In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 31 December 2024 until 08:00, 01 January 2025
[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: 12 more people have been killed within the past 48 hours, bringing the total number killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023 to at least 45,541. Another 41 have been wounded, bringing that total to 108,379. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 100 and that of those injured is now more than 239.
Gaza hospitals on ‘brink of total collapse’ from Israel attacks: UN
A UN report says Israel’s claims that Gaza hospitals are being used for military purposes by Palestinian armed groups are “vague” amid continuing Israeli attacks on health facilities protected under international law. The report – released on Tuesday by the UN human rights office – said Israeli strikes targeting hospitals and their surroundings in the Gaza Strip have pushed the territory’s healthcare system “to the brink of total collapse with catastrophic effect on Palestinians’ access to health and medical care”. The 23-page report looked at the period from October 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024. During this time there were at least 136 attacks on 27 hospitals and 12 other medical facilities, inflicting significant casualties among doctors, nurses, medics, and other civilians while causing significant damage to, if not the complete destruction of, civilian infrastructure.
The report highlighted that international humanitarian law explicitly protects medical personnel and hospitals as long as they do not engage in or are not used to commit acts harmful to the enemy outside their humanitarian function. “Insufficient information has so far been made publicly available to substantiate these allegations, which have remained vague and broad, and in some cases appear contradicted by publicly available information,” the UN report said. The deliberate destruction of healthcare facilities “may amount to a form of collective punishment, which would also constitute a war crime”, it added. Israel has in recent days escalated attacks on the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, detaining its director.
UN Expert Urges Medical Boycott of Israel After It Detains Hospital Director
Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health care system is a “critical tool of its ongoing genocide,” Francesca Albanese said. The UN’s top expert on the occupied Palestinian territories has called for medical professionals worldwide to cut ties with Israel after it destroyed northern Gaza’s last operational hospital and abducted its director, sparking an outcry. UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese called on the medical community to act on Monday, as reports emerged that Israeli forces are holding the head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, at a torture camp for Palestinian detainees that’s notorious for its brutality. “I urge medical professionals worldwide to pursue the severance of all ties with Israel as a concrete way to forcefully denounce Israel’s full destruction of the Palestinian healthcare system in Gaza, a critical tool of its ongoing genocide,” Albanese said.
Israeli forces are reportedly holding Safiya at Israel’s Sde Teiman, where Palestinians, including children, have reported enduring constant torture, sexual assault and severe deprivation by Israeli guards. One witness, recently released from the facility, has told reporters that Israeli guards beat Safiya until his eye was bleeding. His current condition, like that of the thousands of Palestinians held by Israel without charges, is unknown.
Israeli authorities have claimed that Safiya and Kamal Adwan Hospital have ties with Hamas — a claim for which they have provided no evidence, and which, even if it were true, experts have said could not possibly justify their nearly three month-long assault of the hospital that has rendered it inoperable. Advocates for Palestinian rights have long condemned Israel for its system of medical apartheid, while UN officials have found that Israel is carrying out a systematic campaign to destroy Gaza’s medical system. Israel’s destruction of Kamal Adwan means that northern Gaza is left without an operational hospital. Albanese has called on international leaders to demand Safiya’s release. “Palestinians must be protected, especially those who have become icons of humanity in the face of an implacable genocide,” the UN expert said.
‘Global silence and abandonment’ as Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital destroyed
Northern Gaza’s last operational major health facility is being destroyed by Israeli forces. The sound of tanks rumbling through the streets outside of Kamal Adwan Hospital woke everyone up, they were already on edge after enduring months of direct Israeli attacks. Then came the loudspeakers ordering everyone to evacuate – the sick, the wounded, medical staff, and displaced people seeking shelter – early on Friday morning. It didn’t matter that, according to the World Health Organization, the hospital was the last major health facility operational in northern Gaza, an area that has been suffocatingly besieged and decimated by Israel in its ongoing war.
