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 278 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 4 Massacres, 52 Palestinians Killed, 208 Injured, with a Death Toll of  38,295 and 88,241 Injuries

July 10, 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 July 10, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 45,295+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (38,295), those who are still missing under the rubble (a corrected estimate, on April 18, 2024: 7,000+). 

By July 10, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 88,241.

By July 10, 2024, 572 Palestinians who were killed, 5,237 who were injured, and 9,585, 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).

By May 6, 2024, the Palestinian death toll in Gaza included 7,797+ children and 4,959 women (52% of the total).

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The Palestinian Government Media Office death toll data (which includes media reports and family member reporting online):

By May 21, 2024, the Palestinian death toll in Gaza included 15,000+ children (43%).

By March 4, 2024, the death toll also included 13,420+ children, 8,900+ women (more than 72.8% of the accounted for victims), 364 doctors and medical staff, 132 journalists, and 48 civil defense workers. 

By May 25, 2024, the Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation forces killed 493 health personnel and kidnapped 310 others of them.

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, 2024, the Government Media Office (GMO) said that the Israeli occupation forces killed 493 health personnel and kidnapped 310 others of them (May 25, 2024), 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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Performing funeral prayer on some of the Palestinian martyrs, who were massacred by Israeli air strikes and bombardment on central Gaza Strip, July 10, 2024	A Palestinian father holding and grieving his little son, who was martyred by Israeli genocidal bombardment on Central Gaza Strip, July 10, 2024
Two thirds of UNRWA schools in Gaza bombed by the Israeli occupation forces, targeting displaced Palestinians, as reported by Lazzarini, July 10, 2024	Mu'aadth I'bayyat, a Palestinian who was released from Israeli occupation prisons, after nine months without charges, said that he survived murder attempts, was beaten, tortured, and even stepped on by the Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Bin-Gvir, July 10, 2024
Life medical lab in Al-Nusayrat was destroyed by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment, July 10, 2024.	Mass destruction of Al-Shuja'iya neighborhood, in Gaza City, by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment, July 10, 2024.
Performing funeral prayer on the Palestinian martyrs who were massacred in Dair El-Bala'h, July 10, 2024.	Grieving the death of the Palestinian martyrs, who were massacred by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Al-'Awda school, in Khan Younus, July 10, 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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'Hamas urges ICC to follow up Israeli soldiers’ confessions about their brutal behavior in Gaza

Wednesday 10-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

'Hamas Movement said that the Israeli occupation soldiers’ confessions about their brutal behavior in Gaza require urgent and serious follow-up from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

In a statement on Wednesday, 'Hamas recounted a series of violations that were published about Israeli soldiers’ confessions on their brutal practices based on a green light from Israeli officials.

The statement highlighted, among many other crimes, shooting civilians as well as burning and destroying homes in Gaza as a method of entertainment.

'Hamas said that the confessions represent a documented official recognition of Israeli systematic war crimes in the Strip, which requires a serious follow-up by the ICC’s public prosecutor.

'Hamas stressed that these practices represent a badge of shame for the international community because of its failure to halt the ongoing Israeli genocidal war which has been ongoing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip for nine months.

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Lazzarini: Two thirds of UNRWA schools in Gaza bombed by Israel, targeting displaced Palestinians

Wednesday 10-July-2024

NEW YORK, (PIC)

Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, said that two thirds of the agency’s schools in Gaza Strip have been bombed by Israel during its ongoing war on the enclave.

He said in a statement on X platform on Wednesday that four schools were bombed in the last four days.

“Schools have gone from safe places of education and hope for children to overcrowded shelters and often ending up a place of death and misery,” he added.

“Nine months in, under our watch, the relentless, endless killings, destruction and despair continue. Gaza is no place for children. The blatant disregard of international humanitarian law cannot become the new normal.”

Lazzarini concluded saying, “Ceasefire now before we lose what is left of our common humanity.”

The US-backed Israeli genocidal war on Gaza has entered its ninth month killing and wounding more than 125,000 citizens, most of them women and children. The war which was launched on October 7, 2023, has also led to vast destruction in the enclave’s infrastructure and destroyed more than 70% of its buildings. 

