In Occupied Palestine

Zionism in practice

Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land

08:00, 18 November until 08:00, 19 November 2024

[Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group]

Gaza Strip

Attacks: There are no safe places for the militarily-dominated population in Gaza, who find themselves subjected to airstrikes and other missile attacks on buildings, homes and many essentialfacilities, as well as constant gunfire and invasions by Israeli forces. The Israeli Navy continues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the entire Gaza shoreline.

Victims: 50 more people have been killed within the past 48 hours, bringing the total number killed in Gaza, since 7 October, to at least 43,972. Another 110 have been wounded, bringing up that total to 104,008. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 107 and, of those injured, that is now more than 254.

OCHA:

Humanitarian Situation Update #238
Gaza Strip

Key Highlights

• For over 40 days, people besieged in North Gaza governorate have been facing diminishing conditions for survival.

• All attempts by the UN to support people in North Gaza have been denied or impeded: bakeries and kitchens have shut down, nutrition support has been suspended, and the refuelling of water and sanitation facilities remains restricted.

• Efforts are ongoing to scale up services in Gaza city, where more than 100,000 people displaced from North Gaza have relocated.

• There is a stark increase in the number of households experiencing severe hunger in central and southern Gaza, Food Security Sector partners warn.

• Eight children were medically evacuated outside the Gaza Strip, bringing to 329 the number of patients who have been exceptionally evacuated abroad since early May.

Humanitarian Developments

• Israeli bombardment from the air, land and sea continues to be reported across the Gaza Strip, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement, and destruction of civilian infrastructure. In the North Gaza governorate, following military operations that began in October 2023, the Israeli military has been carrying out a ground offensive since 6 October 2024, with fighting reported between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups. Israeli forces have continued to impose a tightened siege on the area and humanitarian assistance has been largely denied; between 1 and 18 November, 27 out of 31 coordination requests by the UN to access the besieged areas were denied and the remaining four were initially approved but then impeded on the ground. No fuel was let in for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities (see more below).

• Briefing the Security Council on 12 November, then Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator (ERC), Joyce Msuya, described the latest offensive in North Gaza as “an intensified, extreme and accelerated version of the horrors of the past year.” The Acting ERC stated: “Shelters, homes and schools have been burned and bombed to the ground. Numerous families remain trapped under rubble, because fuel for digging equipment is being blocked by the Israeli authorities and first responders have been blocked from reaching them… Supplies to the north are being cut off and people are being pushed further south.” Highlighting the scale of death, destruction and suffering throughout the Strip, the UN official warned that “[c]onditions of life across Gaza are unfit for human survival,” with food being insufficient, shelter items extremely scarce and violent armed lootings of humanitarian convoys becoming “increasingly organised along routes from Kerem Shalom [crossing], driven by the collapse of public order and safety.”

• Between the afternoons of 12 and 19 November, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, 307 Palestinians were killed and 932 were injured. Between 7 October 2023 and 19 November 2024, at least 43,972 Palestinians were killed and 104,008 were injured, according to MoH in Gaza.

• Between the afternoons of 12 and 19 November, three Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza, according to the Israeli military. Between 7 October 2023 and 19 November 2024, according to the Israeli military and official Israeli sources cited in the media, more than 1,576 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed, the majority on 7 October 2023 and its immediate aftermath. The figure includes 376 soldiers killed in Gaza or along the border in Israel since the beginning of the ground operation. In addition, 2,440 Israeli soldiers were reported injured since the beginning of the ground operation.

• Due to the suspension of the Palestinian Civil Defense (PCD) services in North Gaza governorate, community responders with limited expertise have reportedly been trying to recover casualties using available unsuitable tools, with limited success. The following are some of the deadliest incidents reported between 11 and 18 November:

  • On 11 November, at about 20:45, 11 Palestinians, including two children were reportedly killed and others injured when a tent, reportedly operating as an internet service point and café, was hit on the coastal road in Al Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis.

  • On 12 November, at about 11:30, at least 15 Palestinians were reportedly killed, with corpses remaining under the rubble and in the street, when two houses were hit in Beit Hanoun, in North Gaza.

  • On 12 November, at about 10:45, at least six Palestinians, including two girls and an elderly man, were reportedly killed and several others, including children, injured when a group of Palestinians was hit near the UNRWA clinic on the coastal road west of Deir Al Balah.

  • On 13 November, at about 9:00, six Palestinians were reportedly killed and others injured when a group of people was hit at the gate of Kamal Adwan Hospital, in North Gaza.

  • On 15 November, at about 13:20, at least seven Palestinians including five females were reportedly killed and others injured when a tent used by internally displaced persons (IDPs) was hit near Al Eqlimi Park near Pier 19 in Al Mawasi area, in western Khan Younis.

  • On 16 November, at about 16:35, 10 Palestinians, including at least one girl and two women, were reportedly killed and others injured when Abu Asi School was hit in Ash Shati (Beach) refugee camp, in western Gaza city.

  • On 17 November, at about 0:30, 15 Palestinians were reportedly killed and others injured when a house, hosting IDPs, was hit near Al Shawa clinic in Beit Lahiya Project area in North Gaza. Injured people reportedly remained under the rubble.

  • On 17 November, at about 8:00, approximately 50 Palestinians, including women and children, were reportedly killed and others injured when a five-storey building hosting tens of IDPs was hit in Beit Lahiya Project, in North Gaza.

  • On 17 November, at about 15:25, six Palestinians were reportedly killed and others injured when a group of people was hit near Al Fizab Market in Qizan an Najjar village, in southern Khan Younis.

  • On 19 November, over 20 people were reportedly killed by armed men in an operation said to be led by the Gaza Ministry of Interior to target alleged looters of humanitarian aid.

• The UN and its partners estimate that between 100,000 and 131,000 people have been displaced since 6 October 2024, arriving at various locations in the west and north of Gaza city, where essential resources such as shelter, water, and health care are severely limited. This influx has raised the population in Gaza governorate from around 250,000 estimated to have been present as of the end of September 2024 to approximately 375,000 people. Movement towards southern Gaza remains limited, with about 700 people having moved southward since 6 October 2024. It is estimated that only 65,000 to 75,000 people remain in North Gaza governorate, less than 20 per cent of the population on the eve of 7 October 2024. On 17 November, Israeli air forces dropped leaflets in Beit Lahiya, ordering an immediate evacuation and reportedly triggering further displacement.

• On 15 November, Israeli forces released 20 Palestinian detainees through Kerem Shalom Crossing, most of whom had been reportedly detained from North Gaza since 6 October 2024, according to media sources. The detainees were subsequently transferred to the European Hospital in Khan Younis for medical evaluation and care. Some of the detainees reported to the media that many children, older people, and seriously injured individuals taken from hospitals in North Gaza remain in Israeli custody. Detainees reported being subjected to systematic torture within Israeli prisons, including physical assault, sleep deprivation, prolonged periods of handcuffing and blindfolding, and severe deprivation from food, water, and medical care, as media highlighted. On 15 November, the Palestinian Prisoner’s society announced the death of a detainee from Gaza on 14 November while being transferred from a prison in southern Israel to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba after his medical situation deteriorated. The society added that the prisoner had been detained since December 2023 and was in good health according to his family. As of November 2024, according to data provided by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to Hamoked, an Israeli human rights NGO, there are 10,091 Palestinians in Israeli custody, including 3,443 administrative detainees held without trial, 1,997 sentenced prisoners, and 1,627 people held as “unlawful combatants”. These figures do not include Palestinians from Gaza who have been detained by the Israeli military since 7 October 2023 and their number remains unknown.

• Humanitarian operations across Gaza have continued to be significantly hampered by ongoing access restrictions, severely limiting the critical delivery of food, medical aid, and fuel supplies and exacerbating already dire humanitarian conditions. Between 1 and 18 November, out of 319 planned aid movements across the Gaza Strip that were co-ordinated with the Israeli authorities, 41 per cent (132) were facilitated, 33 per cent (105) were denied, 16 per cent (51) were impeded, and 10 per cent (31) were cancelled due to logistical and security challenges. This includes 120 coordinated aid movements intended to provide humanitarian assistance in governorates north of Wadi Gaza, of which 65 needed to pass through the Israeli military-controlled Al Rashid or Salah Ad Din checkpoints. Of those using the checkpoints, only 24 per cent (16) were facilitated by the Israeli authorities, 32 per cent (21) were impeded, 34 per cent (22) were denied, and nine percent (six) were cancelled. Aid missions to the North Gaza Governorate were particularly disrupted. Between 1 and 18 November, 41 coordination requests for humanitarian missions in North Gaza governorate were either denied (17) or impeded (18), while seven per cent (3) were facilitated. Specifically, 31 of these 41 requests were made for the besieged areas of Jabalya, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahya, with all but 4 attempts being denied during this period. These four attempts were severely impeded and could only accomplish limited objectives. Co-ordinated aid missions to areas in the southern, western, and central Rafah governorate, which has been under an ongoing Israeli military operation since early May, have faced similar challenges, with 26 of the 63 co-ordinated missions (41 per cent) either denied or impeded between 1 and 18 November.                                                                                                         

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West Bank

[Palestinian Monitoring Group]

Israeli Army attack – 3 killed in assault on home: Jenin – 07:20, Israeli Occupation forces, storming the village of al-Shuhada, fired anti-tank rifle grenades at a home they were besieging, killing three people: Raed Abdul Rahman Sadiq Hanaysha, Anwar Nidal Tawfiq Saba’neh and Suleiman Adnan Suleiman Tazaza’a.

Israeli Army attack – teenager shot dead: Nablus – 15:35, the Israeli Army shot dead Nour Ahmed Mustafa Arafat (aged 18), during the storming of a housing area.

Israeli Army attack – woman wounded and hospitalised: Hebron – 11:55, Israeli troops, in Yatta, opened fire on a motor vehicle being driven by a woman, who was wounded and hospitalised.

Home invasion and abduction: Jenin – evening, Israeli Occupation forces raided Barta’a village and invaded a home, abducting a 13-year-old boy, Firas Qabha, as well taking prisoner his father.

Home invasion and occupation: Jenin – 19:55, Israeli forces raided the village of Jalboun, occupying a house and turning it into a military post.

Home invasions – refugee camp – destruction and vandalism: Jenin – 23:25, Israeli forces stormed the city as well as the refugee camp, invading homes, bulldozing streets, destroying infrastructure and damaging private property.

Home invasions and demolition: Tubas – in the Umm al-Jimal area of the North Jordan Valley, the Israeli Army demolished the homes of people who had already been evicted from them three months previously.

Home invasion: Nablus – 22:40–02:15, Israeli troops raided Burqa village and searched a house.

Home invasions: Nablus – 07:05, the Israeli military raided Salem village invaded a number of homes.

Home invasion: Salfit – 04:20–05:40, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Iskaka and searched a house.

Home invasions: Bethlehem – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Marah Rabah and searched a number of homes.

Israeli Army destruction and vandalism: Jerusalem – morning, Israeli Occupation forces destroyed a garden and two football fields, as well as demolishing two buildings in Beit Surik.

Israeli Army destruction and population–control: Jerusalem – afternoon, Israeli forces demolished a fruit and vegetable shop, in the village of Qalandiya.

Israeli police and settlers’ mosque violation: Jerusalem – 08:00, settler militants, escorted by Israeli police, invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and molested worshippers.

Israeli Army armed robbery and economic sabotage: Tubas – 08:55, the Israeli Army seized five water-pumps, three electricity transformers and 30 solar panels, all privately owned, in the al-Deir area of the North Jordan Valley.

Israeli Army assault on school, violence and injury: Tubas – 12:40-14:20, Israeli troops invaded the al-Maleh Elementary School, in the North Jordan Valley, severely beating-up and hospitalising a teacher and taking down the school’s Palestinian flag.

Israeli Army olive harvest sabotage and population–control: Qalqiliya – the Israeli military ordered a halt to olive harvesting on Beit Furik land, near the Itamar Occupation settlement and forced the farmers out.

Occupation settler violence – injury: Ramallah – 14:10, Israeli Occupation settlers, at the entrance to the village of al-Mughayir, assaulted and injured a man: Nashat Atiya Al-Naasan.

Occupation settler vandalism – olive harvest sabotage: Qalqiliya – 10:25, Israeli settlers invaded Hajjah village agricultural land, cutting down and uprooting around 60 olive trees.

Raid – 2 children abducted – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired: Ramallah – 21:00–01:45, Israeli Occupation forces, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided the village of Kafr Ni’ma and abducted two children: Jaber Amjad Jaber (aged 9) and 12–year–old Jihad Rashid Al-Deek.

Raid – teenager abducted: Ramallah – 01:50–05:55, Israeli forces raided Silwad and abducted a 17-year-old youth: Muhammad Ashraf Hamed.

Raid: Tulkarem – 08:40–09:55, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Kafa.

Raid: Qalqiliya – 22:00–05:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Immatin.

Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – 03:15–05:40, the Israeli military raided the city, taking prisoner one person.

Raid – stun grenades fired: Nablus – 17:15, Israeli soldiers, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled Beit Furik.

Raid – stun grenades fired: Nablus – 20:05–23:55, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled the village of Yatma.

Raid: Nablus – 21:25–22:40, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Burin.

Raid: Nablus – 22:15–23:55, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled Qabalan.

Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Salfit – 15:35-16:55, Israeli troops raided the town of Deir Istiya, taking prisoner one person.

Raid – stun grenades fired: Bethlehem – evening, the Israeli military, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled al-Khadr.

Raid – stun grenades fired: Bethlehem – 00:50, Israeli soldiers, firing stun grenades, raided the village of al-Jab’a.

Raid – armed robbery: Hebron – morning, Israeli Occupation forces raided the town of Dura and invaded an agricultural supplies store, taking prisoner one person and seizing fertiliser and otheragricultural supplies.

Raid: Hebron – 12:20-17:55, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the town of Yatta.

Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 18:15–21:50, the Israeli Army raided the town of Idhna, taking prisoner one person.

Raid – 3 children abducted and 1 adult taken prisoner: Hebron – 05:30–07:10, Israeli troops raided the al-Arroub refugee camp and abducted three children: 14–year–old Nour Ahmad Jawabrehas well as two 15–year–olds: Muhammad Habib Aziz Rushdi and Zahdi Muhammad Mahfouz. One adult, Ammar Nidal Abu Ghazi, was taken prisoner.