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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As World Governments Are Either Accomplices, or Continue to Watch the Israeli Genocidal War in Gaza Without Taking Any Actions to Stop it,

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71 Palestinians Killed, 339 Injured, Mostly Children, Women, and Aid Seekers,

Which Brings the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on the Gaza Strip to 62,966 and the Injuries to 159,266

by August 28, 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 the Gaza Strip, based on the reliable data reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza:

By August 28, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 75,993.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (62,966) and those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 13,027+). 

By August 28, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 159,266.

By August 28, 2025, according to news report, 1,021 Palestinians who were killed, 7,042 who were injured, and 18,739, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023.                                                      

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Note about the number of Palestinians, who were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces in the Wet Bank:

Palestinian Prisoners’ institutions reported that 662 Palestinians, including 39 children and 12 women, were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, including Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), during July 2025.

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), and Al Dhameer Association for Human Rights stated in a report issued Sunday that the total number of kidnappings of Palestinians in the West Bank, since the start of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, has risen to more than 18,500, including over 570 women and about 1,500 children.

Source: Palestine Information Center, August 10, 2025.

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Note About the Missing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip:

On February 26, 2025, the Palestinian Center for Political and Development Studies announced that the number of the missing in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 14,000 people, including 2,000-3,000 held in Israeli occupation prisons, without releasing any information on their fate.

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Three Palestinian civilians, including a woman and her child, were killed by the Israeli shelling of Al-Buraij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, and  Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, on August 28, 2025.	Five Palestinian civilians were killed by the Israeli shelling targeting near 'Haleema Al-Sa'diya School in Jabalya, two more were killed and several others wounded, near Al-Azhar Junction in Gaza City, on August 28, 2025.
Four Palestinians, including two children, died in Gaza, due to starvation and malnutrition, which brings the total number of the starvation-related fatalities to 317, including 121 children, on August 28, 2025.	Four Palestinians, including two children, died of starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip, which raised the total number of hunger-related deathsthere to 317 people, including 121 children, on August 28, 2025.
A Palestinians little girl emerging from the rubble of her family house, which was destroyed by an  Israeli genocidal air strike on a Gaza residential neighborhood, on August 28, 2025.	The Israeli occupation army continued to carry out intensive deadly air strikes, targeting civilians, and destroying total neighborhoods, particularly in Gaza City, August 28, 2025.
Governor of Ramallah, Layla Ghannam, briefed a delegation from the British and Canadian consulates on the ongoing attacks by Israeli occupation forces and settlers against Al-Mughayyir residents, August 28, 2025.	The UN Security Council, which has been turned as worthless by the US vetoes, pathetically appealed to Israel to stop its genocidal war on Gaza Strip, but the Israeli regime continued its crimes unabated, August 28, 2025.
Palestinian families are leaving Gaza City to southern Gaza Strip, under Israeli bombardment, some of them could afford leaving by cars, but the majority will go on foot, August 28, 2025.	As the Israeli-imposed starvation has reached its highest level, Palestinians of all ages are trying to get some rice meal from a local charity in Gaza City, on August 28, 2025

The  Israeli occupation forces destroyed more than 1,500 residential buildings in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, in Gaza City, this month of August, meanwhile, neighborhood destruction continues in Jabalya, by August 28, 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 ۚ فَإِذَا جَاءَ وَعْدُ الْآخِرَةِ لِيَسُوءُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَلِيَدْخُلُوا الْمَسْجِدَ كَمَا دَخَلُوهُ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَلِيُتَبِّرُوا مَا عَلَوْا تَتْبِيراً ‎(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. Then, when the latter (final) promise came, they (your enemies) will sadden your faces, and to enter the Masjid (in Jerusalem), as they entered it the first time, and will destroy what they had taken over with (total) destruction (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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Gaza: Hospitals receive 71 martyrs, death toll climbs to 62,966

Thursday 28-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC, WAFA)

During the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of at least 71 civilians, as well as 339 people suffering from different injuries following Israeli attacks, according to Gaza’s health ministry on Thursday morning.

Accordingly, a total of 11,121 people have been killed and 47,225 others have been injured since the Israeli occupation army resumed its genocidal war on Gaza on March 18, 2025.

The new fatalities increased the death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, which started on October 7, 2023, to 62,966 martyrs, including 2,180 aid seekers, the health ministry said.

The ministry added that the total number of the wounded also surged to 159,266 people, including 16,046 aid seekers.

The ministry also said that Gaza’s hospitals recorded four new fatalities, including two children, in the past 24 hours due to starvation and malnutrition, bringing the death toll from the famine to 317 victims, including 121 children.

Meanwhile, efforts are underway to recover the bodies of more martyrs who are still missing in different areas of the Gaza Strip.

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Dozens massacred and injured in Israeli attacks in Gaza

Thursday 28-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation army continued, last night and on Thursday, to carry out intensive deadly strikes and target civilians in different areas of the Gaza Strip.

According to local media sources, the Israeli occupation forces also continued today to detonate and bomb more homes and displace families in different areas of the Gaza Strip, further deepening the dire humanitarian crisis as the population grapples with worsening famine.

According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter in Gaza, Israeli attacks have continued across the Gaza Strip, including a shooting attack on tents in the Asdaa area of Khan Younus. A woman and a child were killed in the attack.

Four other people were killed and others were injured in an Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City’s Al-Zawiya street.

Casualties were also reported after an Israeli drone attacked citizens in Gaza City’s Al-Jalaa street.

One civilian was martyred following an Israeli airstrike in the Jabalia Al-Nazla area of northern Gaza.

An Israeli suicide drone targeted a tent sheltering a displaced family in Gaza City’s Al-Shati refugee camp, injuring a child.

A woman and her child were martyred in an Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to the family of Ghanim in central Gaza.

The Israeli army also launched attacks on other areas of the Gaza Strip last night and today, killing and wounding more civilians, including children and women.

Meanwhile, dozens of people were martyred or injured in Israeli attacks on aid seekers near distribution points in separate areas of Gaza.

Four people, including two children, were also proclaimed dead due to starvation and malnutrition, while other Gazans were pronounced dead after they succumbed to injuries they sustained in recent attacks, according to Gaza’s health ministry today.

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7 civilians killed, dozens injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza

GAZA, August 28, 2025 (WAFA) –

Seven Palestinian civilians were killed and dozens more were injured today by the Israeli genocidal air strikes across various areas of the Gaza Strip.

According to WAFA correspondent, five civilians were killed in an Israeli shelling targeting the vicinity of 'Haleema Al-Sa'diya School in Jabalya An-Nazla, in the northern part of the Strip.

Two others were killed and several others wounded, mostly critically, in an Israeli bombing that struck a residential apartment near Al-Azhar Junction in western Gaza City.

Israeli drones also opened fire near Abu Iskandar Bakery in northern Gaza City, while an airstrike targeted the Abu Sharia area in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of the city.

Additionally, a home belonging to the 'Hasanain family was hit in the Al-Zawayda town in central Gaza, and another home was struck in central Bait Lahya, in the north of the Strip.

T.R..

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Four more Palestinians die due to starvation and acute malnutrition in Gaza

GAZA, August 28, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced the deaths of four Palestinians, including two children,  in the past 24 hours due to starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip.

This brings the total number of the starvation-related fatalities to 317, including 121 children.

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip continues to worsen, due to the blockade and shortages of food and medical supplies. The severe famine is intertwined with the genocidal war waged by Israel since October 7, 2023.

Since March 2, 2025, the occupying authorities have closed all crossings with the Gaza Strip, blocking the entry of most food and medical aid, further accelerating the spread of famine across the territory.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has warned that malnutrition among children under five doubled between March and June as a result of the ongoing blockade.

The World Health Organization confirmed that malnutrition rates in Gaza have reached alarming levels, with nearly one in five children under five in Gaza City suffering from acute malnutrition.

Y.S.

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Israeli strikes kill four Palestinians, including mother and child, in Gaza

GAZA, August 28, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Three Palestinian civilians, including a woman and her child, were killed on Thursday in Israeli shelling of the Al-Buraij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and the Al-Rimal neighborhood west of Gaza City.

