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Two Palestinian civilians were killed and 21 were injured by the Israeli occupation forces, which brings the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 72,317 and the injuries to 172,158, by April 9, 2026.	Four Palestinian civilians, including a little girl, were martyred by the Israeli occupation forces, in various areas of the Gaza Strip, amid Israeli ceasefire violations persisting for the 180th consecutive day, April 9, 2026.
Palestinian journalist, Mu'hammed Sameer Wusha'h, a correspondent for Al-Jazeera Mubashir TV, was martyred in by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip, on April 8, 2026.	A Palestinian youngman, 'Alaa Sobai'h, was shot and killed by the illegal Israeli settlers during their attack on Palestinian youths around an illegal outpost near the village of Tayaseer in eastern Toubas, April 8, 2026.
Four Palestinian Civilians Were Killed and 21 Were Injured by the Israeli occupation forces, Which Brings the Death toll in the Gaza Strip to 72,317 and the Injuries to 172,158, by April 9, 2026

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Gaza: Death toll climbs to 72,317 martyrs

Thursday 9-April-2026

GAZA, (PIC)

The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,317 martyrs, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry on Thursday morning.

The ministry added that the total number of the wounded also surged to 172,158 people.

In its daily report, the health ministry said that hospitals received two civilian bodies and 21 wounded people over the past 24 hours.

Since the ceasefire agreement took effect on October 10, 2025, at least 738 Palestinians have been killed, and 2,036 others have been injured.

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Four Palestinians, including a girl, killed in by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza Strip

Thursday 9-April-2026

GAZA, (PIC)

Four Palestinian civilians, including a little girl, were martyred on Thursday in Israeli attacks in separate areas of the Gaza Strip, amid ceasefire violations persisting for the 180th consecutive day.

According to media sources, two brothers called 'Abdullah and A'hmed Sali'h were killed in an Israeli drone strike in the evening near the Yemen El-Saeed Hospital in Jabalya, northern Gaza.

Earlier, a 13-year-old girl identified as Ritaj Ray'han was martyred after being shot by Israeli gunfire while she was inside an educational tent used as a classroom in Bait Lahya, north of Gaza.

The young girl was attending lessons at Abu Obayda Bin El-Jarrah School when she was suddenly struck by a bullet fired by Israeli forces.

A young man was also killed in an Israeli drone strike in El-Mawasi area of Khan Younus. He was identified as 33-year-old Yousuf Mansour.

In the afternoon, an elderly woman sustained injuries in an Israeli artillery attack on the east of El-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

Another woman was injured in her back by gunfire from Israeli military vehicles while she was inside Tel El-Za'tar School in Bait Lahya at dawn.

Meanwhile, Israeli tanks opened heavy machinegun fire towards the eastern areas of Gaza, including in Khan Younus.

The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter said that Israeli drones were flying intensively at low altitudes over Khan Younus, amid relentless gunfire northeast of the city.

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Journalists martyred in Gaza rise to 262 as reporter dies in Israeli strike

Thursday 9-April-2026

GAZA, (PIC)

The Palestinian Government Media Office (PGMO) in Gaza said the number of journalists martyred since the start of the Israeli genocide in the Strip has risen to 262, following the death of another reporter.

In a statement on Wednesday, PGMO announced that journalist Mu'hammed Sameer Wusha'h, a correspondent for Al-Jazeera Mubashir, was martyred in an Israeli attack.

PGMO strongly condemned what it called the systematic targeting and killing of Palestinian journalists, urging the International Federation of Journalists, the Arab Journalists Union, and media organizations worldwide to denounce these actions.

It held Israel, along with the US administration and allied countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, fully responsible for the killing of journalists in Gaza.

The PGMO also called on the international community and relevant organizations to take action to hold those responsible accountable in international courts and to apply effective pressure to stop the genocide and protect journalists in the Strip.

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Three Palestinians killed as Israeli forces violate Gaza ceasefire for 179th consecutive day

Thursday 9-April-2026

GAZA, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces continued their violations of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip for the 179th consecutive day on Wednesday, carrying out artillery shelling and live fire across multiple areas of the enclave.

Medical sources reported that Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent Mohammed Samir Washah was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted his vehicle west of Gaza City.

In a separate incident, two civilians were killed after a group of people was targeted by a bomb dropped from a quadcopter drone near Kuwait Roundabout, east of the Zeitoun neighborhood.

Meanwhile, Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis received several casualties following heavy gunfire that targeted the Sheikh Nasser area east of the city.

On Wednesday morning, Israeli artillery shelling struck the eastern areas of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, accompanied by gunfire from Israeli military vehicles.

Israeli naval forces also opened fire toward the shores of Nuseirat in central Gaza and Gaza City's coastline, with no injuries reported. At the same time, the Beit Lahia project in northern Gaza was subjected to artillery shelling alongside intense gunfire.

