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 94 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 17 Massacres, 249 Palestinians Killed, 510 Injured, with a Death Toll of  23,084 and 58,926 Injuries

January 8, 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 8, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 30,084+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (23,084) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on December 23, 2023: 7,000+).   

By January 8, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 58,926, and more than 2,520 civilians have been abducted from Gaza Strip.

By January 4, 2023, the death toll included 9,730+ children and 6,830+ women. 

By January 8, 2024, there were 336 Palestinians who were killed, 3,571 who were injured, and 5,730, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023.

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 3,291.

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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 4, 2024, 326 health personnel and 97 journalists were killed and hundreds were injured, 121 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. In addition, 99 health personnel have been abducted by the invading Israeli occupation forces.

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 Palestinian child, who was injured in an Israeli genocidal air strike, lying on the ground inside a hospital in Gaza Strip, January 8, 2024	Eight Palestinian civilians from Noafal family were killed, dozens injured, by an Israeli genocidal air strike targeting a house, in Al-Bassa of Dair El-Bala'h,  January 8, 2024
A group of illegal Israeli settlers severely beating the young man, I'hsan Sa'abna, in Um Al-Fa'm, for no other reason than being a Palestinian, January 8, 2024	Scores of illegal Israeli settlers broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under heavy protection from the Israeli occupation regime police, January 8, 2024
Site of an Israeli genocidal air strike on a vehicle, raising the death toll in Gaza reaches over 23,000 on 94th day of Israeli aggression, January 8, 2024	The three Palestinian young men, Yusuf Al-Kholi, 'Aahid Mousa, and Tariq  Shaheen, who were killed by Israeli occupation soldiers, in Tulkarm, on January 8, 2024
A Palestinian vehicle which was destroyed by an Israeli genocidal air strike, in Rafa'h, on January 8, 2024	Victims of an Israeli genocidal air strike on a house in Dair El-Bala'h are brought to Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital, January 8, 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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Killing and Injuring of Palestinians in Ghazza (Gaza) by Israeli Occupation Regime Forces

On January 8, 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 17 massacres, in which  249 Palestinian civilians were killed, and 510 were injured, in the past 24 hours. This increased the death toll in Gaza Strip to 23,084 and the injuries to 58,926, since October 7, 2023 (Note: Palestine Information Center).  

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Gaza: Israeli army committed 17 massacres in 24hrs

Monday 8-January-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The health ministry in Gaza said on Monday that the Israeli occupation army committed, over the past 24 hours, 17 massacres in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the martyrdom of at least 249 civilians and the injury of 510 others.

In a brief statement, spokesman for the health ministry Ashraf al-Qidra said that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli bombardment, which started on October 7, climbed to 23,084 martyrs and the number of the wounded surged to 58,926 people.

According to Al-Qidra, all hospitals in southern Gaza are overcrowded with wounded civilians and have exceeded their medical capabilities and their capacity to treat patients, while hundreds of sick and injured citizens receive treatment on the floor.

He called on international health institutions to send medical teams and set up field hospitals across Gaza to save thousands of wounded civilians.

He pointed out that only 645 wounded civilians had been allowed to leave Gaza to receive medical help abroad, appealing to the competent international bodies to ensure the departure of 6,000 wounded civilians from Gaza as an urgent step to save their lives. 

Death toll in Gaza reaches over 23,000 on 94th day of Israeli aggression

GAZA, Monday, January 8, 2023 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation regime’s continued air raids and bombardment of different areas in the Gaza Strip, particularly the central and southern areas, for the 94th day has resulted in the killing and injuring of dozens of citizens, most of whom were children and women, bringing the death toll in the seaside enclave to more than 23,000 people.

According to local and health sources, the occupation forces committed during the past few hours several crimes in Jabalya and Bait 'Hanoun, north of the Strip, which led to the killing of dozens of people.

Journalist 'Abdullah Burais was also announced dead in an Israeli bombing in southern Gaza.

