Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Over 61,700 Palestinians killed in Israel’s genocidal war, local authorities say
At least 61,709 Palestinians were killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, local authorities said on Sunday.
“Only 47,487 bodies were transferred to hospitals, while 14,222 remained missing under the rubble,” Salama Marouf, who heads Gaza’s government media office, told a news conference in Gaza City.
He said the victims included 17,881 children, including 214 newborn babies.
“More than 38,000 Palestinian children were orphaned by the Israeli war,” Marouf said.
According to the local official, at least 1,155 medical personnel, 205 journalists, and 194 civil defense workers were also killed during the Israeli onslaught, which also damaged more than 450,000 housing units.
“More than 6,000 Palestinians were detained by the Israeli forces and dozens of them were tortured to death in detention,” he added.
“Over 2 million Palestinians were forcibly displaced, with many forced to relocate more than 25 times amid absence of essential services,” Salama said.
7 Palestinians injured in Israeli strikes in Gaza despite ceasefire
Seven Palestinians, including a child, were injured Sunday in two Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip despite a ceasefire agreement in the enclave, a medical source said.
Witnesses said an Israeli drone struck a vehicle on the coastal Al-Rashid Road, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
The medical source said that five people were injured, including a child in critical condition.
Two more Palestinians were injured when a drone hit a bulldozer in al-Faraheen area, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the source added.
The attacks came hours after another Israeli drone fired two missiles near a cart traveling along the same road, but no injuries were reported.
According to witnesses, the strike caused panic among Palestinians using the road to return to areas in northern Gaza.
Hamas accuses Israel of delaying Gaza relief, reconstruction efforts
Palestinian group Hamas has accused Israel of delaying the implementation of relief and reconstruction agreements in Gaza, where Israeli bombing continued for more than 15 months until a ceasefire took hold on Jan. 19.
Israel “continues to stall implementation of the relief and reconstruction process outlined in the ceasefire agreement, and there are humanitarian aid commitments it has not fully adhered to,” spokesperson Hazem Qassem said in a statement.
“Despite the massive destruction of the healthcare sector, the occupation has not allowed any restoration efforts or the entry of essential medical supplies,” Qassem added.
“Fuel deliveries remain far below what was stipulated in the agreement, and the amount reaching northern Gaza is negligible,” he said.
The spokesperson said “the heavy machinery specified in the agreement has not been allowed in, preventing the retrieval of martyrs’ bodies and hindering the recovery of (hostage) bodies set to be exchanged, especially at the end of this phase.”
Nearly 50 Palestinians enter Egypt for treatment: Report
A total of 46 sick and wounded Palestinians have crossed from the Gaza Strip into Egypt for medical treatment.
The Rafah border crossing, which had been closed for more than eight months due to Israeli military operations in southern Gaza, reopened on Saturday, allowing for the transfer of patients.
‘Not medical neglect but official policy of withholding medical care as punishment’
Naji Abbas, of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, spoke to Al Jazeera about the conditions faced by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. “It’s not a medical neglect; it was an official policy using medical care as part of the punishment,” Abbas alleged, naming serious diseases including cancer and heart disease. The Israel Prison Service has previously denied such allegations.
“In the last year, we dealt with hundreds if not thousands of cases of people, Palestinians, who needed medical care inside the detention facilities in Israel but they didn’t get it,” he told Al Jazeera from Umm al-Faham in Israel.
Abbas said, “We used to deal with medical neglect before the war in the detention facilities in Israel and the Israeli prisons. But in the last year, we are dealing with denying – a total denying of medical care.
“People didn’t manage to see a doctor, even if they suffered and complained for months. Some detainees died after complaining for weeks and months and demanding to meet a doctor and they didn’t – they weren’t allowed and they died in the prison.”
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West Bank: Israel destroys entire neighborhood in Jenin
A spokesperson for the Israeli army said 23 buildings were destroyed on Sunday in Jenin “to prevent terrorist infrastructure from being established there”. The military also said it had killed 50 Palestinian fighters in the West Bank since mid-January.
Al Jazeera Arabic correspondents said the explosions blew up a residential block in the camp’s ad-Damj neighbourhood.
The blasts were so powerful they were heard across the city and in surrounding towns and damaged the main hospital in Jenin.
Residential buildings in Jenin refugee camp are built vertically, with each structure containing multiple apartments. As a result, a large number of families have been displaced due to the demolitions.
The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned the military’s destruction of buildings in Jenin, describing it as a “brutal scene”.
President Mahmoud Abbas requested an urgent session of the UN Security Council to stop the destruction of entire residential blocks in the Jenin and Tulkarm camps.
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West Bank: Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians
On Sunday morning, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man in the Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, bringing the number of slain Palestinians in Jenin in the last 13 days to 25.
The army has killed 38 Palestinians in the West Bank this year.
In a statement, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said the army killed Walid Mohammad Ali Lahlouh, 73.
Also Sunday, Israeli soldiers killed 27-year-old Mohammad Amjad Haddoush and injured several others after the army invaded the Al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Medical sources confirmed that the soldiers fatally shot Haddoush, a first sergeant in the Customs Police, with a bullet in the abdomen.
Criminal investigation opened into Israeli PM’s wife
The office of Israel’s state attorney says a criminal probe has been launched into Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli prime minister.
“A criminal investigation was opened” into suspected criminal offenses, the office said in a letter to an Israeli opposition politician who had accused her of tampering in her husband’s corruption trial after the broadcast in December of a television news investigation, according to AFP.
West Bank: Israeli Colonizers Pump Sewage Into Palestinian Lands In Bethlehem, burn down a mosque, storm a cemetery
On Sunday evening, several illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded Palestinian agricultural lands in Kisan village, east Bethlehem, and pumped sewage water onto the land.
The colonizers reportedly came from the nearby illegal Ibei HaNahal colony, which was built on stolen Palestinian lands.
The colonizers regularly pump sewage water in Kisan, causing a health hazard and depriving landowners of reclaiming and cultivating their lands and raising livestock. This has also led to the death of three sheep.
Also on Sunday, illegal Israeli settlers burnt a mosque in the Mleihat Bedouin community in the area northwest of Jericho, according to a local activist.
Hasan Mleihat of the non-governmental Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights said, “The mosque was completely burned down.”
Settlers have also stormed a cemetery in Silwan town, south of the Old City of Jerusalem, under the protection of the Israeli occupation army, according to Wafa.
Local sources cited by the Palestinian news agency said the settlers cut the fence that the townspeople had placed around the cemetery and took control of it.
NOTE: Illegal settlers carried out over 2,970 attacks against Palestinians and their property in the occupied West Bank in 2024, according to Palestinian figures. At least 10 Palestinians were killed and over 14,000 olive trees damaged in these attacks.
Nearly 770,000 illegal Israeli settlers live in 180 settlements and 256 outposts in the occupied West Bank.
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – FEBRUARY 2, 2025 (ongoing count):
At least 62,604 Palestinians killed, 118,592 injured – including:
- at least 61,709 killed in Gaza (~20,600 children)
- at least 895 killed in the West Bank (~179 children)
- at least 111,592 injured in Gaza
- at least 7,000 injured in the West Bank
WAR STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 (Hamas attack) – JANUARY 19, 2025 (Ceasefire):
Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – January 19, 2025: at least 48,143 – including at least 47,283 in Gaza (~20,600 children), and 860 in the West Bank (~177 children). Palestinian injuries: at least 118,472 – including at least 111,472 in Gaza, and 7,000 in the West Bank.
Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 11,000 more are still buried under rubble.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – January 19, 2025: ~1,616 (or 1,590) – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 436 (or 405) military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.
NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
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