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 155 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 10 Massacres, 82 Palestinians Killed, 122 Injured, with a Death Toll of  30,960 and 72,524 Injuries

March 9, 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 9, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 37,960+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (30,960) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on February 7, 2024: 7,000+).   

By March 9, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 72,524, 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 9, 2024, 436 Palestinians who were killed, 3,675 who were injured, and 7,493, 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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82 Palestinians were killed, 122 were injured, mostly women and children, by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, on March 9, 2024	An Israeli occupation soldier boasted to other soldiers of how he shot an unarmed elderly Palestinian man who raised his hands in surrender, but he shot him again, released March 8, 2024
Three more Palestinian children died of malnutrition and dehydration at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, March 9, 2024	At least 10 Palestinian civilians were killed, including children, and others injured today, in an Israeli genocidal airstrike on Al-Nusayrat, March 9, 2024
Palestinian children have constituted most of the victims of the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip, March 9, 2024	Al-Masry residential tower in Rafa'h was targeted by an Israeli genocidal air strike, on March 9, 2024
Scenes of the destruction inflicted by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Khan Younus, March 9, 2024	Al-Masry residential tower in Rafa'h, which was targeted by an Israeli genocidal air strike, on March 9, 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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Caught on camera, Israeli forces cruelly execute defenseless elderly man west of Gaza

Saturday 9-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

Al-Jazeera TV channel broadcasted scenes of a criminal attack carried out by Israeli occupation forces against an elderly Palestinian man after storming a house west of Gaza City. The soldiers boasted the killing of the unarmed man.

Al-Jazeera TV said the crime was captured by an Israeli soldier’s camera on November 6, without revealing further details.

The video clip shows Israeli soldiers talking while storming the house; and as one of them claims that there is a “saboteur” on the upper floor, their commander tells them to leave the house and asks the Israeli forces to bomb the upper floor.

During their conversations, one of them boasted of how he shot an unarmed elderly Palestinian who raised his hands in surrender, but he shot him again leaving him dead next to his bed.

The Israeli crime in the clip does not stop there. After Israeli soldiers congratulate the criminal soldier for killing the elderly man, they go back up again to shoot the elderly Palestinian again in an extremely cruel scene, even though he was already martyred and just a lifeless body on the ground. 

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'Hamas: We reject Israel’s sham investigation into Al-Nabulsi Roundabout massacre

Saturday 9-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement has affirmed its rejection of the Israeli results of its probe into what has become known as the “flour massacre”, in which hundreds of Gazan people were killed and wounded.

'Hamas said in a statement on Friday, “We reject the results of the sham and misleading investigation carried out by the criminal Zionist occupation army, on Al-Nabulsi Roundabout massacre last week, which claimed the lives of about 120 Palestinians who were waiting to receive aid.”

This came in response to Israeli allegations, in the form of an investigation conducted by the Israeli army, that Israeli forces opened fire on citizens “due to the presence of suspicious elements posing a ‘threat’ by approaching the army forces!”.

The Movement affirmed that “this sham deceptive inquiry goes beyond the compelling facts on the Israeli intentional killing of Palestinians by shooting them directly on the upper parts of the body.”

'Hamas noted that the massacre “received widespread international condemnation, which prompted the Nazi Zionist occupation to try to exonerate its terrorist soldiers of the horrific crime they committed with no justification other than their thirst to kill more of our people.”

On February 29, Israeli forces opened fire on hundreds of Palestinians after they had gathered south of Gaza City waiting to receive humanitarian aid on Al-Rashid Street, leaving 120 martyrs and 760 wounded, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. 

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'Hamad: Israeli government not serious about ending its war crimes in Gaza

Saturday 9-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

Member of Hamas’s political bureau Ghazi 'Hamad has said that the Israeli occupation government tabled impossible conditions in the ceasefire talks, affirming that it is not serious about ending its war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

“There are international pressures on the occupation due to the worsening famine in the Gaza Strip,” 'Hamad said in press remarks on Friday, calling for more pressure on the Israeli government to provide Gazans with their humanitarian needs, whether by land or sea.

'Hamad added that his Movement would continue to negotiate an honorable deal that guarantees an end to the war, the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza, the return of displaced families to their areas, and the reconstruction of what had been destroyed.

“The occupation insists on continuing its war and massacres in Gaza, and its leaders do not care about the captives and their families,” 'Hamad said.

“There must be a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire and then a [military] withdrawal from Gaza, even if in stages,” he added. 

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Sanders: US complicit in what is happening in Gaza

Saturday 9-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

US senator Bernie Sanders has accused the US administration of being complicit in what is happening in the Gaza Strip.

In social media remarks on Friday, Sanders said that “giving $10 billion to the Netanyahu government is a mistake.”

“Biden’s efforts in Gaza are still inadequate. It is one of the largest humanitarian crises in history,” the US senator said.

Israel has been waging a genocidal war on Gaza since October 7.

According to Gaza’s health ministry, by March 8, 2024, 30,878 Palestinians have been killed, and 72,402 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7. Most of the victims are children and women.

Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly 2,000,000 people from all over Gaza, with the vast majority of the displaced civilians forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafa'h near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba. 

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Gaza: Three more children die of malnutrition and dehydration

Saturday 9-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The health ministry in the Gaza Strip said on Friday that three Palestinian children died of malnourishment and dehydration at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

According to spokesman for the ministry Ashraf Al-Qidra, the death toll from malnutrition and dehydration in Gaza has climbed to 23 martyrs, mostly children.

Last Wednesday, the health ministry announced the death of a 15-year-old child at Al-Shifa Hospital and a 72-year-old man at Kamal 'Idwan Hospital in northern Gaza as a result of hunger and dehydration.

Al-Qidra affirmed that the announced death toll from hunger and dehydration reflects only the people who were pronounced dead by hospitals, while there are dozens who are believed to have died of hunger silently and without being able to reach hospitals in Gaza.

UN officials have been warning for months that Israel’s siege and offensive were pushing the Palestinians in Gaza into famine.

Hunger is most acute in northern Gaza, which has been isolated by the Israeli occupation forces for months and has suffered long cutoffs of food supplies.

Children are also beginning to die in the south, where access to aid is not enough.

At the Emirati Hospital in Rafa'h, 16 premature babies have died of malnutrition-related causes over the past five weeks, one of the senior doctors told The Associated Press.

The Israeli occupation army largely shut off entry of food, water, medicine and other vital supplies after launching its war on Gaza following the Palestinian resistance’s October 7 cross-border operation in response, in particular, to Israel’s unprecedented violations and measures at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds (Occupied Jerusalem).

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Abu Obeida: Israel is carrying out a true Nazi holocaust against our people

Friday 8-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Spokesman for the Qassam Brigades Abu 'Obayda, said that there will be no compromise on its demand that Israel withdraw from Gaza to secure the release of Israeli captives seized in the October 7 attack.

“Our top priority to reach a prisoner exchange deal is the complete commitment to the halt of aggression and an enemy withdrawal, and there is no compromise on this,” Abu 'Obayda said in a televised statement.

Captives are suffering from a lack of food and medication because of shortages of supplies in Gaza, he added.

Here are excerpts of the full speech he delivered in the televised statement:

The battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood enters today, and this savage war on our people, its sixth month, and still the criminal enemy practices against our people a real Nazi holocaust of killing, starving, tightening, and destruction and despises all the laws of the world and its miserable systems and literatures, which stand powerless before an usurping occupying entity devoid of all human values.

Our people stand in the face of an unprecedented American-Zionist aggression in history, so that this battle, God willing, will establish a new phase not only on the level of Gaza and Palestine but on the level of the world, a phase whose title is that rights can only be taken by force and weapon and that every rights seeker should not wait for a mirage from international powers that have practiced oppressing peoples and enslaving nations.