Nor that it was a refuge for hundreds of Palestinians whose homes had been destroyed by Israel and had nowhere else to go. A little later, al-Aswad said Israeli soldiers demanded that all the men strip down to their underwear to be allowed to leave. Shivering, frightened, many of them injured, the men were ordered to walk to a checkpoint the Israelis had set up. At the checkpoint, they gave their full names and had their photographs take Then a number was scrawled on their chest and neck by a soldier, indicating they had been searched. Some of the men were taken for interrogation. “They beat me and the men around me,” al-Aswad said. “They hit the injured people like me directly on our injuries.”
Shorouq al-Rantisi, 30, a nurse in Kamal Adwan’s laboratory department, was among the women taken from the hospital. “We could hear the men being beaten and tortured. It was unbearable.” Then the searches started. “The soldiers were dragging the women by the head towards the search area,” al-Rantisi said. “[They] shouted at us, demanding we remove our headscarves. Those who refused were beaten badly.” “The first girl called for searching was told to strip. When she refused, a soldier beat her and forced her to lift her clothes. “A soldier dragged me by the head and then another soldier ordered me to lift the top of my clothes, then the bottom, and checked my ID,” she said.
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Gaza hospitals on ‘brink of total collapse’ from Israel attacks: UN
A UN report says Israel’s claims that Gaza hospitals are being used for military purposes by Palestinian armed groups are “vague” amid continuing Israeli attacks on health facilities protected under international law. The report – released on Tuesday by the UN human rights office – said Israeli strikes targeting hospitals and their surroundings in the Gaza Strip have pushed the territory’s healthcare system “to the brink of total collapse with catastrophic effect on Palestinians’ access to health and medical care”. The 23-page report looked at the period from October 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024. During this time there were at least 136 attacks on 27 hospitals and 12 other medical facilities, inflicting significant casualties among doctors, nurses, medics, and other civilians while causing significant damage to, if not the complete destruction of, civilian infrastructure.
The report highlighted that international humanitarian law explicitly protects medical personnel and hospitals as long as they do not engage in or are not used to commit acts harmful to the enemy outside their humanitarian function. “Insufficient information has so far been made publicly available to substantiate these allegations, which have remained vague and broad, and in some cases appear contradicted by publicly available information,” the UN report said. The deliberate destruction of healthcare facilities “may amount to a form of collective punishment, which would also constitute a war crime”, it added. Israel has in recent days escalated attacks on the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, detaining its director.
UN Expert Urges Medical Boycott of Israel After It Detains Hospital Director
Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health care system is a “critical tool of its ongoing genocide,” Francesca Albanese said. The UN’s top expert on the occupied Palestinian territories has called for medical professionals worldwide to cut ties with Israel after it destroyed northern Gaza’s last operational hospital and abducted its director, sparking an outcry. UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese called on the medical community to act on Monday, as reports emerged that Israeli forces are holding the head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, at a torture camp for Palestinian detainees that’s notorious for its brutality. “I urge medical professionals worldwide to pursue the severance of all ties with Israel as a concrete way to forcefully denounce Israel’s full destruction of the Palestinian healthcare system in Gaza, a critical tool of its ongoing genocide,” Albanese said.
Israeli forces are reportedly holding Safiya at Israel’s Sde Teiman, where Palestinians, including children, have reported enduring constant torture, sexual assault and severe deprivation by Israeli guards. One witness, recently released from the facility, has told reporters that Israeli guards beat Safiya until his eye was bleeding. His current condition, like that of the thousands of Palestinians held by Israel without charges, is unknown.
Israeli authorities have claimed that Safiya and Kamal Adwan Hospital have ties with Hamas — a claim for which they have provided no evidence, and which, even if it were true, experts have said could not possibly justify their nearly three month-long assault of the hospital that has rendered it inoperable. Advocates for Palestinian rights have long condemned Israel for its system of medical apartheid, while UN officials have found that Israel is carrying out a systematic campaign to destroy Gaza’s medical system. Israel’s destruction of Kamal Adwan means that northern Gaza is left without an operational hospital. Albanese has called on international leaders to demand Safiya’s release. “Palestinians must be protected, especially those who have become icons of humanity in the face of an implacable genocide,” the UN expert said.
