In Occupied Palestine – 04 May 2025

In Occupied Palestine

Zionism in practice

Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land

08:00, 04 May 2025 until 08:00, 05 May 2025

Gaza Strip

Merciless blitz on defenceless Gaza — growing numbers

of dead and injured

Victims 04 May–05 May 2025:

32 killed — 119 wounded

Since dawn, Israeli air strikes and gunfire on homes, as well as medical and other facilities, resulted in the death of 32 residents and the wounding of 119. Civil Defence crews retrieved nine more bodies from underneath bomb-damaged buildings, bringing the total number now killed in Gaza, since 7 October 2023, to at least 52,567. The total wounded is now at least 118,610. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 91 and, that of those injured, is more than 206. A UN report states that, as of 14 January 2025, around 70% of those killed in Gaza were women and children.

B’TSELEM

(Jerusalem-based human rights organisation btselem.org )

Devastation, bombing and starvation: Israel is destroying life in Gaza 

For two months now, Israel has been blocking the entry of food and humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, deliberately starving over two million people, including more than one million children. On 16 April, Defense Minister Katz declared Israel would continue to block the entry of food and aid into Gaza, effectively admitting it is using starvation as a method of warfare. On 25 April, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced that its food warehouses in Gaza were now empty.  

This deadly siege is enabled by the international community in an abdication of its responsibility to protect human lives. The Israeli Government and other decision-makers continue to deliberately and openly order the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity that exacerbate the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. They must be held accountable for their actions and face justice. 

On 18 March, Israel renewed its campaign of killing and destruction in Gaza. Since then, it has claimed the lives of over 2,200 Palestinians in indiscriminate bombing, shelling and gunfire. Since the start of the war, Israel has killed more than 52,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including over 1,500 medical, defence and aid personnel. The number of deaths caused by hunger, lack of drinking water and the spread of disease is unknown but expected to rise as Israel’s lethal campaign continues.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw1XtBTYGxA

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 (even including permit-holders) from entering both Jerusalem City as well as Israel, other than for especially-negotiated exceptions. Permanent military checkpoints impose severe travel restrictions within the Occupied West Bank.

Israeli Army attacks: Jenin – Israeli Occupation forces, firing live ammunition, continue to storm the city and the refugee camp.

Israeli Army attacks – home invasions and forced evacuations in refugee camp: Tulkarem – Israeli forces, firing live ammunition and continuing their storming of the city as well as the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, invaded homes and ordered another five families in the Nur Shams refugee camp (among the 48 family homes threatened with demolition) to evacuate their homes.

Israeli Army attack – man shot and wounded: Tulkarem – 11:00, the Israeli Army shot, wounded and hospitalised a man, Orwa Muawiya Hassan Musa, while crossing the Annexation Wall near the town of Zeita, as he was making his to work.

Israeli Army attacks – 3 youngsters wounded: Nablus – 13:30, Israeli troops, firing live ammunition while storming the city and the Balata and Askar refugee camps, wounded five residents, including three children. Those wounded are: 14 year-year-old Adam Bilal Ibrahim Al-Anati, Hussam Ahmed Rajab Shukkani (aged 16) and Hassan Ahmed Amiri (aged 17). The two other people wounded are:s Yousef Faisal Khadir and Madhat Bassam Kharaaz.

Israeli Army attack – violence: Nablus – 14:15, the Israeli military, firing live ammunition and stun grenades while escorting settlers, in the village of Einabus, assaulted three residents, including the Head of the Village Council, Amer Taleb Hamad, and one other person: Adel Taleb Hamad. Israeli forces also detained, for a time, one other person.

Israeli Army attack – violence and agricultural sabotage: Salfit – 16:35, armed Occupation settlers, raiding an area, west of Deir Ballut, opened fire indiscriminately and assaulted two farmers,Muhannad Saeed Khair and his brother, Ahmed, as they were working their land.

Israeli Army attack : Hebron – 14:05, Israeli Occupation forces fired live ammunition and stun grenades towards people, near the Tabqa village road junction.