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Released prisoner I'bayyat: Bin-Gvir stepped on me in Ofer prison

Wednesday 10-July-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The released Palestinian prisoner, Mu'aadth I'bayyat, said that the Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Bin-Gvir, stepped on him, on December 4, 2023, while he was in 'Ofer prison in the West Bank.

 I'bayyat added in press statements after his release that he was severely beaten late October in Israeli prisons.

The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said that  I'bayyat survived murder attempts more than once during his detention.

 I'bayyat, who is from Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), was released on Tuesday and appeared on media in a too thin and exhausted body and was moving with difficulty.

Upon his release, he told Al-Jazeera TV that he was subjected to severe torture inside Ofer Prison.

 I'bayyat had been held captive for nine months in administrative detention and was released from the Negev prison in a bad health condition, although he did not suffer any health problems before his arrest.

The PPS held the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the status in which  I'bayyat was released from Israeli jails.

The PPS renewed its appeal to international human rights groups “to assume their responsibilities towards the ongoing Israeli war of genocide and crimes against prisoners.”

The PPS revealed that the number of administrative detainees in Israeli jails amounted to 3,380 detainees, including women and children.

Bin-Gvir had previously demanded enforcing death penalty against the Palestinian prisoners to resolve the problem of crowded prisons.

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'Hamas: Israeli jails are worse than Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib

Wednesday 10-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement has said that the horrific testimonies provided by Gazan detainees who were released recently and the signs of torture on their bodies confirm the enormity of the serious violations and heinous crimes that are committed in Israeli jails and detention centers.

“What prisoner Mu'aadth Abiyat said about terrorist Ben Gvir’s participation in brutal torture sessions himself reflects the level of sadism he has, along with members of this government that is mired in extremism and fascism,” 'Hamas said.

“What our prisoners are facing in Israeli jails has exceeded all the brutality that was used with the detainees in the prisons of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib,” Hamas added.

The Movement stressed the need for urgent action by the international community, the International Court of Justice, the UN and their institutions to delegate committees to visit Israel’s detention centers and jails and investigate the reported violations and hold Israeli leaders accountable for their crimes against prisoners.

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Euro-Med: Israel uses displaced Gazans as a political pressure tool

Wednesday 10-July-2024

GENEVA, (PIC)

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has accused the Israeli army of using the displaced civilians in the Gaza Strip as a tool of political pressure and blackmail through expanding the circle of killing, starving and targeting them in the midst of ceasefire talks.

In a statement on Wednesday, Euro-Med said that the Israeli occupation army systematically targets shelter centers and the areas around them, carries out mass killing operations against displaced families and civilians, prevents those were forcibly displaced from returning to their homes, persists in starving them and depriving them of basic needs that are indispensable for survival, and bans the entry of humanitarian aid.

Euro-Med described such Israeli practices against the civilians in Gaza as “insistence on committing the crime of genocide against them with all means.”

“At around 6:55 p.m. yesterday, Israeli aircraft fired several missiles at a group of residents and displaced people, who have been exhausted by repeated forced displacement and movement from one place to another, at the Gate of Al-'Awda School in 'Abasan Al-Kabeera town in eastern Khan Younus, south of the Gaza Strip — which is sheltering thousands of forcibly displaced people,” Euro-Med said.

Euro-Med said the Israeli attack on this school killed at least 32 civilians, including many children and women with some of them shattered into pieces, and injured more than 50 others.

Euro-Med said that its initial information, which was obtained after inspecting fragments of the bombs used in the attack on this school confirmed they were US-made missiles, which had been repeatedly used in a number of previous mass killing operations against Gaza civilians.

Euro-Med denounced “the international silence over Israel’s genocidal crimes that have been taking place since last October.” 

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

On July 10, 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, in which 52 Palestinian civilians were killed, and the 208 others were injured, in the past 24 hours. This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 38,295 and the injuries to 88,241, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.   

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Gaza death toll surges to 38,295, over 88,241 injured

GAZA, Wednesday, July 10, 2024 (WAFA) –

Israeli occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at least 52 Palestinians and the injury of 208 others, according to medical sources.

Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has risen to 38,295 reported fatalities, with an additional 88,241 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

Meanwhile, ambulance and rescue teams are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn enclave, as Israeli occupation forces continue to obstruct the movement of ambulance and civil defense crews.

