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 328 of US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 4 Massacres, 86 Palestinians Killed, 77 Injured, with a Death Toll of  40,602 and 93,855 Injuries

 August 29, 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 29, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 50,602+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (40,602), those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 10,000+). 

By August 29, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 93,855.

By August 29 2024, more than 662 Palestinians were killed, 5,490 who were injured, and 10,300, 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).

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The Hamas senior official Sami Abu Zuhri said the US administration adopts the Israeli position, which is disrupting ceasefire negotiations, August 29, 2024	86 Palestinian civilians were killed, 77 were injured by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on the Gaza Strip, on August 29, 2024
40,602 Palestinians have been killed, 93,855 were injured by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on the Gaza Strip, by August 29, 2024	Funerals of the Palestinians who were massacred by the Israeli occupation force, in Dair El-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 29, 2024.
The Israeli occupation forces burned a number of Palestinian homes in Nour Shams refugee camp, Toulkarm, and wreaked havoc on public and private property, on August 29, 2024	The Israeli occupation apartheid regime forced the Palestinian Jerusalemite citizen Abdullah Salayma to demolish his own home in the Wadi Qaddoum neighborhood, on August 28, 2024
Funeral procession for the Palestinian martyrs who were killed by the Israeli occupation forces, in Al-Fari'a refugee camp, in the West Bank, on August 29, 2024.	Mass destruction of Palestinian neighborhoods by the Israeli occupation force, in eastern Dair El-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, August 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.

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Abu Zuhri: Washington adopts Israel’s ceasefire-disrupting position

Thursday 29-August-2024

ISTANBUL, (PIC)

The 'Hamas senior official Sami Abu Zuhri said the US administration adopts the Israeli position, which is disrupting ceasefire negotiations, noting that Washington is not serious about obliging Israel to stop its war on the Gaza Strip.

This came in his interview with Aljazeera Net in Istanbul on the sidelines of his participation in a conference held by the “Al-Quds International Foundation”.

Abu Zuhri told Aljazeera Net that the US administration does not show serious intention to obligate Israel to conclude an agreement.

He explained that the 'Hamas Movement “accepted the proposal of the brokers- Egypt, Qatar and the United States- on July 2, but Israel kept imposing new conditions, although the offer is outlined by the US President Joe Biden’s speech and the UN Security Council resolution.”

On the prospects for the negotiations in the future, Abu Zuhri said, “In all cases, there is an ongoing Israeli war of extermination in Gaza, and all international parties have to assume their responsibilities to stop the Israeli aggression and crimes.”

Abu Zuhri added, “the ball is now in the Israeli and the US court. If the Us administration is serious to reach an agreement, it must intervene to compel the Israeli occupation authority to stop this aggression against the Palestinian people and respect the previously reached agreements.”

With regard to the ongoing developments in the occupied West Bank, and the expansion of the Israeli occupation army’s military operations, Abu Zuhri said that the Israeli occupation army exploits the US cover to expand its aggression in the West Bank, stressing that the Israeli aggression is not limited to Gaza but extends to all the occupied Palestinian territories, especially the West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem). 

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Al-Rishiq: Netanyahu’s statement on polio vaccines is misleading manipulation

Thursday 29-August-2024

DOHA, (PIC)

The member of the Hamas Political Bureau, 'Izzat Al-Rishiq, said on Wednesday evening that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements about allocating certain places in Gaza to giving polio vaccines represent a new misleading manipulation aimed at continuing the war of genocide and systematic killing of the Palestinian people.

Al-Rishiq stressed in a statement that Netanyahu’s position does not reveal an approval of a humanitarian truce that the United Nations and international organizations demanded but means a slow death of the children of Gaza.

“The suspicious method Netanyahu and his government are trying to impose would thwart the United Nations move, and deny thousands of children the vaccination,” he said.

Al-Rishiq explained that the United Nations and the international community are required to put pressure, by all means, on Netanyahu to accept a comprehensive humanitarian truce in Gaza, for giving polio vaccinations for all children in the Strip, in line with the United Nations’ call.

