In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 23 February until 08:00, 24 February 2024
[Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Air strikes: Heavy aerial bombardment on buildings, homes and many facilities.
Attacks: All over Gaza, there are air strikes, heavy gunfire, tank and artillery shelling, as well as missiles fired from Israeli forces and military occupation, especially in Khan Yunis. The Israeli Navycontinues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the shoreline of the whole of Gaza.
Victims: 92 people killed in Gaza brings the total number of deaths since 7 October to at least 29,606. With another 123 wounded, that has risen to 69,737. Fully accurate statistics are not available,due to insecurity menacing hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
No OCHA Flash Update
United Nations:
Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee
Civilians in Gaza in extreme peril while the world watches on:
Ten requirements to avoid an even worse catastrophe
NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME, 21 February 2024 –
In the less than five months that followed the brutal 7 October attacks and the ensuing escalation, tens of thousands of Palestinians – mostly women and children – have been killed and injured in the Gaza Strip. More than three quarters of the population have been forced from their homes, many multiple times, and face severe shortages of food, water, sanitation and healthcare – the basic necessities to survive.
The health system continues to be systematically degraded, with catastrophic consequences. As of 19 February, only 12 out of 36 hospitals with inpatient capacity are still functioning, and only partially. There have been more than 370 attacks on health care in Gaza since 7 October.
Diseases are rampant. Famine is looming. Water is at a trickle. Basic infrastructure has been decimated. Food production has come to a halt. Hospitals have turned into battlefields. One million children face daily traumas.
Rafah, the latest destination for well over 1 million displaced, hungry and traumatised people crammed into a small sliver of land, has become another battleground in this brutal conflict. Further escalation of violence in this densely populated area would cause mass casualties. It could also deal a death blow to a humanitarian response that is already on its knees.
There is no safe place in Gaza
Humanitarian workers, themselves displaced and facing shelling, death, movement restrictions and a breakdown of civil order, continue efforts to deliver to those in need. But faced with so many obstacles – including safety and movement restrictions – they can only do so much.
No amount of humanitarian response will make up for the months of deprivation that families in Gaza have endured. This is our effort to salvage the humanitarian operation so that we can provide, at the very least, the bare essentials: medicine, drinking water, food, and shelter as temperatures plummet.
For this, we need:
1. An immediate ceasefire.
2. Civilians and the infrastructure they rely on to be protected.
3. The hostages to be released immediately.
4. Reliable entry points that would allow us to bring aid in from all possible crossings, including to northern Gaza.
5. Security assurances and unimpeded passage to distribute aid, at scale, across Gaza, with no denials, delays and access impediments.
6. A functioning humanitarian notification system that allows all humanitarian staff and supplies to move within Gaza and deliver aid safely.
7. Roads to be passable and neighbourhoods to be cleared of explosive ordnance.
8. A stable communication network that allows humanitarians to move safely and securely.
9. UNRWA[1], the backbone of the humanitarian operations in Gaza, to receive the resources it needs to provide life-saving assistance.
10. A halt to campaigns that seek to discredit the United Nations and non-governmental organisations doing their best to save lives.
Humanitarian agencies remain committed, despite the risks. But they cannot be left to pick up the pieces. We are calling on Israel to fulfil its legal obligation, under international humanitarian and human rights law, to provide food and medical supplies and facilitate aid operations, and on the world’s leaders to prevent an even worse catastrophe from happening.
Signatories:
Mr. Martin Griffiths, Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Ms. Sofia Sprechmann Sineiro, Secretary General, CARE International
Dr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Ms. Jane Backhurst, Chair, ICVA (Christian Aid)
Mr. Jamie Munn, Executive Director, International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)
Mr. Tom Hart, Chief Executive Officer and President, InterAction
Ms. Amy E. Pope, Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Ms. Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, Chief Executive Officer, Mercy Corps
Mr. Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Ms. Janti Soeripto, President and Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children
Ms. Paula Gaviria Betancur, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (SR on HR of IDPs)
Mr. Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Mr. Michal Mlynár, Executive Director a.i., United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat)
Ms. Catherine Russell, Executive Director, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Ms. Sima Bahous, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women
Ms. Cindy McCain, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP)
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) fully supports the statement.
West Bank
[Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Ramallah – 12:30, Israeli Occupation forces stormed the village of Qibya, wounding one resident: Muhammad Jumah Muhammad Issa.
Israeli Army attack – 2 wounded: Ramallah – evening, the Israeli Army, firing live ammunition, stormed the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, wounding two residents.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Qalqiliya – 17:05, Israeli troops, firing live ammunition, on the western side of Jayus, wounded one man: Nadeem Rashid Salim.
Israeli Army attack – 2 wounded – 1 beaten: Nablus – 16:30, the Israeli military, storming Tal village, wounded two residents, Hoda Asaad Yamen and Majd Hussein Ali Ramadan, as well as beating-up one other person: Mujahid Khaled Al-Rihan.
Home invasion: Tulkarem – 00:45–01:50, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of al-Nazlah al-Sharqiya and searched a home.
Home invasions: Tulkarem – 01:00–03:25, Israeli forces raided the city and searched a number of homes.
Home invasions: Qalqiliya – 23:25–00:50, the Israeli Army raided the city and invaded a number of homes.
Home invasions – including in refugee camp: Nablus – 02:05–04:55, Israeli troops raided Nablus as well as the Ein Beit al-Maa refugee camp and searched a number of homes.
Home invasions: Bethlehem – 00:15–02:15, the Israeli military raided the village of Beit Tamar, invaded two houses and took measurements, in preparation for their demolition.
Home invasions: Bethlehem – 00:40, Israeli soldiers raided Yatta and invaded a number of homes.
Israeli police and settlers’ mosque violation and population–control: Jerusalem – 08:00, Israeli Occupation forces imposed severe restrictions on would-be worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, forcing people to pray outside the walls of the Old City.
Occupation settler violence: Jericho – 17:30, Israeli settlers invaded the Fasayil village spring area and assaulted a youngster: Mahmoud Samih Musa Nawara.
Occupation settler stoning: Nablus – 13:55, Israeli settlers stoned passing vehicles, near the entrance to the village of al-Nasariya.
Occupation settler violence – pastoral sabotage: Hebron – 13:30-17:30, raiding Israeli settlers terrorised shepherds in the al-Mufaqara area, east of Yatta.
Occupation settler violence – suffocation and burns inflicted: Hebron – 22:30, in the village of Amnezel: Israeli settlers pepper-sprayed in the face two residents: Muhammad Abd Mar and Mahmoud Ayed Mar.
Raid: Ramallah – 12:30, Israeli Occupation forces raided Shuqba village.
Raid: Ramallah – 15:25, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Umm Safa.
Raid: Ramallah – 17:00, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Rantis.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Ramallah – 18:00, Israeli troops, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled al-Bireh.
Raid: Jenin – 15:30, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Silat al-Harithiya.
Raids: Jenin – 17:25, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the villages of Faqua, Kafr Qad, Beit Qad and Jalboun.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – 15:30, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Azzun, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 16:35, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Hajjah.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 16:45, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the Hotel village.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – 02:50-04:35, Israeli troops raided Azzun, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 04:15, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Kafr Thulth.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired: Qalqiliya – 12:40, Israeli soldiers, raiding the village of Kafr Qaddum, fired rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades.
Raid: Nablus – 09:20-12:35, Israeli Occupation forces raided Aqraba and searched a car-wash facility.
Raid: Nablus – 15:15, Israeli forces forces raided and patrolled Beita.
Raid: Nablus – 16:00, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Madama.
Raids: Nablus – 16:35, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the villages of al-Sawiya and al-Laban al-Sharqiya.
Raid – stun grenades: Nablus – 19:00, the Israeli military, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled Yatma village.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades: Nablus – 20:25–02:05, Israeli soldiers, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided and patrolled Asira al-Shimaliya.
Raid: Nablus – 20:45–02:05, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Azmout.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Nablus – 03:15–04:55, Israeli forces raided the village of Burqa, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Nablus – 03:20, the Israeli Army raided the village of Bizzaria, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Salfit – 13:35, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Haris.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jericho – 01:45, the Israeli military raided the village of al-Zubeida, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Bethlehem – 11:30-17:00, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled al-Khadr.
Raid: Bethlehem – 14:40, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Za’tara.
Raid: Bethlehem – 00:15–02:15, Israeli forces again raided Za’tara.
Raid: Hebron – 12:10, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the Bab al-Zawiya area.
Raid: Hebron – 12:25, Israeli troops raided and patrolled Halhul.
YAWN!