Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
At least 50 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza over the latest 24-hour reporting period, according to the Health Ministry.
The Government Media Office in Gaza has published its latest key statistics about Israel’s war, now in its 410th day, including figures about the underage victims of Israeli attacks:
- Of the 43,972 Palestinians confirmed killed, 17,492 are children
- 211 newborns were born and killed during the genocide
- 825 infants under the age of one have been killed
- 70 percent of victims are women and children
- 35,060 children are living without one or both parents
- 3,500 children are at risk of death due to malnutrition and hunger
Lebanon’s health ministry said on Tuesday that in the past day, 28 people have been killed and 107 others wounded.
UNICEF says children in Lebanon are facing a “silent normalization of horror”, with more than 200 killed and 1,100 injured in the last two months.
Israeli forces target Kamal Adwan Hospital with 3-hour shelling barrage
Dr Hussam Abu Safia, the hospital’s director, said the building’s roof and upper floors were destroyed in the latest Israeli attack.
The shelling, which began as doctors were resuscitating a wounded man, lasted three hours.
“The hospital has been targeted with harmful sound bombs. These explode and spread shrapnel – which can break bones – and they destroyed, for the 10th time, the water tanks and sewage systems,” said Ahmed al-Kahlout, director of the intensive care unit (ICU) at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya.
Israeli army forced food off trucks before delivery to north Gaza: UN
The UN’s humanitarian office says thousands of Palestinians in the areas of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces are struggling to stay alive because there has been virtually no food or humanitarian aid deliveries for more than 40 days.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric delivered the grim report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, known as OCHA.
“OCHA reports that all attempts by the UN to support people in [Beit Hanoon], Beit Lahiya and parts of [Jabalia] – all of which remain under siege – have been either denied or impeded,” he said.
So far in November, OCHA reports that 27 out of 31 planned humanitarian missions were rejected by Israel and the other four were severely impeded, Dujarric said.
“The result is that bakeries and kitchens in north Gaza governorate have shut down, nutrition support has been suspended, and the refueling of water and sanitation facilities has been completely blocked,” Dujarric said.
West Bank: Israeli Forces Kill 5 Palestinians in Jenin
Israeli forces assassinated five Palestinian men, on Tuesday, after besieging and bombing a home in the village of Ash-Shuhada (Martyrs’ Triangle), southwest of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that it was informed by the General Authority of Civil Affairs of the death of three Palestinian young men by Israeli forces.
The Ministry identified the slain young men as Raed Abdul Rahman Sadiq Hanaysha, 24, Anwar Nidal Tawfiq Saba’neh, 25, and Suleiman Adnan Suleiman Tazaza’a, 32, as well as Firas Al-Jasser and Rami Al-Huwaiti,
Sources added that soldiers opened heavy fire at the besieged young men and blocked ambulance crews from providing medical treatment, causing them to succumb to their wounds.
‘Total oppression’: West Bank children being killed at unprecedented rate
Mohammad was 12, a football-mad teenager who spent his days dreaming of a career on the pitch and his last minutes practicing ball skills. Ghassan was 14, a quiet, generous teenager who ran errands for elderly relatives, with an adoring six-year-old brother who stuck to him like a shadow.
Both boys were shot dead this summer by Israeli soldiers, victims of an unprecedented surge in attacks on children in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
In the year from the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, Israeli troops and settlers killed 171 Palestinian children there, equivalent to one death almost every other day, according to UN data. More than 1,000 others have been injured.
The youngest victim was a four-year-old girl, shot dead when she and her mother were sitting in a taxi near a checkpoint in January.
Officially there is no war in the occupied West Bank, and the scale of death in Gaza has overshadowed the losses there. But children are dying in greater numbers than at any time since the Israeli army seized control of the area in 1967.
“In the course of last year there was an extremely concerning increase in children killed in conflict-related violence in the West Bank, and we already see the trend is continuing,” said Jonathan Crickx, spokesperson for Unicef Palestine.
“Unicef wants to ring the alarm bell, that children are being killed and seriously injured on a regular basis, mostly by live ammunition.”
The UN only counts child victims whose name, age and cause of death it has verified.
No soldier has been charged over any of the shootings, and the Israeli military did not directly address the surge in child casualties when approached for comment.
Israeli paramedic suspended after mocking woman’s death in rocket attack
Israel’s national ambulance service has suspended one of its paramedics who rejoiced over the death of an Arab woman killed by a rocket attack on the Arab city of Shfaram in northern Israel, according to Arab parliament member Ahmad Tibi.
Writing on Instagram about the rocket attack victim, the paramedic said: “There’s no reason to feel sorry. She’s a terrorist by every definition. She doesn’t support us in any way.”
Israel’s ambulance service plans to fire the paramedic, The Times of Israel cited Tibi as saying.
White House Staffers to Biden: “You Are Running Out of Time” on Gaza
A group of White House staffers sent a letter of dissent on Monday over the Biden administration’s decision not to enforce its own ultimatum over the Israeli government’s restriction of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
With just weeks until President-elect Donald Trump begins his second administration, the letter is a plea for President Joe Biden to “take simple and immediate action to drastically mitigate the humanitarian crisis.”
“You are running out of time to do the right thing, but decisive action could save precious lives in the next two months,” reads the letter. Twenty “current, full-time employees of the White House,” who were not named for fear of professional retaliation, drafted the letter.
The Intercept spoke with two senior White House staffers who helped draft the letter, which was directed to Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and a variety of senior policy advisers.
“I’m thinking a lot about the concept of legacy and ending well,” said one of the staffers. “I personally want to be seen as someone who keeps my commitments and want to be part of an administration that keeps its commitments too” (continue reading here).
Five Days on a Media Junket in Israel: Lies, Half-Truths, and Conspiracy Nonsense
In late July, [Alexander Willis] received a peculiar cold email. It was an invitation from the American Middle East Press Association (AMEPA) for an all-expenses-paid tour of Israel, tailored exclusively to members of the U.S. media. As a journalist in Alabama whose job consists primarily of chasing around lawmakers and writing about committee hearings, the offer was certainly outside my wheelhouse.
But as someone who has observed Israel’s war in Gaza closely and the western media’s coverage of the war, I was intrigued, especially since AMEPA’s goal is “to get the truth out there,” according to Kim Kamen, the organization’s chief operating officer. So in September, I took them up on their offer and headed to Israel.
During the five-day trip, we were told that nearly every Palestinian in Gaza shared culpability for the October 7 attack by Hamas. Several of the experts and officials AMEPA introduced us to said that rape and brutal killings are inherent to the Islamic faith and that many United Nations aid workers were terrorists. Some even suggested that the countless videos of Palestinians injured or killed by Israeli bombardment were, in fact, often staged film productions [all false].
AMEPA’s truth, as I discovered, amounts to a version of pure Israeli propaganda far more extreme than anything I could have expected.
Ziv rebuffed the assertion that Israel had prohibited humanitarian aid from getting into Gaza…“The problem, by the way, in Gaza today— it’s not starvation, it’s the other way around,” he said. “People can die from overeating. Seriously, the amount of food and everything there. And Hamas is taking that over and reselling to the people.”
Ziv made no mention of the fact that, just one day earlier, the Norwegian Refugee Council had published a report showing that Israel had blocked 83% of the food trucks reaching Gaza, allowing only 69 trucks per day, on average, a record low. While Israel has long claimed that Hamas steals humanitarian aid intended for civilians in Gaza, many of whom are starving to death according to research from Oxfam International, its government has yet to produce evidence proving the group has seized any significant portion of aid.
Perhaps most striking were the claims that videos of suffering or killed Palestinians had been elaborately staged using actors, prosthetics, and makeup, a supposed ruse Israeli propagandists refer to as “Pallywood,” a portmanteau of Palestine and Hollywood…(continue reading here).
US to present UN resolution opposing Israel’s control of occupied West Bank: Israeli media
The US administration plans to present a draft resolution to the UN Security Council to oppose Israel’s control over the occupied West Bank, Israeli media said on Tuesday.
Israel Hayom newspaper, citing a US source close to the Biden administration, said the draft will state that Israel’s presence in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem and its Old City area, is in violation of international law.
The draft is currently being formulated by the US National Security Council, the source said, without specifying when it will be presented to the Security Council.
Biden’s move is similar to a decision by the Obama administration on Dec. 2016 to abstain from voting on a Security Council resolution that demands an immediate halt to all Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, enabling the resolution to pass.
NOTE: Since Israel’s invasion of Gaza, the U.S. has vetoed three separate U.N. Security Council resolutions that would have called for a humanitarian pause or immediate ceasefire.