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'Hamas mourns commander Abu Shujaa', says Israeli aggression will not break the resistance

Thursday 29-August-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement mourned the commander of the Toulkarm Brigade of Islamic Jihad, Mu'hammed Jabir Abu Shujaa', and his companions, stressing that the continued Israeli aggression on the West Bank will not weaken the resistance.

'Hamas said in a statement on Thursday, “The continuation of the Israeli brutal militAl-Rishiqary aggression on the West Bank governorates, and what we have witnessed over the past hours of Israeli occupation army’s raids, attacks, and incursions in Jineen, Toulkarm, Toubas and other provinces, will not succeed in breaking the will of our people and our resistance.”

'Hamas hailed the resistance fighters from the Al-Qassam Brigades and all armed wings of Palestinian factions who are confronting the Israeli aggression and brutal attacks, through direct engagement with Israeli occupation forces (IOFs).

The Movement called on the Palestinian people in the West Bank to adhere to unity and cohesion with the resistance, intensifying mass mobilization and field confrontation with the IOFs and Israeli fanatic settlers until liberation. 

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Human rights groups: IOF tortured Palestinians during field investigations in the West Bank

Thursday 29-August-2024

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) and Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs Commission said, “the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) carried out brutal field investigations with Palestinians in Jineen, Toulkarm, Toubas, and Ramallah in the West Bank.”

In a joint statement, the two human rights groups affirmed on Wednesday evening that “the IOFs committed violations against detained Palestinians, according to testimonies by recently released prisoners whose bodies showed signs of torture.”

Media sources revealed that “the IOFs forced a number of Palestinians out of their homes in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, before snipers occupied their houses’ rooftops.”

Eyewitnesses reported that “the IOFs encircled Jenin Hospital, amid fierce clashes.”

They added that “the IOF stormed dozens of houses in Nour Shams Camp, in Toulkarm, northwest of the West Bank and turned some of them into detention and investigation centers.”

The Hebrew Channel 14 claimed that an Israeli soldier was wounded as a result of being targeted by “gunmen” in the Jenin camp in the West Bank.

On the other hand, the IOFs kidnapped dozens of Palestinians who were present in a building in Al-Fari’a camp in the city of Nablus.

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

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On August 29, 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 86 Palestinian civilians were killed, and the 77 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 40,602 and the injuries to 93,855, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.

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Gaza: Death toll surges to 40,602 martyrs

Thursday 29-August-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said on Thursday that the Israeli occupation army committed four massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 86 civilians and injuring over 77 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 163 of them, including 86 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 40,602 martyrs and the number of the wounded surged to 93,855 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 328

Thursday 29-August-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 328 on Thursday, 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, casualties were reported following an Israeli attack on a house in Al-Trans (electric transformer) street in Jabalya refugee camp, north of Gaza.

Five other citizens were martyred and others were injured when the Israeli army bombed tents sheltering displaced families in 'Abasan Al-Kabeera City, east of Khan Younus in southern Gaza.

The Israeli army also attacked a gathering of displaced families in the northwest of Khan Younus near the Asda prison, killing and injuring a number of people.

Seven civilians were killed after the Israeli army attacked them and their rescuers near the 'Aamir project in the east of Rafa'h, south of the Gaza Strip.

At dawn, an Israeli warplane bombed a house in the west of Gaza City, killing eight civilians, including a girl child, and injuring four others.

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

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‎8 martyrs in the occupation shelling of Al-Kabira and Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the Gaza Strip‎

‎‎Gaza 29-8-2024 Wafa -

 8 civilians were killed and others were injured in the Israeli occupation shelling of the 'Abasan Al-Kabeerah area, east of Khan Younus, and Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.‎

‎The Civil Defense reported that 5 citizens were killed as a result of the occupation shelling a tent housing displaced people in the Wadi Saber area, south of 'Abasan Al-Kabeera.‎

‎In addition, 3 civilians were killed and others were injured as a result of an Israeli drone targeting a gathering of citizens in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.‎

‎The occupation forces have continued their aggression by land, sea and air on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of October 2023, resulting in the death of 40,602 citizens and the injury of 93,855 others, in an indefinite toll, as thousands of victims are still under rubble and in the roads and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.‎

‎R.R.‎ 

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‎Martyrs and wounded in the occupation shelling in the southern Gaza Strip‎

‎Gaza 29-8-2024 Wafa -

A number of citizens were martyred and others were injured, on Thursday afternoon, in the occupation shelling in the southern Gaza Strip. ‎

‎According to medical sources, a number of citizens were killed and others were wounded as a result of the occupation shelling of IDPs' tents in the Asda'a area, north of Khan Younus.

‎ The same sources added that 4 citizens rose in the occupation bombardment of the project area east of Rafa'h.‎

‎The occupation forces have continued their aggression by land, sea and air on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of October 2023, resulting in the death of 40,602 citizens and the injury of 93,855 others, in an indefinite toll, as thousands of victims are still under rubble and in the roads and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.‎

‎S.K‎.

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

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The Israeli occupation army claims its forces killed five Palestinians inside Toulkarm mosque

Thursday 29-August-2024

TOULKARM, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation army said on Thursday morning that its forces killed five Palestinian resistance fighters in Toulkarm during its operation in the West Bank, which entered its second day.

A spokesperson for the Israeli army said that Israeli forces with the help of the police and the Shin Bet security agency killed five gunmen inside a mosque in the West Bank city of Toulkarm overnight.

Among those killed, the Israeli army identified Mu'hammed Jaber, known as Abu Shujaa', the commander of the Nour Shams Brigade that is affiliated with the armed wing of Islamic Jihad.

There is still no Palestinian confirmation about the Israeli assassination of five resistance fighters inside a Mosque in Toulkarm.

In a related context, 21-year-old Majd Dawoud, a university student, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers during its raid in Nour Shams refugee camp before withholding his body and preventing ambulance crews from entering the camp.

Special Israeli forces also infiltrated into the camp and kidnaped a young man identified as Mu'hammed Al-Qassas after opening fire at him and injuring him. The Israeli army claimed he was wanted.

Yesterday, an elderly citizen was shot dead by Israeli sniper fire during his presence inside his house in Nour Shams refugee camp.

In Jineen, the Palestinian health ministry announced that 35-year-old Firas Alaqimah died of a bullet injury he sustained during the Israeli military raid in the city.

Alaqimah’s death brought to seven the number of the victims that were killed yesterday by Israeli forces in Jineen City.

Early on Wednesday, the Israeli army started a large-scale operation in the northern West Bank, particularly in Jineen, Toulkarm and Al-Fari’ah refugee camp near Toubas, killing and injuring several people and causing widespread destruction to public and private property.

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Palestinian shot dead by Israeli sniper fire inside his house in Tulkarem

Thursday 29-August-2024

TULKAREM, (PIC)

A Palestinian citizen was martyred on Wednesday evening when an Israeli sniper shot him in Nur Shams refugee camp in the east of Tulkarem, northwest of the West Bank.

According to medical sources, 62-year-old Ayed Abul-Haija, who had a physical disability, was shot at while being inside his house.

According to his family, no one knew about his death until one of his relatives visited him two hours later and found him covered in blood.

Yesterday, media sources reported that ambulance crews had not been able to reach him to transfer his body to the hospital due to the tight siege imposed by the occupation forces on the camp.

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‎The occupation re-storms the city of Toulkarm and its camp and imposes a siege on its hospitals‎

‎Toulkarm 29-8-2024 Wafa -

On Thursday evening, the Israeli occupation forces re-stormed the city of Toulkarm and its refugee camp, coinciding with their continuous aggression on Nour Shams refugee camp for the second day in a row‎‎.‎

‎Our correspondent reported that the occupation forces pushed more of their vehicles and heavy bulldozers to the Toulkarm refugee camp, and imposed a tight cordon on it, amid heavy firing of live bullets towards everyone who moves, with intensive flights of reconnaissance aircraft at low altitude‎‎.‎

‎The occupying forces positioned themselves in the Al-Balawna and Al-'Hudayda neighborhoods, while they deployed their patrols and snipers on Nablus Street adjacent to its main northern entrance, and began to bulldoze the infrastructure in the Al-Balawna area.‎

‎The occupation mechanisms also deployed in the streets of Toulkarm, specifically Al-Sikka Street, Jamal Abdu Nasir Square in the center of the city, the western neighborhood, and Shuwaika roundabout in the northern neighborhood, and reimposed the siege on the Martyr Thabit Thabit and Al-Israa Specialized Hospitals, and prevented entry and exit from them‎‎.‎

‎In the meantime, the Israeli occupation forces continued their siege on Nour Shams refugee camp, calling more vehicles and occupation soldiers to it, and continuing acts of vandalism and destruction of citizens' properties and raiding their homes‎‎.‎

‎H.H/Y.I‎ 

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‎The occupation continues its aggression on Jineen and its camp and enforces its siege on it‎

‎Jineen, 29-8-2024 Wafa -

The Israeli occupation forces continue to push military reinforcements towards the city of Jenin and its camp, while continuing to besiege the city and close all its entrances, as they are present in 15 areas in the city and the camp.‎

‎Israeli bulldozers also continue to destroy roads and infrastructure in the eastern neighborhood of the city, which witnessed extensive destruction over the course of two days since the start of the aggression against the city.‎

‎The death toll in Jenin rose to 8 after the death of Mu'hammed 'Orabi (32 years old) on Thursday morning in the Eastern Province, while the Red Crescent crews transported two injuries from live bullets, raising the number of injuries to 3, one of them serious.‎

‎Large areas of Jenin and the camp suffer from water cuts due to the destruction of the main water lines near Jenin Governmental Hospital, in addition to the power outage in several neighborhoods in the camp after Israeli snipers fired on the main electricity generators.‎

‎This morning, the Israeli occupation forces jammed the communications and Internet networks in Jenin governorate, which led to the interruption of communications for hours.‎

‎In the industrial zone, a number of Israeli military vehicles penetrated and opened fire on civilians. Local sources said that the Israeli occupation forces raided a number of houses in the eastern neighborhood, Haleema Al-Sa'diya area and behind Al-Amal Hospital, and seized them after forcing their residents to leave them, and turned them into military points.‎

‎The occupation deployed snipers on the rooftops of buildings on the outskirts of Jineen refugee camp.‎

‎The Red Crescent Society said in a statement that it transferred 86 citizens after the occupation soldiers took control of their homes in several areas of Jineen, including 40 children.‎

‎The Israeli occupation forces continue to besiege the city's hospitals, while the occupation bulldozers destroyed the road leading to Jenin Governmental Hospital near the camp.‎ 

‎Wafa's correspondent said that the Civil Defense transported quantities of water to Jineen Governmental Hospital.‎

‎The director of the hospital had told "Wafa" in the morning that the quantities of water in the hospital's reserve tank reached half, and that it would not be enough if the aggression continued for a long time.‎

‎F.E./Y.I‎. 

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‎The occupation withdraws from the city of Toulkarm and its camps after a wide aggression that lasted 48 hours‎

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The Israeli occupation forces withdrew, on Thursday evening, from the city of Tulkarm and its two camps, Toulkarm and Nour Shams, after a widespread aggression that lasted 48 hours, which resulted in the death of 4 citizens and a number of injuries and extensive destruction of infrastructure and citizens' property.‎

‎The Israeli occupation forces destroyed main roads, water and sewage networks, uprooted electricity poles, demolished homes and destroyed vehicles‎‎.‎

‎As soon as the occupation withdrew, the teams of the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Civil Defense were able to enter Nour Shams refugee camp, which witnessed raids, burning houses, arrests and field interrogations with citizens throughout the hours of aggression.‎

