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 95 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 12 Massacres, 126 Palestinians Killed, 241 Injured, with a Death Toll of  23,210 and 59,167 Injuries

January 9, 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 9, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 30,210+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (23,210) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on December 23, 2023: 7,000+).   

By January 9, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 59,167, 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 9, 2024, there were 337 Palestinians who were killed, 3,587 who were injured, and 5,755, 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 January 9, 2023,  there was a complete destruction of 69,000+ 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 9, 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, 134 government offices and 95 schools and universities were completely destroyed, while 295 schools and universities were partially damaged.

138 mosques were completely destroyed, while 240 others were partially damaged, in addition to three churches.

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Palestinians bidding farewell to their relatives, who were killed by an Israeli genocidal air strike, January 9, 2024	A Palestinian woman bidding farewell to her two children, who were killed by an Israeli genocidal air strike, file, January 9, 2024
Israeli occupation soldiers savagely attacking a Palestinian young man in the West Bank, January 9, 2024	Practicing collective punishment, Israeli occupation forces detonated the houses of of the families of martyrs Murad and Ibraheem Nimr, in Soor Bahir, southeast of Al-Quds, January 9, 2024
In 95 days, the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza resulted in the killing of more than 30,084, most of whom are women and children, January 9, 2024	Site of a Gaza Strip hospital morgue, where hundreds of Palestinians who are killed everyday, are prepared for burial, January 9, 2024
A Palestinian child injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza receiving treatment at Nasir hospital in Khan Younus, January 9, 2024	A Palestinian woman with an amputated hand, comforting the little girl Ghazal, with an amputated leg Nasir Hospital, in Khan Younus, January 9, 2024

Victims who were killed and injured by an Israeli genocidal air strike on Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younus, which is resided by Palestinian civilians who fled the genocide in northern Gaza Strip, January 9, 2024	Funeral of martyrs who were killed in an Israeli genocidal air strike on down town Khan Younus, January 9, 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.

Defense for Children calls 2023 “year of genocide” against Palestinian children

Tuesday 9-January-2024, RAMALLAH, (PIC)

Defense for Children International (DCI) said the Israeli occupation forces had killed at least 8,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip and 121 others in the West Bank and Jerusalem in 2023, calling it the “year of genocide” against Palestinian children.

In a statement on Tuesday, DCI-Palestine added that the unprecedented number of children killed in the Israeli deadly campaign against the Palestinians, which started on October 7, 2023, might increase due to the huge number of undiscovered bodies and the ongoing Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people, who are currently living under dire conditions, especially in Gaza.

DCI pointed out that the children killed last year in the West Bank and Al-Quds (Jerusalem) were targeted by live ammunition fired by settlers and soldiers or by missiles fired by Israeli aircraft.

DCI also accused the Israeli army of indiscriminately and deliberately targeting civilian and medical infrastructure and structures to create intolerable living conditions for the Palestinian citizens in Gaza

It said that the Israeli forces bombed major medical facilities in Gaza and prevented much-needed fuel from reaching them.

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WHO pleads for better access across besieged Gaza enclave, says relief is arriving "too little, too late"

Four-year-old Ghazal, a Palestinian young child injured in an Israeli strike receiving treatment at Al-Nasir Hospital in Khan Younus, in southern Gaza, where doctors were forced to amputate her leg to save her life.

GENEVA, Tuesday, January 9, 2024 (WAFA) -

With no let-up in fighting across Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) pleaded today for better access across the besieged Gaza enclave, where relief is arriving "too little, too late" to help civilians caught up in the ongoing conflict.

"Even if there is no ceasefire, you would expect humanitarian corridors to operate... in a much more sustained way than what's happening now," said Sean Casey, Emergency Medical Teams Coordinator for the World Health Organization (WHO), speaking from Rafa'h in southern Gaza.

Humanitarian assistance and particularly food is desperately needed across Gaza, particularly in northern areas, Casey stressed.

