In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 24 November until 08:00, 25 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: 24 more people have been killed within the past 48 hours, bringing the total number killed in Gaza since 7 October to at least 44,235. Another 71 have been wounded, bringing that total to 104,638. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 106; that of those injured is now more than 252.
Palestine today
Don’t say you didn’t know
Ali Kazak akazak@bigpond.net.au
ICC should request Interpol red notices against Netanyahu and Gallant, says rights group
The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK) has called on the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to request the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) to circulate red notices with the names of wanted persons, which would require the 195 countries that are members of Interpol to arrest the wanted persons if they arrive in their countries. Such notices can be issued under Article 4 of the agreement signed with the Office of the Prosecutor in 2004, and are an important step to ensure that the enforcement of arrest warrants is not limited to the 124 states that are members of the ICC.
The AOHR UK made the call as it welcomed the long-awaited decision of the ICC to issue the arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. Both names, said the organisation, should be on the list for red notices to be issued. The decision to issue the arrest warrants for the two Israeli officials is, said the AOHR, a first step towards eliminating the impunity that politicians and military leaders in the occupation state have enjoyed for decades due to the unlimited support of the US and other countries in Europe and elsewhere.
Israeli snipers ‘shoot Palestinians for sport’
Eyewitness accounts reveal Israeli snipers are systematically targeting unarmed civilians, including children, using tactics that point to deliberate genocidal intent and a chilling policy of terror designed to annihilate a people, not just wage war. Israel’s attempts to excuse the mass murder of civilians in Gaza as “collateral damage” fall apart in the face of mounting evidence that it employs deliberate sniper attacks. The targeted killing of unarmed people – using quadcopter drones and professional snipers – has restricted access to essential medical care, food, and water, exposing a chilling reality behind the occupation army’s actions. The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant are further testament to this not being a conventional war; it is a systematic targeting of civilians that points directly to genocidal intent.
Though there have been instances when sniper attacks on civilians captured the international media’s attention, this grim element of Israel’s military strategy is largely ignored, likely because of the damning implications. The first major case to break headlines in the western media was the murder of two Christian women at Gaza City’s Holy Family Church on 16 December 2023. The incident even received condemnation from the Pope over the murder of the Palestinian Catholic mother and her daughter, who were deliberately killed while seeking refuge inside the church compound.
But today, these kinds of shootings are so commonplace that they even occur during live TV interviews with western news outlets. For example, in January, British broadcaster ITV captured the moment when 51-year-old Ramzi Abu Sahloul was shot through the chest, only moments after he had spoken on air. Sahloul was part of a group of civilians who were fleeing to Rafah in Gaza’s south while holding white flags on the orders of the Israeli military.
Since early November, the Israeli army has ramped up its military assaults in Lebanon and carried out multiple massacres there, killing dozens of civilians, the majority of whom were women, children, and the elderly. The Israeli occupation army conducted over 35 raids on the Baalbek-Hermel district on Friday 1 November, killing 53 people and injuring at least 83 others. At least 15 more people were killed and injured in an Israeli army raid on an abandoned building in the Semaan Gallery neighbourhood, which is located at the eastern entrance to a southern suburb of Beirut, on Saturday 2 November.
Three additional people were killed and nine others—including a child who was rescued from beneath the debris by ambulance crews—were injured when the Israeli army attacked an apartment in a residential building in the Saida neighbourhood on Sunday 3 November. On the same day, the Lebanese Red Cross recovered the bodies of 20 Lebanese and one Syrian from rubble in the Wata al-Khiam area; the victims had been buried under the debris for days. The Israeli army then booby-trapped and blew up several homes in the town of Mays al-Jabal on Monday 4 November, and destroyed entire neighbourhoods in the town of Maaroub, nearly 20 kilometres inside the Lebanese border in the Tyre district.
Human Rights Monitor documented dozens of deliberate killings and new field executions carried out by Israeli occupation forces against numerous civilians in northern Gaza. These actions are part of the ongoing escalation and the broader framework of genocide perpetrated against Palestinians for over 13 months. For the past 43 days, the Israeli army has been conducting its third incursion and military offensive against northern Gaza and its residents, committing heinous atrocities. These include killing and terrorising civilians, forcibly evicting them from their homes, and displacing them outside northern Gaza province. This constitutes one of the largest cases of forced displacement in modern history.
Among the numerous atrocities committed by Israeli forces—ranging from bombing homes with residents inside, to mass killings of displaced civilians in shelters, and the targeting of gatherings and vehicles—Euro-Med Monitor’s field team documented harrowing incidents of direct killings and extrajudicial executions of civilians by Israeli soldiers, carried out with no justification whatsoever. Euro-Med Monitor’s field team documented the killing of Khaled Mustafa Ismail Al-Shafai (58) and his eldest son Ibrahim (21) by Israeli forces. They were shot inside their home in Beit Lahia in front of their family on Wednesday, 13 November 2024.
Israeli government sanctions Haaretz, severs all ties
The decision comes in response to comments made by the newspaper’s publisher referring to Palestinian ‘freedom fighters’. The Israeli government approved a proposal on Sunday directing all government-funded organisations to cease communications with Haaretz and withdraw advertisements from the newspaper. The government said the decision was prompted by “many articles that have hurt the legitimacy of the state of Israel and its right to self-defence, and particularly the remarks made in London by Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken that support terrorism and call for imposing sanctions on the government”.
Earlier this month, Schocken faced criticism from the Israeli government following his comments referring to Palestinian “freedom fighters”. The proposal, which was added to the cabinet meeting agenda at the last minute, was endorsed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During a speech at a conference in London on 1 November, Schocken said: “The Netanyahu government doesn’t care about imposing a cruel apartheid regime on the Palestinian population. “It dismisses the costs of both sides for defending the settlements while fighting the Palestinian freedom fighters, that Israel calls terrorists.” Schocken later clarified his remarks, explaining he did not consider Hamas to be “freedom fighters” and emphasized his support for freedom fighters who did not use “terrorism”.
The US Gave Israel 30 Days to Increase Aid to Gaza. Here’s What It Did Instead
A day-by-day breakdown of how Israel defied the US warning – and made conditions in Gaza worse. On Oct. 13, the US gave Israel 30 days to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face possible US policy “implications.” Thirty days passed, and the US government is making no policy changes, determining Israel has not violated US law and “has taken a number of steps” to address its demands. But reports from Gaza reveal an entirely different reality – Israel not only failed to comply, aid groups say, it made conditions worse. In the 30 days since the Biden administration’s warning, Israel bombed homes and camps sheltering Palestinians the Israeli military has displaced, targeted aid workers and medical staff, and admitted its goal to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza. And that’s not even the half of it. Watch the video to see how seriously the Israeli government took America’s warning.
West Bank
[Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Ramallah – 19:20, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the town of Jaba, wounding one resident.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Jenin – 17:00, Israeli forces, firing live ammunition, stormed al-Fanduqumiya village, under the pretext that they were being pelted with stones, and wounding one resident: Ahmed Salah Mahmoud Manaa.
Israeli Army attack – 1 youngster and 1 adult killed: Jenin – 22:20—00:20, the Israeli Army stormed Ya’bad, killing a 16-year-old youth, Muhammad Rabi’ Jamal Hamarsheh, and one other person: Ahmad Mahmoud Zaid Al-Kilani.
Home invasion – school broken into: Ramallah – 09:20, the Israeli Army raided the village of al-Mughayir and invaded a house, as well as breaking into a school.
Home invasions by settlers – vandalism and brutality: Nablus – afternoon, Israeli Occupation settlers, raiding Duma village, drove people from their homes, ransacking and destroying possessions and making it impossible for them to return to their homes for shelter from wind and rain.
Home invasions – population–control: Nablus – 23:05–02:20, Israeli forces raided the village of Duma and searched a number of homes, interrogating residents.
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 brutality: Tulkarem – 14:30, Israeli Occupation forces, at the Einav checkpoint, severely beat–up and hospitalised a man: Mahmoud Abu Shakir.
Israeli Army violence and agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 11:30, Israeli forces, in the village of al-Tuwani, assaulted a farmer, Mufdi Rab’i, and stopped him from ploughing his land.
Israeli Army mosque violation: Hebron – the Israeli Army has continued to close the Ibrahimi Mosque, for the third consecutive day.
Occupation settler menace: Tubas – 15:30, Israeli Occupation settlers herded cattle between people’s homes, in the Khallet Ahmir area of the North Jordan Valley, and menaced residents.
Occupation settler menace: Tubas – 18:00, Israeli settlers invaded the Khirbet Samra area of the North Jordan Valley, and threatened residents, intruding between their homes.
Occupation settler stoning: Nablus – 14:50, Israelis, from the Yitzhar Occupation settlement, stoned vehicles on the nearby bypass road.
Occupation settler threat to agriculture: Bethlehem – 15:40, Occupation settlers uprooted olive trees on Khalayel al-Loz village land, as well as bulldozing it. The settlers also started ploughing the land.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Jerusalem – 23:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Beit Duqqu, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 1 injured: Ramallah – 09:20, Israeli forces raided al-Mughayir, injuring a villager.
Raid – 11 interrogated: Ramallah – 16:25, the Israeli Army again raided al-Mughayir and interrogated eleven villagers.
Raid: Ramallah – 18:30, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Kafr Malik.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 01:15, the Israeli military raided the village of Qarawat Bani Zeid, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – injury: Jenin – 17:00, Israeli soldiers raided al-Fanduqumiya, injuring one villager.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jenin – 03:25–05:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Rumana, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – midnight-08:00, Israeli forces raided the village of Baqa al-Hatab, taking prisoner three people.
Raid: Nablus – 14:05, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Beit Furik.
Raid: Nablus – 19:10-21:30, Israeli troops raided the city and invaded a number of shops.
Raid: Nablus – 22:55–01:20, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the town of Beita.
Raid: Nablus – 23:30–02:50, Israeli soldiers, firing stun grenades, raided the village of Odala.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Nablus – midnight-00:30, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided Beit Furik.
Raid: Salfit – 12:55, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the town of Deir Ballut.
Raids: Salfit – 18:50, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the towns of Bidya and al-Zawiya.
Raid – 1 abducted – 1 taken prisoner: Jericho – 03:55–05:00, Israeli troops raided the Aqbat Jabir refugee camp and abducted a 17-year-old youth, Muhammad Raji al-Nattour, taking prisoner one other person.
Raid: Bethlehem – 18:55, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the city.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Bethlehem – 21:55, Israeli soldiers, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled al-Khadr.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 01:45–03:25, Israeli Occupation forces raided Tuqu’, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Hebron – 15:00, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the town of Yatta.
Raid – 4 interrogated in refugee camp: Hebron – 01:40, the Israeli Army raided the al-Arroub refugee camp and interrogated four people.
Raid – 5 taken prisoner: Hebron – 02:45, Israeli troops raided the town of Sa’ir, taking prisoner five people.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 03:05, the Israeli military raided Beit Ummar, taking prisoner one person.