‎Municipality crews began to remove the rubble left by the occupation and earth mounds from the roads in preparation for their rehabilitation in the coming days.‎

‎The Governor of Toulkarm, Mustafa Taqatqa, participated in emergency relief work for the residents of Nour Shams camp, at the headquarters of the Cultural Club, where it included providing in-kind supplies of water, food, milk, baby towels and bread, which were quickly transported by Toulkarm municipality teams to citizens in the camp, with the continuation of relief and support campaigns and initiatives in this regard.‎

‎The ‎‎occupation aggression on Nour Shams refugee camp caused great destruction to the infrastructure of the main water and sewage network, and to the property of citizens, including homes, shops and commercial establishments, as there is no street inside the camp without destruction and vandalism‎‎.‎

‎Scenes documented the extent of the destruction caused by the occupation on Nablus Street, adjacent to the entrances to the camp, which is the main eastern entrance to the city, as it became unusable for vehicles and citizens.‎

‎The ‎‎bulldozing of the streets also led to the creation of high dirt piles, which prevented citizens and vehicles, especially ambulances, from entering the camp except with great‎‎ ‎‎difficulty.‎

‎Citizens described this aggression as the most violent in terms of widespread destruction of infrastructure, in a series of targeting the camp by the occupation, which has escalated since‎‎ ‎‎last October.‎

‎During this aggression, four young men, including an elderly citizen, 'Ayid Ma'hmoud Abul Hayja (62 years old), were killed by Israeli snipers inside his home in Nour Shams refugee camp and were transferred to hospital, Mu'hammed Samir Jabir (26 years old), Majd Majid Dawood (21 years old), and a third martyr whose identity has not yet been announced, by Israeli special forces in Toulkarm refugee camp, where the occupation detained their bodies‎‎.‎

‎The Israeli occupation forces also kidnapped dozens of young men after raiding their homes, and transferring them to a field point on the outskirts of the refugee camp, where they were subjected to interrogation, abuse and beating, while a special force of the occupation army arrested the young man Muhammad Omar Qassas (27 years old) after he was wounded by Israeli bullets in the camp‎‎.‎

‎During the first hours of the aggression, two young men were injured when a march shelled a site in Al-Manshiyya neighborhood in the Nour Shams refugee camp‎‎.‎

‎The Israeli occupation forces raided the homes of citizens in Nour Shams refugee camp, after removing their doors, searched them accompanied by police dogs, vandalized them and interrogated their inhabitants, including children, women and the elderly, and turned a number of them into military barracks after the owners were expelled from them‎‎.‎

‎The Israeli aggression spread to the city and refugee camp of Toulkarm, with the push of military reinforcements from heavy vehicles and bulldozers that bulldozed a number of main streets in the city, specifically around the Al-Alimi roundabout, Al-Younus roundabout, Al-Sikka Street, Iktaba roundabout and Al-Aqsa neighborhood in the suburb of Shweikeh, and left great destruction in the infrastructure in those places‎‎.‎

‎Infrastructure was also destroyed in the Al-Balawna neighborhood in Tulkarm refugee camp, amid intensive overflights of reconnaissance planes that did not leave the skies of the city and its camps from the first moment of the aggression‎‎.‎

‎The Israeli occupation forces surrounded Al-Israa Specialized Hospital and the Martyr Thabit Thabit Governmental Hospital, amid obstruction and preventing ambulance crews from carrying out their work‎‎.‎

‎During the aggression, the occupation used dozens of heavy vehicles and bulldozers, in addition to shelling with drones and Energa shells, and firing heavy shots‎‎.‎

‎H.H/A.F.‎

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Palestinians injured, others kidnaped in IOFs raids, in the West Bank

Thursday 29-August-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

A group of Palestinian citizens were injured and others were kidnapped last evening and on Thursday after the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) stormed different areas of the West Bank.

In Nablus, local sources said that the IOFs clashed on Wednesday evening with local youths in the eastern area of the city and 'Askar refugee camp and injured a number of them.

The Red Crescent said that a 45-year-old man was injured in his foot by IOF gunfire in the old refugee camp of A'skar in Nablus City.

One citizen was taken prisoner during an IOF raid on Thursday morning in Rafeedya neighborhood in Nablus.

In Ramallah, a citizen was injured yesterday in his leg when Israeli forces opened fire at local residents in Bait Reema town.

The IOFs reportedly took over a house in the same town and used it as an interrogation center.

In Toubas, the IOFs kidnapped yesterday two citizens from Fari’ah refugee camp.

In Al-Khaleel (Hebron), the IOFs kidnapped today 12 citizens from their homes in Al-'Arroub refugee camp, including two fathers along with three sons.

The IOFs also raided a house in Wadi Al-'Hariya area in the south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron) City and stole about 40,000 shekels from it.

Three other citizens were taken prisoners during dawn and morning IOFs raids on homes in Qalqilya, Dar Sala'h town in eastern Bait La'hm (Bethlehem) and Bait Seera town in western Ramallah.

Amid further raids, airstrikes and settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, warned that the Israeli military’s actions risked further enflaming an “already explosive situation.”

“A major operation by Israeli security forces (ISF) in the occupied West Bank risks seriously deepening the already catastrophic situation in the occupied Palestinian territory,” OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said in a statement yesterday.

“Israel’s operations in Jineen, Toubas and Toulkarm today, and the killing of at least nine Palestinians, two of them reportedly children, take the overall death toll in the West Bank since 7 October to 637. This represents the highest number of fatalities over a period of eight months since the UN first started recording casualties in the West Bank two decades ago,” Shamdasani explained.

“Many children have been killed while throwing stones at highly protected ISF, as have other Palestinians posing no imminent threat to life or serious injury. Such unnecessary or disproportionate use of force and the increase in apparent targeted and other summary killings are alarming.”

“Thousands of Palestinians have been arbitrarily arrested and tortured, subjected to unrelenting settler violence, severe restrictions on movement and expression, their homes and property destroyed or seized, and forcibly displaced.”

“Israel, as the occupying power, must abide by its obligations under international law. The Israeli security forces’ use of airstrikes and other military weapons and tactics violates human rights norms and standards applicable to law enforcement operations. Alleged unlawful killings must be thoroughly and independently investigated and those responsible held to account,” the spokeswoman concluded.

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IOF burns several homes in Toulkarm’s Nour Shams camp

Thursday 29-August-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) burned on Thursday afternoon a number of Palestinian homes in Nour Shams refugee camp, in eastern Toulkarm and wreaked havoc on public and private property during its large-scale operation in the West Bank, which entered its second day.

Local official Nihad Al-Shaweesh described the humanitarian situation in the camp as “extremely difficult,” especially after the IOF burned and detonated a number of homes and displaced their residents.

Meanwhile, the IOFs continues to prevent civil defense and ambulance crews from entering the refugee camp to provide medical assistance for injured citizens and evacuate an elderly man who was shot dead inside his house by an Israeli sniper.

The Israeli occupation forces also broke into and ransacked many homes in the camp, and continue to do so and cause widespread panic among children and women.

During the past hours, dozens of young men had also been herded into a commercial facility near the camp, where they are interrogated and assaulted before releasing them or taking them to a military base in the west of Toulkarm. 

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‎Prisoners' Club: 23 martyr detainees and 10,300 detainees since the seventh of October‎

‎Ramallah 29-8-2024 Wafa -

The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that at least (23) detainees from the West Bank, including Jerusalem, were martyred in the occupation prisons after the seventh of October, whose identities were revealed and announced, in addition to dozens of Gaza detainees who were martyred in prisons and camps, and the occupation did not disclose their identities and the circumstances of their martyrdom, in addition to dozens who were subjected to field executions.‎

‎He added in a press statement, on Thursday, that (21) detainees who were martyred and announced since the start of the war of extermination are holding their bodies, and they are among (32) detainees of the martyrs whose bodies continue to be withheld by the occupation, whose identities have been announced.‎

