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WAFA: “The Martyrdom of the Freed Prisoner, Farouk Al-Khatib”

WAFA: “The Martyrdom of the Freed Prisoner, Farouk Al-Khatib”
Ramallah 5-20-2024 WAFA – It was announced after midnight tonight that the freed prisoner, Farouk Ahmed Al-Khatib, from the village of Abu Shukheidim, northwest of Ramallah, was martyred in the Istishari Hospital. Prisoner Al-Khatib (30 years old), who was released on the twentieth of last December, was subjected to medical neglect in the occupation prisons […] Read more

Army Abducts Three Palestinians, Including Two Children, in Nablus

Army Abducts Three Palestinians, Including Two Children, in Nablus
Israeli forces abducted, on Sunday, three Palestinians, including two children, in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, and stormed many commercial and exchange shops.. In the northwestern part of the West Bank, Israeli forces invaded the city of Qalqilia, and besieged two homes, sparking protests. Before dawn on Sunday, a large army force […] Read more

Day 227: Israeli Bombardment Kills 70 Civilians in Past 24 Hours

Day 227: Israeli Bombardment Kills 70 Civilians in Past 24 Hours
A number of Palestinians, including children and women, were killed before dawn on Monday, in a series of Israeli raids and artillery shelling that targeted the cities of Gaza, Rafah, Khan Yunis, and the Jabalia and Bureij refugee camps. According to local sources, over the past 24 hours at least 70 Palestinians were killed by […] Read more

Israeli Colonizers Attack Aid Trucks, Citizens, in the West Bank

Israeli Colonizers Attack Aid Trucks, Citizens, in the West Bank
Illegal Israeli colonizers carried out, on Sunday, a series of attacks against Palestinian citizens and their property in the governorates of Jericho, Salfit, and Hebron, in the northeastern, central, and southern parts of the West Bank. On Sunday afternoon, Israeli settlers hurled rocks at Palestinian-owned vehicles, northwest of the city of Jericho in the northeastern […] Read more

Day 226 Update: Dozens Killed In Ongoing Israeli Bombing of Gaza

Day 226 Update: Dozens Killed In Ongoing Israeli Bombing of Gaza
On Sunday, the Israeli army continued the bombing and shelling of various parts of the Gaza Strip, including entire residential blocs, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians. The Israeli army also surrounded and completely isolated the Al-Awda Hospital, in Jabalia in northern Gaza, preventing the Palestinians, including the medics and ambulances, from entering or leaving […] Read more

World Health Organization: Medicine and Food Running Out in Gaza

World Health Organization: Medicine and Food Running Out in Gaza
Since the Israeli military closed the Rafah border crossing on May 6th, no supplies have been able to enter the Gaza Strip. The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that “with the Rafah crossing still closed since 6 May, the supply of essential medicines and fuel is very low in the […] Read more

Israeli Colonizers Burn Vehicles and Land Near Nablus

Israeli Colonizers Burn Vehicles and Land Near Nablus
Illegal Israel colonizers burned, on Sunday evening, several Palestinian-owned vehicles and agricultural land in the village of Yatma, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. According to Ahmed Snobar, the head of the Yatma Village Council, said that hundreds of illegal Israeli colonizers, under the protection of the occupation army, burned many vehicles […] Read more

Israeli Forces Kill a Palestinian Near Bethlehem

Israeli Forces Kill a Palestinian Near Bethlehem
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man, on Sunday morning, and abducted three others, at the “Container” military roadblock, northeast of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. Media sources said that occupation forces opened heavy fire at a Palestinian man who allegedly ran towards the soldiers carrying a sharp instrument, and shouting the […] Read more
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