"The food situation in the north is absolutely horrific, there's almost no food available," he told journalists in Geneva via video. "Everybody we talk to begs for food and comes up and asks, 'Where, where's the food?' People help us get our medical supplies through. But they are constantly telling us that we need to come back with food."

Echoing that appeal and expressing concerns about intensifying hostilities in the south, Rik Peeperkorn, WHO Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, explained that moving staff and supplies "safely and swiftly" had been compromised, as deconfliction is required for any moves across Gaza, including the south, often leading to delays.

In addition to getting more essential supplies into Gaza, what was also needed urgently was easier movement of humanitarian aid and workers within the enclave, "so that we can reach people wherever they are,” Peeperkorn explained.

According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, 23,084 people have been killed in the enclave; of whom 70 percent were women and children. Nearly 59,000 people have also been injured, which is approximately 2.7 percent of Gaza's population.

The WHO official insisted that the UN and its partners remained "completely ready" to deliver assistance to Gazans, who have endured a massive bombing campaign by the Israel military, but stressed that hostilities and evacuation orders in Gaza's central areas and further south in Khan Younis have affected access to hospitals for patients and ambulances, Peeperkorn explained, adding that it has also become "incredibly complex" for WHO to reach "ailing" facilities with medical supplies and fuel.

Of concern are three hospitals located near evacuation zones - European Gaza Hospital, Nasser Medical Complex and Al-Aqsa - "a lifeline" in the south for about two million people, the WHO official said, speaking from Jerusalem.

"(The) constricted flow of supplies and access and evacuation of medical staff from many hospitals due to fears for safety is a recipe for disaster and will make more hospitals non-functional, as witnessed in the north. The international community must not allow this to happen," Peeperkorn said.

“One indication of the "shrinking space" for lifesaving humanitarian work in the enclave is the fact that the UN health agency has not reached northern Gaza for two weeks.”

A total of six planned WHO humanitarian missions have had to be canceled since 26 December, according to the UN health agency. "Our team is ready to deliver but we have not been able to receive the necessary permissions to proceed safely," Peeperkorn explained.

T.R.

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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 12 massacres, in which  126 Palestinian civilians were killed, and 241 were injured, in the past 24 hours. This increased the death toll in Gaza Strip to 23,210 and the injuries to 59,167, since October 7, 2023 (Note: Palestine Information Center).  

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126 Palestinians killed over the past 24 hours in Gaza

Tuesday 9-January-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out 12 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, claiming the lives of 126 civilians and wounding 241 others, over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry in Gaza revealed on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Health said, in a press statement, “The death toll of the Israeli aggression has risen to 23,210 martyrs and 59,167 wounded since the seventh of October.”

Since then, the Israeli occupation forces have been waging a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, targeting civilians and their homes, destroying large areas of the Gaza Strip, and displacing 90% of its population.

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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters Day 95

Tuesday 9-January-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 95 on Tuesday, massive aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound neighborhoods 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 Tuesday morning, killing and injuring a number of citizens.

According to local sources, a citizen was shot dead by an Israeli sniper in the north of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in central Gaza, while casualties were reported when the Israeli army bombed a house in the same camp.

The Israeli army also carried out a spate of overnight aerial and artillery attacks on homes in different areas of Gaza, killing and injuring a number of civilians.

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GMO appeals for ending the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza

Tuesday 9-January-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza announced in a statement on Monday that, as the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza entered day 94, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have so far committed 1,932 massacres, leaving 30,210 people as dead and missing. About 23,210 martyrs of them arrived at hospitals including 10,000 children, 7,000 women, 326 medical personnel, 45 civil defense workers, and 112 journalists, it added.

The GMO called on the world to intervene to stop the Israeli bloody aggression and to open the crossings to bring in medical aid and food supplies as well as to provide the people of Gaza with housing units.

