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 209 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 3 Massacres, 28 Palestinians Killed, 51 Injured, with a Death Toll of  34,596 and 77,816 Injuries

May 2, 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 May 2, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 41,596+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (34,596) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on April 18, 2024: 7,000+). 

By May 2, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 77,816, and more than 2,520 civilians have been abducted from Gaza Strip.

By April 7, 2024, the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip resulted in more than 116,061 martyrs, wounded and missing Palestinians, 70% of whom were children and women.

By April 7, 2024, 14,350 children were killed, constituting 44% of the total number of martyrs (over 33,175) in Gaza Strip.

By May 2, 2024, 493 Palestinians who were killed, 4,867 who were injured, and 8,557, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023 (Some of the detainees have been released).

By March 28, 2024, 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.

More than 10,000 Palestinian women were killed (by April 17, 2024), 23,000 were injured (by March 8, 2024), but there are 2,100 women who are unaccounted for (by March 8, 2024).

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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28 Palestinians were massacred, 51 injured by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip, on May 2, 2024	Pro-Palestinian protests continued across New York City on Wednesday, after the police put an end to encampments at Columbia University, May 2, 2024

Farewell and funeral prayers for the Palestinian martyrs who were massacred by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment, May 2, 2024	Displaced Palestinians in Rafa'h display posters thanking university students in the US and around the world who have been protesting the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, May 2, 2024
President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday that Colombia will sever diplomatic ties with Israel, because of its genocidal war on Gaza Strip, May 2, 2024	UNRWA commissioner Philippe Lazzarini said that the calls for dismantling the UN agency are Israeli attempt to strip Palestinians of their refugee status, May 2, 2024 pic
The Israeli occupation forces demolished several Palestinian-owned homes in the West Bank and Al-Quds, occupied Jerusalem, on May 2, 2024	Palestinian family members standing amidst the rubble of their house in Gaza Strip, which was destroyed by an Israeli genocidal air strike, May 2, 2024
Palestinian children continue to be most of the victims of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip, May 2, 2024	A'hmed Yaseen, a Palestinian truck driver distributing humanitarian aid was killed, several were injured by Israeli occupation forces, near the Kuwait roundabout in Gaza City, May 2, 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 (Since October 7, 2023), 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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New York: Pro-Palestinian rallies against violent police raids on universities

Thursday 2-May-2024

NEW YORK, (PIC)

Pro-Palestinian protests continued across New York City on Wednesday, one day after the city police were brought in to put an end to encampments at Columbia University and the City College of New York.

Scores of pro-Palestinian protesters marched around the city Wednesday afternoon, while chanting slogans denouncing violent police practices against anti-war protesters and holding signs that read “Free Palestine.”

Some of the demonstrators were from student groups, and some said they were there to support the student protesters at Columbia University. They once again called on universities to stop doing business with the Israeli occupation regime.

Demonstrators told local media that they would not stop protesting until the Israeli genocidal war on the  Gaza Strip ends.

The campus of Columbia was cleared of encampments, but university officials say Hamilton Hall remains an active protest site. Police body camera video obtained by CNN showed officers breaching the academic building late Tuesday night, shouting, pining protestors to the ground and arresting them.

Students from Columbia say the city police used excessive force, caused property damage during the raid on the campus and brutalized people as they were protesting peacefully.

Meanwhile, outside City College, there were more demonstrations as people accused the New York police of being too heavy-handed and violent when they entered the campus Tuesday night and made arrests.

Meanwhile, there were tense scenes at different universities and colleges on Thursday as police forces moved onto campuses across the US in efforts to quell and arrest pro-Palestinian protesters.

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US police storm universities, arrest pro-Gaza protesters

Wednesday 1-May-2024

NEW YORK, (PIC)

US police in New York and Virginia stormed universities and arrested hundreds of university students who have been launching pro-Palestine protests, sweeping the US universities in rejection of the ongoing Israeli war on the  Gaza Strip.

