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*** 'Hamas Welcomes Direct Talks with the United States as an Important Step Towards Regional Stability, the Death Toll of the Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Rises to 48,446 and the Injuries to 111,852 March 6, 2025 ***
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
By
March 6, 2025, the
initial death toll of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli
genocidal war on Gaza
Strip is 62,100+. This includes the accounted for deaths (48,446), those who are still missing under the rubble (an estimate of at least 13,654+). *** 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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More detailed news stories can be found at
the following sources:
Killing and Injuring of Palestinians in
Ghazza
(Gaza)
by Israeli Occupation Regime Forceshttp://english.wafa.ps/, https://english.palinfo.com/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/ *** *** Nunu: The 'Hamas talks with the US important for regional stability Thursday 6-March-2025 GAZA, (PIC) Senior 'Hamas official Tahir Al-Nunu has described the meeting between his Movement and the US administration as an “important step towards promoting stability in the region.” In a statement on Wednesday, Nunu expressed his belief that such a change in the US political discourse would pave the way for a broad-based deal. Nunu also said the recent Arab summit presented key points that could be built upon and provided a well-considered plan to counter the displacement scheme. Nunu emphasized the need to rearrange the Palestinian house based on national partnership and elections, pointing out that a meeting would be held soon for the Palestinians in Cairo to listen to the Arab summit’s roadmap proposal. The Hamas official said that his Movement agreed during recent Cairo meetings to the Egyptian proposal to establish a temporary support committee to run the affairs of Gaza until a consensus government is formed and elections are held. Regarding the deployment of non-Palestinian forces in Gaza, the Hamas official affirmed that his Movement and the Palestinian people can never accept this. In a related context, a Hamas official told Al-'Araby Al-Jadeed news outlet that the talks with US president Donald Trump’s envoy in Qatar were “exploratory.” According to Al-'Araby Al-Jadeed, the Hamas official said that the direct talks with US envoy Adam Buehler took place shortly after Trump talked recently about the release of American-Israeli detainees as a goodwill gesture from the Hamas Movement. Following Trump’s calls for Hamas to make a goodwill gesture and the talks with officials from his administration in Doha, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza released US-Israeli national Sagui Dekel-Chen in the sixth prisoner exchange with the Israeli occupation regime that happened two weeks ago. The Hamas official added that during the talks with the US envoy, the Movement tabled a comprehensive deal that would lead to an end to the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza. He pointed out that the captives the Trump administration demanded their release were not civilians, but rather Israeli occupation army soldiers who had been captured from military posts. *** Israeli occupation army continues its violations of the ceasefire in Gaza Thursday 6-March-2025 GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces continue their daily violations of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where many areas in the enclave have witnessed serious escalation manifested in intense shelling from warships, the flying of warplanes, and gunfire from military vehicles targeting citizens and residential areas. The violations have affected various areas of the Strip on Wednesday, displaying the occupation’s ongoing breach of agreements and its failure to adhere to the announced truce. Israeli vessels targeted the beach of Gaza City, while a loud explosion was heard east of Khan Younus in the southern area of the Strip. Additionally, Israeli drones targeted a group of citizens east of Bait 'Hanoun, resulting in several injuries. Violations were reported in residential areas, where gunfire was directed from Israeli vehicles towards citizens’ homes in the Tel Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah, and in other areas along the Salah al-Din axis in the southern tip of the enclave. In a scene reflecting the ongoing military escalation, Israeli artillery targeted the Saudi neighborhood west of Rafa'h City on Wednesday evening with flare bombs, while Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew intensively over the area. The occupation continues its violations and evasion of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, as its ongoing violations have resulted in the martyrdom of more than 100 individuals, in addition to obstructing the delivery of aid and shelter supplies, exacerbating the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. The Israeli occupation army has committed more than 900 violations of the ceasefire agreement since it came into effect on January 19 of this year, according to government data. The Israeli government decided, early on March 2, to prevent humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip, as the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, which lasted 42 days, came to an end, and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu obstructed entering negotiations for the second phase, which was supposed to begin on February 3. *** *** *** ****** Palestinian Ministry of Health announces the recovery of six martyrs from under the rubble Thursday 6-March-2025 GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Thursday that the death toll of the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip has risen to 48,446 martyrs in addition to 111,852 wounded since October 7, 2023. The Ministry said in its statistical report on Palestinian martyrs and wounded that “six bodies of martyrs were recovered from under the rubble and transferred to Gaza hospitals during the past 24 hours,” adding that seven Palestinians were injured in fresh Israeli attacks. It noted that many other victims are still under the rubble and on the roads as ambulance and civil defense crews have been unable to reach them due to lack of equipment. Since the Gaza ceasefire agreement came into effect on January 19, 2025, until the end of the ceasefire first phase last Saturday evening, the Israeli occupation committed more than 900 violations, according to data published by the Hamas Movement. Israeli violations include aerial and artillery bombardment, intensive drone flights, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid, shooting at citizens, demolishing homes, targeting cars, preventing the entry of fuel, obstructing the entry of civil defense vehicles and heavy machinery, and preventing the entry of tents and mobile homes. *** Three Palestinians killed, others injured in Israeli airstrikes on Al-Shuja'iyya GAZA, March 6, 2025 (WAFA) – Three Palestinians were killed and several others were injured today in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a gathering of civilians east of Al-Shuja'iyya neighborhood in Gaza City. Although a ceasefire agreement came into effect on January 19, 2025, after more than 15 months of brutal Israeli genocide, Israel continues to violate the agreement by targeting civilians in the region almost every day. Earlier today, health authorities in Gaza said the number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the Israeli genocidal war on the region in October 2023 has risen to 48,446, in addition to 111,852 others injured. M.N. *** The Israeli genocide destroyed 44 cemeteries in Gaza Thursday 6-March-2025 GAZA, (PIC) An analysis of satellite images has revealed horrific results and unprecedented damage to cemeteries in the Gaza Strip due to the destructive Israeli war of genocide that broke out on October 7, 2023, and lasted for 470 days. The analysis, conducted by the Sanad News Verification Agency within the Al Jazeera network, relied on satellite images taken before the war and up to February 14, 2025, as well as official data from the Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf (Endowments). The official data documents the field surveys that began immediately after the ceasefire came into effect in January, 2025. According to the findings, 44 cemeteries in various areas of the Gaza Strip suffered total and partial damage, alongside the recording of mass graves and the establishment of temporary cemeteries that accommodated thousands of bodies. This situation resulted from overcrowding in official cemeteries or their exposure to blockade and Israeli bombing during the months of the war. On October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation launched a wide-scale war on the Gaza Strip that lasted more than 15 months, leading to over 16,000 martyrs and injuries and massive destruction of buildings and civilian properties. Throughout the months of the war, Israel’s indiscriminate bombing led to daily massacres against civilians and destroying numerous hospitals, schools, and shelters for displaced persons. According to the Ministry of Awqaf, Israel targeted 40 cemeteries out of a total of 60, with 21 cemeteries completely destroyed and 19 partially destroyed. The criminal aggression escalated with the exhumation of graves, theft of the bodies of the deceased and martyrs, and barbaric mutilation of the remains. *** Rights center: IOAR holds bodies of 1,500 Palestinians in mortuaries, cemeteries of numbers Thursday 6-March-2025 GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for the Missing and the Forcibly Disappeared (CMFD) announced that Israeli occupation apartheid regime (IOAR) are holding the bodies of about 1,500 Palestinians, including 665 identified bodies, in cemeteries of numbers and mortuaries. In a statement on Thursday, the Center strongly condemned the IOAR’s continued detention of the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians who were martyred during its attacks or inside its prisons, calling on the US President Donald Trump and the international community not to deal with this issue with double standards. The Center indicated that these bodies include victims who died in the sixties and seventies of the last century, in addition to new martyrs, the latest of whom was from the FarI'a refugee camp in the West Bank, who was killed by the Israeli occupation army last Wednesday evening. The Center called for immediate release of the detained bodies and enabling their families to bury them appropriately in accordance with religious and humanitarian customs and traditions. It also reiterated its demand to reveal the fate of the forcibly disappeared people in Israeli occupation prisons, and to halt the Israeli policy of enforced disappearance, calling it a crime against humanity. The human rights center also called for holding Israel accountable internationally for its crimes of detaining martyrs’ bodies and enforced disappearance, and to end the policy of double standards. It stressed the need to bring in the necessary equipment and teams to retrieve the bodies of victims from under the rubble in the Gaza Strip, and to prevent Israel from imposing further collective punishment measures on civilians. *** 'Hamas warns of deliberate Israeli approach to kill Palestinian prisoners Thursday 6-March-2025 GAZA, (PIC) 'Hamas Movement said that the ongoing policy of slow and deliberate execution of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails confirms the brutality of the occupation and its complete disregard for all humanitarian values, as well as its total denial of international conventions and agreements related to the rights of war prisoners. 'Hamas clarified in a statement on Thursday that the death of prisoner 'Ali Al-Batsh from Jabalya in northern Gaza Strip in the occupation’s jails was the result of the extremist policies of the occupation government, which seeks to kill prisoners in its jails through severe violations and criminal practices. “These include deliberate medical neglect, physical and psychological torture, solitary confinement, and deprivation of the most basic human rights,” Hamas elaborated. The Movement warned against the continuation of the occupation’s policy of targeting and physically liquidating prisoners, affirming that these practices will not succeed in deterring their determination and hope for near freedom. 