Documentation of the Israeli abuse of power, mistreatment of humanity, and perpetration of the genocidal war on the Palestinian people in the  Gaza Strip.

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By Day 395 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, Palestinian Death Toll Rose to 43,374 and Injuries to 102,261, in Addition to 3,013 Martyrs and 13,553 Injured Civilians in Lebanon

November 4, 2024

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On Day 395 of US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 3 Massacres, 33 Palestinians Killed, 156 Injured, in the Past 24 Hours, with a Death Toll of  43,374 and 102,261 Injuries, by November 4, 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, based on the reliable data reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry:

By November 4, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 53,374+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (43,374), those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 10,000+). 

By November 4, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 102,261.

By November 4, 2024, 770 Palestinians who were killed, 6,527 who were injured, and 11,733, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023, including 310 women and 640 children (Some of the detainees have been released).

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By November 4, 2024, according to initial reports, 11 Lebanese civilians were killed, 61 were injured, by the Israeli genocidal raids on Lebanon, in the past 24 hours. Thus, the Lebanese death toll, since October 8, 2023, has surged to 3,013 fatalities and more than 13,553 injuries.

Since September 23, 2024, the Lebanese death toll rose to 2,071 and the injuries to 6,605. 

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The raid that targeted the area of Kafr Al-Jouz in the south‎ Lebanon, November 4, 2024.	Aftermath of an Israeli genocidal air strike on the southern suburb of Beirut‎, November 2, 2024.
A UNRWA school, sheltering displaced Palestinians who lost their homes due to the Israeli genocidal war which destroyed most of homes in the Gaza Strip, November 4, 2024.	More than1,800 Palestinians were martyred, and 4,000 were injured, while hundreds are still missing by the Israeli ongoing genocidal war on northern Gaza Strip, November 4, 2024 pic
33 Palestinians were killed, 156 were injured by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on the Gaza Strip, on November 4, 2024.	Illegal Israeli settlers attacked at dawn hours the city of Al-Beerih, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, and set on fire to a number of Palestinian-owned vehicle, November 4, 2024.
Aftermath of death and destruction of the Israeli genocidal air strikes on the Lebanese city of Ba'albek, on November 4, 2024.	Aftermath of death and destruction of the Israeli genocidal air strikes on Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, in central Gaza Strip, on November 4, 2024.

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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 (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.

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3,013 martyrs and 13,553 wounded since the start of the aggression, and yesterday's toll 11 martyrs and 61 wounded‎

‎Date:‎‎ 5/11/2024‎   ‎

Source:‎‎ Lebanese Ministry of Public Health‎

‎ ‎The Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health issued the daily report on the outcome and repercussions of the Israeli war on Lebanon‎, in which it stated that the Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces raids on Monday, November 4, 2024, resulted in 11 martyrs and 61 wounded. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ The total number of martyrs and wounded since the beginning of the aggression until yesterday reached 3,013 martyrs and 13,553 wounded.‎

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‎44 days of Israeli aggression on Lebanon: More martyrs and wounded in the south and the Biqaa' and the targeting of a residential apartment in Al-Jiya‎

‎ Al-Manar, November 5, 2024 ‎

‎The Israeli aggression on Lebanon enters its forty-fourth day, causing dozens of martyrs and wounded, as the number of martyrs rose to 3002 (according to yesterday's tally) since the aggression began on the eighth of October 2023.‎

‎In the details of the developments of the aggression in the south, a hostile raid targeted on Tuesday afternoon a residential apartment in a building in the town of Jiya near the Mustafa complex.‎

‎According to local sources, the septuagenarian citizen Ghadiya Al-Suwaid from the town of Al-Dhahira Al-Fawqa was lost and contact with her was lost after some occupation soldiers entered the town this morning, according to the family of citizenship.‎

‎In the district of Soor (Tyre), an enemy airstrike on the outskirts of the town of al-Bazouriyeh caused injuries. The Civil Defense of the Islamic Message Scouts Association announced a rocket at the Abbasiya junction that did not explode.‎

‎According to local sources, three people were wounded as a result of the raid that targeted the town of Al-Shabriha in Tyre, the paramedics of the Islamic Message Scouts for Health Ambulance worked to transfer them to the hospital, and the search process continues by the Civil Defense and the scouts. A violent hostile raid also targeted the area between the towns of Aitit and Wadi Jilo in the Bazourieh region. The bodies of two martyrs were recovered from the town of Maaroub who died as a result of a raid that targeted the town at dawn yesterday.‎

‎The enemy warplanes launched a raid this afternoon targeting the center of the Kafr Jouz area in Nabatieh with two air-to-ground missiles. A hostile march targeted around a quarter past ten in the morning, with a guided missile, the town of Kfour, in the Nabatieh district.‎

‎Two airstrikes also targeted the towns of Kafra and Al-Shihabiya. The hostile warplanes raided a house in the town of Joya, and targeted a house in the ground, where civil defense teams and the message scouts in the health ambulance are working to remove the rubble.‎

‎In the context of the aggression in the south, warplanes launched a raid at noon on a building on the road to the entrance to Sheikh Ragheb Harb Hospital in Toul.‎

‎Earlier, a representative of the National News Agency in Marjayoun reported that hostile artillery shelling targeted the neighborhood of Al-Maslakh and Wadi Al-Asafir in the town of Al-Khiyam. The town of Dair 'Antar, in the Bint Jubail district, was also hit by a hostile raid this morning.‎

‎In al-Zahrani, enemy warplanes raided the outskirts of the town of Al-Kharayib.‎

‎For more information on developments in the south, with us Al-Manar correspondent Hashim Al-Sayid 'Hasan‎

‎As for the Biqaa, the Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health issued a statement that the Israeli enemy raid on Hortala led to the death of three people. In the town of Talya, the morning aggression led to two martyrs and one wounded, the Lebanese Ministry of Health confirmed.‎

‎Enemy aircraft targeted the northern entrance to the town of Mashghara. Previously, the main road between the towns of Sa'hmar and Ya'hmor was targeted with one raid and a raid between the towns of Ya'hmor and Zulaya in the western Biqaa, and no injuries have been reported so far.‎

‎The representative of the National News Agency in Baalbek reported that a hostile march targeted a car in the town of Talya, killing two people.‎

‎From the Bekaa and for more details about the latest developments in the aggression, we have with us the correspondent Ghassan Kanso‎

‎37 southern towns wiped out most of their streets and more than 40,000 housing units completely destroyed‎

‎According to the National News Agency in Soor (Tyre), the occupation army has booby-trapped and destroyed neighborhoods in entire cities and towns, as more than one street and neighborhood in 37 towns were surveyed and their homes destroyed, and more than 40,000 housing units were completely destroyed.‎

‎ This is happening in an area three kilometers deep stretching from Al-Naqoura to the outskirts of Al-Khiyam.‎

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‎Widespread aggression and massacres against civilians in the south and Biqaa... Renewed raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut‎

‎ Al-Manar, November 2, 2024 ‎

‎The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, which has been ongoing since September 23, 2024, led to (2897) martyrs and (13150) wounded. The ministry indicated that the number of martyrs following Thursday's attacks amounted to (30) martyrs and (103) wounded.‎

‎The Israeli enemy continues to launch air raids on various Lebanese areas on Friday, as part of its ongoing aggression against Lebanon for forty days. A series of raids, at dawn on Friday, targeted the southern suburb of Beirut after days of cautious calm, specifically in the Ghobairy area, 'Harit 'Huraik and Al-Kafaat.‎

‎Al-Manar TV correspondent 'Abbas Ja'far conveyed the picture to us from the suburb after a night of brutal aggression‎

‎While a number of citizens were martyred after shelling different areas in the country, where the Lebanese Ministry of Health confirmed today, the death of 3 people and the injury of 5 others in a hostile raid, last night, on the town of Qamatiya, Mount Lebanon.‎

‎Coinciding with the enemy's raids on the suburb, the barbaric aggression on the south and the Biqaa continued, claiming more martyrs and wounded among civilians, in addition to destroying residential, commercial and other facilities.‎

‎Dozens of martyrs and wounded in the Biqaa‎

‎In Biqaa, the occupation army committed massacres against civilians in the city of Baalbek and the villages of the district, as Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids targeting residential buildings, committing a massacre in the town of Maqna, which was not covered by the warning, in which (6) martyrs were members of an entire family from the Miqdad family, and six citizens were injured. Later, the enemy committed a massacre in the town of Amhaz, killing 12 martyrs, while the rubble removal work continues. Following a hostile raid this afternoon on a house in the Harbata plain, 3 people were killed in an indefinite toll.‎

‎Hostile warplanes raided a house in the Ras Al-'Ain locality of Baalbek at the entrance to a populated neighborhood, destroying it. He also carried out a raid on the town of Bednayel in the central Biqaa, as well as a raid on the town of Eiat.‎

‎It also carried out a raid on the outskirts of the town of Rasm Al-'Hadath in the Harbata region, and two separate raids on the town of Al-Bazaliya in the northern Biqaa. An enemy raid in the town of Taraya killed two civilians and moderately wounded four others. The heights of the town of Qasrnaba were also subjected to a hostile raid.‎

‎The Israeli warplanes also launched a belt of fire in the city of Baalbek, with four simultaneous raids towards the southern entrance to the city, destroying a house in the locality of Kayyal in Baalbek on top of the elderly, which led to the death of a female citizen, and the injury of five citizens.‎

‎The Zahra neighborhood in the city of Baalbek was subjected to an air strike, in addition to targeting the town of Taraya, west of Baalbek, with two air strikes.‎

