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 158 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 8 Massacres, 72 Palestinians Killed, 129 Injured, with a Death Toll of  31,184 and 72,889 Injuries

March 12, 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 March 12, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 38,184+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (31,184) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on February 7, 2024: 7,000+).   

By March 12, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 72,889, and more than 2,520 civilians have been abducted from Gaza Strip.

By March 8, there were 8,900 Palestinian women who were killed, 23,000 who were injured, but there are 2,100 women who are unaccounted for (whither they are dead, injured, or abducted).

By January 17, 2024, about 661 detainees from Gaza are currently languishing in Israeli prisons as “illegitimate combatants” (the Israeli term for Palestinian fighters) in addition to more than 50 women from Gaza, who are detained in the Damon prison, noting that 8 women of whom have been recently released.

By March 4, 2023, the death toll included 13,420+ children, 8,900+ women (more than 72.8% of the accounted for victims), 364 doctors and medical staff, 132 journalists, and 48 civil defense workers . 

By March 12, 2024, 438 Palestinians who were killed, 3,679 who were injured, and 7,555, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023 (Some of the detainees have been released).

About 12,091 Palestinians, from both the West Bank and Gaza, have been detained in 2023. About half of them were detained after October 7. This included 1,085 children and 300 women.

The total number of detainees in the occupation prisons until the end of December was 8,800, and the number of administrative detainees was 3,484.

By March 4, 2024, the Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation forces killed 364 health personnel, destroyed 155 health institutions, 32 hospitals, 53 health centers, 126 ambulances, displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, and destroyed 360,000 housing units, about and 60% of the buildings and infrastructure in Gaza Strip.

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GMO reveals latest statistics on Israeli genocidal war on Gaza

Saturday 3-February-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip revealed on Saturday the latest and most significant figures on the Israeli ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 7.

This announcement comes as the latest updates from the GMO, showing the scale of human and material damage that resulted from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, on its 120th day.

The statistics demonstrated latest updates on the numbers of martyrs, missing, and wounded people in addition to the sick, displaced and prisoners as well as numbers of damaged structures and infrastructure.

Below are figures released by the GMO about Israel’s violations over the period of 120 days since the start of its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

(2,325) Massacres (34,238) Martyrs and missing people. (27,238) Martyrs who arrived in hospitals. (12,000) Child martyrs. (8,190) Female martyrs. (339) Martyrs of medical staff. (46) Civil defense martyrs. (122) Journalist martyrs. (7,000) Missing, 70% of whom are children and women. (66,452) Wounded.

(11,000) Wounded people in need of travel abroad for treatment, (life-saving and critical cases). (10,000) Cancer patients facing the risk of death. (700,000) Wounded with infectious diseases as a result of displacement. (8,000) Cases of viral hepatitis infection due to displacement. (60,000) Pregnant women at risk due to the lack of health care. (350,000) Chronic patients at risk due to blocked medications.

(99) Cases of arrest among health personnel. (10) Cases of arrests among identified journalists. (2 million) Displaced people in the Gaza Strip.

(140) Government headquarters destroyed. (100) Completely destroyed schools and universities. (295) Partially destroyed schools and universities. (183) Completely destroyed mosques. (264) Partially destroyed mosques. (3) Destroyed Churches.

(79,200) Completely destroyed housing units. (290,000) Partially destroyed and uninhabitable housing units. (66,000) tons of explosives dropped on Gaza. (30) Hospitals knocked out of service. (53) Health centers knocked out of service. (150) Partially targeted Health institutions. (122) Destroyed ambulances. (200) Destroyed archaeological and heritage sites.

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Two Palestinians, Mu'hammed Jabr and Tawfeeq 'Husain, were assassinated by Israeli occupation soldiers, in Atteel, Toulkarm, on March 12, 2024 pic	A Lebanese citizen was martyred and 5 others were injured in an Israeli air strike on Baalbek, on March 12, 2024
Palestinian children and women lining up to receive a soup meal, as the Israeli genocidal siege continues on Gaza Strip, file, March 12, 2024	An injured Palestinian child, one of the victims of the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip, on March 12, 2024
Martyrs of Al-Qidra and Asraf families, who were killed by Israeli genocidal air strikes on Dair El-Bala'h, March 12, 2024	Site of a residential building which was destroyed by an Israeli genocidal air strike on Khan Younus, March 12, 2024

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

"مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَٰلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَىٰ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا"  (الْمَائِدَةُ ، 5: 32).

"وَمَنْ يَقْتُلْ مُؤْمِنًا مُّتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَاؤُهُ جَهَنَّمُ خَالِدًا فِيهَا وَغَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَعَنَهُ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُ عَذَابًا عَظِيمًا" (النِّسَاءُ ، 4: 93).

"إِنْ أَحْسَنتُمْ أَحْسَنتُمْ لِأَنفُسِكُمْ ۖ وَإِنْ أَسَأْتُمْ فَلَهَا ۚ " (الإسْرَاءُ ، 17: 7). 

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

"Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul, unless for a soul, or for corruption in the land, it is as if he had killed humankind entirely" (The Holy Quran, Al-Ma-ida, 5: 32).

"And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, wherein he will abide eternally, and Allah has become angry with him, and has cursed him, and has prepared for him a great torment" (Al-Nisa, 4: 93).

"If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if you do evil, (you do it) to yourselves" (Al-Isra, 17: 7). 

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While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written human history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of Prophets David and Solomon , peace be upon them, and Solomon's son).

 After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus, peace be upon him, started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

No matter what the Zionists and their supporters do, they cannot change the will of God, Who promised the Holy Land to Abraham and his descendants, basically the Palestinian Muslims and Christians.

No matter how much persecution and aggression the Zionists and their supporters inflict upon the Palestinian people, they will never be able to force them out of the Holy Land, which Allah, praise to Him, promised for them, and kept His promise ever since.

This is a necessary brief background to understand the US-Backed Zionist Israeli continuous wars against the Arab nation generally, and the Palestinian people in particular, which included the wars of 1948, 1956, 1967, 1978, 1982, the brutal crushing of the two Uprisings (1987-1993 and 2000-2004), 2009, 2012, 2014, 2021, and the current genocidal war on Gaza (October 7, 2023-Fruary 26, 2024), which has culminated a blockade of Gaza since 2007. In addition, the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime launched so many covert operations, raids, and air strikes on many Arab states since 1948.

The following news stories are just examples, not a systematic record, of the Israeli occupation government abuse, mistreatment, and violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources:

http://english.wafa.ps/, https://english.palinfo.com/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/


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Editorial Notes about terms & names of people and places:

1. Names of people and places have been standardized to match standard Arabic grammatical rules.

2. Underlined letters and letters preceded by an apostrophe are references to Arabic letter sounds, which does not exist in the English alphabet.

3. The English letter i is equivalent to the Arabic short vowel known as kasra, as in Ibraheem and Qasim as well as in the English words sit and bit. So, it is incorrect to use it as a long vowel for such Arabic names as Jameel and Jibreel.

4. The English letter e is equivalent to the Arabi short vowel known as fat'ha, as in A'hmed and Mu'hammed.

5. It is more accurate to refer to the land-grabbing Israelis, who establish illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, as illegal Israeli settlers, than referring to them as colonists.

The term colony is a reference to a large entity or a country, such as American states before independence. It was also a reference to Egypt, and India, when they were British colonies.

In addition, the term "colony" represents a positive nostalgic theme, in the minds of native speakers of English, particularly in America and Britain.

6. It is more accurate to use the verb "abduct" than the verb "detain," in reference to taking Palestinian citizens by force to prisons and interrogation centers, by Israeli occupation regime soldiers. This is because the presence of the Israeli occupation regime forces is illegal in the Palestinian territories, and they have no jurisdiction over the Palestinian people.

Click here for more about using the apostrophe and the underlining of letters in the transliteration of Arabic names.

