Day: 6 March 2024

CARIO: The Arab Republic of Egypt condemned the Israeli government’s decision to approve the construction of about 3,500 new colonial units.

It said in a statement issued by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry that the decision reflects a deepening policy of illegal colonization, and a violation of the relevant Security Council resolutions and the provisions of international law.

The Ministry also considered that Israel’s continued policy of annexation and seizure of Palestinian lands would not change the legal, historical and demographic status of those lands, calling for the need to stop those practices that undermine efforts for a just settlement of the Palestinian issue.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry called on international parties to adopt a strong position that rejects the policy of colonialism and confirms its illegitimacy. It also called on the Security Council to assume its responsibility to stop Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law against the Palestinian people.

The Ministry further called for providing protection for the Palestinian people, protecting their inalienable rights, and support recognition of the Palestinian state. On the 1967 borders, its capital is East Jerusalem.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: At least seven civilians were killed and others were wounded after the Israeli occupation army opened fire on groups of citizens near the Wadi Gaza Bridge in the central Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.

Medical sources reported that Israeli warplanes also targeted multiple homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

Furthermore, Israeli fighter jets carried out intense airstrikes that targeted the Curtain Factory area, the Kuwait Roundabout, and Al-Sikka Street, south of the neighborhood.

Israeli occupation artillery struck with ten missiles several homes in the Sheikh Ajlin and Tal al-Hawa neighborhoods, southwest of Gaza City. The strike resulted in the injury of dozens of civilians, mostly children and women.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

BETHLEHEM: This evening, five Palestinian citizens were injured by live bullets, and three others were arrested, during confrontations that broke out with the Israeli occupation forces this evening in the Dheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, according to medical sources.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Bethlehem reported that five people were injured in their lower part of the body, adding they were transferred to a hospital in Bethlehem for medical treatment.

The Red Crescent reported that a number of other citizens suffered from suffocation as a result of inhaling toxic tear gas fired by the occupation forces, and they were treated on the field.

Meanwhile, the occupation forces arrested Ahmed al-Jaafari, 32, Khaled al-Jaafari 32, and Karim al-Atrash, 60, after raiding and searching their homes.

The occupation forces, accompanied by special units, stormed the camp, amid the outbreak of confrontations, with Israeli soldiers deployed in the al-Jaafra neighborhood on Jerusalem-Hebron main road
, a local source told WAFA correspondent.

The source added that confrontations broke out in the neighborhood, while the occupation forces raided and searched the homes of arrested persons.

The occupation forces also stormed the town of Doha, west of the city, according to the source.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: A fifteen-year-old teenager and an elderly man, aged 72, died this evening in two hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip due to severe malnutrition and dehydration.

According to sources, a fifteen-year-old boy died today in the Al-Shifa medical complex, in addition to a 72-year-old man, who also died in the Kamal Adwan Hospital as a result of severe malnutrition and dehydration.

Medical sources confirmed that the number of victims of malnutrition and dehydration in the Gaza Strip has surged to 20, stressing that the declared toll only reflects the number of people who were able to reach hospitals, noting that dozens are dying in silence as a result of the famine and without being able to reach hospitals.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: At least six Palestinians were killed this evening in Israeli airstrikes and shootings targeting civilians and their homes in the central Gaza Strip, according to local and medical sources.

Additionally, an Israeli shelling targeting a house sheltering displaced people, predominantly women and children, west of Nusseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, resulted in five civilian deaths and several injuries.

Meantime, another Palestinian was killed and nine were wounded when the Israeli military fired at civilians waiting for aid near the Kuwaiti roundabout south of Gaza City. The injured were transported to the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

Earlier, four Palestinians were killed and over twenty others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces opened machine gunfire on civilians desperately waiting for aid trucks at the Nablusi roundabout west of Gaza City.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA