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 89 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 10 Massacres, 128 Palestinians Killed, 261 Injured, with a Death Toll of  22,313 and 58,296 Injuries

January 3, 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 January 3, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 29,313+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (22,313) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on December 23, 2023: 7,000+).   

By January 3, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 58,296, and more than 2,520 civilians have been abducted from Gaza Strip (80 mutilated corpses were returned on 12/27/23).

By January 3, 2024, there were 324 Palestinians who were killed, 3,536 who were injured, and 4,926, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023.

About 11,000 Palestinians have been detained in 2023, about half of them were detained after October 7. This included 1,085 children and 300 women.

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By December 28, 2023, the death toll included 8,800+ children and 6,300+ women.   

By December 27 2023,  there was a complete destruction of 65,000+ housing units, and a partial destruction of 290,000+ housing units (60% of Gaza housing units). This forced about 1.5 million people to become homeless, taking refuge in crowded UN schools and ultimately sleeping in the streets.  

The Israeli refusal to allow international aid caravans to enter Gaza freely led the Palestinian population to be on the verge of mass extermination for the lack of food, water, medicine, and fuel.  

By January 1, 2024, 326 health personnel and 97 journalists were killed and hundreds were injured, 104 ambulances were destroyed while on duty, killing and injuring their crews, and destroyed 150 health institutions. As a result of the strikes and lack of fuel, 30 hospitals and 53 primary care centers are not functioning.  

Meanwhile, 126 government offices and 92 schools and universities were completely destroyed, while 285 schools and universities were partially damaged.

115 mosques were completely destroyed, while 200 others were partially damaged, in addition to three churches.

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A medical personnel helping an elderly Palestinian woman, who was a victim of an Israeli genocidal air strike on central Gaza Strip, January 3, 2024	Palestinian children have been the most victims of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, file, January 3, 2024
Israeli genocidal destruction of Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza city, January 3, 2024	Hunger and diseases spread in Gaza city, as a result of the Israeli genocidal destruction and siege of the city, January 3, 2024
Israeli occupation soldiers assaulting a number of Palestinians, when they tried to prevent a home demolition, in Jabal Al-Mukabbir, south of Al-Quds, Jerusalem, January 3, 2024	An injured and handcuffed Palestinian man who was brutally assaulted by Israeli occupation soldiers, in Jabal Al-Mukabbir, south of Al-Quds, January 3, 2024
Israeli occupation forces installed an iron gate at the northern entrance to the town of Beer Zait, north of Ramallah, on January 3, 2024	The destruction left behind by Israeli forces following a raid in the refugee camp of Tulkarm, January 3, 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, 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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Europeans for Al-Quds: 967 Israeli violations in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) last December

Wednesday 3-January-2024,

Al-Quds (Jerusalem), (PIC)

Europeans for Al-Quds (Jerusalem) has affirmed that Israeli violations in the occupied city of Jerusalem have seen a significant increase, with 967 violations documented during last December.

Europeans for Al-Quds (Jerusalem) said in its monthly report that these violations were distributed across 15 categories of human rights violations. The highest categories were raids at 47.4 percent and arrests at 15.6 percent.

The report documented 46 incidents of direct shooting and assault by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in the neighborhoods of Al-Quds (Occupied Jerusalem).

The report also documented the killing of four Jerusalemite citizens and the injury of 53 others, adding that dozens suffered from their exposure to tear gas and at least 34 citizens were beaten and brutalized in the holy city during the reporting month.

The report stated that the IOF carried out 458 raids on Palestinian towns and neighborhoods of Jerusalem, arresting 151 Palestinians, including 23 children and seven women, and summoning 18 others. Furthermore, 28 citizens were placed under house arrest.

The report also documented 17 demolitions, during which the occupation authority destroyed and forced citizens to demolish 14 housing units, as well as the demolition of two facilities and the delivery of several demolition notices.

According to the report, the Israeli occupation authorities seized last month 501 dunums of Palestinian land in Jaba' town in the northeast of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) at the pretext that it is state land.

The report also covered other Israeli violations in the holy city, including different Judaization activities and practices and settler violations against Palestinian citizens, property and holy sites.

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

On January 3, 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 10 massacres, in which  128 Palestinian civilians were killed, and 261 were injured, in the past 24 hours. This increased the death toll in Gaza Strip to 22,313 and the injuries to 57,296, since October 7, 2023.  

Health Ministry In Hamas-run Gaza Says War Death Toll Hits 22,313 | Barron's (barrons.com) 

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US-backed Israeli genocidal war onn Gaza enters Day 89

Wednesday 3-January-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered Day 89 on Wednesday, massive aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and level whole blocks and homes and massacre more civilians, mostly children and women.

A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that the Israeli occupation army continued to attack different areas of Gaza last night and on Wednesday morning, killing and injuring dozens of citizens.

According to local sources, at least 15 civilians were massacred in successive Israeli attacks on Khan Younus in southern Gaza in the morning.

A child was also killed after the Israeli army bombed the entrance of a school in Jabalya.

Red Crescent crews were also able to retrieve four bodies of civilians from the bombed 'Hamad City in western Khan Younus.

An Israeli attack on a house belonging to the family of Al-Na'h-'hal in Khirbit Al-'Adas, in northern Rafa'h claimed the lives of three civilians and injured 10 others.

Casualties were also reported when an Israeli attack targeted a house behind an UNRWA school in the east of Al-Maghazi.

Yesterday, three citizens from the family of Abu Lahiya were martyred in an Israeli attack in al-Qarara town in Khan Younus.

Dozens of casualties were also reported following Israeli attacks on other areas of Gaza last night and today.

In a related context, the health ministry in Gaza said in the afternoon that the Israeli army committed, over the past 24 hours, 10 massacres against families, which resulted in the martyrdom of at least 261 civilians and the injury of 261.

The ministry added that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli bombardments, which started on October 7, climbed to 22,313 martyrs and the number of the wounded neared 57,296 people.

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Dozens of Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes on sites in Gaza

GAZA, Wednesday, January 3, 2024 (WAFA) - 

Dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children and women, were killed and injured at dawn on Wednesday, as the Israeli occupation forces continued to bomb various areas of the Gaza Strip, concentrated in the center and south of the Gaza Strip, in conjunction with the launching of fire belts.

Three citizens were killed, and others were injured, as a result of the occupation targeting a house owned by Al-Na'h-'hal family in the Khirbit Al-Adas area, east of Rafa'h, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

A number of civilians were killed, and dozens were injured, when the occupation bombed a house behind the schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), east of Al-Maghazi in the central Gaza Strip.

The occupation aircraft also destroyed a number of Ain Goliath towers in the Nusayrat camp, and bombed the vicinity of Twenty Street in the camp.

While fire belts were carried out east of the Nusayrat  camp and Khan Younus to the south, explosions and violent bombardment were heard from the occupation warplanes in the southern parts of central Khan Younus.

A short while ago, the bodies of four female civilians were retrieved in Khan Younus after Red Crescent crews were able to enter Hamad Town.

The occupation aircraft launched a series of violent raids on the Nusayrat , Buraij, and Maghazi camps in the central Gaza Strip.

Violent Israeli air strikes targeted the Al-Manara, Qeezan Al-Najjar and Ma'an neighborhoods in the city of Khan Younus.

The Israeli destruction machine is still waging its aggression and war on the Gaza Strip for the 89th day in a row, as the number of dead in the Gaza Strip from the beginning of the aggression until yesterday evening reached more than 22,000, most of them women and children, while the number of wounded exceeded 57,000 and thousands are still missing.

K.T. 

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

West Bank observes strike in mourning of slain Hamas leader, Sali'h Al-'Aarouri

WEST BANK, Wednesday, January 3, 2024 (WAFA) -

A comprehensive strike is Wednesday observed throughout the governorates of the West Bank, denouncing the assassination of Hamas senior official, Sali'h Al-'Aarouri, and the ongoing crimes of the occupation against Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

The strike, called by the National Liberation Movement "Fatah" and the national and Islamic forces, affected all aspects of life, and universities, banks, and shops were closed.

K.T.

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Israeli occupation forces raid Qaqilya, shoot three Palestinians with live bullets

QALQILYA, Wednesday, January 3, 2024 (WAFA) - 

Three youths were Wednesday injured by live bullets during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces, following the storming of the city of Qalqilya.

Local sources reported to WAFA that the occupation forces with military reinforcements stormed the city, sparking confrontations, as a result of which three youths were injured by live bullets, two in the foot, and the third in the neck. They were transferred to Qalqilya Governmental Hospital, to receive treatment, where their injuries were described as stable. .

The same sources added that the occupation forces raided the house of the slain prisoner Thaer Abu Assab, who died in the Israeli occupation prisons on October 19th, ransacked it and tore down his pictures hanging in the area.

They indicated that these forces raided an Internet café in the Shraim neighborhood, detained a number of youths, and abused them. They also raided the home of the former prisoner Mohsen Shuraim and detained him.

Yesterday, Tuesday, four youths were killed by occupation forces’ bullets during the confrontations that broke out after the storming of the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya.

K.T.

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Injuries in Israeli bombing of camp near Tulkarm

TULKARM, Wednesday, January 3, 2024 (WAFA) - 

A number of Palestinian civilians were injured, at Wednesday dawn today as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ bombing of a site in the Tulkarm camp.

WAFA correspondent said that an occupation drone fired a missile towards Abu al-Foul neighborhood in the camp, slightly wounding a number of civilians, who were treated in the field .

The occupation forces also stormed the camp and bulldozed its streets, especially in Balloana neighborhood and the Schools Street, amid confrontations erupting between Palestinian youths and the occupation soldiers, who fired heavy bullets.

The occupation forces also stormed the Zenobia Higher Basic School on Nablus Street adjacent to the camp, and the Agency School at the entrance to the camp, after blowing up their doors. It turned them into observation points and places for its snipers .

Meanwhile, the occupation forces detained a number of citizens from Nour Shams camp after raiding their homes.

They also severely beat youth Thaer Abu Atta after raiding his house in the school district, causing him to faint .

The Israeli occupation forces have been launching an aggression against Tulkarm and its camps for several hours, during which they besieged Al-Isra Specialized Hospital in the western neighborhood, and the Martyr Thabit Thabit Governmental Hospital in the northeastern area of ​​the city.'

The occupation forces also imposed a curfew in Nour Shams camp until “further notice,” and deployed snipers on the roofs of a number of buildings in its vicinity, on Jabal Al-Nasr, Jabal Al-Saliheen, and in Al-Maslakh neighborhood after storming it, searching it, and subjecting its residents to interrogation .

The occupation bulldozers demolished the memorial to the martyr Murad Al-Basha in the suburb of Dthanaba, east of the city, on their way to Nour Shams camp, and destroyed its streets, especially the main street, and the streets of a number of its neighborhoods and infrastructure, and destroyed public and private facilities, in conjunction with raiding and searching a number of homes in the neighborhoods of: Al-Mansa, Al-Ma'hjar, Al-Damj, Al-Madaris, Al-Hadayda, Al-Rababa'a and Abu Al-Foul.

K.T. 

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Israeli troops conduct ongoing aggression against Tulkarm city and camps

TULKARM, Wednesday, January 3, 2024 (WAFA) -

The Israeli occupation forces have been conducting an aggression against the city of Tulkarm and its two camps, Tulkarm and Nour Shams, for more than 10 hours, during which they detained a number of citizens, after beating them, extensively destroying the infrastructure, and tearing up copies of the Holy Quran.

WAFA correspondent reported that large forces of the Israeli occupation army, accompanied by police dogs, stormed dozens of homes in the neighborhoods of Nour Shams camp, wreaking havoc and vandalizing property and infrastructure, detaining their owners, and beating them.

The Red Crescent reported that its crews dealt with three casualties as a result of a beating in Nour Shams camp, one of whom was an elderly man, 65, adding that they were transferred to the Martyr Thabit Thabit Governmental Hospital.

The occupation forces also destroyed the contents of the raided homes, tore up copies of the Holy Quran, and subjected their residents to investigation, interrogation, and searching their mobile phones, including women.

