Footage shows bodies piled up, shot, not bombed, inside Gaza school; disease spreading in Gaza – cases of impetigo, meningitis; disease could kill more in Gaza than bombs, WHO says; heavy rain hits Gaza as evacuees try to find winter clothes; Israeli forces blow up UN school in northern Gaza; Israeli human rights groups send public letter to Biden to use his influence to change Israel’s policy
Rights groups accuse Israel of ‘systemic abuse’ in prisons; world’s leading expert on genocide says Israel’s goal in Gaza is ethnically cleansing Palestinians; Pope calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza; market in Gaza refugee camp turned into cemetery; more Israeli warships enter Red Sea; Republican Congressman votes against $14 billion to Israel…
Number of Gazans killed since the Biden administration vetoed UNSC ceasefire resolution: at least 1,025 (approximately 474 children)
From reports – sources in embedded links
Horrific testimonies shared of field executions, forced displacement, and random arrests of Gazan civilians, including children
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The following are among the deadliest incidents reported between 14:00 on 11 and 12 December, involving the striking of residential buildings:
- A residential building was hit in Musabbah area, Northern Rafah, reportedly killing at least 12 Palestinians including at least 6 children and injuring 10 others.
- A residential building was hit in Al-Nuseirat, Middle Gaza, reportedly killing 17 Palestinians.
- A residential house was hit in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, Gaza City, reportedly killing tens of Palestinians.
Humanitarian update
Aid update: On 12 December, as of 22:00, 107 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies entered Gaza, the same volume recorded on most days since the resumption of hostilities on 1 December. This is well below the daily average of 500 truckloads (including fuel and private sector goods) that entered every working day prior to 7 October.
Fuel update: On 12 December, some 129,000 liters of fuel and 45,020 kilograms of gas entered Gaza from Egypt. The increased amounts are the bare minimum needed to prevent the collapse of critical services, including hospitals and ambulances, water, and sanitation infrastructures, and IDP shelters. Fuel has been prioritized to hospitals in the south of Gaza.
Disease spreading in Gaza: Cases of impetigo, meningitis and jaundice are showing up, in addition to the cases of chickenpox and upper respiratory tract infections that have also been recorded in the bombarded enclave, according to Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Gaza Health Ministry runs out of children’s vaccinations: This could lead to dire consequences on children’s health and will increase the spread of diseases, the ministry has warned. Some 360,000 cases of diseases have been detected in crowded shelters for the 1.9 million people displaced by Israel’s military onslaught, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in its latest situation report yesterday.
Heavy rain hits Gaza as evacuees try to find winter clothes: Since the morning in Deir al Balah, there has been heavy rain and wind, and people are trying to find winter clothes. Most of those who evacuated from the northern area left without bringing their winter clothes. They have been knocking on the doors of people whose house was not bombed, asking them for clothes.
A woman told a local reporter that she had been trying to find a winter jacket for her baby for over two days. People have been left homeless, without food, without clothes. The situation right now is very harsh, and it is getting worse.
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Israeli military begins pumping seawater into Gaza tunnels: WSJ: The Israeli military has reportedly begun pumping seawater into Gaza’s tunnel system, with some critics warning that such a move could hurt Gaza’s freshwater supply, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The Israeli military has said such tunnels are where Hamas is hiding fighters, hostages, and weapons, the Journal reported, citing US officials briefed on the operations. The process of destroying the tunnels by pumping in seawater could take weeks, and it is uncertain whether the method will work.
US President Joe Biden was asked Tuesday about the report. “With regard to the flooding of the tunnels… There (are) assertions being made that there [are] no hostages in any of these tunnels, but I don’t know that for a fact,” Biden said.
Environmental experts have warned that the move could have long-lasting effects on the groundwater in the Strip. Among the concerns were potential damage to Gaza’s aquifer and soil, if seawater and hazardous substances in the tunnels seep into them, as well as the possible impact on the foundations of buildings.
Two journalists killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza: Gaza’s government media office identified the two journalists as Ahmed Abu Absah and Hanan Ayyad. The office said the latest deaths brings the total number of journalists killed in the Strip since October 7 to 89. A tally by the non-profit Committee to Protect Journalists puts the number of journalists killed between October 7 and December 11 at 63, the vast majority from Gaza.
Israeli forces blow up UNRWA school in northern Gaza: A video shows the moment Israeli forces blew up a UNRWA school building in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. The military says it was used as a Hamas outpost and soldiers can be heard cheering in the background. UN schools and buildings continue to be targeted by Israel, while also being used as shelters for thousands of displaced Palestinians.
Kamal Adwan Hospital under siege: Gaza’s health ministry says Israel is “tightening its siege” on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the enclave’s north. Israeli forces have been interrogating the hospital’s medical staff, who are being held in the facility’s emergency unit.
The ministry said Israeli forces told medical staff to move injured people to another location. According to the ministry, Israeli soldiers said they are preparing to conduct a full search of the hospital for any “weapons”.
A senior doctor in northern Gaza says Israeli troops told all men between the ages of 16 and 65 to leave the building to be searched. More than 70 medical staff were “arrested and taken to an unknown area,” according to Abu-Safia, including hospital director, Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlot. His claim was echoed in a statement by Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Israeli forces are preventing movement inside the hospital and depriving those inside of water, food and electricity. The medical staff are unable to provide care to children in intensive care units, and there is no water to prepare milk for them.
Al Awda Hospital in Jabaliya (northern Gaza) remains surrounded, for the seventh consecutive day, by Israeli troops and tanks, and fighting with armed Palestinian groups has been reported in its vicinity. Reportedly, 250 doctors, patients, and their family members are trapped inside the hospital. On 9 December, two medical staff were reportedly killed while on duty inside the hospital, during clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups.
Qatari field hospital being set up in Rafah: The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says the hospital, which it is establishing in collaboration with its Qatari counterpart, will have 50 beds, an operating room and an ICU. The PRCS said it anticipates that the facility, located in the southern Gaza Strip, will be operational in a week.
Hamas official says ‘no negotiations’ on captive release until war on Gaza stops: Speaking from Beirut, senior Hamas spokesperson Osama Hamdan says Israeli forces have carried out 25 “massacres” in the past two days alone in Gaza. Hamdan said the Israeli army’s failure in reaching its captives in the enclaves “indicates its overall failure”.
“Do not try as you will not succeed in freeing the captives alive,” Hamdan said, addressing Israeli officials. “All you do is endanger their lives.” Hamdan reiterated that there will be “no negotiations” on the exchange of prisoners and captives until Israel halts its war on Gaza.
Market in Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp turned into cemetery: A video posted on social media by Al Jazeera Arabic shows how people in Gaza have been forced to convert a bombed-out market area into a makeshift gravesite for the many killed by Israel’s bombardments. Some of the graves are marked with signs in Arabic; others with rocks and broken concrete.
West Bank & Jerusalem
Israeli forces searching, causing ‘destruction’ to homes in Jenin: After 32 hours, a raid in Jenin was still underway. It started Tuesday morning with the Israeli forces surrounding the Jenin refugee camp. There were several drone strikes, with one targeting a house where four people were killed in Jenin’s old city. There was another drone strike inside the refugee camp as well as a huge presence of Israeli forces.
Residents describe Israeli forces going home to home doing searches, leading to a lot of destruction of those residences. People are also describing the destruction done to infrastructure by armored bulldozers that entered the refugee camp when this all started.
The continuing operation now stands as one of the “largest, longest” on the occupied West Bank since the commencement of Israel’s war on Gaza on October 7, sources reported. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said that up to 100 Palestinians may have been apprehended during the raid, and about 30 of those initially detained may have been released.
At least 7 Palestinians have been killed in Jenin alone.
