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 162 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 7 Massacres, 63 Palestinians Killed, 112 Injured, with a Death Toll of  31,553 and 73,546 Injuries

March 16, 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 16, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 38,553+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (31,553) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on February 7, 2024: 7,000+). 

By March 16, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 73,546, 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 16, 2024, 440 Palestinians who were killed, 3,682 who were injured, and 7,605, 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 Palestinian woman grieving over the loss of her family members, who were killed by an Israeli genocidal air strike on Gaza Strip, on March 16, 2024	56 Palestinians were killed and 300 were injured in 5 attacks by Israeli occupation forces on Gaza aid distribution centers, 48 hours, March 16, 2024
Hungry Palestinian children receiving a soup meal in Gaza Strip, which is besieged by Israeli occupation forces, March 16, 2024	36 family members were killed in Al-Nusayrat,  part of 12 massacres in Gaza Strip, by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment, March 16, 2024
Sites of Palestinian houses, which were destroyed by Israeli genocidal air strikes on Dair El-Bala'h, March 16, 2024	Searching for the martyred and the injured under the rubble of houses, which were destroyed by Israeli genocidal air strikes on Dair El-Bala'h, March 16, 2024
Dozens of Palestinians, mostly children and women, were killed and injured by Israeli air strikes on Al-Nusayrat, central Gaza Strip, on March 16, 2024	36 members of the Tabatibi family were killed, dozens more were injured by an Israeli genocidal air strike on their house on Al-Nusayrat, on March 16, 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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UN official: In Gaza, there are no more “normal-sized babies”

Saturday 16-March-2024, Al-Quds (Jerusalem), (PIC)

The humanitarian situation in the war-torn Gaza Strip is a “nightmare” for mothers and babies, a UN official said.

“Doctors are reporting frequent small and sickly newborns, stillbirths, and women forced to undergo C-sections without adequate anesthesia,” Dominic Allen, UN Population Fund (UNFPA) representative for the state of Palestine, said in a video news conference from Occupied Jerusalem on Friday.

Allen, who recently visited the Emirati hospital in Rafa'h in southern Gaza, said conditions in the facility’s maternity ward are deeply disturbing. “I’m personally leaving Gaza this week terrified for the one million women and girls of Gaza … and most especially for the 180 women who are giving birth every single day.”

“Doctors are reporting that they no longer see normal-sized babies. What they do see though, tragically, is more stillborn births … and more neonatal deaths, caused in part by malnutrition, dehydration and complications.”

“We have had reports of insufficient anesthetic being available” for Caesarean sections, “which again is unthinkable.”

“Those mothers should be wrapping their arms around their children,” he said. “Those children should not be wrapped in a body bag.”

Allen said Israeli authorities had refused to allow in some UNFPA supply shipments, such as kits for midwives, or had removed supplies like flashlights and solar panels.

“It is a nightmare which is much more than a humanitarian crisis,” he said. “It is a crisis of humanity… beyond catastrophic.”

What he saw while driving through Gaza, he said, “really broke my heart.”

Everyone he passed or spoke to, Allen said, “was gaunt, emaciated, hungry” and exhausted from the daily struggle to survive.

At one military checkpoint, he said, he saw a boy who appeared to be about five years old walking with his hands held high, clearly frightened, as his slightly older sister followed behind, holding a white flag. 

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GMO: At least 56 people killed in Israeli attacks on aid centers in 48 hours

Friday 15-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) carried out five separate attacks on aid distribution centers in the past 48 hours in the Gaza Strip, killing 56 people and injuring more than 300 others, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) on Friday.

The first of these massacres occurred at a UNRWA aid distribution center in Rafa'h, which claimed the lives of 5 people. Two other citizens working in providing aid were martyred when their car was bombed in Rafa'h Governorate.

The IOFs also bombed another aid distribution center in the Nusayrat camp in the Central Governorate, killing 8 people.

The IOFs also killed 11 people on Tuesday and Wednesday, and killed more than 30 civilians last night while waiting for aid trucks at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza Governorate.

“We hold the US administration and the international community, in addition to the Israeli occupation, fully responsible for the crime of genocide,” the GMO said.

“We call on all countries of the free world to pressure the occupation to stop the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing against our Palestinian people,” it concluded.

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UNICEF: 1 in 3 children under 2 years of age are acutely malnourished in the north of Gaza Strip

Friday 15-March-2024, GENEVA, (PIC)

31 percent – or 1 in 3 children under 2 years of age – in the Northern Gaza Strip suffer from acute malnutrition, according to nutrition screenings conducted by UNICEF.

Malnutrition among children is spreading fast and reaching devastating and unprecedented levels in the Gaza Strip due to the wide-reaching impacts of the war and ongoing restrictions on aid delivery, the UN organization said.

At least 23 children in Northern Gaza Strip have reportedly died from malnutrition and dehydration in recent weeks, adding to the mounting toll of children killed in the Strip in this current conflict – about 13,450 reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Nutrition screenings conducted by UNICEF and partners in the north in February found that 4.5 percent of the children in shelters and health centers suffer from severe wasting, the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, which puts children at the highest risk of medical complications and death unless they receive urgent therapeutic feeding and treatment, which is not available. The prevalence of acute malnutrition among children under 5 years of age in the north has increased from 13 percent to as high as 25 percent.

“The speed at which this catastrophic child malnutrition crisis in Gaza has unfolded is shocking, especially when desperately needed assistance has been at the ready just a few miles away,” said Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director.

“We have repeatedly attempted to deliver additional aid and we have repeatedly called for the access challenges we have faced for months to be addressed. Instead, the situation for children is getting worse by each passing day. Our efforts in providing life-saving aid are being hampered by unnecessary restrictions, and those are costing children their lives.”

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Four Palestinian factions slam Abbas’s decree on forming new government

Friday 15-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

Four Palestinian factions criticized the decree issued by the Palestinian Authority (PA) President Ma'hmoud 'Abbas, appointing Mu'hammed Mustafa as the head of a new PA government, calling on the national forces, especially the Fat'h movement, to take serious and effective action in order to manage this stage in a way that serves the Palestinian cause.

A joint statement, issued on Friday by 'Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestinian National Initiative, stressed that the highest national priority now is to confront the Israeli aggression and war of genocide and starvation being waged against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, to confront the crimes of the illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank and occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem), and to deter the Israeli plans of enforced displacement.

The four factions said that the sole decision-making such as forming a new government lacking national consensus reinforces the policy of exclusivity, and deepens the internal division, while the Palestinians are currently in dire need for consensus and unity as well as the formation of a unified national leadership that would prepare for holding democratic elections with the participation of all factions representing the Palestinian people.

The four factions wondered about the feasibility of replacing the government and prime minister with alternatives of the same political and partisan environment.

The factions expressed their rejection of the Palestinian Authority’s persistence in its policy of exclusivity and ignoring national efforts to unite Palestinians in the face of the Israeli aggression.

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Hezbollah Continues Striking Israeli Occupation Sites near Lebanon Border

Al-Manar, March 16, 2024  

In support of the Palestinian people and resistance in Gaza and in light of the Israeli aggression on the various South Lebanon villages, the Islamic Resistance continued striking the Zionist occupation sites near Lebanon border.

'Hizbullah military media issued consecutive statements to illustrate the attacks and their outcomes.

The first statement mentioned that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Al-Marj site at 1:15 pm on Friday, March 15, 2024, with artillery weapons, inflicting a direct hit.

The second statement emphasized that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted Al-Malikiya site at 2:05 pm on Friday, March 15, 2024, with missile weapons, inflicting a direct hit.

The third statement asserted that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of “Israeli” enemy soldiers near Al-Rahib site at 2:50 pm on Friday, March 15, 2024, with artillery weapons, inflicting a direct hit.

Islamic Resistance fighters targeted a gathering of “Israeli” enemy soldiers near Birket Risha site at 4:00 pm on Friday, March 15, 2024, with a Burkan missile, hitting the target directly, according to the fourth statement.

Hizbullah fighters struck Al-Radar site in the occupied Lebanese Shib'a Farms at 4:20 pm on Friday, March 15, 2024, with missiles, inflicting direct hits, the fifth statement affirmed.

The sixth statement maintained that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted at 4:42 pm on Friday, March 15, 2024, a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of Ruwaisat Al-'Alam site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shouba Hills with missiles, achieving direct hits.

Islamic Resistance fighters targeted, at 05:45 pm on Friday, March 15, 2024, a Zionist force as it entered Zar’it barracks with appropriate weapons, causing a direct hit, the seventh statement mentioned.

The eighth statement indicated that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted, at 06:35 pm on Friday, March 15, 2024, a gathering of Zionist enemy soldiers in the vicinity of 'Hadab Yareen with rocket weapons, causing a direct hit.

The final statement of the day revealed that at 20:55, an Israeli occupation force was targeted near the Jal Al-'Alam site as it moved behind the border wall. The Islamic Resistance fighters utilized suitable weaponry, scoring a direct hit.

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

On March 16, 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 7 massacres, in which  63 Palestinian civilians were killed, and 112 were injured, in the past 24 hours. This increased the death toll in Gaza Strip to 31,553 and the injuries to 73,546, since October 7, 2023.   

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Death toll across Gaza Strip surges to 31,553, over 73,546 wounded

GAZA, Saturday, March 16, 2024 (WAFA) -

Israeli occupation forces committed seven massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, resulting in the tragic killing of 63 Palestinians and leaving 112 others wounded, according to medical reports.

Local health authorities confirmed that the death toll from the Israeli genocidal war since October 7 has risen to 31,553 reported Palestinian fatalities, mostly children and women, with an additional 73,546 individuals sustaining injuries.

Many people are still trapped under the rubble or scattered on the streets as Israeli occupation forces prevent the arrival of rescue crews to the targeted locations.

Y.S. 

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GMO: Israeli army bombed 12 homes last night

Saturday 16-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation army bombed over 12 homes in Gaza last night, massacring dozens of civilians.

According to GMO, at least 36 people, mostly children and women, were massacred after the Israeli army bombed the house of Al-Tabatibi family in the west of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp. Some of the slain women were pregnant.

GMO held the US administration and the international community fully responsible for Israel’s escalation of its war crimes and massacres against defenseless civilians in the Gaza Strip.

GMO called on the countries of the free world to pressure the Israeli regime to stop its genocidal war on Gaza, which has been ongoing for six consecutive months.

Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation regime has been waging a genocidal war on Gaza, leaving tens of thousands of civilian casualties, mostly children and women, and causing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and massive destruction.

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GMO: At least 56 people killed in Israeli attacks on aid centers in 48 hours

Friday 15-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) carried out five separate attacks on aid distribution centers in the past 48 hours in the Gaza Strip, killing 56 people and injuring more than 300 others, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) on Friday.

The first of these massacres occurred at a UNRWA aid distribution center in Rafa'h, which claimed the lives of 5 people. Two other citizens working in providing aid were martyred when their car was bombed in Rafa'h Governorate.

The IOFs also bombed another aid distribution center in the Nusayrat camp in the Central Governorate, killing 8 people.

The IOFs also killed 11 people on Tuesday and Wednesday, and killed more than 30 civilians last night while waiting for aid trucks at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza Governorate.

“We hold the US administration and the international community, in addition to the Israeli occupation, fully responsible for the crime of genocide,” the GMO said.

“We call on all countries of the free world to pressure the occupation to stop the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing against our Palestinian people,” it concluded.

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Seven Palestinian civilians killed and dozens wounded in ongoing Israeli genocidal strikes on Al-Nusayrat camp

GAZA, Saturday, March 16, 2024 (WAFA) -

Seven Palestinian civilians today were killed and others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that Seven civilians were killed and dozens of others, mostly children and women, were wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Earlier in the day, at least 36 Palestinian civilians lost their lives and dozens of others sustained various injuries following aerial bombardment by Israeli fighter jets targeting a populated home belonging to the Tabatibi family in west of the Nusayrat refugee camp.

By March 15, 2024, since the beginning of the Israeli offensive on Gaza on October 7, over 31,490 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli aerial or artillery bombardment. Additionally, over 73,437 individuals have been wounded.

Many people are still trapped under the rubble or scattered on the streets as Israeli occupation forces prevent the arrival of rescue crews to the targeted locations.

Y.S.

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At least 80 civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes in different areas in Gaza Strip

GAZA, Saturday , March 16, 2024 (WAFA) – 

At least 80 civilians were killed and dozens injured, mostly children and women, in Israeli airstrikes that targeted several homes and buildings in Gaza City, the Nusayrat refugee camp, and the city of Rafa'h.

Local sources said that Israeli warplanes shelled with several missiles a 7-storey residential building housing displaced persons near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, killing many and causing multiple injuries.

Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets carried out an airstrike on a house on Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City. The strike resulted in dozens of causalities.

Five civilians were also killed and dozens of others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the Al-Tuffa'h neighborhood in Gaza City.

Another strike hit a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood in the city, resulting in the killing of many civilians and causing others to sustain injuries.

Meantime, sources reported that Israeli occupation artillery targeted two houses in the Nusayrat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, resulting in the tragic killing of at least 36 persons.

Israeli air force further conducted intense airstrikes targeting several sites and areas in the town of Bait 'Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip, coinciding with unleashing light bombs in the sky of the town.  

In the city of Rafa'h, south of the Gaza Strip, the occupation forces bombed a populated house, wounding a number of civilians.

The sources confirmed that the occupation forces committed several massacres in the Gaza Strip at dawn today, in which about 80 were killed, mostly children, and dozens were injured.

Y.S.

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

 

Palestinian young man succumbs to critical wounds sustained last July

Friday 15-March-2024, Al-Khaleel (Hebron), (PIC)

A Palestinian young man died on Friday evening from critical wounds he sustained from Israeli gunfire during a military raid into the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), last July.

Medical sources affirmed that Ma'hmoud Naseem Al-'Anati, 26, succumbed to his serious abdomen wounds.

On July 17, the Israeli forces stormed the camp and shot the young man who had been kept at the Al-Ahli Hospital since then before being pronounced dead this evening.

At least 447 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since October 7 by Israeli occupation soldiers and illegal settlers.

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Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli prison, amid reports of widespread systematic torture

RAMALLAH, Saturday, March 16, 2024 (WAFA) -

Palestinian detainee Jum'a Abu Ghaneema, 26, has died in the Israeli prison of Al-Naqab (Negev), the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission and Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) today announced, bringing the total number of prisoners and detainees who have died in Israeli prisons since October 7 to 13 due to torture and medical negligence .

PPS pointed out that Israeli occupation prison service announced the transfer of the detainee Abu Ghaneema in a serious health condition from his cell in Eshel prison to a hospital, five days ago.

The commission and PPS said in a joint statement that Abu Ghaneema was arrested in January for his resistance to the occupation.

The Israeli media had revealed the death of several detainees from Gaza behind Israeli jails, and to this day the occupation refuses to disclose their identities, in light of its continued implementation of the crime of enforced disappearance against Gaza detainees after October 7.

The commission and PPS held the occupation prison administration, which continues to carry out torture and systematic medical negligence against Palestinian detainees held in Israeli jails, which significantly escalated after October 7,  the full responsible for the death of Abu Ghaneema.

PPS and the Commission said in a joint statement that 250 Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli prison since the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), in 1967.

 The total number of Palestinian detainees held in occupation jails surged to 9,100, including 3,558 administrative detainees.

Y.S.

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IOFs raid homes, kidnap Palestinians in the West Bank raids

Saturday 16-March-2024, WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) at dawn Saturday stormed different West Bank areas, raided homes and kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens.

According to local sources, Israeli occupation soldiers aboard about 25 army vehicles stormed Nablus City and clashed with local youths.

The IOFs also stormed an apartment building in Al-Faysal street and kidnaped two Gazan young men from hotels in the city.

In Qalqilya, the IOFs broke into and ransacked several homes in the city, with no reported arrests. Violent clashes with local youths took place during the IOF raid in the city.

In Al-Khaleel (Hebron), two citizens were taken prisoners following IOF raids on their homes in Bani Na'eem town.

The IOFs also stormed the villages of Qarawat Bani Zaid and Kafr 'Ain in western Ramallah and other West Bank areas, without kidnappings.

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At least 7,605 Palestinians detained by Israeli occupation forces since October 7

RAMALLAH, Saturday, March 16, 2024 (WAFA) - 

At least 7,605 Palestinians were detained by Israeli occupation forces during military raids across the occupied West bank since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, according to detainees and ex-detainees affairs commission and the Palestinian prisoner society(PPS).

The Commission and PPS said in a joint statement, that Israeli forces continues its systematic detention campaigns against the Palestinian people in the West Bank, which escalated in an unprecedented way after the 7th of October.

They said that this toll includes those who were rounded up during military raids at their homes, through military checkpoints, or those who were forced to surrender themselves under pressure.

Since yesterday, the occupation forces have detained at least 20 people from the West Bank, including former prisoners.

The detention campaigns were distributed among the governorates of Toulkarm, Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Toubas, Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), Nablus, Jineen, and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

Meanwhile,  a large Israeli military force broke into the home of the prisoner Ra-id Al-Houtari, who has been detained since 2003 and has been sentenced to 22 life imprisonments, and the home of the prisoner Sa'eed Dthiyab, who has been detained since 2007 and has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.

The Commission and PPS pointed out that both prisoners, Al-Houtari and Dthiyab, came from Qalqilya Governorate. During the raid, the soldiers extensively vandalized and tampered the contents of their houses.

Y.S.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

Illegal Israeli Jewish settlers attack residents, property in West Bank towns

Friday 15-March-2024, RAMALLAH, (PIC)

Fanatic Jewish settlers stormed at dawn Friday the outskirts of Kafr Ni’ma town, west of Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank, and attacked Palestinians and their property amid heavy gunfire.

Local sources reported that the attacking settlers burned a number of vehicles and facilities in the town before withdrawing from the place.

On Thursday evening, armed settlers stormed the village of Birain, southeast of Al-Khaleel.

The head of the village council, Fareed Burqan, told WAFA news agency that armed settlers in military uniform stormed the village, raided its school, took down the Palestinian flag and tore it up.

The attacking illegal Israeli settlers encircled citizens’ homes, causing panic among the residents, especially women and children, he added.

Settler attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank have remarkably escalated since October 7, 2023.

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