‎Earlier, hundreds of meters away from the town of Durres, Israeli warplanes carried out a raid on a residential neighborhood in the locality of "Qasr Al-'Uloom", destroying the targeted house, and dozens of buildings, shops and neighboring institutions were damaged by the explosion, and three people were lightly injured.‎

‎The warplanes also destroyed a building in Durres on the side of the Ta'adad neighborhood, near the regional center of civil defense and the Biqaa region command building in the "Amal" movement, and the damage was limited to material.‎

‎Al-Manar correspondent reported that the Zionist aggression on the cities and towns of Baalbek-Hermel took a new form today, represented by sudden raids with an interval after the raid and the other, which led to the fall of a large number of martyrs in buildings and residential houses, most of them children, women and the elderly. Enemy aircraft targeted Baalbek, Ai'at, Nahleh, Maqna, Younien, Rasm al-Hadath, Sahl Harbata, Amhaz, al-Labwa (Maqam al-Abd al-Saleh), al-Khidr, Tarya, Boudai, al-Sa'idah and Bednayel.‎

‎Civil defence teams are also working to retrieve victims from the rubble.‎

‎This evening, a family consisting of father Ali Faisal Kanaan, his wife Ghinwa Naseef, and their two children, Ruqayya and Zainab 'Ali Kan'an, were martyred following a Zionist raid targeting the town of Al-Alaq in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.‎

‎The Ministry of Health announced in an updated toll the death of (52) citizens and the injury of (72) others as a result of the Israeli enemy raids today on the areas of Ba'albek-Hirmil in eastern Lebanon.‎

‎The Ministry of Health explained that the death toll was distributed as follows:‎

‎Amhaz (peas): (12) martyrs and (7) wounded / Harbata: (6) and (4) wounded / Youneen: (9) martyrs and wounded / Bednayil: (8) martyrs and (7) wounded / bee: (4) and (7) wounded / Sharawna: two martyrs / Taraya: martyr and (7) wounded / lioness: wounded / greens: (6) wounded / Sayda: two martyrs and (3) wounded / Al-'Alaq: (4) martyrs and two wounded / Ras Al-'Ain: (6) wounded / monsters of the Prophet: (21) wounded / Ayat: (4) Martyrs‎

‎The toll of the aggression on the province of Ba'albek-Hirmil and the central Biqaa is 1035 raids, resulting in 528 martyrs and 1069 wounded, according to the latest statistics until yesterday.‎

‎And about the latest developments in Biqaa, with us correspondent 'Ali Al-Akbar Bourji‎

‎A series of raids on the southern regions and the rise of a number of martyrs‎

‎In the south, enemy warplanes carried out a raid targeting the town of Dair 'Ames, two raids on the town of Al-Tiri in the Soor (Tyre) district, and a raid on a house in the town of Al-Majadil. It also carried out a series of raids on the towns of Yattar, Kafra, Hadatha, Rashaf, Wadi Al-Aziya, Al-Haniya, Siddiqeen, Zibqeen, 'Aiteet and Joya.‎

‎Local sources announced the death of a member of Al-Nabatiya Municipal Council and its executive director M'uhamemd Jabir in raids last night on the city.‎

‎The hostile warplanes launched this evening, two consecutive raids targeting the Ghandour building in the Bayad neighborhood in the city of Al-Nabatiya, and the raid caused 7 injuries, and partially destroyed the 7-storey building significantly, so that the floors collapsed from the southern side gradually.‎

‎A raid set fire on some floors. The building houses the office of the "Amal" movement, the office of the "Social and Cultural Development" association, the office of the Tobacco Growers Union, a cheese and dairy factory and several apartments. The strike caused extensive damage to nearby buildings and blocked the street with rubble.‎

‎Teams from the Civil Defense, Epatieh Ambulances, the Lebanese Red Cross, the Islamic Message Scouts and the Islamic Health Authority worked to transport the wounded, remove the rubble and extinguish the fire.‎

‎On Friday morning, Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids on the city of Bint Jbeil and the town of Wadi Gilo - Aiteet in the Soor (Tyre) district, coinciding with the flight of drones and reconnaissance aircraft in the airspace of Tyre and its surroundings.‎

‎Israeli warplanes carried out a hostile raid on the Raml district of Soor (Tyre). It also launched more than one raid targeting two buildings in the vicinity of the Imam Hussein complex in the city of Tyre. The National News Agency in Soor (Tyre) reported that a number of martyrs were killed in hostile raids on more than one building in the city of Soor (Tyre), and rubble removal operations are still ongoing.‎

‎And about the developments of the aggression in the south, with us Al-Manar TV correspondent Samir Hajj Ali‎

‎At dawn, warplanes raided the 'Husayniya town of Khirbet Selm and a Ministry of Social Affairs clinic in the town, destroying it.‎

‎As of two in the middle of the night, the enemy warplanes launched a wide air aggression, targeting the town of Koneen with an air raid, followed by about an hour later with a raid on the town of 'Ainata. The towns of Al-Jumayjma, Bara'sheet, 'Haneen and Majdal Selm were also subjected to hostile raids.‎

‎The airstrikes also targeted a house in the town of Ya'hmar Al-Shaqaif, Al-Nabatiya district, destroying and razing it. The warplanes launched five heavy raids on the eastern and western neighborhoods of the town, destroying homes.‎

‎The Israeli aircraft renewed its raids, targeting for the second time in a few hours the town of Tibnine, and also raided targeting the towns of Kafra and Yatar. This was accompanied by artillery shelling on several neighborhoods in Ya'hmar Al-Shaqaif, all the way to the town of Arnoun and the vicinity of Beaufort Castle on the side of Al-Khardali, with Israeli drones flying over Ya'hmour Arnon, Kafr Tabneet, Al-Zutareen Al-Gharbiya and Al-Sharqiya, Mazraat Al-'Hamra and Arnoun Castle.‎

‎Israeli marches flew at low altitude over Beirut, Aramoun and central Kiserwan.‎

‎Israeli warplanes also carried out two raids targeting the area between Sa'hmar and Ya'hmour and the outskirts of the town of Labaya in the western Biqaa'.‎

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

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On November 4, 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 the Gaza Strip resulted in 3 main massacres, in which 33 Palestinian civilians were killed, and the 156 others were injured, in the past 24 hours (from a specific time of yesterday to a specific time of today). This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 43,374 and the injuries to 102,1261, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.

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Ministry of Health: 33 Palestinians martyred in 3 Israeli massacres in Gaza over the past 24 hours

Monday 4-November-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Ministry of Health said on Monday that 33 Palestinian citizens were martyred and 156 others injured in 3 Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.

The ministry added in its daily statistical report on the casualties of the Israeli war of genocide on Gaza that the number of victims has thus risen to 43,374 martyrs and 102,261 injured.

It said that an unspecified number of martyrs are still under the rubble of destroyed buildings or lying on roads but could not be retrieved due to the IOF shooting attacks.

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Israeli genocidal war on Gaza enters day 395

Monday 4-November-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

In the midst of catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians — half of them children—the Israeli occupation army continued, for the 395th consecutive day, to pound and target different areas and massacre more civilians in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern areas.

Reporters for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said on Monday that the Israeli occupation army carried out attacks on several homes, civilian targets and shelter centers in different areas of Gaza during the past 24 hours, killing and injuring dozens of citizens.

The Israeli army’s large-scale genocidal campaign in northern Gaza, especially in Jabalya and Bait Lahya, has entered day 31, where its forces continue to intensively bomb homes and shelters and attack civilians.

The Israeli forces continued for the thirteenth day to forcibly disrupt the work of the Civil Defense in the northern areas of the Gaza Strip, leaving thousands of citizens without humanitarian and medical care.

The Civil Defense in Gaza stated that all its devices, mechanisms and vehicles are forcibly disabled in all areas of the northern Gaza Strip due to the ongoing Israeli targeting and aggression.

It confirmed that the Israeli occupation army attacked the Civil Defense crews in the northern Gaza Strip, seized their vehicles, and displaced most of them to the southern Gaza Strip after kidnapping 7 of them.

Several Palestinians were injured in an Israeli drone strike on the Qizan Rashwan area south of Khan Younus in the southern Gaza Strip.

Another Israeli strike targeted the Qaddo'ha family house that had previously been bombed in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

At least one citizen was killed and several others were injured in an Israeli attack on the Nabaheen family house in Camp 2 in Al-Nusayrat in the central Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army also fired illumination bombs in the eastern area of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

Early today, Israeli artillery shelling targeted Al-Sikka Street, east of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

The Israeli forces also fired flares in the southern airspace of Gaza City.

Meanwhile, two Israeli air raids took place in Al-Saftawi area, northwest of Gaza City.

Israeli artillery shelled east of Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, and Jabalya Al-Nazla, north of the Gaza Strip on Monday morning.

The Israeli warplanes also targeted the vicinity of Al-Sina’a Street in the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood southwest of Gaza City, and launched a series of air raids on the northern Gaza Strip.

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UNICEF: More than 50 children killed in ‘deadly weekend’ of strikes in north Gaza

Monday 4-November-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

More than 50 children were killed in a devastating weekend of violence in northern Gaza that left many humanitarian workers at risk, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

“This has already been a deadly weekend of attacks in north Gaza. In the past 48 hours alone, over 50 children have reportedly been killed in Jabalya, where strikes leveled two residential buildings sheltering hundreds of people,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said.