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Over 1,000 buildings demolished in occupied West Bank: Palestinian-owned buildings were demolished by Israeli forces in Anata and Marj Na’ja in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the UN reports. In total, at least 1,001 Palestinian-owned structures have been demolished in the occupied West Bank this year alone, displacing at least 1,870 people, according to the latest figures from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Israeli authorities demolish four buildings in East Jerusalem: According to Daniel Seidemann, an expert on Israeli settlement in occupied East Jerusalem, the Israeli-run Jerusalem Municipality demolished the buildings in the neighborhoods of Silwan, Ras al-Amud and Wadi Qadum. He said among those structures is a two-story building housing four families. The demolition left 36 people homeless. In a post, he said,
Why demolitions? to fan the flames. Why fan the flames? Ben Gvir. Why Ben Gvir? Netanyahu.
Rights groups accuse Israel of ‘systemic abuse’ in prisons: Several Palestinian prisoners’ rights organizations say that testimonies of freed detainees and their families reveal “assaults against them and retaliatory measures imposed” by Israeli forces and prison authorities after October 7. The groups are the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Addameer and Wadi Hilweh Information Center.
A document released by the groups says that Israel currently holds more than 2,870 administrative detainees, a number that represents the highest rate of imprisonment without charge or trial since the first Intifada in 1987. The groups put the total number of detainees currently held in Israeli prisons at 7,800 – although they say this does not include those detained from Gaza, since Israeli authorities have not released information on them.
The groups also said that six detainees died in Israeli prisons; they say Abdulrahman Maree and Thaer Abu Assab were tortured during their detention.
Since October 7:
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- 4,000 arrested, the highest rate in Hebron with 1,000 cases
- 150 women arrested, including Palestinian citizens of Israel
- 255 children arrested
- 45 journalists arrested
- 2,100 administrative detention orders have been issued
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Israel news
Israeli envoy says ceasefire advances ‘satanic agenda’ of Hamas: Following the passage of the UN resolution demanding a ceasefire (see below), Gilad Erdan has called the resolution “hypocritical”, saying that ending the war would only benefit Hamas. “Why would anyone want to aid Hamas in continuing the rule of terror and actualizing their satanic agenda?” the Israeli UN envoy said, adding, “We all know that the so call humanitarian ceasefire in this resolution has nothing to do with humanity. Israel is already taking every measure to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.”
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Israel will pursue war in Gaza with or without international support: The Israeli prime minister has pledged to press on with the war on Gaza without giving into “international pressures”.
“Nothing will stop us,” Netanyahu said during a visit to a military base in southern Israel. “We continue until the end, until victory, until the destruction of Hamas. Let there be no doubt about this.”
William Schabas, the world’s leading legal expert on genocide, explains why it is clear that Israel’s goal in #Gaza is not eradicating Hamas but ethnically cleansing the Palestinians:
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William A. Schabas is a Professor of International Law at Middlesex University, London. He is also a Professor Emeritus at Leiden University and the University of Galway, and an invited visiting scholar at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po.
“Recognized as a leading expert on international human rights law, international criminal law, genocide and capital punishment, he is the author of more than 20 books and 400 journal articles on these issues. He is also Editor Emeritus of Criminal Law Forum, the quarterly journal of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law… Full interview here
Major Israeli Human rights groups send letter to Biden asking him to use his influence to change Israel’s policy and prevent the deteriorating humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip. The letter is also published as a print advertisement in the New York Times.
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Israel is preparing for war in West Bank: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is preparing for the possibility of war with the forces of President Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs parts of the West Bank, Israeli media reported Tuesday.
“We are discussing it,” Netanyahu reportedly said, “and we want to reach a situation where if such an event happens, then within a few minutes there will be helicopters in the air to respond.”
Netanyahu reportedly told meeting attendees that Hamas and the PA share the same goals when it comes to Israel, but differ in approach.
The difference between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority is that Hamas wants to destroy us here and now, and the Palestinian Authority wants to do it in stages. We cooperate with them against Hamas when it serves their interests and our interests to a certain extent.
Spread of Disease in Gaza Endangers the Hostages, and Will Soon Even Risk Israel (Ha’aretz) Gazans are at risk of a wide range of diseases whose vectors do not recognize political borders. “I estimate that within a few weeks, we’ll begin to feel it in Israel. Initially, it will be in the southern locales and then it will be spread by soldiers who get infected and pass [disease] along to their families,” says Prof. Dorit Nitzan, the director of the emergency medicine program at the Ben-Gurion University’s School of Public Health.
“We know that the moment the tunnels are damaged, rats, badgers, mice and all kinds of rodents emerge, which can carry diseases that can spread without any regard to borders. Other animals, like dogs, get confused by the bombing and are no longer sure of their territory, and this is a recipe for the spread of diseases such as rabies,” Nitzan explains.
More Israeli warships enter Red Sea: Four new Israeli warships have “sailed for the first time to the Red Sea”, the Israeli army has said in a post on social media. Israel deployed the new ships as a senior Houthi official in Yemen warned vessels in the Red Sea against navigating towards Israel.
Fitted out with Israeli weapons, the ships are made in Germany, which has significantly increased its military exports to Israel since launching its war on Gaza.
Israeli politicians reject Biden’s renewed call for two-state solution: One of the first Israeli reactions to Biden’s comments earlier has come from the minister of communications, Shlomo Karhi, who said that a Palestinian state would “endanger the security of the Jewish people”. “There will be no Palestinian state here, we will never return to Oslo, and we will not allow the establishment of another state between Jordan and the [Mediterranean] Sea,” Karhi said. Another member of parliament, Ariel Kallner, told Biden, “Please don’t ask us to commit suicide.”
Israeli plans to take over more Palestinian-owned land: On Sunday, Dec. 10th, the Israeli Government announced the expropriation of Palestinian-owned property in and around Silwan, for the purposes of erecting a cable car from Abu Tor in West Jerusalem to the East Jerusalem Settler Headquarters in Silwan.
The cable car is 1.4 kilometers in length and will run above Palestinian homes in Silwan, adjacent to the church of St. Peter in Gallicanto on Jabal Sahyoun / Mt Zion. Its terminal is located at settler headquarters near the Old City’s Dung Gate, less than 170 meters away from the Al Aqsa Mosque.
Daniel Seidemann, an Israeli attorney in Jerusalem, who specializes in East Jerusalem issues, said, “Only those utterly detached from Jerusalem and its precious unique character could consider acting in a manner that will contribute to the transformation of Jerusalem into a Biblically themed theme park – the disneyfication of Jerusalem.”
Israel acknowledges deaths of hostages: Israel declared 19 of 135 people still in Gaza captivity dead in absentia on Tuesday, after announcing its forces had recovered the bodies of two hostages. The hostages reportedly died in Israeli airstrikes.
Army retrieves bodies of two Israelis in Gaza – at the cost of 2 more soldiers: Two Israeli soldiers were killed in an operation to recover the remains of two hostages who had been killed by Israeli bombing. One of the soldiers killed is the son of Isareli war cabinet minister Gadi Eisenkot.
Israeli military says 8 soldiers killed in Gaza over the past day.
The firing of rockets by Palestinian armed groups towards Israeli population centers has continued over the past 24 hours, with no reported fatalities.
(Information on rocket attacks is here.) It appears that the last time a rocket killed an Israeli was October 7-8, as reported by Ha’aretz and the Times of Israel. 15 Israelis were killed – 10 of them Palestinian Israelis who reportedly had no access to bomb shelters. Rockets have killed a total of 35 Israelis over the 22 years they’ve been fired.
Latest from US and elsewhere
Pope calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza: Pope Francis has renewed his call for an “immediate” ceasefire in Gaza and pleaded for an end to suffering for both Israelis and Palestinians. He said,
I continue to follow the conflict in Israel and Palestine with much worry and pain. I renew my call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire: there is so much suffering there. I encourage all parties involved to resume negotiations, and call on everyone to make an urgent commitment to get humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.
Let all hostages, who had seen hope in the truce a few days ago, be freed immediately, so that this great suffering for Israelis and Palestinians might come to an end. Please, no to weapons, yes to peace.
UN Palestine envoy hails passage of ceasefire resolution: “The world has witnessed a strong, noble and great stance by the General Assembly,” Riyad Mansour said. Mansour stressed that the resolution “demands” a ceasefire, which he said carries a more authoritative tone than if the wording had just “called for” an end to the fighting.
Mansour noted that more than 30 additional nations have backed today’s resolution compared with the first UNGA ceasefire call in October, which received 120 votes. “We hope and we will work to ensure that the Israeli authority will abide by this humanitarian ceasefire immediately – as the UN chief has demanded, as 13 countries in the Security Council have demanded, and as the General Assembly has demanded moments ago,” he said.
While the resolution remains nonbinding, it is likely to show the increasing isolation of Israel and its top ally, the US, amid the mounting death toll, humanitarian crisis and destruction in Gaza.
Voting in favor of the resolution were 153 countries; 23 abstained.
The ten countries that voted against the resolution were Israel and the US, the two tiny Pacific Islands of Micronesia and Nauru, Austria, Czech Republic, Guatamala, Liberia, Papua New Guinea, and Paraguay.
Senior Democrat in Congress urges passage of aid to Israel and Ukraine: Congressman Steny Hoyer has called on Republicans to pass the funding packages before the holiday recess. “There are only two legislative days left to pass necessary aid for our allies Israel and Ukraine,” Hoyer wrote on social media. “Why is America fiddling while freedom burns? House Republicans need to bring a bill for unconditional aid for our allies to the Floor now.”
Biden says twice that Jewish people would not be safe anywhere without Israel: The US president’s Tuesday remarks come despite outrage and accusations of anti-Semitism over similar comments he made on Monday. “I believe, without Israel as a freestanding state, not a Jew in the world is safe – not a Jew in the world is safe,” Biden told donors at a campaign reception. On Tuesday he said,
Israel’s security can rest on the United States, but right now it has more than the United States. It has the European Union, it has Europe, it has most of the world supporting it. But they’re starting to lose that support by the indiscriminate bombing that takes place.
Monday’s variation of those remarks had sparked anger against the president, with many noting that the safety and security of Jewish Americans is the responsibility of the US government, not a foreign country. IfNotNow, a progressive Jewish group, had called on Biden to apologize. “As President of the United States, it’s his job to make this country safe for everyone, including Jewish Americans,” Eva Borgwardt, the group’s national spokesperson, said in a statement earlier on Tuesday.
Biden warned that Israel is beginning to lose support in Europe and around the world because of its military offensive against Gaza and the rising number of civilian deaths.
The US president has also acknowledged that Netanyahu’s far-right government opposes establishing a Palestinian state. Biden’s comments come as his administration repeatedly calls for a two-state solution to the conflict after the war in Gaza.
In a recent interview, Republican Congressman Thomas Massie explained why he opposed several recent pro-Israel bills, including another $14 billion for Israel. Now AIPAC is running attack ads against him, including $90,000 on Fox News.
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South Africa says Israel acting contrary to Genocide Convention: Mathu Joyini, South Africa’s envoy to the UN, has called for universally applying international law. “The events of the past six weeks in Gaza have illustrated that Israel is acting contrary to its obligation in terms of the Genocide Convention,” Joyini said, referring to the international treaty that outlaws genocide.
US-Israel divide on Gaza is result of ‘long-term indulgence’: Tamer Qarmout, assistant professor in public policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says that the increasing divide between the US and Israel over the war is the “result of a long US tolerance for Israel’s policies, eliminating any prospect of peace with the Palestinians.” He said,
The US for decades has accommodated Israel, protected Israel, shielded Israel … Israel feels it has an immunity to keep going with its occupation. That’s the real problem here. The result is that, because of this long-term indulgence, you have a rebellious Israeli government that is in direct confrontation with the US now. They have a clear rift now … they don’t have a shared vision over the peace process any more.