‎The Prisoners' Club pointed out that the occupation authorities arrested more than 10,300 citizens in the West Bank, as these data include those who were kept in detention, and those who were later released.‎

‎He pointed out that the number of arrests among women amounted to about (355) – (this statistic includes women who were arrested from the territories of '48, and arrests among women from Gaza who were arrested from the West Bank), and this data does not include the number of women who were arrested from Gaza, and their number is estimated at dozens.‎

‎The number of arrests among children in the West Bank reached at least‎‎ (720),‎‎ ‎‎while the number of detainees among journalists reached (96) journalists, of whom 50 remain in detention, including (5) female journalists, (17) journalists from Gaza at least, and among journalists (14) in administrative detention.‎

‎Since the beginning of the war of genocide, the number of administrative detention orders has reached more than 8,322, between new orders and renewal orders, including orders against children and women‎‎. ‎

‎The ongoing arrest campaigns are accompanied by escalating crimes and violations, including: abuse and severe beatings, threats against detainees and their families, in addition to widespread vandalism and destruction of citizens' homes, confiscation of vehicles, money, and gold jewelry, in addition to the widespread destruction of infrastructure, specifically in Toulkarm, Jenin and Jenin camps, the demolition of homes belonging to the families of detainees, the use of members of their families as hostages, in addition to the use of detainees as human shields.‎

‎The outcome of the arrest campaigns since the beginning of the genocidal war includes all those arrested from homes, through military checkpoints, those who had to surrender under pressure, and those who were taken hostage‎‎.‎

‎In addition to these arrest campaigns, the occupying forces carried out summary executions, including family members of detainees‎‎.‎

‎These data do not include the number of arrests from Gaza, noting that the occupation admitted that it kidnapped more than (4500) citizens from Gaza, hundreds of whom were released, noting that the occupation arrested hundreds of Gaza workers in the West Bank, in addition to citizens from Gaza who were present in the West Bank for treatment‎‎.‎

‎The number of detainees in the occupation prisons is about (9900), until the beginning of August 2024, while the number of administrative detainees is (3432), and the number of those classified by the occupation prisons administration among the Gaza detainees (illegal fighters) and whom it recognized is (1584), noting that this data does not include all Gaza detainees, specifically those in the camps of the occupation army.‎

‎The number of female detainees whose identities are known is (87), including a pregnant woman, namely: (Jihad Al-Nakhla), and among the detainees are three from Gaza whose identities are known while they are in (Damon) prison, while the number of administrative detainees is (21), and the number of detainees mentioned does not include all detainees from Gaza, and there may be female detainees in the camps affiliated with the occupation, and the number of children is at least (250‎‎).‎

‎R.R.‎ 

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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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Israeli military actions in Jineen cut off phone and internet services

Thursday 29-August-2024

Jineen, (PIC)

Phone and internet services are down in the occupied West Bank city of Jineen, according to Palestinian Telecommunications Company (Paltel) and Ooredoo Group.

The telecommunications firms say the connectivity failure has been caused by the Israeli “aggression” in Jenin, which has damaged their main and backup lines in the area.

However, the companies’ technical crews have been working hard since yesterday to restore services as quickly as possible despite the situation on the ground.

In a related context, the central operations room of the Red Crescent confirmed that its contact with the Jenin ambulance center and its entire crews was lost today due to the cessation of the phone and internet services and other wireless telecommunications means.

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Jerusalemite man forced to demolish his own house

Wednesday 28-August-2024

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime forced the Jerusalemite citizen 'Abdullah Salayma to demolish his own home in the Wadi Qaddoum neighborhood, in Silwan town, in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), on Wednesday evening.

Salayma was notified on August 18 of the decision to demolish his house.

Salayma pointed out that his family of 14 has been living in the house since 2010, where he was forced to pay fines up to 120,000 shekels.

The Israeli occupation authority forces Jerusalemites to demolish their homes under the pretext of being built without Israeli permit as part of the Israeli displacement policy.

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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 parentheses: 

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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