In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 14 December until 08:00, 15 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: 46 more people have been killed within the past 48 hours, bringing the total number killed in Gaza since 7 October to at least 44,976. Another 135 have been wounded, bringing that total to 106,759. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 103; that of those injured is now more than 245.
Palestine today
Don’t say you didn’t know
Ali Kazak akazak@bigpond.net.au
Israeli army systematically targets medical teams
in effort to destroy Palestinian life in northern Gaza
13 December 2024
As part of its genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israel routinely targets medical teams in the north in an effort to destroy the health system and impose intolerable living conditions on civilians while denying them access to life-saving care.
The Israeli occupation army targeted Dr Saeed Joda today, on the afternoon of Thursday, 12 December, as he was travelling from Kamal Adwan Hospital to Al-Awda Hospital to treat patients. He was killed when a Quadcopter fired at him, striking him in the head and demonstrating that his killing was pre-meditated and deliberate, especially given that he was the only orthopaedic physician in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israel has attacked Kamal Adwan Hospital, located in the Beit Lahia project, more than 20 times in the past 10 days, injuring several patients, medical personnel, and their companions. An Israeli drone targeted and killed Ali Al-Qar’a, a paramedic working in the Kamal Adwan area, on Sunday night (8 December).
The few medical teams that have remained in northern Gaza are being targeted by the Israeli occupation army in a methodical, obvious, and recurring pattern. This makes it extremely difficult to provide medical care to the 10s of thousands of residents who have been under siege for 69 days and continues to prevent ambulance and Civil Defence crews from working for 51 days now.
In addition to the cycle of killing that has affected tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians in the northern section of the Strip, Euro-Med Monitor’s review of the Israeli military’s targeting records and victim lists reveals a systematic, widespread policy of killing and assassinating Palestinian elites and those with competencies in various sectors.
The number of Palestinian medical personnel who have been killed since 7 October 2023 is 1057, and more than 135 scientists and academics have also been killed.
Professor Abdel Salam Abu Zaida is the latest of these victims, having been killed, along with six other Palestinians, in an Israeli raid on Gaza City’s Al-Malash building yesterday evening (Wednesday, 11 December). The lists of targeted elites also include journalists, 193 of whom have been killed since 7 October 2023, as well as people with knowledge of computer engineering, programming, and information technology, plus other influential people in these crucial spheres of society.
Israel’s crimes, which include the targeted and intentional killing of Palestinian intellectual elites and talents as well as the widespread and intentional destruction of businesses and infrastructure, are likely to impede the advancement of Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip overall; threaten its scientific, educational and economic system; and deprive its vital sectors of prestigious and specialised cadres that will be difficult to replace in the near future. The killings are also bound to instil fear among the remaining talents.
These crimes occur in the context of overt Israeli policies that seek to render the Gaza Strip uninhabitable by eradicating basic life structures and individuals with valuable competencies. Given the magnitude and breadth of Israel’s efforts, its crimes could immobilise Palestinian society in the Strip by preventing it from developing, building or recovering from this genocide.
The United Nations and all nations must, therefore carry out their international legal duties to prevent the continuation of Israel’s crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip; impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel; hold it responsible and punish it for all of its crimes; take all necessary steps to protect Palestinian civilians in the Strip; defend medical personnel and health facilities in the enclave from any further targeting; and act swiftly, without hindrance, and in a way that satisfies the needs of all residents of the Gaza Strip, especially those in the northern areas. The complete withdrawal of the Israeli occupation army from the entire Gaza Strip must be ensured.
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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.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Ramallah – 14:30–16:45, one person was wounded when Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the village of al-Mughayir.
Israeli Army attacks: Ramallah – 14:30-16:45, Israeli forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the villages of Kafr Malik and Khirbet Abu Falah.
Israeli Army attack – 1 child wounded: Jenin – 18:30-21:50, the Israeli Army, firing live ammunition, stormed the village of al-Jalameh, wounding a 12–year–old child: Adham Amjad Abu Farha.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Nablus – 03:30–05:30, Israeli troops, firing live ammunition including stun grenades, stormed the city and the Balata refugee camp.
Home invasions in refugee camp and village: Ramallah – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided the village of Rantis as well as the al-Jalazoun refugee camp and searcheda number of homes.
Home invasions: Qalqiliya – midnight-04:15, the Israeli Army raided the village of Deir al-Hatab and invaded a number of homes.