WAFA correspondent said that a woman and her child were killed when the Israeli occupation bombed the home of the Ghanim family in the Al-Buraij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, one civilian was killed and others were injured when the occupation bombed a residential apartment near the Palestine Tower on Al-Shuhada Street in the Al-Rimal neighborhood west of Gaza City.

Several causalities were reported as Israeli fighter jets struck  a tent for displaced people in the Al-Shati refugee camp west of the city, at a time Israeli artillery fired shells toward Street 8 south of Gaza City, with no injuries reported.

In Khan Younis, a Palestinian man was killed following an Israeli airstrike in the city center. Meanwhile, a child was injured as Israeli forces bombed a displacement tent in Badr Camp in northern Al-Shati. Artillery also shelled a house belonging to the Abu Musabbi'h family in Dair El-Bala'h, central Gaza.

He noted that Israeli artillery targeted a home belonging to the Abu Musabbi'h family in the city of Dair El-Bala'h in the central Gaza Strip.

Since October 7, 2023, the occupation has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.

The genocide has left 62,819 killed, 158,629 wounded, most of them children and women, more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that has killed 303 Palestinians, including 117 children.

Y.S.

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Gaza: Death toll from starvation climbs to 317, including 121 children

Thursday 28-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

Four Palestinian citizens, including two children, died of starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip within the past 24 hours, according to a statement released by Gaza’s health ministry on Thursday morning.

The new victims have raised the total number of hunger-related deaths in the famished coastal territory to 317 people, including 121 children, the health ministry said.

Since March 2, the Israeli occupation army has been closing all the border crossings with Gaza, preventing the flow of humanitarian aid and vital needs. Although limited quantities of aid have recently been allowed in, they remain insufficient to meet the minimum basic needs of the population.

Addressing the UN Security Council on Wednesday, Save the Children International CEO Inger Ashing accused Israel of pursing a deliberate starvation policy in the Gaza Strip.

Below is Ashing’s statement during the UNSC meeting.

“The Gaza famine is here. An engineered famine. A predicted famine. A manmade famine. As we speak, children in Gaza are systematically being starved to death. This is a deliberate policy. This is starvation as a method of war in its starkest terms.”

“Save the Children’s clinics in Gaza are overwhelmed by need; every bench packed with malnourished children and their mothers. Yet our clinics are almost silent now. Children do not have the strength to speak or even cry out in agony.”

“They lie there emaciated, quite literally wasting away. Their tiny bodies overcome by hunger and disease. The medical and specialized nutrition supplies they need all but used up. Without these, malnourished children will die.”

“A few kilometers away stand ready a sea of supplies — thousands upon thousands of truckloads of lifesaving items. All blocked. The government of Israel could end this famine tonight if it chose to end its deliberate obstruction and let humanitarians do their job. Instead, there are reports of escalations in Israeli military activity in Gaza City, more attacks on hospitals, more killing.”

“At our Child Friendly Spaces, children draw what we call ‘wishing clouds’ so that they can imagine a better future. In Gaza, children used to wish for school, or peace, or to see their friends again. Once the total siege began in March, children would increasingly tell us they wish for food, for bread. These past few weeks, more and more children have shared that they wish to be dead.”

“Children are being killed in Gaza – by bombs, bullets, and now starvation – an entire generation at risk of being wiped out.”

“Every decision maker in every capital in the world – everyone in this room – has a legal and moral responsibility to act to stop these atrocities.”

“Famine means there are no more breaking points and no more alarm bells. It is the worst-case scenario.”

“We told you this was coming, loudly and clearly. It has been constructed by design for two years.”

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Civil Defense: 1,500 homes destroyed in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, 80% of residents displaced

Thursday 28-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

Gaza Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said that Israel has completely destroyed more than 1,500 residential buildings in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, since the beginning of August. Meanwhile, the town of Jabalya, in the north of the Strip, is experiencing similar conditions.

Basal reported that the southern area of Al-Zaytoun has been leveled to the ground, with over 1,500 residential buildings destroyed since the start of the ground operation on August 6.

He explained that the Israeli army is using excavators and heavy machinery, along with booby-trapped robots at a rate of seven detonations per day, in addition to “quad-copter” drones that drop explosives on rooftops, intensifying the destruction. He noted that around 80% of the neighborhood’s residents have been displaced to the western or northern areas of Gaza City.

