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 144 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 11 Massacres, 96 Palestinians Killed, 172 Injured, with a Death Toll of  29,878 and 70,215 Injuries

February 27, 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 February 27, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 36,878+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (29,878) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on February 7, 2024: 7,000+).   

By February 27, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 70,215, and more than 2,520 civilians have been abducted from Gaza Strip.

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 February 8, 2023, the death toll included 12,150+ children and 8,300+ women (more than 73% of the accounted for victims). 

By February 27, 2024, there were 421 Palestinians who were killed, 3,658 who were injured, and 7,268, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023 (Some of the detainees have been released).

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.

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 February 26, 2024, the Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation army had killed 3,525 people and injured 5,246 others in 375 massacres in the Gaza Strip since the International Court of Justice issued an order demanding Israel to stop killing and physically harming civilians in the war-torn and besieged Palestinian territory. Among those martyrs are 1,720 children, 1,130 women and 12 journalists, according to a report released by the Media Office on Monday, February 26.

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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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US Martyr of Palestine, US Navy pilot Aaron Bushnell, who set himself in fire, in protest against the US-Backed Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, February 25, 2024	Three Palestinians, A'hmed Daraghmah, Osama Al-Zalat, and Mu'hammed Bayadsa, were killed by Israeli occupation forces in Toubas and Al-Fari’ah, on February 27, 2024
96 Palestinians were killed, 172 were injured on Day 144 of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, February 27, 2024	Sites of residential neighborhoods which were destroyed by Israeli genocidal air strikes on Gaza Strip, February 27, 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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'Hamas holds Washington responsible for self-immolation of US Navy pilot Aaron Bushnell

Tuesday 27-February-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement held the US administration responsible for the death of an American soldier who set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, denouncing the genocide being committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip.

'Hamas said in a statement, “The Biden’s administration bears full responsibility for the death of the US airman Aaron Bushnell because of its unlimited support of the Zionist entity in its genocidal war against our Palestinian people.”

'Hamas explained that Bushnell “sacrificed his life to shed light on the Zionist massacres and ethnic cleansing against our people in the Gaza Strip.”

The Movement expressed its condolences and solidarity with the family and friends of the American pilot.

“The American pilot, Aaron Bushnell, immortalized his name in advocacy of human values and the rights of the Palestinian people who are suffering because of the US administration’s unjust policies, following the steps of the American activist Rachel Corrie, who was deliberately crushed by an Israeli military bulldozer in Rafah in 2003. She confronted an Israeli massacre with her unarmed body, refusing to demolish the homes of citizens in Gaza, but she was killed in cold blood, becoming an icon of global solidarity with the people of Palestine,” Hamas said.

On Monday, the Pentagon confirmed the death of a US Navy pilot, after he set himself ablaze outside of the Israeli embassy in Washington, in protest against the war on Gaza.

Pilot Aaron Bushnell (25 years old) died from serious burns he sustained, on Sunday, when he set his body on fire in protest against the war on Gaza.

On Monday, Bushnell headed towards the Israeli embassy in Washington. Upon his arrival, he poured gasoline over his head and clothes, and set himself on fire while shouting “Freedom for Palestine” repeatedly until he stopped breathing. An official at Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department confirmed that he had died.

In a video that the 25-year-old American pilot live streamed on Twitch, Bushnell is seen walking down the street, stating: “I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

The Palestinian flag was placed in the background of the video, with the words “Free Palestine” written on it. 

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Hundreds mourn US airman who self-immolated at Israeli Embassy in protest of Gaza war

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, February 27, 2024 (WAFA) –

Hundreds of people came to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. Monday evening to collectively mourn the US airman who died after setting himself ablaze in protest of Israel's ongoing war in Gaza.

Many hoped that the death of Aaron Bushnell, 25, an active-duty member of the US Air Force, would spark change in US President Joe Biden's hitherto unwavering support for the war.

Leah, a Palestinian American who declined to provide her last name, told Anadolu that she believed it was important for her to attend the vigil "to show solidarity and support with those who are taking extreme acts of resistance that shows their solidarity and support with Palestine and our people."

Asked if she believed Bushnell's death would change the course of the war, she said, "That's the hope."

Bushnell set himself ablaze in front of Israel’s Embassy on Sunday afternoon in protest of its ongoing war in the besieged Gaza Strip and US support for the offensive. He was taken to a hospital but died from the injuries he sustained.

“I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal,” Bushnell said in a video recording that went viral on social media.

Bushnell can repeatedly be heard shouting "Free Palestine!" as flames engulf him before he collapses to the ground.

A Secret Service officer estimated that "at its peak," the vigil mourning his death attracted over 300 people. The gathering lasted for over three hours with an average of over 100 people there at any given point.