Home invasions: Bethlehem – 01:55–03:30, Israeli forces raided the town of Beit Fajjar and searched a number of homes.
Israeli Army population–control: Jerusalem – the Israeli Occupation forced a resident, Yousef Al-Tawil, to demolish his warehouse in the Silwan neighbourhood – or otherwise be forced to pay an extortionate sum to the Israeli Occupation demolition squads, who would be sent in to do it.
Israeli Army armed robbery: Ramallah – 12:00, Israeli forces seized a bulldozer belonging to a man, Moaz Sayel Awawdeh, at work in Burqa village.
Israeli Army – abduction of 2 youngsters: Ramallah – 16:20, in al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiya, the Israeli Army abducted two 16–year–old youths: Nazih Firas Ladadwa and Rami Saleh.
Occupation settler land-grab: Ramallah – 12:30, Israeli Occupation settlers set up camp on a new area of stolen Silwad land, enlarging their settlement outpost.
Occupation settler violence – injury and hospitalisation: Ramallah – 20:55, stone-throwing Israelis, from the Eli Occupation settlement, injured and hospitalised a nearby passing motorist: Farid Sharif Ma’touq.
Occupation settler plunder – pastoral sabotage: Tubas – 08:15, Israeli settlers plundered 25–head of cattle from pastoral land, near the village of Tayasir in the North Jordan Valley.
Occupation settler plunder – pastoral sabotage: Nablus – 09:30, Israelis, from the Shavei Shamron Occupation settlement, invaded the outskirts of Deir Sharaf village and plundered a flock of sheep.
Occupation settler stoning: Nablus – 12:30, Israeli settlers stoned homes on the outskirts of Burin village.
Occupation settler threat: Nablus – 15:55, an armed Israeli security guard, from the Yitzhar Occupation settlement, drove his vehicle menacingly around the town of Huwara.
Occupation settler petrol–bombs: Nablus – 16:30, Israeli settlers launched petrol–bombs towards a home, on the eastern outskirts of Burin village.
Occupation settler threat – population–control: Salfit – 12:50-14:00, Israeli settlers, riding tractors, held up and menaced people and their motor vehicles, near the spring west of Salfit.
Occupation settler threat: Jericho – Occupation settlers invaded the Arab al-Maliha community in the al-Ma’arjat area, north–west of Jericho, for the second day in a row.
Occupation settler violence – agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 10:50, Israeli Occupation settlers invaded land, east of the town of Yatta, assaulting a farmer, Khaled Musa’af, and preventing him from ploughing his land.
Occupation settler – population–control: Hebron – evening, Israeli settlers closed the bypass road, near the al-Fawar refugee camp, and asserted their presence in the area.
Raid – on refugee camp: Ramallah – 09:30-14:20, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the Jalazoun refugee camp.
Raid: Ramallah – 10:45-12:05, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Burqa village.
Raid: Ramallah – 14:30, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled Turmusaya.
Raid: Ramallah – 16:45, Israeli troops raided and patrolled Ein Yabrud village.
Raids: Ramallah – 17:45, the Israeli military, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled Beit Rima, Silwad, al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiya and the village of Aboud.
Raids: Jenin – 11:00, Israeli soldiers raided the towns of Jaba’ and Silat al-Dahr, as well as the village of al-Fanduqumiya.
Raid: Jenin – 11:00-12:30, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Arbouna.
Raids: Jenin – 16:55, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the villages of Arranah, Deir Ghazaleh, Faqua and Beit Qad.
Raids: Qalqiliya – 10:10-15:05, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the villages of Immatin and Far’ata.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – 01:45–04:15, Israeli troops raided the village of Hajjah, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Nablus – 10:30, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the town of Sebastia.
Raid: Nablus – 10:45, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Beit Imrin.
Raid: Nablus – 10:55, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided the village of Yatma.
Raids: Nablus – 11:40-13:55, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the villages of Urif, Asira al-Qibliya and Einabus.
Raid: Nablus – 14:30, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Bruqin.
Raid: Nablus – 14:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of Beita.
Raids: Nablus – 15:00, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the town of Asira al-Shamaliya, as well as the villages of Yasid and Bizzariya.
Raid: Nablus – 17:10, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Iraq Burin.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Nablus – 19:05, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided Kafr Qallil.
Raid: Jericho – 04:00–05:30, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the town of al-Auja.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 02:30-04:30, the Israeli Army raided Beit Ummar, taking prisoner one person.