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One martyr, five wounded in Israeli attack on northeastern Lebanon

Tuesday 12-March-2024, BEIRUT, (PIC)

A Lebanese citizen was martyred and at least 5 others were injured in an Israeli strike that hit early Tuesday Baalbek area in northeastern Lebanon, as the Israeli occupation army announced targeting two Lebanese Hezbollah buildings in the same area, about 100 kilometers from the border.

Ba'albek Governor Bashir Khadir said in a post on X, “Ba'albek-Hermel Governorate was hit by a number of Israeli strikes that targeted the towns of Durus, Taria, and Shamstar”, noting that an olive oil factory was hit in Durus, leading to the martyrdom of one person.

According to the official Lebanese media agency, Israeli aircraft shelled a warehouse west of Baalbek, between the towns of Shamstar and Taria.

Al-Jazeera reported the injury of 6 people in the Israeli strikes that targeted the vicinity of the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon.

On the other hand, the Israeli occupation army said its forces targeted two Lebanese Hezbollah buildings in the Bekaa region of Lebanon.

Earlier on Monday, Hezbollah announced launching a drone attack on an Israeli air defense headquarters in the occupied Golan Heights, targeting the air and missile defense headquarters in the Kaila barracks with 4 drones.

Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, the Israeli-Lebanese border has been witnessing an escalation of gunfire between the Israeli army on the one hand and Hezbollah and Palestinian factions on the other hand.

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GMO: Israeli army killed 400 aid seekers, injured many others in southern Gaza

Tuesday 12-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation army had killed 400 citizens and injured 1,300 others as they were waiting for aid delivery in southern Gaza since the “flour massacre” in late February.

“The occupation insists on targeting those searching for food for their hungry children and persists in its starvation campaign against our people especially in the northern Gaza Strip where the citizens suffer from real famine amid a complete lack of most basic materials and commodities and a noticeable scarcity of aid,” GMO said in a statement on Tuesday.

GMO said that the Israeli occupation army attacked in the morning aid seekers at al-Kuwait junction in Gaza City, killing and injuring dozens of them.

Last night, nine citizens were martyred and at least 38 others were injured in an Israeli attack as they were waiting for aid trucks in the same area.

For its part, the health ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation army committed eight massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 72 civilians and injuring over 129 others, while a large number of victims are still under the rubble of bombed buildings or lying on roads.

In a statement, the health ministry added that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli bombardments and shooting attacks, which started on October 7, climbed to 31,184 martyrs and the number of the wounded surged to 72,889 people.

Every day, the Israeli army escalates its air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip, which has been under relentless bombardment since a cross-border operation was launched by Hamas’s armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, on October 7.

Besides the large number of casualties and the huge displacement of people, basic food, fuel, water and medical supplies have run out for the 2.3 million residents in Gaza due to the tight Israeli blockade and the massive destruction of infrastructure, facilities and food supplies. 

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WFP: More than half a million people in Gaza facing catastrophic hunger and starvation

Monday 11-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins this year amidst a persistent food security crisis throughout the Middle East and North Africa driven by conflict, economic challenges, and climate change, a toxic combination pushing millions to the edge, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said on Monday.

“We get into Ramadan with the region with the worst food crisis in its recent history in the Gaza Strip,” says WFP regional director for Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe Corinne Fleischer.

“At the same time, in other countries, protracted conflicts and economic crises are transforming the purposeful religious practice of fasting – the cornerstone of the holy month of Ramadan – to be a harsh daily reality for millions of people.”

She pointed out that more than 40 million people across the region experience acute levels of food insecurity, including more than 11.7 million people – many of them refugees and asylum seekers – at emergency or worse levels of food insecurity (IPC 4 & 5) in six countries.

“Six months into the Gaza crisis, the embattled strip’s entire population are now in desperate need of food assistance, with more than half a million people facing catastrophic hunger and starvation (IPC Phase 5) and the risk of famine increasing by the day.”

The Gaza Strip has been subjected to a five-month Israeli aggression that has driven around 90 percent of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people from their homes and pushed hundreds of thousands to the brink of famine. The health ministry said that, by March 11, 2024, at least 31,112 Palestinians have been killed since the war began. 