'Hamas also called on the Palestinian masses in all their locations, as well as all humanitarian and rights organizations, to intensify efforts to support and back the prisoners, and to increase all forms of pressure in favor of their cause. The Palestinian Prisoner Society and the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs announced earlier Thursday the martyrdom of prisoner 'Ali 'Aashour Al-Batsh (62 years old) in Israel’s Negev desert prison, raising the number of martyrs among Palestinian prisoners since the beginning of the extermination war on the Gaza Strip to 62 martyrs. They indicated that with the martyrdom of prisoner Al-Batsh, the number of martyr prisoners whose bodies are being held has risen to 71 martyrs, including 60 since the beginning of the extermination war. The current phase that prisoners in occupation jails are experiencing is the bloodiest in the history of the prisoner movement since 1967, as the number of identified martyrs from the prisoner movement since 1967 has risen to 299 martyrs, while dozens of martyrs among Gaza detainees remain subjected to enforced disappearance. *** ý*** Killing, Injuring, and Abduction of Palestinians in the West Bank by Israeli Occupation Regime Forces ***ý *** Palestinian youth injured in Israeli military attack north of Al-Khaleel (Hebron) Al-Khaleel (Hebron), March 6, 2025 (WAFA) – A Palestinian young man sustained fractures and injuries on Thursday after being attacked by Israeli occupation forces at the entrance of Al-'Arroub Refugee Camp, located north of Al-Khaleel (Hebron). According to our correspondent, Israeli soldiers assaulted the young man, beating him with the butts of their rifles, as he attempted to enter the camp and return to his home. The attack resulted in the young man suffering injuries, including fractures to his face and jaw. The Israeli occupation forces also stormed the camp, forcing shop owners to close their businesses. This took place amid the firing of stun grenades and toxic tear gas towards the homes of local residents. M.N. *** Several Palestinians suffocate in an Israeli occupation army raid, in a southern West Bank town Al-Khaleel (Hebron), March 6, 2025 (WAFA) – Several Palestinians Thursday evening suffocated in an Israeli army raid in Bait Ummar town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Al-Khaleel (Hebron), according to a local activist. Mohammad Awad said that the occupying forces barged their way into and set up a checkpoint at the Saffa Circle area in the town, stopping Palestinian-registered vehicles, smashing the windows of some of them, and abusing passengers. He added that the heavily armed soldiers fired barrages of tear gas canisters toward civilians’ houses, causing several civilians to suffocate from excessive tear gas inhalation. All of the suffocation cases were treated at the scene. 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 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. *** Israeli occupation army displaces more families from their homes in Jineen Thursday 6-March-2025 Jineen, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army ordered eight Palestinian families living near Jineen refugee camp in the northern West Bank to evacuate their homes on Wednesday evening. This comes as the Israeli destruction and displacement campaign in Jineen City and its refugee camp has entered day 45. According to local sources, the Israeli army used drones to order the families in Al-Jabriyat neighborhood near Jenin camp to leave their homes in order to use them as military posts. The Israeli occupation army gave the families until 6:00 PM today to leave their homes and ordered them not to return to them. Since its military aggression started in the northern West Bank, the Israeli occupation army has been using several homes and buildings overlooking Jineen refugee camp as military barracks. The Israeli army has displaced nearly 20,000 Palestinians from Jineen refugee camp, forcing them to live in shelter centers and relatives’ homes. The Israeli military also continues to wreak havoc on what has remained of roads, homes, and facilities in the camp. *** IOFs kidnap several Palestinians in large-scale West Bank campaign Thursday 6-March-2025 WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOFs) kidnapped several Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank last night and on Thursday morning. According to local sources, the IOFs kidnapped one citizen from Al-Nour neighborhood in Nablus and three others from al-Khalil City. Meanwhile, the IOFs intensified its military measures in the Old City of Al-Khaleel (Hebron) and around Al-Ibraeemi Mosque, and continued to block the entrances of towns and refugees camps around al-Khalil City with barriers. In Qalqilya City, the IOFs kidnapped two ex-detainees who were released a few days ago after spending over one year in administrative detention. The IOF also kidnaped a father and his son from Kafr Saba neighborhood in Qalqilya City and six citizens from 'Azzoun town in the east of Qalqilya province. In Toulkarm, one citizen was taken prisoner during an IOFs raid in 'Illar town and three others were kidnaped from Qaffin town. In Bait La'hm (Bethlehem), Israeli occupation forces raided several homes in Bait Fajjar town and kidnaped at least nine citizens. Local sources in Bait Fajjar reported that the IOFs maltreated and interrogated about 30 citizens after taking them from their homes before releasing most of them later. The IOFs also stormed other areas of the West Bank, with no reported arrests. For its part, the Asra Media Office said that the IOFs kidnapped over 25 citizens during a large-scale kidnapping campaign in the West Bank and Jerusalem on Wednesday evening and at dawn Thursday. Total kidnappings: 43. *** *** Aggression and Attacks by Illegal Israeli Settlers and Soldiers *** 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. *** Illegal Israeli settlers uproot 100 olive trees in 'Haris village, west of Salfeet SALFIT, March 6, 2025 (WAFA) – A group of the illegal Israeli settlers uprooted around 100 olive trees on Thursday in the village of 'Haris, located in the central West Bank province of Salfeet. Local sources reported to WAFA that the settlers raided the Abul-'Ula area on the outskirts of the village, where they uprooted and cut down olive trees over an area of 20 dunums, which belong to Khalid 'Aql, a local Palestinian resident. They also stole agricultural tools, including water tanks. This area has been continuously subjected to attacks by Israeli occupation forces and colonists, with the aim of seizing control of the land for colonial expansion. M.N. *** Illegal Israeli settlers and rabbi Glick defile Al-Aqsa Mosque Thursday 6-March-2025 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) An illegal Israeli settlers, rabbi Yehuda Glick, was among scores of the illegal Israeli settlers, who desecrated Al-Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards under police protection on Thursday morning. According to Jerusalemite sources, dozens of settlers, including Glick, toured the Mosque and listened to stories about the alleged temple mount. Islamic Awqaf employees reported seeing some settlers performing Talmudic prayers during their tours at the Mosque. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation police imposed movement and entry restrictions on Muslim worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque’s entrances and gates. Al-Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers and police forces in the morning and the afternoon except on Fridays and Saturdays. *** IOFs demolish 4 homes in Jineen Thursday 6-March-2025 Jineen, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOFa) brought down four homes in Al-Falouja and Samaran neighborhoods in the Jineen refugee camp on Thursday. Local sources reported that the Israeli bulldozers demolished more than four homes since the morning hours in the Falouja and Samaran neighborhoods, for allegedly paving new roads. Homes were also set ablaze by Israeli forces in the Jineen refugee camp. The Israeli occupation army has been conducting military operations in the northern West Bank since Jan. 21, killing at least 65 people and displacing thousands. Tension has been running high across the West Bank, where at least 930 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 7,000 others injured in attacks by the Israeli army and illegal settlers since the start of the genocide war on the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. *** The Israeli occupation army razes dozens of homes in Nour Shams refugee camp Thursday 6-March-2025 TOULKARM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army carried out, on Thursday morning, massive demolitions in the Nour Shams refugee camp, east of Toulkarm in the West Bank, targeting 17 buildings comprised of 50 housing units. These demolitions are part of an ongoing Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank, which has resulted in significant displacement and destruction. Local sources said that the Israeli army carried out the demolitions after forcing many families to leave their homes in the camp in recent days. Reports said that on Wednesday, some families were granted entry into the camp by the Israeli occupation forces (IOFs). This allowed them to take from their homes as many of their belongings as they could before the demolitions took place. Later on the same day, the IOFs prevented other residents from reaching their homes to pack their belongings and opened fire at them. Luckily, no one was hurt in the shooting attack. *** *** News Related to the Israeli Genocidal War on the Palestinian People *** South Africa: Using starvation as a weapon in Gaza is a war crime Thursday 6-March-2025 CAPE TOWN, (PIC) South Africa called on the international community to hold Israel accountable for using starvation as a weapon of war in the Gaza Strip by preventing humanitarian aid from entering the Strip since last Sunday. South Africa’s Foreign Ministry considered, in a statement on Wednesday, that the Israeli occupation apartheid regime's use of starvation as a weapon in its aggression on Gaza constitutes a genocide against the Palestinian people. The statement added that the people of Gaza are facing immeasurable suffering and are urgently in need of food, shelter, and medical supplies. Some humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip after a ceasefire agreement was reached on January 19, but Israel announced on Sunday that it would freeze aid deliveries until 'Hamas accepts its terms for extending the ceasefire’s first stage. While the Israeli occupation announced that it wants to extend the first phase of the ceasefire until mid-April, the Palestinian resistance insisted on moving to the second phase of the agreement, which would lead to a permanent end to the war. In December 2023, South Africa brought a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, saying the war in Gaza violated the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Pretoria was joined in its lawsuit by several countries, including Spain, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Türkiye, Chile and Libya. *** ý *** *** *** =============================================================================================================================== Editorial
Notes about terms
& names of
people and places: *** 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) *** Person's names as pronounced in standard Arabic: A'hmed, 'Hasan, Mu'hammed, Younus, Yousuf, 'Hasan Mulai'hat, *** Conflict terminology The Israeli occupation apartheid regime (the Israeli government) Illegal Israeli settlers (instead of settlers, colonists) A group of the illegal Israeli settlers *** Fair Use Notice This site contains copyrighted material the
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