“Almost everyone in Gaza going hungry” – Day 377
From the beginning of Israel’s genocide project in Gaza, there have been massive violations of international law and human rights abuses as ugly as any in history. These have been documented with a clarity that is unprecedented during a genocide, largely due to the fact that Israel has made no secret of them and their soldiers have been consistently and proudly broadcasting their crimes.
A spokesperson for the Harris campaign suggested that the images of dead civilians are complicating Kamala Harris’ path to victory in key swing states with sizable Arab American and Muslim populations. “It’s a huge concern,” they said. “It comes down to people saying, ‘I can’t support anyone who supports a genocide.’”
RECOMMENDED READING: Dems Are Afraid Gaza Will Cost Them the Election. They’re Not Afraid Enough.
‘International Crimes’ – UN Launches Probe into Role of Private Sector in Enabling Israeli Occupation
The United Nations has announced a far-reaching investigation into the involvement of private entities in international crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
The inquiry, set to culminate in a report to the Human Rights Council in March 2025, will investigate the involvement of business enterprises – including financial institutions such as banks, pension funds, insurance companies, universities, as well as private military and security companies (PMSC) and weapons manufacturers (WM) – that are enabling international crimes, such as apartheid.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner said the report will “particularly consider the higher due diligence imposed on the private sector after the start of the International Criminal Court investigation in the situation in Palestine (2014), the provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since 26 January 2024, the ICJ’s reminder to states in its order of 30 April 2024 in Nicaragua v Germany, and the ICJ Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024.”
French NGOs use tax-free donations to fund Israeli military equipment
Non-profit organizations dedicated to charitable activities in France illegally make tax-free calls for donations to finance military equipment for Israeli soldiers, a French media outlet revealed earlier this week.
In an investigation published on Tuesday, titled “How our taxes finance drones for the Israeli army”, Le Media reported on how community associations break the fiscal legislation enabling charities to benefit from tax-free donations in order to help the army of Israel, which has been waging a devastating war on Gaza and Lebanon over the past 12 months.
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 18, 2024:
Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 18, 2024: at least 43,276* ( 42,519 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [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 757 in the West Bank (~165 children). This does not include an estimated 10,000 more in Gaza still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children). Euro-Med Monitor reports 49,032 Palestinian deaths.
Lancet: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death 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 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza.
- At least 45 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (27 from Gaza, 25 from West Bank).
- At least 41 Palestinians have died due to malnutrition (at least 37 of them children)**.
- 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 – October 18, 2024: at least 105,887 (including at least 99,637 in Gaza and 6,250 in the West Bank, including 830 children). [It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties in Gaza.]
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 18, 2024: ~1,457 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 297*** 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.
The death toll in Lebanon since October 8, 2023 is at least 2,412 and 11,285 injuries. An estimated 1.34 million have been displaced.
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.
***The figure does not include the reportedly 56 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.
Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org
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