Day: 17 March 2024

GAZA: Several Palestinian civilians, mostly children and women, were killed and others injured late last night in an airstrike by Israeli occupation forces on a residential building in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that at least 11 civilians, most of them children and women, were killed and several others were injured, as Israeli fighter jets targeted a home belonging to the Thabet family in the Beshara neighborhood in central Deir al-Balah.

Yesterday, local health authorities in Gaza announced that Israeli forces committed 7 massacres against families in the Strip, resulting in the deaths of 63 civilians and the injury of 112 others in the previous 24 hours.

In a preliminary toll, the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has resulted in nearly 31,553 Palestinians killed, the majority of whom are children and women, with injuries reaching 73,546 since October 7th of last year.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

RAMALLAH: Today, Sunday, the weather in Palestine is generally cloudy and moderate in mountainous areas, relatively hot in other regions, with temperatures rising notably by about 6 degrees Celsius above the annual average, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department.

Winds are expected light to moderate, blowing from the east and northeast, and sea waves are low.

Tomorrow, Monday, the weather is expected to be partly cloudy to cloudy with a drop in temperatures. Starting early in the morning, the country will experience unstable weather conditions, with rain forecasted across various regions. Rain intensity is expected to increase in the evening and night hours, accompanied by thunderstorms and occasional hailstorms.

On Tuesday, the country is likely to will be affected by a low-pressure system accompanied by a cold air mass, resulting in another significant drop in temperatures, around 5 degrees Celsius below the annual average. Heavy rainfall is anticipated, accompanied by thunderstorms and o
ccasional hailstorms.

Weather on Wednesday is expected to be cloudy to partly cloudy, with scattered showers across different regions. Rainfall chances will diminish in the evening and night hours, while temperatures are expected to rise slightly, remaining about 2 degrees Celsius below the annual average.

People are warned about the risk of floods and flash floods in valleys and low-lying areas, strong winds, slippery roads, and reduced horizontal visibility.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

JERUSALEM: One in three children under age 2 in northern Gaza is now acutely malnourished as famine is looming amid the Israeli siege imposed on the region, the main UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned.

“Children’s malnutrition is spreading fast and reaching unprecedented levels in Gaza,” the UN agency said in a social media post.

More than five months into Israel’s brutal war of genocide on the territory, much of the Gaza Strip is in ruins with most of its 2.3 million population displaced and facing a major humanitarian crisis.

Western countries have called on the Israeli occupation authorities to do more to allow in aid, with the UN saying it faced overwhelming obstacles in bringing in aid to the enclave, including crossing closures, exhausting searches, restrictions on movement and unrest inside Gaza.

Hospitals in Gaza have reported that some children are dying due to malnutrition and dehydration in northern Gaza, resulting from Israel’s blocking of humanitarian aid to the region.

It is expe
cted that the international committee for monitoring food insecurity will soon present a report on the extent of the hunger crisis in Gaza. This comes after it warned last December of the imminent risk of famine extending until May.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: Israeli occupation forces committed nine massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at least 92 Palestinians and the injury of 130 others, according to medical sources.

Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 has risen to 31,645 reported fatalities, with an additional 73,676 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.

Meantime, in the early morning hours of Sunday, Israeli warplanes and artillery targeted several areas in the south and northeast of Khan Yunis, as well as in the north of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

As the Israeli genocidal onsluaght on Gaza enters its 163rd day, Israeli airstrikes targeted the southern areas of Khan Yunis, coinciding with artillery shelling and gunfire on the northeast of the city, according to local sources.

Israeli warplanes also carried out an airstrike in the northeast of the city of
Rafah in the farthest south of the territory.

Simultaneously, Israeli warplanes bombed a house on Mansoura Street in the Shuja’iya neighborhood of Gaza City, as well as areas west of Gaza City.

Late last night, twelve civilians, mostly children and women, were killed, and dozens were injured as a result of an Israeli airstrike which targeted a house belonging to the Thabet family in the Bushara neighborhood in the center of Deir al-Balah city in central Gaza.

Meanwhile, ambulance and rescue teams are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn enclave, as Israeli occupation forces continue to obstruct the arrival of civil defense teams.

Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescue teams are unable to reach them, according to the sources.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

RAMALLAH: Israeli occupation forces overnight and Sunday detained at least 25 Palestinians from the West Bank, including a woman from Gaza, a child, and a wounded citizen and former prisoners.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees explained in a joint statement that the detention operations were mainly in the Hebron Governorate, while the rest of the arrests took place in the governorates of Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Jenin, Tulkarm, Ramallah, and Jerusalem.

Additionally, the occupation forces continue to carry out widespread harassment and attacks, severe beatings and threats against detainees and their families as well as ransacking and damaging civilian homes.

The statement indicated that the occupation forces detained a cancer-stricken woman from Gaza while she was heading to the city of Jerusalem to receive and complete her treatment.

It added that the total number of arrests after October 7 reached 7,630, and includes those who were arrested from homes,
through military checkpoints, those who were forced to surrender themselves under pressure, and those who were held hostage.

Arrest campaigns in the West Bank are escalating in an unprecedented manner after October 7th, targeting all groups of children, women, the elderly, and the sick.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

RAMALLAH: President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, received on Sunday the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Mauro Vieira, at the presidential headquarters in the city of Ramallah.

The President briefed the minister on the latest developments in the political situation in the Palestinian territories, in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression against Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, as well as in the West Bank and the city of Jerusalem, and the efforts made to immediately stop the war of genocide against Palestinians.

President Abbas stressed the importance of accelerating the entry of humanitarian, relief and medical aid into the Gaza Strip, and increasing it, so that shelter centers and hospitals can play their role in providing what is necessary to alleviate the suffering of citizens.

“The urgent matter and priority for us is to prevent the Israeli occupation forces from invading the city of Rafah, to which more than 1.5 million Palestinians have been displaced, which will cause a hu
manitarian catastrophe,” the President said, calling for a greater international effort to prevent Israel from launching such an attack, and to oblige Israel to stop its aggression immediately, and open all crossings leading to the Gaza Strip to bring in relief aid and begin reconstruction.

President Abbas expressed his pride in the bilateral relations between Palestine and Brazil, praising the positions of Brazil and President Lula da Silva in supporting the Palestinian people and their cause in international forums, especially his recent statements about the necessity of stopping the ongoing Israeli aggression against Palestinian people in Gaza.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: A number of Palestinian civilians were killed and injured as a result of an Israeli bombing of various areas in the north, center and south of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that bodies of five people were recovered from Hamad Town in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, after a partial withdrawal of the occupation forces, coinciding with targeting of Al-Zinah and Al-Qarara areas to the east.

Local sources said that a civilian was killed in an artillery shelling east of Bureij camp in the center of the Gaza Strip, coinciding with raids by Israeli warplanes on Al-Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, and Qalibu area to the north.

The occupation warplanes bombed a number of citizens’ homes in Gaza, including homes of Jouda families in the Beach Camp, Al-Hilu in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, and Al-Nunu and Awad in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, killing and injuring a number of people, who were transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza City.

The occupation artillery also bombed a number of
citizens’ homes in Al-Bureij Camp and Al-Mughraqa area in the central Gaza Strip, wounding a number of citizens who were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah.

The occupation warplanes targeted citizens’ homes in Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, and at least three citizens were killed and taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 31,645, the majority of whom are children and women, since the beginning of the Israeli occupation aggression on October 7, 2023, while 73,676, others were injured as thousands of victims are still under the rubble.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA