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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With the World Attention Is on the Israeli War on Iran,

 61 Palestinians Are Killed and 397 Are Injured, Which Brings the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on the Gaza Strip to 55,493 and the Injuries to 129,320

by June 17, 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 June 17, 2025, the initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza Strip is 68,918+.   

This includes the accounted for deaths (55,493) and those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 13,425+). 

By June 17, 2025, the documented injuries exceeded 129,320.

By June 17, 2025, according to news report, 980 Palestinians who were killed, 6,846 who were injured, and 12,308*, who were abducted by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank, since October 7, 2023.   

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(The Palestine Information Center reported that there were 925 deaths and 14,500 kidnappings but without mentioning how many were released, by February 27, 2025).  

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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A group of the illegal Israeli settlers assaulted a Palestinian man, 'Umran Isma'eel Nawaj'a, in Masafir Yatta, inflicting wounds in his head and requiring him to be hospitalized, in Al-Khaleel, June 17, 2025.	The Israeli occupation forces killed 30 Palestinians seeking aid, northwest of Gaza City, as well as 60 civilians and injuring approximately 200 in aid distribution centers, in Khan Younus and Rafa'h, on June 17, 2025
61 Palestinians were killed, 397 were injured, mostly children, women, and elderly, by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, which brought the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 55,493 and the injuries to 129,320, by June 17, 2025.	61 Palestinians were killed, 397 were injured, mostly children, women, and elderly, by the Israeli genocidal air strikes, on June 17, 2025.
While the world attention is on the Israeli war on Iran, the Israeli occupation forces have continued massacring Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, particularly children and women, June 17, 2025.	30 Palestinian were massacred by the Israeli occupation soldiers, at an Israeli-controlled aid distribution center, northwest of Gaza City, 60 more were killed in other centers in southern Gaza Strip, on June 17, 2025.
Grieving, at Al-Shifa hospital, some of the 30 Palestinian martyrs, who were massacred by the Israeli occupation soldiers, at an Israeli-controlled aid distribution center, northwest of Gaza City, on June 18, 2025.	Grieving, at Al-'Awda hospital, some of the Palestinian martyrs, who were massacred by the Israeli occupation soldiers, at an Israeli-controlled aid distribution center, in Al-Burage, in central Gaza Strip, on June 18, 2025.
The continued Israeli blockade led to a severe shortage of drinking water, which shows Palestinians trying to get some fresh water from a locally-dug water well, in Al-Nusayrat, in central Gaza Strip, on June 17, 2025.	The continued Israeli blockade led to a severe shortage of food, which shows Palestinians trying to get some food from a local charity, in Al-Nusayrat, in central Gaza Strip, on June 18, 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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Death toll across Gaza Strip surges to 55,493, over 129,320 injured

GAZA, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) – 

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the death toll, from the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on the Strip, has risen to 55,493, the majority of whom are women and children, since the start of the war on October 7, 2023.

The total number of injuries has reached 129,320, with many victims still trapped under rubble, inaccessible to rescue due to continued Israeli bombardment.

In the past 24 hours, 61 Palestinians were killed, including six bodies recovered from under debris, and 397 others were injured.

Since March 18, when Israeli forces violated a declared ceasefire, a total of 5,194 Palestinians have been killed and 17,279 injured. According to medical sources, over 397 Palestinians have been killed and over 3,000 wounded while attempting to collect humanitarian aid, including 53 fatalities recorded in the past 24 hours.

Y.S.

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Dozens of Palestinians killed and injured, amid the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip

Tuesday 17-June-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation army continued, last night and on Tuesday, to carry out deadly attacks on different areas of the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens of civilians.

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

Since dawn today, at least 74 Palestinian civilians, mostly aid seekers, have been reportedly martyred in Israeli attacks on different areas of the Gaza Strip.

According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter in Gaza, Israeli attacks have continued across the Gaza Strip, including an Israeli strike on a house in central Gaza that killed at least eight civilians and injured 14 others, mostly children.

An Israeli artillery attack on a house in the east of Al-Musddar village in central Gaza killed one woman and injured other civilians.

Another Israeli attack on a tent in Khan Yunus claimed the lives of two citizens and injured others.

An Israeli airstrike also killed a girl child in the old Gaza street in northern Gaza.

The Israeli army also massacred at least 50 aid seekers and injured about 200 others as they were gathering near a US-backed distribution point in Khan Yunis.

Several citizens suffered injuries in a similar attack on aid seekers in Salahuddeen road in central Gaza.

Meanwhile, many Palestinians in Gaza were pronounced dead after they succumbed to injuries they sustained in recent attacks.

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

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 The Israeli occupation forces kill over 30 Palestinians at aid site near Gaza City

GAZA, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

 The Israeli occupation forces, on Tuesday evening, killed over 30 desperate Palestinians seeking aid, northwest of Gaza City, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that Israeli occupation soldiers fired at the desperate crowds of Palestinians seeking aid as they gathered at an aid distribution point to the northwest of the city, claiming the lives of over 30.

Earlier today, the occupation forces had fired at Palestinians seeking food aid in the cities of Khan Younus and Rafa'h in the southern war-battered Strip with tank shells, machine guns and drones, killing more than 60 civilians and injuring approximately 200 others.

The enclave has been suffering from a catastrophic humanitarian disaster since Israel closed all crossings on March 2, 2025, denying the entry of food, medicine, relief aid, and fuel to the Strip.

Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians.

The death toll reached at least 5,194 with 17,279 others wounded, according to medical sources. In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 61 slain Palestinians, including six retrieved from the rubble, and 397 casualties were admitted to Gaza hospitals.

Since the morning hours of Tuesday, the bodies of 59 Palestinians slain and over 200 others injured while waiting to receive food were admitted to Gaza hospitals.

Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 55,493 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 129,320 others, bringing the total number of fatalities and casualties from among food seekers to 397 and over 3,031 respectively.

Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

K.F.

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Five Palestinian civilians killed, others injured in Israeli airstrikes on central and southern Gaza Strip

GAZA, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) – 

Five Palestinian citizens were killed and others injured on Tuesday afternoon in Israeli airstrikes on the central and southern Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondents reported, citing medical sources, that four citizens were killed when the Israeli occupation bombed a tent housing displaced persons in the Mawasi area of ​​Khan Yunis.

The same sources added that a woman was killed and others were injured when the occupation artillery shelled a house east of Al-Musaddar village in the central Gaza Strip.

This morning, the occupation forces committed two massacres in Khan Younus and Rafa'h against those waiting for aid, killing more than 60 citizens and wounding approximately 200 others.

Since October 7, 2023, the occupation forces have been committing genocide in Gaza, marked by mass killing, starvation, destruction of civilian infrastructure , and displacement, ignoring international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt the attacks.

The genocide left approximately 184,000 dead and wounded, most of them women and children. Over 11,000 remain  missing under the rubble

Y.S.

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Civilians killed and injured in Israeli airstrikes on Dair El-Bala'h and Al-Buraij refugee camp

GAZA, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

Israeli airstrikes targeted residential areas in Dair El-Bala'h and Al-Buraij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening, resulting in multiple civilian casualties.

In Dair El-Bala'h, a young man was killed, and several others were injured after an Israeli warplane struck a house in the city center.

Earlier, an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent sheltering displaced persons in the Abul 'Ajeen area resulted in the killing of two civilians and injuries to others.

In Al-Buraij refugee camp, an Israeli airstrike targeted a house belonging to the Abu Shammala family in Block 10, leading to the killing of four family members, including women and children. Several others were injured in the attack.

Additionally, Israeli artillery shelled the area along Street 5 in northern Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, causing further destruction and casualties.

Local sources report that since the early hours of Tuesday, approximately 80 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire and airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, with 65 of the fatalities occurring in Khan Younus.

T.R..

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

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IOFs kill Palestinian man in Jineen

Tuesday 17-June-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) shot and killed a Palestinian man near the separation wall in Faqqu’a village, north of Jenin, on Tuesday evening.

Local sources reported that 'Isam Kamal Rabay’a was shot and killed by Israeli forces near the apartheid wall in Faqqu’a while attempting to reach his workplace in Israel.

The sources added that the IOFs seized Rabay’a’s body and prevented Palestinian medics from accessing the area.

The Israeli army opens fire daily on Palestinian workers near the apartheid wall as they attempt to reach their workplaces within the Green Line.

With Rabay’a’s death, the number of martyrs in Jenin Governorate has risen to 41 since the start of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the city and its refugee camp.

Also on Tuesday evening, the IOFs detained a number of Palestinian civilians in the village of Khirbet Yarza, east of Toubas, and also raided the town of Al-Khadhir, south of Bethlehem.

Mokhlis Masa'eed, head of the village council in Yarza, reported that the IOF troops stormed the village, detained several residents, raided their homes, and checked their ID cards.

In Bethlehem, the Israeli forces raided Al-Khadhir and were stationed in areas near the Grand Mosque, the “Gate” neighborhood, and “Sabri” area along the main street. They fired stun grenades, although no injuries were reported. Several youths were detained and had their IDs checked.

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Palestinian sustains wounds in colonists’ attack south of Al-Khaleel (Hebron)

Al-Khaleel (Hebron), June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

A Palestinian on Tuesday evening sustained wounds in an attack by a group of the illegal Israeli settlers in Masafir Yatta, south of the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), according to a media activist.

Osama Makhamra said that the illegal Israeli settlers assaulted 'Umran Isma'eel Nawaj'a, inflicting wounds in his head and requiring him to be hospitalized.

The assailants came from the illegal Israeli settlement of Susiya.

Meanwhile, a group of the illegal Israeli settlers grazed their livestock on Palestinians’ cultivated lands in Khirbet Al-Qawawis, and chased shepherds and assaulted their sheep in Wadi Ma‘een.

Masafir Yatta comprises 19 hamlets, which rely heavily on animal husbandry as their primary source of livelihood.

Located in Area C of the West Bank, under full Israeli administrative and military control, the area has been subjected to repeated Israeli violations by settlers and soldiers targeting their main source of living - livestock.

It has been designated as a closed Israeli military zone for training since the 1980s and accordingly referred to as Firing Zone 918.

Israeli violations against the area include demolition of animal barns, homes, and residential structures. The issuance of construction permits by Israel to local Palestinians in the area is non-existent.

The settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

The settler violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, and attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

Approximately 1 million Israeli colonists are living in colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law.

K.F. 

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Palestinian sustain injuries in Israeli forces’ assault near Nablus

NABLUS, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

A Palestinian on Tuesday evening sustained injuries in an assault by Israeli occupation forces in the New 'Askar refugee camp, east of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

The PRCS said that the occupation troops severely beat up a 40-year-old Palestinian in the course of a raid in the refugee camp, inflicting injuries across his body.

The occupying forces have been waging an incursion into the refugee camp for two consecutive days, breaking into dozens of civilians’ houses and assaulting families.

K.F.

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 Israeli occupation forces detain two Palestinians from the West Bank

Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

 Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday evening detained two Palestinians from the occupied West Bank governorates of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem) and Jenin, according to local sources.

They said that the occupying forces showed up at a house in 'Housan village, west of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, and rounded up a 49-year-old woman, marking the second time she was detained within less than 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the gun-toting soldiers broke into a house on the outskirts of the Jenin refugee camp, muscled inside, and detained a Palestinian.

Meanwhile, a convoy of army vehicles stormed the southern part of Hebron City, where they intercepted Palestinian-licensed vehicles and assaulted their owners.

The gun-toting soldiers broke into several houses and occupied their rooftops, turning them into army outposts.

Meanwhile, the gun-toting soldiers ordered the closure of several stores and set up a checkpoint in Al-Dthahiriya town.

The occupation forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost daily across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.

These raids are conducted without the need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses, in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.

Under Israeli military law, army commanders have full executive, legislative, and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.

K.F.

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Six Palestinians injured in Israeli attacks across West Bank

Tuesday 17-June-2025

WEST BANK, (PIC)

Six Palestinians, including two children and a woman, were injured on Monday in Israeli gunfire and assaults, as well as a vehicular ramming incident involving a military vehicle, in Al-Ram town northeast of Occupied Jerusalem, and Jenin and Nablus in the northern West Bank.

In Jenin, a man and his wife were injured after an Israeli military vehicle rammed into their car in the town of Bruqeen, west of the city.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that its crews transported the injured to the hospital. The couple sustained injuries when their vehicle was struck by an Israeli military vehicle as the Israeli forces passed through the town’s entrance.

In the town of Al-Yamoun, west of Jenin, two 15-year-old boys were shot by Israeli forces as clashes erupted during an Israeli military raid into the town. One was injured by live shrapnel in the neck and back, and the other in the thigh, according to the Red Crescent.

In Al-Ram, a young Palestinian man was shot by Israeli forces who had raided and stationed themselves in the center of the town.

The Red Crescent, in a statement, said its crews in Ramallah treated a youth who had been shot in the leg with live ammunition in Al-Ram, and transported him to the hospital.

In Nablus, the Red Crescent reported that its teams treated a 19-year-old who was beaten by Israeli soldiers in Askar refugee camp, east of the city.

In a related context, Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man from the town of Silwan, south of Occupied Jerusalem.

Jerusalem Governorate stated in a brief statement that Israeli forces arrested a young man, whose identity remains unknown, from the 'Ain Al-Louza neighborhood in Silwan.

In Bethlehem, Israeli forces raided the town of Al-Khadhir, south of the city, stationed at the entrance of “Umm Rokba” on the main road, and fired sound bombs and toxic gas at homes. No injuries were reported.

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 Israeli forces intensify military incursion into Qalqilya-area town, detaining five residents

QALQILYA, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) -

Israeli occupation forces have been conducting an ongoing military incursion into the town of Jayyous, east of Qalqilya, since the early hours of this morning. During the ongoing raid, five residents were detained after their homes were raided and searched.

Jayyous village, with a population of approximately 5,000, has been under heightened military presence. Israeli troops have established a temporary military outpost in a local resident’s home near the central mosque and have restricted movement within the village. Additionally, forces confiscated an electric bicycle belonging to another resident.

Local businesses, including bakeries, were forced to close, and all six schools in the village suspended classes. Furthermore, Israeli forces have maintained a blockade on the secondary road connecting Jayyous to ‘Azzun with a metal gate, impeding residents' movement for the fifth consecutive day.

Jayyous is situated in Area C of the West Bank, under full Israeli military and civil control, and is surrounded by the illegal Israeli colonies to the west and south. The village is also encircled by the Israeli separation wall, which restricts access to a significant portion of its agricultural land.

T.R.

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 Israel issues and renews administrative detention orders against 81 Palestinian detainees

RAMALLAH, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PRCS) stated in a joint release on Tuesday that Israeli occupation authorities issued and renewed administrative detention orders against 81 Palestinian detainees.

According to the statement, Israel continues to escalate its use of administrative detention, a policy that allows detention without charge or trial, under the pretext of a so-called “secret file.” Over the past week alone, more than 350 such orders were issued, the statement noted.

Administrative detainees now constitute the largest proportion compared to sentenced and pretrial prisoners, with their numbers having surged to an unprecedented 3,562 since the onset of the ongoing genocide.

The statement also indicated that some of the detainees had received what are referred to as "final” administrative detention orders. However, under the declared state of emergency, these orders have been extended by an additional 15 days, with the possibility of further renewal should the emergency status continue.

T.R.

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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 vandalize Palestinian farmer’s vehicle in Bethlehem-area village

RAMALLAH, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) – 

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers on Tuesday vandalized a Palestinian farmer’s vehicle in the town of Al-Khadhir, south of Bait La'hm (Bethlehem). 

According to Mahmoud Abdullah, a member of the local agricultural association, a group of colonists slashed the tires and smashed the windows of a vehicle belonging to 'Omar Mu'hammed Rasheed Sala'h while he was working on his farmland in Al-Wadi Al-Ghaweet area, south of the town.

Abdullah said colonist attacks have become increasingly frequent, with farmers routinely prevented from accessing their land and even subjected to death threats.

He noted that many local farmers have been unable to reach their lands since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7, 2023.

Y.S.

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Illegal Israeli settlers destroy irrigation network, farmland in Salfeet

SALFIT, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers on Tuesday vandalized an irrigation system and farmland in Al-Matwi area, located between the towns of Bruqeen and Salfeet in the western part of the Salfeet Governorate.

Basim Abdul 'Azeez Rizqallah, the landowner, told WAFA that colonists destroyed the irrigation network of his agricultural land and wrecked crops of mallow planted across more than one dunum. 

Rizqallah estimated his loss at over five tons of produce, emphasizing that this is not the first attack on his land.

In previous incidents, colonists had uprooted avocado and apricot trees in the area to pave roads connecting the Israeli colony of Ariel with a newly established settler outpost on land belonging to the nearby village of Far’ata.

Y.S.

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Illegal Israeli settlers establish new outpost on Palestinian land near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers began today constructing a new outpost on privately-owned Palestinian land in the town of Sinjill, north of Ramallah, according to local sources.

Eyewitnesses reported that approximately 15 colonists have been working since last night to erect wooden structures in the Jabal Al-Tal historical site, situated south of the town.

Sources indicate that colonists have conducted near-daily incursions into the area for over a week. The site has repeatedly seen the erection of colonial structures in the past.

T.R.

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Armed illegal Israeli settlers raid Bedouin community in Aree'ha (Jericho)

Aree'ha (Jericho), June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the armed illegal Israeli settlers Tuesday evening stormed the vicinity of Palestinian residents’ homes in the 'Arab Al-Mulai'hat Bedouin community northwest of Aree'ha (Jericho), according to a local official.

'Hasan Mulai'hat, an official with Al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, told WAFA that several armed colonists raided the community, grazed their sheep on Bedouin fodder and straw bundles, and banned the villagers’ access to their livestock pens.

The settler violence and provocations against Palestinians and their properties have significantly increased since the onset of the all-out Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people on October 7, 2023.

T.R.

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  Illegal Israeli settlers attack outskirts of town near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

A group of the illegal Israeli settlers on Tuesday evening attacked the outskirts of Turmus 'Ayya town, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to security sources.

They said that the armed illegal Israeli settlers, protected by the occupation forces, assaulted the Al-Qurna area on the outskirts of the town, and opened live fire at young men there, but without resulting in any injuries.

Approximately 1 million illegal Israeli settlers are living in colonies in the West Bank andAl-Quds (occupied Jerusalem) in violation of international law.

K.F.

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Israeli occupation forces install new gate, insolate two villages near Salfeet

Salfeet, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday evening installed a new metal gate between Kifl 'Haris and 'Haris villages, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Salfeet, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that the soldiers erected a new metal gate in the area between the two villages, effectively blocking the only road left for villagers to access the city of Salfeet.

The occupation forces have already sealed off the gates at the main entrances of Kifl Hares and Hares, severely restricting the movement of their residents.

Earlier today, forces installed a similar gate at the entrance of Dair Ballout town, west of Salfeet.

The occupation forces have been tightening military measures across the occupied West Bank since hours after the release of the first batch of Palestinian prisoners as part of the Gaza ceasefire went into effect in January, dismembering and isolating cities and governorates from one another using military gates, barriers, and concrete blocks.

They have severely restricted Palestinians’ freedom of movement within the occupied West Bank through a complex combination of approximately 898 fixed and flying checkpoints and gates, including 18 gates that have been installed since the start of 2025 and 146 others installed in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, settler-only roads, over 200 military bases, and various other physical obstructions.