WAFA correspondent, quoting resident of the camp, added that the Israeli occupation forces took the detainees to the courtyard of a tile factory opposite the camp, and detained them after tying them, blindfolding them, and interrogating them on the ground. The number of detainees has not yet been known.

The occupation forces also fired bullets at journalists present near Nour Shams camp, covering the events.

On the other hand, the occupation vehicles bulldozed the squares and streets of the Tulkarm camp, especially in the Schools Street and Al-Murabba’a neighborhood, where the occupation troops were deployed inside. Snipers were seen on the roofs of high-rise buildings, specifically in the Zenobia schools and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees, at a time when violent confrontations broke out between youths and the occupation forces amid heavy gunfire, and explosions were heard from time to time.

Meanwhile, Israeli drones are flying at a low altitude.

K.T.

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To demolish structures, Israeli forces raid Jerusalem town, injuries reported

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, January 3, 2024 (WAFA) - 

A number of Palestinians were injured on Wednesday morning during the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the town of Jabal Al-Mukabbir, south of Al-Quds (Jerusalem).

WAFA correspondent said that confrontations broke out in the town after the occupation forces stormed it, accompanied by a bulldozer, to demolish a house and a commercial facility belonging to the Shuqairat family.

Videos on social media showed the occupation soldiers brutally assaulting a number of citizens when they tried to prevent the demolition process.

The occupation forces also detained a number of youths.

K.T.

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Israeli occupation forces attack peaceful rally condemning Israeli aggression, Al-'Arroub refugee camp, protesters suffocate

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Tuesday, January 2, 2023 (WAFA) –

 Israeli occupation forces suppressed tonight a peaceful demonstration in the Al-'Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, causing several Palestinians to suffocate, said local sources.

Israeli occupation forces attacked with tear gas bombs the peaceful demonstration that set off in the said camp to denounce the continuous Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people.

Israeli occupation forces fired tear gas bombs at protesters, causing several people to suffocate due to tear gas inhalation.

Israeli occupation forces reportedly stormed the camp and broke into several houses, where they carried out a search campaign and inflicted damage to their contents. They also seized and destroyed the cell phones of residents.

In a related context, a mass demonstration also took place in Al-Khaleel (Hebron), City to condemn the ongoing aggression of the occupation against our people.

T.R.

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Israeli occupation forces beat up, injure disabled Palestinian man in Hebron city

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Tuesday, January 2, 2023 (WAFA) -

Israeli occupation forces tonight attacked a disabled Palestinian man during a military incursion into the city of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), according to local sources.

Sources reported that forces attacked and beat up a disabled man, who was identified as Diya’ Al-Rajabi, while he was present in front of a shop at the Tariq bin Ziyad intersection, causing him cuts and bruises throughout his body.

T.R. 

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Abduction of Palestinians by Israeli Occupation Regime Soldiers

Israeli occupation regime police detain Palestinian a Palestinian woman at a checkpoint, in the 1948-occupied territory

 Aree'ha (Jericho), Wednesday, January 3, 2024 (WAFA) -

 Israeli police Wednesday detained a Palestinian woman from Jericho, inside the 1948-pccupied territories.

The director of the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) in Jericho, 'Eid Barahma, told WAFA that the Israeli police detained Haya Anees 'Hamad Gharoof, a resident of the city of Aree'ha (Jericho), at one of its checkpoints inside the 1948-occupied territory.

K.T.

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IOF kidnaps several Palestinians in W. Bank and Al-Quds (Jerusalem)

Wednesday 3-January-2024, WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped at dawn Wednesday and later in the morning a number of Palestinian citizens in the West Bank and Al-Quds (Jerusalem).

According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped nine citizens in Al-Khaleel province, namely from Al-Khaleel City and the towns of Taffou'h, Al-Shuyoukh and Dura.

The sources added that the IOF raided homes, set up checkpoints at all the entrances leading to Al-Khaleel, its towns, villages and refugee camps and closed several roads with barriers, mounds of dirt and concrete blocks.

In Qalqilya, the IOF kidnaped two citizens after ransacking their homes in the city.

