Category: General

Hezbollah on Thursday said that it will help residents repair their homes in the southern towns that witnessed Israeli shelling in recent days.

‘The brutal Israeli aggression against south Lebanon over the past days led to the damage of a number of homes, shops, cars and other properties, especially in the towns of al-Dhayra, Marwahin and Yarin,’ Hezbollah said in a statement.

Hezbollah has ‘dispatched specialist engineers to inspect the damages so that compensations be paid to the owners, in the first step toward launching the reconstruction process,’ the statement added.

‘This first step was welcomed by the residents, who stressed their support for the resistance and its fighters in defending them and confronting any Israeli aggression against Lebanon, thanking the resistance’s leadership that has stood and is still standing by them in the various situations and circumstances,’ the statement said

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon

Following the deadly and destructive Israeli aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, which started on Saturday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said today that it is urgently seeking $104 million to enable its multi-sectoral humanitarian response over the coming 90 days.

The requested funds will cover the urgent immediate food, non-food, health, shelter and protection needs of up to 250,000 persons seeking safety in UNRWA shelters across the ravaged Gaza Strip and another 250,000 Palestine refugees within the community, it said in a statement.

Consideration will be given to the needs of vulnerable groups, including women, children, persons with disabilities and the elderly.

‘What is unfolding is already an unprecedented humanitarian tragedy. Whatever the circumstances are, rules apply in times of conflict and this one is no exception. Aid to civilians who have nowhere to flee must be immediate: water, food, medicine,’ said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazz
arini. ‘It is of utmost urgency that access to humanitarian assistance and protection be upheld for all civilians,” he added.

UNRWA still faces a debilitating financial crisis, with current funding only sufficient to continue its regular services throughout the region until the end of October. These include education, health care and social protection. This Flash Appeal can only be implemented if UNRWA also receives the necessary funding for its core Program Budget, foundational for the Agency’s services in the Gaza Strip and other fields.

‘To keep our life-saving work in Gaza and throughout the region ongoing and to remain a lifeline for millions of Palestine refugees across the region, I appeal to UNRWA’s donors and partners to scale up their financial support,” said Commissioner-General Lazzarini.

UNRWA, said the press release, supports calls to reach an immediate ceasefire and a halt to the violence everywhere.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA

A Palestinian youth was injured by live Israeli ammunition tonight during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Sinjil, to the north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

The Palestinian young man reportedly sustained an injury in the hand from the live ammunition fired by Israeli occupation soldiers, and was subsequently rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.

Meantime, Israeli settlers, protected by the Israeli military, launched an attack on the homes of Palestinian residents in the village of Nabi Saleh, located northwest of Ramallah.

Local sources noted that the villagers were able to fend off the settlers’ attack, forcing them to withdraw from the village.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA

Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes tonight targeting civilian houses in Gaza City, Khan Yunis and Rafah, resulting in the tragic loss of life of dozens of civilians, including children, and numerous injuries.

WAFA correspondent on the ground said six civilians lost their lives as Israeli aircraft bombed houses near the University College in the Tel Al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City.

Five additional Palestinian individuals were also killed in an airstrike on a house belonging to the Al-Masri family in Rafah, located in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Furthermore, Israeli airstrikes pounded a residential apartment in the Al-Sinwar building in Khan Yunis, resulting in deaths and injuries among the civilian Palestinian population.

The immediate aftermath of these Israeli airstrikes is marked by a sense of shock and grief, with families mourning the loss of loved ones and injured individuals.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA

Colonial Israeli settlers launched a terrorist attack this evening on the village of Tuwana, located south of Hebron, assaulting local residents under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, according to local sources.

The sources reported that Israeli occupation forces, who deployed to protect the armed settlers, invaded the village, fired live rounds near Palestinian homes and stormed the home of a Palestinian citizen, Hafiz Al-Harini, physically assaulting and injuring him.

The settlers also vandalized numerous fruitful grapevines and raised the Israeli flag on Palestinian lands, further escalating tensions in the area. They also destroyed a fence at the entrance to nearby Khirbet Al-Dababsa village.

The local Palestinian community continues to face harassment and violence from Israeli settlers, resulting in significant disruptions and damages to their livelihoods.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA