In Occupied Palestine

Zionism in practice

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

08:00, 11 February until 08:00, 12 February 2024

[Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group]

Gaza Strip

Air strikes: Heavy aerial bombardment on buildings, homes and many facilities.

Attacks: All over Gaza, there are air strikes, heavy gunfire, tank and artillery shelling, as well as missiles fired from Israeli forces and military occupation, especially in Khan Yunis. The Israeli Navy continues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the shoreline of the whole of Gaza.

Victims: 164 people killed in Gaza brings the total number of deaths since 7 October to at least 28,340. With another 200 wounded, that has risen to 67,984. Fully accurate statistics are not available, due to insecurity menacing hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

OCHA Flash Update #116

Key points

Intense Israeli bombardment from air, land and sea continues to be reported across much of the Gaza Strip, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement, and destruction of civilian infrastructure. Ground operations and heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups also continue to be reported, particularly in Khan Younis and Rafah, with reports of Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza city. Increased airstrikes in Rafah have heightened concerns of an escalation in the most southerly city in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have sought refuge. On 12 February, Médecins Sans Frontières warned that “Israel’s declared ground offensive on Rafah would be catastrophic and must not proceed.”

Between the afternoon of 9 January and 11:00 on 12 February, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, 393 Palestinians were killed and 525 Palestinians were injured, including 164 killed and 200 injured in the last 24 hours. Between 7 October 2023 and 11:00 on 12 February 2024, at least 28,340 Palestinians were killed in Gaza and 67,984 Palestinians were injured, including at least 12,300 children, according to MoH in Gaza.

On 12 February, two Israeli hostages, aged 60 and 70, were rescued from a building in Rafah in a predawn Israeli forces operation and evacuated to a hospital in Israel, according to the Israeli military. As of 12 February 2024, the Israeli authorities estimate that about 134 Israelis and foreign nationals remain captive in Gaza; these reportedly include fatalities whose bodies are being withheld. During the humanitarian pause (24-30 November), 86 Israeli and 24 foreign national hostages were released.

On 10 February, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) announced that the bodies of two members of an ambulance crew had been discovered in their destroyed vehicle, which they attributed to Israeli shelling. According to PRCS, 14 PRCS crew members have been killed since the start of the hostilities in the Gaza Strip. The crew had been dispatched on 29 January to rescue a six-year-old girl in Gaza city, the survivor of a strike on her vehicle which killed her five family members. The vehicle with the bodies of the family, including the child, was discovered following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area.

Intense fighting in Khan Younis, particularly near Nasser and Al Amal hospitals, continues to jeopardise the safety of medical staff, the wounded and the sick as well as internally displaced persons (IDPs). On 11 February, PRCS reported that Israeli forces had raided Al Amal Hospital, detained 18 people, including nine medical and volunteer staff, four wounded persons and five companions, and caused significant damage to medical and logistical equipment. PRCS further alleges that money was taken from the hospital safe as well as from patients and IDPs, and that the operation entailed physical abuse and denial of access to sanitation facilities. Al Amal Hospital continues to contend with acute shortages of fuel and medical supplies and currently has only one operating room functional. Separately on 11 February, PRCS reported that structural damage had been caused to the main gate of the hospital due to Israeli strikes and that the hospital’s remaining vehicle had been rendered out of service. On 12 February, PRCS released video footage reportedly showing damage inflicted on its ambulance fleet due to Israeli fire.

IDPs across Gaza continue to face deteriorating humanitarian conditions amid acute shortages of shelter, clean water, food and medicine. As of 5 February, UNRWA estimates that some 75 per cent of Gaza’s population (1.7 million out of 2.3 million people) are displaced, the majority situated in Rafah governorate where humanitarian operations are now based. On 10 February, the Israeli military reportedly destroyed the western perimeter wall of a school in Khan Younis hosting some 700 IDPs and forced them to evacuate, according to UNRWA. On 10 February, four displaced people in Nasser Hospital were allegedly shot and killed in the hospital’s courtyard. On 11 February, two Palestinians were reportedly shot and killed in front of the gate of Nasser Hospital. Meanwhile, reports indicate that several fatalities have been lying on the ground around the hospital, for several days, and have been unreachable due to continued attacks in the hospital’s vicinity.

Between 1 January and 12 February, humanitarian partners planned 77 missions to deliver aid and undertake assessments to areas to the north of Wadi Gaza. Of these, 12 were facilitated by the Israeli authorities, three were partially facilitated, 14 were impeded, 39 were denied access, and nine were postponed by the agencies themselves. Facilitated missions primarily involved food distribution, while the access of missions to support critical hospitals and facilities providing water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH) services remained among those overwhelmingly denied. During the same period, there were 189 planned missions to areas assessed as necessitating coordination to the south of Wadi Gaza. Of these, 107 were facilitated, two were partially facilitated, 18 were initially facilitated but then impeded, 48 were denied access, and 14 were postponed internally. Missions to areas not requiring coordination south of Wadi Gaza are not included in these statistics.

Hostilities and casualties (Gaza Strip)

On 10 February, at about 8:00, one Palestinian fisherman was reportedly killed off the coast of Deir al Balah. This reportedly marks at least the third incident of fishers being shot in Gaza over the past week, and the first reported such incident in Deir al Balah.

The following are among the deadliest incidents reported between 8 and 11 February:

On 8 February, at about midnight, five Palestinians, including two women, two children and one man, were reportedly killed, when a nursery was hit in a strike on a residential square in Deir al Balah governorate.

On 9 February, at about 23:00, six Palestinians, including two women and three children, were reportedly killed, when a residential building near the Awad towers in eastern Rafah, was struck.

On 10 February, at about midnight, at least 11 Palestinians were reportedly killed, when a residential building in An Naser neighbourhood in northern Rafah, was struck.