Since the beginning of August, the Israeli army has been waging a large-scale assault on Al-Zaytoun, involving the demolition of homes with booby-trapped robots, artillery shelling, random gunfire, and forced displacement, as part of an Israeli plan to reoccupy what remains of the Gaza Strip.

On August 8, the Israeli government approved a plan to gradually reoccupy all of Gaza, starting with Gaza City. This comes as Israeli attacks continue across the Strip, leaving behind more deaths and injuries amid catastrophic humanitarian conditions and a severe shortage of essential services.

A satellite imagery analysis by Adi Ben Nun, from the Geographic Information Systems Center at the Hebrew University, showed that since the beginning of the war, the Israeli army has destroyed at least 36,000 buildings in Gaza City, equivalent to 80% of all pre-war structures.

Basal also stressed that the situation in Jabalya and Jabalya Al-Nazla in northern Gaza is no less dire than Al-Zaytoun, as Israel continues artillery shelling, airstrikes, and the use of booby-trapped robots without any ground advancement by military vehicles.

He described the humanitarian situation as “catastrophic,” citing the collapse of the civil defense system, severe shortages in health and relief services, and the absence of shelters or safe areas for the displaced. 

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

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Palestinian man injured by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets in Bait La'hm (Bethlehem)

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), August 28, 2025 (WAFA) – 

A Palestinian young man was shot by Israeli occupation forces on Thursday in Wadi al-Hummus, northeast of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem).

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society informed WAFA correspondent that its crews responded to a 38-year-old man who was shot in the foot with live ammunition.

He was later transferred to Bait Jala Hospital for treatment

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IOFs kidnap several Palestinians in the West Bank

Thursday 28-August-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnapped a number of Palestinian citizens in the West Bank last night and on Thursday morning.

According to local sources, the IOFs kidnapped a citizen after ransacking his home and stealing a safe from it during a raid in Dura town, southwest of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

Another citizen was kidnapped by the IOFs from Bani Na'eem town, east of Al-Khaleel (Hebron).

The IOFs also stormed neighborhoods in Al-Khaleel (Hebron) City, Sa’ir town and Al-'Arroub refugee camp, with no reported kidnappings.

In Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), the Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped journalist Osaid 'Amarna, a resident of Al-Duhaisha refugee camp, after stopping his car at a military checkpoint near Dar Sala'h village.

Two other citizens were taken prisoner during IOFs raids in different areas of Bethlehem province.

The Israeli occupation forces also broke into and searched two homes belonging to brothers from the family of Duwaib in Za'tara town, east of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem). No kidnappings have been reported.

The Israeli occupation forces also stormed Al-'Ubaydiya town in eastern Bait La'hm (Bethlehem) and opened fire at local youths, injuring one of them in his leg.

In Qalqilya, the IOFs kidnapped a young man from his home in 'Azzoun town and raided a café in the city, where they reportedly fired stun grenades and live ammunition with no reason.

More IOFs raids took place in the villages of Jit and Far’ata in eastern Qalqilya, with no reported kidnappings.

In Jineen, four young men were kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces following violent raids on homes and a café in Beer El-Basha village.

Meanwhile, a horde of the illegal Israeli settlers brutalized Palestinian shepherds in the morning in Al-Manateer area of Kafr Malik town, northeast of Ramallah.

Another group of the armed illegal Israeli settlers stormed Al-Tayba village, east of Ramallah, assaulted local residents and opened fire at them. No one was hurt in the settler attack.

In Nablus, a horde of the armed illegal Israeli settlers continued their aggression against Burin village and blocked the road leading to the Soufan family’s house.

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 Israeli occupation forces raid six schools in Al-Khaleel (Hebron), detain teachers

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), August 28, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation forces raided six schools in the city of Al-Khaleel (Hebron) on Thursday, detaining several teachers.

WAFA correspondent said Israeli troops raided and searched the six schools in the Sheikh neighborhood and the southern area of ​​Hebron, seizing photos and educational textbooks, detaining teachers during the raid.

The Ministry of Education and Higher Education condemned the Israeli occupation forces' storming of the schools, detaining and assaulting a number of teachers.

