Day: 24 March 2024

GAZA: In the early morning hours, medical teams recovered the bodies of six martyrs from under the rubble of a house targeted by Israeli airstrikes east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent reported that the bodies of the six martyrs, belonging to the Farwana family, were retrieved from under the debris of their home, which was bombed in the Jenana neighborhood east of Rafah.

Israeli warplanes also carried out a series of fire belts in the central, southern, and western areas of Khan Yunis governorate, which are currently witnessing heavy aerial and ground bombardment, as well as helicopter gunfire and incursions of Israeli military vehicles in the vicinity of the Nasser Medical Complex.

In a preliminary toll, the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7th of last year has resulted in 32,142 documented fatalities, mostly children and women, with injuries reaching 74,412.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: A member of the Palestinian Red Crescent was killed early this morning after being shot by Israeli occupation forces at Al-Amal Hospital, west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Medical sources confirmed the death of Amir Subhi Abu Eisha, an emergency operations room staff member at the Palestinian Red Crescent, killed by Israeli gunfire while on duty at Al-Amal Hospital.

This tragic incident marks the killing of 364 medical workers, including doctors, nurses, and paramedics, since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7th, now entering its 170th day.

The targeting of medical personnel and facilities by Israeli occupation forces constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law particularly the provisions concerning the protection of medical personnel at times of warfare.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

Prime minister of Sana’a caretaking government on Sunday was briefed by chairman of ‘Palestine is the Uma’s key issue’ second conference committee on arrangements for the conference scheduled in 25-27 Ramadan.

All the subcommittees perform their missions according to the program preplanned for each, Abdolrahim Homran told PM Abdul-Aziz Bin Habtoor

Source: Yemen News Agency

RAMALLAH: Israeli occupation forces arrested at least 16 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, including a child, last night and today, according to the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

The two organizations said in a joint statement that the arrests took place in the governorates of Hebron, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Tulkarm, and Jerusalem. They said the arrests were accompanied by widespread acts of abuse, brutal beatings, threats against the detainees and their families, as well as extensive acts of vandalism and destruction in the homes of citizens.

The statement noted that the tally of Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces since October 7th last year has risen to more than 7,755 detainees. These include individuals arrested from their homes, at military checkpoints, those who surrendered themselves under pressure, and those taken as hostages.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

HEBRON: Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted and injured a Palestinian man last night during a military raid into the town of Sa’ir, located east of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources.

The sources reported that the occupation soldiers raided the house of Fadi Mutawir and embarked on beating him and causing him bruises, necessitating his subsequent transportation to hospital for medical treatment.

Simultaneously, the Israeli occupation army raided the city of Hebron and the nearby town of Beit Awwa, where they arrested four Palestinians after raiding and searching their homes.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

RAMALLAH: The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission revealed that a female Palestinian prisoner was beaten and abused while returning from traveling back to Palestine before she was detained and transferred to an occupation army center.

The Commission stated in its statement issued today that the prisoner Baraa Awad, from the town of Beit Jala, was subjected to inhumane treatment in the military center and during her transfer between the ‘Ofer,’ ‘Sharon,’ and ‘Damon’ Israeli prisons, and that the soldiers deliberately terrorized and intimidated her.

Awad spoke to the Commission’s lawyer, who recently visited her, about the prison conditions in general, and said, that “living conditions are tragic.”

“We are singled out,” she said, adding that the Israeli soldiers are practising harsh policies that include confiscation of rights and imposition of penalties against them.

She added that drinking water and poor food have become both methods and means of permanent torture, which negatively affected fema
le prisoners whose circumstances become more complicated on a daily basis.

The Commission stated that the occupation prison administration did not take into account the prisoners’ requirements of the holy month of Ramadan, adding that it didn’t make them tone down their escalatory steps.

It is noteworthy that the number of female prisoners in ‘Damoun’ prison today is 68, the majority of whom were detained after October 7.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

KHAN YUNIS: The Palestinian Red Crescent Society stated today that Israeli occupation forces have closed the gates of the Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, with earthen barriers.

The Red Crescent added in a brief press release that the Israeli forces fired smoke bombs towards the hospital buildings to force medical teams, wounded, and displaced persons to leave.

It pointed out that an Israeli drone equipped with loudspeakers requested all those present in the hospital to leave it naked.

Earlier today, the society announced that Israeli occupation army besieged the Al-Amal Hospital and began extensive excavation work in its vicinity.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA