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 159 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, Several Massacres, 88 Palestinians Killed, 135 Injured, with a Death Toll of  31,272 and 73,024 Injuries

March 13, 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 13, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 38,272+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (31,272) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on February 7, 2024: 7,000+). 

By March 13, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 73,024, 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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A Gaza solidarity mural was unveiled in Belfast, Ireland, March 13, 2024	Four Palestinians were killed, others were injured by Israeli occupation soldiers in Jineen and Al-Quds, Jerusalem, March 13, 2024
Hungry Palestinian children crowding to get a soup meal from a street charity in Gaza, file, March 13, 2024	Some of the Palestinian martyrs who were killed by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment, file, March 13, 2024
This 4-storey house belonging to Al-Atrash family in Dair El-Bala'h was destroyed by an Israeli genocidal air strike, March 13, 2024	Bidding farewell to the Palestinian martyrs who were killed by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Dair El-Bala'h, March 13, 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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Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza: ‘If you do not act today to save us, we will all die’

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

The Palestinian Health Ministry launched a distress call on the international community to rescue the residents of the northern Gaza Strip who are suffering from the worsening humanitarian catastrophe and famine.

The health ministry’s statement came following today’s Israeli attack on people seeking aid in northern Gaza.

The ministry further said that the aid reaching the north was very little and insufficient, as hunger only gets more severe in the area.

“Do not leave them prey to hunger, bombing, and disease,” the ministry’s statement said. “The doctors will die, the nurses there will die, and the world will witness the largest number of victims of hunger in the coming days. If you do not act today to save us, we will all die.”

Earlier Monday, the health ministry made an urgent appeal for humanitarian aid as more than 2,000 medical staff in the northern Gaza Strip face starvation like the rest of the civilian population.  

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Hamas slams UNRWA’s statement about aid supplies to Gaza

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

'Hamas Movement said that “UNRWA’s statement that there is no international will to bring aid into Gaza in light of the widespread and expanding famine is a declaration of failure for the international community and the United Nations, and submission to the policies of genocide carried out by the criminal Zionist occupation army against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”

“We reiterate our call to all active parties to take immediate and urgent action to force the occupation authorities to open all land crossings with the Gaza Strip, especially the Rafa'h and Karm Abu Salim crossings, as they are the fastest means of bringing in humanitarian aid, and to address the scarcity of emergency food supplies, which threatens hundreds of children with death, after the death toll of children martyred due to malnutrition and dehydration reached approximately thirty children.”

Every day, the Israeli occupation 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 and facilities.

On Monday, two Palestinian babies died of malnutrition and a 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. 

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100 European academics sign petition against Israeli destruction of Gaza educational system

Wednesday 13-March-2024, GENEVA, (PIC)

About a hundred leading European academics have condemned Israel’s genocide against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023, and its physical and cultural liquidation of them, including the systematic destruction of the educational system in the Gaza Strip.

In a Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor petition titled “Annihilation of Gaza Education: Israel is systematically erasing the entire educational system”, the academics decry Israel’s physical and cultural liquidation of Palestinian civilians in the Strip and express deep concern about the Israeli army’s continued targeting of academics, educational institutions, and cultural heritage sites there.

The scholars point to knowledge and education as fundamental to human civilization worldwide, but emphasize that for an occupied people like the Palestinians, education plays a distinctly vital role in society. Education preserves hope and freedom against oppressive, apartheid-era, and depressing policies, plus fosters culture and is essential to the achievement of both individual and societal prosperity.

The current Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip have caused the entire educational process there to be completely disrupted, assert the scholars. The petition warns of grave long-term ramifications due to the bombing of homes of academic, scientific, and intellectual figures without prior notice, which has already led to the killing of hundreds of teachers and thousands of students. The academics also cite estimates from the International Monetary Fund that 70% of the Strip’s colleges and universities have been destroyed, costing the education sector $720 million.

Israeli military attacks have entirely or partially destroyed six universities in the Gaza Strip: Islamic University, Al-Israa University, Rabat University, Al-Azhar University, Al-Aqsa University, and Al-Quds Open University.

The academics state that on 11 October 2023, Israeli airstrikes completely destroyed the Islamic University in Gaza City—one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the besieged Strip—in violation of the rules of international humanitarian law. These rules prohibit deliberate attacks against civilians and require the distinguishing of civilian objects from military objectives; they also call for special protection for educational and cultural institutions.

Al-Israa University was completely destroyed after the Israeli army blew up all its buildings and facilities on 17 January 2024. Before attacking the school, Israel had turned it into military barracks and then used it as a temporary detention center. The destruction included the National Museum, which housed over 3,000 rare antiquities under license from the Palestinian Ministry of Antiquities. The university’s administration affirmed in an official statement that the antiquities are believed to have been stolen by the Israeli army.

Additionally, three university presidents have been killed in the Israeli attacks, along with more than 95 university deans and professors; 68 of whom held professor’s degrees. Meanwhile, 88,000 students have been deprived of receiving their university education, and 555 students were not granted the international scholarships they were offered prior to the genocide.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Education, 4,327 students have been killed and 7,819 others have been injured during the ongoing attacks, while 231 teachers and administrators have been killed and 756 injured.