The Ministry affirmed that these practices constitute a flagrant violation of international and humanitarian laws, particularly the conventions protecting education, and are a continuation of the occupation's systematic policy of targeting educational institutions and instilling fear among students and teaching staff.

The Ministry called on all human rights and humanitarian organizations, both international and local, to urgently intervene to stop these violations, ensure the protection of schools, students, and teachers, and hold the occupation accountable for its ongoing crimes against Palestinian education.

Y.S.

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Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers

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Note: Despite the Trump administration support for the Israeli occupation apartheid regime, the U.S. official policy is still considering the Israeli settlement activities in the Palestinian territories as illegal.

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Illegal Israeli settlers injure Palestinian shepherd, steal his sheep in eastern Ramallah

Thursday 28-August-2025

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

A horde of the illegal Israeli settlers assaulted and injured a Palestinian shepherd and stole his sheep on Thursday in the east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

The shepherd, Khalid Gharra, said that a group of settlers savagely beat him in Kafr Malik town and stole his 300 sheep.

The shepherd reportedly sustained multiple injuries and was admitted to the hospital for medical assistance.

Palestinian citizens living in the east of Ramallah have faced relentless assaults from settlers and Israeli forces since the Israeli occupation regime started its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. These settler attacks are part of a broader pattern of violence and dispossession aimed at displacing Palestinians and seizing their land and resources.

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 Israel issues military orders to seize Palestinian land in Qalqilya for settler-only roads

QALQILYA, August 28, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Israeli occupation authorities issued two military orders to seize Palestinian-owned lands from the village of Jinsafout, east of Qalqilya.

According to the Settlement File Department in the Qalqilya Governorate, the two military orders aim to seize approximately 16 dunams of Palestinian land  for the construction of new illegal settlement road segments.

One order aims to connect the illegal colony of Yakir to the Karnei Shomron colony, while thw other seeks to connect the Immanuel colony to the Karnei Shomron outpost.

These two colonies are built on the lands of the villages of Jinsafut, Amatin, Kafr Laqif, Far'ata, and Dair Istiya. This will strengthen the network of bypass roads designated for serving the colonies occupying Palestinian lands in the area.

The department warned  that such decisions will deprive approximately 150 Palestinian farmers from accessing their agricultural lands, even if they obtain permits from the occupation authorities. The orders are based on the pretext that the lands are located adjacent to colonial roads that are prohibited to approach.

Y.S.

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 Illegal Israeli settlers assault Palestinian shepherds, steal 300 sheep in Ramallah-area-village

RAMALLAH, August 28, 2025 (WAFA) – 

A Palestinian man was injured on Thursday in a colonist attack on the village of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, according to security sources.

They told WAFA that a group of colonists attacked Palestinian shepherds near the 'Ain Samia area east of Kafr Malik village and stole around 300 sheep belonging to residents Khalid Ghunaimat and Mustafa Rabee'.

The colonists assaulted Rabee' while he was confronting the theft of his sheep.

Meanwhile, occupation forces stationed at the 'Ain Siniya checkpoint, north of Ramallah, blocking the ambulance carrying the injured man and no information has yet been released on his health condition. The colonists also attacked the village of Tayba, east of Ramallah.

Palestinian villages and towns east of Ramallah have been subjected to repeated attacks by colonists and occupation forces, which have intensified in conjunction with the occupation's aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Over the past month, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission monitored a total of 1,201 attacks carried out by the occupation army and colonists against Palestinians and their property. Of these, 1,322 were carried out by the occupation army, and 466 by colonists.

Y.S.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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British and Canadian Consuls visit Al-Mughayyir village to witness firsthand impact of Israeli occupation and colonists’ attacks

RAMALLAH, August 28, 2025 (WAFA) –

Palestinian Governor of Ramallah and Al-Beereh, Layla Ghannam, today briefed a delegation from the British and Canadian consulates on the impact of ongoing attacks by Israeli occupation forces and colonists against Palestinian residents and landowners in the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah.

The briefing took place during a field tour organized by the governorate in the village, which included a visit to the Al-Mughayyir plain, recently subjected to large-scale bulldozing operations that destroyed hundreds of olive trees.

