Month: March 2024

GAZA: In the early hours of this morning, at least four Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Local sources confirmed that Israeli occupation forces targeted a populated house belonging to the Al-Qurainawi family in the camp, leading to the killing of at least four citizens and injuring others.

This incident follows a horrific massacre committed by the occupation forces on Thursday morning along Al-Rashid Street in western Gaza City. Over 112 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured in the attack, which targeted thousands of civilians who were awaiting the arrival of aid trucks.

The full-flegded Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip enters today its 147th day, with the death toll surpassing 30,000 and more than 70,215 injured, according to the latest statistics.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

NABLUS: In a terror assault late last night, Israeli colonists attacked the homes of local Palestinian residents on the outskirts of Jalud village, southeast of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Local sources confirmed that a group of colonists targeted the homes with stones, causing damage to the home of Ahmed Mahmoud Haj Muhammad, a local Palestinian resident.

Attacks by Israeli colonist militias in the occupied West Bank have been on the rise since the beginning of the ongoing Israeli full-fledged aggression on the Gaza Strip in October.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

HEBRON: The Ministry of Health announced last night the death of 28-year-old Salah al-Din Shawamreh, who succumbed to critical injuries sustained from Israeli military gunfire southwest of Hebron.

The incident occurred just hours after his brother, Najmeddine, was killed in the same Israeli attack. A third sibling also sustained minor injuries during the deadly shooting.

The Israeli occupation forces reportedly opened fire on the three brothers near the town of Beit Awwa, instantly killing 25-year-old Najmeddine with a direct shot to the heart.

Salah was critically wounded in the abdomen and chest and was rushed to the hospital. Despite undergoing surgery in a desperate attempt to save his life, he was later pronounced dead. Their brother, Nour al-Din (30), was also shot but sustained only minor injuries.

Local sources pointed out that the shooting took place while the brothers, hailing from the town of Dura south of Hebron, were collecting herbs. After the attack, they were handed over to the Palestinian
Red Crescent at the entrance of Beit Awwa and subsequently transported to Dura Government Hospital.

With the deaths of the Shawamreh brothers, the toll of Palestinians killed in the West Bank since the onset of a all-out Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people on October 7 has risen to 416, according to the Health Ministry.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

NABLUS: Israeli colonists erected six mobile homes this morning, establishing a new colonial outpost built south of the village of Al-Luban Al-Sharkiya, located south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

Yaqoub Oweis, head of the Al-Luban Al-Sharkiya council, reported to the WAFA that a number of colonists installed six caravans south of the village, and began gathering around them.

Oweis added that the colonists had established a similar outpost last year, which was later removed.

He also noted that late last night, Israeli occupation forces closed one of the entrances to the village with earth mounds, effectively shutting all the main entrances to the village.

Additionally, it was reported that yesterday evening that an Israeli colonist ran over a resident of the village on the main Nablus-Ramallah road outside the village. There was also an attempt by a group of colonists to attack the homes of residents there.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

RAMALLAH: Israeli colonists targeted Palestinian farmers today in the town of Turmus Aya, located north of Ramallah, assaulting them while they were working in their lands, according to local sources.

The sources reported that a group of colonists attacked the farmers in the vicinity of the town, attempting to physically assault them and forcibly uprooting olive trees before eventually retreating.

Simultaneously, armed Israeli colonists, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, launched an attack on the homes of residents in the Al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron.

Local sources confirmed that the colonists fired shots towards the outskirts of the camp. No injuries were reported.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

JERUSALEM: Israeli occupation forces attacked worshipers today near the Al-Asbat Gate, one of the main entrances to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, preventing many of them from entering the mosque for prayers.

Local sources reported that the Israeli forces set up checkpoints at the entrances to the holy site, where they stopped several worshipers, conducted searches, and barred many of them from entering for the weekly Friday prayers.

Additionally, the forces physically assaulted a young man and a woman, leading to the woman fainting, before detaining both of them along the road leading to the Al-Asbat Gate.

The Islamic Waqf Department noted that despite the Israeli restrictions, nearly 20,000 worshipers performed the Friday prayer within the precincts of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque despite significant restrictions on the entry of worshipers.

A group of youth resorted to performing the Friday prayer in the Ras Al-Amoud neighborhood in the vicinity of the Mosque due to their prohibition from acces
sing the holy site.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

JERUSALEM: Israeli occupation authorities forced today a Palestinian citizen to self-demolish his own house in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Al-Isawiya, citing unpermitted construction as a pretext.

Witnesses told WAFA that Nedal Elayan, the owner, demolished his own house after being pressed into doing so by the all-Israeli municipality. Elayan had no choice but to do so in order to avoid paying exorbitant fees to the Israeli municipality in the event that its crews carried out the demolition on their own.

Facing a series of raids by the Israeli municipality crews, Elayan ultimately took the decision of demolishing his own home. This decision came after enduring a hefty fine amounting to over one million shekels imposed by the Israeli municipality.

The municipality had further threatened to demolish the building on its own, whereby Elayan would have paid approximately 450,000 shekels in demolition costs.

Under the pretext of building without a permit, which is almost never granted to Palestinian
s in the occupied city, the Israeli municipality has been demolishing or forcing Palestinians to demolish their homes in Jerusalem as part of a policy aimed to restrict Palestinian expansion in occupied Jerusalem.

At the same time, the municipality and government facilitate the construction of tens of thousands of housing units in illegal settlements in East Jerusalem for Jewish settlers with the goal of offsetting the demographic balance in favor of the Jewish settlers in the occupied city.

Although Palestinians in East Jerusalem, a part of the internationally recognized Palestinian Territory that has been subject to Israeli military occupation since 1967, they are denied their citizenship rights and are instead classified only as “residents” whose permits can be revoked if they move away from the city for more than a few years.

They are also discriminated against in all aspects of life including housing, employment and services, and are unable to access services in the West Bank due to the construction o
f Israel’s separation wall.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

NABLUS: Israeli colonists launched a violent attack this afternoon targeting the village of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya, located south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

WAFA correspondent reported that the colonists indiscriminately fired live ammunition towards civilians, their homes, and shops, while also chasing a group of youths on the outskirts of the village. No injuries were reported.

Yacoub Oweis, the head of the Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya Village Council, informed WAFA that some colonists targeted commercial establishments and homes on the main Nablus-Ramallah road outside the village. However, local villagers successfully fended off the attack.

Oweis noted that since Thursday evening, colonists have been attempting to intimidate and assault the villagers. Additionally, they erected six mobile homes or caravans south of the village in what seems to be a new colonial outpost.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA