Day: March 2, 2024

RAMALLAH: A 16-year-old Palestinian child injured earlier this morning by Israeli army gunfire following a military incursion into the village of Kafr Ni’ma, west of Ramallah, has died of his wounds, according to the Ministry of Health.

It said Muhammad Murad Al-Deek succumbed to his head wounds sustained by the occupation soldiers when they raided the village at dawn today.

The Palestinian Red Crescent society (PRCS) said that its crews dealt with a critical injury with live bullets to the head, and that an attempt was made to revive the injured person’s heart and lungs.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: At least 17 civilians were killed and dozens were injured today in Israeli airstrikes that targeted three houses over the heads of their residents in Deir al-Balah and Jabalia in the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that the occupation warplanes targeted two unidentified houses east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of 15 people and causing multiple causalities.

Ambulance and civil defense crews are still searching the rubble of the two targeted houses.

In the Jabalia camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli fighter jets struck a house, resulting in the killing of two persons. The targeted house sheltered 70 displaced people as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression..

The full-fledged Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip enters today its 148th day, with the death toll surpassing 30,228 and more than 71,377 injured, according to the latest statistics.

Hundreds of people killed in the ongoing Israeli artillery shelling are still trapped under the rubble or
on the roads, as the occupation continues to obstruct the access of ambulance and rescue crews, according to medical sources.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: At least 17 civilians were killed and dozens were injured today in Israeli airstrikes that targeted three houses over the heads of their residents in Deir al-Balah and Jabalia in the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that the occupation warplanes targeted two unidentified houses east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of 15 people and causing multiple causalities.

Ambulance and civil defense crews are still searching the rubble of the two targeted houses.

In the Jabalia camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli fighter jets struck a house, resulting in the killing of two persons. The targeted house sheltered 70 displaced people as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression..

The full-fledged Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip enters today its 148th day, with the death toll surpassing 30,228 and more than 71,377 injured, according to the latest statistics.

Hundreds of people killed in the ongoing Israeli artillery shelling are still trapped under the rubble or
on the roads, as the occupation continues to obstruct the access of ambulance and rescue crews, according to medical sources.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

Amman: Minister of Government Communications Muhanad Mubaideen said the US participation in the Jordanian airdrops in Gaza indicates the “dismantling” of the international support for Israel.

Mubaideen said Saturday that the US participation in the airdrops for aid over Gaza “is a continuation of the Jordanian humanitarian effort that His Majesty King Abdullah II emphasised last Thursday in Ma’an.”

He told the Al Mamlaka news channel over the telephone that today’s airdrop took in northern Gaza, which is the area most exposed to the Israeli-imposed siege, starvation and “systematic destruction.”

He said the airdrops of humanitarian aid in the northern parts of the embattled enclave follow King Abdullah’s efforts and engagement with the White House, UN, Canada and the EU, adding, “This is one of the most important global, Western and Arab responses to the King’s call that there is a possible effort during the Israeli-imposed siege.”

Mubaideen explained that the American airdrop operations indicate that the
US administration believes that the Israelis complicate the process of delivering aid.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Gaza: The death toll from Israel’s “massacre” against Palestinian civilians awaiting relief in the starving northern parts of Gaza reached at least 118.

The spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza Ashraf Qudra told journalists Saturday that the death toll from the Al Rashid Street massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces on Thursday morning had risen to 118 martyrs and 760 injuries.

Qudra added that there are still dozens of injured people in critical condition, which could raise the number of dead people due to the lack of medical capabilities to save their lives.

Source: Jordan News Agency

RAMALLAH: A 13-year-old Palestinian boy, Mohammad Khaled Zaid, succumbed to his injuries tonight after being shot by Israeli occupation forces near the Jalazon refugee camp, located north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to medical sources.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that their teams dealt with the boy after he had been severely wounded in the chest by a gunshot in the vicinity of the Jalazon refugee camp. Efforts were made to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the injured boy before he was transported to Ramallah Public Hospital.

Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces fired at the boy while he was near the Israeli segregation wall adjacent to the Beit El colonial settlement. He was left bleeding for about an hour before the incident was reported by the occupation army, and he was handed over to Palestinian ambulance services.

Zaid was taken to Ramallah Public Hospital in critical condition, where doctors later pronounced his death.

Source: Pale
stine News and Information Agency – WAFA

Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday that Moscow is “concerned” over Israel’s intention to attack the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

He said Russia is “concerned” about Israeli plans to carry out a military operation in Rafah, where two-thirds of the Gazans are seeking shelter from violence.

He added, “If the operation of Rafah begins, a huge number of refugees will leave for Egypt, and the Egyptians have repeatedly stated that this is unacceptable. This will be ethnic cleansing in fact.”

