Six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab was killed along with five relatives and two medics sent to rescue her during an Israeli tank attack in Gaza City on January 29, 2024. (PRCS)
Palestinian suffering is still news, even when mainstream media stops covering it.
Israel’s war on Palestine is subsidized by the US taxpayer – let’s remember the faces of those whose lives we destroyed in 2024, and demand change in 2025.
One theme of 2024 in Gaza: PAIN.
An Israeli bomb destroyed three-year-old Hanan’s legs and killed her mother, September 2024. (Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera)After an Israeli attack on Gaza City’s al-Tabin School, wounded Palestinians, including children, receive treatment at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Dec. 17, 2024. (Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu)A child hospitalized with a gunshot wound at the European public hospital near Rafah, Gaza, in February 2024. (photo)Wounded Palestinians, including children, are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for treatment after Israeli attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir el-Balah, October 28, 2024. (Ashraf Amra /Anadolu)A wounded Palestinian girl comforts her brother after Israeli bombardments on Rafah, February 2024. (photo)Injured baby at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, February 2024. (photo)
Another theme in Gaza in 2024: ANGUISH.
A child cries as people receive the bodies of Palestinians, who lost their lives due to Israeli attacks, from morgue of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for funeral process in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on November 3, 2024. (Ali Jadallah – Anadolu Agency)Since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, at least 825 Palestinian infants under the age of one have been killed. (Anadolu Agency)Injured Palestinians run in the aftermath of an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City, December 19, 2024. (Mahmoud Isleem/Anadolu)
A prominent theme in Gaza, 2024: STARVATION.
Palestinians including children are frantic with hunger, as they wait to receive food distributed by charitable organizations in Khan Younis, Gaza on November 29, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu Agency)Boys sit with empty pots in Rafah as displaced Palestinians line up for meals provided by a charity organization during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, March 2024. (social media)Displaced Palestinians including children line up for the meals distributed by a charitable organization in Deir el-Balah, March 2024. (photo)
2024 theme: HARDSHIP
Palestinian families, forcibly displaced by Israeli army and living in tent camps, struggle due to harsh weather conditions amid the ongoing Israeli attacks in Khan Younis, Gaza, November 24, 2024. (Anas Zeyad Fteha – Anadolu Agency)Abdel-Rahman Abu al-Jedian, a displaced Palestinian boy who contracted polio last month and is now partially paralyzed, sleeps surrounded by family members in Gaza, August, 2024. (photo)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)16-year-old Palestinian Nida Abid, center, who was born with a walking disability, is seen with a wheelchair amid the makeshift tents in Rafah, Gaza on February 5, 2024. Abid and her family left their homes and took refuge in Rafah. Displacement is particularly challenging for those with a disability. (photo)
Theme: TRAUMA
“If you look at Gaza really through the eyes of a child, it is a hellscape. These children are suffering is going to have lifetime and even post-generational challenges for them.” ~ UNICEF’s executive director Catherine Russell. (Pictured: Injured Palestinians, including children, are brought to al-Ahli Baptist Hospital for treatment after Israeli attack on Gaza City, Gaza on September 29, 2024.) (Dawoud Abo Alkas – Anadolu Agency)Bodies of Palestinians are brought to al-Awda Hospital after an Israeli attack on northern Gaza City, September 2024. (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu)A wounded Palestinian boy is brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah after an Israeli attack on central Gaza on August 9, 2024. (photo)As of February 2024, an estimated 17,000 children were unaccompanied and separated from their families. This number is likely much higher now. (collage)
A primary theme in Gaza in 2024 was, of course, DEATH.
The dead body of one-month-old Juma al-Batran, who froze to death in a tent in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on December 29, 2024 (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency)Some of the recent victims of Israel’s massive incursion in the West Bank, August 2024. (IMEMC)In August, 2024, newborn twins in Gaza were killed with their mother and grandmother as their father went to collect birth certificates. (IAK)The Israeli military has admitted that Muhammed Bhara, a Palestinian man with Down’s syndrome, was attacked by an Israeli army dog in Gaza and left to die, after his family had been ordered to leave. He was found dead by his family a week later. July 2024. (family)Six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab was killed along with five relatives and two medics sent to rescue her during an Israeli tank attack in Gaza City on January 29, 2024. (PRCS)
Theme: TORTURE
A leaked photograph from the notorious Sde Teiman detention facility, showing a blindfolded Palestinian man with his arms above his head. Obtained by CNN, May 2024. (Wikimedia Commons)A victim of Israeli torture who gave testimony to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor in February, 2024. (Anadolu Agency)Muazzaz Abayat, 39, a former bodybuilder from Bethlehem, is emaciated and psychologically troubled after having spent almost nine months being tortured and starved in Israeli jails, July 2024. No charges were ever brought against Abayat. (collage)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 31, 2024:
Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – December 31, 2024: at least 46,389* – 45,553 in Gaza; in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers and/or settlers have killed at least 836 Palestinians (~172 of them children).
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 (45,553), it is reasonable to estimate at least 227,765 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 20,043 of known direct deaths and 100,217 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 31, 2024: at least 114,689 (including at least 108,379 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 31, 2024: ~1,595 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 417*** (or 391) military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (updated: Dec. 17); 43 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) and~10,000 injured.
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