New York police stormed the Columbia University campus and arrested hundreds of students who showed solidarity with Palestine.

The American Association of University Professors, Columbia University branch, said that the university’s administration bears the responsibility for what might happen.

The pro-Palestine student movement, which has reached dozens of US universities, demands an end to the Israeli war on  Gaza and an economic and academic boycott of Israel.

The police dispersed protesters and journalists from the vicinity of Hamilton Hall in Columbia University, where students and professors were protesting to demand an end to the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

Columbia University President Nemat Shafiq asked New York Police to remain on campus until May 17 to ensure no more sit-in tents are erected.

For his part, the US Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said, “those causing insecurity on university campuses will not be tolerated,” in a blatant expression of US double standards about the concept of freedom.

In a related context, the University of North Carolina announced the arrest of 36 protesters in an on-campus sit-in, demanding an end to the Israeli war on  Gaza.

At Virginia Commonwealth University, US police dispersed on Tuesday a sit-in in solidarity with  Gaza and arrested 13 protesters, including 6 students, during on-campus protests against the Israeli aggression on the Strip.

US police charged the detainees with illegal assembly and trespassing, the university explained in a statement.

On Tuesday morning, Virginia Governor Winsome Earle Sears wrote in a post on X, “Once the situation calms down, I think we will see that this was not a fully peaceful protest. The assembly violated many university policies”, she added.

About 1,200 university students have so far been arrested from universities across the United States, according to the Washington Post.

Al-Jazeera quoted student sources as saying that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) administration warned that it would disperse a sit-in protest within 24 hours as security forces have encircled the student protest square amid concerns over forced dispersing of the sit-in by the police.

MIT President Sally Kornbluth called for ending student sit-ins, saying in a video message that threats of violence and violations of laws are unacceptable, warning that this will be met with disciplinary sanctions.

The University of California also announced that it had taken measures to increase law enforcement personnel on campus due to the quarrels, amid the continuing pro-Gaza student movement, pledging to take “severe disciplinary measures, including expulsion or suspension, if students are obstructed from their classes.”

Meanwhile, United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Volker Turk said he was disturbed by the harsh measures taken by US security forces during attempts to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at US universities.

In a press statement, Turk stressed that legitimate practices of freedom of expression cannot be confused with incitement to violence and hatred, as he put it.

In the first agreement of its kind, Brown University announced on Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with a group of its students who are standing against the war in  Gaza, stipulating that the protesting students would remove their camp from the campus in exchange for a promise that the university would reconsider its relations with companies linked to Israel.

During the past two weeks, the pro-Palestine student protests spread to universities across the United States, from California in the west (University of California-Los Angeles, University of Southern California…) to the northeastern states (Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Eupen), and to central and southern states such as Texas and Arizona.

On April 18, students rejecting the Israeli war on the  Gaza Strip began a sit-in on Columbia University in New York, demanding halting academic cooperation with Israeli universities and withdrawing its investments in companies that support the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

As police intervened and dozens of students were arrested, the anger spread to dozens of other universities in the United States, including leading universities such as Harvard, George Washington, New York, Yale, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and North Carolina.

The unprecedented pro-Palestine student movement in the United States has expanded to universities in other countries such as France, Britain, Germany, Canada, and India, all of which witnessed demonstrations in support of their counterparts in American universities, demanding to enforce a ceasefire and boycott companies that supply the Israeli occupation army with weapons. 

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Osama 'Hamdan: Contact with Dhaif and Sinwar is ongoing

Thursday 2-May-2024

BEIRUT, (PIC)

Senior Hamas official Osama 'Hamdan confirmed on Wednesday that contact with Mu'hammed Al-Dhaif and Ya'hya Al-Sinwar is ongoing.

'Hamdan said that communication between the resistance leadership in  Gaza and the 'Hamas political office is ongoing and has its own methods and tools, affirming that there is constant close monitoring of the field developments.

He asserted that the resistance capabilities are still high, noting that “the Israeli elite brigades collapsed in the  Gaza Strip.” He pointed out that “the Israeli occupation army is surprised by the capabilities of the resistance in Gaza.”

