This year has been a noticeably bloody one for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, the last of which bore the brunt of casualties, a report posted by The World Bulletin news website revealed.
This year has been a noticeably bloody one for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, the last of which bore the brunt of casualties, a report posted by The World Bulletin news website revealed.
A Zionist army onslaught on the blockaded Gaza Strip this summer left over 2,160 Palestinians, mostly civilians, dead, according to official Palestinian figures.
The number of Palestinian fatalities from the Zionist summer offensive surpassed the combined death toll from two previous Zionist wars against Gaza, including the 21-day "Operation Cast Lead" in 2008/09 in which at least 1,500 Palestinians were killed.
The latest Zionist offensive – which was brought to an end by an August 26 ceasefire deal between the Zionist entity and Palestinian factions – also left over 11,000 Palestinians injured in the embattled coastal enclave.
The year was also full of high tension in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
Prior to the Gaza war, three Zionist settlers had been kidnapped and murdered, allegedly by Palestinian gunmen, in East Jerusalem.
Following this incident, a Palestinian teenager was kidnapped and burned to death by Israeli settlers in the city.
The tension was further aggravated after Zionist authorities unprecedentedly closed off the Al-Aqsa Mosque Complex in East Jerusalem in late October.
The closure followed the injury of an extremist rabbi in a shooting by a Palestinian assailant.
Throughout the year, 68 Palestinians, including a senior official, were killed in Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied West Bank.
The fatalities had mostly occurred during clashes with Zionist troops as part of anti-occupation protests or during Zionist raids and attacks by Israeli settlers.
On January 29, 22-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Mubarak was shot and killed by occupation troops as he worked at a construction site.
Zionist media claimed at the time that the man was killed during a battle with Zionist troops.
On December 10, Ziad Abu Ein, a senior Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official, died after being exposed to intense teargas during a rally in protest against new Zionist settlements in the West Bank.
Daily arrests
Over 6,000 Palestinians were detained by the occupation army and police throughout 2014, according to the PLO.
In 2014, Zionist detentions of Palestinians rose by 56 percent compared to last year, Abdel-Nasser Farawna, the head of the PLO's Detainees Affairs Department, said.
He added that there had been a significant rise of Zionist detentions of Palestinian children throughout the year as well.
On average, the occupation entity detained 17 Palestinians in the occupied territories every day, according to Farawna.
He noted that all Palestinian detainees were subject to different forms of physical and psychological abuse by their Zionist jailers.
The detention of West Bank residents has become a common practice for the occupation army and police.
Most of these detentions are made under the pretext that detained Palestinians are wanted by occupation authorities.
