Israel Israel Has Bombed Gaza Into 42 Million Tons of Rubble – Day 327

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More than 88 per cent of Gaza’s territory has come under an order to evacuate at some point. Communities live in a state of limbo, never knowing when the next order to flee will come. And civilians are being forced into an ever-smaller area, now equivalent to just 11 per cent of the territory of Gaza, according to UNRWA (photo)

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff

Israeli strike in Gaza kills nine members of the same family

Al Jazeera, AP report:

An Israeli strike on a residential building in central Gaza has killed nine members of the same family, as Israel’s punishing assault on the Strip continues to decimate families.

“These are Israel’s goals!” Osama al-Taweel told reporters next to a hospital morgue, where five dead babies wrapped in bloodied shrouds were among the victims.

The Associated Press reported that medics at the al-Awda Hospital said that a pregnant woman was also killed in the strike, along with her unborn child.

Medics at al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza said Thursday nine Palestinians from the same family — including two women and five young children — were killed in an Israeli strike on an apartment building in the Nuseirat refugee camp. Israel did not immediately offer comment on the intended target of its attack.

Lifeless bodies of Palestinians, who lost their lives in Israeli attack on a coast, are brought to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital for burial in Gaza City, Gaza on August 26, 2024 [Dawoud Abo Alkas – Anadolu Agency] (photo)

Israel agrees to ‘pauses’ in Gaza assault to allow polio vaccination campaign

Middle East Eye reports:

Israel has agreed to “pauses” in its assault on the Gaza Strip in order to allow for a polio vaccination campaign in the enclave.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that they had managed to secure an agreement from Israel to allow a vaccination rollout to cover central, southern, and northern Gaza.

“The campaign will start on the first of September, in central Gaza, for three days, and there will be a humanitarian pause during the vaccination,” said Rik Peeperkorn, the agency’s representative for Palestinian territories.

The UN launched the campaign to vaccinate around 640,000 children under the age of 10 in Gaza against polio, after a 10-month-old baby was paralyzed by the type 2 poliovirus in the first confirmed case of polio in the enclave for 25 years.

Aid workers had warned that without humanitarian pauses, the campaign would fail to reach enough children to stop the spread of the virus.

“We stress the critical importance for all parties to adhere to the commitments that have been made,” Michael Ryan, WHO deputy director-general, told the UN Security Council. “At least 90 percent of coverage is needed during each round of the campaign in order to stop the outbreak and prevent the international spread of polio.”

He added that 1.26 million doses of the NoPV2 vaccine had been delivered in Gaza, while another 400,000 were still to arrive.

According to Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the humanitarian pause agreed upon with the Israeli army’s humanitarian unit (COGAT) includes a three-day pause in the central zone of Gaza, followed by a three-day pause in the southern zone, and then another three-day pause in the northern zone.

“The campaign will be extended by one day per zone, or even more when necessary,” he added.

The vaccination campaign is to be carried out in collaboration with Palestinian Ministry of Health, UNICEF and UNRWA, according to Peeperkorn.

According to WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris, before the start of the recent conflict, Gaza boasted one of the highest child immunization rates globally, with more than 95% of children vaccinated against polio.

Israeli military launches fatal airstrike on humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza

The Guardian reports:

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have said they carried out an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza aimed at “armed assailants” trying to hijack it, but the charity that organized the aid said people killed in the strike were employees of the transport company it was working with.

The convoy, organized by the US-based NGO Anera, was carrying medical supplies and fuel to a hospital in Rafah on Thursday evening at the time of the attack. Its route had been coordinated in advance with the IDF, under a deconfliction process intended to prevent aid vehicles being bombed.

Anera’s Palestine country director, Sandra Rasheed, said: “This is a shocking incident…Tragically, several individuals, all employed by the transportation company we work with, were killed in the attack.” Unconfirmed reports from Gaza said five people were killed in the airstrike.

An IDF statement confirmed the route had been coordinated, but claimed that “during the convoy’s movement, a number of armed assailants seized control of the vehicle in the front of the convoy (a Jeep) and began to lead it.”

“After the takeover and further verification that a precise strike on the armed assailants’ vehicle can be carried out, a strike was conducted. No damage was caused to the other vehicles in the convoy and it reached its destination as planned.”

The airstrike on the convoy came days after Israeli soldiers opened fire on a World Food Programme (WFP) vehicle clearly marked with UN insignia, traveling in a convoy of two.

Humanitarian groups providing desperately needed aid in Gaza have repeatedly come under attack during the war, raising concerns about the system used to coordinate routes and the IDF’s approach to the conflict. According to the United Nations, more than 280 humanitarian workers have been killed since the war in Gaza began in October.

American Near East Refugee Aid staff deliver water to displaced people in Gaza. All five of those killed worked for a transportation company that was providing logistics and security for Anera © Anera (photo)

Israel says shots fired at World Food Program vehicle were ‘communication error’

Middle East Eye reports:

Israel told the US that an initial review found that shots were fired at a clearly marked World Food Program (WFP) vehicle in the Gaza Strip Tuesday after a “communication error” between Israeli military units, deputy US envoy to the UN Robert Wood said on Thursday.

“We have urged them to immediately rectify the issues within their system,” Wood told a UN Security Council meeting on Gaza.

“Israel must not only take ownership for its mistakes, but also take concrete actions to ensure the IDF does not fire on UN personnel again,” he added.

World Food Programme says it is the first time that one of its vehicles has been directly shot at near a checkpoint despite having security clearance. (screengrab)

Israeli army sets up new position to control Gaza ‘for years to come’

The Cradle reports:

The Israeli army is planning to establish a new position within its ranks aimed at overseeing long-term control over the Gaza Strip, Hebrew news site Ynet reported on 29 August.

The decision comes “in the absence of clear strategic goals for the future of the Gaza Strip,” the Hebrew outlet wrote.

“The Israeli army began yesterday through this appointment [of Israeli officer Elad Goren] to accept the fact that its responsibility for the Strip will continue for years and will expand, and about two million Palestinians will remain under its responsibility,” the report added.

“This new position is not for show … It will have an important role for years to come … Anyone who believes that Israeli control and intervention in the Gaza Strip will end soon, whether by stopping or not stopping the fighting and its decline, or even with or without a deal, is mistaken,” a senior security official told the outlet.

Goren’s work will reportedly include managing humanitarian aid deliveries, repairing destroyed infrastructure and civilian facilities, overseeing the polio vaccination campaign, and leading long-term civilian evacuation in order to “maintain international legitimacy” to continue fighting in Gaza “without witnessing a humanitarian crisis or famine.”

Israeli forces make their way between destroyed buildings and infrastructure in Gaza. (Photo credit: Israeli army) (photo)

Israel Has Bombed Gaza Into 42 Million Tons of Rubble

Eunomia provides some numbers from Gaza:

The US has sent 500 transport planes and 107 ships to Israel, delivering more than 50,000 tons of armaments and military equipment since last October.

Israeli airstrikes have created more than 42 million tonnes of debris – enough rubble to fill a line of dump trucks stretching from New York to Singapore.

Removing it all may take years and cost as much as $700 million. (The task will be complicated by unexploded bombs, dangerous contaminants and human remains under the rubble.)

(Read the full article here.)

“We are seeing mounting evidence that the Israeli authorities may be committing the war crime of forced displacement by turning neighborhoods into rubble and destroying or damaging the majority of homes and basic infrastructure in Gaza, making large parts of the Strip unliveable for years to come" ~ Nadia Hardman, the Refugee and Migrant Rights Researcher at Human Rights Watch — “We are seeing mounting evidence that the Israeli authorities may be committing the war crime of forced displacement by turning neighborhoods into rubble and destroying or damaging the majority of homes and basic infrastructure in Gaza, making large parts of the Strip unliveable for years to come” ~ Nadia Hardman, the Refugee and Migrant Rights Researcher at Human Rights Watch (photo)

Israeli Bedouin freed from Gaza returns to a village where 70% of homes are targeted for demolition

The Associated Press reports:

The Israeli Bedouin hostage rescued from Gaza returned to a hero’s welcome tinged with a bitter reality: Much of the small village he calls home, Khirbet Karkur, is targeted for demolition.

Qaid Farhad Alkadi, 52, is one of Israel’s roughly 300,000 Bedouin Arabs, a poor and traditionally nomadic minority that has a complicated relationship with the government and often faces discrimination.

While they are Israeli citizens and some serve in the army, about a third of Bedouins, including Alkadi, live in villages the government considers illegal and wants to tear down.

Since November, about 70% of Khirbet Karkur residents have been told the government plans to raze their homes because they were built without permits in a “protected forest” not zoned for housing, according to a lawyer representing them.

Alkadi’s family hasn’t received a notice, but the looming mass displacement of this close-knit community has cast a pall on what has otherwise been a joyous 24 hours.

Alkadi was one of eight Bedouins abducted on Oct. 7, and three are believed to still be alive in captivity; two teenagers were released, one was accidentally killed by the Israeli army, and one declared dead is still in Gaza.

Palestinian Christian family sets up tent outside home seized by Israel

Al Jazeera reports:

The family has pitched a tent outside of their home, which was taken by a group of Israeli settlers backed by armed forces on July 31.

The message the Kisiyas are trying to send: They won’t give up.

The family are Palestinian Christians and even have Israeli citizenship, but that did not stop the illegal seizure of their land in the occupied West Bank.

“They thought we would get tired. It didn’t even cross their mind that we’d set up this tent. They thought that they’d keep doing what they’d been doing for 20 years,” Alice Kisiya told Al Jazeera.

“We didn’t get tired, because we’d rather stay in a tent on our land rather than abandon it and leave it to the settlers.”

NOTE: More information on Israel’s treatment of Christians is here.

Israel’s massive invasion of West Bank escalates, besieges medical facilities

Various outlets report:

Israel’s incursion into the West Bank, which began early on Wednesday, involved hundreds of ground soldiers supported by fighter aircraft, drones and bulldozers, targeting three areas simultaneously – Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas – in the largest assault in two decades.

Israel’s military described many of those killed as “armed terrorists who posed a threat to security forces”.

In a post on Telegram, it also claimed to have arrested more “wanted suspects” in Jenin and Tulkarem, while confiscating explosives “planted under roads” in the Far’a camp.

On Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has confirmed that Mohammad Bassam Orabi, 32, was killed by Israeli army fire.

Mohammad’s death brings the number of slain Palestinians since Israel declared its massive military offensive in the northern West Bank, three days ago, to at least 18, in addition to more than 30 injured Palestinians.

Israeli forces assassinated three Palestinian young men, on Thursday, and abducted an injured young man, in the Tulkarem refugee camp, in the city of Tulkarem, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said that Israeli forces killed the young man, Majd Majed Rajeh Daoud, 22, and confiscated his body.

Sources added that Israeli forces killed the young man, Mohammad Samer Jaber (Abu Shuja’), 25, in addition to an unidentified young man, during the exchange of fire between the army and the resistance fighters.

Israeli occupation forces launched a renewed assault Thursday evening on the city of Tulkarm and the Tulkarm refugee camp, coinciding with their ongoing offensive in the adjacent Nour Shams refugee camp for the second consecutive day.

WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli forces have deployed additional heavy machinery and bulldozers to the Tulkarm refugee camp, imposing a strict cordon around the area. The forces have been firing live ammunition at anyone in motion and maintaining a heavy presence of low-flying reconnaissance drones.

Additionally, an Israeli military blockade has been reimposed on the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and Al-Israa Specialized Hospital in the city, restricting both entry and exit of patients and wounded into and out of the two medical facilities.

The Israeli army blew up a house in Al-Manshiya neighborhood, inside Nur Shams camp, causing a fire which spread to nearby houses.

Ayman Kanouh, the owner of the house, told MEE that Israeli soldiers were preventing fire crews from reaching the neighborhood to extinguish the blaze. The Israeli army also fired sound bombs at anyone trying to approach the burning house.

The affected homes were “inhabited by the elderly and sick”, but Israeli troops were “still preventing us from going there,” Kanouh added.

Five Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire inside a mosque in Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Thursday, the military said.

Military spokesman Avichay Adraee claimed that the five men “had hid inside the mosque” in the camp.

The spokesman said Islamic Jihad commander Muhammad Jaber, known as Abu Shujaa, was among the five, who he accused of carrying out attacks against illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian rights groups including Al-Haq, Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights and The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights called on the international community to immediately intervene and enact measures against Israel to ensure international laws are being abided by.

“Our organizations warn of even more escalated violence in the West Bank, with the employment of tactics that mirror those used in Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, particularly attacks on hospitals and healthcare facilities, and the use of excessive and indiscriminate force,” a statement from the rights groups read.

The UN humanitarian office OCHA said “Israeli forces have repurposed homes as military positions” and were “effectively besieging” several medical facilities.

Amnesty International said, “Ongoing military operations on this scale will undoubtedly lead to an escalation in deadly violence, resulting in further loss of Palestinian lives”, adding, “It is likely that these operations will result in an increase in forced displacement, destruction of critical infrastructure and measures of collective punishment, which have been key pillars of Israel’s system of apartheid against Palestinians.”

Palestinians walk among the rubbles of destructed buildings and streets following the withdrawal of Israeli army after 48 hours of heavy attacks in on Nur Shams Refugee Camp in Tulkarm, West Bank on August 30, 2024. [Issam Rimawi – Anadolu Agency] — Palestinians walk among the rubble of destroyed buildings and streets following the withdrawal of Israeli army after 48 hours of heavy attacks in on Nur Shams Refugee Camp in Tulkarm, West Bank on August 30, 2024. [Issam Rimawi – Anadolu Agency] (photo)

Special relationship at risk if UK bans arms sales to Israel, says Trump adviser

The Guardian reports:

Britain’s Labour government risks a serious rift in the UK’s special relationship with the US if it goes ahead with a ban on arms sales to Israel, Donald Trump’s last national security adviser has warned.

Robert O’Brien, still one of the key security voices in the Trump circle, said the UK was endangering its future role in the F-35 project as well as facing the risk of US congressional counter-embargos.

The F-35 fighter jets are made in part by British arms firms and are used by Israel’s air force as part of its bombing of Gaza.

The Labour government has yet to decide whether to suspend licenses for arms exports to Israel over concerns that international humanitarian law may have been breached in the war in Gaza.

Speaking to the Policy Exchange thinktank, O’Brien also urged the UK government to do everything it could to shut down the international criminal court’s (ICC) investigation of Israel, accusing the body – which is headed by a British prosecutor, Karim Khan – of being highly selective over which leaders it chose to prosecute.

NOTE: Evidence suggests that Miriam Adelson, an Israeli citizen, drives the Adelson’s actions to influence U.S policies on behalf of Israel…

Human rights activist-reporter Sarah Wilkinson arrested by UK for social media posts

The Cradle reports:

British human rights activist and social media influencer Sarah Wilkinson was arrested by UK police on 29 August, reportedly over “content she posted online.”

“The police came to her house just before 7.30am. [Twelve] of them in total, some of them in plain clothes from the counter-terrorism police. They said she was under arrest for ‘content that she has posted online.’

“Her house is being raided, and they have seized all her electronic devices,” Jack Wilkinson is quoted as saying by the social media account Suppressed News.

MENA Uncensored announced via social media, “The pro-genocide UK regime has arrested [MENAUncensored’s] roving reporter and Human Rights Activist Sarah Wilkinson for supporting the Palestinian resistance and relaying what is really happening in Gaza and the West Bank to the world,” alleging Wilkinson was accused of supporting “terrorism.”

The British activist and reporter has been an outspoken critic of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Earlier this year, she took part in the “Freedom Flotilla Coalition,” an international initiative that tried to deliver humanitarian aid directly into Gaza.

Wilkinson’s arrest comes two weeks after Syrian-British journalist Richard Medhurst was detained and questioned by UK police upon his arrival at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act, Section 12.

Other British journalists who have reported critically on Israeli, UK, and US foreign policy have also been detained and harassed upon returning to their home country, including The Cradle contributor Kit Klarenberg and Vanessa Beeley

MENA Uncensored tweeted later that Wilkinson “has been released on bail & is back to the comfort of her home.”

Columbia cuts due process for student protesters after Congress demands harsher punishment

The Intercept reports:

In early August, Columbia University told Congress that most of the students arrested in the past year for protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza would be allowed to return to campus for the fall.

Then a congressional inquiry applied pressure. Last week, the Republican chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, which has been conducting an inquiry into Columbia’s handling of the protests since this spring, published a letter blasting the school for not punishing students harshly enoughand issued a subpoena for internal records.

Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C, accused the university of having “waved the white flag in surrender while offering up a get-out-of-jail-free card” to student protesters. She further blamed “radical students and faculty” for interrupting the disciplinary process, and called protesters “antisemites.” (Students are facing accusations of violating the school’s policies on protest, and not harassment or bias against Jewish students.)

Foxx then subpoenaed the university later in the week for records related to the protests, including communication among administrators in handling of encampments, meeting minutes from the board of trustees, and documentation of alleged antisemitic incidents on campus.

Now dozens of student protesters have received notices that their cases are being fast-tracked to university disciplinary hearings, short-circuiting Columbia’s own investigation process. Scheduled interviews with students have been canceled, and cases are moving directly to the University Judicial Board, which can expel or otherwise punish students, according to an email reviewed by The Intercept.

Students protest Columbia University’s decision to suspend Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace chapters for holding pro-Palestine events on campus, in NYC on Nov. 15, 2023. Photo: Shawn Inglima for NY Daily News via Getty Images (photo)

House Democrat urges US airlines to restore Israel flights

The Hill reports:

Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres (N.Y.) on Wednesday criticized three major U.S. airlines for the continued suspension of flights to Israel, stating it is “effectively boycotting” the country.

In a letter to the CEOs of American, Delta and United Airlines, Torres said, “The lack of competition has made air travel to Israel less available and less affordable, putting customers at the mercy of a de facto monopoly that can easily gouge prices with impunity.”

“It is one thing to temporarily suspend air travel to Israel on security grounds as defined by the FAA. But to unilaterally suspend air travel indefinitely until mid-2025, as American Airlines has done, has the practical effect of a boycott,” he wrote.

The New York Democrat later quipped the length of the suspension suggests the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions — or BDS — movement “had taken over the American aviation industry.”

NOTE: Jewish Currents reports that early in Torres’ political career, “He began to build relationships with Israel-advocacy groups. In 2015, he agreed to join a trip to Israel for New York lawmakers planned by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York and the UJA-Federation of New York.

“The junket attracted the attention of Palestinian rights activists, and a coalition that included groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, Al-Awda NY, the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, and Queers Against Israeli Apartheid tried to pressure the politicians to cancel it. Torres refused to meet with them.

Torres’s alignment with the Israel lobby has proved strategic. The ambitious young politician won the backing of pro-Israel groups and their funding help. Politico reported last year: “Despite running uncontested, he received more campaign contributions last cycle from pro-Israel sources than any New York member other than House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.”

Congressman Ritchie Torres attends the IAC National Summit at The Diplomat Beach Resort on December 11, 2021 in Hollywood, Florida. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images) (photo)

Biden Was Told Gaza Pier Would Undermine Efforts To Get Israel To Allow More Aid Into Gaza

AntiWar reports:

President Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier off Gaza despite concerns from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) that the project would undermine efforts to pressure Israel to allow more aid into the Strip via land crossings, USAID’s Inspector General said in a report on Tuesday.

The report said multiple USAID officials had “expressed concerns” that the focus on the pier “would detract from the Agency’s advocacy for opening land crossings, which were seen as more efficient and proven methods of transporting aid into Gaza.”

When President Biden first ordered the construction of the pier during his March State of the Union address, aid groups called the move a public relations stunt.

The Pentagon was also aware that using the pier in the Eastern Mediterranean would be difficult due to weather conditions.

Weather knocked the pier out of service several times during its short-lived use off the coast of Gaza. The pier operated only for 20 days and delivered a fraction of the aid that USAID said it was meant to due to seas and the lack of a real plan to make deliveries.

“Due to structural damage caused by rough weather and high seas, the pier operated for only 20 days and was decommissioned on July 17. Additionally, security and access challenges plagued aid distributions once on shore,” the report reads. “As a result, USAID fell short of its goal of supplying aid to 500,000 or more Palestinians each month for three months and instead delivered enough aid to feed 450,000 for one month.”

The report said the failed project cost $230 million. At one point, rough seas broke apart the pier, which cost at least $22 million to repair.

The Gaza pier operated only for 20 days and delivered a fraction of the aid that USAID said it was meant to due to seas and the lack of a real plan to make deliveries. (photo)

WATCH: Sole athlete from Gaza competes in Paris Games

Al Jazeera reports:

Fadi al-Deeb is the only athlete from Gaza to participate in the 2024 Paralympics, which officially kicked off last night.

Al-Deeb, who is paralysed from the waist down after being shot by an Israeli sniper in 2002, will compete in the shot-put event.

“I’m here not for myself, I’m here for my country,” al-Deeb, who also plays wheelchair basketball in France, told Al Jazeera. “I’m here, with my disability, with my wheelchair … to show the world there is life in Gaza.”

Watch Al Jazeera’s full report:

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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7 – AUGUST 29:

Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – August 29, 2024: at least 41,271* (40,602 in Gaza* – 11,445 women (30%), 16,251 children as of July 22. [The Ministry’s figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services, the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry, which found claims of data fabrication implausible.]

This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified – and at least 669 in the West Bank (~147 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 46,848 Palestinian deaths.

Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.

Ralph Nader earlier estimated 200,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza.

At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 23 from West Bank).
At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition**.
About 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million population are currently displaced.
Almost 500,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity.

Palestinian injuries from October 7 – August 29: at least 99,275 (including at least 93,855 in Gaza and 5,420 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how man Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.]

Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – August 29, 2024: ~1,452 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 288*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza; 25 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured.

NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.

*Previously, IAK did not include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile was being disputed. However, given that much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, Israel had previously bombed the hospital and has attacked many others, Israel is prohibiting outside experts from investigating the scene, and since the UN and other agencies are including the deaths from the attack in their cumulative totals, if Americans knew is now also doing so.

**Euro-Med Monitor reports that Gaza’s elderly are dying at an alarmingly high rate. The majority die at home and are buried either close to their residences or in makeshift graves dispersed across the Strip. There are currently more than 140 such cemeteries. Additionally, according to Euromed, thousands have died from starvation, malnourishment, and inadequate medical care; these are considered indirect victims as they were not registered in hospitals.

***Approximately ten of the deaths listed above were Israeli soldiers killed by Hezbollah in fighting at the Israel-Lebanon border. The figure does not include the reportedly 53 Israeli soldiers – nearly 16% of the total Israeli military deaths – killed due to friendly fire in Gaza and other military-related accidents.

† For most of the conflict, women and children accounted for about 70% of deaths in Gaza, with children making up a little over 40% of those killed, according to official statistics.

Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here.

Hover over each bar for exact numbers.
Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org

Friday, 30 August 2024