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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On Day 467 of US-Backed Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Strip, 6 Massacres, 62 Palestinians Killed, 253 Injured, in the Past 24 Hours, with a Death Toll of  46,707 and 110,265 Injuries

by January 15, 2025 

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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 Ministry of Health in Gaza:

By January 15, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 56,707+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (46,707), those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 10,000+). 

By January 15, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 110,265.

By January 15, 2025, 853 Palestinians who were killed, 6,652 who were injured, and 10,876*, 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).

* The number of the Palestinians detainees who remain in the Israeli occupation prisons has been updated today (December 5, 2024), by Wafa, to be 10,300.

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62 Palestinians were killed and 253 were injured, in the past 24 hours, by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on the Gaza Strip, January 15, 2025.	The Palestinian death toll rose to 46,707 and the injuries to 110,265, mostly children and women, as a result of the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, file photo, by January 15, 2025.
Funeral procession of the six Palestinian martyrs who were killed by the Israeli genocidal air strike on Jineen, on January 15, 2025.	Funeral prayer for the Palestinian martyrs who were killed by the Israeli genocidal air strike on Al-Nusayrat refugee camp, on January 15, 2025.
Grieving the Palestinian martyred family members at the Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital, following to the Israeli genocidal air strikes on the central Gaza Strip, on January 15, 2025.	Carrying to the hospital the martyred Palestinian employees of Al-Buraij municipality, who were killed by the Israeli genocidal air strike on Al-Buraij refugee camp, in central Gaza Strip, on January 15, 2025.

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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.

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

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Note: The following figures only include the killed and injured Palestinians who have  been accounted for by the Palestinian hospitals. The victims who are not carried to the hospitals are not accounted for.

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62 Palestinian martyrs in the Israeli genocide on Gaza in the past 24 hours

Wednesday 15-January-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza Strip announced on Wednesday that 62 Palestinian citizens were killed and 253 others injured, in six massacres committed by the Israeli genocidal air strikes and bombardment on the Gaza Strip, in the past 24 hours.

It said in its daily statistical report that the number of casualties of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023 had reached 46,707 martyrs and 110,265 injured.

The Ministry said that an unspecified number of victims is still under the rubble of destroyed buildings or lying in roads and the civil defense crews cannot retrieve them.

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Israeli genocidal war on Gaza enters Day 467

Wednesday 15-January-2025

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 467th 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 Wednesday 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 been ongoing since October 5, 2024, where its forces continue to intensively bomb homes and shelters and attack civilians while imposing a tight siege on the entire area.

Deliberate Israeli attacks on ambulance and civil defense workers already deprived northern Gaza of any rescue services.

According to local sources, the Israeli army reportedly bombed a house in southern Al-Nusayrat in central Gaza, killing six people and injuring seven others.

A man and his wife from the family of Al-Shishniya were martyred and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Al-Buraij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Another man and his wife were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in Dair El-Bala'h in central Gaza.

The Israeli army also bombed a gathering of citizens in Khirbet Al-'Adas in Rafa'h, south of Gaza, killing two people and injuring others.

Four people were martyred, including a child, last night in an Israeli attack on a house belonging to the family of Sha'ath in Al-Nasr town, north of Rafa'h.

Another Israeli attack on a house sheltering displaced families in Al-Yarmouk street in Gaza City claimed the lives of seven people last night.

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

In a related context, the health ministry said on Wednesday that the Israeli army committed six massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, and killed and injured at least 315 civilians, while a large number of victims are still under the rubble of bombed buildings or lying on roads. 

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Israeli genocidal air strikes kill several civilians and injure others in Gaza

GAZA, January 15, 2025 (WAFA) -

A number of civilians were killed and others wounded following an Israeli military attack targeting multiple areas in the Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent reported that three Palestinians were killed and others injured when the Israeli military struck a group securing aid along the Sea Street in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.

In another incident, one citizen was killed and six others were wounded as a result of Israeli airstrikes on a group of people in the area of Camp 2, south of Al-Nusayrat, in the central Gaza Strip.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in at least 46,707 documented Palestinian fatalities, with over 110,265 others injured.

Thousands of victims are feared trapped under rubble, inaccessible to emergency and civil defense teams due to Israeli attacks.

Israel's genocidal attacks continue unabated despite calls from the UN Security Council for an immediate ceasefire and directives from the International Court of Justice urging measures to prevent genocide and alleviate the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.

M.N. 

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Civilians killed and injured in Israeli bombings of several Gaza areas

GAZA, January 15 2025 (WAFA) – 

A number of Palestinians were killed and injured since last night until Wednesday morning, in the Israeli occupation's bombing of several areas in the Gaza Strip.

