In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 27 December until 08:00, 28 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: 48 more people have been killed within the past 48 hours, bringing the total number killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023 to at least 45,484. Another 52 have been wounded, bringing that total to 108,090. 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 241.
Palestine today
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Ali Kazak akazak@bigpond.net.au
3 babies freeze to death in Gaza amid Israel’s genocidal war
Freezing temperatures have killed three Palestinian babies in the Gaza Strip amid a deadly Israeli onslaught on the enclave, officials and local media said on Thursday. A three-week-old baby girl lost her life in a tent encampment in al-Mawasi in the southern city of Khan Yunis on Wednesday, Dr Munir Al-Bursh, the Director General of Gaza’s Health Ministry, said on his X account. Sela Mahmoud Al-Fasih “froze to death from the extreme cold”, he added.
The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said two other infants, ages three days and one month, have also died from cold temperatures and a lack of access to warm shelter. The Israeli Army has continued a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 45,400 people, mostly women and children, since a Hamas attack on 7 October last year, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. Tel Aviv has imposed a stifling blockade on Gaza, leaving the territory’s 2.3 million population on the verge of famine.
Israel kills five medical staff as another baby freezes to death in Gaza
One doctor, a lab technician and two maintenance workers were among those killed as a fourth baby in three days dies of cold during Israel’s genocide. Israel’s genocide has killed five staff members at one of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals, the facility’s director says, as yet another baby freezes to death in the besieged and bombed Palestinian enclave. Hussam Abu Safia, Head of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, on Thursday said the “martyrs included a doctor.” Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Central Gaza, said a laboratory technician and two maintenance workers were among those killed in the attack. “We know that the hospital is one of the only medical facilities still operating, and it is working with the bare minimum human resources and a lack of medical supplies,” she said.
“Israeli forces have been attacking the surroundings of Kamal Adwan Hospital, sending quadcopters inside the hospital and shooting Palestinians.” The hospital has been rendered non–operational after weeks of near-daily attacks. Israeli forces previously killed the Director of the hospital’s ICU, Dr Ahmed al-Kahlout, and wounded dozens of medical staff in attacks on and near the facility. Khoudary said Palestinian rescue workers have been unable to reach the bodies of those killed at the hospital. “People are unable to bury those Palestinians who are being killed every single day by the Israeli forces in northern Gaza,” she added.
Israel hits broadcast van killing, five Palestinian journalists in Gaza
Israel has targeted a broadcast van close to a hospital in Central Gaza, killing at least five journalists, according to Palestinian authorities and media reports. The journalists, from the al-Quds Today channel, were covering events near al-Awda Hospital, located in the Nuseirat refugee camp, when their broadcasting van was hit by an Israeli air strike, Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif reported early on Thursday morning. Footage from the scene circulating on social media shows a vehicle engulfed in flames. A screen–shot taken from a video of the white-coloured van shows the word “Press” in large red lettering across the back of the vehicle. The deceased journalists have been named as Fadi Hassouna, Ibrahim al-Sheikh Ali, Mohammed al-Ladah, Faisal Abu al-Qumsan and Ayman al-Jadi. Al Jazeera’s al-Sharif said that Ayman al-Jadi had been waiting for his wife in front of the hospital while she was in labour to give birth to their first child.
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 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – 02:20–06:40, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the city, taking prisoner two residents.
Home invasion and forced personal demolition: Jerusalem – the Israeli Occupation forced a resident, Abu Zaid Awadallah, to destroy his home in Sur Baher – or otherwise be forced to pay an extortionate sum to the Israeli Occupation demolition squads, who would be sent in to do it.
Home invasions and armed robbery: place – Jerusalem – morning, Israeli forces raided Azzun and invaded a number of houses, plundering one of them of cash to the value of approximately$US1280.
Home invasion: Nablus – morning, Israeli troops raided the village of Beit Dajan and invaded a house.
Home invasions: Hebron – 17:45, the Israeli Army raided the town of Idhna and invaded a number of homes.
Home invasion: Hebron – 02:20–03:50, Israeli troops raided Beit Ummar and searched a home.
Israeli Army population–control: Jenin – 02:30, Israeli Occupation forces took prisoner a man, Taqi al-Din Afif Sharif Tahaineh, when he reported, as ordered, for interrogation at Israeli Military Intelligence.
Israeli Army population–control – land-grab and agricultural sabotage: Tubas – Occupation troops forced farmers to stop working their land in the North Jordan Valley Umm al-Quba area and forced them off it.
Israeli Army agricultural sabotage: Nablus – the Israeli Army uprooted a number of olive trees, as well as trees in a forest near the village of Madama.
Israeli Army population–control – armed robbery: Nablus – 15:15, Israeli troops seized a bulldozer owned by a villager in Madama, as he was attempting to clear huge barriers of soil piled up between Madama and Asira al-Qibliya villages.
Occupation settler stoning: Nablus – 12:10, Israelis, from the Yitzhar Occupation settlement, stoned passing vehicles near a roundabout, north of Huwara.
Occupation settler robbery: Nablus – 14:00, Israeli settlers raided and plundered the Sadaka Petrol Station in Asira al-Shamaliya.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 01:35–06:30, Israeli Occupation forces raided the town of al-Mazra’a al-Sharqiya, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades fired: Tulkarem – evening, Israeli forces, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided and patrolled the town of Quffin.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Bethlehem – afternoon, the Israeli Army, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled the town of al-Khadr.
Raid: Hebron – evening, Israeli troops raided the town of Beit Ula and searched a carpentry workshop.