On Day 312 of US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 2 Massacres, 32 Palestinians Killed, 88 Injured, with a Death Toll of  39,929 and 92,240 Injuries

August 13, 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, based on the reliable data reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry:

By August 13, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 46,929+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (39,929), those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 7,000+). 

By August 13, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 92,240.

By August 13, 2024, 623 Palestinians who were killed, 5,442 who were injured, and 10,039, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023, including 310 women and 640 children (Some of the detainees have been released).

By July 12, 2024, the Palestinian death toll in Gaza included 16,054+ children and 10,700 women (69.7% of the total). The death toll also included 500 doctors and medical staff, 158 journalists, and 75 civil defense workers. 

By July 12, 2024, the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment destroyed more than 100 health hospitals and medical facilities,  609 mosques, 3 churches, more than 430,000 housing units, and the infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.

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While the world powers are doing nothing to stop the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, 39,929 Palestinian civilians were killed, 92,240 were injured, by August 13, 2024	Grieving the death and funeral procession of Martyr Mo'taz Sarsour in Al-Am'ri refugee camp, near Ramallah, who was killed by the Israeli occupation forces during their raid on the refugee camp today, August 13, 2024
Mu'hammed Abul Qumsan went to the Dair El-Bala'h hospital, to obtain birth certificates for his twins, but he discovered that they were already killed by an Israeli genocidal air strike, on August 13, 2024	The Palestinian twins, Aasir and Aaysil, had been killed by an Israeli genocidal air strike before their father, Mu'hammed Abul Qumsan, could obtain their birth certificates, on August 13, 2024
Grieving the death of Palestinian civilian martyrs who were massacred by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on central Gaza Strip, August 13, 2024.	Carrying some of the Palestinian civilian martyrs to the hospital in Dair El-Bala'h, who were massacred by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on central Gaza Strip, August 13, 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.

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‎In pictures‎‎, he went to extract a birth certificate for his twins, and the news of their martyrdom came to him..!‎

‎Palestine Today‎, ‎|‎August 13, 2024‎

‎‎Palestinian father Mu'hammed Abu Al-Qumsan went to obtain birth certificates for his twins, "Aasir and Aaysil", who were born 4 days ago, but he did not know that they were martyred (unjustly killed) together with their mother and grandmother by an Israeli genocidal bombardment on the east of Dair El-Bala'h.‎

‎According to their father, Mu'hammed Abu Al-Qumsan, who was in a state of severe shock, he said: "Only four days have passed since the birth of the twins "Aasir" and "Aaysil", at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Dair El-Bala'h, in the central Gaza Strip."‎

‎The grieving father added: "The twin children were born in good health, and they were discharged from the hospital with me and their mother in a residential apartment they rented, after he was displaced from the Jabalya refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip months ago, fleeing the scourge of war that poured on the heads of the people of Gaza from the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment.‎

‎The father of the twins added: "The twins, their mother, and grandmother, were martyred in a bombing that targetted the apartment which the family rented in Al-Qastal Tower 1, east of Dair El-Bala'h."‎

‎It is worth mentioning that the Israeli occupation forces have continued their genocidal war on the Gaza Strip by land, sea, and air, since the seventh of October 2023, resulting in the death of 39,929 citizens and the injury of 92,240 others, while thousands of victims are still under rubble and on the roads, who cannot be reached by ambulance and civil defense crews.‎

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Over 2,200 of the illegal Israeli settlers defile Al-Aqsa Mosque in morning tours

Tuesday 13-August-2024

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

Hundreds of the illegal Israeli extremist Jewish settlers desecrated on Tuesday morning the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem under tight police protection to mark what they call the destruction of the temple.

According to the Islamic Awqaf Administration in the holy city, the Israeli occupation police allowed over 2,250 settlers to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque and defile its courtyards while doing provocative practices, including singing the Israeli anthem, performing prayers, carrying the Zionist flag, and dancing.

The Awqaf Administration said that more settlers are expected to defile the Mosque’s courtyards in afternoon tours, pointing out that a number of Israeli ministers and officials were among the settler groups who toured the Islamic holy site in the morning.

Earlier, the Israeli police intensified the presence of their forces across the holy city, especially in the Old City and at the Mosque’s gates and the entrances and roads leading to it, and prevented many Muslim worshipers from entering their holy site.

The Mosque was defiled by about 411 settlers on Monday and 370 others on Sunday.

Under the status quo, non-Muslims may visit the Aqsa Mosque but cannot pray or perform sacrilegious practices. However, Jewish settlers have been increasingly defying the ban, something Palestinians consider serious provocation, fearing that the occupation regime intends to take over the Islamic holy site.

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Al-Rishiq: Gallant’s admission that Netanyahu is hindering ceasefire deal confirms the latter’s lies

Tuesday 13-August-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Member of Hamas’s political bureau 'Izzat Al-Rishiq said on Monday, “(Israeli war minister Yoav) Gallant’s remarks admitting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the one who is creating obstacles to reaching a ceasefire deal in Gaza confirms the latter’s lies and intransigence.”

