In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 26 December until 08:00, 27 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: 37 more people have been killed within the past 48 hours, bringing the total number killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023 to at least 45,436. Another 98 have been wounded, bringing that total to 108,038. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 101 and, that of those injured, is now more than 242.
Israeli forces burn Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital,
contact with staff lost
The Gaza Health Ministry says it has lost contact with staff inside the Kamal Adwan Hospital as Israel sets fire to it.
The New Arab Staff & Agencies | 27 December 2024
https://www.newarab.com/news/
Israeli forces on Friday raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of three medical facilities on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, torching large sections and ordering dozens of patients and hundreds of others to leave, officials said. In separate incidents across Gaza, Israeli strikes killed at least 25 people, medics said. One of those strikes on a house in Gaza City killed 15 people, medics and the civil emergency service said.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said contact with staff inside the facility, which has been under heavy pressure from Israeli forces for weeks, had been lost. “The occupation forces are inside the hospital now and they are burning it,” Munir Al-Bursh, Director of the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, said in a statement. Youssef Abu El-Rish, the deputy health minister in Gaza, said troops set fires in several parts of Kamal Adwan, including the hospital’s lab and surgery department.
An Israeli airstrike on Thursday killed 50 people near the hospital, including five medical workers. The ministry said 25 patients and 60 health workers remained in the hospital out of 75 patients and 180 staff. However, attempts to reach hospital staff were unsuccessful.
“Fire is ablaze everywhere in the hospital,” an unidentified member of the staff said in an audio message from the hospital posted on the social media accounts of its director, Hossam Abu Safiya.The staffer said some evacuated patients had been unhooked from oxygen. “There are currently patients who could die at any moment,” she said. Like the Indonesian and Al-Awda hospitals, Kamal Adwan has been repeatedly attacked by Israeli forces who have been attacking the northern edge of the Gaza Strip for weeks, Palestinian medical staff say.
Hundreds ordered to leave hospital
Bursh said the army had ordered 350 people to leave Kamal Adwan for a nearby school sheltering displaced families. They included 75 patients, their companions, and 185 medical staff. Abu El-Rish said soldiers were transferring patients and medical staff to the Indonesian Hospital, which had already been put out of action by heavy damage and had been evacuated by Israeli forces a day earlier. Footage circulating on Palestinian and Arab media showed smoke rising from the area of Kamal Adwan.
Much of the area around the northern towns of Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia has been cleared of people and systematically razed, fuelling speculation that Israel intends to ethnically cleanse the area and permanently occupy it.
In a statement, Hamas blamed Israel and the United States for the fate of Kamal Adwan Hospital’s occupants. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed over 45,436 Palestinians, according to health officials in the enclave. Most of the population of 2.3 million has been displaced, and much of Gaza is in ruins.
https://www.newarab.com/news/
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, preventing people (including even permit– holders) from entering both the city of Jerusalem as well as Israel, otherwise than for especially–negotiated exceptions. Permanent military checkpoints impose severe travel restrictions within the Occupied West Bank.
Israeli Army attack – 2 wounded in refugee camp: Ramallah – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces stormed the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, wounding two people.
Israeli Army attack – teenager shot dead: Jenin – 20:30, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the town of Ya’bad, killing an 18-year-old resident: Zain Ali Tawfiq Suleiman Atatrah.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded in refugee camp – 3 taken prisoner: Nablus – 00:30–04:40, Israeli forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the city as well as the Askar refugee camp, wounding one resident, Qais Muhammad Farouk Al-Ajouri, and setting fire to a vehicle, driven into by a military bulldozer. Three other residents were taken prisoner.
Home invasions: Ramallah – 12:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided the town of Kobar and searched a number of homes.
Home invasions: Qalqiliya – 06:30–08:00, Israeli forces raided the city and searched several homes.
Home invasion: Salfit – 01:40–03:20, the Israeli Army raided Kafr al-Dik and invaded a house.
Home invasions: Salfit – 02:00–08:50, Israeli troops raided the city and searched a number of homes.
Home invasions: Salfit – 03:30–04:50, the Israeli military raided the town of Bidya and searched several houses.
Israeli police and settlers’ mosque violation: Jerusalem – 08:00, supported by Israeli police, the Israeli Minister of Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, accompanied Occupation settlers in an invasion of the grounds of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Israeli Army population–control: Tubas – 14:10, Israeli Occupation forces took prisoner an al-Far’a refugee camp resident, Marwan Adnan Ibrahim Khalifa, when he reported as ordered for interrogation at Israeli Military Intelligence.
Israeli Army population–control: Tulkarem – 15:25, Israeli forces took prisoner a man, Hani Muhammad Khaled Amarneh, when he reported as ordered for interrogation at Israeli Military Intelligence.
Israeli Army and settlers invasion – stun grenades fired: Jericho – 20:15–22:00, the Israeli Army, firing stun grenades, accompanied Occupation settlers on an invasion of the city.
Occupation settler invasion: Jericho – Israeli Occupation settlers placed a Menorah on top of the Diokos Castle, at the top of Mount Qurantul.
Occupation settler invasion: Hebron – Israeli settlers invaded an archaeological area of Tel Ma’in, east of Yatta, and placed a Menorah there.
Occupation settler land-grab: Hebron – Occupation settlers invaded and took over land in the area of Sha’b al-Batm, east of Yatta, and erected garden arbours near people’s homes.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Hebron – an Israeli settler grazed his sheep among crops on farmland, in the Tuba area of Yatta.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Ramallah – 20:20–23:10, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided Kafr Malik village.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 02:20–06:50, Israeli forces raided the city of al-Bireh, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Jenin – 03:15–05:30, the Israeli Army raided the town of al-Silah al-Harithiya, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 beaten-up and hospitalised: Tulkarem – 18:45, Israeli troops raided the town of Bal’a and delivered an order for the demolition of a house. They also beat-up and hospitalised a resident:Muhammad Talal Farid Abu Yassin.
Raid – abduction: Tulkarem – 23:45–01:15, the Israeli Army raided the village of Far’un and abducted a child.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – 18:45-20:15, Israeli troops raided Azzun, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 beaten-up – population–control: Nablus – 15:00, the Israeli military raided the village of Madama, beating-up one resident and forcing shops to close.
Raid: Nablus – 16:05, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the city.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – 16:10-17:55, Israeli Occupation forces raided the city, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Hebron – 10:05-16:30, Israeli forces raided the town of al-Dhahiriya, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Hebron – 21:40–00:35, the Israeli Army, accompanied by Occupation settlers, raided Halhul to visit the archaeological area of al-Tabaqa.