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 177 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 8 Massacres, 82 Palestinians Killed, 98 Injured, with a Death Toll of  32,705 and 75,190 Injuries, March 31, 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 31, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 39,705+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (32,705) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on February 7, 2024: 7,000+). 

By March 31, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 75,190, and more than 2,520 civilians have been abducted from Gaza Strip.

By March 28, 2024, the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip resulted in more than 120,000 martyrs, wounded and missing Palestinians, 72% of whom were children and women.

By March 31, 2024, 459 Palestinians who were killed, 3,705 who were injured, and 7,870, 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.

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. 

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

On March 31, 2024, Dr. Ashraf Al-Qidra, the Spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip resulted in 8 massacres, in which  82 Palestinian civilians were killed, and 98 were injured, in the past 24 hours. This increased the death toll in Gaza Strip to 32,705 and the injuries to 75,190, since October 7, 2023.   

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US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza enters day 177

Sunday 31-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered Day 177 on Sunday, 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 scores of citizens, despite the UN resolution, adopted recently by the Security Council, calling for an immediate ceasefire for the holy month of Ramadan.

According to media sources, the Israeli army bombed Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Dair El-Bala'h in central Gaza, killing four citizens and wounding 17 others, including journalists.

The PIC reporter said that six journalists were among those who were injured when the Israeli army attacked tents belonging to journalists at the hospital.

The Israeli army also massacred 11 civilians in an attack on Bani Suheila area in eastern Khan Yunis, and bombed a house belonging to Al-Majayida family in Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younus, killing a mother and her little daughter.

Three citizens were martyred and others were injured when the Israeli army bombed a house belonging to the family of Abu 'Aun in Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

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

On Saturday evening, Israeli tanks fired live ammunition and projectiles at dozens of civilians as they were waiting for aid trucks at the Kuwait rotary in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the southeast of Gaza City, killing 17 of them and injuring about 30 others.

The PIC reporter said that most of the martyrs of the new massacre at the Kuwait rotary are volunteers charged with protecting aid trucks and organizing distributions.

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

 

Palestinian child killed, young man injured by IOFs gunfire in Jineen

Saturday 30-March-2024,

Jineen, (PIC)

A Palestinian child was killed and a young man was seriously injured at dawn Saturday after the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) stormed Qabatya town in southern Jineen, amid intensive gunfire.

According to a medical source at Al-Razi Hospital in Jineen, 13-year-old Mu'tasim Abu 'Abid, who died of a critical injury, and another young man with a serious bullet injury arrived at the hospital after Israeli forces intensively fired live ammunition during their Qabatya raid.

Local sources said that undercover Israeli occupation apartheid regime soldiers aboard a civilian car infiltrated into Qabatya before clashing with local youths and resistance fighters.

Soon later, a large number of Israeli troops stormed the town, raided homes and spread in its streets and on rooftops of some homes and buildings, amid armed clashes with resistance fighters.

The local sources added that resistance fighters showered the Israeli forces with bullets and detonated explosive devices at their vehicles during the events.

Eyewitnesses said that Israeli occupation soldiers prevented an ambulance from entering the town to evacuate wounded young men.

Meanwhile, the IOFs kidnaped Samir Zakarna and his son Mu'hammed from their home and ransacked other homes during its campaign in Qabatya. 

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IOFs kidnap several Palestinians from Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the West Bank

Saturday 30-March-2024,

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the West Bank during the past 24 hours.

According to local sources, the IOFs raided several homes during a violent campaign in Qabatya town, south of Jineen, and kidnaped a father and his son.

In Al-Khaleel (Hebron), a 13-year-old child suffered shrapnel wounds in his neck and others suffered from their exposure to tear gas during clashes with Israeli occupation forces in Bait Ummar town.

According to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society, at least 25 Palestinian citizens, including a woman and some children, were kidnaped in IOFs raids in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the West Bank during the past 24 hours.

Most of those citizens were kidnaped following and during the Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque. The other detainees are from Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Nablus, Toulkarm and Qalqilya.

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7,870 Palestinian detainees from West Bank, Jerusalem since October 7

Saturday 30-March-2024, RAMALLAH, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) carried out overnight on Friday a large-scale arrest campaign in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, resulting in the arrest of 25 Palestinians including children, former prisoners and a woman.

The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) stated, “The arrest operations were concentrated in occupied Jerusalem after thousands headed to perform Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque, while the rest of the arrests were distributed among the governorates of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Nablus, Toulkarm, and Qalqilya.”

The PPS highlighted that, “the total number of detentions since October 7 has risen to about 7,870 male and female detainees including those who were kidnapped from homes or at military checkpoints, those who were forced to turn themselves in under pressure, and those who were held hostage.”

“The unprecedentedly escalating arrest campaigns in the West Bank come within the framework of the comprehensive aggression against the Palestinian people and the ongoing genocide taking place in Gaza since October 7 against children, women, the elderly and the sick,” the PPS added.

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Israeli occupation apartheid regime police detain 16 Palestinians while leaving Al-Aqsa Mosque

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), Saturday, March 30, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli forces today detained 16 Palestinians as they were leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

Israeli police deployed additional forces around the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque, checked the ID cards of people trying to hold the weekly Friday prayers and detained 16 citizens, the majority of whom were in their twenties.

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Israeli occupation forces renew their military incursion of the city of Aree'ha (Jericho)

Aree'ha (Jericho), Saturday, March 30, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces renewed their military incursion of the city of Aree'ha (Jericho) and tightened their military measures at the checkpoints set up at its entrances, including the town of Al-'Auja, for the third consecutive day.

Local sources said that the occupation forces renewed their incursion of the city, raided several homes and subjected their residents to investigation and interrogation.

The Israeli occupation army continues to shut down the four main entrances leading to the city of Jericho with military checkpoints, denying access of Palestinian vehicles in and out of the city and threatening them with shooting.

Occasionally, army units break into Aree'ha (Jericho), mainly 'Aqbat Jabr refugee camp, and conduct searches.

Restricting movement is one of the main tools that Israel employs to enforce its regime of occupation over the Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories, stressed the Israeli information center for human rights in occupied territories, B’Tselem.

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Israeli forces shoot and injure two Palestinians near Toubas

TOUBAS, Saturday, March 30, 2024 (WAFA) –

Two Palestinians were shot and injured today during an Israeli military incursion of the city of Toubas in the northern West Bank.

Medical sources reported that the two Palestinian young men were injured by live bullets in the lower extremities and were rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.

Earlier morning, a large Israeli occupation regime force raided the city of Tubas and deployed their forces across the streets and alleys, where they  carried out wide-scale home raids and searches.

Undercover special forces further broke into the city from its eastern entrance, followed by military reinforcements accompanied by a bulldozer, coming from the Tayaseer checkpoint east of the city.

Later, the occupation surrounded a house and ordered via loudspeakers a young man to surrender himself.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

 

Israeli forces detain Palestinian mother, daughter while herding sheep in Masafir Yatta

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), Saturday, March 30, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces today detained a Palestinian mother and her daughter while they were herding sheep in Masafir Yatta, south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

Muhammad Rabi, the head of the Al-Tuwana village Council in Masafir Yatta, said that a large Israeli force detained Subha Al-Adra and her daughter Sanaa while they were herding sheep near their home in the village of Al-Tuwana.

Following their detention, the mother along with her daughter were transferred to the Susiya illegal Israeli settlement.

Rabi pointed out that the occupation forces have been escalating their violations and heinous attacks against Palestinian people and their proprieties in Masafir Yatta. These violations against the area include demolition of animal barns, homes and residential structures.

Issuance of construction permits by Israel to local Palestinians in the area is non-existent.

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Israeli authorities seize 27,000 dunums after October 7th on 48th  anniversary of Land Day

RAMALLAH, Saturday, March 30, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation regime forces seized about 27,000 dunums of Palestinian land, following the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip on October 7, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.

 The Commission said on the occasion the 48th anniversary of the Palestinian Land Day and following nearly six months of the brutal Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip, which has so far resulted in the killing of over 32,000, mostly children and women, the area of Palestinian territory controlled by the occupying state amounted to 2,380 km2, equivalent to 42% of the total territory of the West Bank, and 69% of the total areas classified as  area C.

Mo-ayed Sha'ban, the head of the commission, pointed out that the occupying state had begun to establish buffer zones around the colonies through a series of military orders.

He added that after the occupation's aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the planning authorities in the occupying state studied a total of 52 structural plans for the purpose of building a total of 8,829 colonial units on an area of 6,852 dunums.

These plans were focused on Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) with 13 structural plans, most of them in the Ma'ale Adumim colony.

The illegal Israeli settlers established about 11 colonial outposts, in addition to constructing 5 roads in order to facilitate the movement of the colonists and to link the outposts to the existing colonies.

Sha'ban added that since October 7, the occupation army and colonists have carried out a total of 9,700 heinous attacks against the Palestinian people and their proprieties.

A total of 12 Palestinians were killed at the hands of colonists, added the Commission.

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An illegal Israeli settler detain Palestinian youth west of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), Saturday, March 30, 2024 (WAFA) –

An illegal Israeli settler today morning detained a Palestinian youth from the village of 'Housan, west of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem).

Rami 'Hamamra, the director of the Housan Village Council, said that an illegal Israeli settler from the illegal Israeli outpost of Sidi Boa held Basil Abdul Wahab 'Hamamra, 17, while he was herding sheep in Al-Sharafa area in the village.

Yesterday, a group of the illegal Israeli settlers, heavily guarded by Israeli occupation army soldiers, raided the village using tractors and embarked on carrying out provocative actions against villagers.

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