According to the same sources, the central region of the Strip was subjected to violent raids targeting residential apartments and the tents of displaced people, while Israeli warplanes launched a series of air raids on Al-Nusayrat, Al-Maghazi, Al-Buraij, and Salah Al-Din Street, killing and injuring scores of citizens.

WAFA correspondents reported that an Israeli quadcopter drone equipped with rifles opened intense fire on various areas in the city of Dair El-Bala'h, in the central Gaza Strip.

A.D/T.R. 

Gaza: Civilians killed, injured in Israeli airstrikes on refugee camps

GAZA, Monday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) –

A number of civilians were killed and others were injured in a bombing by occupation aircraft on southern Rafa'h and the Nusei Al-Nusayrat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that three civilians were killed and others were injured in a drone bombing that targeted a vehicle west of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

A number of civilians were killed and others were injured in a bombing by occupation aircraft that targeted the home of Zuraid family in  Al-Nusayrat in the central Gaza Strip.

By January 7, 2024, in an infinite toll, the death toll in the Gaza Strip since the start of the aggression on October 7th has risen to 22,835, more than 70% of whom are women and children, and 58,316 wounded, in addition to 7,000 people missing under the rubble.

K.T.

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Dozens of civilian casualties in Gaza as Israel's genocide marks 94 days

GAZA, Monday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Dozens of innocent civilians, including women and children, have been killed and others wounded over the past few hours as the ongoing Israeli genocide campaign on the Gaza Strip enters its 94th consecutive day, according to local and medical sources.

During the past 24 hours, at least 73 citizens were killed while 99 others were wounded in a barrage of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

In the central of Gaza, at least 18 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed while dozens wounded following an Israeli airstrike targeting multiple homes in the city of Dair El-Bala'h.

Israeli air force further carried out fierce airstrikes at Al-Maghazi camp and the town of al-Zawayida.

Simultaneously, Israeli military air forces targeted several homes east of Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip, leading to the tragic death of two citizens and the injury to several others.

Meantime, Israeli fighter jets targeted the vicinity of the Al-Farra Tower. Another Israeli airstrike targeted Al-Manara neighborhood, southeast of Khan Younus, resulting in the killing of at least 8 citizens.

Simultaneously, an Israeli drone also randomly opened fire in the courtyard of the Gaza European Hospital, southeast of Khan Younus, while the Israeli military aircraft targeted the buildings of the Colleges of Science and Technology, located south of Khan Younus in the south of Gaza Strip.

Meantime, local sources further reported that Israeli occupation forces detained five siblings from the Astal family in Kamal Nasser School in Khan Younus after their mother was killed by a bullet from an Israeli sniper.

By January 7, 2024, in a preliminary toll, the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7 has resulted in at least 22,835 martyrs, more than 70% of whom are women and children, and 58,316 wounded. Additionally 7,000 people are missing under the rubble.

Y.S.

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Eight people killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house west of Dair El-Bala'h

GAZA, Monday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) – 

At least eight citizens today were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house west of the city of Dair El-Bala'h, according to local and medical sources.

They reported that eight martyrs and dozens of injured individuals, including children and women, arrived at Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital following an Israeli airstrike targeting a house, belonging to the Noafal family in Al-Bassa, west of Dair El-Bala'h in the central Gaza Strip.

An Israeli drone also randomly opened fire in the courtyard of the Gaza European Hospital, southeast of Khan Younus.  

Israeli military aircraft also targeted the buildings of the Colleges of Science and Technology, located south of Khan Younus in the south of Gaza Strip.

Simultaneously, Israeli warplanes carried out intense airstrikes on Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

By January 7, 2024, in a preliminary toll, the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7 has resulted in at least 22,835 martyrs, more than 70% of whom are women and children, and 58,316 wounded. Additionally 7,000 people are missing under the rubble.

Y.S.

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

Israeli forces fatally shoot three Palestinians in their 20s in Tulkarm

TULKAREM, Monday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) –

 Israeli occupation soldiers tonight fatally shot three Palestinian youths in their early 20s in the town of Iktaba to the east of Tulkarm City, said WAFA correspondent.

