In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 16 December until 08:00, 17 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 essential facilities, as well as constant gunfire and invasions by Israeli forces. The Israeli Navycontinues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the entire Gaza shoreline.
APOLOGY: No PMG report yet available for 16 December to 17 December 2024
OCHA:
Humanitarian Situation Update #247
Gaza Strip
17 December 2024
Key Highlights
Attacks on civilian infrastructure continue, particularly in North Gaza, where WHO reports appalling conditions at Kamal Adwan Hospital and where 61 out of 95 attacks on school buildings since 6 October 2024 took place.
Humanitarian organisations are struggling to meet growing shelter needs amid recurrent displacement, limited entry of shelter supplies, and skyrocketing prices of winterising items on the local market.
Women are being heavily affected by the scarcity of diagnostic tests and essential medical treatments, often facing delayed or inadequate care.
Attacks on schools sheltering internally displaced people (IDPs) in Gaza continue to be reported, with nine such incidents documented so far in December 2024 by the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR). Read more
On 15 December, the third floor of an UNRWA school sheltering IDPs in Al Mawasi, in Khan Younis, was hit. Within minutes, the emergency department of the nearby Nasser Medical Complex was flooded with casualties, most of them women and children. Many were severely injured and died on site or en route to the hospital, reported
Between 11 and 17 December, the Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in North Gaza reported near daily attacks on or very close to the facility, which currently hospitalises 60 injured people, with debris and explosions shattering doors and windows, causing further damage to water tanks, the electricity generators and the oxygen supply network, and igniting a fire on the hospital’s third floor on one occasion. Due to ongoing insecurity and the lack of ambulances and equipment, medical staff have generally been unable to assist people trapped under the rubble in the surrounding areas or have themselves been hit. Read more
An average of four children every day, have reportedly been killed in Gaza since the beginning of November 2024, stressed UNICEF’s Executive Director, Catherine RusselI, in a statement condemning the latest attack on An Nuseirat camp on 12 December. Read more
Read the complete and highly detailed, shocking UN report on Israeli genocide in Gaza
West Bank
[Palestinian Monitoring Group]
NB: No PMG report yet available for 16 December to 17 December 2024.