Bernie Sanders calls on Biden to withdraw his request for $10 billion aid to Israel: In a letter to Biden, the progressive senator slammed Israel’s “immoral” military approach to Gaza. Sanders highlighted the human toll of the war, including the mass displacement, mounting death toll and “indiscriminate” bombing. “This constitutes not just a humanitarian cataclysm, but a mass atrocity,” the senator wrote.
“And it is being done with bombs and equipment produced and provided by the United States and heavily subsidized by American taxpayers. Tragically, we are complicit in this carnage.”
Biden is seeking more than $10bn in additional military aid to Israel, but Sanders called on him to withdraw that request. “This money would allow for the continuation of the Netanyahu government’s widespread, indiscriminate bombardment,” he said.
He also called on the Biden administration to back UN efforts to secure “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire”.
Some human rights orgs are aiding Israel’s assault on Gaza: Mondoweiss reports:
Recent reports by Physicians for Human Rights Israel and Human Rights Watch on alleged mass rape and the Ahli Hospital attack fail to meet the basic standards of human rights reporting and feed into Israeli propaganda campaigns justifying genocide.
Read the full article here.
Instagram vs. Palestine, Part I: Khaled Beydoun writes:
The erasure of Palestinian voices is not only unfolding in Gaza. The project to silence and suppress them, and their allies, is also being enforced online.
On Instagram, especially, where citizen journalism and advocacy pushing for balanced coverage has been met with a relentless barrage of censorship. Across its digital pages and stories, where the battle to make Palestinian suffering seen and its vanquished voices heard, Instagram has pushed a nefarious front of corporate authoritarianism.
Read the full article here.
As night falls, the hearts of children in #Gaza tremble. They only hear the echoes of explosions amid the pitch-black darkness. The Israeli aggression has left indelible wounds and harrowing memories for these children💔. Some of them lost the warmth of their parents, while… pic.twitter.com/hDbUZlpRWf
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) December 12, 2023
I'm extremely worried about reports of a raid at Kamal Adwan Hospital in #Gaza after several days of siege.
According to the Ministry of Health, there are 65 patients including several needing intensive care, and 45 medical staff in the hospital.
The hospital was already…
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) December 12, 2023
There is no information on their wellbeing or whereabouts. This is unacceptable. WHO, along with their family, colleagues and loved ones, is deeply concerned about their wellbeing. We reiterate our call for their legal and human rights to be respected.https://t.co/IMAC6yr45A
— WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (@WHOEMRO) December 12, 2023
A disgraceful thing to say for a man charged with keeping all Americans safe, including, of course, American Jews, the largest Jewish population in the world. https://t.co/s3Etp8fMtS
— Yousef Munayyer (@YousefMunayyer) December 12, 2023
Statistics as of Dec. 12:
Palestinian death toll: OCHA reports at least 18,416* (~18,137 in Gaza* (6,121 women and 7,870 children), and at least 279 in the West Bank). This does not include an estimated 8,000 more still buried under rubble. Euro-Med Monitor reports 20,360 Palestinian deaths.
*IAK does not yet include 471 Gazans killed in the Al Ahli hospital blast since the source of the projectile is being disputed; although much evidence points to Israel as the culprit, experts are still looking into the incident. Israel is blocking an international investigation. Israel killed more Palestinians in a little over a month after Oct. 7 than in all the previous 22 years combined.
Palestinian injuries: 54,781** (including at least 51,300 in Gaza** and 3,481 in the West Bank). **NOTE: it is impossible to provide an accurate number of injuries in Gaza due to the ongoing bombardment and communication disruption.
It remains unknown how many Americans are among the casualties. in Gaza**. About 1.9 million people have been displaced (about 85% of the population).
Reported Israeli death toll ~1,147 (7 killed in West Bank, 105 in Gaza), including 32 Americans, and 5,431 injured, approximately 36 children).
NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries in Israel may have been caused by Israeli soldiers; additionally, since Israel has a policy of universal conscription, it is unknown how many of those attending the outdoor rave a few miles from Gaza on stolen Palestinian land were Israeli soldiers.
Find previous daily casualty figures and daily news updates here. For more news, go here and here. Live broadcast news from the region is here.
Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org
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