Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
At least 36 Palestinians have been killed and almost 100 wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza over the most recent 24-hour reporting period, the war-torn enclave’s Ministry of Health reports.
Gaza’s Government Media Office says 3,700 people have been killed or are missing since Israeli forces laid siege to northern areas of the enclave 60 days ago.
Food availability ‘at an all-time low’ across Gaza, says UN agency
Beth Bechdol, the deputy director-general of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is calling for unrestricted and safe access to the Gaza Strip to deliver emergency aid and prevent the spread of famine.
“Today, food availability is at an all-time low across the entire Gaza Strip, and food supply has sharply deteriorated,” Bechdol said at a ministerial conference in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
“The window of opportunity to deliver assistance is now, today, not tomorrow. Food, medicine and fuel are self-evident priorities, but we must also prioritize the ability to grow food locally where it is needed most to ensure survival,” she said.
Before Israel’s war on Gaza, the enclave was largely self-sufficient in vegetables, eggs, fresh milk, poultry and fish, and produced much of its red meat, olive oil and fruit, according to the FAO.
But more than a year later, agricultural food systems have collapsed in Gaza, while Israeli forces have decimated local food production across the whole of the enclave (continue reading here).
Israeli ‘military rule’ in Gaza carries $7bn yearly price tag: Report
Israel’s Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported on 3 December that Tel Aviv estimates imposing indefinite military rule over the Gaza Strip would cost at least NIS 25 to 30 billion (over $7 billion).
“The security establishment estimates that the cost of applying a military rule in the Gaza Strip will amount to at least NIS 25-30 billion ($7 billion – $8.4 billion) per year,” KAN said.
“It is estimated that NIS 20 billion ($5.6 billion) will be required to operate the Israeli military forces in Gaza, along with NIS 5-10 billion ($1.4 billion – $2.8 billion) for minimal civil services for the Palestinians,” it added.
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persists in refusing a ceasefire and exchange deal that would see Israel end the war and withdraw from Gaza (as Hamas demands), his government continues to push for military occupation, and indefinite Israeli security and administrative control over the strip.
West Bank: Israel kills 2 Palestinians, storms hospital to confiscate bodies, detains doctors
Bystanders and ambulances were able to pull the bodies of the deceased from inside the vehicle and transport them with the wounded person to the Turkish hospital.
Dr Mahmoud Ghannam, head of the emergency department at the hospital, said the Israeli army stormed the hospital and besieged it, demanding to confiscate the bodies of the dead men and arrest the wounded man, causing a state of panic among members of the public who were there.
At least 803 Palestinians have been killed and over 6,450 others injured by Israeli occupation army fire in the occupied territory since October 2023, according to the Health Ministry.
Soldiers Kill a Palestinian Teenager in Jerusalem
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian youth, late Tuesday night, after shooting and abducting him in Silwan town, south of the al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
The Arab 48 News website reported that the child, Omar Hussam Yaqoub Shuwaiki, 17, succumbed to gunshot wounds he sustained from the Israeli police, on Tuesday night.
According to the Jerusalem Governorate, the slain child died after occupation police shot and abducted him in Silwan town.
Soon after his death, occupation police and intelligence services invaded the town of Silwan, and deployed in the vicinity of the slain child’s home, while occupation police failed to provide any information to the family or their lawyers.
Sources added that Israeli forces notified the father of the child’s death and proceeded to hand him a summons to appear at an interrogation facility for an interview with Israeli intelligence.
Israeli soldiers have been sexually assaulting Palestinian women for decades. Now the women are speaking out
“You hear these women being sexually assaulted and strip-searched and beaten on their genitals in the West Bank, in Jerusalem and in Gaza, being treated by different bodies of the Israeli system but also being sexually assaulted in the same way,” Kefaya Khraim told Middle East Eye.
It wasn’t always the case that Khraim and her colleague, Amal Abusrour, who both work at the Ramallah-based Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling and spoke at length with MEE during a recent visit to London, would hear so many stories.
For decades, many Palestinian women have kept sexual violence they’ve experienced at the hands of Israeli soldiers to themselves, not even sharing it with their closest friends or family (continue reading here).
Israel has “enforced with an iron fist” (i.e. violated) Lebanon ceasefire agreement at least 100 times
Israel had already breached its ceasefire agreement with Lebanon about 100 times since it went into effect last Wednesday, a source from the UN’s peacekeeping force told CNN on Monday.
Hezbollah refrained from responding until Monday, when it said it fired “warning” strikes as a response to Israel’s repeated violations of the ceasefire agreement.
Speaking at a cabinet meeting in northern Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “We are currently in a ceasefire, I note, a ceasefire, not the end of the war,” he said, adding, “We are enforcing this ceasefire with an iron fist, acting against any violation, minor or serious.”
From their side, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri said on Tuesday that they were pursuing “diplomatic efforts” to face Israel’s violations.
Australia splits with US to back UN resolution demanding end to Israel occupation of Palestinian territories
Australia has split with the US and voted with 156 other countries at the United Nations to demand the end of Israel’s “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible”.
The vote marks Australia’s return to the position for the first time in more than two decades.
A total of 157 UN member countries, including Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, voted to support the resolution. Eight, including Argentina, Israel and the US, voted against it. Seven others abstained.
James Larsen, Australia’s ambassador to the UN, said Australia would support the resolution, titled the “Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine”, for the first time since 2001 to reflect a desire for international “momentum” towards achieving a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.
“A two-state solution remains the only hope of breaking the endless cycle of violence, the only hope to see a secure and prosperous future for both peoples,” he told the general assembly meeting (continue reading here).
Israel’s military attache in Belgium referred to ICC for alleged war crimes
Israel’s new military attache in Belgium has been accused of war crimes by the Hind Rajab Foundation, a Brussels-based non-profit organization.
Colonel Moshe Tetro served as head of the Israeli military unit responsible for coordinating aid into the besieged Gaza Strip earlier this year.
The Hind Rajab Foundation’s chair, Dyab Abou Jahjah, described Moshe as a “key figure in the implementation of Israeli policy towards hospitals and the strategy of famine and thirst as a weapon of war”.
The foundation said it has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Tetro, highlighting his “role in orchestrating starvation and targeting healthcare facilities”.
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and its former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, are subjects of ICC arrest warrants for alleged war crimes – including using starvation as a weapon of war.
Israel and the ICC: A Catch-22 for the West’s rules-based order
Just as a fish rots from the head, so the ICC’s host country, The Netherlands, led the pack. After its foreign minister, the comparatively centrist Caspar Veldkamp, proclaimed his far-right government’s fealty to the Court, his prime minister, former spy chief Dick Schoof, made the bizarre announcement that international fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu could visit The Netherlands without being arrested.
For good measure, the country’s de facto ruler, professional Islamophobe Geert Wilders, announced that he would be traveling to Israel to meet with his soulmate, Netanyahu.
Not to be outdone, Hungary’s Viktor Orban invited Netanyahu to visit Budapest, assuring his favorite fugitive that he could do so with full impunity and immunity. Displaying a rare if entirely unintended flash of humor, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced that her government would conduct a “careful examination” to determine what, if anything, an ICC arrest warrant actually entails.
Before the study even got underway, multiple senior German politicians publicly dismissed the idea that it could lead to Netanyahu’s arrest on German soil.
The most interesting response came from France. Initially, its government issued a clear-cut statement that the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, would like any others be respected in line with Paris’s obligations under the Rome Statute.
Subsequently, the French foreign ministry suggested Paris need not necessarily comply with its obligations because Israel has refused to accept the Court’s jurisdiction. Needless to say, this contortionist legal argument has yet to be made by French mandarins with regard to other states that reject ICC jurisdiction over their actions, such as Russia (continue reading here).
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – DECEMBER 3, 2024:
Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – December 3, 2024: at least 45,336* ( 44,532 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 804 Palestinians (~169 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 47 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 – December 3, 2024: at least 111,988 (including at least 105,538 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 3, 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.
Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad revealed that the overwhelming majority of casualties in the 14-month Israeli war on the country occurred in its final months. Of the 4,047 people killed during the conflict, 3,402—or 84 percent—lost their lives during this period.
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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