In a statement, Al-Rishiq added that Gallant’s remarks “confirm what we have always said that Netanyahu is lying to the world and the families of the Israeli prisoners in Gaza and that he does not care about the life of the prisoners, and does not want to reach an agreement, and that all he cares about is the continuation and expansion of the war.”

He noted that Hamas’s flexibility and positive response to ceasefire proposals, including US President Joe Biden’s call for a ceasefire last May, “collided with Netanyahu’s intransigence and his evasion of the obligation to reach a ceasefire agreement and a prisoner exchange deal.”

Al-Rishiq called on the world to put pressure on Netanyahu and his government to stop the brutal aggression and the war of genocide, and to reach an exchange deal, saying, “the victory that Netanyahu is seeking is mere illusion.”

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

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On August 12, 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 the Gaza Strip resulted in 2 main massacres, in which 32 Palestinian civilians were killed, and the 88 others were injured, in the past 24 hours (from a specific time of yesterday to a specific time of today). This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 39,929 and the injuries to 92,240, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.

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Death toll across Gaza Strip surges to 39,929, over 91,240 inured

GAZA, Tuesday, August 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that the Israeli occupation forces committed two massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least 32 Palestinians and the injury of 88 others, according to medical sources.

Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has risen to 39,929 reported fatalities, with an additional 92,240 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

According to the same sources, emergency services are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn enclave, as Israeli occupation forces continue to obstruct the movement of ambulance and civil defense crews.

Y.S. 

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Seven civilians killed in Israeli airstrike on Al-Buraij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip

GAZA, Tuesday, August 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Seven civilians were killed today in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Al-Buraij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Earlier morning, at least four civilians were killed, including two children, in the bombing of the occupation forces on Dair El-Bala'h in the central Gaza Strip.

Local sources said that the occupation forces bombed Al-Qastal Towers east of Dair El-Bala'h city, which resulted in the killing of four civilians and causing the injury of others.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7, 2023, has so far resulted in 39,929 documented Palestinian fatalities, mostly women and children, in addition to 92,240 injuries.

Thousands of victims remain trapped under rubble, inaccessible to emergency and civil defense teams due to Israeli attacks.

Y.S.

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Israeli genocidal airstrikes kill Palestinians civilians in Gaza

GAZA, Tuesday, August 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

A number of Palestinians were killed and others were injured at dawn on Tuesday in genocidal raids launched by Israeli occupation war planes on the Gaza Strip.

Medical and local sources reported that a citizen was killed and others were injured when Israeli aircraft bombed Darweesh family home in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

A father and his son were also killed, and others were injured when occupation aircraft bombed Al-Sayid family home in "Block 9" inside Al-Buraij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Occupation aircraft bombed  Abu 'Alwan family home in Al-Shaikh Radhwan neighborhood in Gaza City, resulting in the killing and injury of a number of citizens.

Two citizens were killed and others were injured in a raid launched by occupation aircraft on the town of Al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Younus, in the southern Gaza Strip.

The occupation forces blew up residential blocks west of the city of Rafa'h, in the southern Gaza Strip.

On Monday night, ten citizens were killed and others were injured when occupation aircraft bombed a house in the town of 'Abasan Al-Kabeera, east of Khan Younus.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has risen to 39,929 reported fatalities, with an additional 92,240 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

According to the same sources, emergency services are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn enclave, as Israeli occupation forces continue to obstruct the movement of ambulance and civil defense crews.

K.T.

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

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Palestinian killed, two apartments detonated by IOFs in Ramallah and Al-Beerih

Tuesday 13-August-2024

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed a Palestinian young man and detonated two apartments belonging to prisoners during a campaign at dawn Tuesday in the Ramallah and Al-Beerih province in the central West Bank.

According to local sources, young man called Mo'taz Sarsour died of a critical bullet injury he sustained when the IOF stormed neighborhoods in Ramallah City and clashed with local youths.

Five other citizens were reportedly injured during the IOF raid in Ramallah, particularly in Al-Teera neighborhood.

Israeli occupation forces also stormed two apartment buildings in at-Tira neighborhood in Ramallah City and Umm Al-Sharayit neighborhood in Al-Beerih City and detonated two apartments belonging to the families of prisoner Ayser Al-Barghouthi and Khalid Al-Kharouf.

The IOFs kidnapped Al-Barghouthi and Al-Kharouf on January 8, 2024 after they carried out a shooting operation in eastern Ramallah.

Last July, the IOFs detonated the house of prisoner Mureed Da'had'ha in 'Attara town, north of Ramallah, on allegations of his involvement in the same shooting operation.

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Palestinian worker shot and injured by Israeli gunfire near apartheid barrier north of West Bank

Israel's apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank.

TULKAREM, Tuesday, August 13, 2024 (WAFA) –

A Palestinian worker attempting to reach his workplace inside Israel was shot and injured today by Israeli army gunfire near the apartheid barrier south of Toulkarm city.