Josephine Guilbeau, a former Army intelligence officer, told Anadolu that she flew out from Ohio for the vigil, because she believes Bushnell's "death cannot be in vain."

"His message needs to get out. And we also need to make sure that we are supporting anybody else that's like Aaron, that's having these same feelings, because how are we supposed to deal with a genocide?" she asked rhetorically.

"We've never seen anything like this before in our lives, and our government just expects that the American people are going to watch this unfold for five months now, and there aren't going to be any mental issues. Of course, there's mental issues across the board. Anybody with access to the Internet is watching a genocide unfold in modern day time," added Guilbeau.

Jenny Rosemary, a 22-year-old resident of Annandale, Virginia, said Bushnell's fatal protest "was an extreme act, but an act of morality."

"I think we should all hope to be that brave," Rosemary said. "I think to get to this point, it's taken a lot of ignorance on behalf of the US government...They can't have missed all the videos of people suffering and the deaths, you know, but I'd like to think that one of their own kind, you know, someone who's in the military, that hopefully will change something."

K.T.

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Hamas calls for serious European positions against Israeli war on Gaza

Tuesday 27-February-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement has called on the European countries and the European Union to take practical and serious positions to prevent the Israeli occupation regime from persisting in its “criminal war” against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement on Monday, Hamas called for necessarily acting according to the decisions adopted by the International Court of Justice, which demanded Israel to stop its genocidal and ethnic cleansing practices in Gaza.

“The remarks made by leaders of European countries against the Zionist aggression in Rafa'h City are welcomed, but this does not absolve them of their responsibilities for preventing the criminal attack on Rafa'h, where there are one and a half million displaced Palestinians,” Hamas said.

The Movement condemned governments of some European countries for continuing to supply Israel with weapons to help it in its “war of extermination” in Gaza.

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

On February 27, 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 11 massacres, in which  96 Palestinian civilians were killed, and 172 were injured, in the past 24 hours. This increased the death toll in Gaza Strip to 29,878 and the injuries to 70,215, since October 7, 2023.   

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Gaza: Death toll surges to 29,878 martyrs

Tuesday 27-February-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The health ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation army committed 11 massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 96 civilians and injuring over 172 others, while a large number of victims are still buried under the rubble of bombed buildings or lying on roads.

In a statement, the health ministry added that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli bombardments, which started on October 7, climbed to 29,878 martyrs and the number of the wounded surged to 70,215 people.

For its part, the Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation army had killed 3,525 people and injured 5,246 others in 375 massacres in the Gaza Strip since the International Court of Justice issued an order demanding Israel to stop killing and physically harming civilians in the war-torn and besieged Palestinian territory.

Among those martyrs are 1,720 children, 1,130 women and 12 journalists, according to a report released by the Media Office on Monday, February 26.

GMO appealed for saving the lives of 11,000 wounded Gazans, who are in dire need for medical treatment abroad, and 10,000 cancer patients, who are threatened with death.

There are also 2,000,000 displaced Gazans living under dire humanitarian conditions in different areas of the Strip, GMP pointed out. 

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Palestinian child, 9, killed by Israeli forces in Gaza's Khan Younus

GAZA,  Tuesday, February 27, 2024 (WAFA) – 

A Palestinian child was Tuesday killed by Israeli occupation bullets in Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced that a 9-year-old girl was killed after being hit with a bullet to the head in  Al-Mawasi area, west of the city of Khan Younus.

The Palestinian death toll from Israel's deadly offensive against the Gaza Strip has jumped to 29,878 since Oct. 7, 2023, medical sources said on Tuesday.

The sources made the statement as the Israeli deadly onslaught against Gaza enters its 144th day.

They also said 70,215 other people have been injured in the ongoing onslaught.

The statement noted that in the past 24 hours, the Israeli army committed 11 massacres across the Gaza Strip which left 96 people killed and 172 others injured.

“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads and rescuers can’t reach them,” the sources added.

K.T.

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Day 144 of genocide: Dozens of Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli genocidal airstrikes on Gaza

GAZA,  Tuesday, February 27, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Dozens of Palestinian citizens were Tuesday killed and injured in the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip for the 144th day in a row.

Israeli aircraft, artillery, and navy boats launched a series of raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip, mainly in Gaza City and Rafa'h Governorate, while Khan Younus saw clashes and intense shooting with heavy machine guns.

Israeli navy targeted with artillery shelling the coastal areas of the southern Gaza Strip, while Al-Daraj, Al-Zaytoun and Al-Sabra neighborhoods in Gaza City saw a series of Israeli raids that killed and injured many citizens, including children and women.

The occupation artillery also bombed Tel Al-Hawa and Dair El-Bala'h in the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that a number of citizens were injured after Israeli forces targeted a house in the city of Dair El-Bala'h in the central Gaza Strip.

The sources added that the number of slain civilians rose to 9 as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted a house owned by Al-Zatma family near the Kuwaiti Hospital in downtown Rafa'h.

Four citizens were killed, and dozens were injured, by Israeli occupation bullets and tank shells, yesterday evening, west of Gaza City.

A number of citizens were also killed and others were injured by an Israeli bombing from a drone in the middle of the new camp, west of Nusayrat.

Civil defense crews and citizens recovered the bodies of 5 civilians from under the rubble of a house in Al-Qarara after it was bombed by the occupation army. They were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Dair Al-Bala'h.

By February 26, 2024, the occupation committed 10 massacres in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, leaving 90 slain civilians and 164 injured.

Medical sources said that the death toll from the ongoing occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip since October 7th has risen to 29,782, while 70,782 others were wounded.

K.T. 

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

 

Israeli occupation forces shot dead Palestinian man in Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), Monday, February 26, 2024 (WAFA) – 

A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli occupation forces' bullets today near the Israeli military checkpoint of Mazmoriya, east of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem) city.  

Pictures and video went viral on internet show a young man lying on the ground near the checkpoint, surrounded by a number of the Israeli occupation soldiers.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that its crews transferred the body of 34-year-old Nizar 'Hasasna to Al-'Hussain Hospital in Bethlehem following the shooting incident.  

Y.S.

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IOFs kill three Palestinians during dawn raids in the West Bank

Tuesday 27-February-2024, WEST BANK, (PIC)

Three Palestinian young men were shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) in Toubas City and Fari’ah refugee camp in the West Bank at dawn Tuesday.

One of the young martyrs was identified as A'hmed Daraghmah from Toubas and two others from Fari’ah camp were identified as Osama Al-Zalat and Mu'hammed Bayadsa.

According to the Red Crescent, three other young men suffered bullet injuries during clashes between local youths and Israeli forces in the camp.

Local sources said that the IOFs with some bulldozers stormed Al-Fari’ah refugee camp and deployed its snipers in different streets, amid clashes and sounds of explosions.

They added that the Israeli occupation forces went on the rampage through the camp, bulldozing its roads and infrastructure, raiding homes and assaulting local residents.

Later, the IOFs stormed Toubas City, which provoked violent clashes with local youths.

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IOFs kidnap several Palestinians in West Bank raids

Tuesday 27-February-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnaped on Tuesday a number of Palestinian citizens, including workers from Gaza, during dawn and morning raids in the West Bank.

According to local sources, the IOFs stormed different neighborhoods of Nablus City and kidnaped two young men from their homes.

The IOF also kidnaped another young man during a raid in Kafr Qaleel village, south of Nablus.

In Ramallah, the IOFs kidnaped two young men along with their fathers during raids in homes in Al-Jalazoan refugee camp.

The IOF also broke into and ransacked several homes in Bait Reema town, northwest of Ramallah, with no reported IOFs kidnappings.

In Tubas, the IOFs kidnaped a father identified as Muwafaq Abu Dawwas from his home to pressure his son to turn himself in.

Meanwhile, 30 Gazan and West Bank workmen were taken prisoners during an IOFs raid on an apartment building in Barta’a town, south of Jineen. Later, the IOFs only released the West Bank workers.

In Al-Khaleel, the IOFs kidnaped three citizens during raids on homes in the city and Doura town.

In east Jerusalem, Israeli police forces kidnaped one young man following a raid on his home in 'Anata town.

In a separate incident, a young man was reportedly injured near the checkpoint of Bait Foureek town, east of Nablus, during clashes between local youths and Israeli occupation forces in the area.

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Israeli occupation forces detain former prisoner from Aree'ha (Jericho)

Aree'ha (Jericho), Monday, February 26, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Israeli occupation forces today detained a former Palestinian prisoner after summoning him for investigation.

The director of the Prisoner Club in Aree'ha (Jericho), 'Eid Barahma, said that Israeli forces detained the 17-year-old child 'Omar 'Abdullah Al-Hajj, an ex-detainee, after he was summoned investigation.

Barahma pointed out that Al-Hajj was released about two months ago.

Y.S. 

Total: 13.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

Israeli colonists open fire at Palestinian children near Hebron

HEBRON, Tuesday, February 27, 2024 (WAFA) –

Illegal Israeli settlers, protected by occupation soldiers, fired live bullets at children in the 'Arqoub area in Masafir Yatta, south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), as the Israeli occupation soldiers detained citizens at the site.

WAFA correspondent stated that the occupation forces detained two citizens while they were in their lands in Al-'Arqoub area in the village of Khallet Al-Dhibaa' in Musafir Yatta.

Settlers, protected by occupation soldiers, also fired live bullets at citizens in the same place,

No injuries were reported, however.

K.T. 

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