Day: 28 March 2024

RAMALLAH: Over 1.1M people in Gaza face an extreme level of food insecurity, the UN Humanitarian Affairs Office, OCHA noted on Thursday.

OCHA took to their official page on X to say that “access impediments persist and time is running out.”

“There is no alternative to the large-scale delivery of aid by land to have enough aid to save lives, esp. in the nort,” it said.

“Nevertheless, access impediments persist and time is running out,” it noted.

The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s deadly offensive against the Gaza Strip since October 7th, 2023, has now soared to 32,490, medical sources confirmed.

Sources added that at least 74,889 others have also been injured in the onslaught.

At least 76 people were killed and 102 others were injured in Israeli attacks that took place in the last 24 hours, they added.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

Amman: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, on Thursday, welcomed the International Court of Justice’s decision to impose fresh temporary precautionary measures in the case brought by the Republic of South Africa against Israel, which is accused of committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and of breaking its commitments under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

The ministry spokesperson, Ambassador Sufian Qudah, emphasized the significance of carrying out the ruling of the International Court of Justice, which demands that Israel cease its genocide in Gaza, as well as the need for cooperation with the UN on the entry of humanitarian aid, which would put an end to Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinian people, end to the hunger and the unparalleled humanitarian tragedy that goes against every human and moral principle, and give them access to the necessities of life.

Qudah also emphasized that in order to put an end to Israel’s ferociou
s war on Gaza, stop it from using starvation as a weapon against our Palestinian brothers, and force it to abide by international humanitarian law, the international community must adopt a strong stance.

Source: Jordan News Agency

GAZA: Dozens of civilians today were killed and others wounded in a series of Israeli bombardments of several neighborhoods in Gaza City.

Local sources reported that six civilians waiting for humanitarian aid were killed after being targeted by Israeli` bullets and artillery shells in the Gaza Industrial Zone, east of Gaza City.

Simultaneously, Israeli occupation warplanes bombed the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex and the nearby houses, resulting in the killing of several civilians and causing the injury of dozens of others.

Ambulance and civil defense crews said that many people are still alive under the rubble of the bombed houses.

The bodies of the dead are still scattering in the streets some of them decomposing, as Israel continues its military siege of al-Shifa Medical Complex and the Rimal neighborhood.

The occupation artillery launched violent shelling targeting four houses in Al-Shati refugee camp and al-Muznar residential building, killing many persons.

The occupation tanks also targ
eted two houses in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, a third in the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood and others in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood east of Gaza City.

The occupation aircraft further bombed an electrical appliances center in Jabalia camp, causing it to catch fire.

Medical sources said that 12 patients died due to malnutrition and the lack of treatment inside the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City during the ongoing Israeli military siege of the Complex for 11 days.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: Dozens of civilians were killed and others injured over the last hours in Israeli missile strikes and artillery shelling that targeted different parts of the Gaza Strip, said sources.

Medical sources reported that four civilians were killed and others were wounded as a result of the Israeli occupation’s shelling of different areas in the center and south of the Gaza Strip.

Additionally, three civilians were killed and 20 others were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City.

Israeli fighter jets bombed residential buildings in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in central Gaza City and a building on Hamid street in Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, causing many casualties.

Meanwhile, Israeli tanks fired a barrage of gunfire in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, west of Gaza City.

In Khan Yunis, a civilian was killed after being directly targeted by occupation forces in Hamad town, north of the city in the southern of the Gaza Strip.

The occupati
on aircraft carried out intense airstrikes targeting the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and other areas north of the Gaza Strip.

In Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, dozens of civilians sustained various wounds in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the vicinity of Al-Qassam Mosque.

Israeli occupation warplanes also targeted the city of al-Isra, northwest of Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) announced that the occupation released seven detainees from its crew after nearly 74 days of their detention, while the fate of eight others remains unknown.

PRCS stated in a statement on the ‘X’ platform that those released were detained during the Israeli military incursion of al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis on February 9th.

Among the detainees was the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Gaza Strip, Muhammad Abu Musabih.

At least 32,552 Palestinians, predominantly children and women, have been reported killed and over 74,980 others injure
d since the beginning of the ongoing Israeli war of genocide on Gaza on October 7th of last year.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

HEBRON: Israeli occupation forces arrested six Palestinian citizens this evening from the Hebron governorate in the southern West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources.

The sources told WAFA that the occupation forces arrested four young men from the town of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron, while they were in the vicinity of the town near the Israeli segregation wall.

Simultaneously, two young men were arrested by the occupation forces on the main road leading to the town of Idhna, near the Israeli colony of Telem, which is built on stolen Palestinian lands west of Hebron.

Eyewitnesses reported that an Israeli army unit stationed at the main street near the colony stopped a young man’s vehicle, arrested him after assaulting him, and fired live ammunition at the vehicle, causing damage to it. When one of his relatives arrived to inquire about him, he was also arrested.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

RAMALLAH: Undercover Israeli occupation forces abducted two Palestinian youths today from the town of Turmus-Aya, located north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian security sources informed WAFA that an undercover Israeli army unit sneaked into the town of Turmus-Aya and abducted two youths, whose identities have not yet been disclosed.

The two were forcibly transported to an unknown destination.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA