At least 61 Palestinians were killed and 231 others injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes that hit different parts of the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in the besieged enclave.
The airstrikes took place as the Israeli siege in Jabalia refugee camp entered its seventh day. During the siege, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have been blocking food and medicine from accessing the camp. Palestinian journalists have also been targeted and killed amid the siege on Jabalia camp.
On Thursday night, the IOF launched a drone strike on a vehicle and killed two Palestinian men in Jabal Al-Salahin between Thanaba neighbourhood and Nour Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, in the northern occupied West Bank. The slain men were identified as Eyad Mohammed Abdallah and Awad Jameel Saqer. The IOF confiscated the bodies of Eyad and Awad as they raided the targeted area immediately after the aerial attack, according to media reports.
Outside of Nablus city in the town of Beita, IOF heavily repressed the weekly protest against the occupation, firing tear gas that caused several people to suffocate. In early September, Israeli forces killed US-Turkish solidarity activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi who had been accompanying a Friday protest in Beita.
The beginning of the olive harvesting season has once again seen IOF and Israeli settlers launching violent attacks on Palestinian farmers in different parts of the West Bank. Israeli settlers have regularly attacked Palestinians, looted their crops, prevented them from reaching their lands, and cut down olive trees during the season. Such violent attacks have been taking place for years as part of Israel’s policies to uproot Palestinians from their lands and deprive them from a main source of income. Settlers are often escorted by IOF soldiers when they launch these violent attacks, to prevent Palestinians from defending themselves and their agricultural lands.
The IOF reportedly stormed an area in the town of Ramin in Tulkarm governorate, preventing Palestinian farmers from picking their olive trees at gunpoint on Friday. The IOF also declared the area as a military zone, banning the farmers from returning to their lands unless they issue permits. Meanwhile, Israeli settlers cut down dozens of olive trees in the village of Jabaa, in Jenin governorate in the northern West Bank on Friday, according to Palestine News and Information Agency WAFA.
