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 171 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 11 Massacres, 107 Palestinians Killed, 176 Injured, with a Death Toll of  32,333 and 74,694 Injuries

March 25, 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 25, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 39,333+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (32,333) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on February 7, 2024: 7,000+). 

By March 25, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 74,694, 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 24, 2024, 454 Palestinians who were killed, 3,691 who were injured, and 7,770, 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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Wafa correspondent, Sahir Akram Rayyan, was killed along with his son, Anas, by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza city, while trying to rescue their wounded neighbors from 'Hamada family, March 25, 2024 wafa	Grieving over the death of some of the 107 Palestinian martyrs, who were killed, and the 176 who were injured on Day 171 of the Israeli genocidal war  on Gaza Strip, March 25, 2024 pic
A Palestinian mother trying to comfort her injured little child, who survived an Israeli genocidal air strike on their house, in Gaza Strip, file, March 25, 2024	A crying injured Palestinian girl who survived an Israeli genocidal bombardment on a Gaza Strip residential neighborhood, March 25, 2024
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, Reem Al-Salem, expressed her concern about the increasing cases of rape committed by Israeli occupation soldiers against Palestinian women in Gaza, March 25, 2024	The United Nations Security Council passed a ceasefire resolution in Gaza Strip, during the second half of Ramadhan, March 25, 2024 afp
Sites of the Israeli genocidal air strikes on Dair El-Bala'h, in central Gaza Strip residential neighborhoods, March 25, 2024	Sites of the Israeli genocidal air strikes on Al-Nusayrat, in central Gaza Strip residential neighborhoods, March 25, 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 Security Council passes resolution 2728, demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan

NEW YORK, Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) -

The UN Security Council passed today a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the holy month of Ramadan and the urgent need to expand the flow of aid into Gaza.

Disagreement in the Council has seen several rounds of drafts quashed by one or more of its five veto-wielding permanent members (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States) since the Israeli aggression began on October 7, 2023.

Since the start of the Israeli brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip, the United States has vetoed three resolutions demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.

Last Friday, Russia and China used their veto power in the Security Council to reject a US draft resolution on Gaza that did not include any direct call for a ceasefire, rather it referred to supporting ongoing international efforts to secure a ceasefire.

The occupation forces continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air since October 7, which has so far resulted in the killing of 32,333 civilians, mostly children and women, and the injury of 74,694 others, in addition to thousands of missing under the rubble.

T.R.

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UN Security Council adopts resolution demanding cease-fire in Gaza for Ramadhan

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia, 2024-03-25   

UNITED NATIONS, March 25 (Xinhua) --

The Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution that demands an immediate cease-fire in Gaza for the holy month of Ramadan.

Resolution 2728 won 14 votes in favor among the 15 members of the council. The United States, which had previously vetoed three draft resolutions that would have called for or demanded a cease-fire in Gaza, abstained on Monday, allowing the draft to pass.

Resolution 2728 demands an immediate cease-fire in Gaza for Ramadan, leading to a sustainable cease-fire. The resolution also demands the release of all hostages.

Before the vote on the draft resolution tabled by the 10 elected members of the Security Council, Russia proposed an oral amendment. The Russian proposal was rejected by the Security Council. 

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Josep Borrell Fontelles @JosepBorrellF

I welcome the adoption of today’s #UNSC Res 2728 on #Gaza.

 1. It demands an immediate ceasefire during Ramadan,

2. leading to a lasting one,

3. unconditional release of all hostages &

4. emphasizes the need to expand flow of aid &

 5. protect civilians.

 It needs an urgent implementation by all

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Israel bars UNRWA from delivering aid to northern Gaza

Monday 25-March-2024,

The UNRWA said it has been barred by Israel from delivering aid to northern Gaza, where the threat of famine is the highest.

This development was confirmed by UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini, who wrote on social media on Sunday that Israeli authorities informed the UN that they would no longer approve UNRWA food convoys to the north.

Blocking aid by UNRWA, the largest humanitarian organization in Gaza, would make “the clock tick faster towards famine”, Lazzarini said, warning many more will die of hunger and dehydration.

