In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 30 December until 08:00, 31 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 Navy continues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the entire Gaza shoreline.
OCHA:
Humanitarian Situation Update #251
Gaza Strip
Key Highlights
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Heavy rain and cold weather further deteriorate the survival conditions of displaced families, with tents flooded and damaged, and at least five newborns having reportedly died of hypothermia.
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Israeli forces raided and rendered Kamal Awan Hospital out of service, and the World Health Organisation urges support to ensure that hospitals in North Gaza can become functional again.
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Recent water quality surveillance reveals alarming rates of microbiological contamination and a UN mission to displacement sites in Gaza City finds abysmal water, sanitation and hygiene conditions.
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Gaza’s fishing sector, which once supported 110,000 people, has incurred $US84 million in losses, as 72% of fishing assets have been damaged.
Humanitarian Developments
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Israeli bombardment from the air, land and sea continues to be reported across the Gaza Strip, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement, and destruction of civilian infrastructure. Rocket fire by Palestinian armed groups towards Israel has also been reported. In the North Gaza governorate, the Israeli military has imposed a tightened siege on Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and parts of Jabalya since 6 October 2024. Visiting Jabalya on 29 December, OCHA OPT Acting Head of Office stated that the basics of human survival are being destroyed in Gaza. He noted that all attempts by humanitarians to reach besieged people in North Gaza over the past two months have been denied, except for a handful of missions that went ahead despite impediments. People in Jabalya continue to face appalling conditions, with continued airstrikes, hospitals being hit, health workers being killed, insufficient water and food, accumulation of solid waste, and sewage overflow. Between 6 October and 30 December 2024, the UN attempted to reach besieged areas in North Gaza 164 times; of these, 148 attempts received outright denials by the Israeli authorities and 16 were impeded.
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Between the afternoons of 24 and 30 December, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, 203 Palestinians were killed and 574 were injured. Between 7 October 2023 and 30 December 2024, at least 45,541 Palestinians were killed and 108,338 were injured, according to MoH in Gaza. Casualty figures covering until the afternoon of 31 December are not available as of the time of reporting.
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Between the afternoons of 24 and 31 December, four Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza, according to the Israeli military. Between 7 October 2023 and 31 December 2024, according to the Israeli military and official Israeli sources cited in the media, more than 1,593 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed, the majority on 7 October 2023 and its immediate aftermath. The figure includes 393 soldiers killed in Gaza or along the border in Israel since the beginning of the ground operation in October 2023. In addition, 2,521 Israeli soldiers were reported injured since the beginning of the ground operation. As of 31 December, it is estimated that 100 Israelis and foreign nationals remain captive in Gaza, including hostages who have been declared dead and whose bodies are withheld in Gaza.
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The following are some of the deadliest incidents reported between 24 and 29 December:
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On 24 December, at about 18:00, nine Palestinians, including three women, were reportedly killed and others were injured when a four-storey residential building was hit in Jabalya, North Gaza.
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On 24 December, three Palestinians, including two Civil Defence personnel and a fire truck driver were reportedly killed when a Civil Defence centre was hit near Al Sidra intersection in Ad Daraj neighbourhood, in central Gaza city.
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On 25 December, at about 1:30, six Palestinians, including a boy, were reportedly killed and others injured when tents for internally displaced persons (IDPs) were hit inside a school in Ash Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, in northern Gaza city.
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On 26 December, at about 6:45, eight Palestinians from a single family, including three females, were reportedly killed and others injured when a house was hit in As Sabra neighbourhood, south-east of Gaza city.
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On 26 December, at about 13:45, six Palestinian, including a woman and her daughter, were reportedly killed and others injured when three houses were hit in Ad Daraj neighbourhood, north-east of Gaza city.
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On 26 December, a day before Israeli forces raided and rendered Kamal Adwan Hospital out of service (see below), the Hospital Director reported that airstrikes on a building opposite Kamal Adwan had killed about 50 people, including five health–care workers. The Israeli military, as cited by the media, has denied the reported airstrikes near Kamal Adwan on 26 December.
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On 26 December, at about 19:30, 15 Palestinians were reportedly killed and others injured when a house was hit in Ash Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, in northern Gaza city.
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On 26 December, five Palestinian journalists and media workers were reportedly killed when a Press van, belonging to Al Quds Today TV, was hit in front of Al Awda Hospital in An Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al Balah. The UN Human Rights Office condemned the airstrike on the “unarmed and clearly identified” Press members, adding that, although “the Israeli military has claimed they were affiliated with Palestinian armed groups . . . affiliation alone would not remove their protection as civilians.” The Committee to Protect Journalists stated that,with this incident, “at least nine Gazan journalists have been killed in less than two weeks.” According to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, over 190 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since October 2023.