The Israeli military actions may amount to premeditated killing and destruction, i.e. an attempt to kill and silence scholars involved in the Palestinian education system, which would have a massive impact on Palestinian future generations. The petition states that attacks by Israeli forces on civilian objects, particularly those classified as historical or cultural monuments protected by special laws, not only constitute a grave breach of international humanitarian law and a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, but also fall under the purview of genocide.

Signatories to the Euro-Med Monitor petition urge academics, scholars, and higher education institutions worldwide to vehemently denounce Israel’s unlawful killing of Palestinian academics and its systematic destruction of Palestinian cultural and historical assets in the Gaza Strip, such as schools, universities, libraries, and archives. The academics call on the international community to shed light on this specific example of Israel’s crime of genocide, which aims to physically and culturally destroy the Palestinian people as a whole and render the Gaza Strip uninhabitable, in order to force them to relocate.

The petition demands a boycott of Israeli academic institutions that support the occupation of Palestinian lands, especially those situated inside illegal Israeli settlements and in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. These establishments normalize apartheid policies against the Palestinian people, gradual ethnic cleansing, and occupation, contend the academics.

In the same vein, over 180 British academics recently signed a separate petition denouncing the effects of the ongoing Israeli military assaults on Gaza Strip educational institutions as well as the targeting of professors, researchers, and students.

Both petitions stress that these Israeli military attacks against educational institutions in the Gaza Strip represent a clear violation of international humanitarian law, and, in addition, express solidarity with the people of Gaza, particularly students and researchers, in light of the targeting of their basic rights to survival.

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

On March 13, 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 several massacres, in which  88 Palestinian civilians were killed, and 135 were injured, in the past 24 hours. This increased the death toll in Gaza Strip to 31,272 and the injuries to 73,024, since October 7, 2023.   

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The Palestinian Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Wednesday that at least 31,272 people have been killed in the territory during more than five months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants.

The latest toll includes at least 88 deaths over the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said, adding that 73,024 people have been wounded in Gaza since the war began when Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7. -- AFP

الوكالة الوطنية للإعلام - Health Ministry in Gaza says war death toll at 31,272 (nna-leb.gov.lb) 

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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters Day 159

Wednesday 13-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered Day 159 on Wednesday, 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, five civilians were martyred when the Israeli army carried out an aerial attack on an aid distribution center belonging to UNRWA in central Rafa'h, south of Gaza.

An Israeli drone also bombed a civilian car traveling on a road in southern Khan Younus, but there is still no information about the number of the victims who were killed in the attack.

In Gaza City, a number of people were also killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to the family of 'Azzam in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, while two others were killed and four children were injured in an Israeli attack on a house in Al-Sa'haba street.

The Israeli army also bombarded Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City, killing five civilians, including children, and injuring others, while three citizens were killed in an artillery attack on Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

Casualties were reported in Mawasi area in Khan Younus following an Israeli attack on tents housing displaced families.

Bodies of six citizens, who were martyred in a previous Israeli attack, were also evacuated from 'Hamad City today.

In central Gaza, an Israeli warplane bombed a house belonging to the family of 'Eid in Al-Buraij refugee camp, killing eight civilians.

On Tuesday evening, 10 citizens were killed and others were wounded in an Israeli attack on Dair El-Bala'h in central Gaza.

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

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At least 15 Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli genocidal airstrikes in Gaza Strip

GAZA, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

At least 15 Palestinian civilians, including two women and seven children, were killed and dozens were wounded today in Israeli airstrikes that targeted the Al-Daraj and Al-Zaytoun neighborhoods in Gaza City, according to medical and local sources.

Medical sources reported that Israeli warplanes bombed a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, resulting in the tragic killing of seven people, including three children, and wounding others.

Another Israeli airstrike target a house for the 'Azzam family in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, in south of Gaza City, resulting in the killing of eight, including four children and two women.

Y.S.

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Israeli bombing kills five Palestinians, including children, in Gaza

GAZA, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Five Palestinian civilians, including children, were Wednesday morning killed, and others were injured, following an Israeli bombing of Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City.

WAFA correspondent said that the occupation artillery fired 4 shells near Al-Quds Hospital, which is affiliated with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, in Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood, killing five citizens, including children, and wounding a number of others with various injuries.

K.T. 

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

Four Palestinians killed, others injured by Israeli gunfire in Jineen and Al-Quds (Jerusalem)

Wednesday 13-March-2024, WEST BANK, (PIC)

Two Palestinian young man were killed and four others were injured at dawn Wednesday after the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) opened fire at local youths in Jenin City and its refugee camp.

According to medical sources, Rabee' Al-Nursi and Ma'hmoud Abul-Hayja were shot dead by IOFs gunfire during his presence at the entrance of Jenin Hospital in the city.

The Red Crescent said that its ambulance crews evacuated three wounded young men, one with a critical head injury, to Jineen Hospital after the IOF stormed Jineen City and its refugee camp.

