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 284 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 2 Main Massacres, 49 Palestinians Killed, 69 Injured, with a Death Toll of  38,713 and 89,166 Injuries

July 16, 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 16, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 45,713+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (38,713), those who are still missing under the rubble (a corrected estimate, on April 18, 2024: 7,000+). 

By July 16, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 89,166.

By July 16, 2024, 574 Palestinians who were killed, 5,243 who were injured, and 9,692, 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 July 12, 2024, the Palestinian death toll in Gaza included 16,054+ children and 10,700 women (69.7% of the total). The death toll also included 500 doctors and medical staff, 158 journalists, and 75 civil defense workers. 

By July 12, 2024, the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment destroyed more than 100 health hospitals and medical facilities,  609 mosques, 3 churches, more than 430,000 housing units, and the infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.

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Site of an Israeli air strike on a house in Bint Jubayl, south Lebanon, where three Lebanese citizens were martyred and three more were injured, on July 15, 2024	Grieving the death of family members, who were massacred by the Israeli occupation forces in Dair El-Bala'h, on July 16, 2024.
Palestinian young man, A'hmed Sultan, was killed during by Israeli occupation forces in Al-Beerih City, in the West Bank July 16, 2024	49 Palestinian civilians were killed, 69 were injured by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on the Gaza Strip, on July 16, 2024
Israeli occupation forces demolished five Palestinian homes in Bait La'hm and four facilities in Al-Quds, while illegal Israeli settlers burned agricultural lands, July 15, 2024	Rafa'h mayor A'hmed Al-Soufi said that 50,000 Palestinians are besieged inside their neighborhoods, without access to basic needs for their survival, July 16, 2024
Grieving the death of the Palestinian young man, Ahmed Sultan, who was murdered by the Israeli occupation forces in Al-Beerih, in the West Bank, on July 16, 2024.	Grieving the death of family members, who were massacred by the Israeli occupation forces in Khan Younus, on July 16, 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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Three Lebanese citizens martyred, three more injured, in Israeli airstrike on Bint Jubayl town

Tuesday 16-July-2024

BEIRUT, (PIC)

Three Lebanese civilian citizens were martyred on Monday evening in an Israeli air raid on the town of Bint Jubayl in southern Lebanon.

Lebanese security sources said that three civilians were killed and three others were injured in Israeli airstrike on a building in Bint Jubayl.

Earlier, media sources said that two Lebanese citizens, a brother and sister from the family of Daghir, were martyred and another one, their sister, were critically wounded when an Israeli warplane bombed their home in Al-'Owaini neighborhood in the town.

Medical and civil defense crews evacuated the casualties to a local hospital.

In a separate incident, two other people were martyred on the same day when an Israeli drone bombed a car traveling on a road near the border with Syria.

A security official said that the aerial attack targeted a car with a Lebanese license plate as it was crossing an area separating Lebanon and Syria, adding that a Syrian businessman was one of the victims.

He added that the Israeli occupation army carried out two air raids on the border town of Marwa'heen and near Birkat Mays Al-Jabal area.

In a related context, the Lebanese resistance movement, 'Hizbullah, fighters targeted on Monday Israeli occupation soldiers and two military sites in border areas with different projectiles.

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Over 50,000 Palestinian civilians besieged in Rafa'h, in southern Gaza Strip

Monday 15-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

Rafa'h mayor A'hmed Al-Soufi said that more than 50,000 Palestinian civilians are besieged inside the neighborhoods of Rafa'h in southern Gaza with no access to any basic services or vital needs for their survival.

“Municipal crews and emergency committees are unable to deliver any basic services to the residents stranded inside Rafa'h neighborhoods, which exacerbates the scale of the risks facing them,” Sufi added.

The mayor added that medical and civil defense crews are also unable to enter most of the areas in Rafa'h in order to evacuate casualties.

He accused the Israeli occupation army of deliberately isolating Rafa'h from the world to hide the size of its crimes and atrocities against the displaced people living there.

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UN: Palestinia families in Gaza are obliged to make impossible choices with every evacuation directive

Tuesday 16-July-2024

NEW YORK, (PIC)

United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that with each new evacuation directive, families in Gaza are being forced to make “impossible choices”.

Dujarric indicated in a press conference on Monday that “a team from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) took measures to support the displaced from northern Gaza to the south.”

He condemned the targeting of civilians, noting that “the attacks carried out in recent days have shown once again that nowhere is safe in Gaza.”

Amnesty International considered that “the repeated Israeli evacuation orders in Gaza amount to illegal displacement, which is a war crime.”

