Day: 2 October 2024

Doha: HH the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Thani sent a cable of condolences to HE President of Nepal Ram Chandra Poudel, on the victims of the floods that hit several areas in the country, wishing the injured a speedy recovery.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – New statistics from the Ministry of Health in Gaza showed that 53 Palestinian citizens were killed in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip as a result of bloody Israeli raids.

Israel attacked at least three houses, including a house belonging to the Al-Farra family, in which 19 citizens were killed, and another belonging to the Al-Zard family, in which five citizens were killed, in addition to scattered attacks on the Aslih family, in which four citizens were killed, and the Qudaih family, in which five citizens were killed.

The occupation forces withdrew several hours after a limited incursion south of Khan Younis.

In Gaza City, the brothers Anas, Mohammed, and Abdul Rahman Katou from Al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza were killed after being targeted by the occupation.

Fifteen citizens were killed in an Israeli attack on a displacement center east of Gaza City, in addition to six others in the Al-Amal Institute for Orphans and eight citizens from the Ghattas family east of Gaza.

In
the central region of the Strip, 18 citizens were killed when a displacement center and gatherings of citizens were targeted.

Medical sources said that the number of martyrs rose to 79 in the ongoing occupation raids on the Strip, 53 of them in Khan Younis since dawn today.

Source: Maan News Agency

Doha: HH the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani sent a cable of condolences to HE President of Nepal Ram Chandra Poudel, on the victims of the floods that hit several areas in the country, wishing the injured a speedy recovery.

Source: Qatar News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli aircraft continued their bombardment of various areas in the Gaza Strip on the 362nd day of the war, leaving a large number of martyrs and wounded.

The Israeli occupation committed four attacks against families in the Gaza Strip, of which 23 martyrs and 101 wounded were admitted to hospitals during the past 24 hours.

The death toll from the Israeli aggression rose to 41,683 martyrs and 96,460 wounded since October 7.

The occupation forces committed a series of massacres at dawn on Wednesday in various areas of the Gaza Strip.

Gaza and the North

The occupation committed three massacres in Gaza City, which led to the martyrdom of a large number of citizens.

Six citizens were martyred and 17 were wounded as a result of an Israeli bombardment that targeted the Muscat School in the Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City.

The Civil Defense announced that six martyrs and a number of wounded were pulled out of the Al-Amal Institute for Orphans west of Gaza City.

Eight citizens were marty
red and wounded as a result of the occupation bombing of the Ghattas family home in Nazir Street east of Gaza City.

Violent explosions were heard as a result of artillery shelling in the south of Gaza City.

South of the Gaza Strip,

the occupation forces ended the incursion carried out by the occupation tanks in conjunction with airstrikes, which resulted in the martyrdom of 32 martyrs who arrived at the Gaza European Hospital from midnight until the morning.

Citizens recovered 12 martyrs from the Abu Taha family home in the Al-Manara neighborhood south of Khan Yunis,

and four citizens were martyred and eight were injured in a bombing that targeted the Al-Zard family home south of Khan Yunis. Fifteen

citizens were killed in the bombing of two tents and a car southwest of Khan Yunis, while paramedics recovered four martyrs from Rafah.

Hajja Raika Abu Hammad was martyred by a gunshot in Souq Al-Ithnayn Street in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis.

In the central Gaza Strip,

ten citizens were m
artyred and a number of others were wounded as a result of the occupation bombing that targeted a school housing displaced persons and the Nuwairi Hill west of Al-Nuseirat camp.

Three children were martyred in a bombing that targeted a gathering of citizens at the entrance to Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Source: Maan News Agency

Three Palestinians were martyred and others were injured when Israeli warplanes bombed a school and an orphanage housing displaced people in Gaza City.

Local sources said that the occupation aircraft bombed the Muscat School, which shelters displaced people in the Zarqa area in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, which led to the martyrdom of three people and the injury of 17 others.

