Day: July 12, 2024

Israeli aircraft continued their bombing of various areas in the Gaza Strip on the 280th day of the war, leaving a large number of martyrs and wounded.

The Israeli occupation forces committed two massacres against Palestinian families, resulting in 50 martyrs and 54 wounded arriving at hospitals, bringing the death toll from the aggression since October 7 to 38,345 martyrs and 88,295 wounded.

The occupation forces executed a number of citizens in the Al-Zeitoun Girls School near the universities west of Gaza City and arrested others.

Citizens spoke about the spread of dozens of bodies in the streets surrounding the industrial area on Al-Thalathini Street in Gaza City, while the Civil Defense indicated that the number of martyrs recovered from the Shuja’iyya neighborhood during the past two days has risen to sixty, including six from the Al-Maidana family.

The occupation tanks retreated on Friday morning to Street 8 after a three-day incursion into the industrial area.

South Gaza Strip

The occupation re
newed its bombing of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in eight martyrs as a result of Israeli bombing that targeted the center of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Two people were injured in a helicopter raid in the Qizan Abu Rashwan area, south of Khan Yunis.

Israel continues its invasion of Rafah for the third consecutive month, and the occupation forces shoot at anyone who tries to enter the city.

The ambulance teams were able to retrieve nine martyrs, including a woman and two of her children in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, and a father and his son in the same neighborhood.

Middle of the sector

Four martyrs and wounded were killed when the occupation aircraft targeted the Abu Mustafa family home in the Al-Da’wa area, north of the Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The artillery shelled the north of the Nuseirat and Bureij camps in the central Gaza Strip.

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Thousands of citizens performed Friday prayers at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, in light of the strict military measures imposed by the Israeli occupation authorities on access to the mosque.

The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem estimated that about 35,000 citizens performed Friday prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces deployed their checkpoints in the Old City and at Bab al-Asbat, coinciding with the arrival of citizens to perform prayers, and prevented a number of young men from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Since the start of the comprehensive Israeli aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem, in October 2023, the occupation forces have tightened their measures at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the entrances to the Old City, and sometimes prevent citizens from occupied Jerusalem or Palestinians from the 1948 territories from entering the mosque to perform prayers. They also deprive tens of thousands of citize
ns from the West Bank governorates from entering Jerusalem through their military checkpoints surrounding the city.

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The occupation municipality forced the Jerusalemite citizen Walid Edkaidek to demolish his house in Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, with his own hands, under the pretext of building without a permit.

Edkidek explained that he was forced to demolish his house, after successive decisions to demolish it, and the impossibility of obtaining a license, under the pretext of building without a license.

He added that he tried to license the house and provide the necessary information, but his requests were rejected.

The house, which is home to 6 people, has been in existence since 2016 and has been fined for ‘unlicensed construction.’

Edkidek pointed out that he had filed objections to the Central Court and then the Supreme Court, in an attempt to prevent the demolition of his house, to no avail.

During the past few days, a commercial facility was demolished in Issawiya, a building in Umm Tuba, and two apartments in the village of Jabal Mukaber.

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US officials announced on Thursday that the United States will soon remove the floating water platform it built off the coast of Gaza to deliver aid to the Palestinian enclave, which has suffered from repeated problems.

The $230 million floating dock was first installed in mid-May before being dismantled repeatedly due to bad weather.

“The port will be decommissioned soon, and we will provide more details on this process and its timing in the coming days,” Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder said in a statement.

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Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man from the Zif area, south of Hebron, this afternoon.

The coordinator of the popular and national committees to resist the wall and settlements in southern Hebron, Rateb Al-Jabour, stated that the occupation forces raided the area and threatened the residents, after arresting the young man, Munjed Yasser Abu Aram, in front of the Khalid bin Al-Walid Mosque in Zif.

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Israeli occupation forces arrested two brothers, one of whom works as a lawyer, at dawn today, during a raid and search of their home in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.

Media activist in Beit Ummar, Muhammad Ayyad Awad, reported that a large force of the occupation army stormed the Musrara area northwest of Beit Ummar, and raided the home of the Abu Ayyash family. The home was searched, its contents were tampered with, its furniture and belongings were destroyed, and the family members were detained in separate rooms.

Awad added, “During this, the two brothers, lawyer Thaer Mohammed Mahmoud Abu Ayyash, 35 years old, and Mahmoud, 36 years old, were arrested.”

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Hebron Governor Khaled Dudin announced on Friday morning that the encroachments through which the occupation authorities attempted to change the features of the Ibrahimi Mosque by covering the courtyard of the mosque with iron and cement have been removed.

Governor Dudin thanked all our people and official and civil institutions for their stance, which had an impact in stopping this attack, calling for increasing the presence of citizens in the sanctuary and praying in it, stressing that it will remain a purely Islamic mosque.

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The Gaza City Municipality said that the Israeli army “deliberately targeted vital facilities and infrastructure to make Gaza an unlivable city.”

The municipality added in a statement on Friday that “the occupation has been targeting the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood (in Gaza City) for 9 months, and the industrial area is crowded with displaced people in residential towers.”

She pointed out that “the occupation targeted water tanks, trees, mosques, schools and all vital facilities.”

She confirmed that “35% of the buildings and residential facilities in the Shuja’iyya area, east of Gaza, were completely destroyed.”

She said: “We cannot deliver water to the areas where citizens have been displaced because the infrastructure has been completely destroyed.”

“We urgently need fuel and heavy equipment to respond to relief calls and restore electricity,” she added.

She explained that “about 100,000 tons of waste have accumulated throughout Gaza City, and diseases and epidemics are spreading.”

The Gaza Municipalit
y stated that “there are very limited quantities of food supplies at exorbitant prices that do not meet the minimum needs.”

Earlier today, the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip said that its crews found the charred bodies of citizens and completely burned homes in the industrial area and the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City after the Israeli army withdrew from the area this morning.

In this context, the government media office in Gaza stated, “We are receiving news of serious atrocities committed by the occupation in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City.”

He added that “the occupation forces are still stationed in areas despite their withdrawal from Tal al-Hawa and the industrial zone.”

He warned citizens against “moving around the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood and the industrial area despite the occupation’s withdrawal.”

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The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip said that its crews found charred bodies of Palestinians and completely burned homes in the industrial area and Tel al-Hawa in Gaza City after the Israeli army withdrew from the area.

The Civil Defense added today, Friday, that its crews “have retrieved 18 martyrs so far from the industrial area and Tal al-Hawa, west of Gaza, after the occupation forces’ vehicles withdrew from the area at dawn today.”

He pointed out that “the scene now in the industrial area is very difficult and tragic after the withdrawal of the occupation army from it, as there are dozens of bodies of martyrs scattered in the alleys and inside the destroyed houses, in addition to the burning of many houses that the occupation army set on fire before withdrawing, as our crews are working in partnership with service providers to recover these bodies.”

For his part, the government media office in Gaza said: “We are receiving news of serious atrocities committed by the occupation in the Tel al-Hawa neigh
borhood in Gaza City.”

He added that “the occupation forces are still stationed in areas despite their withdrawal from Tal al-Hawa and the industrial zone.”

He continued: “We warned citizens against moving around the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood and the industrial area despite the occupation’s withdrawal.”

He explained that “there are fears that the fires that broke out in a number of warehouses and houses in Tal al-Hawa will spread.”

“The lack of fuel and the destruction of infrastructure are hindering the recovery of the martyrs in Tal al-Hawa,” he said.

The government media office confirmed that “the occupation wants to force the people of Gaza not to return to the northern Gaza Strip at all.”

The Israeli army destroyed the “Friends of the Patient” hospital in the center of Gaza City, and also destroyed the Mashtaha Tower at Ansar roundabout west of Gaza City in the last invasion.

Local sources said, “Three martyrs, including an infant, were killed after the occupation forces bombed a house in the Al-Mu
fti area, north of the Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, this morning.”

The sources added that “a number of the injured, including a girl whose injuries were described as serious, were transferred to Al-Awda Hospital in Al-Nuseirat camp as a result of the shelling.”

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reported that 14,000 displaced persons are crammed into a school in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip in harsh conditions.

In the southern Gaza Strip, our correspondent said that Israeli aircraft fired west of Rafah city.

In a separate context, the Israeli army said in a statement on Friday, “Yesterday, Thursday, several rockets were identified as coming from the Beit Hanoun area (northern Gaza) and fell in open areas near southern Israel, and no injuries were reported.”

The statement added: “Then the Israeli Air Force bombed terrorist targets in the area from which the rockets were launched.”

He continued: “The Israeli forces continue their operational
activity based on intelligence information in the Rafah area (south of Gaza), and during the past day our forces were able to eliminate many terrorists and dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in the area.”

The statement concluded: “Based on intelligence information, the Israeli army operating in central Gaza found a weapons production workshop in addition to a large amount of money used in terrorist activity. The terrorists who posed a threat to the forces in the area were also eliminated.”

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas honored on Thursday evening the volunteers of the “Mahmoud Abbas Foundation” in appreciation of their efforts in serving our people in various places where they are present.

This came during the President’s reception of the Foundation’s volunteers at the Presidential Headquarters in Ramallah, in the presence of the Foundation’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, Marwan Awartani, and its Executive Director, Jamal Haddad.

The President praised the role played by volunteers, based on their societal responsibility towards their people, regardless of their backgrounds and affiliations, stressing the importance of enhancing the spirit of volunteerism and community work among our Palestinian youth.

The President also appreciated the efforts made by the Foundation to provide educational opportunities for Palestinian students in Lebanon and enable them to enter the labor market, and to support our people in refugee camps inside Palestine and in Lebanon, and to enhance their abi
lity to face challenges and help them rebuild their lives.

It is worth noting that the ‘Student Program’ implemented by the President Mahmoud Abbas Foundation has succeeded in providing university education to approximately 12,000 Palestinian students in the camps in Lebanon. The Foundation also works through the ‘Palestine Program’ to provide humanitarian and relief aid to affected families inside the country, especially in occupied Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, to strengthen the steadfastness of our people on their homeland.

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