Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
The Israeli occupation army committed seven massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, resulting in the killing of 47 civilians and the injury of 182 others, according to medical sources.
More than 2,000 Palestinians have been killed in northern Gaza since the Israeli army started its deadly onslaught in northern Gaza Oct. 5, according to Palestinian health authorities.
West Bank: Israeli Army Assassinates Two Palestinians in Tulkarem
Israeli forces assassinated two Palestinian young men, and injured two others, on Wednesday, after besieging and bombing a citizen’s home in the Ezbet al-Jarad suburb, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the West Bank.
Media sources said that occupation forces executed the two former prisoners, Mamoun Saleh Shraim and Thaer Omar Amara, 38, after targeting the besieged home with many live rounds and “Energa” anti-tank grenades.
Occupation forces confiscated the bodies of the slain young men before withdrawing from the city after a two-hour siege.
The PRCS added that Thaer Amara’s two-year-old son sustained a shrapnel injury in the head. He was with his father when the army targeted them with live rounds and “Energa” anti-tank grenades.
Trump’s new appointees are so pro-Israel, they’re indistinguishable from far-right Israelis
(The following is a composite of three Ha’aretz editorials: Trump’s New Appointees Grant Far-right Israel Its Greatest Freedom Yet, the lead editorial by the Ha’aretz Editorial Board; Trump’s ‘pro-Israel’ Appointees Are the Worst of Israel’s Enemies, by Gideon Levy; and Only Netanyahu Could Have Chosen a Cushier Trump Foreign Policy Team, by Ben Samuels.)
Trump has quickly assembled a foreign policy team with a clear, articulated worldview that is inherently hostile toward Iran, skeptical of any Palestinian national aspirations and incredulous about any U.S. pressure on Israel’s war aims.
The new people in charge of the U.S.’s foreign policy are friends of apartheid, occupation, the settlements and war. Trump is the most moderate and restrained of this lot.
If Trump’s new Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Adviser and the U.S. ambassador to Israel stick to their words, the coming years will determine Israel’s fate as a perennial apartheid state. They will deepen Israel’s addiction to occupation, bloodshed and power, irrevocably.
Racist and ignorant, they know nothing about the reality in the Middle East other than settler propaganda they have been brainwashed with in evangelical churches and on visits to settlements. The most criminal of Zionist enterprises, the settlements, has never had such adamant propagandists.
Huckabee said in 2017, “There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement. They’re communities, they’re neighborhoods, they’re cities. There’s no such thing as an occupation.”
Annexation means absorbing more than 5 million Palestinians into the extended Israel, becoming a “fully apartheid” state, officially and openly, relinquishing membership in the family of democratic states and facing heightened risks to national security.
The fact that foreign policy appointments – including the U.S. ambassador to Israel and Mideast envoy – came before so many others only indicates how much of a priority the Middle East will be for Trump, despite initial beliefs that he would focus on Ukraine first and foremost.
Israel preparing Lebanon cease-fire plan as ‘gift’ to Trump, officials say
A close aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Donald Trump and Jared Kushner this week that Israel is rushing to advance a cease-fire deal in Lebanon, according to three current and former Israeli officials briefed on the meeting, with the aim of delivering an early foreign policy win to the president-elect.
Ron Dermer, Netanyahu’s minister of strategic affairs, made Mar-a-Lago the first stop on his U.S. tour Sunday before traveling to the White House to update Biden administration officials on the state of Lebanon talks, a sign of how swiftly America’s political center of gravity has shifted after Trump’s electoral victory.
“There is an understanding that Israel would gift something to Trump … that in January there will be an understanding about Lebanon,” an Israeli official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Trump has said he wants to bring an end to the wars in the Middle East, but he also told Netanyahu in a call last month to “do what you have to do” against Hezbollah and Hamas.
“Netanyahu has no loyalty to Biden and will be focused entirely on currying favor with Trump,” said Frank Lowenstein, a former special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations who served during the transition to the first Trump administration.
Many Palestinians not looking forward to a Trump presidency
While Palestinians have been looking forward to the end of the pro-Israel Biden administration, with its unending weapons flow, diplomatic support, and refusal to acknowledge genocide in Gaza – they do not, in general, expect anything good to come from the Trump administration either.
In Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon, there are fears the loyal ally of Israel will embolden its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and far-right coalition government to escalate regional conflicts and destroy any possibility of Palestinian self-determination.
Trump’s comeback — and the Democratic Party’s own failure to champion any real justice for us — unveils a stark truth: America’s entrenched political system is built upon the erasure of our suffering. Every administration carries the same legacy of apathy, emboldening Israel’s destructive agenda and casting aside our pleas. It’s a bipartisan moral failure that reduces our lives to collateral damage, sacrificed to preserve strategic alliances. This isn’t about just one election or one president. It’s a policy anchored in decades of American complicity in our oppression.
Far–right Israeli minister talks annexation, occupation
National Missions Minister Orit Strock, said that “my office is working at full speed so that when sovereignty is applied [over the West Bank], it will be over the maximum amount of land.”
In an interview on the Ynet podcast, Strock was asked whether Palestinians in the West Bank would be given the right to vote, to which she responded, “We need to find a model, but I think they won’t be able to vote for the Knesset.”
When confronted with the claim that there is no strategy meant to disengage Israeli forces from Gaza, she replied that she does not believe there should be such an exit strategy.
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – NOVEMBER 13, 2024:
Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – November 13, 2024: at least 44,494* ( 43,736 in Gaza* – 69% are women and children, according to Gaza’s Media Office). [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.]
This is expected to be a significant undercount since thousands of those killed have yet to be identified. This does not include an estimated 10,000 more in Gaza still buried under rubble (4,900 women and children).
In the West Bank, Israeli soldiers and/or settlers have killed at least 783 Palestinians (~167 of them children).
In July 2024, the Lancet said: “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.
Ralph Nader earlier estimated 300,000 Palestinians may have been killed in Gaza.
- At least 60 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons.
- At least 41 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 – November 13, 2024: at least 109,558 (including at least 103,370 in Gaza and 6,300 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 – November 13, 2024: ~1,579 (~1,139 on October 7, 2023, of which ~32 were Americans, and ~36 were children); 401*** military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza (updated: Nov 2); 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 3,365, with 14,344 injuries. An estimated 1.34 million have been displaced.
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.
Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org
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