A special Israeli unit, accompanied by a large military force, stormed the town of Iktaba amid the heavy firing of live bullets toward a parked vehicle, before cordoning off one of the houses in the area and fatally shooting three youths inside.

The Ministry of Health announced that three youths arrived dead to the Tulkarm Governmental Hospital, after being shot by Israeli forces.

The three were identified as Yousuf Ali Al-Khoali, 22, 'Aahid Salman Mousa, 23, and Tar'q Amjad Shaheen, 24.

According to sources, Israeli occupation forces ran over one of the bodies with their military jeep before withdrawing from the area.

A fourth youth was shot and injured by the occupation soldiers during the military offensive and detained despite his injuries.

Sources at the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Tulkarm told WAFA correspondent that forces prevented its ambulances at gunpoint from reaching the youths, and were only allowed access into the area following the army’s withdrawal.

National and Islamic factions declared a general strike in Tulkarm tomorrow, Tuesday, in mourning of the three slain Palestinians.

T.R. 

Israeli occupation forces detain a father and his nine-year-old son, in the Old City of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), the boy was released after hours

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Monday, January 8, 2023 (WAFA) -

Israeli occupation forces detained this evening a Palestinian man and his nine-year-old son, in the Old City of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), for hours before eventually releasing the child, according to local sources.

Sources informed WAFA that forces detained Ashraf Idris and his nine-year-old child for four hours in the Al-Salaymah neighborhood in Hebron, before releasing the boy, while the father remained in the army's custody.

T.R.

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A Palestinian man struck and injured by shrapnel during Nablus-area confrontations

NABLUS, Monday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) –

A Palestinian resident was injured this evening with live ammunition during confrontations with Israeli occupation forces in the village of Tel, west of Nablus, said local sources.

Sources said that Israeli forces stormed the village of Tel, spurring confrontations with residents, during which the former attacked residents with live and rubber-coated steel bullets, stun grenades and tear gas bombs, hitting and injuring a man with shrapnel in the back.

T.R.

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Israeli occupation soldiers and illegal settlers attack Palestinians, destroy crops in Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Monday, January 8, 2023 (WAFA) –

 Israeli occupation soldiers and colonists assaulted Palestinian citizens today and destroyed crops south of the West Bank city of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

Medical and local sources told WAFA that the occupation forces assaulted and beat up a man in his 30s south of Hebron, causing him injuries and bruises which necessitated his transfer to hospital for treatment.

In Yatta town, groups of illegal Israeli settlers from the Itzkhar Man illegal settlement attacked sheep shepherds in Wadi Al-Jawaya and forced them to leave the pastures after assaulting them.

They also vandalized a fence placed around the lands of the Al-Nawaja'a family, unleashed their livestock on crops owned by several other families, and prevented a citizen from plowing his land.

the Israeli occupation soldiers further detained a resident in his 30s after assaulting him in the Masafir Yatta area, south of Hebron.

Meanwhile, illegal Israeli settlers planted trees in privately-owned Palestinian land in the Quwaiwis area in Masafir Yatta, while others chased sheepherders and prevented them from reaching pastures in the Wadi Ma’een area.

A.D./T.R.

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A Palestinian man moved to hospital following a brutal attack by Israeli occupation forces

Jineen, Monday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) –

 Israeli occupation forces today assaulted a Palestinian man after breaking into his family’s house and damaging its contents in the town of Ya’bad, located to southwest of Jineen.

The occupying Israeli forces broke into the family’s house of A'hmed Hani Hamarsha, and inflicted damages to its contents, before severely beating him, under the pretext that he has pictures of martyrs and detainees on his mobile phone.

He was later transferred to a nearby hospital, where he fell into a coma.

Y.S.

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Israeli occupation forces raid Al-Khaleel (Hebron)-area village, seize vehicle

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Monday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces Monday stormed the Al-Dthahr area in the town of Bait Ummar, north of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), raided and searched several homes and seized a vehicle.