Director of ambulance and emergency services in Toulkarm Red Crescent association, Ra-id Yaseen, told WAFA that it received a call about a 67-year-old worker who was shot in the leg by occupation soldiers at a gate in the apartheid barrier separating south of Toulkarm.

The wounded man, from the city of Nablus, was taken to the hospital for treatment.

T.R.

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Israeli occupation forces detain 20 Palestinians from the West Bank

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, August 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces since yesterday evening until Tuesday morning have detained at least 20 Palestinians from the West Bank, including a child and former detainees.

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) said that that the detentions took place across most of the West Bank governorates, accompanied by attacks against detainees and their families in addition to widespread acts of vandalism and destruction in citizens' homes.

It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation authorities at dawn today blew up the homes of detainees Ayser Al-Barghouti and Khalid Kharouf, as part of the occupation authorities' escalation of the crime of collective punishment, which has been and continues to be the most prominent tools and punitive measures adopted by the occupation authorities over many decades, and has escalated since the beginning of the war of extermination.

It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation forces have arrested more than 10,000 Palestinians from the West Bank, including Jerusalem, since the beginning of the ongoing war of extermination and comprehensive aggression against Palestinian people.

K.T.

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IOFs kidnap several Palestinians during West Bank raids

Tuesday 13-August-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

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

According to local sources, the IOFs stormed different neighborhoods of Nablus City and kidnaped two citizens after ransacking their homes.

The IOFs also kidnapped senior Fat'h official Nasou'h Abu Sa'd and his brother Hasan during raids on homes in the old refugee camp of 'Askar in the east of Nablus City.

One young man was reportedly injured in his abdomen by IOF gunfire during clashes with local youths in 'Askar refugee camp.

In Toulkarm, Israeli forces stormed the towns of 'Illar and 'Anabta and kidnaped two citizens from their homes.

In Ramallah, the IOFs kidnapped two young men from their homes identified as Jalal Al-Khateeb and 'Hamza Yaseen, who had been released a few months ago from Israeli jails.

Local sources said that Israeli occupation soldiers stole a sum of money and gold jewelry during the raid on 'Hamza’s house.

Two other citizens were taken prisoners during IOFs raids on homes in Qalqilya City.

The IOFs also stormed Al-Koam village in the west of Al-Khaleel and kidnaped a young man after searching his home.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Israeli occupation forces blow up two Palestinian apartments in Ramallah

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, August 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces Tuesday morning blew up two apartments owned by Palestinian detainees in the cities of Ramallah and Al-Beerih.

The occupation forces stormed  Al-Teera neighborhood in the city of Ramallah and raided a residential building that includes an apartment owned by detainee Ayser Al-Barghouthi.

They also raided Umm Al-Sharayit neighborhood in Al-Bireh and raided a residential building that includes an apartment belonging to Khalid Al-Kharouf, before blowing up the two apartments.

Confrontations erupted in Al-Tira and Umm Al-Sharayit neighborhoods, during which the occupation soldiers fired bullets and tear gas bombs, which led to the injury of four young men with bullets, including Sarsour, and a young man who was run over by a military vehicle.

The occupation forces had detained Al-Barghouthi and Al-Kharouf on January 8 under the pretext that they carried out a shooting attack east of Ramallah.

On July 31, the occupation forces blew up the house of Moureed Da'had'ha, a detained nurse, in the town of 'Atara, north of Ramallah, under the pretext that he had participated in the same operation.

K.T.

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Illegal Israeli extremist settlers uproot, damage dozens of olive trees east of Toulkarm

TULKARM, Tuesday, August 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers today uprooted dozens of olive trees in Ramon Plain, east of Toulkarm.

Manal Zeedan, a local citizen, said that a group of colonists cut off and damaged dozens of olive trees.

He added that this area is subjected to daily attacks by colonists  after they established a colonial outpost in the area on it where they graze their sheep after fencing it with barbed wire.

The Israeli illegal settlers also pursued Palestinian farmers and force them to leave their lands at gunpoint in the same area.

Meanwhile, colonists attacked a vehicle belonging to local resident Walaa 'Aazim, who was heading with her mother from the town of Sibastya to Rameen. They intercepted her, pulled her out of the vehicle, and detained her for more than an hour.

In a related context, dozens of the illegal Israeli settlers, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, stormed the village of Al-Litwani, east of Yatta and performed Talmudic rituals at one of the archaeological sites.

Y.S.

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IIllegal Israeli extremist settlers attack Palestinian farmers, seize water tank southeast of Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM, Tuesday, August 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers today attacked Palestinian farmers in the village of Al-Minya, southeast of Bethlehem.

The head of the Al-Minya village council, Zayed Kawazbeh, said that a group of colonists attacked a number of farmers attending their lands, amidst firing bullets in the air in order to intimidate them into leaving their land.

Kawazbeh added that the colonists also seized a water tank and threatened the farmers not to return to their lands again or otherwise they would be subjected to arbitrary measures.

It is noteworthy that the colonists have recently escalated their attacks on farmers in the village of Al-Minya, involving seizing wheat,  crops and agricultural equipment.

Y.S.

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