The tour also included homes repeatedly targeted by colonists, and lands under threat of confiscation and colonial road construction. Members of the village council and representatives of local institutions were present.

During the visit, the delegation met with local residents and heard firsthand testimonies of ongoing colonists’ violence, including home invasions and the systematic theft of land, carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.

The governor emphasized that the visit was particularly significant, as Al-Mughayyir is a clear reflection of the broader policy of settler colonialism and settler violence across all governorates.

she stressed that the people of Al-Mughayyir, Kafr Malik, Sinjil, Dair Dibwan, and other villages east of Ramallah are paying a heavy price due to the international community’s silence in the face of such crimes.

The governor called on the United Kingdom, Canada, and the international community to take concrete and decisive steps to address these ongoing violations, rather than simply issuing reports or statements of condemnation.

T.R.

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Impotent, worthless UN Security Council and Pope Francis call for urgent end to Gaza genocide and famine

Thursday 28-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The impotent UN Security Council, which has been turned as worthless by the US vitoes, and Pope Francis issued urgent appeals on Wednesday, warning that Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe marked by famine, mass displacement, and relentless attacks on civilians.

In a statement, Security Council members, with the exception of the US, demanded an immediate and unconditional ceasefire, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid, and an end to the use of starvation as a weapon of war, which is prohibited under international law. Council members cautioned that more than 41,000 children in Gaza are now at imminent risk of death due to severe malnutrition, urging Israel to halt the expansion of its military operations and to comply with international humanitarian law by protecting civilians.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) echoed these warnings, stressing that “famine in Gaza is not just headlines or statistics, but a grim reality threatening lives daily.” The agency called for urgent international action to prevent further mass deaths, noting that 1.2 million children in Gaza face acute food insecurity under Israel’s siege.

Meanwhile, Pope Francis, in his weekly address at the Vatican, issued a direct appeal to the international community to end the Israeli genocide in Gaza, which has now stretched into its 691st day. He called for the release of all captives, a permanent ceasefire, the facilitation of safe humanitarian aid, and respect for international law.

“I issue once again a strong appeal to bring an end to the conflict in the Holy Land that has caused so much terror, destruction, and death,” the Pope said. He reminded that international law explicitly forbids collective punishment, indiscriminate force, and the forced displacement of populations.

Despite repeated appeals, Israel, backed by the US and several European powers topped by Germany and the UK, continues to enforce a total siege on over two million Palestinians in Gaza. The blockade has deprived civilians of food, medical supplies, water, and electricity, pushing hundreds of thousands into starvation. Official reports indicate that hunger-related deaths have already claimed 313 lives, including 119 children.

The Security Council warned that if the siege and genocide persist, the humanitarian crisis will deepen beyond repair. Global leaders are now under mounting pressure to stop the atrocities and ensure aid reaches those trapped inside Gaza.

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'Hamas welcomes UNSC statement, calls US “fully complicit in Israel’s crimes”

Thursday 28-August-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The 'Hamas Movement has welcomed the UN Security Council’s statement that called for urgent steps to deal with the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing Israeli attacks on its population.

“The statement adopted on Wednesday by all members of the UN Security Council, except for the US, is an important international step showing a broad consensus against the genocide and starvation war waged by the Israeli occupation regime on more than two million Palestinians besieged in the Gaza Strip,” Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday.

'Hamas said that Washington’s continued obstruction of binding resolutions against Israel makes it fully complicit in crimes against humanity and responsible for the famine and massacres in Gaza.

'Hamas called on the Security Council to take immediate and practical steps to force the Israeli occupation government to stop its brutal war on Gaza and hold Israeli leaders accountable for committing crimes against humanity.

On Wednesday, 14 members of the Security Council issued a joint statement describing the famine in Gaza as a “man-made crisis.”

They said that “the use of starvation as a weapon of war is clearly prohibited under international humanitarian law.”

The members called for an immediate ceasefire, the unconditional lifting of all Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries, and for Israel to reverse its decision to further expand its military operation aimed at taking over Gaza City.

However, the acting US representative to the UN, Dorothy Shea, defended Israel’s genocidal practices in Gaza at the council meeting prior to the release of the joint statement. She also defended Israel’s aid distribution methods and restrictions that claimed the lives of hundreds of Gazans. 

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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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