Later, a local official said that two were killed and four others were wounded, one seriously, during the IOFs raid in Jineen.

Last night, Israeli police forces killed two Palestinian young men and injured three others near Rujaib town in the northwest of Al-Quds (Jerusalem).

The Red Crescent said its ambulance crews evacuated two martyrs and three young men with injuries from an area near the checkpoint of Rujaib.

The Palestinian health ministry identified the martyrs as Zaid Khalayfa, 23, 'Abdullah 'Assaf, 16.

Earlier, police forces killed a 13-year-old child in Shu'fat refugee camp near Al-Quds (Jerusalem). 

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Six Palestinians rounded up by Israeli occupation forces across West Bank

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Israeli occupation forces today detained six Palestinians during a wide-scale Israeli military raid across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).  

PPS said that Israeli forces raided the village of 'Arora, northwest of Ramallah, where they rounded up a Palestinian man

Israeli occupation forces detained five people, including a child, from the town of Bait Ummar, north of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

Y.S. 

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

Israeli occupation forces assault students, prevent them from accessing school near Toubas

TUBAS, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Israeli occupation forces today assaulted Palestinian students and prevented them from accessing their school, in the village of Tayaseer, east of the city of Toubas.

The head of the village council, Tayaseer Haroun Wahdan, said that soldiers army raided the village and harassed the students from the secondary school.

Yesterday, the occupation forces tightened their military measures at the Tayaseer checkpoint, checking Palestinian’ ID cards and searching their vehicles, causing a stifling traffic jam.

The checkpoint has hindered the access of Palestinians and employees to the northern Jordan Valley.

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During the holy month of Ramadhan, extremist illegal Israeli settlers break into al-Aqsa Mosque

JORDAN VALLEY, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Illegal extremist of Israeli settlers, under the protection of Israeli army, broke into the compounds of al-Aqsa Mosque, Islamic Waqf confirmed.

Sources reported that 212 colonists raided the holy Islamic Mosque from al-Maghariba gate, took provocative tours and performed Talmudic rituals inside its compounds.

Meanwhile, the occupation police tightened its military measures in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, imposing restrictions on the entry of worshipers during the holy month of Ramadan, only allowing the entry of  men aged 55 and over, women aged 50 and over, and children under the age of 10.

The occupation forces also surrounded the fence adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Lion’s Gate area with barbed wire, with the aim of preventing worshipers from entering Al-Aqsa.

Furthermore, the occupation authorities deployed around 23 patrols throughout the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem.

Last Sunday, the occupation forces obstructed the entry of hundreds of worshipers into Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform Tarawee'h prayers, detained many civilians at the gates leading to Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Israeli forces have imposed a strict siege on Al-Aqsa Mosque for five months, preventing entry to it. They have issued dozens of deportation orders against Jerusalemites, in order to prevent them from praying during the month of Ramadan.

Y.S.

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Illegal Israeli settlers assault Palestinian shepherds in the northern Jordan Valley

JORDAN VALLEY, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

A group of illegal Israeli settlers today assaulted Palestinian shepherds in Khirbet Al-Farisiya in the northern Jordan Valley.

Human rights activist 'Aarif Daraghma said that a group of Israeli colonists sneaked into Khirbet Al-Farisiya and brutally attacked and beat up the shepherds. However, no injuries were reported though.

Palestinian shepherds in the Jordan Valley have been witnessing a surge in colonists` attacks.

Y.S.

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Israeli forces demolish Palestinian-owned restaurant in Aree'ha (Jericho) city

Aree'ha (Jericho), Wednesday, March 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces today demolished a Palestinian-owned restaurant in the town of Al-'Auja, north of Aree'ha (Jericho).

'Ata Salama Romaneen, the owner of the restaurant, said that occupation military  forces, accompanied by a bulldozer, demolished his two commercial shops, including a restaurant, with an estimated area of 140 square meters, located on the main street in Al-'Auja, under the pretext that they were built without a construction license.

He added that the opening of the restaurant was yesterday, 3 years after it was demolished, which resulted in major financial losses and deprived him of his source of livelihood.

Y.S.

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Illegal Israeli settlers damage around 50 fruit trees in Nablus-area village

NABLUS, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Illegal Israeli settlers today damaged around 50 fruit trees in the village of Majdal Bani Fadhil, south of Nablus city, according to local sources

The head of the Majdal Bani Fadhil Village Council, Rami Nassar, said that a group of the illegal Israeli settlers from Majdalim colony sneaked into the said village and damaged nearly 50 olive and almonds trees owned by a local resident.

Nassar affirmed that this is the third time that the illegal Israeli settlers have destroyed trees during the past two weeks.

The Palestinian villages in the province of Nablus have been witnessing a surge in settler attacks and violence against Palestinian farmers and shepherds.

He pointed out that both colonists from the illegal colonial outposts of the Maale Ephraim and Tikai grazed their sheep and cows on agricultural farmlands belonging to local residents from the said village, causing significant damage to corps.

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