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NEW: September 11, 2024:

Nour, A midwife in Gaza

Sept. 4, 2024:
"He can't move at all": A Gaza mother's agony over baby with polio...
and
September 3, 2024:
'Tragic childhood': Gaza children vaccinated against polio, war continues...

 


Shoroughs' family

August 12, 2024:
'Part of me is missing': How Israel's war on Gaza tears spouses apart

earlier stories:
August 7, 2024: 'My children cry all day from the heat': Life in Gaza’s tent camps...
and

August 5, 2024: Shorough 'We have nothing left in this world, except our daughter': a young mother on life in Gaza...


Alaa al-Nimer and daughterNimah

July 28, 2024
"My baby girl was born on the street": A traumatic birth in Gaza

 

July 22, 2024
Ms. Maram Humaid: "A letter to my son: As you turn one today in Gaza, I feel joy and sorrow"

 July 12, 2024
Noor Alyacoubi - "I'm fighting to keep my baby alive"
and other stories
Mothers and children: Boom-And again Boom


Special report:
UPDATE: September 4, 2024:
Gaza is hell for aid workers doubly difficult if you are a woman.
 
July 12, 2024:
Scorched Hospitals - Schools -  Housing - Bodies -- fake or fact?

September 27 - 26, 2024
Food for thought: 'The pot (israel) blames the kettle (usa) about the latters' <flat earth policy>.
Ok, agreed. But which of the two are then to blame for the 'scorched earth genocide strategy'?

and more actual news

September 26 - 24, 2024
Food for thought: since israel is about to invade Lebanon there's no more
talk about the 'hostages'. Obviously 'cause n. is just out to safe his political career
no matter the human price i.e. the genocide he's orchestrating.
In any case read more
   
 
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Additional stories of utmost interest:
August 28, 2024:
<<Creating hope for Gaza's student doctors amid Israeli bombardment...
August 20, 2024:
<<Palestinians are being dehumanised to justify occupation and genocide...
and
August 18, 2024
<<Solidarity with Palestine must be about decolonisation, not just ceasefire...

 

June 14, 2024
Palestinian-Jordanian journalist Hiba Abu Taha sentenced to one year in prison


Related news:
August 12, 2024
Israel's "blatant act of intimidation and incitement"
August 2 - July 21, 2024
Is Western journalism as envisioned dead
and other stories
 
Click here for earlier stories/news

 

May 23, 2024
In commemoration of Roshdi Sarraj
and tribute to

Shrouq Al Aila

 
When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

Al Jazeera - September 27, 2024 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<'Not serious': Blinken again urges diplomacy as Israel strikes Beirut
Antony Blinken warns region faces 'precarious moment', but experts say US's failure to pressure Israel fuelling crisis. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated that the United States believes diplomacy is the best path forward as Israel continues to bombard Lebanon, pushing the region into a worsening crisis. Speaking to reporters in New York on Friday afternoon, the top US diplomat said the Middle East and the world faced "a precarious moment. The choices that all parties make in the coming days will determine which path this region is on, with profound consequences for its people now and possibly for years to come," Blinken said. "The path to diplomacy may seem difficult to see at this moment, but it is there and in our judgement, it is necessary," he added. "We will continue to work intensely with all parties to urge them to choose that course."
Blinken's remarks came just hours after the Israeli military launched a series of air strikes on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, against what it said was Lebanese group Hezbollah's <central headquarters>. At least six people were killed and more than 70 others were injured in the attacks on the Dahiyeh area, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, in what witnesses described as an "unprecedented" assault that flattened six residential buildings.
The death toll is expected to rise as rescue crews dig through the rubble.
The attack followed days of Israeli bombings across southern and eastern Lebanon that have killed hundreds of people and displaced tens of thousands. The uptick in violence came after months of firings across the Lebanon-Israel border between Israeli forces and Hezbollah. The Lebanese group said it began launching rockets into northern Israel in solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli bombardment in Gaza. The US, France and other countries presented a Lebanon ceasefire proposal this week amid the recent surge in violence, but it was almost immediately rebuffed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly earlier on Friday that Israel would fight until <total victory>, stressing that his government would not stop until displaced Israeli citizens can return to their homes in the north of the country. Critics have lambasted the US administration for failing to use its leverage to pressure Israel - the country's top Middle East ally - to end its attacks both in Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip. For months, experts have warned that Israel's war on Gaza, which began in October of last year and has killed more than 41,500 Palestinians to date, risked spilling over into a wider regional conflict. But US President Joe Biden's administration has rejected calls to condition aid to Israel to try to secure a ceasefire in Gaza or prevent further escalation in Lebanon. Washington provides $3.8bn in military assistance to Israel annually, and Biden has authorised additional weapons sales to the country as the Gaza war drags on. His administration has also provided diplomatic backing for Israel amid international condemnation over its Gaza offensive and recent bombings in Lebanon. Against that backdrop, Mohamad Elmasry, a professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, said Blinken’s remarks on Friday were "pretty predictable".
"He's got a very narrow playbook, so he repeats a lot of the same things," he told Al Jazeera. Elmasry also questioned whether the US government truly valued diplomacy, given its unwillingness to pressure Israel. "The US is not at all serious about peace and diplomacy. I think that the US would prefer it if it were possible, but it's not very high on the US's priority list," he said. "If it were high on the priority list, they would have exercised leverage over Israel many, many months ago. But they've refused to do that." Other experts also told Al Jazeera this week that the Biden administration's policies over the past year have been a "disastrous failure" that led to the current crisis in Lebanon. "They [the Israelis] know every single warning from the administration has been ignored - explicitly and emphatically, repeatedly - and there's never been a consequence," said Khaled Elgindy, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute think tank. "Every aspect of the administration's policy has been a failure - from the humanitarian, to the diplomatic, to the moral, to the legal, to the political - in every conceivable way."
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/not-serious-blinken-again-urges-diplomacy-as-israel-strikes-beirut