The GMO statement revealed that 7,000 people are still missing with 70% of them being women and children. There are approximately 59,167 people wounded, it added.

The number of the detentions mounted to more than 2,600 detainees so far, including 99 medical personnel, and 10 journalists.

Two million displaced Palestinians are currently living under a very difficult living conditions in hundreds of displacement and shelter centers. They all need urgent aid and supplies. The overcrowding has led to the spread of diseases including 400,000 recorded cases with infectious diseases.

The Israeli brutal war has also left 134 government headquarters destroyed, 95 schools and universities knocked out of service, 295 schools and universities partially damaged, 138 mosques completely destroyed, 240 other mosques partially damaged, and 3 churches targeted.

The hideous aggression also completely demolished 69,000 residential units, while 290,000 others were partially demolished.

Israeli airstrikes also targeted 30 hospitals and 53 health centers which were all knocked out of service. About 150 health institutions were targeted, as well, and largely affected, with 121 ambulances completely damaged.

The GMO renewed its appeal to Egypt to urgently open the Rafa'h crossing in order to transfer 6,000 severely wounded people for treatment abroad.

The statement also confirmed that the governorates of Gaza and North Gaza are facing a real famine, which has been confirmed by various international organizations.

The GMO concluded its statement by saying, “In light of the humanitarian catastrophe resulting from the Israeli destruction of approximately 360,000 housing units, we appeal to the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the League of Arab States, and all countries of the free world to agree on an immediate solution to the humanitarian catastrophe as a result of the destruction of hundreds of thousands of homes, leaving millions of people in Gaza homeless.” 

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Several people killed, others injures tonight in ongoing Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

GAZA, Tuesday, January 9, 2024 (WAFA) -

Several civilians were killed and others were injured tonight in Israeli strikes targeting the center of the Gaza Strip.

According to local sources, several civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a group of civilians in the town of Al-Zawayida, in the central Strip.

The occupation warplanes also shelled a house near the girls' junior high school in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the center of the Strip, resulting in several casualties.

Earlier, at least four civilians were killed in the said camp. Rescue teams were unable to evacuate their bodies due to the intensified Israeli military reinforcement at the entrance of the camp.

Several bodies and wounded arrived at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Hospital as a result of an Israeli strike that targeted a house in Dair El-Bala'h, in the central Strip.

The occupation Gun-firing drones attacked displaced persons sheltering in UNRWA-run schools west of Khan Younus, as well as the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in the southern Strip, and areas east of Nusayrat refugee camp, in the center of the Strip, injuring several people.

Israeli jets also bombed a mosque and the homes of several citizens in the southern part of Qizan an-Najjar village, south of Khan Younus.

The occupation artillery continued to shell the Al-Manara neighborhood, the Fakhari area, and several different areas in Khan Younus, which led to the killing of two women in the Fakhari area.

 A child in the Gaza European Hospital also succumbed to injuries sustained in an artillery shelling on the eastern parts of Khan Younus yesterday, bringing the number of civilians killed in Khan Younus to 13 in the last 24 hours.

Rescue teams and ambulance crews recovered the bodies of two people and several wounded from under the rubble of a house that was targeted by an Israeli airstrike in the town of Jabalya, north of the Strip.

Several civilians were also killed and others were injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting areas west of Gaza City and the Zaytoun neighborhood.

A provisional count of civilians killed in the Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7th indicated that 23,210 people were killed, over 70% of whom were children and women, and at least 59,167 wounded. Over 7000 people were reported missing.

T.R.

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At least 15 civilians killed, others injured in Israeli bombardment of apartment in southern Gaza

GAZA, Wednesday, January 9, 2023 (WAFA) - At least 15 civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted an apartment located in an apartment building west of Rafa'h city, in the southern Gaza Strip.

According to medical sources, 15 bodies arrived at the Kuwaiti hospital in Rafa'h after being killed in an Israeli shelling of an apartment located in a residential building. It is owned by the Noafal family in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood.