'Hamdan also warned that if the enemy launched a ground offensive on Rafa'h, negotiations would be halted. The resistance does not negotiate under fire, he underlined.

'Hamdan said that “one of the most important results of this battle is that the axis of resistance is increasing in power and strength. The Iranian response to the Zionist entity established the foundations for a new equation.”

“The one who runs the sea pier in  Gaza is the US administration. However, any armed soldier on  Gaza land will be dealt with as an enemy of the Palestinian people,” he underlined.

Shifting to another issue, the 'Hamas official said, “The resistance has thwarted the project of a new political authority in the Gaza Strip.”

He further welcomed the Chinese mediation to bring about Palestinian reconciliation.

By May 1, 2024, the Israeli occupation army has been continuing its aggression against the Gaza Strip for the 209th day in a row with US and European support, leading to the martyrdom of 34,568 people and the injury of 77,765 others, in addition to the displacement of about 1.7 million people from the Strip’s population, according to United Nations data. 

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Colombia to cut diplomatic ties with Israel

Thursday 2-May-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday that Colombia will sever diplomatic ties with Israel, whose leader he described as “genocidal” in its war in  Gaza.

“Tomorrow (Thursday) diplomatic relations with the state of Israel will be severed… for having a genocidal president,” Petro told a May Day rally in Bogota — referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Petro told thousands of supporters that the world cannot accept “genocide, the extermination of an entire people.”

“If Palestine dies, humanity dies,” he said to loud applause from the crowd, some of whom flew pro-Palestinian banners.

Petro had previously come out in support of Brazil’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who also provoked the ire of Israel for saying its  Gaza campaign “isn’t a war, it’s a genocide.”

Colombia and Brazil supported South Africa’s complaint against Israel to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, saying the  Gaza assault amounted to a breach of the genocide convention.

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Lazzarini: Calls for dismantling UNRAWA aims to strip Palestinians of refugee status

Thursday 2-May-2024

GENEVA, (PIC)

UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini has affirmed that the calls for UNRWA to be dismantled are aimed at stripping Palestinians of their refugee status.

“All the calls for UNRWA to be dismantled, not only in  Gaza but also in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, have nothing to do with neutrality. Neutrality issues can be addressed,” Lazzarini said in a recent news conference held in Geneva.

“But the objective behind it is clearly to strip Palestinians of the refugee status,” the UNRWA chief added.

“And, basically, we keep hearing that UNRWA is part of the problem because it perpetuates refugee status. It’s as if you say that a humanitarian response in a conflict perpetuates the conflict. What perpetuated the conflict is the absence of a political solution,” he said.

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PGMO refutes US, Israeli claims about increase in aid flow into besieged Gaza

Thursday 2-May-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Palestinian Government Media Office in  Gaza (PGMO) on Wednesday dismissed US and Israeli claims about an increase in humanitarian aid flow into the besieged enclave.

Some 4,887 aid trucks entered  Gaza, including 1,166 from Rafah crossing with Egypt and 3,721 from Kerem Abu Salim terminal with Israel (over the past seven months), Salama Ma'rouf, head of the media office, said in a statement.

“Only 419 aid trucks were allowed into northern Gaza,” he added.

According to Ma'rouf, around 163 aid trucks enter the besieged enclave daily, a figure that is significantly lower than the 500 aid trucks needed to avert a humanitarian crisis in the Strip.

“This figure is significantly lower than the daily needs of our people, especially the residents of northern  Gaza,” he added.

Last month, the Israeli government temporarily approved the entry of very limited aid into  Gaza through the Ashdod port and the Bait 'Hanoun land crossing and an increase in Jordanian aid through the Karm Abu Salim crossing.

Israel has waged a relentless offensive on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, killing more than 34,500 Palestinians and injuring over 76,000 others amid mass destruction and shortages of necessities.

