Cold, wet, starving: everyday desperation in Gaza – Day 414
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
At least 35 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Sunday.
Heavy rains add to plight of displaced civilians in Gaza amid Israeli war
Heavy rains have worsened the plight of displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid a deadly Israeli war on the enclave, the Civil Defense Service said on Sunday.
“Rainfall has caused severe damage to tents housing thousands of displaced people with water flowing inside the tents and damaging luggage and mattresses,” spokesman Mahmoud Basal said in a statement.
“The current situation signals a real humanitarian catastrophe if immediate intervention does not take place,” he warned.
Heavy rains affected several areas across the Palestinian enclave, particularly central and southern Gaza on Sunday.
The spokesman appealed to the United Nations and the international community to quickly intervene to provide tents and caravans for displaced civilians in Gaza during winter.
UNRWA says only 6% of Gaza’s food needs are being met
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has confirmed that the food supplies entering the Gaza Strip meet only six per cent of people’s needs, the Palestinian Information Center reported Sunday.
UNRWA said that the Israeli occupation allows limited quantities of flour and food supplies through the crossings, which cover just six per cent of the required needs. The agency highlighted that this situation has led to a severe crisis in Gaza, particularly in accessing bread, forcing most bakeries in the southern part of the enclave to shut down.
The agency added that over two million displaced people in Gaza suffer from hunger, thirst, disease and fear. Families find it nearly impossible to secure meals, as conditions in displacement camps and shelters remain dire due to hunger, cold and the inability of international organizations to provide adequate humanitarian aid amidst severe food shortages. It called for the full reopening of crossings to allow essential supplies to prevent widespread famine, with malnutrition and disease already present.
Kamal Adwan Hospital director in worsening condition after being hit by Israeli quadcopter
The director of northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital in the city of Beit Lahia, Dr Hussam Abu Safia’s condition has “deteriorated” after he was wounded Saturday by an exploding bomb dropped on the hospital by an Israeli quadcopter. He was checking on patients at the time of the attack.
Israel bombed Kamal Adwan Hospital again on Sunday following the attack that injured the hospital director.
Abu Safia said that six shrapnel fragments penetrated his thigh, causing ruptures in the veins and arteries. The doctor urgently needs to consult with a vascular surgeon, but there is no specialist available at Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Over 1,000 doctors, nurses killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, local authorities say
More than 1,000 doctors and nurses have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since last year, local authorities said on Sunday.
“Over 310 other medical personnel were arrested, tortured, and executed in prisons,” Gaza’s government media office said in a statement.
“The Israeli army also prevented the entry of medical supplies, health delegations, and hundreds of surgeons into Gaza,” it added.
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Satellite Photos Show: Gaza’s Largest Refugee Camp in Near-total Ruins
Jabaliya, the refugee camp thought to be Gaza’s largest, has been almost totally destroyed by Israeli military activity, recently published satellite photos of Jabaliya showed. The humanitarian situation in the refugee camp located in northern Gaza continues to deteriorate.
The photos indicate that the area, where more than 116,000 refugees lived in very crowded conditions, is no longer habitable, showing tens of thousands of homes destroyed or heavily damaged and essential infrastructure in ruins.
Political and defense establishment officials say that telling residents of northern Gaza, including Jabalya, to evacuate isn’t part of the “Generals’ Plan” to impose a total siege on the area and expel all its civilians. Defense officials say that the military is now engaged in emptying cities and villages of their inhabitants, however.
According to Gazans still in the area or who were able to return for a short time, the refugee camp has recently experienced unprecedented levels of destruction and loss of life. During the most recent Israeli attacks, hundreds of complexes consisting of dozens of homes each were destroyed. Also destroyed were schools and medical centers. Essential infrastructure for water, electricity and sanitation is no longer functioning.
Civilian sources in northern Gaza say Jabalya no longer has a single habitable residential area.
West Bank: Israeli Army Executes Two Palestinians, Including a Teen, Near Jenin
Israeli forces executed two Palestinians, including a teenager, on Sunday, after storming the town of Ya’bad, west of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that occupation forces shot and killed the young man, Ahmad Mahmoud Zaid Al-Kilani, 20, and the child, Mohammad Rabie Jamal Hamarsheh, 13, during the invasion of Ya’bad town.
Media sources said that the army stormed the town of Ya’bad, from its eastern entrance, sparking protests among local citizens.
Israeli forces opened fire with live rounds, concussion grenades, and tear gas canisters, shooting the youth and young man multiple times at close range with live ammunition.
Ambulance crews transported the critically wounded to the Ya’bad Emergency Center, where doctors pronounced them dead as a result of their injuries.
Sources added that the army initially denied medical treatment to the injured by blocking ambulance crews from reaching them to provide first aid.
Israeli Government Imposes Sanctions on Haaretz, Cuts All Ties and Pulls Advertising
Israel’s government approved on Sunday a proposal by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi that mandates any government-funded body refrain from communicating with Haaretz or placing advertisements in the paper. The proposal was approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The decision, according to the government’s explanation, is a reaction to “many editorials that have hurt the legitimacy of the state of Israel and its right to self defense, and particularly the remarks made in London by Haaretz publisher, Amos Schocken, that support terrorism and call for imposing sanctions on the government.”
In a speech in London last month, Schocken said “the Netanyahu government doesn’t care about imposing a cruel apartheid regime on the Palestinian population. It dismisses the costs of both sides for defending the settlements while fighting the Palestinian freedom fighters, that Israel calls terrorists.”
Haaretz reacted to the government decision with the following statement: “The opportunist resolution to boycott Haaretz, which passed in today’s government meeting without any legal review, is another step in Netanyahu’s journey to dismantle Israeli democracy. Like his friends Putin, Erdoğan, and Orbán, Netanyahu is trying to silence a critical, independent newspaper.
“Haaretz will not balk and will not morph into a government pamphlet that publishes messages approved by the government and its leader.”
Former Israeli Soldier, Rabbi Found Dead in UAE while Advancing Normalization
UAE authorities have discovered the body of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who had been missing since Thursday, Israeli media reported on Sunday.
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority (KAN) reported that Kogan, a former member of the Israeli army’s Givati Brigade’s Charedi company and an emissary for the Chabad chapter in Abu Dhabi, was found dead.
Chabad is an extremist ultra-orthodox religious group known for its strong ties with the Israeli army.
Israeli officials condemned the killing claiming it was a “despicable antisemitic act of terror” and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The Israeli National Security Council reiterated that the UAE has a Level 3 travel warning, urging Israeli citizens to avoid non-essential travel to the Gulf state due to threats against Israelis in the region.
Since the UAE normalized relations with Israel as part of the US-brokered Abraham Accords in 2020, Kogan has served as the country’s representative of Chabad, a Zionist organization dedicated to expanding Jewish life in the UAE.
Despite widespread condemnation of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, the UAE has not severed its diplomatic ties with the occupation state.
UPDATE: The UAE announced on Sunday evening the arrest of three individuals suspected of killing an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi.
Inside Project Esther, the right wing action plan to take down the Palestine movement
The Heritage Foundation got a lot of publicityduring this election cycle for its infamous Project 2025. But that’s not the only project they intend to carry out now that Donald Trump is returning to the White House.
Project Esther is a new proposal from Heritage that claims to lay out a plan to combat antisemitism in the United States. In fact, it aims to destroy the Palestine solidarity movement as a first step in a crusade to, ultimately, restrict activism against American policy of all sorts, foreign and domestic. .
It’s not a new enterprise, of course. Disingenuous accusations of antisemitism have been weaponized by the Zionist movement and the State of Israel for a century or more but Project Esther means to unify and coordinate the cynical use of the fight against real antisemitism in order to completely destroy the movement for Palestinian rights.
But that is only its initial ambition. As the full plan makes clear, the people who produced this scheme see it as the key to devastating movements against both American imperialism abroad and white supremacy domestically (continue reading here).
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 24, 2024:
Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 24, 2024: at least 44,969* ( 44,235 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. This does not include an estimated 10,000 more in Gaza still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children).
In the West Bank, Israeli soldiers and/or settlers have killed at least 795 Palestinians (~167 of them children).
In July 2024, the Lancet said: “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 60 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons.
- At least 43 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.
- About 345,000 Gazans are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity.
Palestinian injuries from October 7 – November 24, 2024: at least 111,088 (including at least 104,638 in Gaza and 6,450 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 – November 24, 2024: ~1,583 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 405*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (updated: Nov 21); 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 3,768, with 15,699 injuries.
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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