Another citizen was taken prisoner at a military checkpoint in western Nablus after Israeli occupation soldiers stopped and searched a car he was aboard.

In Al-Quds (Jerusalem), a number of citizens were reportedly injured after the Israeli occupation regime police forces stormed Jabal Al-Mukabbir neighborhood and clashed with local youths.

Local sources said that the skirmishes started in Jabal Al-Mukabbir after a bulldozer escorted by police forces barged into the area to demolish a house and a commercial facility belonging to the family of Shuqayrat.

Video footage circulated on the internet showed Israeli officers savagely assaulting local residents as they tried to prevent the demolitions.

A number of young citizens were kidnaped by the police from the neighborhood during the demolition raid. 

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Rights groups: About 11,000 Palestinians detained by IOF last year

Wednesday 3-January-2024, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)

Four Palestinian prisoner and human rights groups said that about 11,000 Palestinians had been detained by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in 2023 — half of them were detained after October 7.

This came in a report released on Wednesday by the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner Society, Addhameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and Wadi Hilweh Information Center.

This number of detainees does not include those who were kidnaped by the IOF from the Gaza Strip during the Israeli war on Gaza.

According to their report, around 1,085 children and 300 women, including women from 1948 occupied Palestine, were detained by Israel after October 7.

The rights groups called on the high contracting parties to the Geneva Conventions to necessarily pressure the Israeli occupation regime to stop its aggressive practices against the Palestinian detainees.

They also stressed the need for forming an independent international inquiry committee to investigate the crimes that had been committed against Palestinian detainees since October 7.

They urged the Red Cross, in particular, to shoulder its responsibilities in this regard and make efforts to visit Palestinian detainees and inform their families about their incarceration conditions. 

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

 

Dozens of illegal Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Al-Quds (Jerusalem)

JERUSALEM,  Wednesday, January 3, 2024 (WAFA) - 

Dozens of illegal Israeli settlers Wednesday morning stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), under protection from Israeli occupation regime police, according to local sources.

Witnesses said scores of the illegal Israeli settlers entered Al-Aqsa Mosque in separate groups, where they conducted provocative tours through the courtyards of the mosque, received explanations about the alleged "Jewish Temple," and performed Talmudic rituals near the Dome of the Rock.

K.T.

Illegal Israeli settlers place caravans on Palestinian-owned land south of Nablus, a prelude for takeover

NABLUS, Wednesday, January 3, 2023 (WAFA) -

A group of illegal  Israeli settlers set up several caravans on Palestinian-owned land in the town of Qusra, south of Naples, in an apparent prelude to taking over the land, according to a local activist.

Fouad Hassan, an anti-settlement activist, said colonists placed four caravans on land they had previously bulldozed in the said town, specifically on land located across from the illegal Israeli settlement of Majdolim.

So far, the illegal Israeli settlers have placed within only a week around nine caravans on the said land.

T.R.

To restrict movement, Israel forces install iron gate at entrance of Beer Zait, near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, January 3, 2024 (WAFA) -

Israeli occupation forces Wednesday installed an iron gate at the northern entrance to the town of Beer Zait, north of Ramallah.

Security sources told WAFA that the occupation forces installed an iron gate at the entrance to the town, to prevent the movement of citizens heading to villages and towns north of Ramallah, and to impose restrictions on them.

K.T.

Illegal Israeli settlers set up utility poles near Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), Wednesday, January 3, 2024 (WAFA) -

Illegal Israeli settlers set up a number of utility poles in the Tuqu’ wilderness, southeast of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), in preparation for establishing a new illegal Israeli outpost.

The director of the Office of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission in Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), Hassan Buraijiyah, told WAFA correspondent that the illegal Israeli settlers, protected by the Israeli occupation forces, installed utility poles in the “Fathura” area in the Tuqu’a Wilderness, in preparation for establishing a new illegal Israeli settlement outpost, near “Tuqu'a”, which is a settlement located on citizens’ lands.

It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation forces and illegal settlers escalated their attacks in the Tuqu’a wilderness area, by pursuing farmers, demolishing their agricultural rooms and tents, and seizing their contents.

K.T.

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