In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 15 June until 08:00, 16 June 2024
[Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Gaza Strip
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 Navy continues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the shoreline of the whole of Gaza.
Victims: 41 more people killed in Gaza now brings the total number of deaths, since 7 October, to at least 37,337. With another 102wounded, that figure has risen to more than 85,299.
Palestine today
Don’t say you didn’t know
From Ali Kazak:
UNRWA: Over 50,000 Palestinian children need treatment for acute malnutrition
UNRWA has warned that with humanitarian aid restrictions, thousands of Palestinian children are in need for dire treatment due to acute malnutrition. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reported on Saturday that over 50,000 children in the Gaza Strip urgently need treatment for acute malnutrition. In its statement, the agency highlighted the severe impact of ongoing restrictions on humanitarian access, leading to widespread hunger and deteriorating conditions in Gaza. This comes as UNRWA warned in March that acute malnutrition was already accelerating in the north of the besieged enclave among children. According the UN agency, one in three children under the age of two in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished. “Over 50,000 children require treatment for acute malnutrition,” UNRWA said in its latest statement. Underscoring the critical situation, the agency also noted that the overall situation is catastrophic and emphasised the dire need for immediate intervention and support to address the escalating crisis.
Israel’s targeting of Gaza schools ‘eroding foundation for societal growth’
More than 76 percent of schools in Gaza require ‘full reconstruction or major rehabilitation’ to be functional. More than 76 percent of schools in Gaza require “full reconstruction or major rehabilitation” to be functional following Israel’s months-long onslaught, according to a new assessment shared by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Based on satellite imagery collected in May, the new Education Cluster assessment highlights a “continuous spike in the direct targeting of schools” in the besieged and bombarded territory. Of the school buildings used as shelters for displaced people in Gaza, 69 percent have been directly hit or damaged in attacks and more than 96 percent of the schools directly attacked – 296 in total – were located in areas subject to Israeli military evacuation orders.
‘Absolute priority’: UN agencies must work unhindered in Gaza, G7 says
Israel must end its occupation and its G7 allies must ‘move from words to action. The time for talking is done,’ Oxfam charity says. The Palestinian refugee agency of the United Nations (UNRWA) must be allowed to work unhindered in Gaza, Group of Seven (G7) leaders say as the wealthy nations wrapped up day two of their annual summit in Italy. “We agree it is critical that UNRWA and other UN organisations and agencies’ distribution networks be fully able to deliver aid to those who need it most, fulfilling their mandate effectively,” G7 nations said in their final communique. “We are deeply concerned by the consequences on the civilian population of the ongoing ground operations in Rafah, and the possibility of a full-scale military offensive that would have further dire consequences for civilians. We call on the government of Israel to refrain from such an offensive,” it said. “We condemn the rise in extremist settler violence committed against Palestinians, which undermines security and stability in the West Bank, and threatens prospects for a lasting peace.”
Unpacking Blinken’s lies on the Gaza ceasefire negotiations
After the US secretary of state’s misleading press conference on Wednesday in Doha, there is a need to correct the record. During a Wednesday press conference in Doha, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was less than honest about a United States-proposed Gaza ceasefire deal. During the course of his opening remarks and the question and answer session, Blinken made several statements that are either transparently untrue or deeply misleading. First, Blinken insisted that the three-phased ceasefire deal announced by US President Joe Biden on May 31 was an “Israeli proposal” and that Israel fully backs it. Blinken was being untruthful. Biden’s proclamation that it was an “Israeli proposal” simply isn’t true. In the two weeks since Biden made his announcement, Israeli officials have not come forward and announced their acceptance of the deal. In fact, they’ve done the opposite. Over the past two weeks, Israeli officials have made clear that they oppose the Biden draft proposal. Moreover, Netanyahu and other officials have made clear that Israel intends to continue its war on Gaza, an aim which contradicts the basic terms of Biden’s proposal.
New testimonies from Palestinian detainees released from Israeli prisons and detention centres received by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor confirm that thousands of civilians have been subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment and severe torture as part of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023. The international community and international justice institutions must break the cycle of silence, declare firm positions, and take concrete action against the horrific torture that Palestinian civilians, both male and female, are being subjected to. This abuse has escalated to such an extent that, for the victims fortunate enough to survive, it now includes sexual violence, forced injections with unknown substances, and deliberate scarring and unique marking of their bodies. The degree of the violence should compel the international community to force Israel to stop all of its crimes against Palestinian prisoners and detainees, including the crimes of torture, inhumane treatment, and enforced disappearance, which have been committed against thousands of individuals from the Gaza Strip over the past eight months.
I witnessed the Nuseirat massacre: Western journalism doesn’t want to know
Last Saturday in Deir al-Balah was the worst day of my life. While the sound of Apache helicopters and F-16 fighter jets screeched over our heads, Israel carried out the Nuseirat Refugee Camp massacre, moments away. You could hear the screams of children in central Gaza from our window. Occasionally, a lone siren cuts through the chaos: I say a prayer in hope. A day later, my heart sank for what felt like the millionth time when I read Western headlines about Israel’s massacre in Nuseirat refugee camp. The BBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Guardian, and more ran with the headline ‘Israel’s rescue operation’, as if more than 270 Palestinians hadn’t been slaughtered and 400 more maimed. For Western journalists, it’s a simple equation: one Israeli life equals 150 Palestinians. I doubt they’d use the same kind of language were it their own loved ones under fire. But now the mask has slipped, journalism in the West isn’t about covering the truth, it’s about faking it. I think back to March 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. The coverage was unanimous: Russia ‘invaded’, ‘occupied’, and ‘killed’. But when Israel does the same in Nuseirat and Gaza, it’s ‘self-defence’, ‘ancestral home’, and ‘collateral damage’. — Abubaker Abed
Under the headline, “Israel says Hamas weaponised rape. Does the evidence add up?” two investigative reporters, Catherine Philp and Gabrielle Weiniger, decisively shredded the dense fabric of lies on this topic, woven these past eight months by the Israelis, Western media, freakishly obsessed Zionist sympathisers and various feminist poseurs. Philp and Weiniger have produced an exceptional piece of journalism, the virtues of which I will shortly consider. For now, just this: You will never read a piece of this integrity on this side of the Atlantic — and certainly never in The New York Times, whose infamous dishonesty in the matter of alleged sexual violence in the Gaza crisis has few matches in the history of the once-but-no-longer newspaper of record. But the significance of The Times piece extends well beyond its quality as first-rate work. Mainstream media have at last reported on the monstrous propaganda operation that has fabricated lurid allegations of sexual abuse on the part of Hamas militias. The surface of silence has finally been disturbed. The historians will have a record with which to work. Answering the question posed in the headline atop their piece, Philps and Weiniger reply with an unambiguous “No”: there is no sound evidence whatsoever that Hamas militias, and others that crossed into southern Israel with them last Oct. 7, engaged in systematic, officially planned sexual violence against Israelis, women and men, during their attacks on various kibbutzim just across the Gaza–Israel border.
West Bank
[Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded – 3 taken prisoner: Tubas – morning, Israeli forces stormed the al-Far’a refugee camp, wounding one resident and taking prisoner three people.
Israeli Army attack – 2 wounded – ambulance driver assaulted – ambulance damaged: Nablus – evening, Israeli Occupation forces,firing live ammunition, killed a 16-year-old youth, Sultan Abdul Rahman Sultan Khatahtbeh, while storming Beit Furik as well as woundingtwo other residents. Israeli troops later attacked the driver of an ambulance, when it arrived to attend to the two victims, smashing the vehicle’s windows and assaulting the driver.
Home invasion – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided the village of Kafr Ni’ma and searched a house, taking prisoner one person.
Home invasion: Nablus – dawn, Israeli forces raided Rujeib village and searched a home.
Israeli Army – destruction and population–control: Hebron – morning, the Israeli Army held up a car being driven by a woman, Sabreen Saber Zamel Zaqeq, near the Karmei Tzur Occupation settlement and forced her to drive into it, where she was detained for a time. The woman’s husband, looking for his wife, arrived at the settlement gate later and was also detained by Israeli forces who, what’s more,destroyed his motor vehicle.
Occupation settler violence: Tubas – dawn, Israeli Occupation settlers stoned homes in the North Jordan Valley and assaulted residents. One victim, Luay Zuhdi Daraghmeh, was rushed to the Ein Al-Bayda Emergency Centre for treatment.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided Beit Rima, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – vandalism: Qalqiliya – dawn, the Israeli Army raided the city and destroyed a memorial to two people killed by Occupation forces.
Raids: Nablus – morning, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Sebastia, as well as the villages of Beit Amarin and Jbeil.
Raid on refugee camp: Nablus – dawn, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the Balata refugee camp.
Raid: Nablus – dawn, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Madama.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – morning, Israeli troops raided al-Khadr, taking prisoner three people.
YAWN!
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