By Abdul Adil
(AA, Al Jazeera, Wafa, The Muslim News):
GAZA
A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli snipers in Gaza City on Thursday despite a ceasefire and prisoner swap agreement, a medical source said.
A WAFA correspondent said that the young man, Mohammed Iyad Samir Obaid,23, was killed after being shot by Israeli occupation forces in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City, while trying to check on his house.
Palestinian medics and rescue teams recovered 22 more bodies from the rubble in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll from Israel’s war since October 2023 to 48,319, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
A ministry statement said that 16 injured people were also admitted to hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the number of the injured to 111,749 in the Israeli onslaught.
“Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” the ministry said.
Since then, at least 93 Palestinians have been killed and 822 others injured in Israeli attacks, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The Government Media Office updated its death toll to at least 61,709 people, saying thousands of Palestinians missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
Gaza’s government media office accused the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Thursday of “double standards” regarding the handover of the bodies of Israeli and Palestinian prisoners.
“While the Red Cross holds solemn official ceremonies when receiving the bodies of Israeli hostages, it delivers the bodies of Palestinian martyrs in blue bags tossed into trucks that lack the most basic elements of human dignity,” Ismail Thawabta, who heads the media office, said on X.
“This blatant discrimination reflects double standards and exposes the international community’s failure to achieve justice and fairness!”
There was no immediate comment from the Red Cross on the accusation.
Last September, the ICRC denied any role in the transfer of the remains of dead Palestinians from Israel to Gaza.
WEST BANK
Several Palestinians, including two young brothers, were injured Thursday in Israeli attacks in the central and northern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said an Israeli soldier threw a tear gas canister into a public transport vehicle at the entrance to Turmus Ayya in northeastern Ramallah, causing several passengers to suffer suffocation.
In the northern West Bank, brothers Fares and Omar Mohammed Daraghmeh sustained bruises after Israeli forces physically assaulted them in Khirbet Yerza in eastern Tubas.
Israeli forces raided the tents of Palestinian residents in the area, assaulted the two children, detained all family members and searched their tents, according to the official Palestine TV.
Khirbet Yerza is one of the Palestinian communities facing continuous Israeli restrictions as part of efforts to displace residents from their land.
Residents in the area frequently experience home demolitions, land confiscations and restrictions on farmers and shepherds, making life increasingly difficult.
Earlier Thursday, a Palestinian man and his wife were injured after an Israeli military vehicle rammed their car in Tulkarem in the northern West Bank.
Wafa said the military vehicle was speeding in the opposite direction before violently colliding with the car on Nablus Street near the Tulkarm refugee camp.
The Israeli army on Thursday demolished the house of a Palestinian accused of carrying out a knife attack in the West Bank last year amid military escalation in the occupied territory.
According to witnesses, Israeli forces evacuated the occupants of the 3-story house and detonated the building in Salfit city in the northern West Bank.
The house belonged to Omar Awdah, whom Israel accused of carrying out a stabbing attack last August in which two Israelis were killed and two others injured in the city of Holon near Tel Aviv. Awdah was shot dead by Israeli forces.
A Palestinian youth was injured by live ammunition in the thigh on Thursday evening during an Israeli military raid on the village of Shuqba, located northwest of Ramallah.
Local sources reported that Israeli forces fired live bullets at a 37-year-old man, wounding him in the thigh. The incident occurred as Israeli soldiers stormed the village and forced citizens out of their shops in the village center for searches. Several residents were subjected to harassment during the raid.
According to the same sources, the soldiers also vandalized several vehicles in the village and intensely fired live ammunition, along with toxic gas and tear gas canisters, toward local homes.
A Palestinian child was injured by live ammunition on Thursday evening during an Israeli army raid on the village of Shabtin, west of Ramallah in the central West Bank, according to local sources.
Ibrahim Yaqub, the head of Shabtin village council, confirmed that Israeli forces opened fire directly at a 15-year-old boy without any provocation or confrontations. The child was shot in one of his legs and was immediately transferred to a hospital for medical treatment.
In addition to the shooting, Yaqub reported that Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinian residents in two homes, assaulting them and damaging the properties after raiding the houses.
Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted two Palestinian young siblings in Khirbet Yirza, a small village located east of Tubas in the northern West Bank, on Thursday evening.
Local sources reported that Israeli forces raided the tents of local residents in Khirbet Yirza and assaulted two brothers, Fares and Omar Draghmeh, while they were inside their family’s tent. The soldiers also searched the tent and detained all the family members during the incident.
Israeli occupation forces Thursday evening fired tear gas toward a Palestinian-registered vehicle at the entrance of Turmusayya town, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to eyewitnesses.
They said that the occupation soldiers manning a checkpoint at the entrance of the town fired tear gas canisters toward a public vehicle, causing the passengers to suffer excessive tear gas inhalation.
A Palestinian man and his wife were injured today after an Israeli military vehicle rammed into their vehicle on Nablus Street in the city of Tulkarm.
Local sources reported to WAFA that the military vehicle was driving at high speed and traveling in the wrong direction when it collided forcefully with the couple’s car. The crash resulted in the injury of the couple, who were subsequently transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital, where their condition was described as moderate. The collision caused significant damage to their vehicle.
This incident follows a similar one that occurred earlier this week. On Tuesday, another military vehicle, traveling against the flow of traffic, struck a car driven by a young man on Nablus Street. The driver suffered minor bruises as a result of the crash.
Illegal Israeli settlers razed Palestinians’ lands planted with winter crops in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Media activist Osama Makhamreh said that a group of Israeli settlers plowed the land of citizen Khalil Ishaq al-Jabarin, planted with wheat and barley, in the Shaab al-Batm area, which led to its destruction.
Settlers also released their livestock in large areas of agricultural crops in the Khirbet Sadat al-Tha’la, in Masafer Yatta, owned by the Alian and Awad families, with the aim of destroying and vandalizing them.
Makhamreh pointed out that the settlers’ daily attacks on citizens’ property, crops, pastures and livestock aim to forcibly displace them from their lands for the benefit of settler expansion.
A settler demolished a cow shed and seized a generator, agricultural equipment and digging tools in the Al-Muntar area in Masafer Bani Naim, east of Hebron.
Farid Barqan confirmed to WAFA that a settler from the illegal colony of Bani Hefer, which was built on citizens’ lands by force, demolished, with a bulldozer, a 700-square-meter cow shed.
Meanwhile, the soldiers also seized a generator, electrical tools and digging tools, and razed the street near the shed.
Barqan affirmed that the settlers from the illegal colony of Bani Hefer have intensified their attacks on citizens’ property in Masafer Bani Naim and the neighboring ruins, with the aim of forcibly displacing citizens for the benefit of colonial expansion.
Israeli occupation forces on Thursday demolished a house in the village of Majdal Bani Fadel, south of Nablus.
Head of the Majdal Bani Fadel Village Council Rami Nassar said that the occupation forces stormed the Al-Jubail area west of the village, forced citizen Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Zayed and his family to evacuate the house, before demolishing it.
He affirmed that the occupation forces had notified the demolition of the house, which occupied an area of 160 square meters, months ago, under the pretext of building in areas classified as C.
Israeli occupation forces Thursday blew up a three-story house in the city of Salfit.
The Israeli occupation forces had stormed the city of Salfit with dozens of military vehicles and a truck loaded with explosives since midnight, and surrounded the three-story house of the Rizq Odeh family, and remained there until the early morning hours, and blew it up.
[Photo: Palestinians continue their daily life under difficult conditions at Jabalia Refugee Camp, located in the north of the Gaza Strip, as they struggle to survive among the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli attacks after the ceasefire agreement entered into force in Jabalia, Gaza on February 20, 2025. Photojournalist: Mahmoud Hamda/AA]