On 10 February, at about 2:00, four Palestinians, including a university professor, her husband and their two children, were reportedly killed, when a residential building in northern Rafah, was struck.

On 10 February, at about 5:00, seven Palestinians were reportedly killed, and others were injured, when a residential building in An Naser neighbourhood, in northern Rafah, was struck.

On 10 February, at about 15:00, 12 Palestinians, including children, were reportedly killed, and tens of others injured, when a residential building in Ash Shoka Town in eastern Rafah, was struck.

On 10 February, at about 16:00, at least four Palestinians were reportedly killed, and several others injured, when a residential building in Deir al Balah was struck.

On 10 February, at about 15:30, three police officers were reportedly killed, and several others injured, when a police vehicle in the Brazilian neighbourhood of Rafah was struck.

West Bank Updates

On 10 February 2024, a 17-year-old Palestinian child was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers while driving between Qattana and Biddu villages northwest of Jerusalem. According to local sources and eyewitnesses, the incident occurred as two Palestinians from Biddu village were on their way back from a picnic when an Israeli military jeep, stationed at the security road adjacent to the Barrier, reportedly opened fire on the moving car. The second passenger sustained injuries.

On 11 February 2024, a 16-year-old Palestinian child was shot and injured by Israeli forces after allegedly attempting to stab an Israeli Border Police officer in Al Wad Street in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Israeli forces subsequently deployed heavy forces and reportedly blocked entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem. According to the lawyer of the injured child’s family, the child was arrested and transferred to an Israeli hospital.

On 7 February, during an Israeli military operation in Nur Shams refugee camp, two residential buildings sustained severe damage and were rendered uninhabitable, resulting in the displacement of five families comprising 30 people, including eight children. Initial field information indicates that about 30 additional houses sustained minor to moderate damage during the operation.

West Bank

[Palestinian Monitoring Group]

Israeli Army attack – schoolboy killed: Jerusalem – 20:40, Israeli Occupation forces in the Old City, opened fire on, and killed, a 15-year-old boy: Muhammad Tariq Salim Abu Sneina.

Israeli Army attack – 2 wounded: Jerusalem – dawn, Israeli forces, firing live ammunition while storming al-Ram, wounded two people and took prisoner six others.

Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Ramallah – 02:40, one person was wounded when the Israeli Army opened fire with live ammunition and rubber-coated bullets in the city.

Israeli Army attack: Ramallah – dawn, Israeli troops, firing live ammunition, stormed Qabatiya.

Israeli Army attack – 1 wounded: Nablus – 02:10, the Israeli military, firing live ammunition, stormed Tal village, wounding a resident: Israeli Uday Hani Abdel Moneim Shana.

Israeli Army attack – refugee camp damaged – 2 taken prisoner: Nablus – 03:25, Israeli soldiers, firing live ammunition, stormed the Balata refugee camp, bulldozing its entrances and destroying a bakery. Two people were taken prisoner.

Israeli Army attack – 1 killed: Bethlehem – 21:40, one person, Rami Rashid Al-Batha, was killed when, firing live ammunition, Israeli Occupation forces stormed Battir village.

Israeli Army attack: Hebron – 23:40, Israeli forces, firing live ammunition, stormed Beit Ummar.

Home invasions – 1 injured – 6 taken prisoner: Nablus – 02:10, Israeli Occupation forces raided Tal village, invading homes, injuring one resident and taking prisoner six others.

Home invasion: Salfit – 11:15, Israeli Army raided Qarawat Bani Hassan and searched a house.

Home invasions – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 23:40, Israeli forces raided Beit Ummar, invading homes and taking prisoner a resident.

Home invasions: Hebron – 01:15–06:05, the Israeli military raided Yatta and invaded a number of homes.

Israeli police and settlers’ mosque violation: Jerusalem – 08:00, settler militants, escorted by Israeli police, invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and molested worshippers.

Occupation settler stoning: Nablus – 11:00, Israeli Occupation settlers stoned passing vehicles, near the Bizzaria village road junction.

Occupation settler pastoral sabotage: Jericho – Israeli settlers invaded the the Arab al-Maliha community, north–west of the city,terrorising shepherds and residents as they grazed their sheep on local pastoral land.

Armed Occupation settler destruction of cave-dwellings, water crime and pastoral sabotage: Hebron – armed Occupation settlers raided the al-Masafer area, bulldozing and demolishing Palestinian cave-dwellings, a well and sheep-rearing shelters.

Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces raided Ramallah, taking prisoner one person.

Raid: Ramallah – 15:45, Israeli forces raided and patrolled al-Bireh.

Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 15:50, the Israeli Army raided Turmusaya, taking prisoner two people.

Raid – 1 injured: Ramallah – 02:40, Israeli forces raided Ramallah, injuring a resident.

Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 06:15, Israeli troops raided Deir Ghassaneh, taking prisoner one person.

Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Jenin – 04:00, the Israeli military raided Araba, taking prisoner two people.

Raid: Tulkarem – 15:30, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled Anabta.

Raid – stun grenades fired: Qalqiliya – 23:40, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled the village of Hajjah.

Raid: Qalqiliya – 01:30, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Baqat al-Hatab.

Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Qalqiliya – 02:50, the Israeli Army raided Azzun, taking prisoner two people.

Raid: Salfit – 00:25–05:25, Israeli troops raided Qarawat Bani Hassan.

Raid – destruction and vandalism in refugee camp: Nablus – 03:25, the Israeli military raided the Balata refugee camp, bulldozing the entrances to the camp and destroying a bakery.

Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Bethlehem – dawn, Israeli soldiers raided the city, taking prisoner two people.

Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Hebron – 02:45–06:10, Israeli forces raided Bani Naim, taking prisoner three people.