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SvennoJ on 23 July 2024

Eight killed following Israeli strike on home in Gaza City

We reported earlier that the Israeli military had bombed the al-Daya family home in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Local media is now reporting that at least eight people have been killed in that attack, including two children.

We also reported that at least four people had been killed following a separate strike on the al-Jamasi family home in the al-Sahaba area of Gaza City.


Gaza’s Civil Defence confirms 16 people killed in recent hours

The official spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defence has confirmed that at least 16 people have been killed in three separate Israeli strikes in northern Gaza in the early hours of this morning.

The attacks include:

  • Eight were killed, including two children, in an attack on the al-Daya family home in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City.
  • Four were killed in an attack on the Jalhoum family home in the al-Alami area of the Jabalia refugee camp.
  • Four were killed in an attack on the al-Jamasi family home in the al-Sahaba area of Gaza City.


Palestinians flee the Khan Younis area on Monday night after Israeli forces attacked eastern areas of the city following an evacuation order issued just minutes earlier


83 percent of Gaza under evacuation orders or declared ‘no-go zones’: UN

The Israeli army’s latest mass evacuation order for Khan Younis in southern Gaza covers about 8.7sq km (3.35sq miles) of territory and reduces the so-called al-Mawasi “humanitarian zone” by 15 percent of its original size, the UN reports.

As of Monday, almost 83 percent of the Gaza Strip is now under evacuation orders or designated as “no-go zones” by the Israeli military, the UN said.

Those fleeing Khan Younis – where at least 70 people were killed by Israeli forces within minutes of issuing the evacuation order on Monday – appear to be heading towards the already overcrowded Deir el-Balah and western areas of Khan Younis.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also reports that Gaza is “now surviving with only a fourth of the water” that previously supplied the Palestinian territory of more than 2 million people.


Death toll from Israeli assault on Khan Younis rises

The death toll from an Israeli military assault on the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza has risen to 77, the Wafa news agency reports.

More than 30 people remain missing under the rubble following Monday’s bombardment, according to Wafa, while about 200 people have been injured.

Previously, we reported that at least 70 people were killed in the attack on eastern areas of the city, which began only minutes after the Israeli military had issued mass evacuation orders for Palestinian civilians.

The Palestinian Civil Defence has said the new evacuation order affects more than 400,000 people.


A Palestinian boy hugs a pair of shoes as he cries while members of the Abu Taha family, killed in an Israel attack on Khan Younis in southern Gaza, are brought for burial on Monday



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SvennoJ on 23 July 2024

Khan Younis death toll rises to 81

We have received the following update from our team on the ground in Gaza, reporting on the developments in the Khan Younis governorate in the past 24 hours.

  • At least 81 people have been killed and more than 250 others injured, with the casualties arriving at Nasser Hospital.
  • Israeli air raids targeted the al-Qarara area, north of Khan Younis, the Sheikh Nasser neighbourhood and the al-Balad area in the centre of the governorate, as well as the town of Abasan al-Kabira in the east.
  • There was also continuous artillery shelling in the eastern areas of Khan Younis and quadcopters shot at anything that tried to move from one place to another.
  • Israeli forces targeted the al-Qahwaji family house in the centre of the Bani Suheila town in the east of the governorate, the al-Jabour family and the Abu Taha family homes in the city of Khan Younis.
  • People are being displaced from the eastern areas of Khan Younis towards the western parts.
  • A number of Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers are stationed along al-Shuhada Street in the centre of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, from al-Alam Roundabout to al-Farabi School.

Israel shrinks Gaza’s ‘humanitarian zone’

Israel’s military launched artillery and air strikes on eastern Khan Younis shortly after demanding residents leave what it had previously designated a humanitarian zone.

The enclave’s population, most of which has been displaced and is in desperate need of shelter and food, has found it increasingly difficult to find security as they have been pushed into shrinking “safe zones” by Israel’s bombardment.

“People feel like the Israelis are playing a chess game with them, moving them from one place to another, and no place is safe,” Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said reporting from the ground.


Israeli army claims striking more than 50 targets in Khan Younis

We have been reporting that a new Israeli military operation in the Khan Younis governorate of Gaza has killed more than 81 people since yesterday morning, including women and children.

The Israeli army now claims that it has been targeting “terror groups” in the area in the past 24 hours, with its aircraft striking more than 50 sites used by the fighters as its ground forces with the 98th Division pushed into the city of Khan Younis.

The new offensive is being carried out by the division’s 7th Armored Brigade, the Paratroopers Brigade, and Commando Brigade, the military said in a statement. It said the armoured forces killed people with tank shelling.

Further south, in Rafah, the Israeli troops with the 162nd Division claimed to have killed dozens of people.


Death toll from Israeli bombing in Khan Younis rises to 89

At least 89 people have been killed in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis governorate, according to the enclave’s Government Media Office, since Israel launched a new military operation in the area yesterday morning, without giving civilians time to flee. Hundreds of people are also reported injured.

Two people were killed in recent hours and many others injured in an Israeli bombing in the Mirage area, south of Khan Younis, our colleagues on the ground report.

Another Palestinian was killed by Israeli army snipers in the Bani Suheila town, east of Khan Younis, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.



SvennoJ on 23 July 2024

At least 84 people killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza in 24 hours

At least 39,090 people have been killed and 90,147 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7, the Health Ministry says.

The toll includes 84 Palestinians who died and 329 who were injured over the latest 24-hour reporting period in eight attacks across Gaza, it said in a statement.

The overall casualty figures are believed to be far higher because thousands of bodies are buried in the debris of bombed-out buildings throughout the Strip.


Israel blocks Palestinians from 80 percent of Gaza: UNRWA

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says the Israeli military has placed more than 80 percent of the Gaza Strip “under evacuation orders or designated as a no-go zone”.

“We just keep hearing the same question: Where do I go?” UNRWA said on X, quoting its spokeswoman’s remarks to the BBC’s Radio 4.

It comes a day after Israel ordered thousands of people to flee from the eastern parts of the Khan Younis governorate to al-Mawasi in the west.


WHO ‘extremely worried’ as poliovirus found in Gaza sewage

A top World Health Organization (WHO) official says he’s “extremely worried” over possible disease outbreaks in Gaza after poliovirus was detected in sewage.

“There is a high risk of spreading of the circulating vaccine-derived polio virus in Gaza, not only because of the detection but because of the very dire situation with the water sanitation,” said Ayadil Saparbekov, WHO’s head of health emergencies in the occupied Palestinian territory.

“It may also spill over internationally at a very high point.”

Poliomyelitis, which is spread mainly through the fecal-oral route, is a highly infectious virus that can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis. It mainly affects children under the age of five.

Saparbekov also said the number of people now needing evacuation from Gaza for medical care has risen to 14,000.


Israeli bombing kills 2 at entrance to Bureij refugee camp

Al-Awda Hospital, near the Jabalia refugee camp, has received two bodies and seven wounded people after Israeli forces bombed a house at the entrance to Bureij in northern Gaza.

During a spate of attacks, Israeli forces fired an artillery shell into the Remal neighbourhood, central Gaza City, Palestinian sources said.

Meanwhile, after a ground invasion began on Monday in southern Khan Younis, medical sources tell Al Jazeera that a total of 21 bodies have so far been transferred to Nasser Hospital since this morning.


Four children among at least 9 killed in Israeli attack on Bureij

Earlier we reported on Israeli forces bombing a house at the entrance to Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Sources say at least nine people have been killed in the attack, including four children. The Wafa news agency news agency reported that another 10 people were wounded. Al Jazeera’s video footage of the aftermath of the Israeli shelling shows blood splattered on the walls of the house as people evacuated the bodies.



SvennoJ on 23 July 2024

Hamas and Fatah hold reconciliation talks in Beijing

Palestinian political groups Hamas and Fatah are concluding three days of intra-Palestinian reconciliation talks which have been held in the Chinese capital, Beijing.

The talks, which have been ongoing since Sunday with the backing of the Chinese government, have been attended by top teams from both groups, including Fatah’s deputy head Mahmoud Alloul and Hamas’s political leader Ismael Haniyeh.

“We, in the Fatah Movement, are open to solve and dismantle all obstacles in the way of reconciliation under the difficult conditions the Palestinian cause is going through along with the genocidal war on Gaza,” said Fatah’s senior leader Abdel Fattah Dawla.

