Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
The Israeli air force bombed a tent encampment in Al-Mawasi camp near south Gaza’s Khan Younis, a so-called ‘safe zone,’ killing two children – Jawad and Sareen – on 1 December. The children’s mother and a sibling were also injured in the attack, according to medics.
Another Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip, taking the overall death toll since last year to 192, local authorities said on Sunday. The latest victim was Maysara Ahmed Salah from the local Quds News Network.
UN agency suspends aid deliveries through key Gaza crossing over lack of security
This follows an incident last month in which a large aid convoy moving into the territory was stolen by armed gangs.
Israel committing war crimes in northern Gaza, says former Israeli defense minister
Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon accused the army on Sunday of committing war crimes in the northern Gaza Strip and attempting to hide these crimes from the public.
“I speak on behalf of the commanders who serve in northern Gaza. There are war crimes being committed there,” Ya’alon told the Israeli public broadcaster KAN.
“IDF (army) soldiers are putting their lives at risk and will be subject to lawsuits in the International Criminal Court,” he said.
“I have to warn about what is happening there (in northern Gaza) and what they are trying to hide from us, where they are committing war crimes.”
On Saturday, the former defense minister accused Israel of carrying out “ethnic cleansing” in northern Gaza, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of leading the country to “ruin.”
2 Palestinian detainees from Gaza die in Israeli prisons: Rights groups
Two Palestinian detainees from Gaza died in Israeli custody, according to prisoners’ affairs groups on Sunday.
Mohammad Abdel Rahman Idrees, 35, died in Ofer Prison, west of Ramallah on Friday, after he was reported missing on Aug. 25, 2024, said a joint statement by the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner Society, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
The second detainee was identified as Muaz Khaled Rayan, 31, without giving details about where he died. The statement said Rayan, who suffered from complete paralysis before his arrest on Oct. 21, 2024, had died on Nov. 2.
According to the statement, at least 47 detainees have died in Israeli custody since Oct. 7, 2023. “The catastrophic conditions facing detainees, especially the sick and injured, will cause more to die in Israeli prisons and camps,” the statement said.
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West Bank: Israeli Army Assassinates Four Palestinians Near Jenin
Israeli forces executed four Palestinian men, on Sunday, after targeting their vehicle in the village of Sir, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
Media sources identified the slain young men as Montaser Jalal Aziz Naeem, 35; Abdullah Mahmoud Hamdan Irsheid, 30; Wael Hassan Lahlouh, 31; and Abdul Salam Nabeel Abu Al-Rab, 23.
Israel’s Ben-Gvir bans mosques from broadcasting call to prayer
Israel’s far-right national security minister has ordered police to ban mosques in Israel from broadcasting the call to prayer, also known as the adhan.
In a video post on X, Itamar Ben-Gvir said police needed “to address and enforce the issue of noise in mosques”.
Israel’s Channel 12 reported earlier that Ben-Gvir had sent police instructions on enforcing the ban, including by confiscating loudspeakers and issuing fines.
About 14 percent of Israel’s population is Muslim, according to the Pew Research Center.
France accuses Israel of violating Lebanon truce 52 times: Report
Israel’s Ynet News is reporting that France has accused the Israeli military of violating its ceasefire deal with Hezbollah 52 times, including an attack on Saturday that killed three Lebanese civilians.
The Israeli military has justified the attacks, claiming they were in response to violations by Hezbollah.
But Ynet News, citing French officials, said Israel had acted without consulting the international committee tasked with monitoring the deal’s compliance.
Israeli plan for demographic change, sovereignty over West Bank underway: Report
Settler councils in the occupied West Bank have been drafting a plan to tighten Israel’s grip over the territory and accelerate the path towards annexation as Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom reported on 1 December.
Right-wing Israeli activists and officials have joined forces with settler councils to establish “a realistic yet ambitious plan for the West Bank in the coming years.”
“We are at a critical juncture – a window of opportunity that we can utilize either wisely or squander,” said one of the settler leaders. “The wise approach would establish conditions to make Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley inseparable from Israel – not just by creating demographic facts on the ground, but by fundamentally transforming the region’s administrative framework.”
Israel plans to build cities for Haredim, Druze in the West Bank, media reports
Israel plans to establish four new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank during US President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, Israeli media has reported.
According to a report published by Israel Hayom newspaper, the plan includes establishing a Druze settlement and a Haredim settlement, turning strategic settlements into settlement cities, expanding control of regional councils to include open areas between settlements, improving infrastructure in the fields of transportation and energy, and establishing Arab municipal authorities to replace the Palestinian Authority (PA).
According to the newspaper, the project aims to encompass the maximum area with the least number of Palestinian residents.
The plan comprises improvements to the infrastructure; including power plants, highways and railways, to make the illegal settlements “an integral part” of the occupying state. The proposals include establishing new cities in the West Bank and transforming settlements such as Kiryat Arba and Efrat into cities with direct government support and huge budgets.
NOTE: Every one of the more than 700,000 Israeli settlers living on Palestinian land are violating international law. Israel has illegally built around 280 settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and incentivized Israeli Jews to live in them.
Many Palestinians believe that Israeli settlements and settlers on Palestinian land are the main barrier to any lasting peace agreement.
Settlers, moreover, have a history of violence against Palestinians, often with the assistance of Israeli military forces.
In a landmark advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 1, 2024:
Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – December 1, 2024: at least 45,266* ( 44,466 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 801 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 47 from Gaza).
- 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 – December 1, 2024: at least 111,700 (including at least 105,358 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 – December 1, 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 3,961, with 16,520 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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