‘Global silence and abandonment’ as Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital destroyed
Northern Gaza’s last operational major health facility is being destroyed by Israeli forces. The sound of tanks rumbling through the streets outside of Kamal Adwan Hospital woke everyone up, they were already on edge after enduring months of direct Israeli attacks. Then came the loudspeakers ordering everyone to evacuate – the sick, the wounded, medical staff, and displaced people seeking shelter – early on Friday morning. It didn’t matter that, according to the World Health Organisation, the hospital was the last major health facility operational in northern Gaza, an area that has been suffocatingly besieged and decimated by Israel in its ongoing war.
Nor that it was a refuge for hundreds of Palestinians whose homes had been destroyed by Israel and had nowhere else to go. A little later, al-Aswad said Israeli soldiers demanded that all the men strip down to their underwear to be allowed to leave. Shivering, frightened, many of them injured, the men were ordered to walk to a checkpoint the Israelis had set up. At the checkpoint, they gave their full names and had their photographs take Then a number was scrawled on their chest and neck by a soldier, indicating they had been searched. Some of the men were taken for interrogation. “They beat me and the men around me,” al-Aswad said. “They hit the injured people like me directly on our injuries.”
Shorouq al-Rantisi, 30, a nurse in Kamal Adwan’s laboratory department, was among the women taken from the hospital. “We could hear the men being beaten and tortured. It was unbearable.” Then the searches started. “The soldiers were dragging the women by the head towards the search area,” al-Rantisi said. “[They] shouted at us, demanding we remove our headscarves. Those who refused were beaten badly.” “The first girl called for searching was told to strip. When she refused, a soldier beat her and forced her to lift her clothes. “A soldier dragged me by the head and then another soldier ordered me to lift the top of my clothes, then the bottom, and checked my ID,” she said.
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 – home invasions in refugee camp: Nablus – 23:15–04:25, Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the Balata refugee camp and invaded a number of homes.
Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 15:10, Israeli forces, firing live ammunition, stormed the town of Halhul, wounding a resident, Baha Issa Al-Zamaareh, and taking prisoner one other.
Home invasion and child abduction: Jerusalem – 17:00, Israeli Occupation forces, raiding a home in the Old City, abducted a child: Yamen Rami Al-Rishq.
Israeli Army population–control and home demolition: Nablus – 15:00, Israeli forces forced a resident, Sami Imad Abu Yamin, to destroy his home in the village of Tal – or otherwise be forced to pay an extortionate sum to the Israeli Occupation demolition squads, who would be sent in to do it.
Home invasion and demolition: Jericho – 14:00, Israeli forces demolished a house, in the village of al-Jiftlik.
Home invasions: Bethlehem – 02:45–05:30, the Israeli Army raided the town of Beit Fajjar and searched two homes.
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 destruction: Jerusalem – 09:50, Israeli Occupation forces demolished a house-under-construction in the Salam suburb of Anata.
Israeli Army population–control: Jericho – the Israeli Army fenced–off and denied entry into an archaeological site in al-Auja, while enabling other settlers to invade and excavate another such sitein the area.
Israeli Army violence: Jericho – 21:35, Israeli troops, at the Hamra checkpoint, severely beat–up and hospitalised a man: Bilal Bashar Abu Hassan.
Israeli Army population–control: Hebron – Occupation forces continued to apply a four–month-long denial of movement through the main entrance to Idhna.
Occupation settler violence – injury: Nablus – 00:20, Israeli Occupation settlers overturned a moving motor vehicle, near the village of Burqa, injuring and hospitalising the driver.
Occupation settler violence – beating-up and hospitalisation: Jericho – 19:00–21:00, Occupation settlers beat–up and hospitalised a man, Ibrahim Ali Suleiman Malihat, near the Bedouin al-Kaabneh School in the al-Ma’arjat area, west of Jericho.
Raid: Jerusalem – 17:25, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the town of al-Ram.
Raid: Jerusalem – 00:55, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Jaba’.
Raid: Jerusalem – 01:20, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Anata.
Raid: Jerusalem – 02:10, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of Biddu.
Raid: Ramallah – 09:30-11:30, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Deir Nizam.
Raid: Ramallah – 16:30, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Kharbatha al Misbah.
Raid – surveillance: Ramallah – 17:00, Israeli Occupation forces invaded the village of Ein Siniya, raided a petrol station and examined its surveillance-camera recordings.