T.R.

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

Palestinian man killed by Israeli occupation forces' fire following alleged stabbing attack near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, January 9, 2024 (WAFA) -

A Palestinian man in his early 30s was killed this afternoon after being shot by Israeli occupation forces near the military checkpoint of 'Ain Sinya to the north of Ramallah, according to the Ministry of Health.

The young man, who was identified as 31-year-old Ibrahim Samee'h Jayousi, was shot dead by the occupation forces near the said checkpoint north of Ramallah.

Local sources said that forces opened fire at a man near the 'Ain Sinya checkpoint after he allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack. The occupation forces closed the checkpoint in the aftermath of the shooting and prevented Palestinians from crossing.

This route is considered one of the few available routes that Palestinians have been using to enable them to enter or exit the city of Ramallah due to the intensified erection of checkpoints, roadblocks, ongoing closures to cities and villages, and the threat of settler attacks since October 7, which all have resulted in severe restrictions on movement and left Palestinians forced to use longer alternative roads to reach their destination.

T.R.

14 Palestinians shot by Israeli forces near Nablus

NABLUS, Tuesday, January 9, 2024 (WAFA) - 

14 citizens were Tuesday morning injured by Israeli occupation bullets during a raid into the old 'Askar camp, east of Nablus.

Security and local sources reported to WAFA that a special force, supported by large forces from the occupation army, stormed the eastern area of the city of Nablus, and the old 'Askar camp to the east, from several directions.

The sources added that confrontations broke out between the occupation forces and Palestinian youths, which led to one citizen being injured by live bullets in the back, and three others being shot by their feet, after which they were taken to the hospital.

The sources indicated that the occupation forces, accompanied by a military bulldozer, also stormed Balata camp to the east, and began bulldozing one of its streets.

K.T.

Palestinians injured, others kidnaped by IOF in the West Bank

Tuesday 9-January-2024, WEST BANK, (PIC)

A number of Palestinian citizens were injured and others were kidnaped at dawn Tuesday after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different West Bank areas.

The Red Crescent said that its ambulance crews provided medical assistance for nine citizens after they suffered shrapnel wounds when an IOF drone attacked a house in Tulkarm refugee camp.

One of those wounded citizens was kidnaped by Israeli occupation soldiers before they released him later. The Red Crescent said one of its ambulances transferred him to hospital.

Local sources said that Israeli occupation forces stopped two ambulances carrying wounded citizens at the entrance of Tulkarm camp and prevented their transfer to Thabit Thabit Hospital.

The sources added that the IOF bulldozed the Martyrs Memorial in Al-Nadi neighborhood in Tulkarm camp, demolished the gates of UNRWA schools and deployed army vehicles in their courtyards.

The IOF also destroyed a number of commercial stores and facilities as well as roads and infrastructure, and deployed snipers on rooftops of some tall buildings in the camp, which is reportedly under siege from all sides.

Meanwhile, clashes broke out between local youths and Israeli forces in the camp, amid sounds of explosions.

Earlier, the IOF stormed Iktaba suburb, east of Tulkarm City, assassinated three young men and kidnaped two others.

In Ramallah, two young citizens were injured by gunfire and two others, a father and his sons, were kidnaped following an IOF raid in the city. One of the young men was seriously wounded in his back.

The IOF also stormed Doura village in the northeast of Ramallah, with no reported clashes or arrests.

In Qalqilya, Israeli forces withdrew from the city after kidnaping four citizens from their homes.

In Jineen, a number of citizens were kidnaped by the IOF from their homes in Ya’bad town. 

Israeli occupation forces open fire on man working on his land in Jineen-area town, cause him shrapnel injuries

JENIN, Tuesday, January 9, 2024 (WAFA) -

A Palestinian youth, from the Jenin’s village of Al-Jalama, was injured by the Israeli occupation forces' fire this evening while he was working on his land, said a local official.

Head of the Al-Jalama village council, Amjad Abu Far'ha, told WAFA that a young man from the Abu Far'ha family was struck and injured in the leg by bullet shrapnel fired on him by Israeli soldiers while he was plowing his land.

Forces also broke into several villages and towns in Jenin governorate and erected several military checkpoints west of Jenin.

A security source told WAFA that forces stormed several villages northeast of the city, the village of Zabouba village to the west and two towns to the south, where they carried out raid and search campaigns, erected military checkpoints, stopped and searched vehicles, and checked the identity cards of Palestinian passengers.

T.R.

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Israeli forces raid Ramallah-area villages

NABLUS, Tuesday, January 9, 2024 (WAFA) - 

Israeli occupation forces Tuesday stormed the village of 'Atara, north of Ramallah.

Security sources told WAFA that the occupation forces stormed the village of 'Atara and deployed around the house of prisoner, Mourid Al-'Atari, whom they detained yesterday, without any arrests or confrontations being reported.

Additionally, Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Doura Al-Qara, northeast of the city of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that an occupation army force stormed the village and deployed in its center.

K.T. 

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Israeli occupation forces raid Tulkarm city, camps and nearby towns

TULKARM, Tuesday, January 8, 2024 (WAFA) - 

Israeli occupation forces last night stormed the city and camp of Tulkarm.

WAFA correspondent said that the occupation forces stormed the city of Tulkarm from its western and southern entrances, passing through Kadoorie University Street and Jamal Abdul Nasir Square in the center of the city, and deployed in its various streets that connect it to the vicinity of the Tulkarm camp.

The occupation forces bombed a site in Al-'Hamam neighborhood in the Tulkarm camp with a missile from a drone, resulting in nine civilians being slightly injured. First aid was provided to them inside the camp.

WAFA correspondent added that the occupation forces detained two ambulances at the entrance to Tulkarm camp transporting two wounded people following the recent occupation bombing and prevented them from transporting them to the Martyr Thabit Thabit Governmental Hospital.

The occupation bulldozer demolished the memorial made in tribute to slain Palestinians shot by Israeli occupation forces in Nadi neighborhood, while the occupation forces smashed the doors of schools and deployed their vehicles in their courtyards, turning them into military barracks, in addition to destroying a number of shops and commercial establishments in the center of the camp.

The occupation bulldozers destroyed the infrastructure in Al-Sa'ha area in the middle of Nour Shams camp, east of the city, after storming it, coinciding with the continued storming of Tulkarm camp and the city for more than 6 hours.

She added that the occupation forces surrounded the Tulkarm camp from all its entrances, specifically the Martyr Thabit Thabit Governmental Hospital Street, Al-Muqata'a Street, and Nablus Street adjacent to its main northern entrance. They deployed their snipers on the roofs of the tall buildings surrounding it, and sent in additional reinforcements and military bulldozers from the western entrance of the city, simultaneously as drones were flying over the city and the camp.

WAFA correspondent indicated that confrontations broke out between Palestinian youths and the occupation soldiers, who fired heavy bullets, while sounds of explosions were heard in the area.

The occupation forces stormed the camp's neighborhoods, specifically Al-Raba'i'a and Al-'Hadayda, and raided citizens' homes after blowing up their doors, searching them and detaining their residents in one room after subjecting them to interrogation, then turning the high areas into military barracks and deploying snipers on their roofs.

The occupation bulldozers razed the infrastructure in Al-Balawnah neighborhood, Al-Wakala Schools Street, and the vicinity of the northern entrance to the camp along Nablus Street adjacent to it.

The occupation forces fired light bombs into the sky of the camp, coinciding with the sounds of explosions being heard from time to time inside the camp.

The soldiers also obstructed ambulances while on their way to the camp, detained and searched them, and deliberately caused significant interference in Internet networks.

This raid comes approximately three hours after an Israeli special force stormed the Aktaba suburb, east of Tulkarm, assassinated three young men and detained two others.