By March 24, 2024, the Israeli occupation army, supported by the US and Europe, has been persisting in committing genocide crimes in the Gaza Strip for 170 consecutive days, leading to the martyrdom of 32,226 people and the injury of 74,518 others, in addition to the displacement of about 90 percent of the Strip’s population, according to official authorities and international bodies and organizations.

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WAFA correspondent killed along with son in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

GAZA, Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) –

The Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) has lost one of its workers in the Gaza Strip following an Israeli airstrike.

Sahir Akram Rayyan was killed along with his son, Anas, at the 'Haidar Abdul Shafi roundabout, west of Gaza City, while trying to rescue their wounded neighbors from 'Hamada family.

The General Supervisor of Official Media, Chairman of the Board of Directors of WAFA, Minister A'hmad 'Assaf, extended his deepest condolences to the Rayyan family.

Martyr Sahir Rayyan worked with WAFA for more than twenty years.

K.T.

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'Hamas: War criminal Netanyahu is the “head of evil”

Monday 25-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement has accused Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu of practicing “political deceit” and described him as a “war criminal” and the “head of evil.”

“The war criminal and head of evil, the terrorist Netanyahu, pursues his journey of political deceit through using religious discourse to achieve his criminal political goals and escalating the genocidal war that he is leading against our people in the Gaza Strip,” Hamas said in a statement published on its Telegram channel on Sunday.

'Hamas described Netanyahu’s threat to chase and kill its leaders and his intent to commit his greatest crime in Rafa'h as “brazen defiance of all the international calls and positions warning against the launch of a military operation in a city crowded with displaced people.”

'Hamas stressed that the crimes that are committed in Gaza by the extremist settler government of Netanyahu are motivated by “criminal religious nonsense and myths.”

The Movement added that the Israeli government’s killing of children, women and elderlies, its starvation of civilians, and its burning and destruction of buildings are “crimes that have no parallel in modern history.

It also said that the Israeli government’s crimes in Gaza would “immortalize its name as a symbol of evil and crime that humanity has never seen before throughout all ages.” 

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Dozens of settlers defile Al-Aqsa Mosque

Monday 25-March-2024,

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), on Monday morning to mark the second day of the Purim festival.

According to local sources, 228 of the illegal Israeli settlers entered the Mosque through its Maghariba Gate and provocatively toured its courtyards under police protection.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing the illegal settler children wearing festival costumes during their tours of the Islamic holy site.

Last night, Israeli occupation apartheid police forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and prevented Muslim worshipers from continuing their religious retreat on the 14th day of the holy month of Ramadhan.

The Israeli occupation apartheid police also continued to impose strict security measures in the Old City of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), and at Al-Aqsa Mosque’s gates, barred hundreds of Muslim worshipers from entering their holy site and obstructed the movement of others.

About 40,000 worshipers were able to perform the Isha and Tarawee'h prayers last night at the Aqsa Mosque despite the restrictions imposed on their entry to the holy site.

Recently, Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), activists urged their compatriots to intensify their presence inside Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to protect it against desecration by the illegal Israeli Jewish settlers.

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Civil Defense: Red Cross hasn’t delivered supplies to Gaza Strip in 3 months

Monday 25-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Director of Supply for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza, Mu'hammed Al-Mughair, stressed the dire need for fuel among other materials necessary for the continuation of Civil Defense operations.

“The International Red Cross has not supplied us with anything in three months,” Al-Mughair said on Sunday.

“The Red Cross promised to supply us with many of our needs, but nothing has arrived yet,” he added.

Al-Mughair’s remarks came in light of the continuation of Israeli bloody massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, the last of which were eight massacres carried out in different areas in the Strip on Sunday, resulting in 84 martyrs and 106 wounded, bringing the death toll of the Israeli aggression to 32,226 martyrs and 74,518 injuries since October 7, 2023. 

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Israel again targets Palestinian civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza Strip

 GAZA, Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) –  

Israeli artillery stationed east of the Shuja'iya neighborhood in Gaza City today fired a barrage of airstrikes towards a group of civilians waiting for humanitarian aid.

Medical sources reported that Israeli fighter jets intensively fired several missiles towards Palestinian civilians who had gathered in the Shuja'iya neighborhood in Gaza City to obtain humanitarian aid after a number of parachutes carrying aid packages fell.