The international community and its outdated laws are designed to protect injustice, oppression, and aggression with the might of the tyrant force, at the forefront of which is the American administration. Our people and our resistance understood this equation early on, hence the resistance of our people and its renewed revolution, and therefore the epic of October 7th came as a response to decades-long continuous aggression, which culminated in an attempt to Judaize, defeat, and provoke the feelings of all Muslims.

The Zionist rampage escalated with the arrival of the most extreme and Nazi government to power in the entity, planning before October 7th what it is doing today in Gaza, the West Bank, and Al-Quds, based on an alleged Torah heritage that openly calls for the burning, killing, and destruction of other nations, empowered by gangs of Zionist usurpers who have long since started their detestable religious war against our Al-Aqsa, our people, our sanctities, and our land.

The murderous criminal government… If there were justice and preserved right in the world, its leaders today would be condemned for committing a holocaust against a people and a nation, but it is the law of the jungle in which the so-called Security Council convenes, where the trembling hand of the oppressor is raised to obstruct any attempt, even a formal one, to support the oppressed and deter the aggressors.

In the face of this reality and aggression, we in Al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian resistance have carried our souls on our hands and still do, realizing that the enemy, who understands only the language of force, will not be subdued by statements, conferences, condemnations, or even international resolutions.

We have prepared for our enemy what will disgrace him, and we have been the fate of God upon him. We fought, and we still are fighting for decades. Here we are, fighting in the battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood for the 154th day, still inflicting heavy, significant losses on this besieged enemy and his aggressive, criminal army – losses among their officers, soldiers, mercenaries, and machinery.

By the strength and help of God, we still have more as long as Israel’s aggression continues on our land unabated, there will be no calm, and it will not succeed in bringing security, neither to its public nor to its terrified, confused army, before it gives our people their right and ends its occupation of our land and our sanctities.

O our people, our nation, and the free people of the world, we, in the Martyr 'Izzuddeen Al-Qassam Brigades, at the dawn of the sixth month of the Al-Aqsa Flood battle and on the threshold of the blessed month of Ramadan, extend our blessings to our great people, to our Islamic nation, for the approaching holy month of Ramadan, a month of obedience, jihad, and victories.

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

On March 9, 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 10 massacres, in which  82 Palestinian civilians were killed, and 122 were injured, in the past 24 hours. This increased the death toll in Gaza Strip to 30,960 and the injuries to 72,524, since October 7, 2023.   

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Gaza: Death toll surges to 30,960 martyrs

Saturday 9-March-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The health ministry in Gaza said on Saturday that the Israeli occupation army committed 10 massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 82 civilians and injuring over 122 others, while a large number of victims are still under the rubble of bombed buildings or lying on roads.

In a statement, the health ministry added that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli bombardments and shooting attacks, which started on October 7, climbed to 30,960 martyrs and the number of the wounded surged to 72,524 people.

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

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

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At least 10 Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks in Gaza

GAZA, Saturday, March 9, 2024 (WAFA) –

At least 10 Palestinian civilians were killed, including children, and others injured today in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to local and medical sources.

The sources reported that 10 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in the airstrike which targeted a house belonging to the Nawari family in the refugee camp.

Over the past 24 hours, the Israeli occupation forces committed 10 massacres in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the murder of 82 civilians and injuring 122 others, according to the local health authorities.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has so far resulted in over 30,960 reported fatalities, most of whom are children and women, with an additional 72,524 documented injuries, according to the Ministry of Health.

This toll remains provisional as thousands of victims are feared dead under rubble or left in the streets, with Israeli forces hindering access for ambulance and civil defense crews.

M.N.

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Dozens of civilians killed and others injured in Gaza as Israel's genocide marks 155 days

GAZA, Saturday, March 9, 2024 (WAFA) –

Dozens of civilians, the majority of whom are children and women, were killed and others injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes that targeted multiple areas across the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources said that at least six civilians were in Israeli artillery shelling of several homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

Three children were also killed inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City due to malnutrition and starvation, which raises Palestinian death toll from hunger in Gaza since the start of the aggression to 23.

In Jabalya, north of the Gaza Strip, nine Palestinian citizens, mostly children, were killed in artillery shelling that targeted citizens’ homes.

Furthermore, five civilians were killed in an artillery shelling that targeted the city of Dair El-Bala'h and the outskirts of the Nusayrat camp, in the central Gaza Strip, and they were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

In Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip, from last night until dawn today, 23 people, including children and women, were killed in intense airstrikes that targeted a number of citizens’ homes.

Simultaneously, at least 20 people were wounded when the occupation forces and military tanks struck a group of civilians who were waiting for aid at the Kuwait Roundabout in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza. 

The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has so far, by March 8, 2024, resulted in over 30,800 reported fatalities, most of whom are children and women, with an additional 72,208 documented injuries, according to the Ministry of Health.

Y.S.

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Scores of civilians wounded in Israeli airstrike that targeted residential tower in Rafa'h

GAZA, Saturday, March 9, 2024 (WAFA) –

Scores of civilians sustained various injuries today in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential tower in Rafa'h, south of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that occupation fighter jets targeted the Al-Masry residential tower, in the center of Rafa'h, wounding a number of citizens.

Furthermore, Israeli warplanes also carried out intense airstrikes that targeted the eastern and western areas of the city of Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip, causing injuries among civilians.

The occupation aircraft also launched multiple raids on the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, resulting in casualties and severe injuries to several Palestinian citizens.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has so far resulted in over 30,800 reported fatalities, most of whom are children and women, with an additional 72,208 documented injuries, according to the Ministry of Health.

Y.S. 

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

 

IOFs kidnap citizens, destroy roads in the West Bank

Saturday 9-March-2024, WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnaped last night and at dawn Saturday a number of Palestinian citizens and came under fire from resistance fighters during raids in the West Bank.

According to local sources, the IOFs stormed the eastern area of Nablus and kidnaped a young man from his home in Kuroum 'Aashour neighborhood.

Two other young men were taken prisoners during an IOFs raid in the old 'Askar refugee camp in eastern Nablus.

In Qalqilya, Israeli occupation forces stormed Qalqilya City and kidnaped two young men as they were en route at night to their workplace and another one after ransacking his home.

The IOFs also raided multiple homes and clashed with resistance fighters in Qalqilya City.

In Jineen, the IOFs assaulted citizens and searched for security camera recordings during raids in Silat Al-Dthahiriya town, amid clashes with resistance fighters and local youths.

Local sources reported that one explosive device was thrown at Israeli soldiers during the events in the town.

In Toulkarm, resistance fighters opened fire and detonated a number of explosive devices at Israeli soldiers and their vehicles in the city and Nour Shams refugee camp. One IOFs bulldozer sustained damage.

The IOFs reportedly used bulldozers to wreak havoc on roads and public and private property in Toulkarm City and Nour Shams camp.

Israeli occupation forces also assaulted journalists and opened fire at ambulances in Toulkarm and Nour Shams. 

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

Illegal Israeli settlers raid a cemetery, destroy tombstones in Al-Quds (Jerusalem)

Al-Quds (Jerusalem), Saturday, March 9, 2024 (WAFA) -

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers today destroyed tombstones in the Bab Al-Ra'hma cemetery, adjacent to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, according to security sources.

They said that a group of Israeli colonists destroyed a number of tombstones of at least 10 graves and vandalized some of the contents of the cemetery.

The witnesses added that the colonists are constantly storming the cemetery and performing Talmudic rituals with the aim of seizing it. The cemetery is also subjected to excavations by the occupation for the benefit of establishing a base for the Judaization cable car surrounding the old city of Al-Quds (Jerusalem).

The area of Bab Al-Ra'hma cemetery is about 23 dunums and it contains many graves of the Companions.

The Israeli occupation apartheid government also intends to convert part of the cemetery into a so-called "biblical" garden, as part of its project to Judaize the city.

Y.S.

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