Source: Jordan News Agency

GAZA: For the second time in less than 48 hours, Israeli occupation forces opened machine gunfire this evening targeting hundreds of civilians waiting for desperately needed humanitarian aid southwest of Gaza City, resulting in multiple civilian casualties.

Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces opened fire on a crowd of civilians waiting for the potential arrival of aid trucks near the Al-Nablusi roundabout at the Al-Rashid Street southwest of Gaza City, resulting in at least one fatality and the injury of 26 others.

On Thursday morning, Israeli occupation forces and tanks opened fire on thousands of civilians at the same location as they were waiting the arrival of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid. The bloody assault resulted in the killing of 117 civilians and the injury of hundreds. The massacre sparked angry international reactions.

The developments come as Israeli occupation authorities continue to block the arrival of badly needed humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, especially the nor
thern region, where a real famine has been taking a heavy toll on the local population, with no food, no water, no electricity, and nothing of the basics of life.

The aid reaching the southern areas of the Strip is times below the minimum requirements of the population there, particularly in Rafah, where more than 1.3 million Palestinians, the majority of whom are displaced people, are overcrowded.

Humanitarian workers at the United Nations warned during a session of the UN Security Council last Tuesday that more than half a million residents of the Gaza Strip are “one step away from famine.”

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) also warned that the alarming shortage of food, increasing malnutrition, and diseases could lead to an “explosion” in child deaths in Gaza.

One out of every six children under the age of two in Gaza suffers from acute malnutrition, according to estimates by UNICEF published on February 19.

The toll of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7th has risen to
30,320 fatalities, 71,533 injured, in addition to thousands missing under the rubble, according to the latest figures of the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

Amman: The Jordanian Armed Forces carried out two airdrops with two Royal Air Force planes for food aid in northern Gaza and the US dropped three airdrops over southern Gaza amid ongoing Israeli war on the enclave.

Jordan has been dropping medical, food and relief aid in the Israeli army-imposed siege on the Gaza Strip amid an Israeli stifling blockade since October 7. So far Jordan had carried out 25 airdrops since the start of the Israeli war.

The Jordanian Armed Forces said they “will send aid via an air bridge to deliver humanitarian and medical aid, whether through aid planes from Marka Airport towards Al-Arish International Airport or through airdrops over the Gaza Strip.”

Source: Jordan News Agency

SALFIT: Israeli colonists launched an attack this evening targeting Palestinian farmers in the town of Kafr El-Deek in the occupied West Bank province of Salfit, according to local sources.

The sources reported that the colonists pelted the farmers with stones as they attempted to fend off the assault and prevent the assailants from demolishing an agricultural room in the vicinity of the town.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

Amman: The Jordanian Media Credibility Monitor (Akeed) said Saturday it recorded 48 rumors in the month of February, which were propagated through media and social platforms.

It said in its monthly report that 17 of the rumors were denied, with an increase of four denied in January.

It said political rumors topped the list, with 19 rumors, 40 percent, 18 of which were related to the Israeli occupation and Gaza and Jordan’s position towards these, and 3 were denied by authorities.

Coming second were security rumors, which numbered 11, 23 percent, then economic rumors, 8, 17 percent, public affairs, 5 rumors, 10 percent, social affairs, 4 rumors, 8 percent, and finally health, recording one rumor, 2 percent.

Source: Jordan News Agency

GAZA: At least 11 civilians were killed and others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a tent for displaced people near the Emirati Hospital, west of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.

Eyewitnesses reported that 11 people, including paramedic Abdel Fattah Abu Marhi, were killed due to an artillery shelling on a tent for displaced people.

Israeli occupation forces committed a total of 10 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, resulting in the tragic killing of 92 Palestinians and leaving 156 others wounded, according to medical reports.

Local health authorities confirmed that the death toll from the Israeli bloodbath since October 7 has risen to 30,320 reported Palestinian fatalities, with an additional 71,533 individuals sustaining injuries.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA

Amman: Lower House Speaker Ahmad Safadi said Saturday that the legislature has passed a political modernization package that paved the way for wider participation and representation by women and youth.

In opening remarks at a conference on Jordanian women in the national modernization scheme, Safadi said women’s empowerment has been a key focus of His Majesty the King, noting the introduction of the women’s quota system and women holding key leading positions in the Jordanian state.

The legislative package, he pointed out, made women’s presence in party lists mandatory, which raised their representation in Parliament, in addition to the quota seats, which should enhance their opportunities in the economic and administrative sectors.

For her part, Assistant Arab league Secretary-General Haifa Abu Ghazaleh said a strong women’s political and economic participation is a pivotal goal in the Arab region.

The Arab League, she said, has sought to adopt strategies to enhance women’s role in the political track, a
dding that the organization adopted the “Arab Women’s Development Agenda (2023-2028) at summit level.

Source: Jordan News Agency