Occupation deliberately targets civilians searching for relief aid with the aim of killing them, added sources. 

Amid conditions of famine created by Israel’s government, the Israeli army continues to deliberately commit massacres against civilians while they attempt to obtain humanitarian aid.

Several Palestinian civilians lost their lives and dozens of others were wounded due to the Israeli deliberate targeting of innocent civilians who waiting for aid at the Kuwait Roundabout, south of Gaza City.

Y.S. 

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Israeli occupation army detonates upper floor of main building in Gaza City's Al-Shifa Medical Complex

GAZA, Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime warplanes bombed today the upper floor of the main building of the Shifa Medical Complex, west of Gaza City, coinciding with the ongoing shelling in its surroundings.

Medical sources reported that the occupation soldiers treated hundreds of patients, displaced people who sought refugee inside the Complex inhumanely, whether women, children or men.

Meanwhile, The Israeli military forces further detained several men, health workers and medical staff, according to eyewitness.  

The Israeli occupation army further ordered those in the complex to leave, using loudspeakers, and send warnings to the civilians in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital to evacuate their homes and head to the south of the Gaza Strip.

Local sources announced that the occupation forces had detained about 500 civilians from the Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its surroundings in Gaza City, since the start of the storming operation last week.

Furthermore, the Israeli occupation forces continue to besiege the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, for the eighth day in a row.

Meantime, five Palestinian patients were pronounced dead at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, due to the absence of health services, food, and water, and the power outage in the intensive care units.

Patients and displaced people inside the Complex, which has been under strict Israeli military siege for eight days, are facing dire and inhuman conditions, added sources.

The occupation army continues to storm Al-Shifa Hospital, which houses about 7,000 displaced people and patients, and is carrying out a massive campaign of detentions and killings among the displaced persons.  

In addition to the burning of the healthcare facilities inside the Complex, Israeli fighter jets continue to intensively bomb multiple inhabited homes surrounding the Hospital.

This is the second time that the occupation forces have raided the Al-Shifa Complex since the beginning of the aggression against Gaza on October 7, as they stormed it on November 16, after besieging it for a week.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that 12 hospitals are partially operating in the Gaza Strip, six of which are in northern Gaza, in addition to three field hospitals that are partially operating, and seven UNRWA health centers are still partially operating.

Y.S.

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UN deeply concerned about increasing rape cases by Israeli soldiers against Gazan women

GENEVA, Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) –

The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, Reem Al-Salem, expressed her concern about the increasing cases of rape committed by Israeli occupation soldiers against Palestinian women in Gaza.

Al-Salem explained in a post she made on X that "it is abhorrent that such reports of sexual violence continue unabated - not to mention that this is but one of multiple forms of violence that Palestinian women are subjected to on the basis of being Palestinian and being women."

"Rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide! It must stop," she added.

The UN Rapporteur called for an immediate halt to cases of violence against Palestinian women.

K.T.

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US activists launch campaign to boycott Intel following investment plans in Israel

RAMALLAH, Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) – Activists in the United States launched a massive campaign to boycott the US giant in the manufacture of electronic chips and computer equipment, Intel, after its board of directors announced its plan to expand work in Israel by investing $25 billion in building an electronic chip factory in one of Israeli colonies.

Intel plans to build a factory in the Kiryat Gat colony, which was forcibly established on the ruins of the village of 'Iraq Al-Manshiya, 32 kilometers north of Gaza, which deepens its complicity with Israel in the genocide it is committing against the Palestinian people.

The activists called on to boycott the company's products and computers equipped with Intel chips, and urged companies, educational institutions, factories and investment funds to boycott the company's goods and replace them with other companies to pressure them to stop their plans to support the Israeli economy.

This comes at a time when many companies announced the withdrawal of their investments and projects from Israel as the war on Gaza continues.

K.T.

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

On March 25, 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 11 massacres, in which  107 Palestinian civilians were killed, and 176 were injured, in the past 24 hours. This increased the death toll in Gaza Strip to 32,333 and the injuries to 74,694, since October 7, 2023.   

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Gaza: Death toll surges to 32,333 martyrs

Monday 25-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said on Monday that the Israeli occupation terrorist army committed seven massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 107 civilians and injuring over 176 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 explained that the Israeli army killed and injured hundreds of civilians in different areas of Gaza during the past 24 hours, but only 107 martyrs and 176 wounded citizens were transported to hospitals.

The health ministry added that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli bombardments and shooting attacks, which started on October 7, climbed to 32,333 martyrs and the number of the wounded surged to 74,694 people.

The Gaza Strip 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. 

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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters Day 171

Monday 25-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered Day 171 on Monday, 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, a number of citizens were martyred and others were injured in relentless Israeli attacks on neighborhoods around Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, while an airstrike bombed the upper floor of the hospital’s main building.

Local sources said that the Israeli occupation forces continue to order the remaining civilians and medical workers inside Al-Shifa compound and nearby houses to leave and walk southwards, threatening to kill more of them if they did not comply.

Three martyrs were also evacuated to the Kuwait Hospital after the Israeli army bombed a house belonging to the family of Barhoum in Yibna refugee camp in central Rafa'h, south of Gaza.

In central Gaza, the Israeli army killed at least 18 citizens after bombing a house belonging to the family of Salman in Dair El-Bala'h. Others are still under the rubble.

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

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Israeli' ongoing bloodbath in Gaza Strip claims the lives of seven civilians

GAZA, Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) –

At least seven civilians today were killed and others were wounded  in a barrage of Israeli genocidal airstrikes targeting different areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that six civilians were killed in an Israeli shelling targeting a group of civilians in the town of Al-Mughraqa in the central Gaza Strip.

Meantime, An Israeli genocidal shelling that targeted the Al-Nasr neighborhood, northeast of Rafa'h, resulting in the killing of a civilian.

In Khan Younus, multiple of wounded individuals were rushed to the European Hospital, in the south of the city, following intense Israeli bombardment  on 'Abasan area.

In the south of Gaza City, civil defense crews managed to recover the bodies six people who were killed in an Israeli shelling that targeted the town of 'Hamad, in the north of Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip

By March 24, 2024, in a preliminary death toll, the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7 has resulted in at least 32,226 fatalities and 74,518 wounded. Additionally, thousands of individuals are still missing under the rubble.

Many people are still trapped under the rubble of the destroyed homes or scattered on the roads, as Israeli occupation forces continue to obstruct the arrival of civil and rescue crews.

Y.S. 

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Dozens of Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

GAZA, Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) –

Dozens of Palestinian citizens, including children and women, were Monday dawn killed and injured in a series of Israeli raids and artillery shelling in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital and various areas in the Gaza Strip, especially in Dair El-Bala'h, at the Kuwait Roundabout, and in the city of Rafa'h and the eastern areas of Khan Younus.

Health sources in the Gaza Strip said that a number of citizens were killed and injured in an Israeli artillery and airstrike in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza, amid heavy fire from Israeli vehicles and tanks.

According to local sources, the occupation forces demanded via loudspeakers the immediate evacuation of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, which they have besieged for the eighth day in a row.

The occupation forces targeted people working in committees that ensure the distribution of humanitarian aid at the Kuwait roundabout, souces said.

A number of citizens were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing of Abu 'Amra family’s home in 'Hikr Al-Jami' area, in Dair El-Bala'h in the central Gaza Strip, while the number of slain civilians from the Salman family rose to 18 as a result of the bombing of their home on Al-Bai’a Street in the city in the central Gaza Strip.

A number of citizens were killed and others were iinjured after Israeli warplanes targeted a house owned by Barhoum family in Yibna camp in the center of the city of Rafa'h, where health sources at Al-Kuwaiti Hospital said that number of people were killed and wounded as a result of the Israeli bombing of homes in the camp.

More than 27 citizens, including women and children, were killed in Israeli raids that targeted 5 homes in the city of Rafa'h since yesterday morning.

The number of victims of the Israeli bombing of Dair El-Bala'h also rose to 10, and a large number of people are still under the rubble .

By March 24, 2024, the Israeli occupation forces continued its aggression against the Gaza Strip since October 7th by land, sea and air, killing 32,226, the majority of whom are children and women, and leaving more than 74,518 injuries, an infinite toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and in the roads as the Israeli occupation prevent rescue crews from reaching them, in addition to massive destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

K.T.

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PRCS says it lost contact with its staff at Gaza's Amal hospital

GAZA, Sunday, March 24, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Sunday evening that contact with its staff at Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip, was lost due to the VHF radio wave being out of service.

The occupation forces surrounded Al-Amal Hospital earlier today, closed its gates with dirt barriers, and fired smoke bombs towards its buildings, to force medical staff, the wounded, and the displaced to leave.

It is noteworthy that various means of communications, landline, cellular, and Internet services, are still cut off in Khan Younus Governorate for the 72nd day in a row.

K.T.

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

 

Israeli occupation army detains 15 Palestinians in massive campaign across West Bank

RAMALLAH, Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces Monday detained 15 Palestinians, including a child and former prisoners, in an ongoing massive Israeli detention campaign across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

PPS said that the detention campaign were concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah and Qalqilya, while the rest of the arrests were distributed in the governorates of Jineen, Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

Meanwhile, the detention campaign were accompanied by widespread abuse, severe beatings, and threats against the detainees and their families, added PPS.

The total number of Palestinians, including children, women and elderly men, detained after October 7 surged to about 7,770 persons.

Furthermore, the Israeli occupation army continues to carry out the crime of enforced disappearance against detainees in the Gaza Strip, as the occupation refuses to provide human rights institutions with any details regarding their fate ot their places of detention.

Y.S.

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IOFs kidnap several Palestinians during West Bank raids

Monday 25-March-2024, WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFf) kidnaped last night and at dawn Monday a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank, amid clashes in some areas.

According to local sources, the IOFs kidnaped three citizens from their homes in Jalbun town, east of Jineen City.

The IOFs also stormed other areas of Jenin and clashed with local youths in Silat Al-Dthaher town, while resistance fighters attacked them with an explosive device in Arabbuna town.

In Toulkarm, the IOFs stormed different areas of the city and kidnaped a young man after ransacking his home in Shuwaika suburb.

Israeli forces also raided Qaffeen town in northern Toulkarm and clashed with local youths. One teenager was reportedly injured in his leg by IOFs gunfire during the events.

Meanwhile, resistance fighters in Qaffeen town infiltrated into an Israeli army post near the illegal Israeli settlement of Hermesh last night, detonated explosive devices at guards’ vehicle and showered it with bullets. Israeli casualties were reported following the resistance operation.

In Qalqilya, the IOFs kidnaped a citizen at a checkpoint near the city and another one from his home in 'Azzoun town.

Local sources in 'Azzoun town said that Israeli soldiers savagely assaulted two young men during raids on homes.

In Ramallah, three young men were taken prisoners during an IOFs raid in Al-Lubban Al-Gharbi town.

In Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), the IOFs kidnaped a child from his home in Al-Khadir town.

In Nablus, the IOFs stormed the city and its old area before clashing with local youths and resistance fighters. Three young men suffered bullet injuries during the events.

The IOFs also stormed other areas of the West Bank, with no reported kidnappings.

In Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), Israeli occupation apartheid police forces kidnaped two young men during raids on homes in Qalandya refugee camp.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

Israeli occupation forces notify of the demolition of Palestinian structures near Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), Monday, March 25, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation authorities today notified the demolition of several Palestinian-owned structures in the town of 'Hizma, northeast  of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

Local sources said a sizable military force raided the said town and handed over notices, ordering the demolition of several shops and commercial structures.

These policies are part of Israel's systematic practices aimed at forcibly displacing Palestinians for the benefit of colonial expansion.

Y.S. 

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Palestinian bus driver in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) stabbed by a group of illegal Israeli settlers

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), Sunday, March 24, 2024 (WAFA) -

This evening, a group of Israeli colonists stabbed a Palestinian bus driver in occupied Jerusalem, causing him injuries, according to local sources.

The sources reported that colonists assaulted A'hmed Abu Al-Hawa, a bus driver from Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), with a knife, causing him injuries and necessitating his subsequent transportation to hospital for medical treatment.

Bus drivers in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), employed by Israeli companies, are frequently targeted by racially motivated attacks by the illegal Israeli settlers. Despite documented cases, the Israeli occupation apartheid regime has failed, so far, to take action against the assailants.

M.N.

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