Local residents reported continued gunfire by Israeli forces east of Gaza City, reflecting ongoing field escalation despite the ceasefire remaining in effect.

According to available data, the number of Palestinians killed since the ceasefire took effect on October 11, 2025, has risen to 733, with 2,034 injured, in addition to 759 bodies recovered from under the rubble.

The total death toll since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, has reached 72,312, with 172,134 people injured to varying degrees.

The ceasefire officially came into effect on October 10, 2025, after nearly two years of war, yet Israeli field violations have continued.

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Illegal Israeli settlers kill Palestinian, assault others and kidnap kid in West Bank

Thursday 9-April-2026

WEST BANK, (PIC)

Illegal Israeli settlers killed a Palestinian young man, assaulted other citizens, and kidnaped a child in separate areas of the West Bank on Wednesday evening.

Local sources reported that 28-year-old Alaa Sobai'h was shot and killed by the illegal Israeli settler gunfire during clashes with Palestinian youths around an illegal outpost near the village of Tayaseer in eastern Toubas.

The sources added that the clashes broke out after a group of settlers tried to attack the village.

The Red Crescent said that Israeli forces prevented its ambulance crew from entering the area to evacuate the young man who was bleeding at the time.

It added that Israeli soldiers seized the paramedics' cellphones and ID cards and later withheld the young man's body after he succumbed to his wounds.

In another incident, a horde of settlers kidnaped 14-year-old Osaid Mahmoud from the village of Qabalan in southern Nablus and took him to the illegal settlement of Itamar.

Settlers also assaulted a young man while he was working on his farm in the village of Aqaba, east of Tubas, while Israeli forces kidnaped a young man after settlers attacked citizens in Tubas.

Some Palestinian young men were also assaulted by settlers in the area between the town of Aqraba and the village of Yanun, south of Nablus. One of the young men was reportedly injured and transferred to the hospital.

Meanwhile, a woman suffered suffocation in the town of Burin, south of Nablus, after settlers attacked her with pepper spray inside her home.

In the village of Einabus, south of Nablus, settlers kidnaped two young men and took them to an area near the illegal settlement of Yitzhar before stripping them of their clothes and then releasing them.

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Israeli army wreaks havoc on olive groves in West Bank town of Teqoa

Thursday 9-April-2026

BETHLEHEM, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation army uprooted dozens of olive trees in the town of Teqoa, southeast of Bethlehem in the West Bank.

Teqoa mayor Mu'hammed El-Badan reported that Israeli bulldozers escorted by soldiers uprooted dozens of olive trees in the El-Baq'ah area at the western entrance of the town.

He added that the bulldozed olive groves are located in the area around the military watchtower there.

These groves and other swaths of land in the area belong to Palestinian citizens from Sa'ir town in northern El-Khaleel.

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Illegal Israeli settlers resume Aqsa Mosque break-ins after 40-day closure, morning tour hours extended

Thursday 9-April-2026

AL-QUDS (OCCUPIED JERUSALEM), (PIC)

Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque's courtyards on Thursday morning after it was reopened at dawn following a 40-day closure.

The illegal Israeli settler break-ins at the Aqsa Mosque started at 6:30 a.m. instead of the previous 7:00 a.m., after Jewish temple groups and Israeli police announced a half-hour extension.

The new schedule for settler tours of the Mosque now runs from 6:30 to 11:30 a.m., and again from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m., amounting to a total of six and a half hours each day.

Settlers' daily tours of the Aqsa Mosque date back to 2003, when they started entering its courtyards under police protection. In 2008, their tours shifted to a more organized schedule, initially limited to three morning hours from 7:00 to 10:00, before being gradually extended year after year.

Earlier at dawn, Muslim worshipers returned to the Aqsa Mosque after forty days of closure imposed by the Israeli occupation authority.

Social media videos showed Palestinians joyfully streaming through the Mosque's gates early on Thursday morning. About 3,000 worshipers were able to observe the dawn prayers, amid tight police access restrictions.

Police officers reportedly arrested a female worshiper identified as Muntaha 'Amara at one of the Mosque's gates, only a few hours after detaining a young man inside its courtyards.

The Islamic Awqaf Administration in Occupied Jerusalem already announced that the doors of the Aqsa Mosque would be reopened to Muslim worshipers as of dawn. The Jordanian-affiliated religious authority responsible for managing the Mosque did not provide further details.

Videos from the Mosque also showed volunteers and caretakers in the Mosque's courtyards and prayer areas preparing to receive Muslim worshipers.

The Israeli occupation police announced the reopening of the Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening.

The police attributed the opening of the Palestinian holy sites to what it called "updated instructions from the Israeli home front command."

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"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 comes, they (your enemies) will sadden your faces, and 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). 

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.