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Lazzarini: Israel bans entry of vital aid to Gaza

Tuesday 12-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini said that Israel banned the entry of critical aid to the Gaza Strip, including ventilators and cancer drugs.

“An entire population depends on humanitarian assistance for survival. Very little comes in and restrictions increase,” Lazzarini said in social media remarks on Monday.

“A truck loaded with aid has just been turned back because it had scissors used in children’s medical kits,” the UNRWA chief added.

“Medical scissors are now added to a long list of banned items the Israeli authorities classify as ‘for dual use’. The list includes basic and lifesaving items: from anesthetics, solar lights, oxygen cylinders and ventilators, to water cleaning tablets, cancer medicines and maternity kits,” he explained.

“The clearance of humanitarian supplies and the delivery of basic and critical items need to be facilitated and accelerated. The lives of 2 million people depend on that, there is no time to waste,” he stressed. 

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Two Palestinian babies die of malnutrition in northern Gaza on first day of Ramadan

Monday 11-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

Two Palestinian babies died on Monday of malnutrition and lack of medical supplies in the northern Gaza Strip on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, bringing the death toll of hunger in the Strip to 27.

The Palestinian pediatrician Samir Lubbad warned that the continued shortage of food and medical supplies “will lead to the death of many children due to malnutrition.”

“The two infants died as the Israeli occupation army refused to allow food and medical supplies into northern Gaza,” he told Anadolu agency.

The Palestinian doctor added that malnutrition occurs “as a result of the lack of food resources for children, such as basic milk for premature babies and infants.”

He warned that more children are at risk of death from malnutrition as a result of Israel’s ongoing blockade on the enclave.

The Palestinian doctor appealed to the Red Cross and international organizations to urgently intervene to provide food and medical supplies to the residents of northern Gaza.

This brings the number of victims of malnutrition and dehydration in the Gaza Strip to 27. 

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

On March 12, 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 8 massacres, in which  72 Palestinian civilians were killed, and 129 were injured, in the past 24 hours. This increased the death toll in Gaza Strip to 31,184 and the injuries to 72,889, since October 7, 2023.   

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GMO: Israeli army killed 400 aid seekers, injured many others in southern Gaza

Tuesday 12-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation army had killed 400 citizens and injured 1,300 others as they were waiting for aid delivery in southern Gaza since the “flour massacre” in late February.

“The occupation insists on targeting those searching for food for their hungry children and persists in its starvation campaign against our people especially in the northern Gaza Strip where the citizens suffer from real famine amid a complete lack of most basic materials and commodities and a noticeable scarcity of aid,” GMO said in a statement on Tuesday.

GMO said that the Israeli occupation army attacked in the morning aid seekers at al-Kuwait junction in Gaza City, killing and injuring dozens of them.

Last night, nine citizens were martyred and at least 38 others were injured in an Israeli attack as they were waiting for aid trucks in the same area.

For its part, the health ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation army committed eight massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 72 civilians and injuring over 129 others, while a large number of victims are still under the rubble of bombed buildings or lying on roads.

In a statement, the health ministry added that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli bombardments and shooting attacks, which started on October 7, climbed to 31,184 martyrs and the number of the wounded surged to 72,889 people.

Every day, the Israeli army escalates its air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip, which has been under relentless bombardment since a cross-border operation was launched by Hamas’s armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, on October 7.

Besides the large number of casualties and the huge displacement of people, basic food, fuel, water and medical supplies have run out for the 2.3 million residents in Gaza due to the tight Israeli blockade and the massive destruction of infrastructure, facilities and food supplies. 

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Day 158 of Genocide: Dozens of civilians killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

GAZA, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed, and others sustained various injuries, in the ongoing Israeli occupation bombardment of various areas in the Gaza Strip, by land, sea, and air, for the 158th day.

WAFA correspondent said that the occupation warplanes launched three raids targeting homes in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, killing 10 people and injuring about 20 others.

He added that the occupation artillery bombed areas in the Al-Sabra, Al-Shaikh 'IAjlin, and Tel Al-Hawa neighborhoods in Gaza City, killing at least three citizens, who were transferred to Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

Four people were killed and others were injured when Israeli warplanes bombed two houses in Jabalya camp in the northern Gaza Strip, accompanied by artillery shelling on citizens’ homes.

In the middle of the Strip, Israeli occupation aircraft launched a series of raids on Dair El-Bala'h, Al-Nusayrat camp, Al-Buraij, and Al-Maghazi, killing a number of citizens and injuring others.

Medical sources said eight citizens were killed, including a number of missing persons, as a result of the occupation bombing of a house owned by Abu Sinjar family in Dair El-Bala'h.

East of Khan Younus, in the south of the Gaza Strip, occupation aircraft bombed a house in the town of Bani Suhaila, while a second raid targeted the city center, which killed and wounded a number of people.

In the town of Al-Qarara, north of Khan Younus, warplanes destroyed an entire residential square in the area, killing 11 civilians.

In Rafa'h, another Israeli raid targeted a house in Al-Junaina neighborhood, while other areas were bombed near shelter centers and tents for displaced people.

In an initial toll, by March 11, 2024, the number of slain Palestinians since the start of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7th has risen to 31,112, while 72,760 others were injured.

K.T.

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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters Day 158

Tuesday 12-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered Day 158 on Tuesday, massive aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound neighborhoods, homes, shelter centers and aid convoys, 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, killing and injuring hundreds of citizens.

According to media sources, seven citizens were martyred, including five children, and six others were injured when the Israeli army bombed a house belonging to the family of Al-Saqqa in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza.

Two fishermen were also killed after Israeli gunboats attacked them as they were fishing off the shores of Al-Nusayat refugee camp.

Bodies of 11 civilians were retrieved by citizens from a bombed house in Al-Qarara town in the northeast of Khan Younus.

In central Gaza, an Israeli warplane bombed a house belonging to the family of Abu Sinjar in Dair El-Bala'h.

The Israeli army also attacked a crowd of citizens as they were waiting for aid trucks near Al-Kuwait junction in the south of Gaza City, killing at least seven of them and injuring 20 others.

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

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Seven civilians, including children, killed in Israeli genocidal airstrike in Gaza

GAZA, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Seven Palestinian civilians, including children, were killed, and others sustained various injuries, when the occupation warplanes bombed a house in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

Medical sources said that seven civilians, including five children, were killed, and six others were injured, after the occupation bombed a house owned by Al-Saqqa family in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

K.T. 

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

Israeli occupation soldiers assassinate two Palestinians in Toulkarm

Tuesday 12-March-2024, Toulkarm, (PIC)

Two Palestinian young men were cold-bloodedly killed by Israeli undercover soldiers in northern Toulkarm in the occupied West Bank on Monday night.

According to local sources, undercover Israeli occupation soldiers inside a civilian vehicle showered two young men with bullets during their presence inside a store near the town of 'Atteel in northern Toulkarm, critically wounding them.

One of them, identified as Mu'hammed Jabr from 'Arraba town in Jineen, bled to death inside the store while the other young man was pronounced dead later at the Thabit Thabit Hospital in Toulkarm.

Medical sources identified the other young man as Tawfeeq 'Husain, a resident of Kufairit village in Jineen.

The Israeli occupation army claimed that one of the young men was planning to carry out an operation in Israel (1948 occupied Palestine), adding that a weapon and an explosive device were found in his possession.

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Israel has detained 7,555 Palestinians from the West Bank

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said that the Israeli occupation forces have detained about 7,555 Palestinians from the West Bank since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

The Commission and the PPS explained, in a press statement, that the data related to arrest cases includes those remained in Israeli custody, and those who were later released.

They added that the occupation forces continue to implement systematic arrest campaigns, as one of the most prominent established policies that escalated in an unprecedented manner after October 7, not only in terms of the level of the number of detainees, but also in terms of the level of crimes they committed.

Since yesterday evening until this morning, the occupation forces launched a massive arrest campaign that targeted at least 25 West Bank citizens, including former prisoners.

K.T.

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IOFs kidnap Palestinians, clash with resistance fighters in the West Bank

Tuesday 12-March-2024, WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) stormed last night and at dawn Tuesday different West Bank areas and kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens, while resistance fighters attacked them in some areas.

According to local sources, the IOFs kidnaped a young man, a resident of Ya’bad town in Jineen, at a military checkpoint near Zibda village.

Meanwhile, resistance fighters attacked IOFs vehicles with explosive devices in Jalboun town, east of Jineen.

In Nablus, the IOFs carried out a large-scale arrest campaign in 'Ureef village, with no information available about the number of the detainees.

In the northwest of Nablus, resistance fighters attacked Israeli forces near Burqa village with a homemade bomb, while other resistance fighters opened fire at the military checkpoint of Shavei Shomron.

In Qalqilya, local sources said that Israeli forces withdrew from the city after they failed to arrest a number of wanted citizens during violent raids on homes in Kafr Saba neighborhood.

In Ramallah, the IOFs kidnaped a young citizen after ransacking his home in Shuqba village, amid clashes with local youths.

Two other citizens were taken prisoners during IOFs raids on homes in Abu Shukhaydam town in the north of Ramallah.

In Bethlehem, resistance fighters attacked the Israeli base of Rachel’s Tomb near Aida refugee camp with two hand grenades, while Israeli occupation forces raided homes in Mara'h Raba'h village without making arrests.

In Al-Quds (Jerusalem), one citizen was reportedly kidnaped by Israeli police forces in 'Hizma town.

Police forces also clashed with Jerusalemite young men near Shu'fat refugee camp and fired tear gas canisters and bullets, with no reason, at Palestinian cars in the west Jerusalem town of Beer Nabala.

Later in the morning, the IOFs stormed Jineen refugee camp and attacked local youths.

The Red Crescent said that one young man suffered a bullet injury in his leg and another one was injured when Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted him.

Local sources said that the IOFs kidnaped three citizens during its raid in Jineen refugee camp, adding that resistance fighters clashed with infiltrating Israeli occupation soldiers in the camp.

Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas said that its fighters along with other resistance groups attacked Israeli occupation forces and vehicles during their presence in the camp.

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Israeli police detain Palestinian from Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Tuesday, March 12, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli police detain a citizen from the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, inside the 48 territories.

Security sources told WAFA that the Israeli police detained Omar Khalid Makhamra, while he was working in the city of Beer Al-Saba' (Beersheba).

Meanwhile, the occupation forces inspected several houses in the town of Yatta, the owners of which were identified as two brothers, Adil and Sha'ban Abu Suwaili'h.

The occupation forces also set up its military checkpoints at the northern and southern entrances to the city of Hebron, and the towns of Al-Dthahiriya, Bait 'Awwa, Sa'ir, Dura, and 'Hal'houl, and stopped citizens' vehicles, searched them, and checked their identities, causing obstruction to their passage.

K.T.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

IOFs bulldoze Palestinian-owned land in Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Monday 11-March-2024, WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) bulldozed Palestinian-owned land in 'Husan town, west of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), and uprooted dozens of olive and grape trees.

The head of the 'Husan Village Council, Rami 'Hamamra, affirmed that the IOF leveled four-dunum land, located between 'Husan and Na'haleen villages.

'Hamamra further said that the Israeli forces uprooted 51 olive trees and 15 grape trees.

Earlier Monday, the IOFs brutally attacked a peaceful protest in 'Husan town, which was organized against Israeli leveling operations.

On the other hand, three Palestinians were injured when a group of the illegal Israeli Jewish settlers violently attacked Masafir Yatta town, south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

According to local sources, a group of the illegal Israeli Jewish settlers of the “Karmiel” illegal settlement stormed the town and attacked the Fati'h Sidra area, spraying local citizens with pepper gas and beating them.

Three locals suffered from different bruises; one of them was moved to the hospital for treatment.

Along the same line, the Israeli forces chased livestock herders and farmers in Wadi Al-Jawaya, near the village of Al-Tuwanah, in Masafir Yatta, and arrested a local farmer while grazing his sheep in that area.

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