Raid – on refugee camp: Ramallah – 18:55, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the Amari refugee camp.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Ramallah – 19:15-07:00, the Israeli Army, firing stun grenades, raided Turmusaya.
Raid: Ramallah – 19:15-07:00, Israeli troops raided al-Mughayir.
Raid: Ramallah – 21:55-07:00, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Umm Safa.
Raid: Ramallah – 23:50–07:00, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiya.
Raid: Ramallah – 04:05–06:30, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled Beit Liqiya.
Raids: Ramallah – 04:35, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the villages of Shuqba and Qibya.
Raid: Ramallah – 06:55, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Budrus.
Raids: Ramallah – 07:10, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the villages of Deir Qaddis and Bil’in.
Raid: Jenin – 11:20-14:50, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Rumana.
Raids: Jenin – 14:25, Israeli soldiers raided Silat al-Dahr as well as the village of al-Fandaqumiya.
Raids: Jenin – 23:40–01:20, Israeli Occupation forces raided Ya’bad, Araba and the village of Bir al-Basha.
Raid – armed robbery: Tubas – Israeli forces raided the village of Ibziq, seizing a motor vehicle and robbing the Head of the Village Council, as well as one other person, of their mobile phones.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Tubas – 01:55, the Israeli Army, firing rubber-coated bullets and stun grenades, raided the town of Tamoun, taking prisoner five people.
Raids: Tulkarem – 13:15–16:10, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the Irtah suburb, as well as the village of Far’un.
Raid: Tulkarem – 15:50-16:10, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the city.
Raids: Tulkarem – 21:10–06:10, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the villages of Izbit Shufa and Far’un.
Raid: Tulkarem – 06:45, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the village of Ramin.
Raids: Qalqiliya – 15:50, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Jayus as well as the villages of al-Funduq, Kafr Laqif, Baqa al-Hatab and Hajjah.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 16:45-19:05, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Azzun.
Raid: Qalqiliya – 18:05–22:55, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of al-Jib.
Raid: Nablus – 09:40-14:45, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the town of Jama’in.
Raid: Nablus – 12:40-14:30, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the town of Beit Furik.
Raids: Nablus – 13:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the villages of Madama, Asira al-Qibliya, Urif and Einabus.
Raids: Nablus – 14:55, Israeli forces raided and patrolled Asira al-Shamaliya as well as the villages of Talluza and Yasid.
Raid: Nablus – 15:10, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the city.
Raid: Nablus – 15:40, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the village of Jalloud.
Raids: Nablus – 16:10-19:10, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the villages of Tal and al-Lubban al-Sharqiya.
Raid: Nablus – 19:10, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the village of Yatma.
Raids – vandalism: Nablus – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces raided the village of al-Nasariya and damaged a number of vehicles.
Raid: Salfit – 10:20-12:00, Israeli forces raided the villages of Iskaka and Yousuf.
Raids – 15 taken prisoner: Salfit – 00:50–04:55, Israeli troops raided Kafr Haris, Deir Istiya and the village of Haris, taking prisoner fifteen people.
Raids: Salfit – 06:40, the Israeli military raided and patrolled Bidya as well as the village of Sarta.
Raids – refugee camps: Jericho – 15:40–16:40, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the city as well as the Ein Sultan and Aqbat Jabir refugee camps.
Raids: Bethlehem – 09:15–00:20, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled al-Khadr and the village of Marah Rabah.
Raids: Bethlehem – 06:35, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the town of al-Khadr and the villages of Marah Rabah and Harmalah.
Raid: Hebron – 18:00-20:40, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Yatta.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Hebron – 21:05–01:15, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of Dura, taking prisoner three people.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Hebron – 00:35–04:40, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the town of Bani Naim, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Hebron – 01:25–04:40, Israeli troops raided the town of Sa’ir, taking prisoner two people.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 01:25, the Israeli military raided the town of Surif, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Hebron – 02:55–04:40, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the town of Tarqumiya.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 04:40, Israeli Occupation forces raided Halhul, taking prisoner one resident.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 06:00, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the city, taking prisoner one person.