighborhood.

The occupation soldiers raided a shop selling mobile phones belonging to a local resident in the area, after breaking down its gate and searching it, detaining its owner and subjecting him to interrogation before he was arrested.

The occupation forces imposed a tight cordon on the Toulkarm camp after their vehicles and bulldozers stormed its northern entrance towards al-Balouneh neighborhood, and spread out in its various axes, specifically around the Khalid Bin Al-Waleed Mosque and Ajyal Hall.

They deployed their snipers in high-rise buildings, while they began to bulldoze the streets in the aforementioned neighborhood.

The bulldozing included sections of Nablus Street adjacent to the camp, while the sounds of gunfire and explosions were heard intermittently.

During their raid into Toulkarm refugee camp, the occupation forces detained Mu'hammed Khalid Surouji after detaining his father and brother.

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