Israel tags Palestinian journalists for assassination – Day 382
Israel launches widespread arrest campaigns in northern Gaza: Palestinian group
The Israeli army has launched widespread arrest campaigns against Palestinians in northern Gaza, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said on Wednesday.
“Hundreds of Gaza detainees are still being forcibly disappeared in Israeli occupation prisons and camps,” the NGO said, including “dozens of women, children, and medical teams, who have been specifically targeted, along with hospitals, which have been a key target of the genocide.”
“Some detainees were executed on the field, while others were subjected to continuous torture, abuse, and humiliation around the clock to this day,” the statement said.
The group said testimonies and statements gathered from released detainees showed “shocking and horrifying details, including crimes of starvation, medical neglect, and torture.”
The Gaza civil defense agency says three of its rescuers were wounded in northern Gaza in what it called a “targeted strike” that aimed to force them out of the besieged Jabalia refugee camp.
Later, it said all its operations in northern Gaza were suspended after Israeli forces detained five staff members and bombed the only fire truck.
Israeli attack kills northern Gaza police chief
Israeli forces have killed the director of the municipal police of the northern Gaza Strip. Mazen al-Kahlout was shot by an Israeli drone near al-Yaman al-Saeed Hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp.
Palestinians in northern Gaza chased by Israeli quadcopters
Hani Mahmoud reports from Gaza: It’s been 19 days of ongoing bombardment, with the Israeli military having destroyed all means of life, including water tanks on rooftops and solar panels, in order to force people out of their homes. As soon as people came out, they were chased by the quadcopters into narrow areas where the Israeli military set up checkpoints.
We have seen images of Palestinians, in particular men, being lined up by the Israeli military, blindfolded and handcuffed, made to wear white coats, and then led into unknown areas for interrogation outside the Gaza Strip.
We have seen other footage of women and children being led into big holes in the ground where Israeli soldiers kept them before forcing them out and instructing them to take only one road into western Gaza City.
RECOMMENDED READING: ‘This is an extermination’: Israel’s assault on north Gaza’s last functioning hospital
UNRWA staff killed in Gaza
UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma stated that a staff member was killed in an Israeli attack in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip as they rode in a clearly marked UNRWA vehicle.
The total number of UNRWA team members killed in Gaza since October last year is 228.
Vaccination halt will ‘seriously jeopardize’ efforts to contain polio: WHO chief
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has renewed his call for a ceasefire in Gaza after Israeli attacks prevented tens of thousands of children from receiving their second polio doses.
“Having a significant number of children miss out on their second vaccine dose will seriously jeopardize efforts to stop the transmission of poliovirus in Gaza,” he wrote in a post on X.
Lebanon news
Lebanon suffers worst night of Israeli attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs
The Israeli occupation army unleashed a wave of air strikes on southern Beirut on Wednesday night, killing and wounding a number of people, Lebanese state media said. It was said to be the worst night of Israeli attacks on the capital’s southern suburbs since the occupation state started its latest aggression against Lebanon on 23 September, the Palestinian Information Centre has reported.
Lebanese state media reported 17 Israeli raids on Beirut, with six apartment buildings leveled to the ground and the empty offices of Al-Mayadeen satellite channel hit. Six buildings were destroyed around the suburb of Laylaki, including a residential complex hit by four Israeli air strikes “causing a large fire,” according to the state media.
Local TV footage showed a massive explosion followed by smaller blasts in the Lebanese capital’s embattled southern suburbs after the Israeli army issued evacuation warnings for the area, which is a Hezbollah stronghold.
Israeli strikes on financial institution in Lebanon violate international humanitarian law: UN expert
Multiple recent Israeli bombings of a financial institution in Lebanon were illegal attacks on civilian objects under international humanitarian law, a UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights said Wednesday.
“International humanitarian law does not permit attacks on the economic or financial infrastructure of an adversary, even if they indirectly sustain its military activities,” Ben Saul, special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights, said in a statement.
“Bombing banks obliterates the distinction between civilian objects and military objectives which is fundamental to protecting civilians from violence. It opens the door to ‘total war’ against civilian populations, where fighting is no longer limited to attacking militarily dangerous targets,” the expert said. “Such attacks jeopardize the right to life.”
Israel news
Netanyahu Declines Blinken Request To Publicly Reject Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides rejected a request from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to publicly say that Israel is not implementing an ethnic cleansing plan in northern Gaza, known as the “general’s plan.”
Netanyahu and his top aide Ron Dermer reportedly told Blinken that the general’s plan was “absolutely not our policy” and that the perception has been “deeply damaging to us.” But when asked to state that publicly, they declined.
While Israeli officials have told the US they’re not carrying out the ethnic cleansing plan, Israeli soldiers told Haaretz last week that it’s already underway in northern Gaza.
The general’s plan calls for the forced evacuation of all Palestinians from northern Gaza, and could pave the way for Jewish settlements in Gaza, an idea favored by many Israeli ministers and members of the Knesset.
RECOMMENDED READING: What is the ‘Generals’ Plan’? Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza, explained
US news
Cops in riot gear storm UPenn student activists’ house
Last Friday, 13 police officers gathered in the early morning hours outside an off-campus residential building where several University of Pennsylvania students live.
Donning their full tactical gear, including riot helmets, and armed with assault rifles and handguns, the police threatened to break down the door with a battering ram, and pointed guns at the students’ heads as they came out of their rooms.
Police identified themselves as 12 officers from the UPenn PD and one from the Philadelphia PD, but refused to provide names, badge numbers, or a warrant.
A warrant was later produced for suspicion of vandalism, related to an incident in September where red paint was thrown on the Benjamin Franklin statue on campus.
Penn has shown stark imbalances in how it’s responded to activism for Palestine and activism for other causes, one student said. “It’s no surprise that Penn police are trained by the Israeli occupation forces…It’s also no surprise that Penn is funding this genocide and terrorizing their own students,” they said.
Huda Fakhreddine, an associate professor of Arabic literature and member of Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine, said, “As some of us watch with horror the destruction of our homelands and the extermination and displacement of our families in Palestine and Lebanon, UPenn resorts to obscene intimidation tactics to silence anti-genocide speech.”
She added that the university “is also criminalizing grief, shamefully clamping down on students, and threatening them with arrest when they mourn the hundreds of thousands of lives destroyed by Israel’s genocide in Palestine and now Lebanon.”
MORE NEWS:
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Al Jazeera: Gaza parents’ heartbreak as children’s clothes, shoes fall to pieces
Translation: Getting a loaf of bread is a struggle in the southern Gaza Strip.
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – OCTOBER 23, 2024:
Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – October 23, 2024: at least 43,607* ( 42,847 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 760 in the West Bank (~166 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 23, 2024: at least 106,794 (including at least 100,544 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 23, 2024: ~1,561 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 386*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (most recent: Oct 22); 39 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 2,546 and 11,862 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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