Documentation of the Israeli abuse of power, mistreatment of humanity, and perpetration of the genocidal war on the Palestinian people in the  Gaza Strip.

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On Day 320 of US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 4 Massacres, 50 Palestinians Killed, 124 Injured, with a Death Toll of  40,223 and 92,981 Injuries

August 21, 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 20, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 50,223+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (40,223), those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 10,000+). 

By August 20, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 92,981.

By August 20, 2024, 631 Palestinians who were killed, 5,473 who were injured, and 10,114, 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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40,223 Palestinians were killed, 192,981 were injured, mostly children and women, by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on various areas of the Gaza Strip, by August 21, 2024	50 Palestinians were killed, 124 were injured, mostly children and women, by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on various areas of the Gaza Strip, on August 21, 2024
19-year-old Palestinian young woman, Saja Daraghma, was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation soldiers, at the Bait Foureek military barrier, in eastern Nablus, on August 21, 2024	Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces assassinated five Lebanese and three Palestinians in southern Lebanon, August 21, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are forced by the Israeli occupation forces to keep moving from a place to another in the Gaza Strip, without knowing where to go, August 21, 2024	The Israeli occupation army is deliberately strangling about 2 million Palestinians, cramming them into a narrow area that does not exceed one-tenth of the Gaza Strip, August 21, 2024
Injured and martyred Palestinians, who were massacred by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Khan Younus, are brought to the Nasir hospital, August 22, 2024.	An Israeli genocidal air strike on Salahuddeen School in Al-Rimal, west of Gaza City, resulted in massacring a number of displaced Palestinian civilians who were taking a shelter there, August 22, 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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Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces assassinate 5 Lebanese and 3 Palestinians in southern Lebanon

Wednesday 21-August-2024

BEIRUT, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces assassinated a senior member of Fat'h movement by targeting his vehicle in an aerial strike in the city of Sidon, in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.

Medical sources announced the martyrdom of three people, including Khaleel Al-Maqda'h, the brother of the leader of the Fat'h movement in Lebanon, Muneer Al-Maqda'h.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday evening the martyrdom of five citizens and the injury of two others, in two Israeli airstrikes on the town of Al-Dthuhaira in southern Lebanon.

Two people killed, others injured in Israeli air raids on southern Lebanon

Wednesday 21-August-2024

BEIRUT, (PIC)

Two people were martyred and others were injured in Israeli airstrikes on Al-Dthuhaira town in southern Lebanon on Tuesday evening.

Lebanese news outlets said that the airstrikes targeted a number of homes in the area, while health officials said that four people, including three paramedics, were injured in an airstrike on Wadi Hamoul area.

The Israeli occupation army also launched attacks on other areas of southern Lebanon on Tuesday, with no information about further casualties.

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Euro-Med warns of Israel’s persistence in displacing Gazans

Wednesday 21-August-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has warned against the Israeli occupation army’s persistence in issuing more “illegal” evacuation orders against Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement on Wednesday, Euro-Med described the last Israeli evacuation orders in Dair El-Bala'h in central Gaza and Mawasi Al-Qarara in the west of Khan Younus in southern Gaza as “illegal and dangerous,” stressing that they would lead to more forced displacement and increase the density of those areas, which are already crowded with displaced people.

Euro-Med said that the Israeli army issued on Wednesday morning new evacuation orders against tens of thousands of people, including displaced citizens, living in Blocks 129 and 130 in Al-Ma'hatta area and Dair El-Bala'h.

Euro-Med warned that Israel is insistent on expanding its attacks in Dair El-Bala'h, which is crowded with one million people, most of them already displaced from northern and southern Gaza.

Euro-Med reiterated its appeal to all countries to shoulder their responsibilities through imposing effective sanctions on Israel and ending all forms of political, financial and military support and cooperation provided for it.

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PGMO: IOF is cramming 1.7 million civilians in one tenth of the area of the Gaza Strip

Wednesday 21-August-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Government Media Office (PGMO) in Gaza said, “the Israeli occupation army is deliberately strangling 1.7 million Palestinian civilians, cramming them into a narrow area that does not exceed one-tenth of the total area of the Gaza Strip.”

The PGMO confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) continue to commit the most horrific crimes against civilians in the Gaza Strip, including the crime of forced displacement of more than 1,700,000 Palestinian civilians.

“The IOFs pushed the displaced Gazans to forcibly move and leave their homes and residential areas under the threat of gunfire, bombing and internationally prohibited weapons, which is a crime against humanity,” the GMO stated.

“This confirms, beyond any doubt, that the Israeli occupation army is deliberately strangling the Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip in a very narrow area that does not exceed a tenth of the area of the Gaza Strip,” it added.

The Office reviewed the sequence of the criminal terrorist Israeli occupation army’s record of displacement plans that has been pursued since early November 2023 to strangle the Gaza Strip.

The IOFs claimed that the southern region was a safe humanitarian zone with an area of 230 square kilometers, which was equivalent to 63% of the total area of the Gaza Strip, and included agricultural, service, commercial and economic lands, roads, and streets.

Since early November 2023, the IOFs have been reducing the area of the safe humanitarian zone gradually over the past months to reach only 36 square kilometers, representing 9.5% of the total area of the Gaza Strip, including agricultural lands, cemeteries, services, commercial and economic lands, roads, and streets.

The PGMO noted that the IOFs considers Gaza and North Gaza governorates as not among the safe humanitarian zones, despite the presence of 700,000 Palestinian civilians in these two provinces.

It condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli crime of forced displacement and held Israel and the US administration fully responsible for the catastrophic and dangerous repercussions of this ongoing crime, which aims to strangle civilians in the Gaza Strip, as well as to confine them in unlivable areas due to the absence of all aspects of normal life.

The PGMO also called on the international community, UN organizations, and all countries of the free world to pressure Israel and the US administration to stop the Israeli war of genocide and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.

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Gaza: UN warns of worsening humanitarian disaster

Wednesday 21-August-2024

NEW YORK, (PIC)

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric has warned that the severe fuel shortages in the Gaza Strip, especially in the north, are forcing hospitals to postpone vital surgeries and ambulances to stop.

“The already catastrophic situation in Gaza is worsening amid repeated waves of displacement, combined with overcrowding, insecurity, crumbling infrastructure, active hostilities and limited services,” spokesman Dujarric told journalists at the regular press briefing in New York on Tuesday.

“OCHA (the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) warns that the ongoing hostilities, constant evacuation orders, and severe shortages of essential supplies are making it increasingly difficult for displaced families to access basic services at their place of arrival,” Dujarric said.

He added that since October last year, 86 percent of the Gaza Strip has been placed under evacuation orders.

“As you may know, Gaza’s population is increasingly concentrated in a zone designated by Israeli authorities in Al-Mawasi, where Palestinians have been told to go,” he said, noting that according to OCHA, the density of the area has surged to between 30,000 and 34,000 people per square kilometer, compared to an estimated 1,200 people prior to the war.

OCHA had reported in a humanitarian bulletin on Tuesday that “severe shortages of fuel and medical supplies continue to disrupt the functionality of remaining hospitals and primary healthcare centers, particularly in northern Gaza.

It cited an announcement by the director of the Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza that all surgeries had been postponed, saying that he appealed for urgent fuel supplies to avert further deaths at the facility.

“Conditions are equally critical at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, where fuel and medical supply shortages are reportedly threatening critical functions,” OCHA noted, adding that the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners were working on getting fuel to these facilities.

Furthermore, on Sunday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society warned that its ambulances, emergency medical clinics and relief services could grind to a halt in northern Gaza due to a lack of fuel. Its teams are already operating at minimum capacity and only two out of eight ambulances are operational, it added.

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

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On August 21, 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 4 main massacres, in which 50 Palestinian civilians were killed, and the 124 others were injured, in the past 48 hours (from a specific time of yesterday to a specific time of today). This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 40,223 and the injuries to 92,981, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.

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Gaza: Death toll surges to 40,223 martyrs

Wednesday 21-August-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The health ministry in Gaza said on Wednesday that the Israeli occupation army committed four massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 50 civilians and injuring over 124 others, while a large number of victims are still under the rubble of bombed buildings or lying on roads.

In a statement, the health ministry said that the Israeli army killed and injured a large number of civilians in different areas of Gaza during the past 24 hours, but at least 174 of them, including 50 martyrs, were transported to hospitals.

The health ministry added that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli bombardments and shooting attacks, which started on October 7, climbed to 40,223 martyrs and the number of the wounded surged to 92,981 people.

The Gaza Strip has been under brutal bombardment since a cross-border operation was launched by Hamas’s armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, on October 7.

Besides the large number of casualties and the huge displacement of people, basic food, fuel, water and medical supplies have run out for the 2.3 million residents in Gaza due to the tight Israeli blockade and the massive destruction of infrastructure and facilities. 

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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters Day 320

Wednesday 21-August-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered Day 320 on Wednesday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different areas and massacre more civilians.

Reporters for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that the Israeli occupation army continued to bomb homes and shelter centers and attack citizens in different areas of Gaza during the past 24 hours.

According to media sources, civil defense and medical crews retrieved the body of photojournalist Mu'hammed Farajallah, who had been killed in an Israeli attack eight months ago as he was covering the work of rescue teams in northern Gaza.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army killed two citizens in different attacks in Khan Younus, including one on a motorcycle.

Two other citizens were martyred in an Israeli attack on Al-Mawasi and Al-Qarara areas, in Khan Younus.

The Israeli occupation army also killed a 13-year-old girl child in an artillery attack on her home in Dair El-Bala'h in central Gaza.

Rescue and medical teams recovered bodies of four citizens, who had been martyred a few days ago at the Dawla junction in Al-Zaytoun refugee camp, south of the Gaza Strip.

Casualties, including martyrs, were reported after an Israeli warplane targeted a house belonging to the family of Abu Hadrous near 'Hamad City in western Khan Younus.

Bodies of four farmers were reportedly evacuated to a hospital following an Israeli attack in the northwest of Rafa'h, south of Gaza.

The Israeli army also killed a fisherman and injured another one after opening fire at them off the shores of Khan Younus in central Gaza.

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

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

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IOFs kidnap a Palestinian young woman near Nablus

Wednesday 21-August-2024

NABLUS, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnapped a Palestinian young woman at Bait Foureek military barrier in eastern Nablus on Wednesday evening.

Local sources said that IOFs kidnapped the 19-year-old Palestinian young woman, Saja Daraghma, who hails from Toubas.

They added that she was taken to an unknown destination, adding that her sister Asma is a martyr.

Around 9,900 Palestinians from the West Bank are currently languishing in the Israeli occupation apartheid regime prisons, not counting the Gaza prisoners. 

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IOFs storm West Bank areas, kidnap Palestinians

Wednesday 21-August-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnapped last night and on Wednesday morning a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank, amid clashes with local youths.

According to local sources, the IOFs kidnapped a woman after raiding her house in Baqat Al-'Hatab village in eastern Qalqilya.

In Tulkarem, the IOFs kidnapped a young man from his home in the city’s Shuwaika suburb.

Another citizen was taken prisoner at the commercial crossing of Al-Tayba in the south of Toulkarm.

Israeli forces also stormed Attil town in northern Toulkarm. and ransacked several homes, without making arrests.

Similar IOFs raids took place in villages in the south of Toulkarm., amid assaults on local residents.

In Ramallah, Israeli forces kidnaped a young man after pillaging his home in Bait Reema town.

In Nablus, the IOFs stormed Balata refugee camp and the Old City, amid intensive gunfire and clashes with local youths.

Several young men were reportedly injured during skirmishes with local youths in Nablus.

Palestinian resistance fighters from the Nablus Brigade reportedly clashed with Israeli soldiers in the Old City of Nablus and showered them with bullets

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Note:

The Israeli occupation forces have no jurisdiction to arrest or detain Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, that's why the correct term for what they do illegally is kidnapping, not arrest or detention.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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IOFs bulldoze dozens of dunums of Palestinian agricultural land in the town of Dair Istya

Wednesday 21-August-2024

SALFIT, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) escorted by bulldozers stormed the town of Dair Istya, west of Salfeet, and uprooted hundreds of olive and almond trees.

The settlement activist Nazmi Al-Salman reported that Israeli heavy vehicles bulldozed dozens of dunums and uprooted hundreds of trees in the “Al-Qa’dah” area, north of Dair Istya, on Tuesday.

He told WAFA news agency that the IOF bulldozing of the agricultural land caused damage to a number of water wells.

He explained that the targeted lands are located near a pastoral settlement outpost established by Jewish settlers last October, noting that the owners of the bulldozed agricultural lands have since then been prevented from accessing their lands.

Earlier, the mayor of Dair Istya, Firas Dthiyab, said that the settlers had completely taken control of a large part of the lands of Al-Qa’dah and other areas in the town.

According to a report by Human Rights Watch, settler attacks on Palestinian lands have led to the displacement of more than 1,200 Palestinians from 20 residential communities and led to the complete removal of at least seven other communities since the start of the genocidal war on Gaza.

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Note:

The Israeli occupation forces have no jurisdiction to arrest or detain Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, that's why the correct term for what they do illegally is kidnapping, not arrest or detention.

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Names of some of the Palestinian cities, as pronounced in standard Arabic, and their foreign names in parantheses: 

Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Nusayrat

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Aree'ha (Jericho)

Al-Zaytoun (al-Zeitoun)

Bait (Beit)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Dair El-Bala'h

Jineen (Jenin)

Khan Younus (Khan Younis)

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Person's names as pronounced in standard Arabic:

A'hmed, 'Hasan, Mu'hammed, Younus, Yousuf,  

'Hasan Mulai'hat,

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Conflict terminology

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime (the Israeli government)

Illegal Israeli settlers (instead of settlers, colonists)

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers

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