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On 28 December, during morning hours, ten Palestinians were reportedly killed and others injured when a house was hit in Beit Hanoun, in North Gaza.
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On 28 December, at about 4:40, nine Palestinians, including one girl and two women, were reportedly killed and others injured when a house was hit in Al Musaddar area, south of Al Maghazi, Deir al Balah.
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On 29 December, Israeli forces reportedly struck the upper floor of Al Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital in central Gaza city, resulting in seven people killed and others injured, according to Palestinian Civil Defense (PCD).
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On 29 December, at about 14:00, seven Palestinians were reportedly killed and others injured when a house was hit in Beit Hanoun, North Gaza.
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On 29 December, at about 15:30, at least eight Palestinians, including three females, were reportedly killed and others injured when several houses were hit south of An Nuseirat New Camp, Deir al Balah.
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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, 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 attacks: Tulkarem – 17:20, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed and patrolled Anabta as well as the village of Ramin.
Israeli Army attack – home invasion: Bethlehem – 20:30, Israeli forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the town of Tuqu’ and searched a home.
Home invasions and occupation: Jerusalem – 13:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided the town of Anata, invading houses and issuing demolition orders against eight homes and five livestock shelters.
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 population–control: Jericho – 09:20, Israeli forces barricaded the road adjacent to Aqbat Jabir refugee camp.
Occupation settler – robbery: Tubas – 09:20, Israeli Occupation settlers robbed one person of a vegetable stall on Route 90 in the North Jordan Valley.
Occupation settler land-grab – agricultural sabotage: Hebron – morning, Israelis, from the Avigayil Occupation settlement, invaded and seized farmland east of the town of Yatta, bulldozing crops and then sowing its own seeds.
Occupation settler invasion: Hebron – evening, Israeli settlers set up a Menorah on top of a historic building, already seized by them over two years ago in the Khashm al-Daraj area, east of Yatta.
Occupation settler violence: Hebron – evening, Israelis from the Asfar Occupation settlement stormed a quarry in Dhiyab Nimr Awda al-Halayqa district, detaining workers and beating-up and hospitalising one of them.
Raids: Jerusalem – 13:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Biddu and Beit Anan as well as the village of al-Qubeiba.
Raid: Ramallah – 12:35, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the town of Silwad.
Raid: Ramallah – 13:10, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled Beit Liqiya.
Raid: Ramallah – 03:10, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Bil’in.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 03:30, the Israeli military raided the town of Beitunya, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Jenin – 10:40, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Nazlat Zaid.
Raids: Jenin – 16:45, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled al-Yamoun and al-Silah al-Harithiya, as well as the villages of Ti’inik, Zububa, Rumana, al-Taybeh, Anin and al-Arqa.
Raid: Jenin – 20:50, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Tura.
Raids – 3 taken prisoner: Tulkarem – 03:35, the Israeli Army raided the city and the Nur Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps, taking prisoner three people.
Raids: Qalqiliya – 09:45, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the towns of Jayus and Kafr Thulth.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 14:05, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Immatin.
Raid – 4 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – 00:45, Israeli soldiers raided the city, taking prisoner four people.
Raids: Qalqiliya – 01:05, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the towns of Azzun and Kafr Thulth.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Nablus – 09:25, Israeli forces raided the village of Burin, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Nablus – 14:40, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Odala.
Raid: Nablus – 18:00, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Tal.
Raid: Nablus – 19:00, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Deir Sharaf.
Raid: Nablus – 20:05, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the town of Jama’in.
Raids: Nablus – 21:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the villages of Jurish and Majdal Bani Fadel.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Nablus – 02:30, Israeli forces raided the city, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Salfit – 21:15, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Marda.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Bethlehem – 11:15, Israeli troops, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled al-Khadr.
Raid: Bethlehem – evening, the Israeli military again raided and patrolled al-Khadr.
Raid: Bethlehem – 22:25, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Harmalah.
Raid: Hebron – 10:00, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the town of Dura.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Hebron – 17:00, Israeli forces again raided and patrolled the town of Dura, taking prisoner three people.
Raid: Hebron – 02:15, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the city.
Raid: Hebron – 04:20, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of al-Dhahiriya.
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