UNICEF reported that a personal vehicle belonging to one of its staff members involved in a polio vaccination campaign came under fire from what appeared to be a quadcopter while they were driving in Jabalya Al-Nazla.

Although the car was damaged, the staff member was unharmed but “deeply shaken.”

Another strike injured three children near a vaccination clinic in Al-Shaikh Radhwan as the polio campaign continued in the area, according to Russell.

“These attacks on Jabalya, the vaccination clinic, and the UNICEF staff member are yet further examples of the grave consequences of the indiscriminate strikes on civilians in the Gaza Strip,” she said, describing the escalation as part of “one of the darkest periods of this terrible war.”

Russell also emphasized that international humanitarian law mandates the protection of civilians and civilian structures, including humanitarian workers and residential buildings.

She noted that “displacement or evacuation orders do not permit any party to the conflict to regard all individuals or objects in an area as military targets.”

Russell also condemned the repeated disregard for these principles, resulting in “tens of thousands of children killed, injured and deprived of essential services needed for survival.”

UNICEF has called on Israel to conduct an “immediate investigation” into the incident involving its staff and urged accountability for those responsible.

“UNICEF also calls on member states to use their influence to ensure respect for international law, prioritizing the protection of children,” Russell said, adding that it is “beyond time to end this war.”

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Three civilians, including a child, killed in Israeli shelling of Gaza City

GAZA, November 4, 204 (WAFA) -

Three civilians, including a child, were killed and others were injured on Monday evening in an Israeli bombing of Gaza City.

According to medical and local sources, two civilians were killed in an Israeli drone attack targeting civilians near the al-Shati (Beach) camp west of Gaza City, while a child was killed and others were injured by the occupation forces’ fire north of Gaza City.

Several civilians were also shot in a quadcopter drone attack targeting a school in Al-Shaikh Radhwan neighborhood of Gaza City.

The occupation also bombed the vicinity of Al-Shaikh Radhwan clinic.

The occupation’s ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, has so far resulted in the killing of 43,374 civilians, and the injury of 102,261 others, mostly children and women.

Thousands of victims remain unaccounted for; either buried under the rubble or scattered along the roads, as rescue teams encounter significant challenges in reaching them due to ongoing Israeli attacks and the massive amount of debris.

T.R.

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Israeli forces open fire at civilians west of Gaza's Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, two civilians injured

GAZA, November 4, 2024 (WAFA) -

Two civilians were injured on Monday evening by the Israeli forces’ fire west of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, in the center of the Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent reported that the occupation tanks opened fire at civilians west of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, resulting in the wounding of two people.

The occupation’s ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, has so far resulted in the killing of 43,374 civilians, and the injury of 102,261 others, mostly children and women.

Thousands of victims remain missing; either buried under the rubble or scattered on the roads, as rescue teams face tremendous difficulties in reaching them due to the continued Israeli attacks and the massive amount of

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Several people injured in Israeli airstrike on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza

GAZA, November, 11, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Several civilians were injured on Monday in an Israeli occupation bombing that targeted Kamal 'Udwan Hospital in the town of Bait Lahya, north of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that there were injuries as a result of the bombing that targeted a children's dormitory on the third floor of Kamal 'Udwan Hospital.

Y.S.

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GMO: 1800 martyrs, 4,000 wounded in northern Gaza during last month

Monday 4-November-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip said on Monday that more than 1,800 Palestinians have been martyred since Israeli occupation army launched a deadly offensive in northern Gaza last month.

“Over 1,800 people were martyred and 4,000 injured while hundreds are still missing in the Israeli ongoing aggression on northern Gaza,” the GMO said in a statement.

It explained that the Israeli occupation army is intensifying its aggression on northern Gaza, especially in Jabalya, Bait Lahya, Beit Hanoun and their vicinities.

“All hospitals in northern Gaza were destroyed and put out of service. Civil defense crews were also targeted, with some of them arrested,” the GMO added, noting that the ongoing aggression in the north has resulted as well in the destruction of infrastructure, water and sewage networks, roads and streets, turning northern Gaza into a real catastrophe.”

The GMO pointed out that the Israeli occupation army worked on displacing thousands of Palestinians residing in northern Gaza Strip, by forcing them to evacuate their homes before bombing their residential neighborhoods.

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Six Palestinian children injured in Kamal 'Udwan Hospital attack

Monday 4-November-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Six Palestinian children were seriously injured in an Israeli barbaric attack on Kamal 'Udwan Hospital on Sunday evening.

'Husam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal 'Udwan Hospital, said that Israeli forces bombed the nursery department and the water tanks in the health facility.

Moreover, Abu Safiya said the hospital was subjected to heavy Israeli shelling shortly following a visit by a delegation from the World Health Organization.

Abu Safiya launched an urgent distress call to save the patients and wounded persons trapped inside the hospital, pointing to the difficult challenges facing medical personnel in providing care in light of the ongoing shelling of health facilities.

Earlier this week, a new United Nations report said Israel has “perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system” that has included “deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities”, both of which are war crimes.

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

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The Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime deprives 95 Palestinian detained women of minimum human rights

Monday 4-November-2024

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs Commission said the total up-to-date number of female detainees in Israeli occupation jails has reached 95 women held under harsh detention conditions.

The Commission said in a statement on Sunday that the Israeli occupation apartheid regime (IOAR) has been tightening the detention conditions of Palestinian prisoners since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

It added that the IOAR deliberately imposes additional retaliatory penalties on the detainees by depriving them of the least human rights such as having adequate quantities of food and clothes and by completely isolating them in cells, while subjecting them to inhumane treatment, beating, and repression, the last of which was storming several sections in Al-Damoun prison, and abusing the detained women in it on October 27, 2024.

The Commission explained that its lawyer managed to visit three of the detained women, noting that there are three others held in isolation cells including the Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar.

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IOFs carry out new raid, kidnapping campaign in the West Bank

Monday 4-November-2024

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) launched a large-scale raid and kidnapping campaign across the West Bank at dawn on Monday.

The IOFs kidnapped a young man after breaking into his family house in Nablus and two others in Jit town, east of Qalqilya, north of the West Bank.

In Al-Khaleel (Hebron), the Israeli occupation forces stormed Bait Ummar town and kidnapped a number of young men, including an ex-prisoner.

The IOFs also seized six Palestinian-owned vehicles in the Wadi Al-Raym area east of Sa’ir.

Several local homes were also stormed during the raid.

Three more Palestinians were kidnappped in an IOFs raid into the Al-'Arroub refugee camp, north of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Israeli settlers attack Al-Bireh, torch Palestinian vehicles

Monday 4-November-2024

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

Israeli settlers attacked at dawn hours on Monday the city of Al-Bireh near Ramallah in the West Bank and set fire to a number of Palestinian-owned vehicles.

According to local sources, the settlers stormed the city at dawn and torched more than six parking vehicles before withdrawing.

Settlers’ attacks in the West Bank have lately escalated, as they tend to deliberately torch Palestinian vehicles and agricultural lands and destroy citizens’ property.

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Israeli forces order to stop construction on several Palestinian-owned structures south of Nablus

NABLUS, November 4, 2024 (WAFA) -

The Israeli occupation forces disturbed on Monday stop- construction notices against several structures owned by Palestinians in the village of Duma, south of Nablus.

Head of Duma village council, Suleiman Dawabsheh, told WAFA that the occupation forces stormed the eastern area of the said village, and handed out notices to stop work and construction on seven tents, an agricultural room and a retaining wall, under the pretext of building without a permit in Area C, which constitutes 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and falls under full Israeli administrative and military control.

This is the second time that these facilities have received notices to stop construction.

The occupation forces also photographed houses and other facilities in the village during their incursion.

T.R.

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Israeli colonists raze vast areas of Palestinian lands southeast of Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM, November, 11, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli colonists began plowing vast areas of citizens' lands, southeast of Bethlehem.

Hassan Breijieh, a researcher in wall and settlement affairs, said  that colonists began plowing dozens of dunams of citizens' lands in the areas of Khalayel Al-Loz, Khallet Al-Qattan, and Khallet Al-Nahla, south of Bethlehem, in preparation for seizing them.

The village of Khalayel Al-Loz has recently been subjected to escalating attacks by the occupation forces and colonists, including attacking citizens' homes, firing bullets at them, and uprooting trees. The latest incident was when colonists set up a mobile home on its land.

Y.S. 

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‎In preparation for its seizure: Settlers start plowing land southeast of Bethlehem‎

‎Bethlehem 4-11-2024 Wafa -

On Monday, settlers began plowing large areas of citizens' land, southeast of Bethlehem.‎

‎Hassan Brejia, a researcher on the wall and settlements, told our correspondent that settlers began plowing dozens of dunums of citizens in the areas of Khalail al-Lawz, Khallet al-Qatn and Khallet al-Nahla, south of Bethlehem, in preparation for seizing them.‎

‎He added that the settlers seized two mobile homes in Khalail al-Louz belonging to Fadi Abayat.‎

‎The village of Khalail al-Louz has recently been subjected to escalating attacks by the occupation forces and settlers, including attacking citizens' homes, shooting at them and uprooting trees.‎

‎A.S./M.J.‎

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Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers while picking olives in Yatta

Monday 4-November-2024

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while picking olives in the town of Yatta, south of Al-Khalil, on Monday preventing them from harvesting their olive fruits.

According to local sources, a group of extremist settlers attacked farmers and olive pickers in Um Nir area, east of Yatta, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces (IOF), and beat them and threw stones at them.

The sources revealed that the settlers’ attacks targeted lands belonging to the Burqan family, adding that settlers attempted to steal a vehicle of one of the farmers while he was picking olive fruits in the Birin area east of Yatta.

The sources added that the IOF forced farmers from the Al-Jabarin and Al-Habour families in Um Nir to leave their lands, banning them from picking their olives.

The olive harvest season in the West Bank is witnessing repeated attacks by settlers and IOF, which have reached the point of killing, burning and cutting down olive trees, stealing the crops, and preventing farmers from reaching their lands.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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GMO calls for Israel’s expulsion from the United Nations

Monday 4-November-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) on Monday called for the expulsion of the Israeli occupation from international and UN institutions for its insistence on committing more crimes and attacking international resolutions after banning UNRWA.

The Israeli occupation’s risky and disastrous decision means that UNRWA’s services—such as relief, health, and education—will be targeted, the GMO said.

The GMO also condemned the Israeli decision as “null and void and issued by a legally invalid party as an occupying authority,” calling on the international community, all international and UN organizations, and all countries of the world to condemn this serious, catastrophic legal crime.

The GMO held the Israeli occupation and the US administration fully responsible for the disastrous effects and repercussions that the occupation will cause by prohibiting UNRWA’s operations, as well as the significant impact on the services that UNRWA offers to millions of Palestinian refugees at all levels of aid, health, education, and services.

It called on the international community, the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly to take immediate and urgent action to stop “this farce that the occupation dares to commit in front of the eyes and ears of the entire world.”

It emphasized that since Israel has turned into a despised entity occupying Palestinian territories, the UN General Assembly must ban it from all UN organizations and institutions.

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‎Malaysia prepares draft resolution to expel Israel from UN‎

‎‎Kuala Lumpur 4-11-2024 WAFA -

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that his country is preparing a draft resolution to be submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, to expel Israel from the United Nations, if it continues to violate international law regarding Palestine.‎

‎Ibrahim told a session of the Malaysian parliament on Monday that the process of negotiations on this draft is now underway and is expected to be submitted to the United Nations General Assembly for approval.‎

‎On 31 October 2024, Malaysia joined the "core group" that prepared the draft resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice regarding Israel's obligation to allow the activities of United Nations organizations.‎

‎If the project is accepted at the UN General Assembly, it would pave the way for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to continue providing assistance to Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.‎

‎M.J.‎

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Hamas slams Israel’s decision to cancel UNRWA agreements

Monday 4-November-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The decision of the Israeli occupation authorities to cancel the agreement regulating the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the occupied territories is an Israeli disregard for the international community and a contempt for the United Nations system, the Hamas Movement said in a statement issued on Monday.

The Movement said that the decision confirms that Israel is “a rogue entity that defies international legitimacy and humanitarian values.”

“The Israeli decision, which violates the United Nations Charter and international law, is an Israeli attempt to obliterate the international and UN witness to the Palestinian refugees cause, aimed at eliminating their cause and right to return to their homes from which the Israeli forces displaced them over seven decades ago.”

The Movement called on the international community, the United Nations, and all relevant parties “to stand firmly against this Israeli decision that defies international legitimacy, and to strengthen the role of UNRWA and protect it in light of the genocide and crimes committed by the brutal occupation against our people in the Gaza Strip, and the urgent need for the relief and humanitarian services provided by UNRWA.”

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Lazzarini: Israel reduced aid entry to Gaza to 30 trucks per day during October

NEW YORK, November 4, 2024 (WAFA) -

UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, said the Israeli authorities permitted an average of only 30 humanitarian trucks per day to enter the Gaza Strip last month, October 2024.

“This is the lowest in a long time, bringing the assistance back to the level of the beginning of the war,” said Lazzarini in a post on X.

“This cannot meet the needs of over 2 million people, many of whom are starving, sick, and in desperate conditions,” he stressed.

He said that this amount represents only 6% of the supplies, including commercial and humanitarian, allowed into Gaza before the war.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has closed all land crossings with Gaza, blocking the entry of goods and essential supplies and imposing restrictions on humanitarian aid, at times preventing it from reaching the Strip, leading to a severe living crisis.

T.R.

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Lazzarini: Palestinian children will have no future without UNRWA

Monday 4-November-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Israel’s decision to ban UNRWA will cut off access to education for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children, leaving them vulnerable to “hopelessness, poverty and radicalization”, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Sunday.

The warning from Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of the UN Relief and Works Agency, comes after the Israeli Knesset passed two bills banning UNRWA on Monday. The first bill effectively halts the agency’s activities within Israel and occupied East Jerusalem, while the second prohibits any interaction between Israeli institutions and the organization.

But the most immediate impact will be on Palestinian children’s education, Lazzarini said in a post on X. “Until October last year, UNRWA provided learning to over 300,000 boys and girls in Gaza, making half of the schoolchildren cohort. They are now losing a second year of education.”