K.T.

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

25 Palestinians kidnaped by IOF in the West Bank

Tuesday 9-January-2024, WEST BANK, (PIC)

At least 25 Palestinian citizens were kidnaped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in a large-scale campaign in the West Bank, which started last night and continued into Tuesday morning.

These new detainees increased the number of Palestinians kidnaped by the Israeli army in the West Bank since October 7 to 5,755.

According to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), most of those detained were from Bethlehem and the remaining detainees were from Jenin, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Nablus, Tulkarm and Al-Quds (Jerusalem).

The Commission and PPS accused the IOF of persisting in assaulting Palestinian citizens, ransacking their homes, damaging their property, confiscating their vehicles and money, opening fire at them, and destroying public infrastructure during its raids in the West Bank. 

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

IOF detonates homes of two Palestinian martyrs in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Tuesday 9-January-2024, AL-QUDS (OCCUPIED JERUSALEM), (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detonated on Tuesday the houses of martyrs Murad and Ibraheem Nimr, resistance fighters from Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, in Soor Bahir town, southeast of Al-Quds (Jerusalem).

According to local sources, a large number of Israeli occupation soldiers stormed Soor Bahir town in the morning, encircled the martyrs’ homes, and forced their residents to evacuate before they embarked on planting explosives inside them and then detonated them.

The IOF also forced families living in nearby houses to leave them before they carried out the punitive measure against the martyrs’ homes.

The brothers, Murad and Ibraheem, carried out a shooting operation on a road near the illegal settlement of Ramot in Occupied Jerusalem last November. Four Jewish settlers were killed as a result of the operation.

At the time, the Hamas Movement applauded the shooting operation in Jerusalem as a “heroic act” and a “natural response to the Israeli war crimes in Gaza.”

Illegal Israeli settlers set up caravan on Palestinian land in Masafir Yatta, a prelude for takeover

HEBRON, Tuesday, January 9, 2024 (WAFA) –

Illegal Israeli settlers set up this evening a mobile home on Palestinian land in the Al-Rakeez area, in Masafir Yatta to the south of Hebron, according to local sources.

Sources said that several colonists erected a caravan on land belonging to three families in the said area, a step that residents warned was a prelude to taking over more land for the expansion of the nearby illegal colony of Avigal.

Colonists attack the said village regularly; including chasing after Palestinian farmers and herders and the seizure of more land after forcing their owners out.

T.R.

Illegal Israeli settlers shoot and injure two farmers, forces detain two near Hebron

HEBRON, Tuesday, January 9, 2024 (WAFA) - 

Illegal Israeli settlers Tuesday fired live bullets at a group of farmers while they were cultivating their lands in the town of Al-Samu’, south of Hebron, while the occupation soldiers also detained two of them.

WAFA correspondent reported that settlers from the illegal “Otnael” settlement opened fire on a group of farmers in Khallet Nias in the town of Al-Samou’, while they were cultivating their lands. No injuries were reported.

The occupation army also detained farmers Turki Shi'hda Abu 'Awadh and Salim 'Hamdan Abu 'Awadh.

The occupation detained a number of farmers and prevented them from entering their lands in the Sadda Al-Thaghla area, east of Yatta, south of Hebron.

K.T.

Dozens of Israeli settlers break into Jerusalem's Aqsa Mosque

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, January 9, 2024 (WAFA) -

Dozens of fanatic Israeli settlers Tuesday morning broke into the compounds of al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy protection from the Israeli police.

The extremist settlers, divided into groups, raided the holy Islamic Mosque from Al-Maghariba gate and took provocative tours in its compounds.

It added that the settlers performed Talmudic rituals in the eastern part of the Mosque.

This comes at a time as Israeli forces intensify measures against Palestinians coming from Jerusalem to enter the Mosque, inspecting their IDs and briefly detaining them.

K.T. 

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