In the city of Dair El-Bala'h in the central Gaza Strip, 11 people were killed and others were injured, most of them seriously, in the occupation's bombing of a house belonging to the Shaheen family on Al-Barakah Street in the city.

Two other citizens were also killed in the bombing of a house belonging to the Al-Khateeb family in Dair El-Bala'h.

As for the city of Rafa'h in the southern Gaza Strip, five citizens were killed, including a woman, and 4 were injured as a result of the occupation's bombing of a house for the Shaat family in the al-Nasr neighborhood north of the city.

Two other citizens were killed in an Israeli army drone bombing of citizens in the Khirbet Al-'Adas area, while others were injured, some seriously, in a similar bombing of a group of citizens in the western "Kaf Morag" area north of Rafa'h.

In Al-Nusayrat and Al-Buraij camps in the central Gaza Strip, seven citizens were killed and others were injured as a result of the occupation's bombing of the Nassar family's house south of Al-Nusayrat.

A citizen and his wife from Al-Shishniya family were also killed and others were injured, as a result of the bombing that targeted a house in Al-Buraij camp.

In Gaza City, seven citizens were killed and others were injured from the 'Harazeen family in a bombing that targeted Al-Farabi school, which houses displaced people in Yarmouk Street in Gaza City, in addition to the killing and injury of a number of citizens as a result of the occupation's bombing of Al-Ahly Club that houses displaced people in Al-Shaikh Radhwan neighborhood north of Gaza City.

K.T. 

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Two Palestinians killed and several injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

GAZA, January 15, 2025 (WAFA) –

At least two Palestinians were killed and several others injured this evening following Israeli airstrikes targeting Al-Nusayrat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

According to local reports, Israeli warplanes launched an attack near Khalid Bin Al-Walid School in the camp. The strikes resulted in the killing of two individuals and injuries to others.

Civil defense teams managed to recover six bodies and rescue four injured individuals from the rubble of "Kitchen of Life," a food distribution center near the Kuwaiti Hospital.

Meanwhile, medical sources confirmed the killing of recently released prisoner 'Ali Al-Maghrabi in an airstrike targeting Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younus, located in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in at least 46,707 documented Palestinian fatalities, with over 110,265 others injured.

Thousands of victims are feared trapped under rubble, inaccessible to emergency and civil defense teams due to Israeli attacks.

Israel's genocidal attacks continue unabated despite calls from the UN Security Council for an immediate ceasefire and directives from the International Court of Justice urging measures to prevent genocide and alleviate the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.

M.N.

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Gaza: Six killed following Israeli genocidal shelling in school, house

GAZA, January 14, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Last night and today's morning, 13 Palestinians were killed and others were injured in Israeli occupation forces' shelling of Gaza City and Al-Nusayrat refugee Camp.

WAFA correspondent reported that seven citizens were killed and others were injured with varying degrees of injury after the Israeli occupation forces shelled Al-Farabi School, which houses displaced people in the Yarmouk area of ​​Gaza City.

He added that six people were killed and seven others were injured, including the head of the nursing department at Al-Awda Hospital, when the occupation forces shelled a house in the Camp 2 area, south of Al-Nusayrat, in the central Gaza Strip.

Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7, 2023 has risen to 46,707 reported fatalities, with an additional 110,265 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

According to the same sources, emergency services 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.

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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General strike in Jineen in mourning for the martyrs of its refugee camp

Wednesday 15-January-2025

Jineen, (PIC)

A general strike took place on Wednesday in the city of Jineen in mourning for the martyrs who fell in the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) yesterday in the Jineen refugee camp. The streets of Jineen were empty of citizens and vehicle movement, while shops and service establishments closed their doors in mourning and in condemnation of the IOF crimes.

Six citizens were martyred last night in an airstrike by the IOFs in a cowardly assassination in the Jenin camp.

The 'Hamas Movement mourned the heroic martyrs of Jineen who fell in this brutal massacre, emphasizing that their “pure blood will not go in vain and will ignite a flame that burns the occupation and shatters the prestige of its security apparatus.” They stated that the escalation of the IOF brutal aggression against the West Bank provinces, particularly the airstrikes on the Jineen refugee camp, will not succeed in breaking the people’s will and the determination of its valiant resistance, which is not intimidated by the IOF brutality.

'Hamas clarified that this crime came just hours after the launch of the national initiative to end the Palestinian Authority’s security campaign against the Jineen refugee camp and its resistance, “and the PA’s failure to respond to it, along with the gunfire and the prevention of ambulances from entering the camp, holding it responsible for its partnership in the Zionist crime and its refusal of national calls to halt its aggression against the camp.”

The 'Hamas Movement called on “our heroic people in the West Bank to escalate all forms of resistance and to enhance unity and solidarity under the option of confrontation and struggle until the occupation is expelled from our land and holy sites.”

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Several Palestinians kidnaped by the IOFs, during West Bank raids

Wednesday 15-January-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnapped a number of Palestinian citizens and assaulted others during raids in the West Bank last night and Wednesday morning.

According to local sources, the IOFs stormed Qaryout village, south of Nablus, and showered several homes with stun grenades and tear gas canisters.

Some people suffered from their exposure to tear gas during the IOFs raid in Qaryout village.

The IOFs also stormed Rujeeb town in eastern Nablus and kidnapped a young man from his home.

Another young citizen was taken prisoner during an IOFs raid in 'Aseera Al-Shamaliya town, north of Nablus.

In Qalqilya, the IOFs kidnapped four citizens from their home in the city.

In Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), a number of young men suffered from inhaling tear gas during skirmishes with the Israeli occupation forces in Al-Khadir town.

The Israeli occupation forces also broke into and ransacked homes in Mara'h Ma’alla village south of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), and interrogated several local residents.

In Al-Khaleel, the IOFs raided the house of martyr Mu'hammed Misk and handed his family a military demolition order against their home.

In Toulkarm, the IOFs stormed 'Anabta town, obstructed the traffic on the main road and kidnapped two young men.

Two others were kidnapped from their homes during an IOFs raid in Tulkarem City.

In Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), the Israeli occupation forces raided dozens of homes, and detained and interrogated families in Kafr I'qab neighborhood, with no reported kidnappings.

In Jineen, three Israeli occupation soldiers suffered injuries, two seriously, when Palestinian resistance fighters detonated an explosive device at an IOFs vehicle in Qabatya town.

The IOFs reportedly raided multiple homes during its campaign in Qabatya town.

10 kidnapped.

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Jineen Battalion: We agreed on reconciliation initiative with the PA security forces

Wednesday 15-January-2025

Jineen, (PIC)

The Jineen Battalion of the Saraya Al-Quds, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, announced that it has agreed on a reconciliation initiative with the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) security forces.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Battalion said, “We have agreed on a reconciliation initiative that maintain our legitimate right to resist the criminal Israeli occupation forces which have been desecrating our sanctities, seizing our lands and abusing our people.”

The initiative had been earlier proposed by the Reform Committees in Jineen, which affirmed that “the PA’s security forces have agreed on the initiative as well.”

Since last month, the PA’s security forces have been launching a military operation against resistance fighters in the Jenin camp.

Clashes between PA’s forces and resistance fighters resulted in the killing of six security forces and 8 citizens, including one of the Jineen Battalion’s leaders.

According to local sources, the PA security forces instructed fuel stations in Jenin not to provide Jenin camp with any amount of fuel.

Since the start of the PA security campaign, the Jineen refugee camp has been left with no electricity, water and internet services. Schooling has also been disrupted in both the UNRWA schools and government schools located in the camp’s vicinity, amid a prevailing state of popular discontent.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Note: Despite the Biden administration total support for the Israeli genocidal war on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the U.S. official policy is still considering the Israeli settlement activities in the Palestinian territories as illegal.

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Dozens of the illegal Israeli settlers defile Al-Aqsa Mosque

Wednesday 15-January-2025

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), (PIC)

Dozens of the illegal Israeli Jewish settlers escorted by police forces desecrated Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), on Wednesday morning.

The settlers entered the Mosque in different groups through its Maghariba Gate and toured its courtyards under tight police protection, according to local sources.

During their tours at the Islamic holy site, the settlers received lectures from rabbis about the alleged temple mount and a number of them provocatively performed Talmudic prayers.

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation police imposed movement and entry restrictions on Muslim worshipers at the Aqsa Mosque’s entrances and gates.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers and police forces in the morning and the afternoon except on Fridays and Saturdays.

Recently, Jerusalemite figures and activists warned of accelerating Israeli attempts to Judaize the Aqsa Mosque, and stressed the need for Muslim worshipers to intensify their presence at the Mosque to protect it against desecration and Judaization.

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Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian land in Madama village, south of Nablus

NABLUS, January 15, 2025 (WAFA) –

 A group of the illegal Israeli Jewish settlersset fire to the lands of Madama village, located south of Nablus, on Wednesday evening.

Local sources reported that a group of the illegal Israeli settlers attacked the lands of Palestinian citizens in the area south of Madama and ignited fires.

This attack is part of a recent escalation in settler violence in the Nablus governorate, which has seen a rise in incidents of land arson and attacks on property by the illegal Israeli settlers.