Israel has also imposed a crippling blockade on the Gaza Strip, leaving its population, particularly residents of northern Gaza, on the verge of starvation.

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Fanatic Israelis attack Jordanian aid convoys delivered to Gaza

Thursday 2-May-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates revealed and strongly condemned on Wednesday an attack carried out by Israeli extremists on two Jordanian aid convoys successfully delivered for the first time into the  Gaza Strip by the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization through Beit Hanoun crossing in the northern  Gaza Strip.

The Charity Organization explained that it has sent 31 trucks through the Beit Hanoun crossing, after turning it into a new gateway for the entry of Jordanian aid to the people in Gaza, whereas 48 other trucks are expected to arrive through the Kerem Shalom crossing, bringing the total number of sent aid trucks to 79 trucks.

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced the failure of the Israeli government to protect the two aid convoys, dubbing it a gross violation of its legal obligations as the occupying power and its duty to permit aid into  Gaza.

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Sufyan Al-Qudah, also condemned the Israeli extremists’ attack on the two convoys and the failure of the Israeli occupation authorities to provide protection, noting that this undermines all the Israeli government’s claims and commitments to allowing aid into  Gaza through crossings including the Beit Hanoun crossing.

Al-Qudah held the Israeli authorities fully responsible for this attack and urged the international community to take a clear position condemning the offence and requiring Israel to fulfill its legal obligations to ensure the protection of aid convoys as well as the UN organizations that work on receiving and distributing them.

The two aid convoys, organized by the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization in cooperation with several charitable organizations, were attacked on their way to  Gaza by a group of extremist Israelis.

Video clips that went viral on social media showed extremist Israelis throwing bags from a truck, tearing them apart and scattering flour on the ground, amid loud laughter.

Despite the attack, the two convoys continued their mission to deliver aid to  Gaza, reaching their destinations in light of the humanitarian catastrophe, Al-Qudah said.

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

On May 2, 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 4 massacres, which resulted in the killing of 33 Palestinian civilians, and the injury of 57 others, in the past 24 hours. This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 34,568 and the injuries to 77,765, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.   

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Gaza: Death toll surges to 34,596 martyrs

Thursday 2-May-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The health ministry in  Gaza said on Thursday that the Israeli occupation army committed three massacres in different areas of the  Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 28 civilians and injuring over 51 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 said that the Israeli army killed and injured a large number of civilians in different areas of Gaza during the past 24 hours, but only 79 of them, including 28 martyrs (and injuries), 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 34,596 martyrs and the number of the wounded surged to 77,816 people.

The  Gaza Strip has been under brutal 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 genocidal war o Gaza Strip enters day 209

Thursday 2-May-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the  Gaza Strip entered day 209 on Thursday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different areas, and massacre more civilians, mostly children and women.

A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that the Israeli occupation army continued to launch attacks across  Gaza, killing and injuring multiple citizens.

According to media sources, Israeli warplanes bombed two homes in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the southeast of Gaza City, with no reported casualties.

The Israeli occupation army also launched multiple artillery attacks on areas in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces opened fire at aid trucks at the Kuwait rotary in the same neighborhood in  Gaza City, killing a Palestinian driver and injuring other citizens.

Civil defense and medical crews recovered one body of a female martyr from the rubble of a house that had been bombed about two months ago in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Dozens of casualties were also reported following Israeli genocidal attacks on other areas of  Gaza last night and today.

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Palestinian killed, others injured as Israeli occupation forces attack civilians east of Gaza City

GAZA, Thursday, May 2, 2024 (WAFA) –

A Palestinian citizen was killed and several others were injured today as they were targeted by Israeli occupation army gunfire southeast of Gaza City, according to local sources.

WAFA correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation army opened fire on a Palestinian citizen identified as A'hmed Yaseen—who worked as a truck driver distributing humanitarian aid—near the Kuwait roundabout in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City. Yaseen was fatally shot, and others were wounded, and were all subsequently transferred to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the city.

