In Gaza, amid medical supply shortages, 4,000 amputations, 2,000 spinal, brain injuries – Day 427

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In Gaza, amid medical supply shortages, 4,000 amputations, 2,000 spinal, brain injuries – Day 427
Palestinian child sits with his toy in the rubble after an Israeli attack that destroyed part of Nuseirat Refugee Camp, Gaza on December 7, 2024 (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency)

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff

Israeli forces have killed at least 40 people in attacks across Gaza on Saturday, including 26 people in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, and killed six people in two attacks on southern Lebanon.

Israel commits new massacre in Gaza’s Nuseirat camp

Israeli shelling of homes in the Nuseirat refugee camp on December 7 killed 26 people and injured more than 60 others, the Al-Awda Hospital said in a statement.

An earlier Israeli attack on Nuseirat camp on 5 December killed at least 17 Palestinians, including children.

This video shows scenes from the Nuseirat camp Friday night, which resulted in the death of 21 martyrs and a large number of injuries, and there are still missing people under the rubble:

Aid kitchen runs out of food in south Gaza, children scrape cooking pots for remnants

Many forcibly displaced Palestinians who gathered in large crowds at an aid kitchen in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis went hungry as the facility reportedly ran out of food.

After the kitchen was forced to shut down, crying children used their hands to scoop bits of rice left in large empty cooking pots.

“The food ran out,” said Adel Mohammad, who was hoping to get a meal of rice – the only food being served – for his children.

“At night they wake up hungry,” he said.

UN and relief agencies, including the World Food Program, have warned for months that the humanitarian aid response in Gaza is “nearing collapse as famine looms” amid Israel’s continued restriction on the flow of food and other aid into the war-torn territory.

Concerns are growing even more intense with the onset of another winter in Gaza where 1.9 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes by Israeli attacks and military flee-or-die orders.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Friday that an estimated 945,000 displaced people in Gaza are at risk of exposure to cold weather and rain this winter.

Palestinians waited in line to receive the food distributed, in Khan Younis, Gaza on November 16, 2024.
Palestinians waited in line to receive the food distributed, in Khan Younis, Gaza on November 16, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib – Anadolu Agency)

Israeli shelling leaves northern Gaza hospital without water, electricity

More than 4,000 people had amputations in Gaza amid Israeli war: Official

Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director of al-Shifa Hospital, said during a conference held to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities at Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza, that “the majority of those who have lost limbs are children”.

“More than 4,000 people have had their upper or lower limbs amputated since the beginning of the genocide,” he said. He added that more than 2,000 people with spinal and brain injuries are now bedridden and in urgent need of rehabilitation.

Thousands more have suffered hearing and vision impairments due to the relentless bombardments, he added.

Save the Children reports that more than 10 children on average have lost one or both of their legs every day in Gaza since October 7, with many amputations performed without anesthesia
Save the Children reports that more than 10 children on average have lost one or both of their legs every day in Gaza since October 7, with many amputations performed without anesthesia (photo)

Israeli forces killed 18 journalists during November: Palestinian rights organization

A Palestinian rights organization reported on Saturday that 18 journalists were killed in Gaza by Israeli forces during the month of November.

stated in a report that Israeli forces committed 65 violations against journalists in the occupied West Bank and Gaza during the month.

The report highlighted that these violations included 22 incidents in the occupied West Bank and 43 in Gaza, reflecting a pattern of targeting media professionals to suppress coverage of the war.

MADA stated that the attacks aimed to “silence journalists and prevent them from documenting the ongoing events and atrocities for the global community.”

The organization also reported that Israeli forces destroyed the homes of seven journalists in Gaza through targeted airstrikes.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, the continued Israeli military offensives in Gaza have killed 192 journalists, according to MADA.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, the continued Israeli military offensives in Gaza have killed 192 journalists, according to MADA, the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms.
Since Oct. 7, 2023, the continued Israeli military offensives in Gaza have killed 192 journalists, according to MADA, the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms. (Anadolu/Getty Images)

Israeli Forces Kill a Palestinian Near Jerusalem

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man, on Saturday morning, while he was present at the Qalandia military roadblock, north of occupied Jerusalem.

Funeral procession for Tariq Amjad Musa Ghazawneh
Funeral procession for Tariq Amjad Musa Ghazawneh (IMEMC)

The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the death of the young man, Tariq Amjad Musa Ghazawneh, 27.

Media sources said that occupation soldiers stationed at the Qalandia military roadblock, opened fire at the young man with live ammunition, causing serious injuries.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that its ambulance crews received the body of the slain man at the Qalandia military roadblock, after soldiers initially denied him medical treatment, leaving him on the ground bleeding.

Later the Israeli army invaded the funeral for the slain young man, besieged mourners inside a mosque, and injured several of them.

Since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed 808 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 169 children, and injured 6,450.

Israeli forces kill six people in two attacks on southern Lebanon

The death toll from an Israeli attack reported earlier in Beit Lif has risen to five people, with five others injured, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

In a post on X, the ministry said that one person was also killed in an Israeli drone attack in Deir Siryan, also in southern Lebanon.

This brings the number of casualties from Israeli violations of the cease-fire in Lebanon to 20 dead and 24 injured to date, according to an Anadolu tally based on data from the Lebanese Ministry of Health and the Lebanese News Agency.

We’re about 10 days into the ceasefire and this has what has been going on throughout the course of this so-called ceasefire. Many people are now calling it a “one-sided ceasefire” in which Israel has secured an addendum in which it can continue to carry out attacks and killings on Lebanese soil while Hezbollah, with whom the Israels were fighting, are forced to stand by and watch.

Lebanese civil defence teams and residents launch a search and rescue operation in buildings and settlements heavily damaged as a result of Israeli army attacks on Dahieh region in capital Beirut, Lebanon on November 15, 2024
Lebanese civil defense teams and residents launch a search and rescue operation in heavily damaged area of Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon on November 15, 2024 (Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu Agency)

US, Canadian universities hire Israeli firms to curb pro-Palestinian protests: Report

A report published on Saturday by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that several universities in both the US and Canada have entered into agreements with Israeli security companies to suppress pro-Palestinian protests occurring on their campuses.

The report notes that after the election of former US President Donald Trump, who pledged to penalize academic institutions that failed to control “radicals and Hamas supporters,” a number of universities in both countries turned to Israeli security firms, or those with links to Israel, to manage protests supporting Palestine.

The City University of New York (CUNY), a major hotspot for protests last year, has recently signed a $4 million contract with Strategy Security Corp. This company, owned by Yosef Sordi, a former New York City police officer, has publicly disclosed his professional training in Israel.

The report also draws attention to the involvement of Israeli security firms in violent confrontations that occurred in May at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Protesters stated that personnel from Magen Am, a company with Israeli military ties, were aggressive in their actions during the demonstrations. UCLA confirmed that the firm worked alongside local police to manage the protests, with the company receiving $1 million in return.

In addition, the Contemporary Services Corporation (CSC), which has an exclusive branch in Israel, was contracted to oversee protests across multiple US university campuses and protest locations.

Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, also enlisted two Israeli security firms: Perceptage International, led by Adam Cohen, the former head of security for the Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem, and Moshav Security Consulting, operated by Eyal Feldman, a former Israeli army reserve commander and ex-advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

The year 2024 saw a wave of campus uprisings across the West in support of Palestine and against Israel’s war on Gaza. Students largely demanded their institutions end investments in Israel and Israeli companies.

Heavily armed policemen arrests a protester at an encampment on the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. on 4 May, 2024
Heavily armed policemen arrests a protester at an encampment on the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. on 4 May, 2024 (Eze Amos/Getty Images)

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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 7, 2024:

Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – December 7, 2024: at least 45,516* – 44,708 in Gaza; in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers and/or settlers have killed at least 808 Palestinians (~169 of them children).

Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 10,000 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 (44,708), it is reasonable to estimate over 223,500 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 19,672 of known direct deaths and 98,357 of the total deaths are children.

[*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.]

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.

Palestinian injuries from October 7, 2023 – December 7, 2024: at least 112,500 (including at least 106,050 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 7, 2024: ~1,584 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 406*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (updated: Nov 29); 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 4,047, of which 3,961 were killed in the final months before the ceasefire; most of the 16,638 injuries also occurred toward the end of the war.

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.

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

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