It added that “Palestinian civilians are facing multiple waves of displacement” due to the Israeli occupation’s aggression against the Gaza Strip that has been ongoing for more than nine months as well as frequent evacuation directives.

Since October 7, the Israeli occupation army has been continuing its aggression against the Gaza Strip, with US and European support, leading to the martyrdom of 38,664 people and the injury of 89,97 others, and the displacement of about 1.9 million people, according to UN data.

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

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On July 16, 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 2 main massacres, in which 49 Palestinian civilians were killed, and the 69 others were injured, in the past 24 hours. This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 38,713 and the injuries to 89,166, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.    

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‎The toll of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza rises to 38,713 martyrs and 89,166 injured‎

‎Gaza 16-7-2024 Wafa -

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza announced that the toll of the occupation aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 38,713 martyrs and 89,166 injured, since the seventh of October October, 2023‎‎.‎

‎The same source added that the Israeli occupation forces committed two main massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of 49 citizens and the injury of 69 others during the past 24 hours‎‎.‎

‎Thousands of victims remain under the rubble of their homes and on the roads that ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them‎‎, she said.‎

‎R.R.‎

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‎Dozens of martyrs and wounded in the Israeli occupation forces shelling on several areas in the Gaza Strip‎

‎Gaza 16-7-2024 Wafa -

Dozens of citizens were killed and injured, on Tuesday, ‎‎in‎‎ ‎‎the shelling of the Israeli occupation forces on several areas in the Gaza Strip.‎

‎In the city of Khan Younus, in the southern Gaza Strip, 13 civilians were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli raid targeting the crowded Al-Attar area west of Khan Younus, and they were transferred to Nasir Hospital in the city.‎

‎In the town of Bait Lahya in the northern Gaza Strip, four civilians were killed and five others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation forces shelling of a gathering of citizens at Al-Shaikh Zayid roundabout in the town‎‎.‎

‎Eight martyrs and 50 wounded also arrived at Al-'Awda Hospital in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, after the occupation targeted the UNRWA Al-Razi School, which shelters displaced people, in Camp 2 in Al-Nusayrat.‎

‎The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that the Israeli occupation targeted during the past ten days five schools affiliated with it, calling for the need to protect all United Nations facilities.‎

‎By July 16, 2024, the Israeli occupation forces have continued their genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since the seventh of October October 2023, resulting in the death of more than 38,713 citizens, the majority of whom were women and children, and the injury of more than 89,166 others, in an indefinite toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble‎‎.‎

‎G.Z./ER.‎

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11 Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on Al-Nusayrat

Monday 15-July-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

At least 11 Palestinians were killed after a house came under attack by Israeli warplanes in  Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, on Monday evening.

The PIC reporter affirmed that 11 martyrs, including 5 children, arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital along with a number of injured people.

By July 15, 2024, the Palestinian Health Ministry earlier said that the Israeli occupation army committed 3 massacres in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 80 citizens and injuring 216 others.

The Ministry added that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression, which started on October 7 last year, climbed to 38,664 martyrs and the number of wounded surged to 89,097 people. 

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‎On the 284th day of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip: Martyrs and wounded in several areas

‎Gaza 16-7-2024 Wafa -

The Israeli occupation army continued its land, air and sea aggression on the Gaza Strip for the 284th consecutive day.‎

‎In Khan Younus, paramedics recovered 4 dead and three wounded from a house belonging to the Abu Tair family after it was targeted by a raid launched by the occupation warplanes in the town of 'Abasan east of the city, and they were transferred to the Nasir Medical Complex.‎

‎In Rafa'h, 4 martyrs of Khirbet Al-'Adas area in Rafa'h city arrived this morning at Nasir Hospital in Khan Younus, and the occupation army blew up residential blocks west of Rafa'h.‎

‎In Gaza City, ambulance crews picked up a martyr and a number of wounded after a warplane targeted a house belonging to the Zaqout family in Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, and another martyr and two injuries after targeting an apartment on the tunnel street in the city. ‎

‎The eastern area of Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, was shelled by Israeli artillery, while Israeli military vehicles fired on Al-Mughraqa area, north of Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.‎

‎By July 15, 2024, the Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since the seventh of October October 2023, resulting in the death of more than 38,664 citizens, the majority of whom were women and children, and the injury of more than 89,097 others, in an indefinite toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble.‎

‎G.Z./ER.‎

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

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Palestinian young man martyred during clashes with the IOFs in Al-Beerih

Tuesday 16-July-2024

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

A Palestinian young man was martyred at dawn Tuesday during clashes between the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) and local youths in the West Bank City of Al-Beerih.

According to local sources, 20-year-old A'hmed Sultan was killed during clashes in Al-Balou' neighborhood in Al-Beerih City.

The sources added that Israeli soldiers detained the martyr’s body for several hours before handing him over to an ambulance crew, who transferred him to Palestine Hospital.

However, eyewitnesses told the director of Palestine Hospital that Israeli occupation soldiers detained the young man and took him to the illegal Israeli settlement of Beit El where they executed him with bullets in his chest and abdomen.

The clashes broke out when Israeli forces stormed the city and carried out raids on exchange stores.

Martyr Sultan is originally from Gaza, but he lived with his family in Al-Beerih.

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‎Two Palestinians injured by Israeli gunfire and the kidnapping of a young man during the raid on Balata refugee camp‎

‎Nablus 16-7-2024 Wafa -

On Tuesday, two young men were injured by Israeli occupation forces bullets and shrapnel during the storming of Balata camp, east of Nablus.‎

‎Our correspondent reported that an Israeli occupation regime special force "undercover" infiltrated the Tirawiya neighborhood inside Balata camp, surrounded one of the houses, amid heavy gunfire, and the arrival of additional reinforcements from the Israeli occupation army, and kidnapped the young man Dhiya Sawal'ha, before withdrawing. ‎

‎The spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, A'hmed Jibreel, explained that the ambulance crews transferred a young man (24 years old) to the hospital, after he was wounded by live bullets in the knee, while the injury of bullet fragments in the hand was dealt with and was treated in the field.‎

‎B.R./A.R‎

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‎Occupation arrests 20 citizens from the West Bank‎

‎Ramallah Allah 16-7-2024 Wafa -

From yesterday evening until Tuesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped at least 20 citizens from the West Bank, including wounded and children, in addition to former detainees‎‎.‎

‎According to the ‎‎Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, the arrests were concentrated in the governorates of Al-Khaleel (Hebron) and Ramallah, while the rest were distributed in the governorates of Toulkarm, Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), and Nablus, accompanied by large-scale raids, severe beatings, threats against detainees and their families, in addition to the destruction and vandalism of citizens‎‎' homes.‎

‎It is noteworthy that the toll of the Israeli occupation forces kidnapping of Palestinians in the West Bank, since the start of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war, reached about 9690, and this toll includes those who were arrested from homes, through military checkpoints, those who had to surrender under pressure, and those who were taken hostage‎‎. ‎

‎R.R.‎

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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IOFs demolish 9 Palestinian homes and facilities, illegal Israeli settlers set fire to agricultural lands in the West Bank

Monday 15-July-2024

WEST BANK, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) knocked down five Palestinian homes in Bait La'hm (Bethlehem) and four facilities in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) on Monday, while the illegal Israeli settlers burned agricultural lands in northern West Bank.

The head of the Al-Wallaja Village Council in Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), Khadir Al-Araj, said that the IOFs stormed the Al-Maqbara neighborhood in the 'Ain Juwaiza area, and demolished four homes belonging to four siblings of Abu Al-Teen family, each of which had an area of 100 square meters.

In the morning, the IOFs demolished a house belonging to Fadi Abu Rizq (85 square meters) in the same area.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces also demolished four facilities in 'Hizma, northeast of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

In parallel with the massive destruction of homes, buildings and facilities in the Gaza Strip, demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) have escalated, especially in Area C, which constitutes about 60% of the West Bank’s area.

In another crime, Israeli fanatic settlers burned on Monday Palestinian agricultural lands in the northern West Bank.

For his part, the anti-settlement activist, Bashar Al-Qaryouti, said that a group of settlers attacked a gathering of Palestinian Bedouins near the town of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya, to the south of Nablus, and attacked the residents and set fire to dozens of dunums of Palestinian agricultural lands, leading to confrontations.

On Monday morning, the IOFs carried out a series of raids into cities and towns in the West Bank, accompanied by kidnapping of Palestinian civilians and destruction of Palestinian property, according to eyewitnesses. 

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‎Illegal Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque‎ 

‎Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), 16-7-2024 Wafa -

On Tuesday, settlers stormed the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the protection of the Israeli occupation apartheid regime police‎‎.‎

‎The illegal Israeli settlers performed Talmudic prayers during their storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque‎‎, in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).‎

‎According to eyewitnesses, settlers entered in more than one group and that the occupation police turned the Old City of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) into a military barracks, and hundreds of police officers were deployed at close distances, especially at the gates of Al-Aqsa.‎

‎The Israeli occupation forces intensified their military measures at the gates of the Old City and Al-Aqsa Mosque, and imposed restrictions on the entry of worshipers‎‎.‎

‎B.G/M.L‎

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