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 242 of the US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 7 Massacres, 71 Palestinians Killed, 182 Injured, with a Death Toll of  36,550 and 82,959 Injuries

June 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:  

By June 4, 2024, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 43,550+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (36,550) and those who are still missing under the rubble (Corrected on April 18, 2024: 7,000+). 

By June 4, 2024, the documented injuries exceeded 82,959 and more than 2,520 civilians have been abducted from Gaza Strip. 70% of deaths were for children and women.

By June 4, 2024, 529 Palestinians who were killed, 4,407 who were injured, and 9,032 (corrected on May 27, 2024), who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023 (Some of the detainees have been released).

By May 21, 2023, the Palestinian death toll in Gaza included 15,000+ children (43%).

By March 4, 2023, 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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GMO reveals latest statistics on Israeli genocidal war on Gaza

Saturday 3-February-2024, GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip revealed on Saturday the latest and most significant figures on the Israeli ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since October 7.

This announcement comes as the latest updates from the GMO, showing the scale of human and material damage that resulted from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, on its 120th day.

The statistics demonstrated latest updates on the numbers of martyrs, missing, and wounded people in addition to the sick, displaced and prisoners as well as numbers of damaged structures and infrastructure.

Below are figures released by the GMO about Israel’s violations over the period of 120 days since the start of its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

(2,325) Massacres (34,238) Martyrs and missing people. (27,238) Martyrs who arrived in hospitals. (12,000) Child martyrs. (8,190) Female martyrs. (339) Martyrs of medical staff. (46) Civil defense martyrs. (122) Journalist martyrs. (7,000) Missing, 70% of whom are children and women. (66,452) Wounded.

(11,000) Wounded people in need of travel abroad for treatment, (life-saving and critical cases). (10,000) Cancer patients facing the risk of death. (700,000) Wounded with infectious diseases as a result of displacement. (8,000) Cases of viral hepatitis infection due to displacement. (60,000) Pregnant women at risk due to the lack of health care. (350,000) Chronic patients at risk due to blocked medications.

(99) Cases of arrest among health personnel. (10) Cases of arrests among identified journalists. (2 million) Displaced people in the Gaza Strip.

(140) Government headquarters destroyed. (100) Completely destroyed schools and universities. (295) Partially destroyed schools and universities. (183) Completely destroyed mosques. (264) Partially destroyed mosques. (3) Destroyed Churches.

(79,200) Completely destroyed housing units. (290,000) Partially destroyed and uninhabitable housing units. (66,000) tons of explosives dropped on Gaza. (30) Hospitals knocked out of service. (53) Health centers knocked out of service. (150) Partially targeted Health institutions. (122) Destroyed ambulances. (200) Destroyed archaeological and heritage sites.

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One of the Palestinian martyrs who were massacred by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip, on June 4, 2024	71 Palestinian civilians were martyred, 182 were injured by Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on Gaza Strip, on June 4, 2024 pic
Martyrs 'Abdul Fatta'h Jabara and A'hmed Rajab were killed while resisting an Israeli occupation force, at a checkpoint in Toulkarm, on June 4, 2024	Martyrs Mujahid Adam Farraj and Mo'taz Al-Nabuls were killed while resisting an Israeli occupation force, in their Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, June 3, 2024
Member of the 'Hamas political bureau, 'Husam Badran, said that 'Hamas did not receive any official notification regarding the new ceasefire proposal from the mediators, June 4, 2024	Palestinian resistance leaders Ziyad Al-Nakhalah (center) and Khaleel Al-'Hayya (left), meeting with the Acting Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Bagheri Kani (right), who confirmed that Palestine is a top priority for Iran, June 4, 2024
Eight Palestinian civilians were massacred inside their vehicle by an Israeli genocidal air strike, in Dair El-Bala'h, June 4, 2024	The moment a residential building was destroyed by an Israeli genocidal air strike, in Al-Buraij, central Gaza Strip, June 4, 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 denies receiving new ceasefire proposal from mediators

Tuesday 4-June-2024

DOHA, (PIC)

Member of the 'Hamas political bureau, 'Husam Badran, has affirmed that his Movement has not received any official notification from the mediators regarding the new ceasefire proposal.