Activist Mu'hammed 'Awadh told WAFA that the occupation soldiers raided a number of citizens’ homes in the Al-Dthahr area, searched them, and tampered with their contents.

He said that the soldiers also seized a vehicle owned by local resident Saddham Al-Saleebi.

Last night, a number of Palestinian youths suffered from suffocation during confrontations at the entrance to Bait Ummar, where soldiers fired live bullets and poison gas bombs.

K.T. 

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Abduction of Palestinians in the West Bank by Israeli Occupation Regime Forces

IOF detains 40 Palestinians in the West Bank

Monday 8-January-2024, RAMALLAH, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out over last night and Monday morning a large-scale detention campaign that rounded up at least 40 Palestinians including former detainees.

Palestinian Prisoners Society said, in a statement on Monday, that most of the arrests were carried out in Bethlehem, in addition to Ramallah, Qalqilya, Nablus, Al-Khalil, Jenin, and Occupied Jerusalem. Large-scale raids and field investigations were also reported, the Society added.

The statement referred to Israeli continued violations against Palestinian detainees and their families including “systematic practices of abuse, assaults, severe beating, and threats, in addition to widespread sabotage and home destruction, and confiscation of property.”

“The tally of detentions since October 7 has mounted to about 5,730. They were carried out in Palestinian homes and at military checkpoints, in addition to the detention of those who turned themselves in to the IOF under threat and those who were held hostage,” the statement added.

“The ongoing and escalating arrest campaigns in an unprecedented manner come as part of the Israeli massive and punitive measures against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, following October 7,” the Society concluded. 

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

CWRC: Over 12,000 Israeli violations against Palestinians last year

Monday 8-January-2024, RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) has said that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA), its forces and settlers carried out at least 12,161 different violations against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank and Jerusalem during 2023.

This came in a news conference held on Monday by head of the Commission Muayad Sha'ban, who read the annual report on Israeli violations in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

5,308 of these violations happened after the 7th of last October, including 2,410 violations that were carried out by extremist Jewish settlers, according to the Commission’s annual report.

Sha'ban told journalists that 22 Palestinian citizens had been killed by armed settlers in 2023, including 10 victims who were shot dead following the October 7 events.

He also said that the IOA displaced 25 Bedouin communities, including 22 after October 7, in the West Bank and east Jerusalem last year, adding that those communities were composed of 1,517 individuals from 266 families.

The Palestinian official also talked about other violations, including destruction of 21,731 productive trees such as olive and almond trees, destruction of homes and structures, construction of 18 settler outposts, arson attacks, and land annexations.

 

Illegal Israeli settlers severely beat up Palestinian man near the city of Umm Al-Fa'hm

UMM AL-FAHM, Monday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) –

 Illegal Israeli settlers last night assaulted a Palestinian citizen while he was near the city of Umm al-Fa'hm, in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1948, according to medical and local sources.

Medical sources at Ibn Seena Hospital in Jineen, north of the occupied West Bank, said that a group of illegal Israeli settlers attacked the young man, I'hsan Sa'abna, a resident of the village of Fa'hma, south of Jineen, leading him to sustain a broken thumb and bruises on his hand.

Sa'abna was later transferred to a nearby hospital for medical treatment in the town of Barta’a. His medical condition was described as stable.

Sa'abna told WAFA that he was beaten up and assaulted by Israeli settlers while he was standing on the main street near Umm Al-Fa'hm waiting for a bus.

Y.S.

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In an apparent step for takeover, illegal Israeli settlers break into water spring, start restoration work

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), Monday, January 8, 2023 (WAFA) –

Illegal Israeli settlers this evening broke into an archaeological and historical site in the town of Jannatah to the east of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), said a local official.

Mayor of Jannatah, Sami Al-Zeer, told WAFA correspondent that colonists stormed a water spring located on municipal property and proceeded with restoration work in an apparent step to taking over the site, which would consequently lead to the seizure of hundreds of dunums of surrounding Palestinian land, he warned.

T.R.

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Illegal Israeli settlers demolish structures near Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Monday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) –

Illegal Israeli settlers Monday demolished an agricultural room and stone chains in the town of Tarqoumiya, northwest of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

An activist in the Wall and Settlement Resistance Committees, Sulayman Al-Marqatun, said that colonists demolished an agricultural room in the Taybah area, “Farsh Al-Hawa,” belonging to local resident Majdy Hijazi, and stone chains on the land owned by Ibraheem Al-Marqatan.

He added that the occupation forces prevented Palestinians from approaching their lands in the Taiba area, near the “Adora” settlement, which is seeing attacks by settlers targeting Palestinian citizens’ property.

K.T.

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Illegal Israeli settlers attack Palestinian lands near Aree'ha (Jericho)

Aree'ha (Jericho), Monday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) –

Under protection from the Israeli occupation army, illegal Israeli settlers Monday attacked citizens’ lands in Arab Al-Mali'hat, west of Aree'ha (Jericho).

The supervisor of the Al-Baidar Organization for Defending Bedouin Rights, Hassan Mlihat, told WAFA that the settlers placed these iron corners with the aim of provoking citizens and expanding their control over their lands in the Arab Mulaihat area, located at the beginning of the Al-Ma’rajat Road, west of Jericho.

He added that these attacks come within the framework of the occupation's ongoing policy of expanding the illegal Israeli settlements at the expense of the Palestinian land.

K.T.

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Israeli forces demolish a house and barn, raze cultivated lands, uproot trees near Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Monday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces today demolished a Palestinian-owned house and a barn, razed cultivated lands and uprooted trees in the village of Bir'een, located south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), in the occupied West Bank, according to a local activist.

The head of the Bir'een Village Council, Fareed Burqan, told WAFA that Israeli occupation forces accompanied by bulldozers demolished a house and a barn -- both owned by local Palestinian residents -- spanning an area of 120 square meters.

The occupying Israeli forces also razed a large tract of cultivated lands and uprooted several fruit and forest trees belonging to local citizen Murad 'Aashour in the village.

Y.S.

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Illegal Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Al-Quds (Jerusalem)

Al-Quds (Jerusalem), Monday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Scores of illegal Israeli settlers today broke into the compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) under heavy protection from the Israeli police, according to witnesses.

The illegal settlers raided the holy mosque from the Moroccan Gate and performed provocative tours in its compounds. They also performed Talmudic rituals there.

This latest incident adds to the ongoing tensions surrounding Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third most revered site in Islam. The entry of settlers into the compound, backed by Israeli security forces, is often met with condemnation from Palestinian officials and religious authorities.

The Islamic Waqf, the Jordan-run authority in charge of the holy site, has repeatedly called for international intervention to prevent these incursions, which are seen as a direct challenge to the status quo of the holy site and an affront to the sentiments of Muslims worldwide.

Since 2003, the Israeli occupation authorities have been allowing settlers into the compound almost on a daily basis, with the exclusion of Friday, the Muslim day of rest and worship.

Y.S.

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Illegal Israeli Jewish settlers attack Palestinian shepherds, confiscate 500 cows in Jordan Valley

Monday 8-January-2024, JORDAN VALLEY, (PIC)

Illegal Israeli Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian herders in the northern Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank on Monday, injuring two Palestinian shepherds.

Mu'taz Bisharat, an official in charge of monitoring the Israeli settlement file in Tubas and Jordan Valley, said a group of settlers escorted by Israeli police and occupation forces attacked a number of Palestinian herders while grazing their sheep near Street 90 and assaulted them.

The attack resulted in the injury of two shepherds. One of them, Qadri Daraghmah, was transferred to the Turkish Tubas Hospital for treatment.

The settlers also opened fire on the car of Louay Daraghmah, causing serious damage to it before it was confiscated by Israeli police.

The attacking settlers, protected by Israeli occupation forces and police, seized 500 cows owned by citizens Qadri Daraghmah and 'Aadil Daraghmah. The cows were loaded into trucks and taken to an unknown destination. 

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