ISRAELI OCCUPATION KILLED 49 PEOPLE IN THREE DAYS IN THE BESIEGED GAZA STRIP

On the first day of Israeli occupation attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, on Friday August 5th, Israel's occupation forces killed 10 people and wounded at least 79.

Among the victims were 3 civilians, one of them a child, and 7 members of the Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades.

Israeli occupation forces started with killing Islamic Jihad commander Tayseer Mahmoud Muhammad Al-Jabari(52), a member of the Military Council of Al-Quds Brigades, and another member Salama Muharib Abdullah Abed(38) in an  air-strike on the 14-story tall Palestine tower in the al-Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza City. 

On the second day of Israeli occupation attacks, on Saturday August 6th, 19 people were killed, among them 8 children, and the number of wounded rose to 236. The number of non-civilians killed included several members of the Al-Quds Brigades.

The third day, Sunday August 7th, brought 14 more deaths, including at least 7 children, and the number of the wounded rose to 358. Among the dead was one member of Hamas' armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, Mujahid Ahmad Muhammad Afaneh.

Following days have brought the death of several wounded people, including children, bringing the death toll 49, of whom 17 are children and 4 women. According to one count, 36 of the killed were civilians. The 13 possibly include only member of Islamic Jihad and doesn't include the aforementioned al-Qassam Brigades member, as Hamas was not involved in the fighting, and a traffic police Mahmoud Ahmad Dweik(20 or 21).

As in previous Israeli occupation attacks against the Gaza Strip in 2008-09, 2012, 2014 and 2021, families have suffered immense losses of life: On Sunday two Israeli occupation attacks, in the Fallulah cemetery and the al-Bureij refugee camp, killed 5 children (including 4 cousins from a single extended family, the Najms) in the former case, and a father and his 3 children in the latter.

Israeli occupation claimed that that the incident at Fallulah cemetery and another fatal explosion which killed several people, including 4 children, at the Jabalia refugee camp the day earlier, would have been caused by rockets fired by the Islamic Jihad, but eventually admitted it had carried out the attack on the cemetery. The responsibility for the explosion at the Jabalia refugee camp is still open.

Israeli regime claims that the three days of attacks were 'preventive', and that Islamic Jihad would have been planning attacks on the occupation in retribution of the kidnapping of its local leader in the Jenin refugee camp on the West Bank.

According to both Palestinian and Israeli sources, though, Islamic Jihad and Israel were in talks via Egypt to calm the situation, which led to Islamic Jihad not expecting the attacks to take place.

SOURCES: Al-Jazeera, IMEMC, Middle East Eye, Palinfo Center, WAFA News Agency.

ELDERLY MAN SHOT IN HEAD, KILLED BY ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES

Salah Tawfiq Sawafta, aged 58 or 60 according to different reports, was shot in head by Israel's occupation forces when he was walking home from a mosque after dawn prayers in the city of Tubas, in the northeastern part of Palestine's Israeli occupied West Bank.

A video allegedly shows his last moment before being shot: He is walking on a street beside a building - perhaps housing a cafe based on how it appears - while it's still dark, and he appears to be making for an entrance to the establishment as sound of shots are ringing. The video cuts out as he seems to crouch or crumble.

Sawafta was given first aid by Palestinian medics on the scene, and taken to a Palestinian hospital where he underwent surgery, but he succumbed to his injuries.

A young man was also shot by Israeli occupation soldiers and wounded in thigh.

The shooting took place during Israeli occupation forces' invasion, during which Israeli occupation troops used both live and rubber-coated steel bullets, concussion grenades and tear-gas grenades. One person was arrested by Israeli occupation from Tubas and four from the town of Tammun, just south of Tubas.

Sawafta's daughter was going to get married on August 26th.

SOURCES:

Palestinian elderly dies of IOF gunshot injuries

Palestinian succumbs to Israeli gunshot wounds in Tubas

Update: Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Man, Injure Another And Abduct Five, In Tubas

MINOR KILLED IN AN ATTACK BY ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLERS AND ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES

15- or 16-year-old Amjad Abu Alia was fatally shot on Friday July 29th during a joint attack by illegal Israeli settlers and Israel's occupation forces.

The shooting took place during a demonstration against occupier Israel's illegal colony building at the entrance to the village of al-Mughayer, a regular target of fatal illegal Israeli settler attacks, on Palestine's occupied West Bank.

Illegal Israeli settlers, of whom five were reportedly armed with firearms - several of these armed settlers were captured on photographs and videos - and Israel's occupation forces attacked the weekly Friday demonstration consisting of 300-400 people. Other illegal settlers at present were throwing stones and scuffling with the locals.

Early reports said that Israel's occupation forces would have shot the fatal bullet, but according to head of the local village council, Abu Alia was shot by an illegal Israeli settler. The bullet hit him in the back and he died of his wounds in a hospital at Ramallah.

His funeral took place on Saturday.

Two to four other people were wounded by illegal Israeli settlers and occupation troops according to different reports, none of their injuries being severe.

SOURCES:

IOF shoot, kill Palestinian youth in Ramallah

Israeli forces gun down Palestinian teen in Ramallah-district village

Palestinian child killed by Israeli settler gunfire during protest near Ramallah

Updated: “Palestinian Teen Killed By Israeli Fire Near Ramallah”

ELDERLY MAN SHOT AT HAWARA DIES OF HIS WOUNDS

Hussein Hasan Qawariq, aged 59 or 60, was shot by Israel's occupation forces at the Hawara (also transliterated as Huwwara) checkpoint near the city of Nablus on Palestine's occupied West Bank on Tuesday July 26th.

He died of his wounds on Friday July 29th in an Israeli hospital in Tel Aviv.

According to both his family and the mayor of Hawara Qawariq, from the village of Awarta, was mentally disturbed and according to the mayor spent part of his time collecting empty cans for money and asked for money from local businesses for his sustenance.

Israeli occupation at first made the standard claim that he would have had a knife and that he was shot for not stopping when commanded to do so, but later referenced only the latter claim. He was apparently unarmed.

UPDATE: Qawariq was unarmed and had suffered from mental illness, and received care, since young adulthood, as Haaretz reports:

“He would wander around the village, ask people for cigarettes. He has been in treatment for 40 years already. He didn’t know where he was, didn’t know what a checkpoint was and didn’t really understand anything.”

SOURCES:

'Mentally disabled' Palestinian shot by Israel army dies four days later

Palestinian man dies of wounds sustained by Israeli gunfire days ago

Shot By Israeli Soldiers Last Tuesday, Palestinian Man Dies From Serious Wounds