• At least 646 Palestinians, including 148 children, have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the occupied territory. This includes at least 128 Palestinians killed by Israeli air attacks, according to the UN.
• More than 5,400 Palestinians have also been injured.
• Israeli army raids have become a nightly occurrence in towns and villages, with at least 10,200 Palestinians arrested by Israeli soldiers, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.
• The same groups report that at least 3,432 Palestinians are being held in Israeli military prisons without charge under “administrative detention”, an emergency measure that Israel inherited from the colonial British Mandate for Palestine.
• At least 1,432 Palestinian homes, and other structures, have been demolished, displacing 3,270 Palestinians, according to the UN.
• At least 19 Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks since October, according to Israeli officials.

Two more Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on West Bank

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that the two Palestinians were killed as Israeli forces bombed the Far’a camp in the city of Tubas.

Medical sources told the agency the young men died in an Israeli drone attack and that several others were also wounded in the bombing.

The Palestine Red Crescent told Wafa that their crews are facing difficulties in reaching the wounded as Israeli forces have laid siege to the camp and are preventing the entry of ambulances.

The agency reported that a large number of Israeli soldiers accompanied by a bulldozer are active in the ongoing raid on the refugee camp and that the military has deployed several drones and stationed snipers in and around the area.

Earlier, we reported that at least two others were killed in the ongoing Israeli operations in the city of Jenin.

شاهد .. جرافات الاحتلال تنفذ أعمال تخريب للبنى التحتية في مخيم الفارعة بمدينة طوباس pic.twitter.com/2LUCtRNEWz

— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) August 27, 2024

Three Palestinians killed in Israeli drone attack on West Bank car

The Wafa news agency is reporting that three young Palestinian men were killed when an Israeli drone bombed a vehicle in the village of Seir, southeast of Jenin. It cited the Palestine Red Crescent Society as saying that the bodies of the victims have been retrieved from the vehicle and are being transferred to the hospital.

The drone attack came as Israeli forces launched a “major operation” involving hundreds of troops in the northern occupied West Bank. At least four more Palestinians have been killed in the operations – two in Jenin and two in the Far’a refugee camp in Tubas.

Israeli violence in West Bank comes as world ‘distracted’ by Gaza horror: Analyst

Omar Baddar, a Middle East political analyst, said that the major military operation in the occupied West Bank, which has so far killed at least seven Palestinians in recent hours, is part of a longer strategy of Israel to “ethnically cleanse” the Palestinian territory.

“I think the context of it is worth nothing, which is the fact that Israel has been intending to annex and ethnically cleanse huge parts of the West Bank for a very, very long time,” Baddar told Al Jazeera.

“I think that they [Israeli forces] saw an opportunity given that the world is distracted by the horror that Israel is unleashing on Gaza to kind of escalate in the West Bank. So what we’ve seen over the past several months is more than 650 Palestinians being killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers throughout the West Bank,” he said.

“In any other context, this would be a crisis that everybody would be talking about. But only in the shadow of the genocide that Israel is unleashing on Gaza has this kind of passed without people really paying attention,” he added.

Another Palestinian journalist killed in Gaza

Photojournalist Mohammed Abd Rabbo was killed in an Israeli air attack that hit his sister’s home in the Nuseirat refugee camp earlier this morning.

Rabbo’s sister was also killed in the attack.

The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate said Israeli forces have killed 161 media workers and wounded 186 others in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since October 7. Some 51 others have been arrested.

_{The body of Mohammed Abd Rabbo is brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on August 28}

Israeli attack targets Deir el-Balah school, killing 3

Israel’s military has waged an attack on a school where displaced people are sheltering in eastern Deir el-Balah, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. The attack has killed at least three people and wounded others, they say.

Death toll in Deir el-Balah school strike rises to eight

The school attacked in Deir el-Balah served as an evacuation centre in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Hospital, just 300 metres away. The school was targeted by heavy artillery. So far, we have confirmed reports of eight people killed.

One more person is in very critical condition, at risk of losing his life. The hospital, in its current state, does not have the capacity or supplies to save his life. So people are basically counting the minutes he has left.

Other people injured are lying on the floor of the emergency department, waiting for medical staff to provide care.

The attack has further traumatised the group of displaced who were staying at the school, using it as a shelter. They say the reason they did not evacuate from the school despite an order is there is no safe place for them to go.

_{Palestinians, including the elderly and children, leave the northern Gaza Strip on foot to seek refuge in the south as Israeli tanks roll deeper into the enclave in central Gaza in November 2023}

Bellingcat analysis finds vast destruction in Rafah

The investigative journalism group says its analysis of satellite imagery shows “vast swaths” of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, “have been damaged or destroyed”.

Israeli forces have demolished entire city blocks as part of their expansion of the Philadelphi Corridor into neighbourhoods in the south of Rafah, including the Brazil Refugee Camp and Dahiyat as-Salam, the Bellingcat researchers found.

Bellingcat also found that the destruction went far beyond the expanded Philadelphi Corridor, including into the eastern neighbourhood of Tal as-Sultan, where only 224 of roughly 670 buildings remain standing.

_{A satellite image shows the Canada Well water facility in Tal as-Sultan, Rafah, after the site was damaged in an Israeli explosion}

UN experts says Israel’s ‘vast demolition’ in Rafah part of wider pattern of crimes

Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, was responding to new analysis from Bellingcat showing Israeli forces have demolished large areas of the city in the south of the Gaza Strip.

“Israel is demolition nation par excellence,” Rajagopal said in a post on X, adding the latest analysis “shows commission of vast international crimes including domicide”.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) “cannot fail to add these to its charges”, the UN rights expert added.

Israel is Demolition Nation par excellence. Evidence of vast demolition of housing in Rafah, a pattern that extends far back, again shows commission of vast international crimes including domicide. ICC cannot fail to add these to its charges. https://t.co/8lyvZxXNig

— UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing (@adequatehousing) August 28, 2024

Israel’s military claims nine killed in West Bank were ‘armed terrorists’

Israel’s military has claimed to kill nine fighters in its latest raids throughout the occupied West Bank. In a post on Telegram, the military described the nine people killed as “armed terrorists who posed a threat to security forces”.

It also claimed to arrest more “wanted suspects” in Jenin and Tulkarem, while confiscating explosives “planted under roads” in Far’a camp.

As we’ve been reporting, Israel’s continuing military raid has mobilised hundreds of troops in the West Bank, making it the largest operation there in decades. In Jenin, Israeli forces have cut off access to several hospitals, one of which is at risk of being stormed, according to the local governor.

With no Gaza victory in sight, Israel unleashes violence in occupied West Bank: Analyst

More from Omar Baddar, a Middle East political analyst, who spoke to Al Jazeera earlier about Israel’s major military operation in the occupied West Bank that has killed at least seven Palestinians and is still ongoing:

“I think Israel is under tremendous pressure because of the fact that they are stuck in Gaza without a strategic victory,” Baddar told Al Jazeera.

“They promised that they would be able to defeat Hamas quickly. That they would be able to free the hostages. They have been able to achieve neither of these things. I think whenever Israel finds itself cornered and is in desperate need of a victory for its public, all they know how to do is unleash indiscriminate violence against Palestinians,” he said.

“I think Netanyahu is desperate for some sort of image of an accomplishment and he thinks by launching this massive, large-scale operation in the West Bank… Israel can claim some sort of victory at the end of this.”

تغطية صحفية: لحظة استهداف جرافة بعبوة ناسفة بمخيم نور شمس شرق طولكرم pic.twitter.com/mV9zq6mh9w

— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) August 28, 2024

Israel releases video footage of air strike on Nur Shams refugee camp

Israel’s military has released video footage of air strikes that killed five people in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank’s Tulkarem governorate on Tuesday morning.

In a post on social media accompanied by grainy aerial video clips showing multiple strikes from aircraft on a building and explosions in a residential area, the Israeli military said it had killed “terrorists” in a “compound” that was used to “manage terrorist activity”.

The Wafa news agency identified those killed in the strike as Adnan Jaber, 15, Mohammed Ahmad Elayyan, 16, Mohannad Qarawi, 19, Jibril Ghassan Jibril, 20, and Mohammed Ali Yusif, 49.

Israeli forces set up checkpoint in Nur Shams refugee camp

Meanwhile, the Israeli army is allowing civilians who want to leave to do so, residents told Al Jazeera.

No evacuation order has been announced, they said.

This comes after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz called for the evacuation of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory as a strategy to deal with armed groups there.

“We must deal with the threat in the West Bank as we are doing in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever other steps are required,” the minister said on X.