France 24 - Sept 28, 2024
<<World figures react to the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
Global and regional leaders reacted on Saturday to news of the death of longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli air strike on Beirut. Nasrallah is by far the most powerful figure to be targeted by Israel in weeks of clashes and exchanges of rocket fire along the Israeli-Lebanese border, prompting fears of a wider regional war in the Middle East.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
Hezbollah
Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group confirmed that its leader and co-founder Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an air strike in Beirut the previous day as Israel bombarded the Lebanese capital of Beirut. A statement from the group said Nasrallah "has joined his fellow martyrs" and vowed to "continue the holy war against the enemy and in support of Palestine".
The Lebanese population is sharply divided on the role Hezbollah plays in their politics, with some supporting the movement and others deeply resentful, notably those who want their nation to be free from sectarian conflict to allow civil society and the rule of law to prevail. The confirmed death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah came as a "shock" to Lebanon, according to Salah Hijazi, deputy chief of the political desk at "L'Orient le Jour." Hezbollah is "perceived as the liberator ... and the author of the victory of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war", he said, adding that Nasrallah's death is unlikely to remove the group from power.>>
Read more here:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240928-world-figures-react-death-hezbollah-leader-hassan-nasrallah-lebanon

Al Jazeera - September 27, 2024
<<Is Israel dragging the US into a Mideast quagmire?
Experts weigh in on US strategy as Israel drags Middle East into escalating war in Lebanon and unending war in Gaza.>>
View video and read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2024/9/27/is-israel-dragging-the-us-into-a-mideast-quagmire

Al Jazeera - September 27, 2024
<<Netanyahu attacks UN as <anti-Israel Flat Earth Society>
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked the United Nations as an <antisemitic swamp> and an <anti-Israel Flat Earth Society> during his address to the UN General Assembly, defending his government's bombardment of both Gaza and Lebanon.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/27/netanyahu-attacks-un-as-anti-israel-flat-earth

Al Jazeera - September 27, 2024
<<Israel bombs compound of Gaza's Al-Aqsa Hospital, killing one person
Assault targets-area sheltering displaced Palestinians, destroying 18 tents and injuring seven people.
The Israeli military has bombed the compound of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, killing at least one person, injuring another seven and destroying more than a dozen tents. The deadly attack on Friday is the latest to hit the medical facility, which has been sheltering displaced Palestinians for months and has been facing a severe shortage of medical staff, equipment and medicine. The hospital is the only functioning facility in central Gaza, treating thousands of Palestinians. Several times since October 7, Israel has bombarded the hospital in Deir el-Balah, which is one of the few areas still considered <safe> for those displaced several times from other areas to shelter. Reporting from the hospital, Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum described the destruction at the site as extensive as he pointed to a crater that resulted from the strike. "Palestinian refugees have left everything they have here, and they are completely destroyed, even the blankets, mattresses and beds," he said. Some components of the Israeli weapon used were also found at the site, and one piece clearly showed that it was manufactured in the United States, according to Abu Azzoum.
Israeli forces have repeatedly and deliberately targeted medical facilities in the enclave, acts described as war crimes under the Geneva Convention.
"Al-Aqsa is a place where people are trying to be protected after the Israeli massive ground incursion. But people in this place are no longer feeling safe because of the repeated Israeli attacks," said Abu Azzoum. Elsewhere, four people were killed in a separate Israeli strike on a home in the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera's team on the ground. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, several people were wounded in the attack on a home in the Jarn area of Jabalia. One person was killed after Israeli forces carried out an artillery attack close to a busy street near Gaza City's Zeitoun neighbourhood, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues reported. Meanwhile, five people were injured when Israeli forces struck a residential home in Deir el-Balah, Wafa reported. Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics transported the injured to the Al-Aqsa Hospital for treatment. Several residents were injured in the eastern region of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, following an Israeli artillery fire that hit the town of Abasan al-Kabira, Wafa reported. In an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the US for its continuing support for Israel's war on Gaza and urged the international community to stop supplying weapons to Israel.
Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 41,534 Palestinians and wounded 96,092, according to the latest figures released on Thursday by the Ministry of Health. More than half of the dead have been women and children, including about 1,300 babies and toddlers under the age of two.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>>
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/27/israel-bombs-compound-of-gazas-al-aqsa-hospital-killing-one-person


Terrified children [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]
Al Jazeera - September 27, 2024
<<Israel attacks school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza
A mass burial is also held in Khan Younis after 88 unidentifiable bodies of Palestinians were sent to Gaza by Israel. At least 11 killed in Israeli strike that hit a school in northern Gaza. An Israeli air attack on a school sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza has killed at least 15 people. The Israeli military confirmed it struck the school in the Jabalia refugee camp, claiming it was targeting Hamas fighters. The bombing on Thursday brought the number of people killed in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours to 36. Footage from the Hafsa al-Faluja School showed rescue workers rushing casualties out of the compound amid widespread debris and crowds of people. One video showed men wrapping a mangled, severed torso in a plastic sheet and putting body parts into a cooler. Israeli forces have repeatedly struck schools, alleging that Hamas uses them as <command centres> to plan attacks. The Palestinian group has denied the charges. Many school buildings have been repurposed to shelter displaced families across the besieged enclave where the majority of its 2.3 million people have been repeatedly uprooted by the war. In the southern city of Khan Younis, the authorities buried the bodies of 88 Palestinians that Israel returned to Gaza in a mass grave. The Health Ministry denounced what it called the "inhumane and immoral" way Israel had treated the bodies, saying they were sent back piled in a truck with no information to identify them. Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 41,534 Palestinians and wounded 96,092, according to the latest figures released on Thursday by the Health Ministry. More than half of the dead have been women and children, including about 1,300 babies and toddlers under the age of two.>>
View photos here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/27/israel-attacks-school-sheltering-displaced-palestinians-in-gaza


Islam Hejazi
Jinha - Womens News Agency - Sept 27 , 2024
<<Islam Hejazi killed in Khan Younis
Islam Hijazi, the Program Director of the HEAL Palestine organization, was killed by an armed group near the Jordanian Hospital in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Thursday.
News Center- Islam Hijazi, the Program Director of the HEAL Palestine, a nonpolitical, nonprofit humanitarian organization, was killed by an armed group near the Jordanian Hospital in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Thursday. "With a deep sadness, HEAL Palestine announces the killing of our Gaza Program Director, Islam Hijazy, in Gaza today. She was the mother of two small children, and a humanitarian with the highest ethics and professionalism. Islam intentionally stayed in Gaza to help others," said the statement published on HEAL Palestine's Instagram page. "When she started her leadership role with HEAL Palestine, she said, 'My place is in Gaza serving my people'. HEAL Palestine is more dedicated than ever to serving Gaza, in her honor."
In the statement, HEAL Palestine also calls for an urgent ceasefire.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/islam-hejazi-killed-in-khan-younis-35737

Al Jazeera - September 27, 2024
<<Pro-Palestinian protesters chant outside Netanyahu's hotel in New York
Pro-Palestinian protesters were seen chanting outside the New York hotel where Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is staying for his visit to the UN General Assembly. Several people were arrested during protests across the city on Thursday.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/27/pro-palestinian-protesters-chant-outside-netanyahus-hotel-in-new-york

Al Jazeera - September 27, 2024
<<Lebanese FM says Israeli occupation is root cause of current crisis
"There will be instability and there will be war" as long as the Israeli occupation continues, Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib told the UN General Assembly while also saying he welcomed a US and French ceasefire proposal.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/27/lebanese-fm-says-israeli-occupation-is-root-cause-of-current-crisis

Al Jazeera - September 26, 2024
<<'Irresponsible': EU Council president condemns escalation in Lebanon
EU Council President Charles Michel at the UN General Assembly condemned the ongoing escalation in Lebanon and said a Palestinian state must be established.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/26/irresponsible-eu-council-president-condemns-escalation-in-lebanon

Le Monde - Sept 26, 2024 - By Philippe Ricard (New York, United Nations, special correspondent), Hélène Sallon (Beirut, Lebanon, correspondent) and Piotr Smolar (Washington, United States, correspondent)
<<French-American initiative calls for 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon
As Israel continues its bombing campaign against Hezbollah, which has killed over 600 people since Monday, Western diplomats are working to clear the way for a negotiated settlement to the crisis. The US and France are pushing for a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, to avoid a conflagration in Lebanon which could have unpredictable regional consequences. This initiative has been the core subject of intense discussions between European and Arab countries in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, which opened on Tuesday, September 24. It consists of proposing a three-week pause in the fighting, which would give time for negotiations to resume; not only on Lebanon, but also on Gaza. However, the belligerents would first have to accept the principle of such an agreement, at a time when Israel has claimed some 2,000 strikes against targets attributed to Hezbollah over three days. More than 600 people have been killed in Lebanon since Monday, including 50 children and 94 women. On Wednesday, Israel extended its strikes to areas that had never been targeted before, even during the 2006 war, in the Druze region of Chouf and Keserwan, the Christian mountain district north of Beirut. In a joint press release issued on Wednesday evening, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar lent their support to the French-American initiative. The text refers to "an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation" and calls on the Israeli and Lebanese governments to immediately endorse the idea of a 21-day ceasefire.
Difficult discussions
During this pause, the terms of a lasting peace between Lebanon and Israel, along the lines that US President Joe Biden's adviser Amos Hochstein and France have been promoting for months, would be expected to be finalized. Crucial to this approach would be the full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, and the final establishment of the land border between Israel and Lebanon, which would allow for displaced civilians on both sides to return to their homes. Resolution 1701, which was adopted by the UN at the end of the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, called for a cessation of hostilities, an end to Israeli flights over Lebanon and the disarmament of all armed groups, including Hezbollah, to allow the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers to be deployed. Paris and Washington are ready to act as guarantors of monitoring the ceasefire. Their proposal makes no mention of Gaza, but the two countries would like to take advantage of a truce between Israel and Lebanon to revive negotiations on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as well as on releasing Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/09/26/french-american-initiative-calls-for-21-day-ceasefire-in-lebanon_6727336_4.html

Le Monde - Sept 26, 2024 - By Stephanie Maupas (The Hague, Netherlands, correspondent)
<<Israel submits challenges to ICC over Gaza arrest warrant
Israel filed two separate formal legal briefs opposing the ongoing proceedings at the International Criminal Court, that could lead to an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This marks the first time Israel has formally addressed the judges in The Hague.
Never before had an International Criminal Court (ICC) judge been required to rule on a request submitted by Israel. However, on September 20, a week before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned trip to New York, where he is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly on September 27, the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced the submission of two confidential challenges to The Hague. Israel is thus addressing the three judges of the Pre-Trial Chamber, which for over four months has been examining the arrest warrants requested by prosecutor Karim Khan against the Israeli prime minister, his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas officials, Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif.
Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was killed in a strike attributed to Israel, in Tehran on July 31, and the head of its armed wing, Deif, reportedly died in a bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip on July 13. The prosecutor withdrew his application for an arrest warrant targeting Haniyeh after obtaining evidence of his death. "It's remarkable to see Israel accept the legitimacy and standing of the ICC by directly engaging with it," said Canadian professor of international humanitarian law Mark Kersten.
Influencing decisions
Since Palestine's accession to the founding treaty of the ICC in April 2015 and the opening of an investigation in March 2021, Israel has never officially engaged in the proceedings, refraining from any actions that could be seen as recognizing the court's jurisdiction. Israel has not ratified the 1998 Rome Statute that established the ICC. During his visit to Israel and Ramallah in late November 2023, Prosecutor Karim Khan was said to be there on a "private visit," and he came at the invitation of victims of the October 7 Hamas attack in southern Israel.
Over the summer, dozens of states, lawyers, professors, and think tanks filed briefs in a procedure initiated by the judges at the request of London, which was hoping to prevent the issue of arrest warrants against Israeli officials. Some, like Germany and the Czech Republic, argued in favor of Israel - as if in this legal battle waged for nearly 15 years by the Palestinians, Israel had to use allies. While no official submission to the judges has yet been made, this has not prevented Israel's lawyers from being in regular contact with the ICC for years, in the hope of influencing its decisions. In December 2019, Israel's Advocate General delivered a legal opinion to the former prosecutor, announcing their intention to open an investigation. In 2021, they said that Israel was conducting its own investigations and that the ICC's intervention was unnecessary. The Court only intervenes as a last resort, if a state is unable or unwilling to prosecute the perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/09/26/israel-formally-challenges-the-jurisdiction-of-the-international-criminal-court-over-gaza_6727281_4.html

France 24 - Sept 26, 2024
<<‘Stop sending weapons to Israel,’ says Palestinian leader Abbas in UN speech
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday called on the world to stop providing Israel with weapons, saying it has devastated the Gaza Strip to the point where the Palestinian territory is no longer fit for living. Abbas made the plea in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Abbas called on the international community to stop sending weapons to Israel in order to halt bloodshed in the West Bank and Gaza, singling out the United States. Abbas said that Washington continued to provide diplomatic cover and weapons to Israel for its war in Gaza despite the mounting death toll there, now at 41,534 according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave.
"Stop this crime. Stop it now. Stop killing children and women. Stop the genocide. Stop sending weapons to Israel. This madness cannot continue. The entire world is responsible for what is happening to our people in Gaza and the West Bank," Abbas said in an address to the UN General Assembly.
The vast majority of the besieged Palestinian territory's 2.4 million people have been displaced at least once by the war, sparked by the Hamas-led October 7 attacks on Israel, with many seeking shelter in school buildings. The Gaza Strip has been "almost entirely destroyed" by Israeli bombardment and is no longer fit for living, according to Abbas. "The US alone stood and said: 'No, the fighting is going to continue.' It did this by using the veto," he said, referring to Washington repeated use of vetoes to thwart UN Security Council censure of Israel's campaign in Gaza.
"It furnished Israel with the deadly weapons that it used to kill thousands of innocent civilians, children and women. This further encouraged Israel to continuous aggression," he said, saying that Israel "does not deserve" to be in the UN.
The US is Israel's closest ally and backer, supplying the nation with billions of dollars in aid and military materiel. The October 7 attacks that triggered the war resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people on the Israeli side, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures, which includes hostages killed in captivity. Out of 251 people taken hostage that day, 97 are still being held inside Gaza, including 33 who the Israeli military says are dead.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)>>
View videos here:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240926-live-palestinian-authority-president-mahmoud-abbas-speaks-at-un-gaza-israel-hamas-war-hezbollah-lebanon-west-bank

Al Jazeera - September 26, 2024
<<Can Israel afford another war in Lebanon?
Israel's war on Gaza has ground its vital economic sectors to a halt.>>
Read more and view video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/counting-the-cost/2024/9/26/can-israel-afford-another-war-in-lebanon

Al Jazeera - September 26, 2024
<<In Pictures Gallery|Israel-Palestine conflict
Deadly Israeli assault in the occupied West Bank
One woman was killed and five others injured, including a 9-year-old girl, during the raid in southern Jenin. A Palestinian woman was killed and five others were injured in an Israeli military incursion in the village of Anza in southern Jenin in the occupied West Bank. According to a statement from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, its teams transported a woman's body and four injured people, three of them women, to a hospital following the assault on Wednesday. The injured included a 73-year-old woman who was shot in the head, a 9-year-old girl, and a young man who suffered jaw injuries, it said. The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed the death of Zohour Qassem Amour, 32, from Israeli gunfire in Anza.​​​​​​​
More than 600 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since October 7 - the deadliest year there since the United Nations began tracking casualties in 2005.
In August, Israel launched the largest raids in the West Bank in more than two decades, targeting Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas in particular, with hundreds of ground troops advancing in bulldozers and armoured vehicles, supported by fighter jets and drones that dropped bombs.
At least 30 houses were searched in Dura, Hebron, on Thursday morning, while six Palestinians were arrested during an ongoing raid in Idhna.
Israeli forces raided Safa, west of Ramallah, and carried out mass arrests while also blowing up a house.
Earlier, Israeli forces arrested a young man in Jenin after stopping and searching his vehicle, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. A 15-year-old boy was injured when he was run over by an Israeli military vehicle during another incursion in Nablus's at-Taawon street. Five other people were arrested in the al-Jabriyat neighbourhood in Jenin, according to Wafa. Israeli forces also raided several villages and towns in the northern West Bank, including Jamma'in, south of Nablus, and arrested three Palestinians.>>
Source and view pictures here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/9/26/deadly-israeli-assault-in-the-occupied-west-bank

Al Jazeera - September 26, 2024
<<Women and children among victims of Israel's attacks in Lebanon
Here are some of the hundreds of people killed in Israel's recent bombardment of Lebanon, where Israel’s military says it is targeting Hezbollah.>>
View video here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/26/women-and-children-among-victims-of-israels-attacks-in-lebanon


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