M.N

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The Israeli occupation army razes agricultural structure in southern Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Wednesday 15-January-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation army demolished on Wednesday morning an agricultural structure in Khalayil Al-Loaz area in the southeast of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem).

According to local sources, the Israeli occupation forces stormed Khalayil Al-Loaz area and knocked down an agricultural room belonging to a local resident at the pretext of unlicensed construction.

In recent months, the Israeli army and extremist settlers escalated their attacks on Palestinian citizens and their property in this area of Bethlehem.

On Tuesday, the Israeli army delivered stop-work orders against 16 homes and structures belonging to five Palestinian families in Al-Ras Al-A'hmar area in the northern Jordan Valley as a prelude to demolishing them later.

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Israeli occupation forces storm Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)-area towns, seize vehicles

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), January 15 2025 (WAFA) –

The  Israeli occupation forces stormed the towns of Jabal Al-Mukabbir and Mikhmas in the Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) Governorate on Wednesday.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed Jabal Al-Mukabbir accompanied by a bulldozer.

The Israeli occupation forces also stormed the town of Mikhmas, northeast of Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), and seized several vehicles.

K.T.

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Israeli occupation forces continue besieging Salfeet-area village for the 4th day in a row

Salfeet, January 15, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation forces continued besieging the village of Marda, north of Salfeet, for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday.

Local sources reported to WAFA that the occupation forces continued to close the two main entrances to the village, preventing citizens from entering or leaving the village in their vehicles.

The occupation forces also pursue anyone who tries to leave via the dirt side roads and seizing his vehicle.

Marda is subjected to repeated attacks by the occupation forces, which include closing its main and side entrances, raiding and searching citizens' homes and assaulting them.

K.T.

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Occupation forces steal gold, money from homes near Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem)

Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), January 15, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces stormed Kafr I'qab, north of occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday.

Eyewitnesses that the occupation forces said the Semeeramees area in the neighborhood, raided the homes of the Zaghir family, ransacked their contents, and stole gold jewelry and money from some homes.

K.T. 

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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The UN announces plan to increase entry of aid into Gaza

Wednesday 15-January-2025

NEW YORK, (PIC)

The UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the UN Coordinator for Humanitarian and Reconstruction in Gaza, Sigrid Kaag, has met with Israeli and Palestinian ministers in recent days and spoke with the Egyptian Foreign Minister on Tuesday, regarding the UN preparation for Gaza ceasefire.

“The UN system as a whole is in intense planning and preparation for when a ceasefire comes into effect and how we can increase the humanitarian aid,” Dujarric said.

Dujarik acknowledged the current security challenges in Gaza, such as the opening of new crossing points, security conditions, unexploded ordnance, and UN personnel safety, saying these issues are expected to persist and are being taken into consideration.

“Obviously things will remain difficult because we do not have answers to all these questions,” he said.

“Ongoing hostilities and violent armed looting, as well as the systematic restrictions imposed on access to aid, are still severely hindering our efforts. The damage to the roads, non-explosive ammunition, fuel shortage and lack of adequate communication equipment have been hindering our work,” he added.

“It is necessary that vital aid and commercial commodities are allowed to enter Gaza through all available border crossings without delay, and to the extent required,” he said.

According to UN documents and testimonies of humanitarian officials and transport companies, the issue of gangs has become the biggest obstacle in the face of aid distribution in southern Gaza.

Reports show that gangs operate freely in areas under the control of the Israeli occupation army, which sparked accusations of providing them with implicit or explicit protection.

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OCHA: Israel continues to hamper UN aid efforts in Gaza

Wednesday 15-January-2025

GENEVA, (PIC)

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that Palestinians in northern Gaza are facing a tragic and unsafe situation in the midst of ongoing Israeli aggression and intensive military attacks, calling for protecting civilians wherever they are.

In a statement on Tuesday, OCHA reported that Israeli authorities continue to deny UN-led efforts to reach people with vital assistance in the Gaza Strip.

“Today, two attempts to reach hospitals in North Gaza governorate were denied. The missions were meant to evacuate patients from the Al-'Awda and Indonesian hospitals and to deliver food, water, fuel, hygiene kits and cleaning supplies,” OCHA said.

“Access to Al-'Awda Hospital in Jabalya remains extremely limited as the Israeli siege in North Gaza governorate continues. Al-'Awda is the only hospital still partially functioning in North Gaza governorate, but it faces critical shortages of fuel and medical supplies,” according to OCHA.

“Meanwhile, the Indonesian Hospital remains out of service. Essential equipment has been destroyed, and the facility lacks water, electricity, hygiene supplies and adequate staff. The UN was finally able to reach the hospital with limited supplies late last month,” OCHA elaborated.

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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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