Citizens were also injured when the occupation forces bombed Al-Amal Orphanage, which houses displaced people west of Gaza City.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza has risen to 41,638, with 96,460 injured.

Source: Qatar News Agency

DOHA: President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday received the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Humanitarian Funds of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Hassan Al Thani, in Doha.

President Abbas briefed Sheikh Abdulaziz on the latest developments in the Palestinian arena, with a focus on the Israeli war crimes and genocidal aggression against the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip.

He thanked Qatari government and charitable institutions for their humanitarian relief aid to Palestinians.

He reviewed the efforts exerted by the Palestinian leadership in cooperation with Arab and friendly countries to bring an end to the Israeli genocidal aggression, ensure the entry of humanitarian aid to the Strip as soon as possible and prevent the displacement of any Palestinian, as he referred to the Israeli crimes of killings, ethnic cleansing and apartheid inflicted on Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

He commended Qatar for its official
and grassroots positions in support of the Palestinian people, as well as for its coordination to bring an end to the genocide and mobilize international support to end the occupation and realize the establishment of the independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital.

Sheikh Abdulaziz described in detail the efforts exerted by the humanitarian funds to support Palestine and reinforce the Palestinian people’s steadfastness on their land.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

BETHLEHEM: Israeli occupation forces Wednesday erected a checkpoint at the entrance of the western rural countryside of the occupied West Bank governorate of Bethlehem, according to security sources.

They said that the occupation soldiers set up a checkpoint at the entrance of the Aqbet Hasna locality, which leads to the cluster of the villages of Battir, Nahalin, Husan and Wadi Fukin, stopping and inspecting vehicles with Palestinian registration plates and checking passengers’ ID cards and causing traffic congestion.

Since Tuesday night, the occupation forces have tightened the closure of the Bethlehem governorate, closing the western entrance of Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem, and the southern entrance of al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem.

Israel severely restricts Palestinians’ freedom of movement through a complex combination of over 100 fixed checkpoints, flying checkpoints, settler-only roads and various other physical obstructions.

Closures besides other measures, taken under the guise of secu
rity, are intended to entrench Israel’s 57-year-old military occupation of the West Bank and its settler colonial project which it enforces with routine and frequently deadly violence against Palestinians.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

MADRID: Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares Wednesday stated that his country ‘completely rejects’ Israel’s declaration of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as a ‘Persona Non Grata’.

In a statement to La Sexta television, Albares said: ‘UN Secretary-General Guterres is a good friend. He is a friend of Spain and, above all, a friend of peace.’

‘We completely reject these slanders and this ban, and of course, we support the UN Secretary-General,’ he added.

Israel officially declared on Wednesday the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as ‘persona non grata’, banning him from entering Israel, Israeli media reported.

The announcement came with a post on X by Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz. Katz said the ban is due to Guterres’s failure to ‘unequivocally condemn’ Iran’s missile attack on Israel.

‘Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous attack on Israel, as almost every country in the world has done, does not deserve to step foot on Israeli soil,’ Katz wrote.

T
his was not the first time an Israeli official has attacked the UN and its agencies, nor is Katz the only one to do so, since a number of Israeli officials have accused the organization of being biased against Israel.

In his address to the UN General Assembly on September 27, for example, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu labeled the world organization as an ‘antisemitic swamp’ and ‘anti-Israel flat earth society’.

Israeli officials have repeatedly demanded that Guterres resign, especially after the UN Secretary-Genearl declared that the Al-Aqsa Flood operation ‘did not happen in a vacuum’ and that ‘the Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.’

Outgoing Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, has also harshly criticized the UN, stating that its headquarters in New York should be ‘wiped off the face of the earth’ Israeli media reported.

‘The UN building should be closed and wiped off from the face of the earth,’ Erdan told Israeli daily Maariv in an interview
published on August 20, according to the Anadolu news agency.

‘This building, which may look nice from the outside, is actually twisted and distorted,’ said Erdan.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA