Israel Kills 8 Palestinians Sheltering in North Gaza School
An Israeli strike on a school in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip has killed at least eight displaced Palestinians who were sheltering in tents.
Eight people have been Martyred and 15 injured in an attack that targeted tents where displaced Palestinians were sleeping at the Halimah al-Saadiyah School in Jabalia, following a day in which 41 Palestinians were killed across the enclave.
The latest Israeli attacks come as UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that more than 1 million people in central and southern Gaza did not receive any food rations in August. Dijarric described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as “beyond catastrophic”.
Gaza’s health ministry on Thursday said 40,878 people had been killed in Gaza since October and 94,454 wounded.
A US citizen was also shot in the head and killed by Israeli forces in Nablus during an activist effort to protect Palestinian farmers, witnesses said.
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Our agency reports that at least eight people have been killed and 15 injured in an Israeli attack that targeted tents where displaced Palestinians were sleeping at the Halimah al-Saadiyah School.
Two young men were detained by Israeli forces near the entrance of the Fawwar refugee camp, located south of Hebron, according to our reporters.
The men, whose identities have not been disclosed, were in a vehicle stopped by Israeli forces stationed on a road leading to the camp, the report said.
The United Nations human rights office said Israeli forces shot and killed an American-Turkish activist on Friday during a West Bank protest at which the army has acknowledged opening fire.
“On 6 September ISF shot in the head and killed a 26-year-old American activist in Beita, Nablus, while she was participating in a peaceful anti-settlement protest,” the office for the Palestinian territories said in a statement, referring to the Israeli security forces.
The Israeli army said it was “looking into reports that a foreign national was killed as a result of shots fired”.
Lebanon’s health ministry reports that one person was injured after Israeli forces fired artillery shells on the southern town of Kfar Kila.
According to the state news agency NNA, the injured individual was transported to Marjayoun Governmental Hospital.
Another person was also taken to the same hospital after inhaling “phosphorous” from shells fired by Israeli forces on Burj al-Muluk, a town in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh region.
This report comes as the Israeli military announced it had targeted “more than 15 launchers and military infrastructures” allegedly linked to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
A shocking new case of sexual abuse by Israeli prison guards is being investigated by police, the latest in a series of accusations of torture and ill-treatment against Palestinian detainees at the hands of Israeli authorities.
A Palestinian man held in Israel’s Ketziot prison has been subjected to repeated violence and torture by Israeli guards while in custody, the detainee’s lawyer said.
The man, who is only being identified as ‘S’, is from the occupied West Bank town of Qalqilya and was first sentenced in 2004 for allegedly belonging to the military wing of Hamas.
Lawyer Weaam Baloum said that S had been “repeatedly tortured and humiliated” since the outbreak of the Gaza war last October.
Israeli troops launched an operation in Burin, accompanied by heavy gunfire, detaining at least one Palestinian, according to our agency.
This raid follows the end of a large-scale, 10-day incursion by Israeli forces into Jenin and Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank, which resulted in deaths, injuries, widespread destruction, and power outages.
Local sources reported that several individuals experienced tear gas inhalation during clashes.