Without an alternative, Israel’s decision to dismantle the agency “will deprive Palestinian children of learning in the foreseeable future”, he said. And without learning, “children slip into hopelessness, poverty and radicalization” and fall prey to exploitation, “including joining armed groups.”

Israel’s actions against UNRWA come as it continues a weeks-long siege of northern Gaza that has already killed hundreds and displaced thousands while preventing the entry of aid, leading to catastrophic conditions.

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EU Borrell says Israel's ending of its agreement with UNRWA may deprive millions of life-saving services

BRUSSELS, November 4, 2024 (WAFA) -

The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, Joseph Borrell, said Israel's ending of its agreement with UNRWA may deprive millions of life-saving services.

In a post on the X platform, Borrell stressed that the last three partially operating hospitals in northern Gaza are targeted with an intensity rarely seen in modern warfare.

He stressed that it is high time to end this war and ensure unimpeded access of humanitarian aid to Gaza.

“And it is high time to stop violent settlers and destruction in the West Bank and to put an end to the illegal occupation of Palestinian Territories,” he added.

T.R.

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Abu Mahfouz: The UK is responsible for the genocide in Gaza and must pressure to stop it

Monday 4-November-2024

BEIRUT, (PIC)

The Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad has held the British government, alongside the Israeli occupation, accountable for the plight of the Palestinian people and, in particular, the genocide occurring in Gaza. The conference reiterated that Britain shares responsibility for the Palestinian catastrophe (Nakba) and the ongoing suffering.

In a press statement on Saturday, November 2, 2024, the Acting Secretary-General of the Popular Conference, Hisham Abu Mahfouz, stated, “We hold Britain responsible for the suffering of the Palestinian people, from the Balfour Declaration until today, as well as for the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza and the continuous genocide against our people in the region.”

Marking the 107th anniversary of the infamous Balfour Declaration, Abu Mahfouz emphasized that Britain had no right to grant Palestinian land for the establishment of a national homeland for Jews in Palestine. He called on the British government to bear its political, legal, and humanitarian responsibilities for the consequences of this declaration on the Palestinian people. He urged Britain to pressure Netanyahu to end the genocide in Gaza and ensure the restoration of all legitimate Palestinian rights.

Abu Mahfouz also condemned the international community’s inaction, which has failed for more than a year to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza, viewing this inaction as enabling Netanyahu to continue killing Palestinians.

The Popular Conference reiterated that the actions of the Israeli occupation in Gaza, particularly in North Gaza, constitute acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing, necessitating a firm international stance against the extremist occupation government to end the aggression, lift the blockade, allow aid to enter, and withdraw from Gaza.

Abu Mahfouz affirmed that, despite the death and destruction in Gaza, the Palestinian people remain resilient and are determined to continue their legitimate struggle until the occupation is defeated and full rights are restored.

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Scabies outbreak in Negev prison raises fear of health catastrophe

Monday 4-November-2024

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

A health catastrophe is imminent at the Israeli Negev prison, which houses thousands of Palestinian detainees, according to the Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), as hundreds of them have contracted scabies.

According to a press release issued by the two human rights organizations on Monday, the prisoners are suffering from complex and difficult health symptoms, especially that the prison administration denied them the appropriate medical care.

According to the statement, Palestinian lawyers recently visited 35 inmates in the Negev prison from October 27 to 30. Their testimonies revealed the appalling conditions in which they are held, confirming once more that the prison administration aims to kill them by any means.

They noted that the Negev prison, which has been and still is a symbol of sexual assaults, torture crimes, and the spread of diseases, particularly scabies, has recently received a large number of sick inmates.

According to the attorneys, 25 of the 35 prisoners who were visited in the Negev prison had scabies. They emphasized that this is a small sample of hundreds of infected inmates who are continuously tortured and subjected to systematic medical crimes by the prison administration, which uses the disease as a tool to torture them.

According to the statement, all the detainees’ testimonies contained extremely graphic information about how they suffered from the illness without receiving any kind of treatment and how the prison administration failed to address the factors that led to the disease’s ongoing spread.

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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 verbs "abduct" and "kidnap" than the verbs "detain" and "arrest," 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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Names of some of the Palestinian cities, as pronounced in standard Arabic, and their foreign names in parentheses: 

Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Nusayrat

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Aree'ha (Jericho)

Al-Zaytoun (al-Zeitoun)

Bait (Beit)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Dair El-Bala'h

Jineen (Jenin)

Khan Younus (Khan Younis)

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Person's names as pronounced in standard Arabic:

A'hmed, 'Hasan, Mu'hammed, Younus, Yousuf,  

'Hasan Mulai'hat,

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Conflict terminology

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime (the Israeli government)

Illegal Israeli settlers (instead of settlers, colonists)

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers

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