The Israeli military measures are in parallel with ongoing attacks by Israeli colonists across the West Bank to terrorize Palestinians and displace them from their lands to seize them and build illegal Jewish colonies that separate Palestinian communities.

Closures, besides other measures, taken under the guise of security, are intended to entrench Israel’s 58-year-old military occupation of the West Bank and its settler colonial project which it enforces with routine and frequently deadly violence against Palestinians.

K.F.

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 Israeli occupation forces take over house near Ramallah, turn it into military outpost

RAMALLAH, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

 Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday took over a Palestinian’s house at the northern entrance of Beer Zait, north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to security sources.

They said that the occupying forces broke into a Palestinian’s house on the road connecting Beer Zait to the nearby town of 'Atara, and turned it into a military observation and a firing position.

Meanwhile, the occupation forces stormed Al-Mughayyir village and Silwan town, northeast and east of Ramallah, respectively, where they have already occupied two houses and turned them into military outposts.

The occupation forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost daily across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.

These raids are conducted without the need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses, in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.

Under Israeli military law, army commanders have full executive, legislative, and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.

K.F.

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Israeli occupation forces bulldoze Palestinian land in Jineen-area village

Jineen, June 17, 2025 (WAFA) –

The Israeli occupation forces bulldozed on Tuesday evening agricultural lands in Zabuba village west of Jineen and raided the neighboring village of Rummanah, according to local sources.

Sources reported that Israeli bulldozers began opening a road and uprooting olive trees in the area surrounded by the apartheid wall erected on the village’s lands since 2003.

The Israeli occupation forces also raided the town of Rummanah, west of Jineen, deploying their vehicles throughout its streets. Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers have continued converting houses in the area into military outposts for the fifth consecutive day, forcibly displacing residents.

T.R.

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News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People

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Palestinian Educide: Over 16,000 students killed, 111 schools destroyed in Israeli aggression

Tuesday 17-June-2025

RAMALLAH, (PIC)

The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education has reported devastating losses in the education sector as a result of Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip and military aggression in the West Bank.

Since October 7, 2023, at least 16,607 Palestinian students have been martyred, with over 26,000 others injured, the ministry said in a statement released Tuesday.

According to the ministry, the vast majority of student deaths—more than 16,470—occurred in Gaza alone, with 25,374 injuries reported. In the West Bank, 137 students were martyred, 897 wounded, and 754 students arrested by Israeli occupation forces (IOF).

The assault on education extends beyond students. The ministry reported that 914 teachers and school administrators were martyred in both Gaza and the West Bank, with another 4,363 injured. At least 196 educators have been arrested by the IOF in the West Bank.

The physical destruction of the educational infrastructure has been equally catastrophic. In Gaza, 352 government schools were severely damaged, including 111 completely destroyed. IOF also bombed and vandalized 91 government schools and 89 UNRWA-run schools, according to the report.

Furthermore, 20 higher education institutions sustained heavy damage, while 60 university buildings were entirely demolished.

In the West Bank, 152 schools and eight universities were raided and vandalized. The IOF reportedly bulldozed the walls of schools in Jenin, Tulkarem, and the towns of Bruqin and Kafr al-Dik near Salfit.

The Ministry emphasized the psychological and educational toll on Gaza’s youth, stating that 788,000 students have been denied access to schools and universities since the beginning of the war.

For the second consecutive year, high school students in Gaza will be unable to sit for their final exams due to the destruction and insecurity. In contrast, the West Bank plans to proceed with high school exams starting Saturday, June 21, 2025.

The Ministry also condemned the ongoing closure of six UNRWA-run schools in Jerusalem and its suburbs by the Israeli occupation authorities since May 8, further impeding Palestinian students’ right to education.

International human rights groups and UN agencies have repeatedly warned that the destruction of educational infrastructure and the targeting of students and educators may constitute war crimes under international law. Despite this, attacks on Palestinian schools and universities continue with little international accountability.

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UNRWA: Gaza’s fuel crisis threatens humanitarian operations

Tuesday 17-June-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

UNRWA has said that the Israeli occupation army has been preventing the entry of fuel into the Gaza Strip for more than 100 days, warning that this fuel crisis threatens to bring all humanitarian operations in the war-ravaged territory to a complete halt.

“Health, water, food, and communications are all at risk” due to the fuel crisis in Gaza, according to UNRWA on Monday.

“Humanitarian operations cannot run without fuel. Without fuel, lives will be lost,” UNRWA warned.

UNRWA called for necessarily lifting the siege on Gaza and allowing the entry of fuel shipments into the coastal enclave.

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Red Cross: Evacuation orders worsen healthcare delivery in Gaza

Tuesday 17-June-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stated that the rapid deterioration of Gaza’s healthcare system, in light of the latest Israeli “evacuation orders,” poses a direct threat to the Nasir Medical Complex in Khan Younus and further hampers the ability to provide care for the wounded and sick.

In a statement released Monday, the ICRC confirmed that the humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate severely. Civilians are being killed and injured daily due to the intense aggression, while their suffering is compounded by ongoing restrictions on the flow of humanitarian aid, making access to essential needs like fuel, water, and food increasingly difficult.

The statement noted that the Red Cross field hospital in Gaza received over 370 patients in a short period on Sunday and Monday. Many of the wounded had suffered gunshot injuries while trying to reach a food distribution center, an alarming indication of the continued risk to civilians and the worsening humanitarian conditions.

Medical sources at the hospital reported that more than 200 patients were admitted in a single day, marking the highest number recorded since the facility was established due to a mass casualty incident.

The ICRC emphasized that under international humanitarian law, the protection of civilians during armed conflict is a legal and moral obligation. Warring parties must exercise the utmost caution to avoid harming civilians and civilian infrastructure. However, the reality in Gaza, now over 20 months into this crisis, continues to show that civilians are bearing the highest cost.

The ICRC also stressed the urgent need for the immediate and unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid, including food, water, medicine, and medical supplies, while ensuring that the wounded and sick receive the emergency care they desperately need.

The organization renewed its call to respect and protect medical workers, relief teams, and civil defense personnel, noting the numerous deaths and injuries sustained by these groups in recent months.

The ICRC also warned that the situation in the West Bank is no less serious, with civilians suffering from the destruction of homes and farmland, village violence, and ongoing restrictions that affect fuel availability, limit emergency services, and hinder access to healthcare. Thousands remain forcibly displaced amid worsening economic and social challenges.

The Red Cross concluded by saying that even under occupation, civilians must be allowed to live as normal a life as possible, with their dignity preserved, their basic needs met, and their human rights upheld.

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Euro-Med: Gaza humanitarian foundation is direct partner in Israel’s machinery of killing and starvation

Tuesday 17-June-2025

GAZA, (PIC)

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” bears direct responsibility for the escalation of Israeli crimes against starving civilians near aid distribution centers in central and southern Gaza.

In a statement, Euro-Med stressed that the foundation’s continued operation of these centers, despite documentation of more than 335 civilian deaths in just three weeks, constitutes explicit complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The rights group explained that the foundation’s operational model lures civilians into exposed, centralized distribution points coordinated with the Israeli occupation army, where they are then attacked and killed.

Euro-Med added that these distribution sites have effectively become death traps exploited by Israel as part of its broader genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip.

Euro-Med called for an independent international investigation into the foundation’s role and for those in charge to be criminally prosecuted for their involvement in these crimes.

It also demanded an immediate halt to all forms of financial or logistical support for the foundation and for it to be placed on blacklists of entities involved in grave violations of international law.

Euro-Med emphasized that the international community’s failure to take meaningful action against Israel has enabled it to continue implementing its inhumane aid distribution system, using these centers as sites of mass killing.

The organization urged all concerned parties to initiate civil lawsuits in national courts, holding the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” and all implicated entities and individuals financially liable for the grave harm inflicted on victims and their families.

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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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