M.N. 

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US-backed Israeli genocidal war on Gaza enters day 278

Wednesday 10-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 278 on Wednesday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different areas and massacre more civilians, especially in northern Gaza.

Reporters for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that the Israeli occupation army continued to bomb homes and attack citizens in different areas of Gaza during the past 24 hours.

According to media sources, casualties were reported following an Israeli attack on a house belonging to the family of Al-'Aila near the Tawba Mosque in Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City.

Medical and civil defense crews evacuated bodies of two martyrs and a number of wounded citizens from the family of Abu Mu'hsin after the Israeli army attacked them in Rafa'h.

Four displaced civilians, including a child, were killed and 10 others were injured in an Israeli attack on a commercial store sheltering displaced families in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Another attack on a house in Bani Suhayla in eastern Khan Younus claimed the lives of two citizens and wounded six others.

The Israeli occupation army also attacked an apartment in Al-Nasr street near the International Eye Hospital in Gaza City, injuring 10 people.

The Red Crescent said that it received dozens of distress calls from Gaza City, but its ambulance crews are still unable to reach victims because of the intensity of Israeli gunfire and bombardment there.

Footage circulated on the internet showed bodies of a woman and a male vendor lying on roads in Gaza City after Israeli occupation forces shot them dead.

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

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

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Confrontations break out in Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)-area village

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), Wednesday, July 10, 2024 (WAFA) -

Confrontations broke out tonight with Israeli occupation forces in the village of 'Husan, west of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), according to a local official.

The director of 'Husan village council, Rami 'Hamamra, told WAFA correspondent that Israeli forces broke into the village, leading to confrontations in the Mateena area, near the eastern entrance.

The Israeli occupation soldiers fired randomly at residents during the confrontations, however, no injuries were reported.

Earlier today, the Israeli occupation forces demolished two shops in the village.

T.R.

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IOFs kidnap five citizens, injure a child in the West Bank

Wednesday 10-July-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnapped at dawn Wednesday a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank, amid clashes with local youths and resistance in some areas.

According to local sources, the IOFs stormed Bait Ummar town in northern Al-Khaleel (Hebron) and ransacked several homes.

In Nablus, the IOFs kidnapped one young man from his home in 'Oureef town and stormed Nablus City, where they raided the house of martyr 'Ammar 'Aynabousi.

A 14-year-old child suffered a bullet injury in his leg during clashes between local youths and Israeli forces in Bait Foreek town, southeast of Nablus.

In Bethlehem, four citizens were taken prisoners during IOF raids on homes in 'Husan village.

Israeli occupation forces also stormed Al-Duhaisha refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, while randomly firing live ammunition, stun grenades and tear gas canisters.

The IOF deployed snipers on rooftops of some homes, opened fire at a number of parked cars and stormed a printing facility after blasting down its doors.

Armed clashes reportedly took place between resistance fighters and Israeli soldiers in Al-Duhaisha camp.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Illegal Israeli settlers burn large tracts of Palestinian land in Jenin-governorate village

Jineen, Wednesday, July 10, 2024 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers Wednesday evening burned large tracts of land in the village of Al-Fandaqoumiya, south of the occupied West Bank city of Jineen, according to WAFA correspondent.

He reported that the illegal Israeli settlers, under army protection, attacked the outskirts of the village and set large tracts of land on fire.

He added that the occupation forces fired barrages of bullets, concussion and tear gas bombs towards the villagers and their homes, causing a number of suffocation cases.

The assailants came from the 'Homesh colony, established on the land of the villagers of Burqa and Silat Al-Dthahr.

A.D./ K.F.

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Israeli occupation forces fill water well near Toubas

TOUBAS, Wednesday, July 10 2024 (WAFA) –

 Israeli occupation forces Wednesday filled in an underground water well in the village of Tayaseer, east of Toubas.

Human rights activist 'Aarif Daraghma said that the occupation soldiers filled in an underground well owned by local resident Sulayman Khudairat in Al-Batoun area, and seized a well-drilling machine in the area.

The occupation forces also raided the village of 'Aqaba, east of Toubas.

K.T.

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