In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 10 December until 08:00, 11 December 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: 19 more people have been killed within the past 48 hours, bringing the total number killed in Gaza since 7 October to at least 44,805. Another 69 have been wounded, bringing that total to 106,257. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 104; that of those injured is now more than 247.
Syria: Thousands freed from prisons, amidst hundreds of Israeli airstrikes
The Wire – Jewish Voice for Peace
Last week, we argued that in the face of a rising far-Right, what we have is solidarity with each other. And true solidarity among the exploited and oppressed begins with the willingness to understand and bear witness to others’ pain, recognizing it as inseparably linked to our own.
It is with that commitment, and tears in our eyes, that we watched as thousands of Syrians were freed from the Assad regime’s dungeons, reuniting with their loved ones after years or decades behind bars. These scenes are a powerful reminder of what we’re fighting for.
We don’t know what the future in Syria holds, but we do know that Syrians alone should have the power to determine that future, and that they deserve our solidarity.
For now, the images of prisons being emptied, of hundreds of thousands of refugees returning home, and of families reuniting gives us hope that one day soon, Palestinians will be free too. Because even as the political terrain shifts rapidly, we’re continuing to cry out with everything we have to end the U.S.-backed, Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Liberation of the ‘human slaughterhouse’
After opposition forces took control of Damascus, they began the work of liberating Sednaya Military Prison, one of Syria’s most notorious prisons: a massive labyrinth of decrepit cells and underground torture chambers dubbed the “human slaughterhouse.”
Syrians have endured unspeakable horrors. Over 100,000 people were estimated to be forcibly disappeared by the Assad regime. Now, local rights groups say most of them are likely dead. In the last days, a mass grave and rooms full of shoes and other belongings have been uncovered at Sednaya.
Countless families are learning that their missing loved ones were killed in Assad’s torture camps. Their pain is an agonising reminder of why we fight: Because all people deserve to live in safety and dignity, free of the horrors of incarceration, occupation, and genocide.
But there is hope, too. We have watched scenes of former prisoners stepping into the fresh air after decades in the darkness, equal parts joy and confusion on their faces; families embracing after long years of separation; hundreds of refugees flocking to the Lebanese and Turkish borders, finally able to return home.
Hundreds of Israeli airstrikes across Syria
While Syrians around the world let themselves feel hope — cautiously optimistic that the years of brutal war and forced displacement could come to an end — Israel was already invading Syria.
The Israeli military seized a Syrian-controlled buffer zone in the Golan Heights, Syrian territory that has been illegally occupied by Israel since 1967. During the first Trump administration, the U.S. government recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan, a move that Biden has refused to reverse.
Israeli forces also launched hundreds of airstrikes, hitting weapons depots, radar and air defence systems, airports, and aircraft squadrons in the capital, Damascus, and across the country, in addition to destroying the Syrian navy fleet.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hailed the fall of the Assad regime — but not because he cares about what happens to Syrians. In reality, he and the rest of Israel’s far-Right government are determined to exploit this moment of instability to carry out their expansionist aims across the region. The Israeli government’s aims are clear: To ensure a future Syria too weak to resist its settler-colonial plans for the entire region.
After all, the Israeli military has been bombing Syria for over a decade, including over the past months as it invaded neighbouring Lebanon, killing thousands and reducing entire villages to rubble.
The future is uncertain, but the answer is always solidarity
In last week’s Wire, we argued that Trump won by telling people that their pain is the only real pain, and that the pain of others doesn’t matter.
Our task on the left is to make it clear that all of our pain, like our struggles for freedom, are interconnected — and that the forces that oppress us are also trying to divide us. They scapegoat the most vulnerable among us because they know we’re at our most powerful when we act together.
The left can and must tell a more compelling story than the Right, one rooted in solidarity: the idea that none of us is free until all of us are free, and that we should stand with the oppressed everywhere.
We don’t know what the future in Syria holds, but we do know that Syrians alone should have the power to determine that future, and that they deserve our solidarity. For now, the images of prisons being emptied, of hundreds of thousands of refugees returning home, and of families reuniting gives us hope that one day soon, Palestinians will be free too.
West Bank
[Palestinian Monitoring Group]
Since midnight on 07 October 2023, Occupation forces have been imposing a complete closure around the whole of the West Bank. Permanent military checkpoints impose severe travel restrictions within the Occupied West Bank.
Israeli Army attack – 2 wounded: Jenin – 11:10–17:10, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed Silat al-Dahr as well as the village of al-Fanduqumiya, wounding two residents:Amer Ghassan Masoud and Muhammad Najeh Hantouli.
Israeli Army attack: Bethlehem – 15:05, Israeli forces, at the western entrance to Beit Fajjar, opened fire towards a motor vehicle that managed to escape safely.
Israeli Army attack – 2 wounded: Jenin – 11:10–17:10, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed Silat al-Dahr and the village of al-Fanduqumiya, wounding two residents: Amer Ghassan Masoud and Muhammad Najeh Hantouli.
Israeli Army attack: Bethlehem – 15:05, Israeli forces, at the western entrance to Beit Fajjar, opened fire towards a motor vehicle, which managed to escape safely.
Israeli police and settlers’ mosque violation: Jerusalem – 08:00, Israeli settlers, escorted by Occupation police, invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and molested worshippers.
Israeli Army water crime and agricultural sabotage: Salfit – 08:50, Israeli Occupation forces demolished two agricultural facilities as well as two wells on Kafr al-Dik farmland.
Israeli Army land-grab: Salfit – 22:00, Israeli forces seized land trapped behind the Occupation Annexation Wall, belonging to al-Zawiya and the village of Rafat, in order to enlarge a quarry.
Israeli Army land-grab: Bethlehem – 17:00, the Israeli Army seized a strip of Jourat al-Sham’a village land, in order to extend a bypass road from the Gush Etzion settlement to the Mazmoria checkpoint, east of Bethlehem.
Israeli Army land-grab: Bethlehem – the Israeli Occupation issued an order, for the seizure of 9.4 hectares of land trapped behind the Annexation Wall near the tunnel area west of Beit Jallah, so as to establish a bus station for settlers.
Israeli Army population–control: Bethlehem – the Israeli Army blocked the entrance to the village of al-Manshiya.
Israeli Army stun grenades: Hebron – 11:35, Israeli troops fired stun grenades towards people, at the entrance to the al-Fawar refugee camp.
Israeli Army agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 07:30, the Israeli military bulldozed crops on agricultural land, between the village of Shuyukh al-Arroub and the al-Arroub refugee camp.
Occupation settler violence and agricultural sabotage: Tulkarem – 15:15, Israeli Occupation settlers invaded agricultural land, in the Ramin Plain area, and assaulted farmers.
Occupation settler road rage – child hospitalised: Nablus – 13:45, an Israeli settler, ran over and hospitalised a child, Ibrahim Muhammad Ibrahim Samara, on the main road passing by the village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Salfit – 13:35, Israeli settlers cut off branches from a number of olive trees on Yasuf village agricultural land.
Occupation settler violence and agricultural sabotage: Salfit – 15:00, Occupation settler militants again invaded Yasuf village farmland, assaulting a farmer and stealing his cultivation tools.
Occupation settler – surveillance: Bethlehem – 17:00, Israeli settlers set up a tower on high ground overlooking the village of Artas.
Occupation settler violence and pastoral sabotage: Hebron – 11:35, Occupation settlers raided the Jura al-Khalil area in Sa’ir and forced off shepherds from the land.
Occupation settler land-grab: Hebron – 13:20, Israelis, from the Negohot Occupation settlement, west of the town of Dura, built a new settlement road on privately-owned Palestinian land.
Raid – population–control: Ramallah – 11:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Kafr Malik and invaded a supermarket, holding workers there inside for a time.
Raid: Ramallah – 15:00, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Silwad.
Raid: Ramallah – 15:15, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Sinjil.
Raid: Ramallah – 16:00, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Kharbatha al-Misbah.
Raid: Ramallah – 17:00–00:40, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the town of al-Taybeh.
Raid: Ramallah – 17:30, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Umm Safa.
Raids – population–control: Ramallah – 03:10–06:05, Israeli Occupation forces raided Ramallah and al-Bireh, invading three currency exchange shops, vandalising their contents and postingwarnings ordering the owners not to reopen.
Raid – surveillance: Tubas – 14:20–17:10, Israeli forces raided the village of Atouf and seized surveillance cameras, near the village mosque.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – 02:00, the Israeli Army raided the Shweika suburb, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 13:05, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Hajja.
Raid – injury – 3 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – 04:50–07:20, the Israeli military raided the city, injuring one resident and taking prisoner three people.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 07:30, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Kafr Laqif.
Raid – school pupils and staff terrorised: Nablus – morning, the Awarta Secondary School for Boys‘ Administration were forced to evacuate its students when Occupation forces raided the village of Awarta and ordered the school’s Principal and teaching staff to close the premises and leave.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Nablus – 21:50–00:55, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Yatma, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 10 taken prisoner: Nablus – 21:55–00:55, Israeli forces raided the village of Burin, taking prisoner ten people.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Nablus – 04:20, the Israeli Army raided the city, taking prisoner two people.
Raids: Salfit – 20:15–21:50, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of Kifl Haris, as well as the village of Haris.
Raid: Salfit – 22:00-midnight, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Marda.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 12:10-15:05, Israeli soldiers raided the village of al-Jab’a, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 22:25–00:30, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of Husan, taking prisoner three people.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – dawn, Israeli forces raided the town of Beit Fajjar, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – morning, the Israeli Army raided Tarqumiya, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Hebron – 09:25-12:50, Israeli troops raided the city and invaded the Infinity Print Press.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 03:10–06:15, the Israeli military raided the town of Yatta, taking prisoner one person.