In remarks on Monday, Badran said that the ceasefire proposal that had been presented by the mediators on May 6 is still the paper approved by 'Hamas and other resistance factions in  Gaza.

“US president Joe Biden’s recent speech on renewed talks to end the war on  Gaza reflects that the Israeli occupation regime and its main supporters are in a state of confusion because they thought they could break our people and defeat our resistance, but this never happened,” Badran said.

The 'Hamas official affirmed that Biden admitted that the (Israeli) occupation regime was unable to achieve any of its political and military goals in Gaza over the past months. He added that (the Biden) administration had the means to pressure premier Benjamin Netanyahu and his government to stop the war.

He described Netanyahu as “the only party obstructing any efforts to reach a ceasefire deal,” accusing him of being unwilling to end the war for personal and political reasons. 

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Iran’s acting top diplomat: The Palestinian cause is our top priority

Tuesday 4-June-2024

BEIRUT, (PIC)

A delegation from the Palestinian resistance factions met in Beirut with Acting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, along with his accompanying delegation, and the Iranian Ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani, on Monday.

The Palestinian delegation included the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziyad Al-Nakhalah, his deputy, Dr. Mu'hammed Al-Hindi, deputy head of the 'Hamas Movement in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Khaleel Al-'Hayya, the 'Hamas leader in Lebanon, Osama 'Hamdan, the deputy secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Jameel Mizhir, the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command, Talal Naji, and the Secretary-General of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fahd Sulayman.

During the meeting, the factions renewed their condolences over the loss of the late Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, and Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian.

The meeting also dealt with the latest political and field developments in the “Aqsa Flood” battle.

Kani, for his part, emphasized that Iran will continue to back the Palestinian resistance and that the Palestinian cause is a top priority for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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 The family of injured Wafaa Jarrar demands the Israeli hospital to hand over her amputated legs, for burial, according to Islamic Law

Tuesday 4-June-2024

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The family of the injured Wafaa Jarrar, 49, from Jineen, demanded that the Israeli 'Afoula Hospital hand over her amputated legs for burial according to Islamic law.

The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said that the lawyer of the injured woman submitted an urgent request, on behalf of her family, to the director of the Israeli 'Afoula Hospital, the director of the intensive care department and the Israeli Ministry of Health demanding the return of her amputated legs in order to bury them according to Islamic law.

The lawyer had received an unexpected verbal response from one of the hospital’s doctors stating that the limbs had been disposed of.

Prisoners’ institutions described this as “a new violation added to the complex crime that the occupation carried out against Jarrar from the moment of her arrest from her home in Jineen last May 21.”

The request also included a demand to obtain her medical file from the moment of her arrest on May 21 until her release from the hospital on May 30.

It also demanded clarification of what happened on May 27, the day on which the injured woman underwent a below-the-knee amputation of her legs, after obtaining approval from her family and lawyer. Later on, though, it became evident that another amputation had been done on her legs above the knee without her family’s approval.

Jarrar, 49, was detained by the Israeli army during an incursion into Jenin in the occupied West Bank on May 21.

An explosive device hit the military vehicle transferring Jarrar to Al-Jalama military camp near Jenin, causing severe wounds in her legs, according to the Israeli army.

The circumstances of the explosion remain unknown, and no further details have been announced by the Israeli army about the incident. 

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Nagasaki mayor suspends invite to Israel for peace ceremony

TOKYO, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (WAFA) –

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki said he is withholding an invitation to Israel to attend the city’s annual peace ceremony and will call on the Jewish state to accept an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

“Given the critical humanitarian situation in Gaza and international opinion, there is a risk of unpredictable disruption occurring at the ceremony,” Suzuki said on June 3. “We need to carefully monitor the situation as it develops.”

The peace ceremony is scheduled for Aug. 9, the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Suzuki said he would send a letter to the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo, urging an immediate ceasefire.

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki said, "we have suspended sending a letter of invitation" to the Israeli ambassador to Tokyo."

Y.S. 

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To secure colonists' flag march, Israeli authorities turn Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) sites into military zone

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem),  Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation authorities Tuesday turned the city of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) and its old town into a military zone under the pretext of securing the provocative “flag march,” which the colonial associations intend to organize on Wednesday.

The occupation authorities sent in more than 3,000 policemen to occupied Jerusalem, and set up military checkpoints on the main roads, announcing that they would close major routes and push more of their police forces into the city on the eve of the so-called “flag march,” which will pass through the neighborhoods of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) and land in Al-Buraq Wall Square.

Ministers and members of Knesset from the government coalition are also expected to participate in the provocative march.

The alleged "Temple" organizations and colonial groups called for the largest storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday morning.

The Islamic Christian Commission for Supporting Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) and the Holy Sanctities warned of the danger of the Israeli escalation against Al-Aqsa Mosque on the eve of commemoration of the occupation of the city of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem).

It indicated that the so-called Israeli Knesset (the occupation apartheid regime parliement) will hold, for the first time, today a discussion session entitled “Israel’s Return to the Temple Mount” at the invitation of the so-called extremist Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, in order to study a plan to “impose Biblical rituals” inside Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Commission said that it studies with extreme seriousness this an unprecedented escalation against Al-Aqsa Mosque and the attempt to impose new facts that undermine the existing religious and legal situation, adding that it holds the occupation authorities fully responsible for the serious repercussions of these violations.

It called on Palestinian Muslims for mobilizing and traveling to Al-Aqsa Mosque to confront any attempt by the colonialists to storm it and hold biblical rituals inside the mosque.

K.T.

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Over 15,000 children, including school and kindergarten students, killed in Gaza, says Ministry of Education

GAZA, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Palestinian Ministry of Education said that more than 15,000 Palestinian children have been killed since the start of the Israeli occupation regime genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, the majority of them school and kindergarten students, in addition to 64 students from schools in the West Bank, including Jerusalem.

The Ministry added in a statement, on the occasion of the International Day of Innocent Child Victims of Aggression, which falls on June 4, that the most prominent title of this occasion is “The Children of Gaza,” as they are the biggest victims of the ongoing occupation aggression since October 7.

It further indicated that the occupation destroyed schools and kindergartens and specifically targeted civilians with children, killing them, forcibly abandoning them, arresting them, depriving them of food and health services, and other serious violations, which represent crimes that exceeded norms, charters, and the human rights system.

The Ministry pointed out that since the start of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, 620,000 students have been deprived of going to their schools, and 88,000 students have been deprived of going to their universities, while most of them suffer from psychological trauma and difficult health conditions.

The Ministry of Education called on international organizations and institutions defending children and the right to education to put an end to the escalating violations and stop the crimes committed by the occupation against children students.

It also called for the need to intervene urgently and immediately to stop this Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, and the attacks of the occupation army and illegal settlers in the West Bank.

Y.S.

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Ongoing war destroying social fabric in Gaza, UN aid official says

NEW YORK, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The humanitarian crisis in Rafa'h has reached a critical point, said the head of UN aid agency OCHA's office in the occupied Palestinian Territory.

Andrea De Domenico, Head of OCHA's Office in the occupied Palestinian territory, recently spent three weeks in the enclave, where over one million people have fled the southern city of Rafah following the step-up in Israeli military operations, according to Palestine refugee agency UNRWA.

Briefing journalists in New York, Mr. De Domenico added that the operational environment for humanitarians also remains dangerous and challenging, despite engagement with the parties.

"The events that have unfolded in Rafa'h since the seventh of May, with the subsequent move up to almost a million people that found refuge for months in Rafah and now that they've moved all in a sudden... The result of it is that the narrowing space that is left for civilians to conglomerate and leave is becoming more and more limited, and more and more crowded," De Domenico said during a virtual press briefing at the UN.

The people of Gaza are "very welcoming people, they're super they're formidable guests," De Domenico said, adding that the current dire situation on the ground is destroying "more and more this fabric progressively."

He continued by saying that all hospitals in Rafa'h are "no more functional" and that there are only field hospitals.

With "more or less 950,000 people" left Rafa'h, he said "the operational environment remains extremely challenging" in the area.

Turning to remarks by Israeli officials suggesting the war on Gaza will continue until the end of the year, De Domenico said: "The perspective of having a war until the end of the year is simply terrifying in my mind.

"I was reflecting a little bit on all this dynamic of the criticism moved to the United Nations' inability to deliver humanitarian. I've lived it on my skin in the last three weeks how complicated it is to operate," he said. "I think there is no other place in the world where the system has been put to such level of challenges and stretch".

K.T.

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

On June 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 Gaza Strip resulted in 7 massacres, which resulted in the killing of 71 Palestinian civilians, and the injury of 182 others, in the past 24 hours. This increased the accounted for death toll in Gaza Strip to 36,550 and the injuries to 82,959, since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023.   

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71 Palestinian martyrs in 7 Israeli massacres in Gaza in the past 24 hours

Tuesday 4-June-2024

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation army committed seven massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 71 civilians and injuring over 182 others.

The Ministry reported in its daily update that the death toll of the aggression on Gaza since October 7, 2023, has jumped to 36,550 martyrs and the number of the wounded climbed to 82,959.

“A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews have been prevented by the IOF from reaching them,” the ministry underlined.

Since October 7 last year, the IOFs has been waging a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, resulting in tens of thousands of martyrs, wounded and missing, in addition to the displacement of two million people and a massive destruction of homes and infrastructure that affected more than 70% of the buildings, with a tight siege, a stifling humanitarian crisis, and an unprecedented famine, especially in northern Gaza. 

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Three civilians killed and others injured in Israeli airstrike targeting central Gaza

GAZA, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Three civilians today were killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the central Gaza Strip.

Local sources reported that the occupation warplanes targeted a house in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of three civilians and the wounding of several others.

The Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught that began on October 7, 2023, has risen to 36,550 reported fatalities, with an additional 82,959 reported injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

Y.S.

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Seven civilians killed in an Israeli raid on vehicle, group of civilians south of Gaza

GAZA, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (WAFA) – 

Seven civilians today were killed  and 20 others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a vehicle and a group of citizens near the entrance to a shelter center north of Dair El-Bala'h, south of Gaza City.

Local sources reported that the targeted area is crowded with displaced people near a college used as a shelter and housing hundreds of families.

He pointed to the remains of the victims and bloodstains scattered around the place and on parked vehicles.

By June 3, 2024, the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has as risen to 36,479 reported fatalities, with an additional 82,777 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

Y.S.

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Gaza: Bodies of three slain Palestinians recovered following Israeli genocidal airstrike on house

GAZA, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (WAFA) –

The bodies of three Palestinians who were killed after Israeli warplanes targeted a house in Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City, were recovered on Tuesday dawn.

Local sources said that Israeli raids target the southern neighborhoods of Gaza City, coinciding with heavy artillery shelling.

Israeli aircraft also launched violent raids on Al-Sabra and Al-Zaytoun neighborhoods in Gaza City, wounding a number of citizens, including children and women.

WAFA correspondent said that Quadcopter planes opened fire in the vicinity of Al-'Awda Hospital in Al-Nusayrat camp, while Israeli artillery targeted Netzarim axis, south of Gaza City.

Earlier today at dawn, three Palestinians were killed and others were injured in a missile strike from an Israeli warplane that targeted a house owned by Ghanem family in Al-Buraij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

They were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Dair El-Bala'h in the central Gaza Strip.

By June 3, 2024, the Palestinian medical sources confirmed that the death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has risen to 36,479 reported Palestinian fatalities, with an additional 82,777 individuals sustaining injuries.

The number of victims is expected to increase further as rescue and emergency teams face challenges in accessing the affected areas, with hundreds more feared buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings.

K.T.

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

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Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces kill five Palestinians in the West Bank

WEST BANK, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (WAFA) –

 Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces yesterday killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank cities of Nablus and Toulkarm, according to official sources.

In Nablus, according to WAFA correspondent, two Palestinians were shot and killed and others were injured Monday evening during the Israeli occupation forces' continued assault on the city of Nablus.

According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), two Palestinians were killed by live fire and nine others were injured, including some seriously, during the occupation's military raid into the eastern part of the city of Nablus.

The two slain Palestinian youths were identified as Mu'taz Khalid Al-Nabulsi, 28, and Adam Sala'huddeen Farraj, 23.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that the body of Farraj remained in the custody of the Israeli occupation.

A few hours later, the Ministry said a third young Palestinian youth died of critical wounds he sustained during the ongoing Israeli military raid and assault on the city of Nablus.

The ministry said the young man was hit by live bullets in his chest, causing him critical injuries, adding that he transferred to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after. The youth was identified as 30-year-old A'hmed 'Omar Al-Khadri.

Meanwhile, in Toulkarm, two Palestinians were killed by the occupation forces’ live bullets after midnight on Monday near the Nitzanei Oz checkpoint to the west of Tulkarm, in the northern occupied West Bank, according to a security source.

A security source confirmed the killing of two Palestinian men, who were identified as Abdel-Fattah Sala'huddeen Jabara and A'hmed Mustafa Rajab, both from the Tulkarm refugee camp.  The Israeli forces kept hold of the two slain Palestinians’ bodies.

According to sources, the occupation forces opened fire at a vehicle near Nitzanei Oz checkpoint west of the city and prevented ambulances’ access to the area.

WAFA correspondent said that the occupation forces stormed the western neighborhood of Toulkarm and stationed their troops along the street surrounding a mosque in the area, as snipers were deployed in the area and near the vicinity of Jeshuri chemical factories, west of Toulkarm.

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime soldiers opened heavy fire targeting every moving object, hitting one of the vehicles passing in the area. 

Ambulances were banned access to the site.

It was later found that two men were shot and killed inside the vehicle.

K.T.

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IOFs kill two Palestinian young men in Toulkarm

Tuesday 4-June-2024

Toulkarm, (PIC)

Two Palestinian young men were martyred at dawn Tuesday after the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) attacked their vehicle near a military checkpoint in western Toulkarm.

Local sources identified the martyrs as Abdul Fatta'h Jabara and A'hmed Rajab from Toulkarm refugee camp, adding that the IOFs seized their bodies.

Eyewitnesses said that Israeli occupation apartheid regime soldiers showered the car the victims were in at the checkpoint and prevented ambulances from reaching them.

The IOFs justified its gunfire attack on the car by claiming that the young men opened fire at its soldiers.

However, local sources said that Israeli occupation forces stormed the western neighborhood of Toulkarm City and opened fire at everything moving, killing the young men as they were aboard their car in the area.

Meanwhile, a general strike was declared on Tuesday morning in Toulkarm province in mourning for the young martyrs.

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Two Palestinians killed in IOFs Nablus raid

Monday 3-June-2024

NABLUS, (PIC)

Palestinian health authorities said that the Israeli occupation apartheid regime raid on the city of Nablus has killed two Palestinian men, aged 33 and 28, on Monday evening.

The attack also injured six people, the health authorities added.

Israeli occupation forces and settlers have been conducting near daily raids on Palestinian towns in the West Bank, killing hundreds of people since the start of the war on Gaza in October.

The Palestinian Red Crescent also affirmed that a young Palestinian man breathed his last after being injured after his detention by the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) as violent clashes erupted in Nablus.

A video clip went viral on social media showing Israeli special forces dragging an injured and bloodied young man onto the roof of a local building east of the city.

Eyewitnesses affirmed that the clashes erupted when Israeli special forces infiltrated into Al-Quds Street adjacent to Balata refugee camp.

At least seven people were initially shot and injured during the clashes.

A young man was also detained after being injured.

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'Hamas: Israel’s assassinations will not undermine resistance in the West Bank

Tuesday 4-June-2024

NABLUS, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement mourned on Monday evening the martyrs Mujahid Adam Farraj and Mo'taz Al-Nabulsi, who were killed after a heroic clash with Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) in the vicinity of the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus.

The Movement said in a statement, “The Israeli crimes and cowardly assassinations will not undermine the resistance in the West Bank,” stressing that such practices and offensives “will not discourage our heroes in the West Bank from escalating their resistance operations in the face of the occupation and its fascist soldiers and settlers.”

'Hamas also saluted the masses of the West Bank, who have been waging resistance operations against the IOFs in different areas of the West Bank and always been defending the Palestinian land and people, despite the brutality, criminality, and oppression of the Israeli occupation.

'Hamas concluded its statement by saying, “We call on the masses of our people in the West Bank to further escalate, by all possible means, the confrontations and clashes with the IOFs in all the governorates of the West Bank.”

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Israeli occupation forces detain 22 Palestinians from the West Bank

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (WAFA) – 

The Israeli occupation forces today detained at least 22 Palestinians, including former detainees,  in large-scale arrest campaigns across the occupied West Bank, according to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS).

They said in a joint statement that the arrests took place across the occupied West Bank governorates of Ramallah, Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), Nablus, Salfeet, Toubas, Aree'ha (Jericho), and Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem). The raids were accompanied by widespread raids and abuse and threats against detainees and their families.

The total number of Palestinians detained in the occupied West Bank has risen to over 9,025 since October 7, 2023. This figure includes individuals apprehended from their homes, at military checkpoints, those who surrendered under duress, and those taken hostage.

By June 3, 2024, the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has as risen to 36,479 reported fatalities, with an additional 82,777 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

Y.S.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Israeli occupation apartheid regime army razes Palestinian house in Masafir Yatta

Tuesday 4-June-2024

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), (PIC)

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime army demolished on Tuesday morning a Palestinian house in Masafir Yatta area, south of al-Khalil in the West Bank, at the pretext of unlicensed construction.

According to local sources, a bulldozer escorted by Israeli soldiers demolished a house belonging to Mu'hamed Al-Nawaj’ha in Wadi Al-Jawaya area of Masafir Yatta.

The sources said that Israeli soldiers assaulted the homeowner and other local residents as they tried to prevent the demolition measure, adding that a family of nine was living in that house.

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 Illegal Israeli extremist settlers demolish 11 barracks owned by Palestinians in Bedouin community, west of Aree'ha (Jericho)

Aree'ha (Jericho), Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli extremist settlers today demolished 11 barracks owned by Palestinian residents in a Bedouin community to the west of Al-Duyouk area, west of Aree'ha (Jericho) city, according to a local official.

The General Supervisor of Al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, 'Hasan Mulai'hat, told WAFA that colonists, accompanied by bulldozers, destroyed 11 barracks that were built three years ago in the targeted Bedouin community.

The attack coincided with the Israeli army's imposition of closure on the city of Jericho.

The Bedouin communities scattered throughout Jericho are subjected to repeated attacks by the Israeli occupation army and the illegal Israeli extremist settlers, with the aim of displacing them from their homes and lands to eventually take over the land.

T.R. 

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