Sharp disagreements on issues between Fatah and Hamas have resulted in the occupied West Bank and Gaza being politically divided since 2007.

The objectives of the two parties are effectively the same – creating a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 – but they remain divided on their attitude towards Israel, with Fatah advocating peaceful negotiations over armed resistance.


Fatah and Hamas officials attend intra-Palestinian talks in Moscow, Russia, in February 2019

 

Hamas says signed deal with Fatah in China calling for ‘national unity’

Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk announced that his group had signed an agreement.

“Today we sign an agreement for national unity and we say that the path to completing this journey is national unity. We are committed to national unity and we call for it,” Abu Marzouk said.

Husam Badran, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, has since said in a statement that the most important points of the deal are “forming a national consensus government to manage the affairs of Gaza and the West Bank, supervise reconstruction, and prepare the conditions for elections”.

“Forming a consensus government is the most appropriate solution for the Palestinian situation after the war, which will create an impregnable barrier against all interventions to impose facts against the interests of our people,” he added.


What does the Beijing declaration on Palestine governance say?

Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, breaks down the key points of the agreement signed in China between 14 Palestinian factions, including rivals Fatah and Hamas.

  • The groups declared the establishment of an interim national unity government that would be responsible for the West Bank and Gaza.
  • Once Israel’s war on Gaza ends it will govern in “an important step as it blocks the Israeli efforts to create a collaborative structure against Palestinian interests”.
  • The national unity government will be composed of leaders from all 14 Palestinian entities until elections are held.
  • A new Palestinian National Council will then be formed through democratic and free elections.
  • The groups are committed to the creation of a Palestinian state on lands Israel captured in the 1967 war.


With Palestinian deal, China eyes ‘responsible rising power’ status

As we previously reported, Palestinian factions signed a China-brokered “national unity government” agreement in Beijing.

Ahmed Aboudouh, an associate fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme, says China’s interest in the region stems from its desire to shape an “international rules-based order”.

“China wants to position itself as a responsible rising power interested in dialogue and in doing things differently than other great powers, especially the US,” Aboudouh told Al Jazeera.

“And subsequently shifting the international rules-based order to a more Sinocentric one based on different rules and principles,” he added.

To do so, Aboudouh said, the Chinese government wants to increase its influence over Palestinian factions and a future Palestinian state with the objective of securing a central role in any future arrangement between Israel and Palestine.

The inclusion of Hamas in the Beijing process means China sees the movement as a legitimate political entity and not just a fighting armed group. “They see the group as a representative of the social fabric of a future Palestinian state.”


Fatah official Mahmoud al-Aloul, left, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, centre, and Hamas’s Mussa Abu Marzouk in Beijing on Tuesday


Israel slams Abbas for signing post-war Gaza deal with Hamas

Foreign Minister Israel Katz has criticised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for signing a deal with Hamas aimed at establishing an interim national reconciliation government in Gaza after the war ends.

“Instead of rejecting terrorism, Mahmoud Abbas embraces the murderers and rapists of Hamas, revealing his true face,” Katz said on X.

He said a Palestinian rule over the Strip will never materialise as Hamas will be crushed and Abbas “will be watching Gaza from afar”. “Israel’s security will remain solely in Israel’s hands,” he added.



SvennoJ on 23 July 2024

Netanyahu continues to live in fantasy land

Conditions ripe for captives’ return: Netanyahu

Speaking about the prospect of reaching a ceasefire deal with Hamas under which Israeli captives would be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, Netanyahu has said that “the conditions for their return are ripe”.

He made the comments during a meeting with representatives of the families of Israeli captives in Washington, where he is on an official visit, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

“The conditions are ripe for the simple reason that we are putting very strong pressure on Hamas and we are seeing a certain change and I think that change will increase as we get closer to doing that,” Netanyahu claimed.

There was no indication from Hamas that any negotiations are under way or that the group is willing to drop its demand of a permanent ceasefire for the captives’ release.

Netanyahu still thinks killing and starving more civilians will dismantle Hamas. The less there is left to lose, the more determined the resistance gets...

Netanyahu tries to justify not prioritising captives’ lives over aim to destroy Hamas

A statement released by the Israeli prime minister’s office today says Netanyahu has told families of Israeli captives held in Gaza that he is “not prepared in any way to give in on the victory over Hamas”.

The remarks came last night in the US during his meeting with the families who accompany him in Washington, DC, the release said.

He was quoted as saying the move necessary for the safe return of the captives would put Israel “in danger in the face of Iran’s entire axis of evil”.

“The decisions that we make are fateful decisions for the future of the State of Israel and the Zionist enterprise,” he said, according to his office.

“Unfortunately, [the release of captives] will not take place all at once; there will be stages. However, I believe that we can advance the deal and leave us in possession of the leverage to bring about the release of the others.”

He did not elaborate on how was that possible when Hamas still insisted on a full ceasefire for the release of any captives.


Hamas official criticises Netanyahu’s stance on Israeli captives

A senior Hamas official says there is nothing new in Netanyahu’s stance over the Israeli captives in Gaza after the Israeli prime minister told their families that a deal to secure their release could be near.

Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters that Netanyahu’s remarks made at a meeting in Washington, DC, were aimed at calming the families and nothing more.

“Netanyahu is still stalling, and he is sending delegations only to calm down the anger of families of Israeli captives,” he said.



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SvennoJ on 23 July 2024

How Israel uses ‘hasbara’ to shift narratives in its favour

Al Jazeera sheds light on the Israeli communication technique called “hasbara”, used to shape the narrative of its policies and war conduct in Gaza.

Rights group says some Damon prison detainees need hospital treatment

A prisoner watchdog says many female detainees held in Israel’s Damon prison need to be transferred to a hospital for medical treatment.

The Prisoners Affairs Authority said at least one of the 78 female prisoners held there suffers from cancer, one deals with difficult health conditions and two others are held in solitary confinement cells.

A lawyer who spoke to one of the women told the Palestinian Information Center that they are kept in overcrowded spaces with no ventilation and little food.

The rights group said a third of the prisoners are held in administrative detention – a controversial practice that allows Israeli authorities to hold people without having committed an offence on the ground that they plan to break the law in the future.

The detainees are held without legal proceedings based on undisclosed evidence.


UK, Jordan top diplomats seek ‘immediate ceasefire in Gaza to end suffering’

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said he had hosted his Jordanian counterpart, Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, in London, with Israel’s war on Gaza topping their meeting’s agenda.

“We discussed work towards an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to end the suffering, get hostages out and aid in – as well as rising regional tensions,” he said on X.



SvennoJ on 23 July 2024

Dozens of filings expected to flood ICC and cause delays in Gaza war case

Nearly 60 governments and other parties will be allowed to file legal arguments to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as judges consider whether to issue arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas officials.

Judges granted permission to 18 states – including the US, Germany and South Africa –  as well as 40 organisations and individuals to submit documents by August 6.

They are related to ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan’s request in May for arrest warrants in relation to the Hamas attacks on southern Israel on October 7 and the ensuing Israeli war on Gaza. The new legal arguments are expected to severely slow the decision by the three-judge panel.

The United Kingdom recently questioned if the ICC has jurisdiction over Israeli nationals because of provisions in the Oslo Accords.



Israel’s targeting of UNRWA unacceptable, says Turkey

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has condemned the Israeli parliament’s efforts to define the UN agency for Palestinian refugees as a “terrorist” organisation.

“It is unacceptable for Israel to describe UNRWA as a terrorist organisation after targeting civilians sheltering in UNRWA schools in Gaza and killing nearly 200 UN employees in the last nine months,” it said in a statement.

“We invite the international community to raise their voices against attacks on UNRWA and to support the agency,” it added.

The Knesset on Monday gave preliminary approval to a bill that declares the agency a “terrorist” organisation and proposes to sever relations with the body. Israeli forces have repeatedly struck UNRWA-run schools in Gaza sheltering displaced people, while the agency’s headquarters have been flattened.

Iran calls for ban on Israel from Paris Olympics

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has demanded the exclusion of Israeli athletes from the Olympic Games starting in Paris this week over the war on Gaza.

Israel’s delegation, which headed to France on Monday in advance of Friday’s opening ceremony, is being tightly protected in the French capital amid growing international outrage over the high civilian casualty toll and unfolding humanitarian crisis in the besieged and bombarded Palestinian territory.

“Announcing the reception and protection of the apartheid terrorist Zionist regime’s delegation means giving legitimacy to the child killers,” the ministry said in a post on X.

“They do not deserve to be present at the Paris Olympics because of the war against the innocent people of Gaza,” it added, calling on organisers to ban Israel.



SvennoJ on 23 July 2024

While all eyes are on Biden stepping down and Netanyahu visiting the USA, the IDF ramps up killing and displacing more civilians.


Situation grim in Khan Younis, deteriorating in Bureij

The security situation on the ground is escalating, especially in the city of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

What we do know is that the military started an operation 24 hours ago, giving people a very short time in order to flee from their houses. But what we do hear from witnesses is that they have been attacked as they were trying to flee.

Also, according to a statement by the Gaza Government Media Office, at least 89 Palestinians have been killed during the past 24 hours, all in the city of Khan Younis, while more than 260 others have been wounded.

The shocking reality is that there are still 68 others missing under the rubble as search teams cannot really get close to the eastern areas where the fighting now is raging between Hamas operatives and the Israeli forces.

Meanwhile, the al-Mawasi area can no longer can be classified as a so-called “safe humanitarian zone” because right now it’s a theatre for operations by the Israeli army.

While the situation is incredibly grim in the city of Khan Younis, it’s also deteriorating in Bureij where the Israeli army is advancing deep and slowly into that camp destroying residential houses.

‘What is the world still waiting for?’

Mansour Shouman, a journalist in contact with sources in Gaza, says with the latest Israeli assault on southern Khan Younis there’s really no place to run for besieged Palestinians.

“Right now there are hundreds of people stuck in that area calling the civil defence agency to try to get themselves out as soon as possible. But nothing has happened,” Shouman told Al Jazeera.

Sources within aid organisations say they “fear the worst” after the latest Israeli ground invasion, he added.

Shouman quoted one American doctor who has worked in desperate situations around the world for decades. “He said in one week in Gaza he witnessed more carnage than his 30 years of service in different areas. We’re talking about over 30,000 orphans right now, cancer patients who don’t have treatment. What is the world still waiting for before we act?”


Smoke rises following Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis


More than 16,000 children killed in 290 days of war: Media Office

The Government Media Office has said the figure is part of the overall death toll of more than 39,000 people killed in Israel’s war on Gaza. Ten thousand others remain missing, it added.

Here are some more figures it gave:

  • 34 children have died due to malnutrition
  • 10,859 of those killed were women
  • 500 of those killed were medical staff
  • 79 of those killed were members of the civil defence
  • 163 journalists have been killed
  • 310 healthcare providers have been detained
  • Seven mass graves have been found inside hospitals
  • 520 dead bodies were unearthed from these graves
  • Almost 90,000 have been wounded
  • 70 percent of the victims are children and women
  • 166 shelter centres have been targeted by the Israeli military
  • 17,000 children are living without one or both parents.
  • 12,000 wounded people, in addition to 3,000 patients with various diseases, need to travel abroad for treatment.
  • 10,000 cancer patients are in dire need of treatment
  • 1.7 million people are suffering from infectious diseases
  • 71,338 cases of hepatitis cases have been recorded
  • 60,000 pregnant women are at risk due to lack of healthcare
  • 350,000 patients with chronic diseases are at risk due to lack of medicine


Gaza residents ‘trapped in increasingly small and overcrowded areas’

The UN agency providing relief to Palestinian refugees says Israeli evacuation orders “have hit a huge part of the Strip, leaving less and less places to go for the displaced”.

“People are exhausted from the continuous displacement and unlivable conditions, and they are trapped in increasingly small and overcrowded areas,” UNRWA said.



SvennoJ on 23 July 2024

Israeli army keeps attacking al-Mawasi despite ‘safe’ designation: UN

The UN human rights office has reiterated that there is “no safe in Gaza” amid Israel’s offensive, highlighting the Israeli military’s air raids and shelling on al-Mawasi, a so-called “humanitarian zone”.

Meanwhile, the area has limited or no infrastructure “to support the masses of civilians who have been already displaced there and where there is little access to shelter” or basic life-saving aid, it added.

“Confusing mass evacuation orders issued by a party that is concurrently increasing the intensity of its attacks on the areas from which evacuation is ordered and through which people must move place civilians in more danger and may increase the harm to civilians,”  the office continued, saying this raised “serious concerns” in regards to Israel’s compliance with its “obligation to take all feasible precautions to avoid, and in any event to minimize, incidental loss of civilian life and injury to civilians”.


UNICEF vehicles attacked with gunfire in central Gaza

Adele Khodr, regional director for Middle East and North Africa for the UN children’s agency, says “two clearly marked vehicles have been hit with live ammunition while waiting at a designated holding point near the Wadi Gaza checkpoint”.

“They were en route to reunite five children, including a baby, with their father,” she posted on X. “One vehicle was struck by three bullets, but fortunately no injuries occurred. The team managed to proceed with the mission and safely deliver the children.”

Khodr noted “humanitarian workers are protected under International Humanitarian Law and must not be targeted”.


Israeli military advances deeper into war-torn Khan Younis

Israeli tanks pushed into the Khan Younis suburb of Bani Suheila and several eastern districts of the second-largest city were heavily bombed for a second day.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians fled southern areas of Gaza following the Israeli army’s evacuation order for parts of Khan Younis, including the al-Mawasi “humanitarian zone”.

The Israeli military said dozens of fighters were killed in Khan Younis by its tanks and warplanes or in close-quarters combat. Weapon caches and tunnels had been destroyed, it added.


Palestinians arrive at Nasser Hospital on Monday after Israel’s latest attack on Khan Younis


UN to send team to Gaza to test for polio

The WHO and UNICEF will send a joint team to Gaza on Thursday to begin collecting samples, with clear recommendations expected within the coming days on how to address the threat, including a potential mass vaccination campaign, AFP reports.

Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal viral disease that mainly affects children under the age of 5.

UN agencies said last week that poliovirus had been detected in samples collected from sewage in Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.

No samples have been taken from humans yet, so it remains unclear if anyone in the Palestinian territory has actually been infected.



SvennoJ on 23 July 2024

Israeli gov’t provided $4m to illegal settler farms in 2023: Watchdog

The Israeli government last year financed 68 settler farms in the occupied West Bank with more than $4m, a new report says. Settler-monitoring group Peace Now said the funds were used for drones, cars, cameras, and fences, among other “security” equipment.

The Israeli army approved the money and chose which farms would receive the cash, it said.

“Not only does the Israeli government allow settlers to take over lands, establish outposts and farms in violation of the law, and attack and displace Palestinians without any response, it also funds and assists them,” said a Peace Now statement. “Settler violence is not a bug; it is a feature.”


Israeli settlers set olive groves ablaze near Nablus

Israeli settlers have set fire to olive groves in the village of Burin, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Footage posted online and verified by Al Jazeera showed smoke billowing across a vast area dotted with trees.


Palestinians in Tulkarem assess damages, bid loved ones farewell after Israeli raid

Palestinians have gone out to the streets to assess damages and to bid farewell to their loved ones killed in an Israeli raid into the town of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.

Several of the town’s roads were upturned and underground water pipes were damaged, leaving huge puddles of water in the roads. No water services are available to those neighbourhoods for the time being.

“Houses, and shops. They try to destroy the infrastructure of the camp so that people will leave the camps, get exiled like in 1948, or 1967, but we will not, we will remain here on our lands until we free our lands and country,” a resident who did not disclose her name told Reuters news agency.

The Israeli raids ended with seven Palestinians killed, including a woman and her daughter, according to Palestinian officials.

An Israeli military spokesperson said an air strike hit armed militants operating in the area.


Thirteen-year-old boy shot by Israeli forces in Meithalun has died: Wafa

The Palestinian news agency Wafa has reported that Saif Ziad Ali Ameer, who was shot by Israeli forces during a raid on Meithalun on July 11, has died.

Wafa reported he had been shot in the chest.

The announcement comes hours after an Israeli raid killed five in Tulkarem, including a mother and her daughter.