Israel has denied 97% of aid deliveries to northern Gaza – Day 441

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Israel has denied 97% of aid deliveries to northern Gaza – Day 441
A view of the decimated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip on December 18, 2024. Around 70% of homes and buildings have been completely destroyed in Israel’s deadly onslaught in the area. (Dawoud Abo Alkas – Anadolu Agency)

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff

At least 21 Palestinians have been killed and 61 others injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the Health Ministry.

Among the dead are 12 members of one family, including seven children, ages six and under, killed in an Israeli airstrike in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Israel rejected 97% of requests to deliver aid to northern Gaza: World Food Program

The World Food Programme (WFP) says that since October, it has requested from Israel that it be able to deliver food to areas in Gaza’s northern governorate, which includes Beit Hanoon, Beit Lahiya and Jabalia, 101 times.

However, 97 percent of those requests were rejected or impeded on the ground.

In a post on X, the WFP said a joint UN convoy with nine trucks reached people in Beit Hanoon on Friday who had been cut off from assistance for more than 75 days.

It delivered two trucks of bottled water and seven trucks of wheat flour, and distributed canned food.

Palestinian children queue for receiving food as volunteers distribute food for Palestinian families ,displaced to Southern Gaza due to Israeli attacks, between rubbles of destroyed buildings in Rafah, Gaza.
Palestinian children queue for receiving food as volunteers distribute food for Palestinian families ,displaced to Southern Gaza due to Israeli attacks, between rubbles of destroyed buildings in Rafah, Gaza. (Abed Zagout – Anadolu Agency)
Hussein Khudour
Hussein Khudour (IMEMC)

West Bank: Israeli Forces Kill a Palestinian Man Near Jenin

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man on Saturday, while he was near the Apartheid Wall in the village of Faqqu’a, northeast of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. 

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that its ambulance crews transported an injured man to the Jenin Governmental Hospital, after occupation forces shot him in the thigh with live ammunition.

Media sources said that Israeli forces opened fire at Hussein Abdul Qader Hussein Khudour, 37, shooting him in the thigh while he was in the vicinity of the Apartheid Wall, built on Palestinian lands in the village of Faqqu’a.

Later it was revealed that the army denied him medical treatment by preventing ambulances from reaching him for at least two hours; he was later pronounced dead from his wounds.

Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 825 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 170 children, and injured 6,500.

20 injured as Houthi missile strikes central Israel

At least 20 Israelis were injured on Saturday when a missile launched from Yemen landed in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area in central Israel.

The Israeli army confirmed the attack, stating: “A missile originating in Yemen impacted central Israel after interception attempts failed.”

According to Magen David Adom, Israel’s ambulance service, 20 individuals sustained minor injuries, mostly caused by broken glass from the explosion.

The Houthi group claimed responsibility for the strike.

Israeli civil defense members conduct investigation operation after a missile launched from Yemen hits residential neighborhood in Tel Aviv, Israel on December 21, 2024.
Israeli civil defense members conduct investigation operation after a missile launched from Yemen hits residential neighborhood in Tel Aviv, Israel on December 21, 2024. (Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency)
Lebanon counts 10 more Israeli violations of ceasefire

The Israeli army committed 10 additional violations of a ceasefire with Hezbollah on Saturday, bringing total breaches since the agreement took effect 25 days ago to 285, Anadolu Agency reports.

Anadolu’s tally was compiled based on announcements by Lebanon’s National News Agency.

The violations included artillery shelling, incursions by soldiers and military vehicles, bulldozing lemon orchards, demolition of homes and buildings, flights by warplanes and drones and the establishment of a military checkpoint.

A view of destroyed buildings in southern Dahieh after being targeted by the Israeli army for two months in Beirut, Lebanon on December 18, 2024.
A view of destroyed buildings in southern Dahieh after being targeted by the Israeli army for two months in Beirut, Lebanon on December 18, 2024. (Muhammed Emin Canik – Anadolu Agency)

Israeli violence spreads to Syria as forces move beyond buffer zone

The Israeli military said its forces shot a protester during a demonstration against the army’s activities in a village in southern Syria on Friday, injuring him in the leg.

Since Islamist-led rebels toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on 8 December Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian military facilities in what it says is a bid to prevent them from falling into hostile hands.

In a move widely condemned internationally, Israel also sent troops into a United Nations-patrolled buffer zone in the Golan Heights and beyond, calling it a defensive and temporary measure.

“During a protest against IDF’s activities in the area of Maariya in southern Syria, IDF [the Israeli military] called on protesters to distance themselves from the troops,” the military told Agence France-Presse.

The village is just outside the southern point of the UN-patrolled zone.

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Despite censorship and intimidation we continue to demand: no more research for genocide at MIT

On November 7th, we [MIT Coalition for Palestine] published an op-ed titled “Daniela Rus, The People Demand: No More Research for Genocide” in the MIT Tech. Our piece detailed how Prof. Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, uses Israeli Ministry of Defense money to develop algorithms with applications in “multirobot security defense and surveillance.” Rather than engage with these publicly verifiable facts, the Tech’s editorial board (under the guidance of Prof. Rus) retracted our op-ed.

MIT sent several of us “no contact” and “no harassment” orders for Prof. Rus, disciplining one student for simply writing our Op-Ed’s title on a public chalkboard! As if this naked intimidation wasn’t enough, the Tech indefinitely halted all Op-Eds after retracting our piece. This comes directly after the suspension and effective expulsion of MIT PhD student Prahlad Iyengar, in part due to an email he sent Professor Rus’ students “offering support” and a “safe space” to discuss her research.

We refuse to be intimidated by MIT. Professor Rus takes money from a genocidal army to do research with military applications (stated in her own papers here, here and here). Retractions and suspensions cannot change these simple facts. 

(Read the retracted article in full here.)

Over 300 workers, students and community members rallied for Palestine in a march ended at the UPenn encampment for Gaza in Philadelphia, May 8, 2024.
Over 300 workers, students and community members rallied for Palestine in a march ended at the UPenn encampment for Gaza in Philadelphia, May 8, 2024. (Joe Piette/CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED)

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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 21, 2024:

Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – December 21, 2024: at least 46,084* – 45,259 in Gaza; in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers and/or settlers have killed at least 825 Palestinians (~170 of them children).

Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 11,000 more are still buried under rubble.

According to a report in the Lancet, by multiplying the reported deaths by five, it is possible to reach a conservative estimate of total deaths (including indirect causes like starvation and lack of medicine). Using the latest figure from AFP (45,259), it is reasonable to estimate at least 226,295 total deaths in Gaza since October 7th, 2023.

According to a recent report by the UN Human Rights Office of identified fatalities in Gaza, about 44% were children. It is reasonable to estimate that 19,914 of known direct deaths and 99,570 of the total deaths are children.

Since Israel launched an extermination campaign in northern Gaza in early October, over 4,000 Palestinians have been killed or are missing and another 12,000 wounded.

Palestinian injuries from October 7, 2023 – December 21, 2024: at least 114,127 (including at least 107,627 in Gaza and 6,500 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 21, 2024: ~1,595 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 417*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (updated: Dec 17); 39 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured.

NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.

ADDITIONAL STATISTICS: Since October 7th, 2023:

  • At least 49 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons (at least 30 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.

*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.

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 59 Israeli soldiers – nearly 17% 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.

Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org

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