Additionally, six citizens were injured as Israeli airstrikes targeted a house in the Hassan al-Banna area of the aforementioned neighborhood.

Warplanes also conducted raids on the Buraij refugee camp and others areas of the central Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian death toll from Israel's deadly aggression against the Gaza Strip since October 7th, 2023, has now surged to 34,596, medical sources confirmed today.

M.N.

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Gaza: Dozens of civilians killed as the Israeli genocidal war continues on Gaza

GAZA, Thursday, May 2, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Dozens of Palestinian citizens were Thursday killed and injured in the Israeli genocidal bombing of various areas in the Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent said that six citizens were killed in an Israeli genocidal bombing of the city of Al-Zahraa, north of Al-Nusayrat camp in the central Gaza Strip, while ambulance and rescue crews and residents were able to recover three slain Palestinians, following a series of raids launched by occupation aircraft on the northwestern region of the camp.

In Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip, a citizen was killed, and others were injured, in an Israeli bombing on Al-Qurain area, southeast of the city of Khan Younus.

Areas in Bani Suhaila, 'Abasan, and Khuza’a, east of the city, also saw intense bombardment by Israeli warplanes.

In Gaza City, the Israeli aircraft bombed a residential building owned by Ishtaiwi family in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, killing two citizens and wounding others, while a number of missing people are still under the rubble.

The Israeli aircraft launched a raid targeting a house in Al-Shuja'iya neighborhood, east of the city.

The Israeli artillery also targeted homes and lands of citizens in the neighborhoods of Al-Shaikh 'Ijleen, Tel Al-Hawa, and Al-Zaytoun, southwest of Gaza City.

It also targeted lands and tents of the displaced people east of the city of Rafa'h.

By May 1, 2024, in a non-final tally, medical sources confirmed that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 34,568, the majority of whom were children and women, while the number of injuries has risen to 77,765, since the beginning of the Israeli occupation aggression on October 7, 2023.

K.T.

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Bodies of 500 slain Palestinian prisoners withheld by the Israeli occupation apartheid regime, says official

RAMALLAH, Thursday, May 2, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The National Campaign to Retrieve the Bodies of the Martyrs said that the Israeli occupation apartheid regime continue to withholding the bodies of 500 slain Palestinians who died inside Israeli occupation jails, including the bodies of 58 others since the beginning of 2024.

The campaign considered withholding the bodies of slain Palestinians in the cemeteries and refrigerators as a violation of the principles of international humanitarian law and relevant international norms.

"Withholding the bodies in the cemeteries and the occupation’s refrigerators constitutes an affront to the human dignity of a person, during his life and after his death, and a collective punishment." 

It urgently called on international organizations to demand the resale of the bodies of slain Palestinians in order to enable their families to rebury them in a manner befitting human dignity.

The National Campaign further called on all human rights defenders to pressure the occupation to release them, stressing "it is shameful for the world to remain silent about the punishment of a person even after his death."

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

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Several Palestinians injured in Nablus clashes

Thursday 2-May-2024

NABLUS, (PIC)

Several Palestinians suffered from suffocation after inhaling teargas fired by the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) as clashes erupted in Qusra town, south of Nablus, on Wednesday evening.

The clashes broke out after the IOFs stormed the southern area of the town, amid heavy firing of teargas bombs.

Tension has been rising high in the West Bank since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on the  Gaza Strip, which resulted in thousands of kidnappings and hundreds of martyrs.

As the Israeli war of genocide against the  Gaza Strip enters its 208th day, 34,568 Palestinians were killed and 77,765 others were injured while about 1.7 million people were displaced.

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Israeli occupation forces shoot and injure youth, detain others, during Ramallah-camp raid

RAMALLAH, Thursday, May 2, 2024 (WAFA) – 

A Palestinian youth was Thursday dawn shot by the occupation forces, and five others, including a woman, were detained during a military raid into Al-Jalazoan refugee camp, north of Ramallah.

Security sources told WAFA correspondent that confrontations broke out between young men and the occupation forces during the storming of the camp, during which live and rubber bullets and gas bombs were fired, which led to a young man being injured by a gunshot to the foot.

The same sources added that a number of military vehicles stormed the camp, noting that the occupation soldiers mounted the rooftops of houses, and detained five people, including a woman in order to pressure her husband to surrender himself.

Local sources reported that during the storming of the camp, the occupation soldiers destroyed a number of vehicles as the confrontations took place with youths, during which the occupation army fired bullets, sound bombs, and poison gas.

K.T.

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Israeli occupation forces detain 15 Palestinians in West Bank raids

RAMALLAH, Thursday, May 2, 2024 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces at dawn Thursday detained at least 15 Palestinians, including a women, in multiple raids across the occupied West Bank, according to security sources and the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission (PAC).

They said that the occupation forces detained at least 15 Palestinians, including several former prisoners and a woman, from the West Bank districts of Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, ,Tulkarm, Nablus, Jericho and Jerusalem.

The raids involved brutal beatings of detainees, threats against their families and large-scale destruction of Palestinian houses.

It added that over 8,550 Palestinians have been detained since October 7 from their houses and at checkpoints. Such detainees also include those who were forced to turn themselves in and those held as hostages.

The occupation forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost daily across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.

These raids are conducted with no need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.

Y.S. 

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

 

IOFs demolish several Palestinian homes in the West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Wednesday 1-May-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished several Palestinian-owned homes in the West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) early on Wednesday.

In Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), the Israeli bulldozers demolished an old house and a retaining wall in Al-Sal’ah neighborhood in Jabal Al-Mukabbir town.

In the West Bank, the occupation forces demolished a Palestinian-owned two-story house with an area of 200 square meters in the Khallet Al-Furn area near the village of Birain, east of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

The IOFs also demolished a water well and bulldozed crops, fruit trees, cement fences, and barbed wire over an area of approximately one and a half dunums.

The villagers reported that the Israeli attacks and demolition operations aim to forcibly displace them from the town.

Meanwhile, two Palestinian homes were demolished in Mughar village in the Galilee region in the 1948 occupied territories.

Local sources reported that Israeli police forces stormed the town accompanied by military bulldozers before carrying out the demolition process. 

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Israeli occupation forces demolish building, shacks, near Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

 Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), Thursday, May 2, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation bulldozers Thursday demolished a Palestinian-owned under-construction residential building and two shacks in the town of 'Hizma, northeast of Jerusalem.

One of the building owners told WAFA that the occupation army stormed Tablas area of ​​the town and demolished a three-story residential building owned by 'Ali Qasim Al-Khateeb family under the pretext of building without a permit.

The occupation also demolished two shacks in the same area, belonging to the family of Yousuf Ma'hmoud Mulai'hat.

K.T.

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Around 163 illegal Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

 Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), Thursday, May 2, 2024 (WAFA) –

In a new provocation to Palestinian Muslims, scores of the illegal Israeli settlers today stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), under protection from Israeli occupation police, according to local sources.

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) Governorate said that about 163 colonists stormed the Mosque from Al-Maghariba Gate, carried out provocative tours and performed Talmudic rituals in the vicinity of the Bab al-Rahma prayer area.

In the same context, the occupation police tightened their measures and beefed-up their military deployments in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, preventing young men from entering it.

Y.S.

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Illegal Israeli settlers attack Bedouin community near Aree'ha (Jericho)

Aree'ha (Jericho), Thursday, May 2, 2024 (WAFA) –

 A group of the illegal Israeli settlers Thursday attacked the Mulai'hat Arab community northwest of the city of Aree'ha (Jericho), local sources confirmed.

The general supervisor of Al-Baidar organization for defending the rights of Bedouins, 'Hasan Mulai'hat, told WAFA that about 15 colonists attacked the Mulai'hat Arab community, released their livestock onto citizens’ lands, and attacked civilian homes.

He added that the illegal Israeli settlers emptied seven water tanks owned by local residents in the community.

K.T.

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