OCTOBER 2023
10/7: Israel begins widespread airstrikes across all of Gaza Strip following Hamas attack.
10/8: Israel formally declares war, calls 300K reservists. US deploys carrier strike group to Mediterranean.
10/9: Defense Minister Gallant announces total siege of Gaza strip, plans to cut all electricity, food, fuel, adding “we are fighting human animals”. IDF airstrike at Rafah border crossing.
10/10: Israel revokes all work permits issued to ~20,000 Gazans, stripping of legal rights, mass arrests and detainment of Palestinians in Israel. National Security Minister Ben Gvir announces 10,000 assault rifles to be handed out to West Bank settlers in hundreds of towns.
10/11: IDF continues bombing across Gaza Strike killing at least 50 and injuring 300 in last 24 hours. Hamas and Hezbollah continue launching dozens of rockets into Israel.
10/12: Over 1,500 Palestinians including 447 children killed by airstrikes and 270,000 in UN shelters in Gaza within first 5 days. Human Rights Watch confirms IDF use of white phosphorus in Gaza and Lebanon. IDF airstrikes in Syria including Damascus and Aleppo airport.
10/13: IDF orders ~1 million people in northern Gaza to evacuate south of Wadi Gaza. 3 convoys along Salah al-Din evacuation route bombed killing 70. US state department email to avoid phrases including “de-escalation/ceasefire”, “end to violence/bloodshed”, and “restoring calm”. WH Press Secretary Jean-Pierre says comments from some members of congress calling for ceasefire are “wrong, repugnant and disgraceful”.
Israeli Ministry of Intelligence, an independent policy group headed by Likud member Gila Gamliel, recommends forcible and permanent transfer of Gaza’s 2.2 million population to Sinai. https://www.scribd.com/document/681086738/Israeli-Intelligence-Ministry-Policy-Paper-on-Gaza-s-Civilian-Population-October-2023
- Presents 3 Options - Option A: The population remaining in Gaza and the import of Palestinian Authority (PA) rule. Option B: The population remaining in Gaza along with the emergence of a local Arab authority. Option C: The evacuation of the civilian population from Gaza to Sinai. Then goes on to make the case for Option C.
- Problems with Option A: Requires combat in densely populated areas. Involves risking our soldiers and requires a lot of time. The longer the intensive combat continues, the higher the risk of opening a second front in the north. The Gaza population will oppose PA rule (tried in the past). Humanitarian responsibility — at the completion of the war, Israel is fully responsible for the population with everything that stems from that. The execution time will be prolonged, and with that the time in which photos will be published of civilians wounded from the fighting. etc.
- Problems with Option B: Israeli military rule; as an interim solution — the continuation of attempts to build local Arab non-Islamist political leadership. Humanitarian responsibility — fully rests on Israel upon the conclusion of the war, encompassing all implied consequences. Requires combat in a densely populated area. Involves risks to our soldiers and requires a lot of time. The longer the intense fighting continues, the greater the risk of opening a second front in the north. Hamas will seize the opportunity to use psychological warfare and publish reports of ‘civilian casualties’ allegedly caused by Israel within its framework. the deterrence effect will not be sufficient and adequate in relation to the surprise attack. Moreover, the message conveyed to Hezbollah and Iran will not be strong enough. The Gaza Strip will continue to be fertile ground for influence attempts and the resurgence of terrorist organizations. etc.
- Proposes Option C: Israel should act to evacuate the civilian population to Sinai. In the first stage, operations from the air with a focus on the north of Gaza to allow a ground invasion in an area that is already evacuated and does not require fighting in a densely populated civilian area. In the second stage, a gradual ground invasion of the territory in the north and along the border until the occupation of the entire Strip and cleansing of the underground bunkers of Hamas fighters. It is important to leave the travel routes to the south open to enable the evacuation of the civilian population toward Rafah.
- Legal Justification: a. This is a defensive war against a terrorist organization that conducted a military invasion into Israel. b. The demand for the evacuation of the non-combatant population from the area is a widely accepted method that saves lives, and it was the approach used by the Americans in Iraq in 2003. c. Egypt has an obligation under international law to allow the passage of the population
- Proposes Large advertising dedicated campaigns for Gaza residents themselves to motivate them to accept this plan —the messages should revolve around the loss of land, making it clear that there is no hope of returning to the territories Israel will soon occupy, whether or not that is true. The image needs to be, “Allah made sure you lose this land because of Hamas’ leadership — there is no choice but to move to another place with the assistance of your Muslim brothers.”
10/14: Iranian foreign minister asserts that Iran will intervene if Israel continues its attack or launches ground invasion. Convoy of ambulances hit by IDF airstrike in Gaza.
10/15: IDF airstrikes across Gaza kill more than 357 and wound over 1,000 Palestinians in last 24 hours. Hamas launches rockets toward Tel Aviv. Israel announces evacuations of all settlements along Lebanese border.
10/16: Hamas releases first sign-of-life video of one of the dozens of hostages taken 10/7. More IDF airstrikes on Rafah border crossing.
10/17: al-Ahli Arab hospital bombing, initial reports of 500 dead or wounded, Israel denies involvement and blames on PIJ failed rock launch. Subsequent analysis indicates death toll was probably 100-300. Hospital was bombed by IDF 3 days prior with 2 shells, and hospital staff confirmed they were warned directly to evacuate each of the following 3 days before the blast.
10/18: Biden arrives in Tel Aviv to meet with Netanyahu. Larger tour of meetings in Jordan and Egypt canceled due to al-Ahli Arab bombing
10/19: US ships shoot down 3 missiles and several drones launched toward Israel by Houthi rebels in Yemen. St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church near al-Ahli hospital, where 100s are sheltering, hit with 4 IDF missiles, 3rd oldest church in the world, kills at least 20, mostly Christians. 100s of airstrikes across Gaza.
10/20: IDF airstrike on home in Bureij camp kills 7 children. IDF airstrike in Rafah kills at least 10 civilians including 6 women and 3 children. IDF abducts 78 Palestinians across West Bank. Now more then 1,000 arrested in West Bank since 10/7.
10/21: Hamas releases 2 hostages, a mother and her daughter. 20 trucks of first humanitarian aid allowed to enter Gaza through Raffa crossing. Israel tells its citizens to leave Egypt and Lebanon as soon as possible.
10/22: IDF continues non-stop airstrike in Gaza killing more than 440, including 182 children, and injuring 600 in last 24 hours, now more than 5,000 civilians kills in Gaza since 10/7 including more than 2,000 children. IDF airstrike on Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin. IDF opens fire on Palestinians Nablus killing 2.
10/23: More than 200 Gazans killed last 24 hours. Hamas releases 2 elderly women hostages, their husbands remain in captivity.
10/24: IDF airstrikes kill at least 700 civilians in last 24 hours. Al-Qassam launches rockets toward Tel Aviv and settlements surrounding Gaza. IDF airstrike in Jenin kills 4 Palestinians, and continues raids throughout West Bank in Nablus, Tubas, and Bethlehem. 24 American soldiers injured in resistance attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria.
10/25: Yocheved Lifshitz 85-year old released hostage said that she "went through hell", but that she was treated well in captivity. US House of Representatives passes resolution in support of Israel war. Al Jazeera journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh’s entire family killed by IDF airstrike on homes in Nuseirat refugee camp. Biden says “I have no notion if Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed” following reports that over 6,000 Palestinians have been killed. Leads to wave of doubt and disinformation regarding actual death toll. Gaza Ministry of Health responds by publishing names of 6,747 killed between 10/7-10/26, including 2,665 children.
10/26: IDF airstrikes kill more than 480 Gazans in last 24 hours, now more than 7,000 civilians killed since 10/7. IDF airstrikes destroy residential blocks in central Gaza City killing at least 120 and injuring 260. IDF airstrike in Khan Younis kills at least 22 and injures 100 civilians. Hamas launches rockets toward Tel Aviv in response to continued massacres of civilians.
10/27: IDF continues constant heavy bombing and ‘fire belts’ across Gaza, including use of internationally banned white phosphorus. IDF airstrikes near al-Shifa and Indonesian hospitals, where more than 50,000 Palestinians are sheltering. Complete communications blackout in northern Gaza. More than 34 journalists killed by IDF in Gaza in 20 days since 10/7.
10/28: IDF begins large scale ground invasion. IDF airstrike on home in Jabalia kills at least 45 civilians. IDF airstrike on Bilal bin Rabah Mosque kills 12 in Nuseirat camp. Hamas launches more rockets toward Tel Aviv and settlements surrounding Gaza.
10/29: More than 300 civilians killed last 24 hours in more than 50 massacres. 10,000 Palestinians are missing under rubble since 10/7.
10/30: IDF airstrike at Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital, only hospital in Gaza for cancer patients, and airstrikes target Al-Quds hospital, Indonesian hospital, and European hospital. IDF airstrike in Nuseirat camp kills at least 20 refugees, and airstrike in Zawayda kills at least 6.
10/31: Jabalia Massacre, 5th major airstrike on refugee camp since 10/7, 100s of people killed or missing in rubble. Houthis launch number of missiles and drones toward Israel.
NOVEMBER 2023
11/1: IDF airstrikes interrupted prayers at Holy Family Church in Gaza.
11/2: Encirclement of Gaza City completed. IDF airstrikes near Al-Quds hospital.
11/3: IDF airstrike on column of ambulances in front of Al-Shifa, killing many civilians. 630+ USAID Workers sign an open letter/petition calling for “an immediate ceasefire and cessation of hostilities” in Gaza.
11/4: Several schools in Gaza targeted by IDF airstrikes, including Al-Fakoora. At least 40 civilians killed by IDF airstrike at al-Maghazi refugee camp.
11/5: Israel heritage minister Amihai Eliyahu suggesting using nuclear strike on Gaza.
11/8: Khaled bin al Waleed mosque in Khan Younis destroyed in airstrike. UN Sec General says Gaza is becoming a “graveyard for children”
11/10: IDF airstrikes near Indonesia hospital. IDF advancing on Al Shifa hospital.
11/12: Gazan civil defense workers injured by IDF airstrike on route to rescue civilians.
11/13: Hamas senior intelligence official Mohammed Dababish killed by IDF. A group of Palestinian human rights groups and families of slain Palestinians files a lawsuit in a US Federal Court in California accusing President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin of supporting and participating in genocide.
11/14: IDF shows video of tunnel entrance nearby Al Rantisi children’s hospital, and video of inside Al Rantisi with some guns and explosives but no tunnel, claims calendar shows Hamas names, but just day of the week.
11/15: IDF raid on Al Shifa hospital. Sabra mosque airstrike in Gaza kills at least 50. US warship shoots down Houthi drone in Red Sea.
11/16: Defense Minister Gallant announces next phase of invasion into southern Gaza
11/17: Death toll reaches 15,700+ including 6,600+ children, 3,360+ women, and ~ 4,000+ under rubble. IDF airstrike kills at least 20 at al-Falah school being used as UNRWA shelter in al-Zaytoun neighborhood.
11/18: IDF airstrikes at UN Al-Fakoora School near Jabalia, killing 100s.
11/19: 31 premature babies evacuated from al-Shifa hospital to southern Gaza.
11/20: Houthi rebels hijack Galaxy Leader ship in Red Sea. Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza attacked, after several day siege, by airstrikes, tank shelling, and gun fire, killing patients in hospital beds.
11/22: 4 day ceasefire announced to start 11/23, plans to exchange 50 hostages for 150 hostages, women & children, no fighting, no IDF drones, no tank movement, aid trucks allowed to enter. Bombings and indiscriminate killings by Israel increase dramatically in the hours before expected ceasefire. Over 100 unknown Palestinians originally buried in Al Shifa hospital mass grave which were dug up by IDF and returned by Red Cross buried again in another mass grave trench in Khan Yunis. There are still many dozens of bodies wrapped in tarps laying in the sun in Al Shifa courtyard. Beit Lahia Massacre, densely populated neighborhood is reduced to rubble by airstrikes, scores killed.
11/23: Ceasefire delayed until 7am 11/24. IDF continues accelerated non-stop bombing of Gaza. IDF airstrike on UN school in Gaza kills 30. Increased rocket attacks by Hezbollah on northern Israel. Pope Francis says “Both sides are suffering, this is what wars do. But here, we have gone beyond wars. This is not war. This is terrorism,” Journalist Amal Zohd killed along with her entire family by IDF airstrike on their home, at least 60 journalists murdered by Israel in Gaza since 10/7. Leaked IDF-Shin Bet secret memo: Ben-Gvir instructs Israeli West Bank police to not enforce law on right wing settler violence against Palestinians.
Regarding the validity of Gaza Health Ministry numbers: Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch says “Everyone uses the figures from the Gaza Health Ministry because those are generally proven to be reliable. In the times in which we have done our own verification of numbers for particular strikes, I’m not aware of any time which there’s been some major discrepancy.”
11/24: 1st hostage swap, aid trucks enter through Rafah. Hamas releases 24 hostages, including 13 Israelis, 8 children and 5 women, 10 Thais, and one Filipino. Israel releases 39 hostages, releases 33 children and 6 women
11/25: 2nd hostage swap after delay. Hamas releases 13 Israelis and four Thais. Israel releases 39 hostages, including Israa Jabaees burn victim. IDF teargassing and using live ammo against families that gathered to receive hostages in west bank. Biden moves to remove all restrictions on all categories of weapons Israel is allowed to access from U.S. weapons stockpiles. 7 Palestinians murdered by IDF in West Bank, 3 murdered Gaza trying to return to their homes.
11/26: 3rd hostage swap. 3 Palestinian students wearing keffiyehs were shot in Burlington Vermont. IDF airstrike in Damascus. Yasmin Porat radio interview from 11/15 describing battle at Kibbutz Be’eri, crossfire and tank shelling of the buildings with Hamas and civilians which killed everyone except Yasmin and 1 other woman, 12-year-old Liel Hatsroni was probably killed by IDF tank shells. 4 Palestinian teens murdered in West Bank by IDF. 100 aid trucks enter Gaza from Rafah.
11/27: Ceasefire extended for 2 days with the same conditions. IDF estimates it has killed 1-2K Hamas fighters, indicating 90% civilian death toll so far. No evidence yet that any of the hostages taken by Hamas were tortured or raped as was the original narrative, as opposed to clear evidence of abuse and torture of Palestinian prisoners of Israel. Footage from Northern Gaza seen now during ceasefire shows total devastation and collapse of almost all building structures. During 3 days of ceasefire, 117 Palestinian women and children prisoners released, though 116 new detainees taken in West Bank. Currently over 2,000 Palestinians held in uncharged administrative detention. Musk tours 10/7 attack sites with Netanyahu as damage control for is antisemitic tweets. Musk tells Israeli President Herzog “We must kill those who insist on murdering civilians”. Netanyahu statement to fellow Likud members “I’m the only one who’ll prevent a Palestinian state in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. I’m the only one who can withstand US Pressure. I know Biden for 40 years. I know how to manage American public opinion.” IDF raids in Tublas and Bethlehem, arrests and demolishing homes. 2 teens executed by IDF in Ramallah.
11/28: Large all day raid in Jenin, including airstrikes. Al Nasr hospital 5 premature babies found decomposing, left to die by IDF outside their incubators. CCTV footage of 9yr old Adam al-Ghoul shot in the back by IDF sniper while running away in Jenin
11/29: 6th day of truce. 223 aid trucks enter Gaza from Rafah, no fuel. another hostage exchange
11/30: Mass Assassination Factory article by Yuval Abraham (972mag) investigating IDF loosened rules for civilian collateral damage, including up to 200 civilian deaths targeted for 1 fighter, and use of AI target selecting system Habsora (“The Gospel”), civilian deaths are not an accident but calculated, intentionally trying to pressure/terrorize civilians so they will pressure Hamas by bombing “power targets” aka large residential buildings. HR 888 passes: (1) reaffirms the State of Israel’s right to exist; (2) recognizes that denying Israel’s right to exist is a form of antisemitism; (3) rejects calls for Israel’s destruction and the elimination of the only Jewish State; and (4) condemns the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel. Ceasefire expires at end of 7th day.
DECEMBER 2023
12/1: Ceasefire ends and IDF immediately resumes indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, including Southern Gaza, 100s killed. Evacuation orders in southern Gaza. IDF posts maps of segmented Gaza zone with buffer in Egypt between Sinai and Gaza. NY Times report Israel knew Hamas’s attack plan more than a year in advance, and was ignored warning a few months before by security analysts.
12/2: Shujaiya Massacre, over 50 buildings destroyed, killing 500-1000, scores trapped in rubble.
12/3: Ongoing continuous massacres across northern and southern Gaza, complete destruction of large residential neighborhoods and refugee camps, many hundreds killed. Ongoing raids throughout West Bank and numerous executions of fleeing civilians.
12/4: Ongoing continuous massacres throughout Gaza, more raids and killings in West Bank
12/5: Ongoing continuous massacres throughout Gaza, more raids and killings in West Bank, most of Khan Yunis city destroyed where many had evacuated to from north, new tent refugee camps starting to form near Rafah, estimates of Israel having dropped 50,000 tons of explosives in last 61 days, more than 130% of combined Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions. over 8,000 children killed since 10/7. Euro-Med monitor reports 9 out 10 killed in Gaza are civilians.
12/6: Ongoing continuous massacres throughout Gaza, more raids and killings in West Bank. IDF begins flooding Gazan tunnels with sea water
12/7: continuous massacres. Refaat Alareer, scholar and poet, assassinated along with entire family in airstrike, IDF had called him to say they would kill him.
12/8: US vetoes UN resolution calling for immediate humanitarian ceasefire, supported by all other members (UK abstaining). Israel releases photos of large groups of Palestinian men detained, blindfolded, stripped in the cold, and loaded onto trucks, claims they are all terrorists, despite numerous confirmations groups include many civilians. Israel justifies barbaric and dehumanizing treatment by showing video of man, Munir al-Masry not Hamas member, who had already been stripped to his underwear coming from back of crowd surrendering rifle, actually shows 2 separate staged videos of same man surrendering 2 rifles, once in right hand and another in left hand. A number of pregnant women killed by IDF snipers while trying to reach Kamal Adwan maternity hospital. Elderly unarmed woman “older than Israel” killed by IDF sniper.
12/9: 75 year anniversary of UN Genocide Convention. Yemen announces ban on passage of all ships through Red and Arabian Seas if food, medicine, and aid not allowed to enter Gaza. IDF continues forcing surviving Gazans into tiny Al Mawasi ‘Humanitarian Zone’ though there is no infrastructure or aid or food or water and catastrophic conditions. Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital massacre in Jabalia camp.
12/10: Euro-Med human rights monitor reports more than 10,000 children murdered since 10/7. +23,000 Palestinians killed, 700,000+ children displaced, 18,000+ children injured, 25,000+ children have lost one or both parents.
Jewish Political Thinker Masha Gessen faces backlash after publishing a Dec 9 piece in The New Yorker called In the Shadow of the Holocaust, in which she likens the “predicament of besieged Gazans to that of ghettoized Jews” and says that the holocaust gives us “the language to describe what is happening in Gaza now. The ghetto is being liquidated.” Gessen is set to receive the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought. Some funders and supporters of the prize pulled out their support after the publication of the piece.
12/11: Sheikh Radwan neighborhood massacre. Confirmations that Israel used US-supplied white phosphorous on village in southern Lebanon. Norwegian tanker hit by Houthi anti ship cruise missile in red sea. Al Jazeera reporter Anas Al Sharif was warned numerous times by IDF to stop reporting, and IDF bombed his house killing his father in Jabalia. IDF drones murder civilians in Jenin.
12/12: More photos of large groups of detained Gazan men. Reports from detainees they had been used as human shields, either walking in front of advancing IDF or wearing explosives to test tunnel entrances for resistance. IDF data indicates 20 soldiers have been killed by friendly fire or in accidents since the Gaza invasion started, estimates that several hundred more wounded in such situations. No accurate reporting of total IDF killed or wounded. UN General Assembly has passed the resolution calling for immediate humanitarian ceasefire and unconditional release of all hostages (153-10), US votes against. Continued IDF airstrikes in Rafah safe zone area, killing mostly women and children. IDF blows up UNRWA school in Beit Hanoun with explosives.
Save The Children confirms the death of aid worker Sameh Ewaida (39) in Gaza along with his family. He had worked with Save The Children since 2019. All of his four children, Mohammad (12), Heba (11), Zeina (3), and Zein (2) as well as his wife Fatima, and many other members of his extended family of 28 are also believed to have been killed following an Israeli airstrike on Sunday 10 December or Monday 11 December.
12/13: Rainstorms and flooding in Gaza, 1.8 million people with no shelter, medical, food, or water.
Shadia Abu Ghazala school massacre, according to video and eye witness testimony IDF massacres “execution style” dozens of men, women, children and babies sheltering in UNRWA school. Euro-Med Monitor reports victims were subjected to “field executions” while being questioned. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/12/26/classroom-massacre-survivors-say-israel-executed-innocents-in-gaza-school
3rd day of Jenin invasion including airstrikes, hundreds arrested, soldiers storm mosque prayers and use mosque loudspeakers to sing Hanukkah songs. IDF bulldozes Al-Faluja Cemetery in Jabalia. Houthis launch more missiles at ships in Red Sea, US shoots down drone. IDF airstrikes destroying homes in Kafr Kila southern Lebanon. More journalists killed, 90 journalists in Gaza murdered by IDF since 10/7.
12/14: Ongoing massacres. Internal US intelligence assessment shows that nearly 50% of Israeli strikes to date in Gaza were unguided ‘dumb bombs.’
12/15: Death toll in Gaza reaches 25,000, 92 journalists.
Data from Bituah Leumi, Israel's social security agency, indicates 1,139 Israelis killed on 10/7, 695 civilians, 373 security forces, 71 foreigners. Still no reliable count for Israelis killed by IDF at kibbutzim and music festival.
IDF shot and killed 3 escaping male Israeli hostages, initial reports claimed it could be because they were wearing Palestinian civilian clothes, then revealed they were at close range, shirtless, and waving a white flag yelling for help in Hebrew.
Aljazeera reporter Wael Dahdouh famous for reporting live during murder of his entire family was badly wounded in targeted attack along with Aljazeera photojournalist Samer Abu Daqa who was killed by secondary drone attack while trying to escape while ambulance wasn’t able to reach for 5 hours, 3 Civil Defense members murdered while attempting to rescue Samer Abu Daqa. Wael returns to live reporting the next morning.
Ami Ayalon former head of Shin bet says 10/7 caused by divide and rule policy preventing unified Palestinians leadership, incite PA and Hamas to fight each other, assistance to Hamas including money transfers, Biden's new Middle-East plan ignored Palestinians gave sense of urgency and feeling of nothing left to lose. Compares Israel’s strategy with ISIS and Al Qaeda, with goal of creating humanitarian disaster, then from they chaos they shall start again, says 2 state solution is more possible now because 10/7 made Palestinians a “global issue”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hchzdcqsqKk
Gaza Ministry of Health says that 310 health-care workers had been killed since Oct. 7
12/16: Attacks on medical, diplomatic communities intensify. IDF sniper attack kills 2 Palestinian Christian women and injures others at Latin Church of Gaza, no warning, no nearby militants. Dozens of patients/civilians sheltering in Kamal Adwan hospital courtyard tents run over with bulldozers and buried alive. French diplomat killed in house in Rafah with sheltering diplomats, dozens of civilians killed. USAID reports that one of their contractors, Hani Jnena was confirmed to have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City’s Al Sabra neighborhood on Nov. 5, alongside his wife and two children.
Netanyahu says he was “proud” he prevented the establishment of Palestinian state and took credit for “putting the brakes” on Oslo peace process.
12/17: IDF Attacks on medical and journalist communities intensify. IDF fires artillery shells at maternity ward of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, killing a 13 year old girl who had lost her entire family and had her leg amputated, many others injured. Dr. Hani Al-Haitham, head of Al Shifa emergency department, killed by IDF targeted airstrike along with this wife and 5 children.
Munir al-Bursh, Director-General of the Gaza Health Ministry is fired on by Israeli forces along with a group of doctors while giving a news conference in front of Kamal Adwan Hospital. Bursh said that during the attack Israeli forces also arrested 70 medical professionals, among them the hospital’s director, Ahmed al-Kahlot.
IDF accuses Hamas militants of using Kamal Adwan hospital as a base and said it found weapons hidden inside incubators for premature babies. Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatric doctor at that hospital, and a civilian who was sheltering there says there were no Hamas fighters or weapons caches there.
Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra reports IDF storming of al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza after besieging it for several days. Qudra said that medical staff were made to strip and that soldiers detained an unknown number of them, including hospital director Ahmed Muhanna.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), says the organization is “appalled by the effective destruction” of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza that led to the deaths of at least eight patients and rendered the facility nonfunctioning. Among the deceased patients was a 9 year old child.
Television journalist Mohammed Balousha, who broke the story of the decomposing babies al-Nasr hospital, is shot in the leg by an Israeli sniper after filming a report on the telecommunications blackout in Gaza. The report was filmed near his home in Jabalya Refugee Camp in Northern Gaza. He was wearing a helmet and press badge at the time he was shot.
12/18: Health crisis In Gaza worsens. Human Rights Watch publishes a report condemning Israel’s use of “Starvation as a Weapon of War in Gaza”. The report documents that “Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Energy Minister Israel Katz have made public statements expressing their aim to deprive civilians in Gaza of food, water and fuel.” The report notes that the use of starvation against civilians is a war crime, as is collective punishment. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that Gaza’s health-care system is “collapsing” and “worrying signals of epidemic diseases” are emerging (WaPo). UN Postpones Vote on Security Council Resolution demanding an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in order to try to reach some consensus in the hopes that US would actually vote in favor or at least not veto.
12/19: Gaza Health Ministry says IDF has detained 93 health care workers. Gaza Health Ministry confirmed death toll reaches 19,453 + 52,000 wounded. Euro-Med Monitor estimates 26,612 killed including those not yet recovered from rubble. UN reports 60% of Gaza infrastructure has been destroyed or damaged and more than 90% population displaced. UN passes resolution on Palestinian’s right to self-determination and urgency of ending the Israeli occupation and achieving a lasting peace settlement, US and Israel vote against along with Micronesia and Nauru. Israeli news investigation reports tanks inside Be’ri settlement on 10/7 targeted houses near dozens of civilians, includes aerial video and accounts from settlers. Heavy bombing at Jabalia refugee camp kills dozens of civilians. US announces international navel coalition operation ‘Prosperity Guardian’ to defend Red Sea shipping from Houthi attacks. More testimonies emerge from Gazan civilian detainees subjected to brutal forms of torture, starvation, beaten with iron bars, had their heads stomped on, urinated upon, and left exposed outdoors for days.
12/20: IDF detonates huge amount of explosives in Sheyaiya neighborhood, previously one of the most densely populated areas of northern Gaza, completely demolishing 50+ buildings, video shows huge clouds from detonation, and aftermath video shows area completely leveled. Reports emerge of foreign mercenaries fighting alongside IDF in Gaza, including from US, Germany, Britain, France, & Ukraine.
12/21: Washington Post investigation on IDF claims of Al-Shifa hospital Hamas headquarters shows no evidence of military use by Hamas in small rooms connected to tunnels, none of the hospital buildings identified by IDF appeared to be connected to the tunnel network, and no evidence that tunnels could be accessed from inside hospital. IDF has claimed there was a vast underground Hamas military headquarters under Al-Shifa to justify why it bombed, sieged, and executed people in and around the hospital where 50,000+ people had been sheltering before being driven south. UN says more than 500,000 Gazans are starving. IDF demolishes entire area of Palestine Mosque in Al-Rimal neighborhood with huge explosions, claims there was major Hamas tunnel network. IDF had been active in the area for weeks where they had planted an Israeli flag and giant menorah over bulldozed ruins of the mosque.
12/22: UN Security Council resolution 2720 passes to establish a mechanism to facilitate delivery of humanitarian assistance, but no ceasefire, US and Russia abstain. NYT investigation shows IDF routinely used 2,000 pound (MK-84) bombs in southern Gaza where they had ordered civilians to move for safety, identified more than 200 craters from satellite and drone footage. Heavy artillery shelling and airstrikes in Deir al Balah neighborhood of central Gaza, where Gazans were told to evacuate to. Sky News visual investigation shows Deir al Balah was bombed 12/5, one day after civilians were told by IDF they could flee to the city. IDF airstrike in Gaza City kills more than 90, including 76 from one extended family. IDF airstrike in Nuseirat camp central Gaza kills more than 50, half were children. UNRWA reports 90% of Gaza Strip residents have been internally displaced. Expanding tent city refugee camp near Rafah, in sandy desolate area, no food or water available. Al-Jazeera reports Israeli bulldozers shot and ran over 4 pregnant women in labor who were carrying white flags and attempting to reach a hospital in Tal Al Zaatar. Heath Ministry of Gaza says over 200 killed in last 24 hours. City of Bethlehem announces cancellation of Christmas festivities.
12/23: Euro-Med Monitor estimates 28,091 killed including 11,023 children.
“Operation ‘Swords of Iron’ Israeli Chief Censor Directive to the Media,” undated order forbids Israeli media from reporting without government approval for topics related to military and intelligence operations, rocket and cyber attacks, weapons used by IDF, security cabinet meetings, and Israeli hostages. https://theintercept.com/2023/12/23/israel-military-idf-media-censor/ https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/news/8swordsofiron101023/en/operation Swords of Iron.pdf
NYT cites Brig. Gen. Barak Hiram that he ordered tank commander “The negotiations are over. Break in, even at the cost of civilian casualties.” during 10/7 fighting at Kibbutz Be’eri. During entire hostage situation and intense fighting, all Hamas fighters were killed, along with all but 2 of the Israeli hostages. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-officer-recounts-ordering-tank-fire-on-beeri-home-during-hostage-standoff-on-oct-7/
Wapo investigation shows Israeli war on Gaza has been a pace and level of devastation that exceeds any recent conflict, greater than battles in Aleppo and Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, and including widespread airstrikes near hospitals. “The scale of Palestinian civilian deaths in such a short period of time appears to be the highest such civilian casualty rate in the 21st century,” Nearly twice as many structures were destroyed in northern Gaza in 7 weeks as were destroyed in Aleppo over 3 years, or in Mosul in 1 year, even though Mosul and Aleppo are both around 1.5 times as big. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2023/israel-war-destruction-gaza-record-pace/
Gaza Health Ministry reports on dozens killed in recent massacres in Jabalia and Beit Lahia including people executed in the streets and video of bodies decomposing in streets. Reports of detention camps east of Gaza, where dozens of civilians were executed in large pits and buried with bulldozers.
12/24: 106+ civilians killed in IDF airstrikes at Al Maghazi refugee camp Christmas Eve massacre, mostly women and children. Israeli settlers under protection of IDF set fire to Christmas tree in Bethlehem. Large scale IDF razing with bulldozers of agricultural and urban areas of the northern and eastern Gaza strip. Israeli media reports message from Egypt that occupation of borders and relocation of Gazans into Egypt is a red line. Egypt offers 3-stage ceasefire deal 1) 2-4 week ceasefire and release of 120 Palestinian civilians in exchange for 40 Israeli civilians, tanks withdraw and humanitarian aid enters. 2) Egypt sponsored “Palestinian national talk” to form new unified Palestinian government in West Bank and Gaza. 3) comprehensive ceasefire and release of remaining combatant hostages, IDF withdraw from Gazan cities and allow refugees to return to the north. Israel rejects temporary ceasefire until Hamas is finished, Hamas rejects hostage release until complete ceasefire and withdrawal of Israel from Gaza.
12/25: Gaza Health Ministry reports more than 250 killed and 500 wounded in the last 24 hours. Intense bombing in Khan Younis and Rafah. Continued IDF raids throughout West Bank, including Tulkarem, Nabulus, and Hebron. Israeli airstrike kills senior Iranian commander Razi Mousavi near Damascus. Netanyahu heckled during Knesset speech by families of hostages using signs and chanting “No”. Netanyahu admits plans for ethnic cleansing saying at Likud meeting "Our problem is the countries that are willing to absorb (them), and we are working on it” referring to plans for “voluntary migration” from Gaza, reported by Israeli Hayom newspaper. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor sends report on dozens of extrajudicial executions of Gazan civilians to UN and Intl Criminal Court.
12/26: 100s of IDF airstrikes in southern Gaza in last 24hrs as confirmed death toll reaches 21,000. Video footage from Israeli photojournalist of many Palestinian detainees stripped to underwear in stadium, including young boys, women, and old men. UNICEF reports 1,000 Palestinian children have had limbs amputated without anesthesia. Conscientious objector 18yr old Tal Mitnick sentenced to 30 days prison for refusing to enlist. US shoots down 12 Houthi drones, 3 anti-ship missiles, and 2 cruise missiles fried in Red Sea during 10 hour period, no reports of injuries or damaged ships. IDF artillery strikes on Red Crescent headquarters in Khan Younis, where thousands of displaced Gazans are sheltering. Israel returns 80 Palestinian violated corpses of detainees, some mutilated with stolen organs, refuses to disclose their names and the locations from where they were taken, bodies buried in mass grave in Rafah.
12/27: more than 200 killed in last 24 hours, mostly women and children. Expanding IDF raids throughout West Bank. IDF steals millions from 5 money exchange business in West Bank. Ahmed Kheir ElDin AlQuds cameraman killed by IDF bombing along with his family. Video of IDF soldier bragging about killings “We are looking for babies but there is no babies left, I killed a girl that was 12, but we’re looking for babies”.
12/28: IDF airstrike on top of residential tower in al-Nusairat refugee camp kills and injures many of civilians including children and babies. Airstrikes on residential building near Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah killing at least 20 as well as airstrikes in Deir el-Balah, Maghazi, and az-Zawayda. Accelerating numbers of Gazans dying due to lack of medicine and basic supplies as well as infected and infested wounds as only a few hospitals remain operating in southern Gaza while all other hospitals in central and northern Gaza are filled with thousands of wounded refugees and mass graves.
12/29: Jabr Abu Hadros AlQuds journalist killed along with his family in IDF airstrike on his home in Nuseirat. Biden skips Congressional review to approve $147M rearming Israel with ammunition and equipment including 57,351 155mm high-explosive artillery. Increased attacks between Hezbollah and IDF, some attacks are prohibited from being reported. South Africa initiates war crimes proceedings against Israel at International Court of Justice for violating Genocide Convention. 77 groups representing tens of thousands of lawyers, civil society leaders and activists file an Amicus Brief in the 11/13 lawsuit against the Biden Administration. The Amicus Brief details the reasoning and evidence behind the accusations of genocide.
12/30: Expanding IDF operations in Khan Younis. Journalist Nermin Haboush killed along with her mother and daughter in IDF airstrike on their home. IDF airstrike on homes in al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City kills at least 48 civilians. Continuing IDF raids in Tulkarem, Nablus, Hebron, and Jericho in West Bank. Netanyahu says Israel must control Philadelphi corridor along southern Egyptian border near Rafah. Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance and Defense: “lf we act strategically correctly, they will leave and we will live in the Gaza Strip. We won't allow a situation in which 2 million live there. If there are 100-200K Arabs living in Gaza, the discussion the ‘day after’ will be different. They want to leave, they have been living in the ghetto and suffering for 75 years… We will have to rule there for a long time. We have to return to Gaza.”
12/31: Intense fighting near center of Khan Younis between IDF and Palestinian fighters. US helicopters sinks 3 Houthi boats that were attacking Maersk commercial vessel in Red Sea. IDF says it plans to withdraw 5 combat brigades from Gaza, IDF spokesman Hagari says “The objectives require prolonged war and we are preparing accordingly. We are wisely managing the forces on the ground, considering reservist forces, allowing them to refresh, and to pursue training that is needed. Some reservists will return to their families and their jobs as early as this week. This will allow a significant relief on the economy and society. But the war will continue in the coming year and we will need them.” Hamas launches dozens of rockets from Gaza toward Tel Aviv at midnight NYE, about half intercepted, some damage to apartments, no reports of casualties.
January 2024
1/1: Ben-Gvir National Security Minister calls for occupation and ethnic cleansing of Gaza “We must promote the solution to encourage the migration of Gaza residents. This is a correct, just, moral and humane solution. We have partners around the world that we can help. Encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza will allow us to bring home the residents of the Outaf and the residents of Gush Katif.” Israel Supreme Court strikes down Netanyahu’s ‘judicial reform’ law which would have made it harder for Supreme Court to overturn ‘unreasonable’ laws. World Food Program says Gaza facing imminent famine, UN warns more than 90% say they have regularly gone without food for a whole day. Large scale fighting throughout Gaza cities and ongoing raids in West Bank.
1/2: More than 200 Gazans killed in last 24 hours. IDF airstrike on Red Crescent HQ kills at least 5 civilians, including a newborn baby, and wounding dozens. Al Araby video showing several dead unarmed civilians who had been executed in the streets of al-Shatie refugee camp by snipers, including toddler girl. IDF drops more white phosphorus bombs in Al-Maghazi refugee camp.
IDF drone airstrike in Beirut assassinates senior Hamas leader Saleh Al-Arouri and several aides.
Ben-Gvir, responding to US State Department and UN Ambassador statement and tweets “Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land” and “There should be no mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.”, says “really appreciate the United States of America, but with all due respect, we are not another star on the American flag. The United States is our best friend, but first of all, we will do what is best for the State of Israel. The migration of hundreds of thousands from Gaza will allow the residents of the enclave to return home and live in security and protect the IDF soldiers." https://twitter.com/itamarbengvir/status/1742291293307310186
1/3: Another IDF airstrike massacre in Jabalia refugee camp kills at least 20 civilians including many children, many still buried in rubble. Two videos of IDF soldiers laughing while blowing up entire residential blocks in Gaza. IDF drone strike massacre of civilians in Rafah. IDF airstrike on Al Mawasi small evacuation zone of Khan Younis where refugees were ordered to go for safety kills at least 14, 9 children under 10. At least 20 IDF raids in West Bank overnight including taking young man hostage to force his father to give himself up.
Moshe Saada MK on Israeli TV “As it is clear to everyone today, that the right wing is right in the matter of politics, in the matter of Palestinians. Today, it’s simple, you go everywhere and they you to destroy them, in the kibbutzim, they tell you to destroy them. My friends at the attorney office who fought with me in the political issues, in the debates, it is clear that you have to destroy all the Gazans.”
Tali Gottlieb MK in Knesset “Without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not be able to recruit collaborators, we will not be able to recruit intelligence, we will not be able to bribe people, with food, drink, medicine, in order to obtain intelligence."
Terrorist attack in Kerman Iran, 2 explosions along Soleimani memorial ceremony kills at least 100, ISIS video footage claiming responsibility next day, Iran raises questions about video authenticity.
IDF airstrike assassinates Hezbollah leader Hussein Yazbek and 3 others in Naqoura Southern Lebanon.
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby calls South Africa’s 84-page suit accusing Israel of genocide “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.”
1/4: US drone airstrike in Baghdad near Ministry of Interior buildings on Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) assassinates 2 commanders. PMF operations in Iraq include attacking both US and ISIS forces. Haaretz reports "The police are having a hard time locating victims of sexual assault or witnesses to acts of the Hamas attack, and are unable to connect the existing evidence with victims described in it.”
Haaretz article “The Road to The Hague Is Paved With Israeli Calls for Genocide of Gazans”
Hundreds of Israeli MKs and public figures call for an end to humanitarian aid into Gaza. "We the undersigned call for an immediate stop to the introduction of trucks transporting fuel, gas and related equipment to the hostile enemy in the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli government promised at the beginning of the war"
1/5: More than 160 Palestinians killed in last 24 hours, including airstrikes in Khan Younis killing 18 mostly women and children, also Deir el-Balah, Nuseirat, Zawaida, Maghazi, and Rafah. Jabalia severely flooded with rain and sewage. Heavy fighting across West bank. IDF executes unarmed 17yo Osaid Rimawi and wounds 4 others trying to help him in Ramallah, IDF searches finds nothing and leaves him to die, ambulances prevented from helping.
‘Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees’ +972 article, Israeli soldiers subjected innocent detainees to beatings, electric shocks, burned their skin with lighters, spat in their mouths, and deprived them of sleep, food, and access to bathrooms, tied to a fence for hours, handcuffed, and blindfolded for most of the day. Several died as a result of being held in these conditions.
Amichay Eliyahu Minister of Heritage, who had proposed nuking Gaza, says in radio interview "Israel should find ways more painful than death for the Palestinians.”
Tzipi Hotovely, Israeli Ambassador to UK, says “every school, every mosque, every second house has an access to tunnels” host responds “but that’s an argument for destroying the whole of Gaza”, she responds “so you do you have another solution?”.
Hezbollah attacks Israeli Meron base with 62 missiles in retaliation for al-Arouri’s killing, says this is their initial response.
1/6: Dozens killed in more massacres in Khan Younis, including at least 15 children, several infants, and 2 pregnant women, dozens more still trapped in rubble. Video of civilians killed by snipers laying in streets of Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City.
IDF airstrike on journalists car in Rafah assassinates Mustafa Thraya and Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al-Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh who's almost entire family was killed in October. Israel claims it’s tragic but that they were targeting a terrorist in the car, a few days later admits all were photojournalists. then on 1/10 admits intentionally targeting Hamza Dahdouh saying he was a PIJ terrorist.
1/7: IDF airstrike massacre on home in “safe zone” near Jabalia camp kills 70 sheltering civilians, video shows piles of mangled dead bodes of women and children. More videos posted from IDF soldiers laughing and cheering while detonating massive explosives wiping whole city residential blocks in Gaza. IDF helicopter airstrike in Jenin on group of civilians kills 6, including 4 bothers, in retaliation for roadside bomb that killed an IDF soldier during overnight raids.
Social media reports 16 Iranian IRGC ships mysteriously explode and claims were intended to supply Houthi’s weapons, Iranian media reported yesterday as a fire on 9 small fishing barges. No evidence for explosions or weapons.
MK Ofer Cassif, Hadish Leftist party, joins South African ICJ lawsuit . “My constitutional duty is to Israeli society and all of its residents, not to a government whose members and its coalition are calling for ethnic cleansing and even actual genocide … And when the government acts against society, the state and its citizens, especially when it sacrifices them and commits crimes in their name on the altar of maintaining its existence, it is my right and even my duty to warn about this and do everything I can within the law to stop it … I will not give up the fight for our existence as a moral society. This is the true patriotism - no revenge wars and calls for extermination, no unnecessary bloodshed, and no sacrifice of kidnapped citizens and soldiers in false wars.”
MK Smotrich, Religious Zionist party, says on Israeli14 TV appearance “There are 2 million Nazis in Gaza.. We need to cleanse the entire Gaza Strip.. We need to establish a Jewish settlement in Gaza, if we are not there and there are 2 million Nazis there, we will wake up in 10 years to a new October 7.. the Nazis in the West Bank are exactly like the Nazis in Gaza”
1/8: More than 250 Gazans reported killed and more than 500 wounded in last 24 hours. Ruqaya Ahmad Odeh Jahalin 4yo killed at checkpoint near Jerusalem, shot in a car by IDF soldier who was firing into another car with man and woman Muhammad & Duha Abu Edi that seemed to try to swerve into a solder. IDF kills 3 young men in Tulkarem, group of 6 seen on video running out of gate into street then surprised by IDF soldiers nearby who open fire at close range, one man has a rifle, ambulances prevented from trying to rescue, IDF vehicle then intentionally runs over and drags one of the corpses. Large protest marches in response overnight. Hamas rockets fired from Gaza. IDF shows video of discovered Hamas rocket storage and production area and some connecting tunnels. Hamas releases video of 4 Israeli female soldiers captured on 10/7.
Video from 11/12 of crowd of civilians evacuating Gaza City, led by a woman Hala Rashid Abd al-Ati and her grandchild with white flag, single IDF sniper murders unarmed Hala in front. Zionist supporters say it is Hamas sniper to prevent civilians feeling. Satellite imagery later shows that IDF troops were stationed in the area, including at a school just 650 feet down the road, to the west of where Hala was killed. Hala’s family said tanks were also positioned on the road in front of her, to the south. Many in crowd have their hands up before the shot, and about a waving dozen white flags. Man’s voice in video filming from above says “The bastards shot the woman. No one should go out onto the street. Come and see these bastards.” On 1/11 the woman's son Mohamed Khrais confirms it was IDF sniper that killed her. https://twitter.com/PalestineNW/status/1745566498133840136/video/1, https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/26/middleeast/hala-khreis-white-flag-shooting-gaza-cmd-intl/index.html
IDF assassinates Hamas commander Hassan Hakashah in Beit Jinn Syria near Golan Heights, claims he was directing rocket attacks launched from Syria. IDF assassinates Hezbollah senior commander Wissam al-Tawil in drone strike on his car in south Lebanon.
1/9: Waves of airstrikes and artillery shelling focusing in central Gaza areas especially in Nuseirat, Maghazi, and Burej. Airstrikes and shootings in Rafah, including Nofel family’s home killing 15, 12 children & women, and also in Khan Younis, attacks on people sheltering inside Nasser hospital being critically wounded by gun fire, and Journalist Hiba Abadleh and her 8yo daughter killed in airstrike on their home. Airstrikes on homes in northern Gaza near Jabalia and Beit Lahia.
Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah collapses being completely overwhelmed with injured civilians and nearby airstrikes and artillery shelling, IDF firing live ammunition into ICU and maternity units forces about 600 medical staff and wounded refugees forced to evacuate, leaving only a few doctors to help the hundreds of injured remaining.
70 MKs sign impeachment petition to oust MK Ofer Cassif for statements supporting South African lawsuit and being sympathetic to Palestinians. Far right figures plan demonstration outside his home using promo photoshop image of blood soaked MMA fighter holding Cassif’s severed head.
IDF assassinates 3 Hezbollah figures in Southern Lebanon in drone strike on car as they travel to funeral of Wissam al-Tawil who was killed yesterday.
1/10: IDF airstrike on ambulance kills 6, including 4 Red Crescent paramedics. They had been trying to reach a UN school in besieged Maghazi, hours later crews were able to reach the school and find 17 civilian refugees, including 10 women, who died because of their untreated injuries. IDF airstrike in Deir el-Blah adjacent to Al-Aqsa hospital entrance kills at least 40 civilians, including journalist Admed Badir, more than 150 injured. "Its chaos. You can't imagine... it was literally a river of blood on the ground of the hospital” reporter Hind Khoudary. In Khan Younis, about 70 found killed from Al-Astal group of 8 families, also 7 killed and 25 injured in airstrike on Abo Namous home. Rafah airstrike on refugee tents, kills 5, a woman and her 4 children. Journalist Sharif Okasha murdered by Israeli sniper.
A day before initial ICJ genocide hearing, Israel’s Attorney General warns politicians to keep their genocidal statements to themselves because they are being implicated in IJC genocide case. “These remarks give support to those who wish us ill because they are against the rule of international law and are interpreted as a war crime.” Netanyahu adds “you need to learn to keep quiet and to not say things you regret a day later.” He also says in address “Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza or displacing its civilian population. Israel is fighting Hamas, not the Palestinian population, and we are doing so in full compliance with international law.”
1/11: ICJ genocide case starts in the Hauge. IDF airstrike on civil defense building in southern Lebanon kills 2 paramedics. IDF airstrike in Rafah kills 10 Gazans taking refuge in a home that was completely leveled. Oxfam press release “Israel’s military is killing Palestinians at an average rate of 250 people a day which massively exceeds the daily death toll of any other major conflict of recent years; Syria (96.5 deaths/day), Sudan (51.6), Iraq (50.8), Ukraine (43.9) Afghanistan (23.8) and Yemen (15.8).
US-UK airstrikes in Yemen in response to Houthi’s blockade of Israeli commercial ships in Red Sea as long as Gaza bombing and occupation continues. Targets more than 60 missile and drone targets with more than 150 guided munitions, damages 20-30% of Houthis offensive capability. Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, senior Houthi official, “Every individual in this world is faced with two choices that have no third: Either to stand with the victims of genocide or to stand with its perpetrators.”
1/12: Internet and communications shut down in Gaza. Al-Aqsa hospital without power due to fuel shortages, 100s of ICU patients and premature babies at immediate risk of death. Journalist Heba Albadlah and her young daughter killed in IDF airstrike on their home. IDF airstrike massacres in Rafah, 12 killed including babies, Khan Younis, 30 killed including many women and young children at Oram family home, and Deir el-Balah, 11 killed. Nightly IDF raids continue throughout West Bank.
Massive protests across Yemen in response to US airstrikes, including 2 million in capital Sana’a, to show solidarity with Palestinians and calling for an end to many years of US neocolonial operations throughout Middle East. US launches more airstrikes at Sanaa International Airport, kills 6.
1/13: Day 100. More than 100 killed in the last 24 hours. 100,000 killed, missing, or wounded since October 7th.
Wael Dahdouh “We feel that we are being killed twice: once by the bombs and once by this silence. I advise the President, to look at what’s happening, to listen to what people, ordinary people, who are paying the cost, and they have every right to secure their rights as human beings, as partners in humanity, nothing more, nothing less.”
PM Netanyahu “Nobody will stop us – not The Hague, not the axis of evil and not anybody else.”
1/14: More than 135 killed and 300 wounded in the last 24 hours. Dozens killed in IDF airstrikes in Rafah and Khan Younis. Communications blackout continues. 2 Palestinian telecom workers trying to repair internet killed by IDF bombs. 237 humanitarian aid trucks enter Gaza, largest number of trucks per day. Only 3 of 21 trucks trying to reach northern Gaza were allowed and able to proceed in last 10 days. Videos show crowds of thousands of starving and desperate Gazans on Al-Rashid costal road rushing to reach a couple nearby trucks with flour, chaos after gun shots fired. Euromed article 1/16 reports witnesses from similar scene on 1/11 where Gazans traveling to and waiting for aid trucks were fired on by IDF quadcopters and tanks, killing 50. Eyewitness report “We were taken by surprise by the heavy gunfire coming from above, there were quadcopters shooting directly at the crowd… We started running in all directions. Within a few seconds, dozens of people fell and we could not stop to help or pull them up because the shooting continued.” Many gathered again on 1/14 waiting for trucks, and were again fired on by shooting drones leading to more deaths and injuries. https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6098
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in joint statement with Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry, calls for “an international summit for peace to find a just, comprehensive and lasting solution to the Palestinian cause by ending the occupation and establishing an independent, contiguous Palestinian state. It is necessary to insist on the establishment of an independent, fully sovereign state of Palestine on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital”
Thousands of Israelis attend 24hr protest in Tel Aviv calling for the release of 136 hostages still held by Hamas, calls for early elections, protesters block Tel Aviv highway. More Israelis demanding investigation of mounting evidence IDF killed Israelis at Kibbutz Be’eri and Nova Festival. Many peaceful protestors violently arrested. Likud support drops in poll.
Hamas spokesman Abu Obaida “Any talk other than stopping the aggression against our people has no value in the course of this battle … The enemy’s objectives have shattered on the rock of our people’s steadfastness and our resistance … The fate of many of the enemy’s detained prisoners has become unknown in recent weeks, while the rest have all entered the tunnel of the unknown”. Hamas releases video of 3 hostages. “Tomorrow, we will inform you of their fate”
1/15: Hamas video reveals 2 hostages from yesterday video were killed by IDF airstrikes, surviving hostage Noa Argman “Etai Firsky and Yosi Sherabi they died because of our own IDF strikes” Hamas rockets from Gaza intercepted by iron dome over Ashkelon.
50 South African lawyers will submit a separate lawsuit against the US and UK for their complicit role in the Israeli war crimes which took place in Gaza
Yemeni military hits US owned container ship Gibraltar Eagle with missile in Gulf of Aden. US fighter jet shot down anti-ship cruise missile fired from Yemen at US Destroyer in Red Sea.
Iran strikes targets in Iraq & Syria with 24 ballistic missiles launched from Iran. Peshraw Dizayee, oil tycoon businessman known for Mossad-linked deals with Israel for Iraqi resources, killed in the strike at his home along with 4 family members in the Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital city, Erbil. Iran claims the target “was responsible for planning and running espionage operations and terrorist activities in the region.”
1/16: 158 killed, and 320 injured in the past 24 hrs. Many 1000s of Gazans sheltering in and nearby Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, last functioning hospital in Gaza Strip, forced to evacuate due to nearby heavy shelling and approaching tanks. Palestinians being killed in the streets by quadcopters and snipers on roofs. IDF bulldozes cemetery and steals corpses in Al-Namsawi neighborhood near Nasser. Senior IDF officer, Lt. Col. Oren Schindler, on Israeli radio "We need to make sure that wherever the IDF goes in Gaza there is devastation… there are no innocents.”
IDF airstrike on car in Nablus West Bank, killing 3, video of IDF soldiers collecting body pieces in bags, IDF says it eliminated the ‘head of terrorist infrastructure’ Amed Abdullah Abu-Shalal.
Body of 4yo Ragheh Ahmed Abu Dahouk killed by IDF at checkpoint near Jerusalem, returned to family after being held for 9 days. Ongoing raids in Hebron, Jericho, Bethlehem, and Ramallah.
Iran fires missiles and drones into Pakistan, targets “Iranian terrorist group”, Jaish al-Adl
Clare Daly Irish Member of the European Parliament speech “Despite the catastrophic death toll it has inflicted, Israel is losing. On the ground and in the court of public opinion. There’s no way that this ends that doesn’t leave Israel a pariah state, with occupation and apartheid on borrowed time. And they know it. So they’re doing everything they can: desperate acts of aggression to provoke a wider conflict with Lebanon, with Iran, with anybody, to draw in the US, to save them from the consequences of their own actions. And as Yemen shows, Butcher Biden is reporting for duty. With Europe’s Frau Genocide by his side, they are the ones who have enabled the continuation of Israeli terror. Without them, it would already be over. So take notes Butcher Biden: the ancestors of the Ireland that you claim to be from disown you. Keep our country out of your mouth. And as for von der Leyen and genocidal Germany with your words and deeds supporting Israel in the ICJ: not in our name! The people of Europe stand with Palestine and with South Africa!”
1/17: IDF airstrike on home in Janinah Neighborhood of Rafah kills at least 19, 8 children and 8 women. IDF demolishes University of Palestine. Continuing raids throughout West Bank, mass arrests, demolitions, sieges, snipers on roofs, 2nd day of raid in Tulkarem with heavy clashes, about 40 raids per day.
Ben Gvir "There is no escape from starting a real war in the north with Lebanon”. Yemen hits another US owned commercial ship with missiles in Red Sea. ‘We will not give up’. US-UK responds with more airstrikes across Yemen. Pakistan airstrikes in Iran, targets “Pakistan terrorist groups” in Balochistan BLA/BLF.
1/18: Euro Parliament passes a resolution calling for a 'ceasefire' in Gaza, but adds amendment precondition demanding dismantling Hamas and unconditional release of hostages. Netanyahu told US that he opposes Palestinian state in any postwar scenario “In the future Israel will have to control the entire area from the river to the sea. This is what happens when you have sovereignty. This truth i say to our American friends, and i also stopped the attempt to impose on us a reality that will jeopardize us. A Prime Minister in Israel has to be able to say no even to the best of friends.”
Biden when asked if Yemen airstrikes are working “Well, when you say 'working' are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.” Houthis strike another US commercial ship in Red Sea. US drone shot down Iraqi militias near Baghdad.
Large protests in Tel Aviv, demanding ceasefire now, end the killing, and release of hostages.
1/19: More than 160 killed and 280 injured in last 24 hours. Many try to reach homes in northern Gaza finding areas completely devastated after IDF brigades have withdrawn from certain areas and reposition for planned escalation of war with Hezbollah, though intense airstrikes continue throughout Gaza City, Jabalia, Khan Younis, concentration near Al-Shifa hospital and Al-Nasser hospital. Aljazeera reports video and witness evidence of mass executions of civilians, including report from lone survivor who played dead with a body on top of him. 10 month old baby rescued from rubble last month in Rafah dies. Intensive IDF raids throughout West Bank, including air strikes, and executions of unarmed civilians in the streets. Tawfiq Hijazi, 17yr old US citizen from New Orleans, shot in the head by IDF troops near Ramallah.
Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief “We only believe that a two-state solution should be imposed from the outside to bring peace. But I insist, Israel, by continuing to reject this solution, has gone as far as to create Hamas themselves. Yes, Hamas has been financed by the Israeli government, to try to undermine the Palestinian Authority led by Fatah.”
Tamir Pardo, former Mossad head, "If he (Netanyahu) has given up on the captives, he should say so openly in public. If we end the war with 136 coffins, Israel has lost for the first time. We need to take care of correcting the country's neglect and betrayal of its citizens.”
Ben Gvir from Ynet's interview 2 days ago, talks his plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza: "We will start with a pilot of 100-200 thousand. After this pilot, I believe... they can have it better in other countries", and about war in the north “If we don't initiate war against Hezbollah, it's gonna be hard to bring the residents of the north back to their homes… Every day we need to execute another Nukhba militant, so they (Hamas) will come begging!"
Dozens of protesters protest outside Netanyahu’s house and camp in tents overnight. More politicians call for early elections.
IDF assassination airstrike near Damascus on residential building in Mezzeh, kills 5 IRGC members.
1/20: Islamic resistance in Iraq launches large missile attack on Ain al-Asad US airbase. Iraq PM calls for all US troops out of country. US airstrike in Yemen targeting missile launch sites. Russia announces patrols of Golan Heights border to prevent Israel airstrikes in Syria. Large joint Israeli and Palestinian peace activists protest against the war and occupation in Haifa. Thousands of protesters in Tel Aviv calling for end of Netanyahu government and early elections.
1/21: Intense airstrikes, shelling and gunfire in Khan Younis all day. IDF Gallant "The operation in Khan Yunis will soon expand to other places, the mushrooms of smoke will cover the skies of Gaza until we achieve our goals.”
Netanyahu continues to reject any form of ceasefire or of Palestinian state, “Let it be clear: I reject outright the terms of surrender of the monsters of Hamas… Only a complete victory will ensure the elimination of Hamas and the return of all our abductees… I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over the entire area in the west of Jordan.” Protesters continue camping outside Netanyahu’s house demanding a deal to release remaining hostages. Wapo reports U.S. intelligence agencies estimate Israeli forces have only killed 20% to 30% of Hamas’s fighters.
Hamas releases “Our Narrative” 16 page document 1) Why Operation Al-Aqsa Flood? 2) The events of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and responses to the Israeli allegations. 3) Towards a transparent international investigation. 4) A reminder to the world, who is Hamas? 5) What is needed?
Euro-med reports “Israeli army has killed 94 university professors, along with hundreds of teachers and thousands of students. Israeli army has targeted academic, scientific, and intellectual figures in the Strip in deliberate and specific air raids on their homes without prior notice.”
1/22: Continued heavy shelling and shooting attacks near al-Amal Hospital and Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, killing more than 60 civilians. IDF artillery shelling targets 4th floor of Red Crescent headquarters, along with intense gunfire from drones, resulting in numerous injuries among people sheltering in building. IDF airstrike on a car with passengers waving white flags as they attempted to flee Khan Younis.
Al Qassam reports following attack on IDF Merkava tank near Khan Younis, rescue forces couldn't pull out the damaged tank, in response, IDF used airstrikes to wipe out the tank, in fear of soldier being kidnapped.
At least 24 IDF soldiers killed, marking deadliest day for IDF since 10/7. In one incident in Maghazi area, partly shown in Al Qassam video, a resistance fighter fires an RPG at a building containing group of troops preparing mines intended to blow up more residential buildings, causing large explosion and collapse of 2 buildings, same fighter uses 2nd rocket on nearby tank killing its crew. More IDF Tiktok videos from soldiers demolishing entire residential blocks in Khan Younis. More US-UK airstrikes in Yemen capital Sana’a. Families of captives in Gaza stormed into a Knesset meeting to demand an immediately deal. "You will not sit here while our children die!"
Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur, “We’ve never seen 2.2 million civilians made to go hungry within weeks. We have never seen this degree of hunger used as a weapon so quickly and so completely, ever… It doesn’t happen by chance. Starvation, wherever it happens, is always the result of political choices and this is the same case here… There was a 16-year blockade before this… Then [Israel] imposes a siege during the war. Then it destroys civilian infrastructure. So Israel has destroyed hospitals, homes, roads, making everyday life impossible. And finally, what I’m receiving reports of is the destruction of the food system itself.”
Alex De Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation says the speed at which “starvation” has been brought about among Gaza’s population is “unprecedented”. “I’ve been studying this for 40 years and I’ve never seen a population reduced [to this level of hunger] with the same speed and rigor and ruthlessness… An entire population being reduced to this stage is really unprecedented. We haven’t seen it in Ethiopia, in Sudan and Yemen – pretty much anywhere else in the world,” says that while all famines are political acts, the current food crisis in Gaza is a “military act” by Israel that amounts to the “war crime of starvation”. The destruction of “food, medicine, water and sanitation is being done on a scale that I don’t think we have witnessed anywhere else in the contemporary world.”
1/23: Extreme cold weather, high winds, and rain in Rafah where over 1.5 million displaced starving Gazans are trying to survive, more than half living in tents and on the streets. IDF orders more than 500,000 people to leave areas of Khan Younis as bombings intensify. IDF storms Al-Khair Hospital and continues siege of Nasser Hospital and al-Aqsa university where thousands of civilians are sheltering, tanks block people trying to evacuate, prevent ambulances from trying to bring wounded to hospital, snipers on rooftops and advancing troops continue to shoot and indiscriminately murder unarmed civilians in the streets. IDF bombs Palestinians sheltering in tents in Khan Younis. IDF kills 3 civilians in strikes on Red Crescent headquarters in Khan Younis. IDF fires on civilians trying to collect aid from a few humanitarian trucks that were able to make it near Gaza city. Israeli settlers threaten Palestinians by digging small children-sized graves in front of a school in Jericho West Bank. ITV news interviews group of civilians waving white flag with their hands up, trying to reach a mother and brother and escort them to safety from nearby soldiers, after interview ends and news team walks away, video captures IDF soldiers firing on group with white flag killing 1 shot through chest.
Hamas rejects Israeli proposal for temporary ceasefire and exchange of hostages, holds position that no hostages will be released until end of the war and withdrawal from Gaza Strip.
US airstrikes in Baghdad and Qaim Iraq target Kata'ib Hezbollah PMU militia, killing At least 2, and also airstrike in Syria on suspected weapons shipment. The Iraqi groups are ordered to impose a blockade on Israel in the Mediterranean, targeting their ports & trade. Iraqi resistance fighters launch missile attack on US military base in the Koniko gas field in Syria's Deir Ezzor region.
1/24: More than 200 Gazans killed in the last 24 hours. IDF tanks shell UN building in Khan Younis, sheltering 800 civilians, killing at least 13 and forcing people to flee the city. Nasser Hospital staff digging graves in hospital grounds amid siege; “No one can enter or exit the facility”. IDF airstrikes on Omar bin Abdul-Aziz Mosque and surrounding homes near Rafah killing dozens. Bodies of children pulled from rubble after IDF airstrike on residential area in Nuseirat refugee camp. IDF soldiers detonate 21 homes belonging to innocent civilians in Bani Suheila near Khan Younis, claiming that this explosion is "in honor of the 21 soldiers who were killed in the Maghazi attack 2 days ago.”
Ongoing IDF raids throughout West Bank including Jenin, Ramallah, el-Birh, Nablus, Hebron, Bethlehem, and Tulkarem. More than 6,225 Palestinians arrested in the West Bank since October 7.
Amichai Eliyahu, Israel's Heritage Minister, again calls for nuking Gaza “Even in The Hague they know my position...dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip is an option."
Israeli women protesters in Tel Aviv chant “you can’t achieve security with the corpses of children”. Hundreds blocking roads and a highway and calling for ceasefire, return of hostages, and early elections.
Houthis launch attack against US Destroyers and US container ships with ballistic missiles. Houthis claim to hit US warship. US denies any damage, shot down missiles directed at commercial ships.
Israeli Channel 13 journalist acknowledges in videos false IDF claims/lies regarding alleged crimes committed by Hamas, including killing of 8 babies nursery, killing of an elderly woman holocaust survivor, dead babies hung on laundry line, a pregnant woman cut open, a baby put in oven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp4uLjCztfI
1/25: More than 20 mass killings in the last 24 hours, over 200 killed and 370 wounded. IDF firing tank shells and shooting at thousands of starving Gazans awaiting food aid, killing at least 20 and over 150 wounded. IDF airstrike on home in Nuseirat camp kills at least 11 civilians, including journalist Iyad Al-Rawwagh and his family.
IDF snipers murder unarmed 14yo Nahed Barbakh with white flag in Khan Younis when he went to check road to evacuate family, tried to get up after being shot twice then shot in the head, brother 20yo Ramiz tried to rescue him and was also executed, photo shows their bodies next to white flag. https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6121
Hamas statement on expected ICJ Genocide case ruling tomorrow, 1. In the event of a decision by the court in The Hague to cease fire, the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas will commit to a ceasefire as long as the enemy adheres to it. 2. Hamas will release the Israeli prisoners held by it if the occupation state releases the Palestinian prisoners detained by it. 3. The Zionist enemy must end its 18-year blockade on Gaza and allow all necessary aid for the relief of the people and reconstruction.
US announces expedited arms shipment of reinforcements to Israel, including 25 F-35 fighter jets, 25 F-15 fighter jets, and at least 12 Apache attack helicopters, thousands of guided munitions and 155mm shells, and thousands of assault rifles.
1/26: Heavy rain, thunderstorms, and severe cold weather as many hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans living in makeshift tents or on the street with no food or supplies near Rafah. Intensified bombings of Khan Younis. IDF fires on civilians fleeing toward Rafah after they were ordered to leave their homes and makeshift shelters. Power outage and at Nasser hospital, last hospital in Gaza, after 5th day of siege, where hundreds of patients and medical staff are sheltering amid ongoing bombardment. IDF tanks shell gate of al-Amal Hospital.
ICJ concludes accusations against Israel are credible and there is a plausible risk of genocide, issues provisional order. Israel shall:
- (15-2) Take all measures to prevent commission of all acts in Article II of Genocide Convention, in particular: killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.
- (15-2) Ensure with immediate effect its military does not commit any acts of genocide.
- (16-1) Take all measures to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide.
- (16-1) Take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address adverse conditions to life in the Gaza Strip.
- (15-2) Take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within scope of the Genocide convention.
- (15-2 ) Submit a report to the Court on all measures taken to give effect to this Order within one month as from the date of this Order.
Bezalel Smotrich, Finance Minister, “Judges at The Hague who are concerned about the residents of Gaza should urge countries to take them in and assist in rebuilding Gaza."
Yoav Gallant, Defense Minister, “The State of Israel does not need to be lectured on morality to distinguish between terrorists and the civilian population in Gaza."
Ben Gvir, Security Minister, "The Hague Schmag.. The International Court of Justice is antisemitic.”
Hamas “We call on the international community to oblige the enemy to implement the court’s decisions and stop the ongoing ‘crime of genocide’ against our people. We look forward to the court’s final decisions convicting the occupying state of committing the crime of ‘genocide’, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.”
Hamas ambush group of 7 IDF soldiers near Maghazi, closed tunnel entrance, trapping soldiers inside, before detonating an anti-personnel device. Publishes video of 3 women hostages who call on Israeli government to stop the war and return them to their homes, say continuation of the war endangers their lives, and that IDF has killed fellow hostages who were with them.
Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) lawsuit hearing against Biden in US federal court for failure to prevent & complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
British oil tanker, Marlin Luanda, hit by Yemeni missile, on the verge of sinking, cargo tank has exploded, fire is huge and the crew called for urgent help.
1/27: UNRWA Funding Pulled by US, UK, Germany, Australia, Italy, Canada, Finland, Netherlands, and Switzerland pull funding (~$500m/yr), primary humanitarian agency runs shelters for over 1 million people and provides food and healthcare even at the height of hostilities, after Israeli alleges that 12 of their 30,000 employees participated in 10/7 attack. UNRWA fires accused individuals and announces independent investigation. Recently 1/4 Israeli official Noga Arbell called for the destruction of UNRWA in the parliament. "It will be impossible to win the war if we do not destroy UNRWA, and this destruction must begin immediately. Defunding move by US and others following Israel's agenda is clearly a deliberate act of collective punishment and genocide one day after ICJ order to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance. UNRWA commissioner warns “Hundreds of thousands can die because of this!”
Mousa Abu Marzouk “Hamas stands ready to appear before the ICC with witnesses and live testimony and bear the burden of any judicial finding against it or its members after a full and fair trial with rules of evidence; with examination and cross examination into we have done or not over the many years of our leadership as a national liberation movement. Is Israel? We categorically deny the allegations lodged in the media by Israel and its supporters against us with regard to the events of that day and stand ready to defend ourselves at such a trial. Is Israel willing to proceed from rhetoric to evidence and to pursue justice in such a proceeding and to bear the consequences, whatever they may be? We are.” https://mediareviewnet.com/2024/01/hamas-throws-down-the-gauntlet/
Hundreds of anti-Netanyahu and pro-hostage-deal protesters in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, a number of assaults and arrests by police. Anti-Palestinian protestors, including some families of hostages, block aid trucks from entering Gaza through Kerem Shalom (southern Border Israel) crossing for 4th day, demand blocking all aid until all remaining hostages released.
US airstrikes in Yemen to retaliate for oil tanker attack yesterday. Intensified bombings between Israel and Hezbollah.
1/28: More than 170 civilians killed, at least 300 wounded, in last 24 hours. At least 23 civilians killed in IDF airstrike on multi-storied house near Nuseirat camp. IDF airstrike on home on Zaitoun kills 8, a father & mother their 6 children, IDF also bombed the only fire engine truck in entire north Gaza on the way to the scene. IDF airstrike kill broadcaster Essam Al Lulu along with his wife and 6 family members. IDF airstrike kills journalist Muhammad Abdelfattah Atallah along with his family.
Mass graves being dug in grounds of Nasser and al-Amal hospitals because many people are not able to evacuate due to IDF siege and nearby fighting. Large groups of evacuees from Khan Younis forced through IDF checkpoints and into Rafah area, where the majority of ~2 million Gazan population are being concentrated and at risk of imminent mass casualties, with no shelter, food, or medical assistance.
Intense clashes in Jenin between IDF and resistance groups, including Al-‘Asifah, Al-Qassam, and Abu Ali Mustafa brigades. IDF fires shots and tear gas near Jenin Hospital, causing damage to the maternity ward, video shows IDF beating a volunteer paramedic with Palestine Red Crescent Society. Ongoing raids continue throughout West Bank on daily basis, including in Nablus, Tulkarem, East Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Ramallah.
France, Japan, Iceland, and Estonia join group of countries suspending UNRWA funding.
3 US soldiers killed, many wounded, in unmanned drone attack by Iraqi Islamic Resistance on Tower 22 military base at the northeastern most point of Jordan where the borders meet Syria and Iraq. Iraqi Islamic Resistance “All the US interests in the region are legitimate targets and we don’t care about US threats to respond.” US politicians call for retaliation military strikes inside Iran.
‘Settlement Brings Security’ Return to Gaza Conference attended by hundreds of right wing Israeli settlers and dozens of politicians planning to colonize Gaza Strip, map display shows planned settlements throughout Gaza, Ben Gvir “we need to encourage immigration from Gaza”. Conference organizer settler Daniella Weiss “Gaza, the southern gate of Israel, will open, the people of Gaza will move to all around the world” “If we don’t give them food, they will have to leave.”
1/29: More than 200 killed in last 24 hours. Hamas launches rocket barrage towards Tel Aviv. IDF raids UNRWA shelter in Gaza City and conducts mass arrests of dozens of men while women and children forced to flee. IDF siege of al-Amal hospital continues, 3 killed by IDF as they tried to evacuate a woman. IDF artillery shelling kills 25 civilians at Hamada family’s home.
Draft framework proposal deal for release of remaining 136 hostages, from heads of the Mossad and Shin Bet intelligence agencies and senior US, Qatari, and Egyptian officials, includes 45-day pause in fighting in exchange for 35-40 Israeli hostages in the first stage, 100-250 Palestinian hostages released for every Israeli hostage, and would allow more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. Israel claims to be willing to be flexible on the length of the pause in fighting, the number of prisoners released, and the amount of humanitarian aid let in, but will not under any circumstances agree to end the war.
Hamas and PFLP meeting in Beirut, leaders agreed no exchange of prisoners until full ceasefire is declared, stress the importance of forming unified national leadership for Palestinian people, end goal is a reformed PLO committed to liberation, to establish national consensus, reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, unify the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza, conduct legislative, presidential, and National Council elections from inside and outside Palestine, develop a single national strategy to contend with occupation, settlement, Judaization, displacement, protecting rights and sanctities, and continuing the struggle until full liberation and return is won.
IDF special forces storm Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin disguised as doctors, nurses and civilians and assassinate 3 resistance fighters while they were sleeping using silencers, no attempt to arrest, claims they were involved in planning terrorist attacks. 18yo Basil al-Ghazawi had been in the hospital for 3 months after being wounded and half-paralyzed in 10/25 IDF airstrike on Jenin cemetery, his 23yo brother Mohammad al-Ghazawi, and 27yo Mohammad Jalamneh. Clear violation of Geneva Conventions & International Humanitarian Law.
- Attacking Hospital, Article 18, Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick may in no circumstances be the object of attack, but shall at all times be respected and protected.
- Extrajudicial Killing Article 27, Protected persons shall be protected especially against all acts of violence.
- Hors de Combat, Article 3 & Protocol I, killing wounded or incapacitated persons including member of armed forces who have laid down their arms is prohibited.
- Perfidy, Protocol I, war crime is committed when a person invokes the provisions of the Geneva Conventions meant for the protection of persons (including medics), with the intent to betray, kill, injure, or capture an adversary. i.e. dressing up like doctors to assassinate a patient.
1/30: Mass grave dug in Rafah for 100 bodies of Gazans that had been confiscated by IDF, significant number of bodies were hard to identify, many arriving as skeletal remains. IDF airstrike kills 11 civilians in attack on Abo Ewili family’s home in Deir Balah. More than 30 corpses found in zip tied black bags, dumped in a heap of rubble & garbage, restrained, blindfolded, and executed at point blank range by IDF, discovered inside Beit Lahia Khalifa Ben Zayd school grounds.
Red Crescent audio of 15yo girl Layan Hamada call begging for help after all her family were killed in a car except for 6yo girl Hind Rajab, “The Israelis are shooting at us, they are firing on us, they are shooting at us, the tank is next to me” “Are you taking shelter?” “We are inside the car and the tank is just next to us” followed by huge volume of gun shots and girl screaming before falling silent. PRCS sent ambulance to rescue the child, but have lost connection with the team. All found dead 12 days later, Hind in car with family and medics in their ambulance.
Video of large crowds of women and children starving refugees fleeing to the south of Gaza, filing past facial recognition camera, while being harassed over a loudspeaker by IDF troops, calling out their names and hurling disgusting and degrading insults. Video of IDF soldier humiliating bus full of handcuffed and blindfolded hostages, ordering them to chant that they want to be his family’s slaves and clean his sewage. Video of IDF drone with loudspeaker “Evacuate westwards immediately via sea road because the IDF will destroy the whole area. You have been warned.”
IDF soldier audio interview describes how extrajudicial killing of ‘terrorist’ captives of war is something that needs to be done and gives you joy and confidence. IDF soldier Chai Hamo video “On one hand, we are filled with great joy, no longer in the area of pogroms that slaughtered, tortured, and abused us without response. Blessed by the Lord, we have destroyed a vast territory. Killed tens of thousands of the Amalek. On the other hand, we have not yet become a moral army, and that is the true war facing the people of Israel. The rest will fall into place easily once we understand morally that every Arab is a suspicious entity. Perhaps he is good, perhaps he’s a bomb. But he is suspect. To be moral is to execute all the terrorists after interrogating them. To be moral is to conquer and flatten all parts of the land of Israel. Any place we leave a hornets’ nest untouched will retaliate.”
MK Ofer Cassif impeached by Knesset Home Committee for signing a petition in support of ICJ investigation of Israel committing genocide, now goes to vote in Knesset plenum.
1/31: Haaretz investigation shows that IDF soldiers set fire to hundreds of homes in Gaza Strip, following direct orders from their commanders, for no purpose other than to be rendered useless and uninhabitable. “Even houses we were in, we set fire to as soon as we continue.”
Ambulance crews recovered about 14 bodies after a partial retreat of IDF vehicles from a Khan Younis refugee camp. Red Crescent Society says IDF forces opened fire as they stormed its headquarters in Khan Younis for the third time, 12 people killed at hospital in the last day. Dozens killed by IDF airstrikes throughout Gaza City and Deir el-Balah. UNRWA reports their have been 270 attacks impacting their shelter facilities, killing more than 370, people forced to continue to shelter in these UN facilities after attacks because there is no where left to go.
A civil case accusing Joe Biden and other senior officials of being complicit in Israel’s “genocide” has been dismissed on jurisdiction grounds. Judge comments “The court is bound by precedent and the division of our coordinate branches of government to abstain from exercising jurisdiction in this matter. Yet, as the ICJ has found, it is plausible that Israel’s conduct amounts to genocide. This court implores defendants to examine the results of their unflagging support of the military siege against the Palestinians in Gaza.”
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that UNRWA’s work is vital in “averting a humanitarian catastrophe and the risk of famine” in Gaza, and that Israeli forces are “deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, willfully impeding humanitarian assistance [and] apparently razing agricultural areas.” Spain refuses calls to cut UNRWA funding, instead increases funding by 170% and increases funding to Palestine by 300%.
US airstrikes in Yemen against ground control station and UAVs.
February 2024
2/1: More accounts emerge of abuse, beatings, humiliation, and torture of Gazans in Israeli detention. Siege of al-Amal Hospital continues into 11th day, PRCS reports “The occupation continues its violent shelling and shooting in the vicinity of the hospital” “Repeated raids into the courtyards of the hospital and the association’s headquarters, and direct fire on the buildings, which threatens the lives of the staff and the displaced.” Bodies of 12 civilians found under rubble of house destroyed by IDF airstrike weeks ago in Khan Younis.
Gallant Defense Minister says IDF will continue pushing though Khan Younis and into Rafah.
Ami Ayalon CNN interview, Former Shin Bet head, “Unless we discuss a future of two states there is no way to defeat Hamas.” “There is a huge gap between winning the battle and winning the war.”
Bezalel Smotrich “Bringing aid into Gaza contradicts the goals of the war… I spoke to Netanyahu in this regard and this is going to change soon."
Biden issues sanctions against 4 Israeli settlers who are “directing or participating in certain actions, including acts or threats of violence against civilians, intimidating civilians to cause them to leave their homes, destroying or seizing property, or engaging in terrorist activity in the West Bank.”
- There have been 468 attacks by settlers on Palestinians or their property since 10/7, including shootings, as well as destroying homes, olive trees, livestock, and water supplies.
- There are 750,000+ illegal settlers living in the occupied West Bank, including many US citizens.
- Finance Minister Smotrich calls Biden an anti-Semite for tiny action against settler violence.
2/2: More than 1.6 million displaced and starving Gazans sheltering in makeshift tent encampments near Rafah bracing for next wave of IDF attacks into the are once described as a “safe zone”. IDF shooting attack on Red Crescent headquarters in Al Amal hospital compound in Khan Younis kills 4, including Hedaya Hamad, director of youth and volunteers department, who was killed trying to rescue 3 refugees who had been killed by IDF soldiers. Hamas Qassam Brigades says it has killed 15 IDF soldiers in battles west of Gaza City. IDF airstrike in Rafah kills at least 24, mostly women and children. UNICEF says about 17,000 children in Gaza are unaccompanied or have been separated from their families during the conflict.
US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets, retaliation for 3 solders killed at Tower 22 US base on Jordan, kills 16, Jordan fighter jets participate in bombings.
2/3: Day 120, over 35,000 Gazans killed, including more than 13,600 children, more than 67,000 injured, 2,000,000 people displaced since 10/7. Dozens killed in airstrikes throughout Gaza Strip. IDF airstrikes on refugee tents in Rafah. IDF shelling of Kindergarten in Rafah where many displaced families are sheltering, killing and injuring many young children. Video showing IDF vehicle firing on Palestinian civilians fleeing Khan Younis. Euro-Med video documents scene of man, who had been searching for food, shot multiple times in the back by IDF snipers near Palestine Stadium.
More US-UK airstrikes against 36 targets across Yemen. Houthis launch more anti-ship ballistic missiles towards US ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, Ansarallah Political Bureau member, “Our military operations against the Zionist entity will continue until the aggression against Gaza stops, no matter what sacrifices it costs us. We will meet escalation with escalation, and victory comes only from God.”
Hundreds of Israeli protestors block roads in Tel Aviv, demanding deal to release hostages and resignation of the Netanyahu government.
2/4: More than 120 killed in last 24 hours. Dozens killed in heavy airstrikes in Rafah and Khan Younis. IDF airstrikes on residential buildings and mosque in Deir el-Balah supposed ‘safe zone’ kills at least 30, many still trapped in rubble.
More US airstrikes in Yemen.
2/5: 8,000 refugees evacuated from Al-Amal Hospital and PRCS headquarters, only 100 medical staff and 120 elderly and wounded patients remain. IDF snipers killing 3 sheep for no reason. IDF navy shells UN humanitarian aid truck heading to the Northern Gaza along predesignated ‘safe route’. IDF soldier executes 14yo Wade' Allyan on video in eastern occupied Jerusalem, he attacks soldier with a knife, is shot once and falls, then is shot again point blank in the back. Nicaragua files case at ICJ against Germany, Canada, UK, and Netherlands for supporting the Israeli genocide, under the Genocide Convention. Knesset approves bill which punishes the denial or "downplaying" of the Israeli narrative of 10/7 by up to 5 years in prison. There has been no Israeli investigation into what happened on 10/7. Channel 4 report on evidence provided by Israel against UNRWA employees, does not contain direct evidence against employees, cites ‘intelligence information’.
2/6: Ongoing airstrikes in Jabalia, Khan Younis and Rafah, killing dozens of civilians. Woman killed in Khan Younis when IDF opens fire at gathering at a bakery. IDF navy shoots and injures fishermen off the coast of Rafah. Ongoing raids and arrests in West Bank, including Nablus, Tubas, Ramallah, and Bethlehem, and intense clashes in Jenin, IDF siege and attacks at Ibn Sina Hospital. Hundreds of Israeli settlers attack and continue to block humanitarian aid trucks from entering Gaza.
IDF airstrikes in Homs Syria killing a number of civilians
Saudi Arabia Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement “there will be no diplomatic relations with Israel unless an independent Palestinian state is recognized on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, and that the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip stops and all Israeli occupation forces withdraw from the Gaza Strip.”
Hamas response response to Paris ceasefire proposal
- Stage 1, 45 days, temporary ceasefire of military operations and redeployment of IDF forces away from populated areas enabling prisoner exchanges. Release of women, children, elderly, and sick hostages in exchange for a pre-arranged number of Palestinian prisoners. Increasing entry of humanitarian aid, and reconstruction of hospitals. Beginning negotiations regarding requirements necessary for restoring complete calm.
- Stage 2, 45 days, complete negotiations for continued ceasefire before stage 2, Release off of male hostages for Palestinian detainees, continue humanitarian aid, withdrawal of IDF outside Gaza Strip, commencement of reconstruction.
- Stage 3, 45 days, exchange of deceased prisoners, and large number of Palestinian prisoners, continuation of humanitarian aid, complete cessation of military operations, restoring access to Al-Aqsa mosque, return of all displaced Gazan in all areas of strip, opening of crossing and resumption of free trade.
2/7: More than 100 killed in last 24 hours. At least 14 killed in ongoing airstrikes in Rafah and Deir el-Balah. IDF airstrike kills dozens of civilians at a water truck near Gaza City. IDF snipers kill 14yo Ruwa Qdeih at entrance of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis while she was trying to get water, people forced to use rope to get water across the street for the thousands trapped inside hospital. Increasing numbers of Gazans being killed by dehydration, starvation, hepatitis, and other diseases.
US targeted assassination drone airstrike in Baghdad kills 3 including Iraqi resistance Kataib Hezbollah leader in retaliation for attacks on US bases. Additional reports of airstrikes in Syria and Yemen.
Netanyahu dismisses Hamas proposal as ‘delusional’.
2/8: Dozens killed and injured in more airstrikes in Rafah. IDF snipers shoot and injure doctor inside Naser hospital operating room. IDF airstrike on main entrance of Shifa hospital kills 4. IDF drone airstrike on ambulance evacuating wounded woman and her 3 children in Gaza City kills Red Crescent worker Mohammed Al-Omari. IDF navy kills several Gazan fishermen trying to get food. IDF airstrike on entire residential block of Deir Balah kills at least 10, many more trapped in rubble. IDF airstrike on kindergarten in az-Zawayda kills at least 4. More reports of IDF extrajudicially executing male prisoners after being interrogated.
Hundreds of Israeli settlers continue blocking humanitarian aid trucks from entering Gaza, for more than 10 days in a row.
IDF airstrike assassination in Nabatiyeh Lebanon, much deeper inside Lebanon compared to border attacks. More US airstrikes in Yemen. US army intelligence officers estimates Israel has only killed one-third of the group’s fighters.
2/9: More than 107 killed and 143 injured in last 24 hours. IDF snipers and drones kill at least 21 civilians at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis “shooting at every moving object”. IDF raids Red Crescent headquarters in al-Amal hospital in Khan Younis where thousands of refugees are sheltering, which has been under siege for past 19 days. IDF orders 1.5 million Gazan refugees concentrated in Rafah to evacuate ahead of their planned ‘massive’ ground invasion announced by Netanyahu, despite there literally being now where else in the Gaza Strip to escape to. UNICEF reports child malnutrition in Gaza Strip has worst levels of any place in the world. Continued raids, mass arrests and killings throughout West Bank, number of detainees from West Bank increases to 7,000 since 10/7.
Hezbollah launches dozens of missiles toward Israel escalating attacks after IDF attack in Nabatiyeh, interceptions by Iron Dome, and IDF conducts additional IDF airstrikes in Lebanon.
2/10: Continued airstrikes on Rafah kill dozens of civilians. IDF airstrikes on several groups of police in their vehicles in Rafah. Body of 6yo girl Hind Rajab killed by IDF has been found in car with 5 family after 12 days since she and her cousin called Red Crescent for help while tanks fire on car, also Red Crescent medics Yusuf Al-Zeino and Ahmed Al-Madhoun that were searching for Hind found killed in their exploded ambulance meters from car, US made 120mm tank shell found near wreckage. How am I even writing this? Do I even have a soul? https://twitter.com/i/status/1756236799025061943 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y4yu8UoSpc
IDF airstrike near Beirut Lebanon failed assassination against Hezbollah members.
More US airstrikes in Yemen.
2/11: More than 100 bodies mostly killed by snipers recovered after IDF withdrawal from Tal al-Hawa and Remal neighborhoods in Gaza City. At least 10 more civilians killed by snipers at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, including an elderly man at emergency gate. IDF snipers kill young woman and critically injure little boy in Gaza City, snipers continue to fire as people try to rescue by crawling on the ground using boards and ropes. Hamas says 2 more Israeli hostages killed IDF airstrikes, also says ground offensive in Rafah would “blow up” any further negotiations for remaining ~130 hostages.
More than 50 IDF airstrikes in Rafah superbowl massacre by jets, helicopters, and ships, within an hour kills more than 100 civilians, craters left in crowded area of refugees sheltering in tents, death toll expected to raise as body parts are scattered in the streets. IDF says special forces rescue 2 hostages in Rafah. Hamas says 10 IDF soldiers killed.
IDF kills 17yo American Mohammad Ahmed Mohammad Khdour in West Bank, shot twice in the head.
2/12: IDF airstrikes kills civilians including children in Rafah, Khan Younis, and Nuseirat camp in Central Gaza. Power supply cut to Nasser Hospital due to bombings, 10yo girl in intensive care room dies with no electricity. Bodies of people killed by snipers outside Nasser Hospital are unable to be reached to continued sniper attacks. Israeli settler attacks on villages in West Bank continue, supported by IDF, with stones, clubs, axes, and guns, shooting civilians, smashing windows, and burning cars and other property. Hamas says 3 more Israeli captives killed in IDF airstrikes. Journalist Ala’a al-Hums killed in IDF airstrike on her house. Increased number of Israeli protesters continue to block Karem Abu Salem border crossing, preventing any humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. South Africa urgent request to ICJ concerning Israel’s decision to extend military operation in Rafah.
2/13: Civilians trying to leave Nasser hospital are killed or wounded by snipers, including young boy who’s body cannot be retrieved. IDF tank outside Nasser on loudspeaker “Get out you bunch of animals, get out dogs.”
IDF sends hostage Jamal Abu Al-Ola as warning into Nasser, handcuffed wearing plastic suit, to convince people inside to leave city immediately, then he is executed at hospital gate as he returns to IDF https://theintercept.com/2024/02/14/gaza-nasser-hospital-evacuation-israel-prisoner/. 500 patients and staff believed to still be inside Nasser Hospital.
IDF releases video of airstrike killing 3 people trying to start a motorcycle, claims they are Hamas, but no evidence of weapons or affiliation with armed groups.
Journalists Ismail Abu Omar and Ahmad Matar were targeted and critically wounded by IDF drone strike in northern Rafah.
Israel blows up major Iranian natural gas pipeline.
2/14: IDF heavy bombing in Khan Younis, Rafah, Deir al Balah, Al Maghazi, and Gaza City. IDF airstrike on residential building in Nuseirat camp kills at least 14, including many children. IDF tank shelling of Nasser Hospital, large number of patients forced to flee under sniper fire.
Hezbollah lunches guided missile attack on IDF HQ in Safed northern Israel. IDF drone airstrike on residential building in Nabatiyeh, Souaneh, and other areas of Lebanon kills at least 11 mostly women and children civilians, boy survives after being pulled from ruble.
More US-UK airstrikes in Yemen.
2/15: Ongoing shelling, shooting, and airstrike massacres throughout Gaza Strip. IDF shoot blind folded man in the back in West Bank, forced to run from soldiers. Hezbollah launches dozens of missiles at Kiryat Shmona northern Israel in response to yesterday massacres in Nabatiyeh and Souaneh. Families of hostages held in Gaza handcuff themselves to ministry of defense gate, calling for a deal.
2/16: Continuous airstrikes throughout Gaza Strip kill at least 100 in last 24 hours. Starving Gazans are being forced to eat weeds and leaves to stay alive. At least 5 of the ICU patients remaining in Nasser Hospital die due to lack of power and oxygen.
2/17: Large airstrikes in Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Rafah. Intensified airstrikes in Rafah, causing some to flee toward central Gaza. Thousands of Israelis protest in Tel Aviv calling for elections now. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi reiterates his country’s “categorical rejection of the displacement of Palestinians to Egypt in any shape or form” in call French President Macron.
2/18: At least 130 civilians killed in the last 24 hours. IDF prevents ambulances from reaching those wounded trapped in rubble. Total collapse of Gaza electricity and basic infrastructure has led to many areas being flooded with sewage and garbage. IDF artillery shelling of 3rd floor of Al-Amal Hospital, which has been under siege for 27 days. WHO says IDF attacks have put Nasser Hospital “completely out of service”, had been the last hospital in Gaza, about 200 wounded patients still trapped inside. Settler terrorists in West Bank attach town of Turmus Aya near Ramallah, damaging property, setting fires to vehicles, and leaving hateful graffiti on walls. Israel Channel 14 national TV airs footage of male detainees who had been fleeing Khan Younis, handcuffed, blindfolded, and huddled in white ppe suits, being interrogated and humiliated by IDF solders, a clear war crime. UNRWA posts photo of Gaza destruction “There are no words.”
2/19: More than 100 civilians killed in the last 24 hours. Starvation has reached critical levels in northern Gaza with more people passing out in the streets from hunger due to Israeli blockade of humanitarian aid trucks. IDF shoots towards thousands of Gazans waiting for arrival of aid trucks. TV Channel 13 airs proudly airs more prisoner abuse footage of detainees in dark cells, no mattresses, rotten food, cuffed legs and to each other, and systemic humiliation.
Netanyahu accepts proposal from Ben-Gvir to ban entry of Muslim worshipers to the Al Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan.
ICJ hearing on Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Lawyers for Palestine “The right to self determination requires that UN member states bring Israel’s occupation to an end. No aid, no money, no arms, no complicity, no trade, no nothing”. “Israel should be brought to an end completely and unconditionally.” Netanyahu tweets “Israel does not recognize the legitimacy of the proceedings of the international court in The Hague.”
UN OHCHR reports credible allegations of egregious human rights violations including Palestinian women and girls arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family members, including their children. “We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing. Some of them were reportedly holding white pieces of cloth when they were killed.” Confirms allegations of rape and sexual violence by IDF soldiers. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/israelopt-un-experts-appalled-reported-human-rights-violations-against
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor report documents IDF use of quadcopter drones, fitted with machine guns and missiles, which have killed dozens of civilians. https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6166
Yemeni forces shoot down US Reaper drone, strikes 2 US cargo ships, and destroys British cargo ship in Gulf of Aden, crew is evacuated before ship sinks.
IDF airstrikes destroy oil and concrete facility in Ghaziyeh Lebanon. Hezbollah launches rocket attacks across northern Israel.
2/20: IDF airstrikes on several homes in Gaza City kill dozens and wound many who remain trapped in rubble. More than 25 massacred from Khattab family in Deir Al-Balah. More than 17 Gazans killed and dozens wounded in IDF airstrike completely destroying homes near Al-Nuseirat. Journalist Ihab Nasrallah and his wife killed in IDF airstrike in Zeitoun, their three children were badly burned. IDF opens fire on school sheltering thousands of Gazan refugees.
IDF airstrike on Doctors Without Borders (MSF) shelter near Khan Younis. MSF says that Israeli forces knew the “precise location” of a “clearly marked” MSF shelter in al-Mawasi, but attacked it anyway, killing 2 women and injuring 6 including 5 women and children.
World Food Program forced to pause aid delivery to northern Gaza due to IDF gunfire and “complete chaos and violence due to the collapse of civil order.”
Israeli terrorist settlers attack and set fire to a home in Turqumia near Hebron.
Intense ongoing fighting between IDF and resistance groups in Jenin, IDF helicopter airstrikes on homes, several IDF vehicles hit with explosives, IDF soldiers wounded and evacuated by helicopter, IDF shooting attacks against civilians and demolishing buildings and roads.
US vetoes UN Security Council Resolution for immediate ceasefire in Gaza, 13 members in favor, UK abstained, 4th US ceasefire veto since 10/7.
Minister Bezalel Smotrich when asked if returning hostages was the most important thing, "No, it's not the most important thing.”
IDF missile airstrikes in Damascus Syria on residential tower in Kafr Sousa, killing 2 and wounding at least 8 civilians. No specifics yet on killed, likely assassination attempt against Iranian or affiliated resistance group leaders.
2/21: IDF airstrikes on refugee camps near Rafah. 150 wounded and displaced remain in Nasser hospital along with 15 doctors, previously last functioning hospital now completely collapsed, no electricity, no water, no food, accounts of the IDF siege, sniper attacks, shelling, and raid. UN doctors allowed to enter after blocked for 2 days, and able to evacuate the ICU patients. WHO Director-General Ghebreyesus “Gaza has become a death zone.”
Knesset symbolic vote 99 of 120 to reject any ‘unilateral’ recognition of a Palestinian state. Hanoch Milbitsky Knesset member shouting at Arab member Ayman Odel following vote to refuse recognition of Palestinian State, "You will die, your children will die, your grandchildren will die, there won't be a Palestinian state, there will never be.” May Golan, Israel's Social Equality & Women's Advancement Minister “I am personally proud of the ruins in Gaza and that every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did.”
Andy Ogles US Republican Congressman, “I think we should kill ‘em all, if that makes you feel better.”, responding to activist saying “I’ve seen the footage of shredded children's bodies. That’s my taxpayer dollars, going to bomb those kids.”
Israeli media report exposes 10 hostages killed by IDF airstrikes in Gaza, some even as IDF knew they were in buildings that were targeted, IDF had told families only they “died in Hamas captivity.” https://www.ha-makom.co.il/post/revital-host-idf
Dozens of Israeli terrorists attack village of Asire al-Qibliya, south of Nablus West Bank, wounding a man as they threw stones, damage property, and attempted to set a home on fire. Ongoing IDF raids into Palestinian villages near Hebron, Tulkarem, Qalqiya, Jenin, and East Jereusalem. IDF raids Balata camp near Nablus, shooting 2 people, also raids and a number of arrests near Ramallah and Jericho. Shooting attack by 3 Palestinian gunmen near East Jerusalem checkpoint kills 3 and wounds 8, 2 gunmen killed 1 arrested.
More US airstrikes in Yemen.
2/22: IDF airstrike kills 40 and wounds more than 100 Deir Al-Balah, most victims women and children. IDF airstrike kills 20 in Al-Zeitoun Gaza City. IDF airstrikes in Rafah kill at least 6. IDF airstrike in Jenin kills 2 and wounds at least 15.
2/23: IDF continues airstrikes in Deri al-Balah killing at least 22, including Photojournalist Muhammad Yagh and his wife and daughter. IDF airstrikes cause significant damage to Al-Amal hospital in Khan Younis. Massive million man march in Sanaa and across Yemen in support of Gaza.
2/24: Ongoing massacres throughout Gaza kill at least 100 in last 24 hours. IDF airstrike on children flying kites meters from the Rafah border. IDF soldier posts video of tank driving over food, as IDF continues to block all humanitarian aid. 45 day old baby Mahmoud Fattouh dies of starvation.
Thousands of anti-Netanyahu Israeli protestors including families of hostages, demanding hostage exchange deal with Hamas, block traffic and are sprayed with water cannons by police in Tel Aviv.
IDF airstrikes in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah missile attacks in northern Israel. US airstrikes on 18 targets in Yemen. Aljazeera reports 200,000 new fighters have joined Houthi Ansarullah movement.
2/25: IDF shelling and shooting attacks in Gaza City on people waiting for aid trucks kills at least 10, also airstrikes on homes in Zeitoun neighborhood kills at least 15. IDF airstrikes in Rafah kill 4 including a woman and a child. Nasser hospital still under blockade and continued sniper attacks.
Aaron Bushnell, 25yo sets himself on fire outside the Israel embassy in DC “I am an active member of the United States air force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine”
2/26: Jordan army airdrops humanitarian aid into 11 sites along Gaza coast, large crowds seen near beach and fishermen attempt to retrieve portions that landed in the sea. A convoy of humanitarian aid trucks reaches northern Gaza. IDF opens fire at thousands of starving people in Gaza City as they were attempting to get food. UNFPA reports newborns are dying because mothers can’t access medical care, including many born premature due to stress, dehydration, and injuries of the mothers. IDF airstrikes on homes kill 8 near Kuwait Hospital in Rafah. Continued intense fighting between IDF and resistance groups in West Bank, including raids in Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, Qalqilya, and Jenin. Hezbollah shoots down IDF drone. IDF airstrikes in city of Baalbek northern Lebanon. Hezbollah launches rockets at IDF HQ in Golan Heights. ICJ last day of public hearings regarding Israeli illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.
2/27: IDF airstrikes throughout Gaza kill 100 and wound more than 170 in last 24 hours. Massive fire at Royal Plastic Factory in Hebron spreads for many hours. More humanitarian aid airdrops near Rafah from Jordan. A 2yr old dies from eating contaminated bread made from animal feed. Another baby dies of starvation, with many thousands more at imminent risk of dying. Gaza Health Ministry “This escalating famine could kill thousands of citizens due to malnutrition and dehydration in the coming days in front of the eyes of the world.” JVP “Palestinians in Gaza are not starving, they are BEING starved. By the Israeli military.”
2/28: IDF airstrikes on homes in Nuseirat camp kills at least 20 civilians as well as critically wounding many young children. IDF artillery shelling of Nasser hospital causes large fires in building. Al-Awda hospital in Jabalia announces complete suspension of medical services due to severe shortages of fuel and supplies. 7 more babies die in collapsed Adwan and al-Shifa hospitals due to dehydration and starvation. Israeli media Mekomit reports Gaza death toll is likely 3x higher than official ~30,000 count, due to those many thousands trapped in rubble and including excess mortality from injuries, malnutrition, hypothermia, and epidemics, especially for elderly and babies.
IDF airstrikes near Damascus Syria. IDF airstrikes in Kafra and Seddiqine southern Lebanon, kills elderly couple. Hezbollah and Al-Qassam rocket attacks in northern Israel.
Nabulsi Roundabout ‘Flour’ Massacre, at least 118 killed and 760 wounded as IDF tanks and soldiers open fire on thousands of starving civilians trying to reach aid trucks arriving 4am in the morning on Rashid Road Gaza City, with snipers killing those who approaches victims or flour bags. Aid trucks have not been able to reach the north in weeks. Hagari openly lies “We didn’t fire at the aid seekers”. IDF tweets that people were killed “as a result of the pushing, trampling, and being run over by the trucks” despite the video of the shooting attack and many victims shot mainly in the upper body. https://twitter.com/idfonline/status/1763174751042695313 IDF army statement that the “violent gathering” made soldiers feel “unsafe” and they only shot those posing a threat. Ben Gvir tweets “Total support must be given to our heroic fighters operating in Gaza, who acted excellently against a Gazan mob that tried to harm them. This is another clear reason why we must stop transferring this aid.” https://twitter.com/itamarbengvir/status/1763196768458604583 Subsequent reports confirm vast majority of deaths and injuries caused by gunfire. https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6196 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_massacre
2/29: Gaza death toll of counted victims registered at hospitals now over 30,000, including more than 13,200 children and 8,800 women, 340 medical staff, and 132 journalists. Pentagon Lloyd Austin says over 25,000 women and children have been killed in Gaza since 10/7. IDF tank runs over a Palestinian tortured prisoner in the Zeitoun neighborhood. Medical Aid for Palestinian (MAP) “This is the fastest decline in a population's nutrition status ever recorded. That means children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen.”
March 2024
3/1: At least 193 killed and 920 injured in last 24 hours. IDF airstrikes in Rafah, Khan Younis, Deir el-Balah, Beit Hanon, and Jabalia. WHO spokesman “there was a 10th child officially registered in a hospital as having starved to death. The unofficial numbers can unfortunately be expected to be higher.” Hamas says 7 Israeli captives were killed by recent IDF airstrikes, total killed by IDF now over 70. Biden announces US will conduct humanitarian aid airdrops in coming day, working on possible maritime corridor, despite having ability to compel Israel to stop blocking trucks and choosing not to. Largest of now regular Friday protest marches in Yemen. EU commission to reinstate UNRWA funds after Israel has provided zero evidence of allegations employees participated in 10/7 attacks.
3/2: Dozens killed in IDF strikes throughout Gaza, including twin babies Wisam and Naim Abu Anza, born during the war, along with 12 other family members. IDF airstrike massacre in Rafah targeting refugee tents near Emirati Hospital kills at least 14 including 6 children. US first airdrop of 38,000 meals in Gaza, equivalent to about 2 trucks, Biden has said hundreds of trucks are needed everyday, but refuses to force Israel to stop blocking aid. Israeli settlers terrorize Palestinian villages and destroy property in West Bank, Qayrout, Qarawat Bani Hassan, and al-Malihat. IDF raids in Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, and Qalqilya. IDF kill 13yo Palestinian boy Mohammad Khaled Zaid near Ramallah, shot in the chest, accused of throwing an molotov cocktail, was left bleeding out till he died before ambulances allowed to arrive. At least 7 Israeli anti-government protesters calling for early elections arrested in Tel Aviv. UN team and medics visit wounded in al-Shifa hospital after ‘Flour Massacre’ in Gaza City, confirm large number of gunshot wounds among those killed and injured in the IDF attack on aid convoy. https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6200
3/3: Kuwaiti Roundabout Massacre, dozens killed in wounded as IDF opens fire again at people waiting for flour aid trucks in Gaza City. IDF airstrike on humanitarian aid truck in Deir el-Balah kills at least 9 and injures dozens. IDF airstrike on Nuseirat camp kills at least 10, mostly women and children. At least 15 young children have died from dehydration and starvation in last few days. Resignation of senior Israeli army officials including Daniel Hagari.
3/4: Day 150, estimates of over 50,000 killed, 30,534 confirmed, 8,000 missing in rubble, and 11,000 due to excess mortality. More than 120 Gazans killed and more than 210 wounded in last 24 hours. IDF again open fire on crowd of civilians as humanitarian aid trucks arrive at Kuwaiti Roundabout in Gaza City. IDF airstrike on home in Khan Younis kills at least 16 including women and children. IDF airstrike on homes in Rafah kills at least 12. IDF airstrikes in Bint Jbeil, Sultanieh, and Sidqeen southern Lebanon and large number of Hezbollah rocket attacks in northern Israel. IDF kills 10yo Amru Al-Najjar, shot in the head, near Nablus West Bank.
Euro-Med report confirms IDF tanks have deliberately run over dozens of Palestinian civilians.
Save the Children reports Palestinian families in Gaza are “being forced to forage for scraps of food left by rats and eating leaves out of desperation.”
UNWRA Lazzarini “In a period of just 5 months, more children, more journalists, more medical personnel & more UN staff have been killed than anywhere in the world during a conflict.”
Pope Francis “Do you really think you can build a better world in this way? Do you really think you will achieve peace? Enough please! Let us all say enough please! Stop!”
3/5: IDF airstrikes kill more than 100 in last 24 hours in massacres throughout Gaza, including many young children. More babies and elderly are dying everyday due to dehydration and malnutrition, due to Israel continuing to block all food and water into Gaza. IDF blocks 14 food aid trucks from World Food Program trying to reach northern Gaza, in first convoy since deliveries were suspended on 2/20. IDF airstrike in Houla southern Lebanon kills Hezbollah fighter, his wife and their son. Hezbollah responds by firing large rocket barrage toward Kiryat Shmona northern Israel, no reported injuries. Journalist Mohamed Salama killed in the bombing of a house in Deir al-Balah.
3/6: IDF airstrike on car in Bani Suheila near Khan Younis kills multiple civilians. IDF shoots 3 month old baby girl in the leg. IDF airstrike on mosque kills at least 5 in Jabalia. Israel approves 3,500 new illegal settlement homes in occupied West Bank. Houthis hits US cargo ship ‘True Confidence’ with missile attack, crew abandons ship, 3 crew members killed and 6 injured.
Wapo report US quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate previously undisclosed weapons sales to Israel, amounting to thousands of precision-guided munitions, small-diameter bombs, bunker busters, small arms and other lethal aid.
South Africa requests ICJ to order additional emergency measures against Israel warning that Palestinians in Gaza were facing starvation and calling for all parties to cease hostilities and release all hostages and detainees.
Hamas ceasefire deal proposal: Ceasefire one week before the start of the implementation of deal. Clear Israeli acknowledgment of Gaza withdrawal with international guarantees. No humanitarian truce, but rather a cessation of aggression on Gaza. Freedom of movement in Gaza allowing displaced persons to return home. From the first day aid is allowed to enter all areas of Gaza without segmenting it into security squares. After the first week, exchange process begins, with possible installments. Detainees released in their own home region. Including release of detainees from Shalit deal who were re-arrested. Including detainees from inside Israel and Jerusalem. Hamas and resistance factions will provide first batch of Israeli captives 48 hours before exchange. First list of names of Palestinians to be released, 160 with high and old sentences, all women, all patients, elderly individuals over 60, all children 18 or younger. Second batch amidst a comprehensive cease fire agreement and achieve the complete withdrawal from Gaza Strip and opening of all aid crossings.
3/7: Netanyahu rejects Hamas proposal for permanent ceasefire and hostage exchange. IDF withdraws from Khan Younis city center after weeks of intense operations. PIJ launches 3 rockets at Sderot, no reported damage. US airstrikes in Yemen targeting anti-ship cruise missiles and UAVs. Biden announces plans for a ‘temporary’ pier in Gaza to facilitate humanitarian aid. Haaretz report that at least 27 Palestinians detainees have ‘died’ in Israeli custody.
3/8: Aid airdrop kills 5 including 2 children and injures more than 10 when several parachutes malfunction, no country claims responsibility. Biden’s Gaza pier expected to take at least 60 days to build, meanwhile airdrops are a tiny fraction of whats needed to avoid mass starvation, while Israel continues to block aid trucks at border crossings.
IDF bodycam from 11/6 shows soldier describing killing of unarmed elderly 73yo deaf man in his home who was raising his hands and begging for his life.
Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of Jaffa Shirat Moshe religious school, “You shall not let a soul live. If you don’t kill them first, they will kill you. The terrorists of today are the children of the past who have remained in their lives. Today he's a baby, tomorrow he's a fighter. There are no questions here. The terrorists today who are 18 today were 8 year-olds in the previous war. And in reality, it’s the women who create the terrorists. There are no innocent people. It’s is the same with the elderly person.”
International Women’s Day, IDF airstrikes injure dozens of women in Deir al Balah. Gaza’s Health Ministry 5,000 women were still giving birth every month in harsh, unsafe and unhealthy conditions and about 60,000 women going through their pregnancies without proper health care and suffering dehydration and malnutrition. IDF have killed more than 9,000 innocent women civilians since 10/7.
3/9: At least 82 Gazans killed in the last 24 hours. IDF airstrike massacres in Nuseirat camp, Khan Younis, Rafah, and Deir al Balah. More injuries reported from airdrops falling into crowd. IDF bombs last PCRF office in Gaza. IDF soldiers again open fire on starving Palestinians waiting for aid trucks near Kuwaiti junction south Gaza City, killing and injuring many. Settlers destroy tombstones in Bab al-Rahma Islamic cemetery near Al-Aqsa Mosque. Hamas releases names and images of 7 captives killed by IDF airstrikes. IDF airstrike in Lebanon kills family of 4.
Open Arms, Spanish ship with 200 tons of food provided by World Central Kitchen prepares to sail for Gaza from Larnaca Cyprus.
UNRWA report "Agency staff members have been subject to threats and coercion by the Israeli authorities while in detention and pressured to make false statements against the Agency, including that the Agency has affiliations with Hamas and that UNRWA staff members took part in the 7 October 2023 atrocities.”
Biden says Netanyahu “is hurting Israel more than helping Israel by making the rest of the world ‘stutters’ its contrary to what Israel stands for, and I think its a big mistake, so I want to see a ceasefire… We’re going into Ramadan it should be nothing happening… I’ve spoken with the majority of the Arab leaders.. They’re all prepared to fully recognize Israel and begin to rebuild the region, and that’s the focus, what comes after Gaza, whats next.” reporter asks “What is your red line with PM Netanyahu? Do you have a red line? For instance would invasion of Rafah, which you have urged him not to do, would that be a red line?” replies “It is a red line, but I’m never going to leave Israel.. There’s no red line I’m gunna cut off all weapons so they don’t have the iron dome to protect them, but there’s red lines that if he crosses them ‘stutters’ cannot have 30,000 more Palestinians dead..”
Hamza ‘Abu Hisham’ Amer, Al-Qassam commander, confirmed killed, known as ‘elegant fighter’ from resistance operations video, son of Qassam commander Hisham Amer killed in first intifada.
3/10: IDF massacre airstrikes on refugee tents in Al Mawasi ‘safe area’ killing 15 civilians including young children. IDF airstrikes kill dozens of civilians in Gaza City, Nuseirat, and Deir al-Balah. Intensified airstrikes on Rafah during the Oscars. Israeli forces block and violently assault Palestinian worshipers trying to enter Al Aqsa Mosque for prayers on eve of Ramadan. US airdrops another 11,500 meals for more than 2 million starving Gazans. Jericho names street after Aaron Bushnell. Continuing escalation of missile attacks between Israel and Hezbollah.
IDF sergeant video, as Givati Brigade set a school on fire in north Gaza City, “Next year we’ll burn the school and beat up all the teachers, too. Ah, it’s so much fun to watch schools burn in Gaza. May they die all these trash terrorists. Whores.”
Netanyahu rejects Biden’s comments about red line in Rafah, “We'll go there. We're not going to leave. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is, that October 7 doesn't happen again. Never happens again.” “We've destroyed three-quarters of Hamas' fighting terrorism battalions. And we're close to finishing the last part in warfare,” Fighting would not “take more than two months, maybe six weeks, maybe four.” “The positions that I espouse are supported by the overwhelming majority of Israelis who say to you after October 7: 'We don't want to see a Palestinian state.'” Netanyahu orders prison expansion in preparation for ‘thousands’ of more Palestinian arrests.
3/11: First night of Ramadan. IDF again opens fire on Gazans waiting for aid trucks at Kuwaiti roundabout south of Gaza City killing at least 9. IDF special forces driving in civilian car shoot and kill 2 Palestinian men inside a shop in Jenin, and prevent ambulances from arriving, claim he had weapons and was on way to commit suicide attack. 2 children die due to severe malnutrition at Kamal Adwan hospital. IDF airstrikes kill Muhammmad Barakat and his family, star player of Palestinian national football team, near Khan Younis. IDF airstrikes in Taraya and Baalbek northeastern Lebanon, wounding 6 and killing Mustafa Gharib well known football player and photographer. Houthi missile attack on container ship and 17 US airstrikes on Yemen, Houthis declare attacks will escalate during Ramadan in support of Palestinians.
3/12: Dozens killed in continued IDF airstrikes in Khan Younis, Rafah, and Jabalia camp. IDF has killed an estimated 400 Palestinian civilians waiting for aid trucks have been killed by IDF in past 2 weeks since 2/28 ‘flour massacre’. IDF airstrikes in Deir al Balah kill at least 11 civilians and injuring more than 20, including Deborah (Huda) 65yo American, when asked “Why haven't you traveled out of here?” “Because if I had left, I would have been a munafiq (hypocrite).. I firmly believe that all humans should be treated equally. ..As an American living in Gaza, I think all Arabs in the world should be there to help, not just me. I feel like I'm the only foreigner in Gaza now and I'll never leave otherwise Israel will take all of Gaza, all of Palestine. They want everyone to leave, that's why I stayed.”
UNICEF estimates at least 17,000 children in Gaza are “now unaccompanied or separated from their families” since 10/7. Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA commissioner general, “The number of children reported killed in just over 4 months in Gaza is higher than the number of children killed in 4 years of war around the world combined. This war is a war on children.” More than 12,300 children have been killed in Gaza by IDF since 10/7.
IDF raids and destruction of infrastructure continue throughout West Bank including Tulkarem, Hebron, Ramallah killing 2, and Jenin where soldiers storm hospital emergency room killing 2 and wounding 5 others. IDF kill Zaid Khalaifeh and Abdullah Mamoun Assaf and wound 3 others at checkpoint in al-Jib near Jerusalem. IDF kills 13yo Rami El Halhuli near Shu’fat camp check point in occupied East Jerusalem, shot in the chest for shooting a firework in the air, not near soldiers. Ben Gvir “I salute the security officer who killed the terrorist, and this is the best way to act.” Settlers burn cars and attack property in village of Burin near Nablus.
IDF acknowledges mistake to NYT regarding bombing 2 people in Gaza in 3/3 video it released, claimed to be a terrorist holding an RPG, but was 2 brothers one walking a bicycle and other holding a bag of flour, though IDF still claims they were terrorists and deserved it without evidence.
Satellite images show IDF construction of large road south of Gaza City across width of Gaza separating north and south.
Torching Shujjaiya, IDF soldier aerial video from 12/20 Instagram story, showing operation to burn entire neighborhood in East Gaza City. “Butterfly Stations, This is command. We’re setting out to Operation 8th Candle of Hanukkah. The burning of Shajaiyya neighborhood. Let our enemies learn and be deterred. This is what we’ll do to all our enemies and not a memory will be left of them. We will annihilate them to dust.”
Open Arms aid ship departs Cyprus for Gaza with 200 tons of food.
Netanyahu says Israel “will finish the job in Rafah.
3/13: IDF airstrike on UNRWA food distribution center in Rafah kills 5 and wounds more than 22, blood soaked packages of diapers. There have been 150 airstrikes on UNRWA facilities since 10/7, killing at least 400 civilians sheltering under UN flag. IDF again opens fire on civilians waiting for aid trucks, killing 6 and injuring more than 83, at Kuwaiti roundabout Gaza City. IDF airstrikes on residential building in Khan Younis kills 17 civilians, airstrikes on house in Jabalia kills 1, and drone attack on civilian car kills 2 in Rafah. Ongoing raids throughout West Bank in Qalqilya, Hebron, Nablus, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem. Ongoing missile attacks between IDF and Hezbollah.
3/14: IDF again massacres starving Gazan civilians waiting for aid trucks at Kuwaiti Roundabout, killing more than 80 and wounding over 200 with helicopter machine guns, drones, and tanks, with death toll expected to rise as there is no medical resources available for many critically wounded. IDF airstrikes kill 9 members of the same family in Bureij refugee camp near Deir el-Balah, and at least 8 in attack on aid warehouse in Nuseirat camp. Red Crescent medics able to reach town of Hamad near Khan Younis for first time in weeks after IDF repositioning, recover bodies of 15 killed in attacks which have destroyed the entire residential area.
Israeli settler attacks in Hebron and Ramallah, burning cars and shooting at Palestinians and houses. IDF sergeant killed in stabbing attack by Palestinian man inside store in Beit Kama settlement, attacker is killed and soldier later succumbs to wounds.
EU Parliament passes bill condemning Israeli attacks on aid to Gaza, urging Israel to immediately facilitate unhindered humanitarian aid delivery to prevent mass starvation, calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and recognizes the indispensable work of UNRWA. Australia resumes UNRWA funding and additional aid, joining EU commission, Sweden, and Canada that have reinstated funding following Israel’s baseless claims staff were involved in 10/7.
Hamas sends ‘comprehensive vision’ new proposal to mediators for ceasefire and prisoner exchange.
3/15: IDF airstrikes across Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis, Al-Maghazi, and Rafah. Dozens missing under rubble after IDF bombing of 7 storey building in central Gaza City, where many were sheltering because it was only building in area that still had water. IDF airstrike massacre in Nuseirat camp leveling 4 storey building killing 36, including pregnant women, children, and elderly.
IDF outright denies any attack at Kuwaiti Roundabout, provides short clip of drone footage claiming to show Hamas gunman shooting into crowd an hour before the massacre 2 miles away. Video from directly afterward showed scattered bloody bodies covered by rubble and dust. Victims found killed by 5.56 x 45mm NATO bullets, used in IDF weapons, same were found in 2/29 flour massacre. Witnesses confirmed attacks by artillery and machine guns. Bodies of the dead and gravely wounded still being recovered. https://twitter.com/EuroMedHR/status/1768817388575735849
Hamas proposal details, 3 stages each lasting 42 days. 1) IDF withdrawal from Gaza City to Salah al-Din Street to allow some displaced people to return home, Hamas will release 1 female IDF reservist prisoner for every 50 Palestinian prisoners. 2) permanent ceasefire announced before release of any IDF soldier prisoners. 3) ending siege of Gaza and beginning of reconstruction.
Netanyahu dismisses “absurd” Hamas ceasefire proposal and continues plans for invasion of Rafah where 1,500,000 Gazans (65%) are sheltering, with prewar population of only 250,000.
Houthis announce expanded targeting of Israeli ships, ships linked to Israel, or ships heading to Israel across the entire Indian Ocean including those traveling via route around South Africa. Millions of Yemenis participate in first weekly rally since start of Ramadan.
UNRWA “The destruction inflicted on the Gaza Strip has resulted in the formation of approximately 23 million tons of rubble. It will take years to remove the debris and dispose of unexploded ordnance.”
3/16: IDF airstrikes in Deir al Balah killing 12 and in Nuseirat camp killing 7. IDF navy opens fire on people’s tents at the shore in Mawasi, killing 19yo girl in her tent. 13 humanitarian aid trucks from Rafah crossing able to arrive safely in Jabalia northern Gaza for the first time in months. Open Arms aid ship arrives in Gaza with food from World Central Kitchen and is able to unload, though even 200 tons is a small fraction of what is needed to prevent imminent starvation of many Gazans.
Palestinian armed groups including Hamas, PIJ, and PFLP issue united statement criticizing PA Abbas unilateral appointment of Mohammad Mustafa as new Prime Minister without national consensus. PA Fatah responds with statement criticizing resistance groups, blaming them for Gaza being destroyed. “Those who caused the reoccupation of Gaza by Israel, and caused the catastrophe that the Palestinian people are living, especially in the Gaza Strip, do not have the right to dictate national priorities.” Unverified response from Fatah military wing Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, ‘This traitorous declaration is nothing but a zionist dagger in the side of Palestine and its steadfast people, and its noble resistance that has given everything in defense of our land. We call on all our groups and cells operating in the field to escalate the resistance action against the occupation. We affirm our outright rejection of any government formed under American-zionist dictates which derives its legitimacy from the senile agent of the [PA] headquarters’
Large protests by Israelis in Tel Aviv outside Ministry of Defense, calling for ceasefire, return of hostages, and elections.
IDF airstrikes in Lebanon and Syria.
3/17: IDF major attack on Shifa Hospital with heavy airstrikes and special forces raid, heavy nonstop gunfire and tanks surrounding hospital, numerous casualties in airstrikes on main Specialized Surgeries building causing fire in area crowed with many people who cannot be moved, numerous shooting victims inside hospital. Many hundreds of the ~30,000 displaced civilians and patients sheltering within the complex and surrounding area forced to flee area amidst ongoing artillery and gunfire. IDF claims intel of Hamas officials inside hospital.
IDF heavy airstrikes in Khan Younis. IDF artillery and drone attacks on the tents of displaced Gazans near Al-Qarara north of Khan Younis and Amwaj Hall near Rafah.
UNICEF director “more than 13,000 children already have been killed.. thousands more have been injured or we can’t even determine where they are.. thousands more have lost one or both parents.. We haven't seen that rate of death among children in almost any other conflict in the world. It's really shocking.”
MK Simcha Rotman “UNRWA is Hamas.. UNRWA acts as a terrorist organization.” US Senator Chris Van Holler “there is no doubt that the claim that PM Netanyahu and others are making that somehow UNRWA is a proxy for Hamas are just flat-out lies, that’s a flat out lie.”
IDF airstrikes in Lebanese towns of Aitaroun, Aita al-Shaab and Marwahin, and airstrikes on mosque in Ramiya. Numerous Hezbollah attacks on Israeli positions.
3/18: IDF ‘precise’ raid and siege of Al Shifa Hospital continues all day. Numerous patients and civilians including women and children are killed by choking or burning to death in fire caused by airstrikes on the hospital. Thousands remain trapped inside, many feeling civilians are killed by snipers, quadcopters, dronestrikes, and artillery, hundreds of wounded remain in streets unable to be recovered. Entire Al Jazeera team was arrested and their equipment and vehicles destroyed. Ismail Al-Ghoul journalist released after 12 hours describes being stripped, blindfolded, handcuffed, interrogated, and severely beaten.
IDF claims to have arrested “more than 200 terrorists in Shifa” and killed 20 Hamas gunmen inside hospital, and 20 fighters killed in surrounding area, including assassination of raid target Brigadier General Fayek Al-Mobhouh, director of Gaza’s civilian police. IDF says Al-Mobhouh is senior Hamas commander hiding inside hospital conducting terror operations. Mobhouh is reported to be engaged in purely civilian humanitarian work, and was in charge of coordinating security efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to northern Gaza.
First safe delivery of aid to Jabalia warehouse in months was only achieved 2 days ago, amidst now daily IDF attacks on civilians at aid truck locations south of Gaza City. Reports suggest Al-Mobhouh’s location had been leaked a few days ago while he met with UN and other agencies to coordinate aid transfer. Same Jabalia humanitarian aid warehouse was hit today by IDF airstrikes, causing numerous casualties.
IDF releases short clips of raid, claims to find weapons and cash, including cash envelopes with Hamas and PIJ logos thanking hospital for their ‘good work’. IDF clip shows 1 man killed with an AK nearby, though location is unclear. Palestinian resistance acknowledge fighting IDF in area surrounding hospital, but there is no evidence yet of Hamas inside hospital.
Hamas “This terrorist crime of targeting the civilian police, which is protected under international humanitarian law, is further evidence of the Nazi enemy's attempt to spread chaos and undermine social peace in the Strip, and to perpetuate the state of famine suffered by our people, executing a plan of genocide and the displacement of our people from their land.”
Ongoing waves of IDF airstrikes on numerous residential buildings in Gaza City killing and wounding dozens of civilians. IDF airstrikes and shelling of homes kill at least 8 in Beit Hanon, 8 in Jabalia, and at least 14 in Rafah, including numerous women and young children. Video of Gazan children looking up in the sky as a plane flies by and wondering if it's food or death.
Intensified clashes in Jenin and Balata near Nablus between Palestinian resistance and IDF. Smotrich declares Israel will intensify expansion of West Bank settlements in response to EU sanctions targeting extremist settlers. Ben-Gvir announces arming 100,000 Israeli settlers since the beginning of assault on Gaza.
IDF missile attacks on Syrian military sites near Damascus. US airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
3/19: Continued heavy airstrikes in neighborhoods near Al Shifa in Gaza City flattening homes and killing dozens of civilians. IDF executes at least 50 male detainees at Al-Shifa Hospital.
IDF assassination airstrike kills director of police investigations Major Raed Al-Banna with his wife and children at home, was responsible for securing entry of aid trucks to northern Gaza. IDF assassination airstrike kills at least 23 aid distribution workers in charge of securing entry of aid into Gaza City near Kuwaiti roundabout. IDF assassination airstrike on car kills at least 5 including Nuseirat police chief Mohammed Al-Bayoumi. Also in Nuseirat, IDF airstrike on residential building kills at least 27, including children, dozens wounded and many still buried alive in rubble.
Israeli terrorist settlers murder 40yo Fakher Basem Jaber in front of his home in Yanoun near Nablus. Continuous IDF raids near Tulkarem, Jericho, Nablus, Ramallah, and Hebron.
Netanyahu in foreign affairs committee “As far as the State of Israel is concerned, there is no obstacle for the Gazans to leave, maybe even the port they are building could be used for this, but there are no countries in the world that are ready to receive them.” https://twitter.com/yaara_shapira/status/1770058283132293354
Jared Kushner 2/15 Harvard interview gets attention for wanting to ethnically cleanse Gazans into dessert camps for valuable real estate deals. “Gaza’s waterfront property, it could be very valuable.” When asked about Palestinian fears that if they are forced into Sinai or Negev deserts, Netanyahu would not let them return. “Um, Maybe, but I’m not sure there’s much left of Gaza at this point.. The thing that I would try to do if I was Israel right now is I would just bulldoze something in the Negev. I would try to move people in there. I think that’s a better option, so you can go in and finish the job. I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtaIHr5S0ts
Houthi cruise missile hits in open area near Eilat southern Israel, first hit inside Israeli territory.
3/20: More than 100 Gazans killed in the last 24 hours. Fourth day of IDF assault on Al Shifa hospital, thousands of wounded and displaced people still inside being told to evacuate by loudspeaker or face bombings, hundreds of dead unable to be recovered from surrounding area. IDF has targeted and killed more than 100 aid workers and wounded dozens over the past week. WHO has documented at least 410 attacks on healthcare facilities since 10/7.
IDF assassination drone strike on car kills 3, 2 from Jenin brigade, large group in funeral procession are fired on by PA security forces wounding 27, spy within brigade confesses to working with Israeli intelligence in leaking location of members and is publicly executed.
MK Ayman Odeh, Hadash party leader, removed from Knesset during statement saying "What the army is doing there is murder, it is a massacre, the starvation of children."
Canada halts new weapons sales to Israel in mostly symbolic non-binding vote.
3/21: IDF claims they have killed at least 160 Palestinians at Al Shifa since start of assault 5 days ago. At least 13 patients have died after IDF prevented use of oxygen and medicine. Witness report hundreds of arrests, including most all younger men, who were stripped, beaten, interrogated and either executed or taken back to Israel. Specialized Surgeries building IDF heavily damaged with artillery, no word on the many patients there who were not able to be moved or the patients that died in the fire caused by airstrikes when the assault began. IDF on loudspeakers in video “If you leave the building, solders will shoot you. Don’t mess with us. Once we get the hostages, we will allow you to leave.”
IDF claims 358 terrorists captured inside hospital, releases collage of men’s faces. Hamas says contains previous martyrs, people outside Gaza, 3 photos of previously released doctors, also duplicate photos. No direct proof yet of Hamas fighting from inside hospital, though all resistance groups are engaging IDF throughout the surrounding area, likely many fighters have been taken prisoner or killed.
Euromed Monitor report from Al Shifa witnesses “The soldiers detained me and handcuffed me in the hospital courtyard; I was left undressed for more than nine hours.. About four times during that period, I saw soldiers lead groups of detainees at least three people and not more than 10 into the hospital buildings, particularly the morgue building where bodies had previously been kept.. Gunshots were heard, with the soldiers then leaving the area to bring another group there.” https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6232/International-community-must-act-immediately-to-stop-Israeli-army’s-massacre-of-Palestinians-at-Al-Shifa-Hospital
IDF murdering unarmed civilians with drone strikes in Khan Younis, aerial video obtained from downed IDF drone from last month shows group of 4 hit while walking down road, killing 2, hits the 3rd walking away, hits the 4th limping man just after he trips and falls to his hands and knees. IDF soldier social media post of drone strike murdering group of 5 unarmed people walking with cart, says “What a shame about the horse.”
IDF airstrikes on homes in Rafah and Khan Younis kill at least 11, including a number of young children seen in video being dug from the rubble. IDF airstrikes in Deir al-Balah kill at least 22. IDF detains 94yo woman Naifa Rizq Al-Nawati near Al-Shifa, her charred remains found by family on 4/8 in her burned out home.
IDF continued raids throughout West Bank, in Jenin, Qalqilya, Tubas, Tulkarem killing 4 men, and 2 executed in Ramallah and Hebron.
3/22: 6th day of Al Shifa assault, hundreds of wounded and displaced still trapped inside with no water, food, or supplies, Dr. Muhammad Zaher Al-Nono is executed for refusing to leave his patients, medics refusing to stop treating people forced to evacuate. IDF continues airstrikes of nearby buildings, says 800 have been arrested.
Palestinian sniper Mujahid Barakat Mansour, fires on settler and military vehicles, killing 1 soldier and critically wounding 7 in Dolev settlement near Ramallah, hiding in wooded area, fighting off IDF for 5 hours, and downing a drone before eventually killed by 2nd missile from Apache helicopter. IDF raids his home town and abducts his wife and brother.
UNSC draft ceasefire resolution from US vetoed by China and Russia. Stronger language from US, but does not ‘Demand’ a permanent ceasefire or acknowledge Israel’s actions, but ‘Determines’ it is imperative and calls for more negotiations. Algeria votes against as it does not clearly impose ceasefire and earlier language removed demanding no future invasion of Rafah. “Determines the imperative of an immediate and sustained ceasefire to protect civilians on all sides, allow for the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance, and alleviate humanitarian suffering, and towards that end unequivocally supports ongoing international diplomatic efforts to secure such a ceasefire in connection with the release of all remaining hostages.”
Smotrich announces seizure of 800 hectares in occupied West Bank, largest since 1993 Oslo Accords, while Blinken in Israel for talks with Netanyahu. Blinken warns Netanyahu Israel's security and its place in the world are in peril, and “you might not realize it until it's too late.” “You need a coherent plan, or you're going to be stuck in Gaza.” Netanyahu tells Blinken “I hope we will do it with the support of the US, but if we have to we will do it alone.”
UN Francesca Albanese “The colossal amount of evidence concerning int'l crimes committed by Israel in Gaza just over the past 6months could keep the ICC busy for the next five decades.”
Israeli settlers blocking aid trucks video “We need to be united and kill them all.” “The Bible says this place is for us, so they can starve to death.” “We blew up houses of terrorists, mosques, UN offices, I remember we got into some UN office that was in charge of helping families in Gaza that was affected by the war and we destroyed it.” guy handing out pastries “We need to block gas to Gaza, everything to block.”
US airstrikes on coastal Hudaydah and capital Sana’a in Yemen.
US passes bill to ban funding UNRWA while giving $3.8 billion in weapons to Israel. Finland resumes UNRWA funding.
More than 180,000 Muslims gather outside Al-Aqsa Mosque for second Friday prayer of Ramadan, protesting against Israeli ban on men under 55 and women under 50 from entering mosque. Gazans pray in the rubble of destroyed Al-Farooq mosque in Rafah.
3/23: 7th day of Al Shifa assault, hospital is death zone with patients dying everyday of bleeding, infection, and starvation, IDF soldiers have raped and executed women in front of their families. “They raped women. They kidnapped women. They executed women. They pulled dead bodies from under the rubble and unleashed their dogs on them.” Gazan doctor “What Gaza endures is a terror and death no human brain can fathom, you only see a glimpse of the actual horror.”
“A husband and wife, along with their young children who were displaced, sought shelter at Al-Shifa Hospital. The pregnant wife was forcibly undressed by Israeli forces despite informing them of her pregnancy; they continued to kick her. Then, they assaulted and raped her in front of her family and other men, threatening to shoot her husband and the other men if they closed their eyes.” Al Shifa witness reported by Hossam Shabat.
US State Department official accuses Israel of "systematically" sexually abusing Palestinian women.
Euromed reports IDF using patients as human shields, forcing them to form barriers behind soldiers and vehicles, and ordering to enter rooms with cameras attached their heads receiving orders to move to specific locations, also reports torching of residential buildings near al-Shifa, “Israeli forces set fire to homes while occupants were inside preventing evacuation.”
IDF massacres at least 30 and wounds more than 80 starving civilians trying to reach humanitarian aid trucks at Kuwaiti roundabout. IDF airstrike in Deir al-Balah kills at least 7. Many killed and wounded in IDF airstrikes on homes in Khan Younis and Rafah, people struggle to recover bodies from rubble of collapsed buildings in the dark.
IDF drops boxes of anti-Hamas propaganda newspapers in southern Gaza, landing on and killing 22yo Mohammed Saleem.
Hamas says another Israeli hostage has died due to lack of medication. Hundreds of Israelis continue weekly protests calling for hostage deal and new government, lighting fires and blocking roads, at least 10 arrested.
3/24: IDF besieges al-Amal and Nasser hospitals along with heavy ‘carpet bombing’. “Israeli snipers are shooting at all those moving on the road. Many dead bodies are lying on the street. Both Nasser and the Jordanian Hospitals are besieged by Israeli tanks.” Witnesses from Al-Shifa describe tanks and bulldozers run over bodies and ambulances. IDF airstrikes in Deir al-Balah kill at least 18, including 7 women and 9 children, wounding many more. IDF airstrikes on homes in Rafah kills at least 27, including women and children. Israel tells UN that it will not allow UNRWA convoys into northern Gaza. IDF raids in many West Bank villages near Jenin, Hebron, and Nablus. Israeli settlers almost kill Palestinian bus driver in stabbing attack.
3/25: Day 171 marks 171 UN staff members killed by Israel in Gaza, far more than have been killed in any previous conflict. IDF airstrike massacres continue throughout Gaza killing dozens, including at least 22 in Deir el-Balah and 45 in Rafah. IDF forces patients and staff to evacuate al-Amal hospital, opens fire on Red Crescent team injuring 2 medics.
IDF continues demolishing entire residential blocks with explosives near Khan Younis. Bodies recovered from recent massacres of entire family executed by IDF in Khan Younis. Journalist Saher Akram Rayan killed by IDF airstrike with his son, while trying to rescue wounded neighbors near Gaza City. 12 Gazans drown to death trying to recover food from airdrop that landed in the sea.
Al-Shifa assault continues for 9th day as witness accounts emerge. Al-Shifa doctor “outpatient clinic was turned into a headquarters and interrogation and operational centre for the army.” Many healthcare workers were “interrogated, assaulted, beaten, tortured, and stripped naked for long hours in the cold.. Dr. Waseem Mahani was shot by a sniper after his release.. One medical student and one doctor, they never returned.. Patients are dying; no one can leave the building. Wounds are festering, worms are emerging from wounds. Patients are left without treatment. There are no water, no bathrooms, and no electricity, The IOF left some food at the door, but no one could reach it. 16 doctors have been missing for 3 days, the last time they were seen alive was during interrogations. We could see clearly bodies of executed individuals in the hospital yard.”
Hamas launches 8 rockets at Ashdod, 2 intercepted and 6 fell in open areas, no reported damage, first rocket attack since mid January.
UNSC ceasefire resolution 2728 passes with 14-0 vote, US abstains even though they successfully replaced word ‘permanent’ with ‘lasting’. Russia proposes amendment to return word ‘permanent’ but is voted down.
- “Demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire, and also demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, as well as ensuring humanitarian access to address their medical and other humanitarian needs, and further demands that the parties comply with their obligations under international law in relation to all persons they detain.”
- Netanyahu cancels Israeli delegation meetings with US officials. Ben-Gvir says “The Security Council decision proves that the United Nations is anti-Semitic, and its Secretary General is anti-Semitic and encourages Hamas.”
- US State Dept Miller continues to incriminate himself and Biden in ICJ genocide case violations, when asked about canceled delegation “We are kinda perplexed by this.. It's a non-binding resolution, so there's no impact at all on Israel and Israel's ability to continue to go after Hamas.. it does not represent a change at all in our policy.” Resolutions are binding, to degree UN countries wants to enforce them.
- Palestinians criticize resolution for only calling for 2 week ceasefire during Ramadan, not including any indication that they will be allowed to return to their homes, not acknowledging hostages held by Israel, and not condemning Israel’s war crimes.
- Hamas “welcomes” resolution, emphasizing “the necessity of reaching a permanent ceasefire that leads to the withdrawal of all zionist forces from Gaza Strip and return of displaced persons to homes from which they were forced out”, and affirms “readiness to immediately engage in a prisoner exchange process that leads to the release of prisoners held by both sides.”
Video posted by IDF soldier in tank firing guns and shells indiscriminately into UN building and school for no purpose other than entertainment and destruction of civilian infrastructure.
Video of IDF soldier assaulting young Palestinian boy at a shop in Hebron, smacking him and tearing off his shirt. IDF says its investigating by detaining shop owner and confiscating all the video equipment. Israeli settlers attack and stone Palestinian houses and livestock near Hebron.
Video from 3/21 IDF execution of Palestinian Jewish man ‘David’ Samah Zaytun with this hands up at bus stop at West Bank settlement, had been trying and was blocked from becoming Israeli citizen for many years even after converting to Judaism, inspired by his grandfather who saved 25 Jews during 1929 riots in Hebron.
UN rapporteur Albanese report “there are reasonable grounds to believe” that the threshold for genocidal acts against Palestinians is being met in Gaza. Evidence suggests Israel has committed at least 3 of 5 acts listed under UN Genocide Convention. “Israel’s genocide on the Palestinians in Gaza is an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler colonial process of erasure.. Israel has de facto treated an entire protected group and its life-sustaining infrastructure as ‘terrorist’ or ‘terrorist-supporting’, thus transforming everything and everyone into either a target or collateral damage, hence killable or destroyable.” https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session55/advance-versions/a-hrc-55-73-auv.pdf
Euromed reports that Israel has continued and escalated committing war crimes in 2 months since ICJ order to prevent genocide in Gaza. “Israel has in fact committed more violations in some instances than it did in the time leading up to the Court’s ruling.. Various forms and acts of genocide were committed with the intent of destroying the Palestinian people.”
Second night of large protests in Amman Jordan in support of Palestinians escalates to storming of Israeli embassy. Large protests also continue in Cairo Egypt.
3/26: IDF airstrikes continue to escalate in Rafah during the night killing at least 20 and destroying entire residential areas, despite UN demanding immediate ceasefire. IDF airstrike massacre in Maghazi on refugee tents full of people kills at least 30. IDF continues assault on Nasser Hospital, shelling and shooting into the hospital with tanks, where thousands of civilians have been sheltering without water or food. IDF forces refugees to evacuate al-Amal Hospital which has been under siege for a month.
Al Shifa complex and surrounding neighborhoods are a mass grave of many uncounted civilians, hospital destroyed by IDF shelling and setting fires. Video from soldier shows hallway filled with zip tied and blindfolded detainees and destroyed interior amid ongoing gunfire.
Fighting escalates in Jenin after IDF snipers kill 19yo Ayman Azouqa in raid of Al-Marah neighborhood, dronestrike kills 2, and 5 Palestinian youths shot and wounded in Qabatiya. IDF raids homes and destroys water lines, as bulldozers continue destroying roads and buildings, several bulldozers and military vehicles are blown up by resistance IEDs.
IDF airstrike massacre on medical center in Habariya southern Lebanon kills 15 including 7 paramedics. IDF airstrikes in northern Lebanon kill 3 Hamas fighters. Hezbollah launches a dozen rocket attacks on IDF soldier positions along border.
3/27: IDF airstrikes on civilians continue in Rafah killing mostly women and children. Netanyahu says to US delegation “People just move, they move with their tents.. People moved down, they can move back up.” Channel 12 reports IDF has begun operations to evacuate civilians from Rafah.
Video of IDF executing civilians on beach near Nabulsi Roundabout, walking with hands up and white flags trying to reach homes in the north, shot and killed, then bulldozers bury the bodies in the sand and garbage.
IDF continues assault on Al-Shifa and surrounding neighborhoods for 11th day, killing or arresting all men, starting fires in residents’ homes, with many given no chance to evacuate. Euromed reports multiple witness accounts of IDF killings and executions of at least 13 children between ages of 4 and 16 near Al-Shifa hospital. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands Israel shed light on Gaza journalist Bayan Abusultan, who has been missing since 3/19 among those trapped inside Al-Shifa.
UN rapporteur Albanese Q&A “my report finds that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating that Israel is committing the crime of genocide against the Palestinians as a group in Gaza has been met.” “If the international criminal court is serious about investigating what Israel has done in Gaza, only as of the 7th of October, it will be busy for decades.” Israel is using “humanitarian camouflage” justifying its actions by distorting and stretching definitions of international humanitarian law regarding “proportionality, not targeting civilians, human shields, medical shielding, evacuations, safe zones, and collateral damage.” Calls for “arms embargos and sanctions as soon as possible, as its been done with other states that violate international law.. Israel cannot behave as it does as an apartheid state and face no consequences.” US State Dept Miller dismisses facts in Albanese report saying she is anti-Semitic.
Ireland to intervene in South Africa ICJ genocide case, The war in Gaza “represents the blatant violation of international humanitarian law on a mass scale.. The taking of hostages. The purposeful withholding of humanitarian assistance to civilians. The targeting of civilians and of civilian infrastructure. The indiscriminate use of explosive weapons in populated areas. The use of civilian objects for military purposes. The collective punishment of an entire population.. The list goes on. It has to stop. The view of the international community is clear. Enough is enough.”
3/28: IDF airstrikes on homes kill at least 8 Palestinians in Maghazi and at least 12 in Rafah. ICJ orders Israel must ensure the unhindered provision at scale of basic services and humanitarian assistance including food, water, fuel, shelter, clothing, hygiene and sanitation requirements, and medical supplies. UN World Food Program “Only 11 convoys with food have reached the north since the start of the year. The choice is clear: surge or starvation.”
Pediatrician Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan interview after just leaving Gaza “It just is such a stark representation of our failure as humanity, this is not a humanitarian crisis, this is the worst of what humanity is capable of and it’s entirely all man-made.” “We’ve had civilians give healthcare workers their own clothes so that they’re not seen wearing scrubs because we know that healthcare workers have been systematically targeted.”
Californian ER Dr. Mohammad Subeh returns from Gaza “If you not getting killed by a missile strike or a gunshot, you are going to die of infectious disease and from starvation.”
Hannibal Order on 10/7 IDF Captain in Channel 13 interview, describes firing tank shells on vehicles carrying hostages to Gaza, when asked about potentially killing his own soldiers “I decide that this is the right decision, that its better to stop the kidnapping and that they won’t be taken.. The order itself, there are a few gradual things you have to do, you need to fire at blockage points and control points, and in case of a positive identification you have to execute the order.”
IDF missile attacks in Aleppo Syria, coinciding with drone attacks by US-aligned terrorist groups from Idlib, kills 33 civilians and military personnel.
Thousands of Jordanians continue protesting for 5th day outside Israeli embassy in Amman.
3/29: IDF airstrikes on Shujayea mosque and sports club evacuation center kills at last 17 in Gaza City, also airstrike on cars kills at least 8, including 5 children and 2 women, and a police officer responsible for securing aid convoys. IDF raid in Qabatiya West Bank kills 13yo boy and wounds several others. US authorizes $2.5 billion in weapons to Israel, including more than 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, 500 500-pound bombs, and 25 F-35 fighter jets.
3/30: Land Day, commemorating 48 years since 6 unarmed Palestinians were killed and more than 100 injured during protest and general strike against Israel illegal seizures of Palestinian land in 1976. In the last year Israel has approved 24,000 illegal housing units on Palestinian land.
More than 82 Palestinians killed and more than 100 wounded in last 24 hours. Red Crescent coordinates 10 food truck deliveries to Gaza City. IDF kills at least 12 civilians waiting for aid trucks at Kuwaiti roundabout, dozens more wounded.
IDF heavy airstrikes in Khan Younis, destroying seven-storey residential building where people were sheltering, rescue crews unable to reach scene due to quadcopters and drones firing on every moving object. IDF airstrikes destroy residential buildings in Nuseirat, Maghazi, and al-Bureji camps. IDF prevents evacuation of 107 patients and 60 medical staff remaining trapped inside Al-Shifa without food or water for 2 weeks. IDF murders 13yo Mutasim Nabil Abu Abbed in Qabatiya near Jenin. 4 UN peacekeepers injured in dronestrike on their vehicle in southern Lebanon, IDF denies involvement. Largest anti-government protests in Israel since 10/7, calling for elections and deal to release the hostages.
3/31: IDF airstrikes on tents at Al-Aqsa hospital kill at least 4 civilians, including 2 journalists. IDF airstrike on home near Khan Younis kills 11. Haaretz article “Israel Created 'Kill Zones' in Gaza. Anyone Who Crosses Into Them Is Shot” IDF says 9,000 terrorists killed since Gaza War began, while officials and soldiers say these are often civilians whose only crime is crossing into invisible ‘extermination areas’. IDF airstrike on car kills Hezbollah leader Ismail al-Zin in Kounine southern Lebanon. IDF airstrikes near Damascus. IDF base in Eilat southern Israel hit by drone attack from Yemen. 3 ships carrying 400 tons of food aid from World Central Kitchen set sail from Cyprus to Gaza.
April 2024
4/1: Al Shifa Massacre is likely the largest mass killing of Palestinians in history, IDF withdrawals after 2 week assault, some 400 bodies of civilians recovered in and around hospital grounds, including many doctors, patients, women, and young children. More than 1,000 wounded or missing. Many of the bodies found with hands tied behind their back, tortured, executed, burned, and crushed by tanks and bulldozers, skeletal remains and body parts scattered everywhere.
Israeli former PM says “No civilian was killed. Not one.”
IDF airstrikes on World Central Kitchen convoy vehicles murders 7 aid workers, including 4 relief team and 3 security team members in Deir al-Balah, from Poland, Australia, UK, US-Canada, and Palestine. IDF drone hunted victims in 3 separate strikes on 3 vehicles over 2.4km as they tried to escape along Al Rashid coastal road. WCK “Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse, where the team had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza on the maritime route.”
IDF assassination airstrikes on Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing Iranian General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and 6 other deputies and diplomats. Iran vows decisive response.
Knesset passes law to ban Al-Jazeera. Netanyahu says Al-Jazeera “actively participated in the 10/7 massacre, and incited against IDF soldiers… The terror channel Al Jazeera will no longer broadcast from Israel.”
Thousands of Jordanians continue nightly protests in solidarity with Palestinians for the 9th day despite violent repression and arrests by security forces.
IDF continues raids across West Bank, near Jerusalem, Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Nablus.
4/2: Israel says WCF killings were a tragic mistake, despite 3 targeted attacks on 3 clearly marked vehicles which had directly coordinated with IDF for humanitarian travel. NSC Spokesperson Kirby says “there is no evidence” Israel deliberately struck and killed WCK aid workers in Gaza. Many people are outraged and disgusted that IDF murdered 6 foreigners, but still silent when hundreds of Palestinians killed at Al-Shifa were discovered the same day or when over 40,000 have been killed since 10/7.
UN-World Bank report estimates $18.5 billion cost of ‘unprecedented’ infrastructure damage in Gaza Strip as more than 60% of all homes in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. 140 UN member states call for UN to recognize Palestine with full UN membership. Large Israeli protests continue for 4th day, clashing with police while trying to break through security barrier at Netanyahu’s private residence.
4/3: IDF airstrikes on homes throughout Gaza, killing 8 including 3 children in Rafah, killing 2 and 15 wounded in Maghazi camp, and killing 4 and dozens wounded in Deir el-Balah.
WCK Jose Andres says aid workers were “systematically targeted car by car.. They are 7 on top of at least more than other 190 humanitarian workers that they’ve been killed over the last 6 months.. This was not just a bad luck situation, where oopsie, we dropped the bomb in the wrong place.. It is not a war against terrorism anymore, seems this is a war against humanity itself.”
+972 investigation on ‘Lavender’ IDF AI assassination program, using mass surveillance to generate airstrike targets of suspected Hamas or PIJ fighters, allowing for Nazi-style impersonal optimally efficient mechanized death. More than 37,000 militants and homes were targeted in the first weeks after 10/7, often with minimum human verification, “devoting only about 20 seconds to each target before authorizing a bombing, just to make sure the target is male.”
IDF systematically attacked targets at home and at night while entire families were present, rather than during military activity, using additional systems including “Where's Daddy“ to track and kill AI-designated targets when they entered their home, without confirming target was actually at home.
For junior militant operatives, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians, and IDF preferred to use unguided “dumb” missiles. “You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people.” IDF had authorized killings of more than 100 civilians for a single senior operative target. Much of the data used to establish links with militants is arbitrary and filled with errors, while IDF also lowered verification thresholds to generate more targets.
Jacobian article on Al Shifa Massacre “After the raid, the hospital resembled a slaughterhouse. Hundreds of bodies lay scattered in the dirt, mutilated beyond recognition. Bodies with heads and limbs severed were discovered both inside the hospital and in the surrounding area. Surgeons had been tied up and executed. Some bodies were buried under the rubble, with body parts protruding from the ground; others had been crushed and flattened by bulldozers, their hands and legs tied behind their backs. Footage shows medical teams collecting the remains of children whose bodies had decomposed in the ground. Families struggled to identify loved ones from their clothes. The skeletal remains of one woman were uncovered in a pile of garbage, the skull severed from the skeleton.”
IDF calls more reservists and is on maximum alert after assassination of Iranian general and deputies in Syria. Families of hostages in Gaza protest inside Knesset chamber against not conducting an exchange deal.
UNOCHA reports over 700 attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in occupied West Bank. IDF continues raid in Jenin, using bulldozers to destroy city infrastructure, and fighting Palestinian resistance who attacked IDF vehicles with IEDs.
Human Rights Watch investigation into 10/31 IDF airstrike on 6-storey apartment building that killed 106 civilians, including 88 women and children, finds “no evidence of a military target in the vicinity,” and the attack was an apparent war crime.
4/4: IDF airstrikes continue in northern Gaza, Gaza City, Maghazi, Khan Younis, Rafah, killing more than 50 civilians and wounding at least 80 in the last 24 hours. IDF airstrike in Beit Hanoon kills at least 4 including a paramedic.
Video of IDF shooting and killing unarmed civilians collecting aid from humanitarian airdrop on 3/9, firing continues as Gazans run away from IDF positions, one victim seen trying to escape crawling away after being shot while clinging to bag of food, and then being shot again and left to bleed out and be eaten by starving dogs.
Sde Teiman "concentration camp”, Haaretz aricle quoting doctor who sent letter to ministers and attorney general and other sources regarding treatment of thousands of Palestinian hostages at ‘medical’ prison camp in Negev dessert, held without charges or trial, subjected to nonstop daily torture, zip-tied arms & legs, beaten, electrocuted, urinated on, attacked by dogs, deprived of sleep, and starved. “prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event.”
“We Are All Complicit in Breaking Law.” Doctors are told to "refrain from signing their names on the medical documents... [or] introduce themselves by name to the detainees.” "From the first days of the medical facility's operation until today, I have faced serious ethical dilemmas. More than that, I am writing to warn you that the facilities' operations do not comply with a single section among those dealing with health in the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law.”
Red Crescent Society says at least 31 children have died from starvation and dehydration in Gaza. IDF sniper murders Saed Abu Alawi, shot in the neck, as he was filming raid from his rooftop in Nur Shams near Tulkarem. IDF shoots tear gas and arrests worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque. PIJ launches multiple rocket attacks into southern Israel. Large protests continue outside Israel embassy in Jordan for the 13th day in support of Palestinian resistance and against normalization.
4/5: 200,000 gather at Al-Aqsa Mosque for prayers during Al-Quds Day, last Friday of Ramadan, and Laylat al-Qadr, Night of Power, holiest night of Ramadan. IDF uses drones to fire tear gas on crowds during dawn prayers, some are beaten with batons, and at least 16 are arrested.
UN Human Rights Council resolution adopted calling for Israel to be held responsible for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, and demanding a halt to all arms sales.
Dozens of US congressional Democrat sing letter calling for halt to weapons transfers to Israel. “In light of the recent strike against aid workers and the ever-worsening humanitarian crisis, we believe it is unjustifiable to approve these weapons transfers.”
Israeli settlers attack Palestinians near Jericho, spraying racist slogans on buildings and setting fires to 4 homes.
4/6: Heavy clashes between Al-Qassam fighters and IDF in Khan Younis, ambushing tanks and rescue teams, killing at least 21 IDF officers and soldiers. IDF raid in Ramallah, abducting previously freed prisoner Layan Kayed from her home, and killing a young man.
100,000 Israelis protest in Tel Aviv, demanding prisoner exchange and elections, lighting fires in the streets and clashing with police. An Israeli drives through crowd injuring 5.
4/7: 6 months since 10/7 IDF withdraws from southern Gaza and Khan Younis, leaving city completely destroyed and destroying 23 ambulances. Gallant says pull out is to prepare future operations including Rafah. Report that Iran communicated they intend to directly strike Israel unless US guarantees immediate permanent ceasefire in Gaza and no invasion of Rafah.
IDF airstrikes in Nuseirat and Rafah kill at least 7 civilians. 300 humanitarian aid trucks enter Gaza from Rafah, largest daily crossing of trucks in 6 months, though no access to northern Gaza.
Walid Daqqah, 62yo writer and one of the longest held Palestinian detainees, dies in prison after 38 years, was supposed to have been released last March but IDF refused even though he had advanced cancer and lung disease. IDF refuses to return body for burial.
IDF soldiers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque and assault worshipers and conduct arrests.
Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo for new ceasefire talks. Al-Qassam Brigades “You Will Burn” video after IDF withdrawal, “You may be able to.. enter the streets of Gaza.. but.. you will burn.. in its alleys, every time.. with the determination of our fierce warriors.”
4/8: Civil defense workers recover at least 84 bodies and skeletal remains from Khan Younis rubble after Israeli withdrawal. Forensic teams continue recovering dozens of burned or executed bodies from Al-Shifa hospital ruins and surrounding pits dug by IDF.
Many thousands of Gazans killed by IDF will never be recovered or identified.
IDF airstrike in Khan Younis kills at least 10, including 6 children. IDF airstrike in Maghazi on municipal building kills at least 5, including Maghazi Mayor and other staff. IDF airstrikes continue for hours in Rafah. IDF airstrike in Deir al-Balah wounds at least 20, also extensive bulldozing and demolitions of residential blocks in Deir al-Balah.
Netanyahu says a date has been set for Rafah invasion, where 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering.
ICJ begins 2 day hearings on Nicaragua’s request to impose emergency measures on Germany for weapons sales to Israel and facilitating genocide.
IDF kills 17yo Asma Imad Saad Daraghmeh at checkpoint in Tayasir northern West Bank, accused of attempting a stabbing attack, IDF prevented first aid, left her to bleed to death, and then seized her body.
Drone attack in Eilat port city in southern Israel, interceptions made by first ever use of naval iron dome system. Islamic Resistance fighters in Iraq also fire rockets targeting oil port in Asqalan and air base in Bir-Al-Sabi.
Thousands in Jordan continue protests at Israeli embassy for 16th night.
4/9: Eid al-Fitr end of Ramadan. IDF airstrike on residential building full of residents in Nuseirat camp kills at least 14 Gazans, mostly women and children, and injures dozens. IDF airstrike on home in Jabalia camp kills 5 children, only the father and mother survived.
76th anniversary of Deir Yassin Massacre on April 9, 1948, when Irgun and Stern Gang terrorist groups supported by Haganah militia killed over 100 Palestinians and triggered mass flight of Palestinians from their homes and land in the weeks before Israel declaration of independence.
Ghassan Kanafani birthday 4/9/1936, novelist and editor for PFLP Al-Hadaf magazine, assassinated by Mossad car bomb in Beirut 1972.
Jordan and 9 other countries airdrop 100s of tons of aid into Gaza, largest international airdrop in a single day, with participation by US, UK, Germany, France, Indonesia, UAE, Netherlands, and Egypt. Turkey imposes export restrictions on Israel after Turkey is prevented from joining airdrops.
Israel says more than 400 aid trucks moved into Gaza on both Monday and Tuesday, while UN and Red Crescent give much lower figures. UN says trucks were mostly half-full for screening, and then each fully reloaded after being counted. “There has been no significant change in the volume of humanitarian supplies entering Gaza or improved access to the north."
Biden criticizes Netanyahu "I think what he’s doing is a mistake. I don’t agree with his approach.. What I’m calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire, allow for the next six, eight weeks, total access to all food and medicine going into the country.”
IDF arrests 20 Palestinians in occupied West Bank, in Tulkarem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Ramallah, Tubas, Nablus, and Jerusalem. 8,165 Palestinians have been arrested in West Bank since 10/7.
Al-Qassam Brigades video of planning ambush, killing 10 IDF soldiers, and blowing up tanks.
4/10: More than 60 Gazans killed in last 24 hours on first day of Eid. IDF airstrikes in Rafah kill at least 8, and continued airstrikes in Nuseirat camp on residential buildings and school kill at least 5 with many civilians wounded.
IDF assassination of Ismael Haniyeh’s family, Hamas political leader, airstrike on car kills his 3 sons and 4 young grandchildren traveling to visit relatives for Eid. “If they think that targeting my children at the peak of these talks before the movement’s response is submitted will cause Hamas to change its positions, they are delusional.”
UNICEF aid convoy hit by IDF gunfire while on coordinated mission to reach northern Gaza. Israeli settlers attack Palestinian villages shooting 4 in Ramallah and burning a home and car in Nablus. US shoots down a dozen Houthi drones launched at US and Israeli ships. Iran warns White House that if US defends Israel against retaliation for the Damascus strike, it will consider the US viable target as well.
4/11: IDF heavy airstrikes in Gaza City, including massacres at central al-Feras Market full of civilians killing at least 6 and wounding dozens, and home in Daraj killing at least 30 and wounding dozens, also destroying 2 mosques and municipal building. IDF increases airstrikes, artillery shelling, and helicopter attacks on Nuseirat while soldiers extends invasion into the camp, destroying residential building and clearing blocks with explosives and bulldozers. IDF assassination airstrike kills Jabalia head of police, Rudwan Rudwan, who was also head of aid security committee supervising protection of aid truck convoys in northern Gaza. IDF naval boats attacks kill 2 in Shati camp northern Gaza.
Euro-Med HR Monitor estimates over 13,000 Palestinians are missing either under debris, buried in indiscriminate mass graves, or forcibly disappeared in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, where some have even been killed. UN and civil defense teams continue recovering scattered and decomposing remains of civilians killed in Khan Younis. WHO describes destruction as "disproportionate to anything one can imagine". No building or road is intact, there is only rubble and dirt.
IDF kills 2 Palestinians in Tubas West Bank, Red Crescent ambulance responding to casualties hit by IDF gunfire and paramedic beaten and arrested. Ongoing IDF raids continue in Hebron, Tulkarem, Qalqilya, Jenin, and Nablus.
UN committee on member state recognition fails to reach consensus on recognizing Palestinian State and full UN membership, with only 2/3rds in favor, with potential UNSC vote next week with US expected to veto.
4/12: IDF continues assault on Al Nuseirat camp, with artillery shelling and dozens of airstrikes, bombing a minaret of Al-Nuseirat mosque as call to prayer is aired, and targeting journalists, critically injuring one who has his leg amputated. IDF airstrike on home in Gaza City kills at least 5 and injures more than 30.
Over 1,500 Israeli settler terrorists attack Palestinian villages, with IDF protection, in Al Mughayir, Abu Falah and Duma north of Ramallah, setting fires to roughly 70 homes and cars, indiscriminately shooting at residents killing 1 and wounding dozens, and shooting at ambulances, after 14yo settler goes missing.
Palestinians in North Gaza are already experiencing famine, according to USAID head Powers 4/10, and the spread of hunger and disease are “unprecedented in modern history.” Israeli off-duty police officer murders USAID worker 50yo Jacob Toukhy in Jaffa.
PIJ fires rockets toward Sderot and Hezbollah fires 50 rockets into northern Israel and occupied Golan Heights, mostly intercepted by iron dome with others landing in open areas. IDF launches airstrikes on Hezbollah positions. IDF has launched more than 4,000 attacks on southern Lebanon since 10/7, destroying or damaging thousands of homes and killing more than 60 Lebanese civilians.
4/13: IDF continues airstrikes in Nuseirat camp, on residential buildings and several schools where many civilians are sheltering, killing at least 19 and wounding more than 200 in the last 24 hours, majority of victims are women and children. IDF airstrikes continue throughout Gaza, in Khan Younis killing 6 and wounding 13, and in Beit Hanoun and Maghazi. Zain Arouq 15yo boy killed by falling airdrop box, he had survived bombings that killed his entire family.
Israeli settlers escalate terror attacks in more than 10 Palestinian villages between Ramallah and Nablus, after missing settler is found dead. Hundreds of settlers invade neighborhoods, shooting at residents, throwing rocks, and burning homes and property. Settlers murder Omar Ahmed Hamed 17yo boy in Beitin village.
Hamas releases statement in response to ceasefire proposal through mediators in Egypt and Qatar. Demands 1) Permanent ceasefire. 2) IDF withdrawal from entire Gaza Strip. 3) Return of displaced Palestinians to their areas and places of residence. 4) Increase entry of relief aid. 5) Start of reconstruction. Also affirms its readiness to conclude a deal and a serious and real exchange of prisoners between the two parties.
Iran attacks Israel in retaliation for Damascus consulate attack, launching 300 drones, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles, in multiple waves, some fired from Iraqi and Yemeni resistance groups, mostly intercepted by Israel air defenses, Jordanian forces, and US ships and fighter jets making at least 70 drone and missile interceptions. A handful of missiles make impact, including at least 9 hits at Nevatim airbase in Negev desert that launched jets involved in Damascus attack. Iran says that they've concluded their response, and warns Israel and US to not escalate further. Reports of minor damage and no fatalities, though a young Arab girl is injured. Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets at IDF military bases in occupied Golan Heights.
Palestinians tear down section of apartheid wall in West Bank.
4/14: IDF airstrikes in Nuseirat camp kill at least 5 and injure dozens, destroying a mosque killing 2, and continuing to demolish more blocks of homes. Dozens of decomposed bodies killed or executed by IDF discovered in mass grave under sand barriers made during invasion in Beit Lahia, in area that served as temporary cemetery which IDF exhumed graves to build their base.
IDF directly opens fire on thousands of civilians trying to return north along coastal al-Rashid Street, with airstrikes, gun boats, and tank artillery shelling, killing and wounding dozens. “We heard news that people had returned to northern Gaza, and we found thousands when we arrived, the planes fired at us, and there are young men and women who were injured, there are a large number of injured.”
CCTV video of settlers burning cars near Ramallah while IDF soldiers watch and don't intervene. Israeli settlers uproot 30 olive trees in Qarawat Bani Hassan West Bank.
US official confirmed Biden told Netanyahu US would not offer military support for any retaliation against Iran’s attack.
4/15: IDF airstrikes on homes in Rafah kill at least 4 Gazans including a child. IDF airstrike on mosque in Jabalia kills at least 1 and injures many more including large number of women and children. IDF reinvades Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, conducting airstrikes, cutting communications, and besieging a school while opening fire at hundreds of displaced families sheltering inside. Video of IDF quadcopter in Nuseirat camp playing recording of children crying for help to lure residents out of their homes to be ambushed and killed.
Al-Shifa mass grave discovered in hospital courtyard, containing at least 15 patients who had been injured, doctors say they witnessed patients being executed. Nearly 400 bodies recovered so far since IDF withdrawal from Al-Shifa after 2 week massacre.
UN Satellite Centre, 90% of ~4,000 buildings along Gaza’s eastern border have been destroyed or damaged.
Israeli military police storm anti-zionist neighborhood and synagogue in Jerusalem, beating and arresting orthodox Jews, many hospitalized with serious injuries. Settler terrorists continue assaulting and shooting Palestinians near Nablus, attacking and killing 2 farmers, while IDF prevents ambulances from responding.
4/16: IDF dronestrike kills at least 11 children playing at playground near crowded central market in Al-Maghazi, dozens seriously wounded, victims are majority women and children. IDF assassination of 7 Gazan police officials tasked with protecting aid, and 2 others, in airstrikes on their vehicle in Gaza City. IDF airstrike on homes in Rafah kills 7 including 4 children.
UNICEF Tess Ingram, press briefing after Gaza convoy mission, says at least 70 children are injured every day, there are no supplies or anesthetics, 1 child killed or injured every 10 minutes. Children are bearing disproportionate impact of IDF indiscriminate attacks, every second person in Gaza is a child.
4/17: Day of the Palestinian Prisoner, Day of Loyalty, Israel currently holding over 9,500 Palestinian captives, including more than 200 children and 3,660 uncharged administrative detainees, subjected to harsh and humiliating conditions including starvation, sexual assault, and torture. More than 8,000 arrested in occupied West Bank and thousands abducted from Gaza since 10/7. Israel's tiered apartheid justice system uses military law in occupied West Bank and Gaza, where evidence is not required and sentences can be arbitrarily extended.
IDF airstrikes kill at least 60 and wound more than 90 Gazans in last 24 hours, in Rafah, Maghazi, and Gaza City, including many children. IDF airstrike on UNRWA school kills 4 including children in Al Shati camp. IDF withdraws from Beit Hanoun after 3 day siege, area found completely destroyed as residents try to return home, streets covered in clothing left behind after mass arrests including all adult males. IDF withdraws from Nuseirat camp after week long incursion, after killing more than 75 and injuring 350 with more than 100 others missing, 13,000 homes destroyed.
US House resolution condemns “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as antisemitic.
UNICEF “2 in 3 homes in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged.”
4/18: Another mass grave of 30 bodies discovered in front of Al-Shifa, including 12 women and children, IDF accused of hiding the bodies burying them under sand and garbage. “Some were handcuffed and stripped of their clothes, indicating that they had been executed in cold blood.”
Al-Shifa Director Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya released, after more than 4 months since being kidnaped during first IDF siege of Al-Shifa, while refusing evacuation orders to continue treating his patients. “They broke both his arms, he was made to crawl like an animal, they tied a chain around his neck and dragged him in front of people. When they want to feed him, they give him a plate and make him eat like a dog in front of others. This is the kind of humanity that they treat doctors with. They target the minds. They destroyed tree and stone, now they want to destroy people.”
US vetoes UNSC vote on State of Palestine becoming full UN member, 12 in favor including China, France, Russia, and Japan. US ambassador “Our veto against Palestinian statehood does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood.. The United States will continue to oppose unilateral measures that undermine the prospect of a 2 state solution.”
Reports of IDF attack inside Iran near Isfahan, echoed in social media and news broadcasts, speculate on fighter jet or missile attacks on nearby nuclear facilities or military bases, media initially adopting view that Israel had launched large scale retaliation for Iran attack, even though US had warned them not to escalate in return for allowing Rafah invasion. There has been no evidence of any damage or threat to nuclear site, and Iran says it was only a few small drones intercepted by air defense systems, and they had not detected any unidentified aircraft entering Iranian airspace. Iran warned just hours before that if Israel attacks interests of Iran again, they would retaliate immediately and at a maximum level.
4/19: IDF airstrikes in Rafah on apartment buildings kills 9, including 6 young children and 2 women, and airstrike on tents of displaced people. IDF airstrikes in Al-Mawasi safe area near Khan Younis. IDF airstrikes in Al-Nuseirat destroys residential blocks.
IDF continues raid on Tulkarem and Nur Shams camp for 2nd day, killing 5 including unarmed 16yo Qais Nasrallah shot in the head, and causing “worst destruction in decades”, destroying roads, shops, homes, and sewage lines, conducting mass arrests, blocking ambulances and shooting a medic.
Gaza Freedom Flotilla prepares to embark from Istanbul to Gaza with 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid.
Jerusalem court orders release of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, professor and renowned feminist scholar, arrested yesterday for ‘incitement’ after criticizing Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and saying Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Millions of Yemenis participate in Friday protests in solidarity with Palestinians.
4/20: IDF airstrikes in Rafah kill at least 8 including pregnant woman and 5 children, though doctors are able to save the unborn baby’s life. Heavy shelling in Deir al-Balah near Al-Aqsa hospital. 50 bodies discovered in mass graves at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. “Our teams continue their search and retrieval operations for the remaining martyrs in the coming days as there are still a significant number of them.” IDF raids continue in Nur Shams camp, killing another 14 Palestinians, as well as raids in Nablus, Hebron, and Ramallah. US House approves $26 billion more weapons funding for Israel.
4/21: Another mass grave of 200 bodies so far discovered at Nasser hospital, including young children and elderly women, some victims are zip-tied including someone in medical scrubs, number is expected to reach 700 bodies. “We found corpses without heads, bodies without skins, and some had their organs stolen.”
IDF continues airstrikes in Rafah killing at least 24 including 18 children, video captures huge explosions destroying homes. IDF airstrikes on homes in Nuseirat kill at least 16 civilians, and artillery shell hits upper floor of al-Awda Hospital.
Abo Shoja, Tulkarem resistance leader and #1 most wanted by IDF in West Bank, emerges still alive 2 days after reports he had been killed.
WFP delivered fuel and flour to bakeries in the north allowing 4 bakeries to begin production.
4/22: More than 50 Gazans killed in last 24 hours and over 100 injured. IDF continues heavy airstrikes in Gaza City and Khan Younis. IDF airstrikes in Rafah on refugee tents. IDF navy strikes in Deir el-Balah, al-Zawaida, and Nuseirat camp. Another 73 bodies discovered in mass graves at Nasser hospital. IDF raids in Hebron and Jericho, shooting and wounding 5, including a 63yo woman, and killing 44yo father of 3.
UNRWA Independent Inquiry, 54 page final report, finds Israel has not provided any evidence for allegations of employees involved in 10/7 attack or working with Hamas. https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2024/04/unrwa_independent_review_on_neutrality.pdf
Hamas Ismail Haniyeh blames Israel for stalling ceasefire efforts, as Israel refuses to agree to a complete withdrawal of IDF from Gaza.
US college campus protests gaining critical mass, including Columbia, NYU, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Emerson, Berkeley, Humboldt, with students establishing liberated zone encampments. More than 200 arrested in recent days for peaceful civil disobedience, including anti-zionist Jewish students and dozens of faculty, demanding end to Israel’s occupation and genocide in Palestine, end to investments in Israeli companies, and end to US funding of Israel.
Thousands of Israelis continue protests, as Passover begins, blocking roads in Tel Aviv, setting fire to symbolic Passover table outside Netanyahu’s house, demanding his resignation, protest banners include calling him 'Crime Minister’ and ‘Palestinian lives matter’.
4/23: Day 200 of continuous IDF airstrikes and massacres in Gaza, killing at least 42,000 Palestinians including those still trapped under rubble, and at least another 10,000 excess deaths due to infections, disease, and starvation. 90% killed are civilians, 70% killed are women and children, and more than 80,000 injured. More than 50% of 2.3 million Gazan residents are starving. More than 50% of Gazans are children. More than 70% of homes in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. More than 60,000 excess deaths expected in the coming months. IDF attacks have murdered more than 180 UN staff, 140 journalists, and 485 medical staff.
IDF has rescued 3 Israeli hostages in 6 months while killing at least 30, another 100 remain in Gaza. Israel holding more than 3,600 Palestinian hostages in administrative detention without charges, trial, or rights. IDF and settler attacks in West Bank have killed 487 Palestinians, including 123 children, and injuring more than 4,700.
IDF airstrikes on homes kill at least 3 in Rafah and 4 in Nuseirat, with many injured. Continuous shelling in Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun as IDF orders new evacuations in northern Gaza.
Airwars Emily Tripp “We have now identified more incidents where civilians have been killed since 10/7 in Gaza than we did in eight years of the US and allied campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.. We have documented strikes where more than 100 people have been killed and the news barely reaches international headlines.”
100s of Jewish protesters arrested during Passover seder demonstration in Brooklyn. “Now is when we reclaim our beautiful tradition from the death cult of Zionism.. rising up for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, and for a free Palestine, and nothing less.”
Abu Obeida “200 days have passed and the savage nazi army is still stuck in the sands of Gaza.. and exploits its predicament on the ground in more blind, indiscriminate, and vengeful destruction.. Our strikes on the enemy will continue as long as the aggression of the occupation or its presence on any inch of our land continues.. We will not compromise on the fundamental human rights of our patient and noble people, including ending the aggression, withdrawing the enemy, returning the displaced, reconstruction, and lifting the siege.”
4/24: IDF launches dozens of airstrikes across Gaza, on homes in Rafah killing 8 including 2 children, heavy shelling in Deir el-Balah, Wadi Gaza, Jabalia, and on homes in Khan Younis and Gaza City, wounding dozens and killing 5 civilians, including a mother and her 12yo son.
IDF raids continue in West Bank, killing 16yo boy and arresting more than 15 Palestinians near Nablus, Qalqilya, Jenin, Tulkarem, Ramallah, and Hebron. Hamas releases video of Israeli-American captive Hersh Goldberg-Polin. IDF fighter jets carry out 40 attacks on Hezbollah targets in Ayta ash-Shab and other villages in southern Lebanon, most airstrikes in a single day.
UN & EU demand independent investigation into mass graves where more than 350 bodies discovered so far at Nasser hospital, and more than 380 from al-Shifa, survivors try to identify family members. US does not want an ‘independent’ investigation, and dodges questions about clear war crimes by Israel. Biden signs funding bill including $26 billion for Israeli weapons. Both US and Israel have 24hr surveillance of every inch in Gaza.
State Dept Patel “We're aware of those reports, and we have asked the government of Israel for additional clarity and information.” UN Amb Wood “We want to look into this a bit more and find out what exactly happened. So let us do that first and then we will see if indeed that is necessary.”
4/25: IDF airstrikes in central Gaza kill at least 8 civilians, in Rafah killing Belgian aid worker and his 7yo son, and in northern Gaza killing group of playing children. Gazans struggle with extreme heat wave, causing death of a 5mo infant, while Gazans have no access to clean water or electricity. WFP says IDF invasion of Rafah, similar to scale in Khan Younis, could lead to 10s of thousands of deaths. Palestinian victim seen in 2/29 photo who had been zip-tied and run over with a tank identified as 62yo Jamal Hamdi Hassan. IDF arrests 3 13yo boys near Ramallah. Israel currently holding more than 200 Palestinian child prisoners.
Civil defense teams working to recover and identify the nearly 400 bodies found in Nasser hospital mass graves say at least 20 may have been buried alive, other bodies found zip-tied with bullet to the head or with signs of torture, as well finding children, medical staff, and wounded patients. Israel says it only dug up existing graves looking for hostages, and put all bodies back in their place, and they did not hurt any civilian patients or medical staff, though the number of bodies recovered are far more than the original graves before IDF siege.
4/26: IDF airstrikes kill more than 50 Gazans in last 24 hours, killing family of 5 including newborn baby in Rafah, killing at least 3 in Khan Younis, and killing 8 and wounding dozens in Nuseirat. Baby Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda, that had been saved by c-section after mother and family were killed by IDF in Rafah, dies after 5 days in incubator.
IDF airstrike kills Shaimaa Al-Areer, eldest daughter of scholar and poet Refaat Al-Areer, along with her husband and newborn baby. Refaat was assassinated on 12/7 with most of his family after IDF had called him to say they would kill him.
IDF arrests 7 from Rabbis for Ceasefire group as they tried to bring flour and rice to Gaza at Erez crossing, including 3 American rabbis and an American-Israeli journalist. Israel settlers continue protests at Kerem Shalom crossing blocking aid trucks and destroying food while protected by IDF.
IDF dronestrike on car in Maydoun southeastern Lebanon kills 2 senior Fajr Force militants of Jama'a Islamiya group, Musab and Bilal Khalaf.
Millions continue Friday protests throughout Yemen in solidarity with Palestinians. Protest banners include photos of US student protestors. Houthis shoot down $32m US Reaper drone and hit British oil tanker Andromeda Star with a missile.
Netanyahu "Israel will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defense.. The threat to seize the soldiers and officials of the Middle East’s only democracy and the world’s only Jewish state is outrageous. We will not bow to it.”
Smotrich on X “The time has come for Mossad to return to doing what it was trained to do, eliminate the heads of Hamas all over the world and not in negotiations that are conducted irresponsibly and harm Israel's security. With Hamas from now on we should only talk with shells and bombs. Rafah as fast and as strongly as possible, and then continue in the entire strip until its complete destruction.”
4/27: IDF airstrikes across Gaza kill at least 60 and injure 140 in last 24 hours. IDF airstrikes on homes kills at least 8 in Rafah and 7 in Nuseirat camp, including women and children.
Gaza Freedom Flotilla, with 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid, blocked indefinitely in Turkey after pressure from Israel and US leads to Guinea-Bissau withdrawing its flagged vessels.
Hamas releases video of 2 Israeli captives demanding Netanyahu reach an exchange deal.
IDF airstrike in southern Lebanon destroys house and injures 14 civilians. Hezbollah hits Meron airbase in northern Israel with 50 rockets.
Massive crowds of Israeli protestors continue Saturday demonstrations against Netanyahu and demanding immediate elections and a deal to exchange hostages.
Israeli settlers attack Palestinian villagers near Hebron and Bethlehem, raiding homes and destroying property. IDF arrests at least 20 Palestinians across West Bank, in Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin, and Jerusalem.
US reportedly working to prevent ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu and other Israeli officials. Israeli media says Netanyahu is “frightened and unusually stressed” by possibility of imminent arrest warrant
4/28: IDF airstrikes on homes in Rafah kill at least 20 civilians including 5 children, and multiple airstrikes in Gaza City kill at least 7, wounding dozens.
UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) estimates Gaza is filled with 37 million tons of debris which will could take decades to clear up. “From 9 to 14 percent of these bombs did not go off so potentially we are talking about up to 10,000 or a bit more of unexploded bombs, shells and mortars in Gaza.”
UNRWA mission to assess damage to facilities, describing one of the 165 damaged shelters “This whole area used to shelter around 10,000 people.. Now there’s nothing left.”
4/29: IDF airstrike massacres kill at least 50 in the last 24 hours, including numerous airstrikes in Gaza City, and in Rafah killing 3 women sheltering in an apartment. Artillery fire intensifies in Nuseirat, witnesses report more quadcopters playing sounds of women and children calling for help, then attacking those that come outside.
IDF has killed more than 25,000 women and children since 10/7. More than 10,000 Palestinians are missing buried under rubble of 100s of destroyed buildings, “The continued accumulation of thousands of bodies under the rubble has begun to cause the spread of disease and epidemics, especially with the onset of summer and the rise in temperatures, which accelerates the process of decomposition.”
IDF storms high school in Hebron, firing tear gas hitting dozens of students and teachers, causing numerous injuries. More than 900 protestors across many US campuses have been arrested in recent days for civil disobedience in solidarity with Palestinians.
US State Dept. says “Our position is clear. We continue to believe that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over the Palestinian situation.. and we do not support its investigation.”
Smotrich “Moments before redemption, we must not hesitate. We must destroy Rafah, Nuseirat, & Dir al-Balah, wipe out the memory of Amalek.. There's no half- measure. Rafah, Dir al-Balah Nuseirat absolute destruction!”
4/30: IDF airstrikes and artillery shelling intensify in Rafah, including fire bombing of refugee tents, killing a number of civilians including young children. Netanyahu says IDF will invade Rafah regardless of whether a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal is reached.
IDF raids in Nour Shams refugee camp in West Bank kill at least 14 Palestinians. More than 20 arrested across West Bank in last 24 hours. Israeli settlers attack Jordanian humanitarian aid convoys, damaging trucks and dumping some of the food, trucks then continued aid mission.
MAY 2024
5/1: IDF airstrikes destroy residential buildings in Gaza City, continue to pound densely populated Nuseirat camp, and destroy homes in Rafah killing at least 2 children.
Beit Hanoun (Erez) border crossing along northern Gaza opens for the first time since 10/7, allowing allowing 31 humanitarian aid trucks into Gaza. Opening timed to coincide with Blinken visit to Israel. Only 163 aid trucks per day entered Gaza in April, with only 8% reaching northern Gaza, well below the amount needed to prevent ongoing famine.
US house passes new anti-Semitism bill, broadening definition to include “targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity”
Palestinian UN ambassador calls on countries to recognize Palestinian State, after Barbados and Jamaica join 140 other countries to recognize Palestine. “If you wonder if you are on the right side of history, ask yourselves one question: ‘Is what I’m doing advocating freedom and peace or enabling continued oppression and conflict?’ You should ask yourself that question."
5/2: IDF airstrikes continue across Gaza, destroying residential building in Rafah killing at least 6 including 4 children, in Nuseirat killing at least 9, and in Bureij refugee camp killing at least 5, including a child. Adnan al-Barash, 50yo prominent Palestinian doctor and head of orthopedics at al-Shifa, killed under torture in an Israeli prison, arrested in December at al-Awada hospital. More than 496 medical personnel have been killed by Israel since 10/7.
100s of demonstrators arrested at some of the largest US universities, with more than 2,400 arrested in recent weeks, in solidarity with Palestinians and pushing their universities to divest from Israeli companies and to stop receiving Israel-linked donations.
“The United Nations Development Programme’s initial estimates for the reconstruction of … the Gaza Strip surpasses $30bn and could reach up to $40bn.. The scale of the destruction is huge and unprecedented … this is a mission that the global community has not dealt with since World War II.”
Islamic Resistance in Iraq launched multiple cruise missiles at Tel Aviv.
Turkey stops all exports and imports to and from Israel because of the “worsening humanitarian tragedy.”
5/3: IDF airstrikes continue in Gaza City and Nuseirat as well as bombing civilian refugee tents in Rafah killing at least 25 and wounding 50 within last 24 hours. Survivor says her sister and 6 of her nieces and nephews were killed in an attack on Rafah, “These children were sleeping. Their remains were collected in one bag. They were found in pieces in their mother’s embrace.”
World Press Freedom Day, IDF shoots at journalists covering clashes with resistance in Tulkarem. More than 140 Journalists killed by Israel since 10/7.
World Food Programme says “It’s horror. There is full-blown famine in the north, and it’s moving its way south.”
5/4: Hamas delegation in Egypt for indirect ceasefire talks, holding position of no deal without guarantee of permanent ceasefire, IDF withdrawal from Gaza, and unhindered return of displaced families to their homes. Israeli proposal includes 40 day halt in fighting and exchange of Israeli captives for many more Palestinian prisoners. Hamas official “The occupation is obstructing an agreement by insisting on continuing the war. The Zionist entity is seeking a deal to recover its captives without linking this to ending the aggression,” and Hamas will “under no circumstances agree to an agreement that does not explicitly include stopping the war on Gaza.”
100,000 Israelis join antigovernment demonstrations in Tel Aviv, demanding end to the war, hostage release, no Rafah invasion, and new elections. Many Israeli officials calling for no ceasefire and immediate invasion of Rafah.
New footage from 11/20 IDF massacre at Indonesian hospital shows at least 12 patients murdered in their beds by the tank shelling.
5/5: IDF intensifies heavy airstrikes in Rafah killing at least 22 including 8 children, and in Nuseirat, Maghazi, and Gaza City, including in Zeitoun neighborhood killing a mother and her 2 children in their home.
IDF airstrike in village of Meiss El Jabal in southern Lebanon kills 4 all from same family. Hezbollah fires 65 rockets into northern Israel, in one of the largest attacks since 10/7. Hamas and PIJ launch rockets from Gaza, striking military positions in southern Israel, killing 4 and wounding 11 IDF soldiers.
Israel enacts Aljazeera ban, blocking all media broadcasts and transmissions, raiding offices, and seizing equipment.
IDF raids continue in West Bank, including Tulkarem, Qalqilya, Jericho, Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Jenin, and East Jerusalem, detaining at least 25 Palestinians including children and former prisoners.
US placed hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel last week, over concerns of full-scale Rafah assault, including 1,800 2,000lb bombs and 1,700 500lb bombs. Blinken tells Netanyahu “a major military operation" in Rafah would lead to US publicly opposing it and would negatively impact U.S.-Israel relations.
2nd day of ceasefire talks end in Egypt with no agreement as Israel rejects Hamas’s demand for troop withdrawal and end to the war.
5/6: Hamas accepts ceasefire proposal from Egypt & Qatar endorsed by CIA director. 3 stages, 42 days each, 1) release 33 Israeli hostages, women, sick, elderly, and non-soldier minors, in exchange for 30 Palestinians for each civilian, and 50 for each female soldier, and begin return of refugees to homes. 2) release of living Israeli male civilians & soldiers for 1,000s of Palestinian prisoners, only after announcement of permanent ceasefire. 3) release of dead prisoners on both sides, reconstruction, compensation, end of Gaza siege.
Israel rejects agreement and begins Rafah invasion, ordering evacuations amid heavy nonstop airstrikes, killing dozens including many children. 600,000 children are trapped in Rafah.
US State Dept "we have made clear that we do not support Israel launching a full-scale military operation in Rafah."
Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu speech “No amount of pressure, no decision by any international forum will stop Israel from defending itself.. Never again is now.”
Protests escalate in Tel Aviv, blocking roads and starting fires, demanding Israel accept the ceasefire deal. Family member of hostage says “Hamas agreed to the deal, and now it is time to bring them home, otherwise we will burn the country."
Shimon Boker vice chairman of World Likud on recent talk show, “I think we should've gone into Rafah yesterday already... There are no uninvolved (civilians) there. You have to go in and kill and kill and kill... We have to kill them before they kill us."
Ynet article on Netanyahu funding of Hamas, in 2018 letter asking Qatar for $30 million per month for Hamas, with assurances from the US, despite the objections of many Israeli politicians and the Palestinian Authority. Additional documentation has shown intent of Israel supporting Hamas was to divide power between Gaza and West Bank, derail peace talks, and use Hamas ‘terror group’ designation to justify collective punishment, brutality, and atrocities against all Palestinians.
UN special rapporteurs condemn “unacceptable” sexual assault and violence by IDF against women and children, “We are appalled that women are being targeted by Israel with such vicious, indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, seemingly sparing no means to destroy their lives and deny them their fundamental human rights.”
5/7: IDF continues Rafah ground invasion with heavy airstrikes and tank shelling in eastern and central Rafah, seizing the Rafah crossing, and blocking all humanitarian food aid, medical equipment and urgently needed fuel supplies required for water pumps and communications, and preventing thousands of patients and wounded from being evacuated for treatment.
Al-Najjar hospital ordered to evacuate and forced to close, which had been the only large health facility in Rafah. Many of 1.5 million Gazan refugees in Rafah forced to flee to Khan Younis and Central Gaza, most have already been displaced many times in last 7 months.
WHO says Rafah closure makes “makes a disastrous, catastrophic situation far worse.. Today, we were expecting to evacuate 140 (critically ill) patients, but now that life line is closed off to patients." UN human rights office says Israel must ensure civilians have access to medical care, adequate food, safe water and sanitation. “Failure to meet these obligations may amount to forced displacement, which is a war crime.. There are strong indications that this is being conducted in violation of international humanitarian law.”
Israeli settlers attack aid convoy and destroy food at Beit Hanoon (Erez) northern crossing as IDF watches.
Another mass grave discovered at Al-Shifa hospital of 62 decomposed bodies, including many patients, women, and children, with many found without heads or showing signs of mutilation and torture. IDF continues heavy airstrikes and shelling in Nuseirat camp destroying large residential areas. IDF airstrike in Zeitoun Gaza City kills family of 7, a husband and wife and their 5 children. Reports of quadcopters in Rafah and Al-Maghazi playing sounds of crying children and women, people celebrating, dogs barking, and running water, killing people that come outside.
IDF raids continue across West Bank, arresting 12 in Hebron, 6 in Bethlehem, and others in Jenin, Nablus, and Tulkarem amid clashes with Palestinians fighting to defend their homes.
IDF and police demolish entire Bedouin village Wadi Khalil in Negev dessert, bulldozing 50 homes and displacing 300 residents, largest demolition in years.
Biden says Hamas attack was “driven by ancient desire to wipe the Jewish people off the face of the Earth.”
5/8: IDF airstrikes kill dozens of Gazans, increasing attacks in Rafah killing at least 12 children and many civilians in their homes, as tens of thousands trying to flee Rafah ahead of further invasion. IDF advance further into Zeitoun Gaza City, with heavy tank shelling and helicopter missiles, as families are forced to flee in the middle of the night through the rubble.
IDF raids and arrests across West Bank villages in Hebron, Qabatiya, Jenin, Ramallah, and Nablus. Syria air defenses shoot down Israeli missiles launched from occupied Golan Heights towards Damascus. Hezbollah launches a dozen drone, missile, and artillery attacks on IDF locations in northern Israel.
Biden says will continue blocking offensive weapons to Israel if they go into Rafah, but says current operation is not yet a full invasion. “I made it clear that if they go into Rafah, they haven’t gone in Rafah yet, if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, that deal with that problem.”
Ben-Gvir tweets “Hamas loves Biden". Israeli MK Gottlieb “I got news for the US. We have imprecise missiles.. So maybe instead of using a precise missile and taking down a specific room or a specific building, I’ll use my imprecise missiles, and I’ll just collapse ten buildings.”
5/9: IDF continues dozens of airstrikes in central and northern Gaza, airstrike in Khan Younis kills 8 all from same family, airstrike in Jabalia kills 4 including 3 children, and numerous airstrikes in Rafah. UNWRA says more than 110,000 refugees have fled Rafah but “nowhere is safe in the Gaza Strip and living conditions are atrocious.. No aid has come into Gaza now since Sunday. No aid, no fuel, no supplies, nothing. And we really are now down to our last reserves. We have a few more days of flour that we can provide. But everything else will start to shut down very soon without fuel, without water. So the situation is really desperate.”
Israeli settler mobs sabotage roads at Gaza crossing with large rocks blocking humanitarian aid trucks. roads Israelis set fires around UNRWA HQ building in occupied East Jerusalem.
5/10: More than 15,000 children and 9,000 women have been killed in Gaza since 10/7, or roughly 70% of those killed, while more than 10,000 remain uncounted trapped in rubble or buried in hidden mass graves.
IDF expands invasion into Rafah amidst clashes with Palestinian resistance inflicting causalities among IDF using rockets and snipers as well as IEDs to ambush tanks and soldiers.
UN General Assembly resolution votes 143 to 9 to grant Palestine upgraded rights and privileges and supporting its full UN membership. Israeli Amb uses mini shredder during speech to shred pocket sized UN Charter.
US State Dept report on Israeli use of US weapons criticizes Israel, but falls short of making legal finding that they’ve violated the law and does not acknowledge specific evidence of IDF intentionally targeting and killing civilians. “Given Israel’s significant reliance on US-made defense articles, it is reasonable to assess” US weapons have been used by IDF “in instances inconsistent with its IHL obligations or with established best practices for mitigating civilian harm”.
CNN reports on Sde Teiman “concentration camp” where Palestinians are held without rights and are regularly subjected to dehumanizing treatment, beatings, and torture.
Hamas on latest failure of ceasefire negotiations “Netanyahu and his extremist government are using the negotiations as cover for the assault on Rafah and occupation of the crossing and continuation of the war of extermination against our people. They are fully responsible for derailing the talks to reach an agreement.. Hamas will hold consultations with the brotherly leaders of Palestinian resistance groups to reassess the negotiations strategy.”
Hezbollah rockets start large fires in hills of northern Israel.
2 million Yemenis join Palestinian solidarity demonstrations in weekly protests that have continued every Friday for 7 months.
5/11: IDF continues increasing airstrikes and land attacks across Gaza, in Rafah killing at least 10 mostly children, and in central Deir el-Balah killing at least 10 refugees including 72yo pediatric surgeon Muhammad Nimr Qazaat and his son Youssef a dentist, and in northern Gaza City killing at least 10.
IDF orders new evacuations from central Rafah to the north and from Jabalia to the south in what is effectively a death march for Gazans with nowhere to go. IDF conducting fire belt “carpet bombing” massacres of already flattened Jabalia camp, killing at least 45 civilians sheltering in homes, mostly women and children, and using quadcopter drones to fire on ambulances at UNRWA clinic.
Doctor in Jabalia “Most of the injuries we see today are children and women.. we have no electricity in the hospital.. we have no light in the hospital and there is no oxygen to give patients.”
Another 3 mass graves of 80 bodies discovered inside Al-Shifa hospital complex, now more than 520 bodies recovered at the hospital many which were tortured and executed.
Israeli settlers set fires to Palestinian homes in Duma near Nablus killing 2 children burned alive.
Qassam Brigades and resistance groups continue attacks on invading IDF positions, inflicting heavy casualties.
2 years since IDF murdered Palestinian-American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, shot in the neck by IDF sniper while covering raid in Jenin, and still there is zero accountability.
5/12: IDF continues airstrikes, ground invasion, and siege of Jabalia camp where many thousands are sheltering, storming 6 UNRWA schools full of refugees, arresting or executing civilian men and forcing women and children to flee with no where to go, and killing and injuring dozens in last 24 hours.
IDF airstrike in al-Zuwaida central Gaza kills 4 young children, wounding 10 others all children. IDF airstrike on health clinic in Al-Bureij central Gaza, with no electricity people use cell phone lights to try to find bodies trapped in rubble. IDF quadcopter drones chase and open fire on ambulances trying to reach sites of airstrikes in Rafah. More than 360,000 Gazans have been forced to flee Rafah in the last week.
Talal Abu Zarifa, national leader and senior political member of Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), assassinated in his home near Gaza City along with most of his family, including mostly women and children.
Israeli settlers continue 2nd day of attacks on Palestinian villages near Nablus, attacking homes and burning crops and olive trees. Israeli settlers attack humanitarian aid convoys and loot food for starving Palestinians.
Egypt joins South Africa to support ICJ case against Israel for committing genocide in Gaza. Turkish President Erdogan “Netanyahu has reached a level that would make Hitler jealous with his genocidal methods.”
5/13: IDF airstrike massacres in Nuseirat killing at least 40 civilians sheltering in residential building hit with 2 missiles, mostly women and children, dozens wounded and many still trapped in rubble, and airstrike on UNRWA school and aid distribution warehouse where 100s are sheltering causing large fires.
IDF escalating nonstop airstrikes and ground invasion with tanks in Jabalia and Rafah. IDF blows up mosque in Khan Younis after sending drone and confirming no one is inside.
Oxfam says Rafah invasion is compounding “lethal cocktail of over-crowding, sewage and hunger” with rivers of sewage in the streets creating conditions for outbreak of epidemics.
20 American doctors trapped at European Hospital near Khan Younis, suffering severe dehydration due to IDF bombings and closing of Rafah crossing.
IDF shoots at clearly marked UN vehicles heading toward European Hospital, killing UN driver, first instance of international UN staff member killed in Gaza. Relatives of trapped doctors suspect UN vehicle was involved in rescue efforts. More than 190 UN staff have been killed by IDF in Gaza.
Israeli settlers set fires to humanitarian aid convoy from Jordan in Hebron, ransacking and destroying food for starving Palestinians while laughing and joking. Israelis set fire to UNRWA HQ for 2nd time this week.
Palestinian resistance factions meet in Damascus, affirming their united efforts to continue escalating operations against IDF and demanding that negotiations lead to comprehensive ceasefire, complete withdrawal of IDF from Gaza, return of displaced to their homes, and start of relief and reconstruction, leading to dignified prisoner exchange deal. Abu Obeida says Qassam Brigades have lost contact with members guarding 4 Israeli captives in Gaza.
IDF acknowledges at least 50 soldiers wounded in last 24 hours in Gaza, as resistance fighters claim most attacks in single day since 10/7.
IDF releases 76 Gazan prisoners, father discovers son Issa Hamouda was killed beaten to death with hammers.
5/14: 76yrs since end of British mandate in Palestine and Israel unilaterally declaring independence. Thousands join annual March of Return through ruins of villages where many Palestinians were expelled in period leading up to and after 1948, known as the Nakba where zionist forces conducted many massacres against Palestinian civilians killing about 15,000 and forcibly displacing more than 750,000.
UN reports more than 550,000 Gazans have been forcibly displaced in recent days as IDF continues invasions of Rafah and northern Gaza, many already been displaced many times since 10/7. Many now displaced to destroyed Khan Younis with no water, electricity, medical or sanitation services.
Heavy combat casualties for both Palestinian fighters and invading IDF in northern and southern Gaza. IDF dronestrike on car in southern Lebanon kills senior Hezbollah commander. Hezbollah rockets from Lebanon kill an Israeli civilian and injure 5 IDF soldiers.
US moves ahead with $1bn weapons package to Israel including tank rounds, mortars and armored tactical vehicles, pending Congressional approval.
Ben Gvir “So that the problem does not return, two things must be done: return to Gaza Strip and encourage voluntary departure of the residents of Gaza. This is moral, rational and humanitarian.” “Yes, occupy Gaza and stay there.. What can and should be done is the voluntary migration plan.” Asked if he’s willing to expel Palestinians, “If we decide this, we can do it.”
5/15: Nakba day of commemoration for events leading up to and following 1948 creation of Israel with zionist forces conducting hundreds of massacres against Palestinians, killing at least 15,000 and forcibly displacing more than 750,000. 700,000 Gazans forcibly displaced in the last 10 days since start of Rafah ground invasion and new invasions in Deir al-Balah central Gaza and in Jabalia northern Gaza.
IDF dronestrike on crowd of civilians kills at least 4 and wounds dozens in Gaza City. Intensified airstrikes in Jabalia as tanks reach center of the camp. IDF says 5 soldiers killed and 16 wounded in friendly tank fire incident in Jabalia, resistance says more than 36 IDF officers and soldiers killed.
IDF intensifies airstrikes in Lebanon. Hezbollah launches 50 rocket attacks into occupied Golan, and dronestrike hits military base near Golani Junction, deepest yet inside Israel.
IDF raids on money exchange businesses in Tulkarem kills 5 Palestinians as IDF steals the money, also raids in Nablus, Tubas, Jenin, and Qalqilya. IDF kills Palestinian youth at checkpoint near Ramallah.
Israeli settlers again attacking and looting humanitarian aid convoys, a random Palestinian truck driver is seriously injured by settlers for suspicion of carrying food for Gaza.
US says Gaza pier has been anchored and humanitarian aid will “begin moving ashore in the coming days.”
Lily Greenberg Call Jewish-American senior Biden staffer resigns, “I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.. Any system that requires the subjugation of one group over another is not only unjust, but unsafe. Jewish safety cannot and will not come at the expense of Palestinian freedom. Making Jews the face of the American war machine makes us less safe.”
5/16: IDF airstrikes and artillery attacks continue in Rafah, Jabalia, Shati camp, and Gaza City. IDF continues explosive demolitions of whole neighborhoods. Leaked videos show IDF sniping and drone striking unarmed Gazan civilians. IDF airstrike in Khan Younis kills at least 9 civilians, and artillery shelling in Jabalia kills 7 including a pregnant woman. IDF airstrike on home in front of Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah injures 5 medics and destroys ambulances, and quadcopters set fire to refugee tents. IDF airstrike on Ja'oun school full of sheltering refugees in Nuseirat kills at least 6 civilians, including Red Crescent ER nurse Akram Abdullah Makki, and sets buildings on fire.
Euromed reports IDF intentionally destroying schools and medical facilities. Meanwhile IDF uses remaining schools and hospitals as military bases and weapons caches.
Palestinian fighters claim dozens of attacks against IDF soldiers and vehicles, killing 24 with more than 60 wounded, and claim advances into city centers just make them easy targets for constant attacks and ambushes.
South Africa seeks 3rd intervention against Israel at ICJ hearing, saying that Israel’s actions clearly indicate “genocidal intent” and “it’s now or never. If you don’t order Israel to pull out of Rafah, it will be too late.” Intervention is strongly supported by Malaysia. Israeli UN amb says UN is a “terror organization.”
Yemeni forces shoot down another US Reaper drone, worth about $30 million.
5/17: IDF continues new ground invasions into western Rafah, Jabalia, and Beit Hanoun, killing at least 31 and wounding 60. IDF airstrike on home in Rafah kills journalist Mohammad al-Hobi. IDF airstrikes in Jabalia kill at least 6 refugees with many more trapped in rubble and “killed in the streets" with dozens of buildings demolished. “Tanks and jets are wiping out residential districts as well as markets, shops, restaurants, everything. It is all happening before the one-eyed world."
First humanitarian aid shipment arrives at US pier in Gaza which is only needed because US allows IDF and settlers to block aid trucks at land crossings. US evacuates 17 of 20 American doctors and nurses that had been trapped at Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah while on volunteer medical mission.
Negotiations “have been stopped” between Hamas and Israel for ceasefire and prisoner swap. IDF says bodies of 3 captives recovered in Gaza whom were killed on 10/7 at Nova festival.
IDF airstrike in Jenin wounds 8 and kills leader from Jenin Brigade Islam Khamaysa in his home. Jenin has had highest number of Palestinians killed by IDF in West Bank since 10/7.
IDF airstrikes in Lebanon kills 3 including Hezbollah member and 2 Syrian boys, and airstrike on car assassinates Hamas official Sharhabil al-Sayed. Hezbollah launches 75 rocket and drone attacks into northern Israel.
Abu Obeida speech, with English translation, “For long days, nights, and weeks, the enemy and its Nazi government have practiced the most heinous forms of genocide against our people before the eyes and ears of the world. They have not left any form of war crimes or crimes against humanity as described by divine laws and human conventions that they have not committed with utter savagery.” “Over the last 10 days, the fighters managed to target 100 various zionist military vehicles, including tanks, transporters, and bulldozers, across all fronts of combat. The enemy counts its dead and wounded by the dozens in all areas of its incursion, barely stopping to retrieve its soldiers before announcing part of its losses, though what we record is much greater.”
“What is happening in terms of heroic resistance from our mujahideen and fighters of our people.. confirms our ability.. to endure and fight no matter how long the aggression lasts and regardless of its form.” “Despite our full desire to stop the aggression against our people, we are prepared for a long battle of attrition against the enemy, dragging them into a swamp where they will gain nothing but the death of their soldiers and the capture of their officers. This is not because we are a great power, but because we are the people of this land and rightful owners.” “We are Gaza with its sky, air, sea, and sand, reminding you every time that it is a graveyard for invaders.”
5/18: IDF intensifies airstrikes in northern Gaza, killing 28 in a strike on residential block near Kamal Adwan hospital with many wounded. In Jabalia, IDF artillery shelling on group of women and children waiting in line for water kills at least 8, and IDF airstrike on gate of refugee shelter kills 12 and wounds 25. IDF airstrikes in Gaza City kill at least 9, airstrikes on homes in Nuseirat camp kill at least 31, and airstrikes in Rafah and Khan Younis kill at least 20 and wound dozens of civilians.
UN says 800,000 Gazans have been forced to flee Rafah, half the Rafah population, since IDF invasion starting 5/6, and over 100,000 displaced in northern Gaza in recent days. Many displaced many times in last 7 months. Most have no belongings or basic supplies and there is no access to clean water, medical treatment, or shelter. Water borne diseases are spreading because of contaminated water and rising temperatures. Al Mawasi ‘safe zone’ is filled with tons of garbage amidst a sea of refugee tents and with no facilities or sanitation.
Israeli police crack down on antigovernment protestors in Tel Aviv calling for Netanyahu to resign, making arrests and using water cannons.
Lapid opposition leader attends protest and calls on Gantz to resign from war cabinet if Netanyahu doesn’t secure hostage release. Gantz issues ultimatum to Netanyahu threatening his party will leave war government unless his proposed 6-point plan for ending of the war and after it is implemented by 6/8, while far-right Ben Gvir and Smotrich threaten to break coalition if Netanyahu doesn’t go full force into Rafah.
IDF releases video of killing Palestinian gunmen on roof claiming success, as wounded fighter is killed while still shooting, another picks up his rifle and returns fire before also being killed, but many are reminded of the bravery of Palestinian fighters and a poem from Mahmoud Darwish, “Strike your enemy, there is no escape! Your arm falls? Picked it up and strike your enemy! No escape! I fall beside you? Pick me up, and strike your enemy with me, for you are now free.. free... free! Your dead and wounded are your ammunition. Those you loved are gone. You will either have to be or you will not be.”
IDF raids in West Bank Qalqilya, Nablus, and near Ramallah.
Reports that IDF published list of pictures and personal details of Palestinians whom they claim are affiliated with Hamas, including pictures of young children, the message threatens them with death if they do not come forward to provide intelligence to Israel. "You have been exposed. Call the number below to save yourself."
5/19: IDF continues heavy airstrikes and helicopter artillery shelling in Jabalia and northern Gaza amidst fierce battles with resistance fighters. IDF airstrikes across Gaza including Rafah, Deir el-Balah and Al Maghazi kill at least 70, wounding more than 100. IDF helicopter shoots at group of hundreds of Gazan refugees waiting for aid near US pier. IDF demolishes entire neighborhoods with explosives in Khan.
Israeli settlers attack Yetma village, protected by IDF, near Nablus setting fires to cars and properties, they also stop and search random trucks in occupied Jerusalem and Ramallah looking for Gaza humanitarian aid. Farouk Al Khatib freed prisoner from Ramallah dies due to medical negligence and torture during his detention, hundreds join his funeral procession. IDF continues demolitions of residential building in West Bank villages.
5/20: More than 110 Gazans killed in last 24 hours with many more trapped in rubble that cannot be reached. IDF continues heavy airstrikes in northern Gaza, killing at least 18 in Jabalia and Beit Lahiya, witnesses describe finding “dismembered heads in the streets.” IDF aistrike on residential square in Beit Lahiya scatters victims bodies, “Pieces of flesh are strewn all over the walls.. I am collecting pieces of flesh.. These belong to young children, women and babies.” IDF airstrikes on homes in Gaza City kill at least 15, and at least 3 in Rafah. A premature baby at Kamal Adwan hospital dies after oxygen machine stops working. IDF artillery shelling and siege on al-Adwa hospital, bulldozing nearby building and preventing wounded civilians and staff from entering or leaving, while those trapped inside have run out of water.
US says 569 tons of aid delivered from new pier in Gaza, but UN says no aid has been received in last 2 days.
ICC prosecutor requests arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes, including extermination, intentionally targeting civilians, and using starvation as a method of war, and warrants requested for 3 Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Dief, and Ismail Haniyeh for crimes against humanity committed on 10/7.
IDF raid in Jenin kills 6 and wounds 8, and IDF arrests more than 30 in Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, and East Jerusalem. Palestinian Prisoner’s Society reports IDF has arrested more than 8,800 Palestinians in West Bank since 10/7, including 293 women, 620 children, 75 journalists, with more than 5,900 held without charges, and with at least 18 which died in prison.
5/21: More than 85 Gazans killed and 200 injured in last 24 hours. IDF airstrikes on homes in northern Bir an-Naaja kill at least 6, and in central Zawaida a strike kills at least 12, including women, children, and an unborn baby with many more wounded. IDF quadcopter drones in Rafah shooting and killing children and anyone who moves in the streets. IDF continues siege on al-Awda hospital in Jabalia, with 200 sheltering refugees, firing into the hospital with snipers and artillery. IDF attacks Kamal Adwan hospital, the last partially functioning hospital in northern Gaza, striking the emergency department with missiles, forcing patients and staff to flee.
UNRWA suspends food distribution in Rafah due to IDF attacks and lack of supplies. IDF confiscates AP cameras and equipment during live footage of northern Gaza. New video shows IDF removing more than 100 bodies from Al-Shifa hospital during first raid in November, loading them into trucks and later returning most to be buried in mass graves, many bodies with missing organs or skinned.
IDF continues large scale invasion in Jenin killing a teacher, a doctor, and 2 boys, among others, and indiscriminately “firing at any moving body in the street” wounding more than 21 and firing on ambulance crews.
Gallant audio “And for those Americans, they are not an immovable bloc.. they understand our policy, they understand that a Palestinian Authority won’t exist in Gaza and that a Palestinian state won’t exist. Believe me, ignore the statements, they understand.. A Palestinian state will never be established.”
Ben Gvir on day after “Israel, only Israel, no one else, occupation of Gaza, Jewish settlement, but that’s not enough.. the most important step, immigration, I’m not saving all of them by the way.. and if there is an emigration of hundreds of thousands who will leave you can enter with more and more and more people.. I will be very happy to live in Gaza.”
5/22: IDF massacres continue throughout Gaza, in Al Zaytoun neighborhood near Gaza City killing at least 4 young boys and a baby, also IDF snipers on rooftops target and kill disabled elderly Palestinian woman and her daughter while fleeing northern Gaza. Snipers also shooting civilians in the streets of Jabalia. IDF airstrike in northern Gaza City on Fatima al-Zahra mosque filled with sheltering refugees kills at least 10 mostly children. IDF airstrikes on homes kill at least 8 in Nuseirat camp, at least 6 civilians in Bir Alnaja, and kills Red Crescent mental health volunteer Najm Tabassi and his wife in Rafah. IDF has killed more children in Gaza in 4 months than prior 4 years of wars globally.
Zionist media circulate altered video of 5 female IDF soldiers captured at Nahal Oz base, presenting as innocent civilian teenage girls being sexually assaulted, misquoting fighters, “Here, these are the girls who can get pregnant.” and “you are so beautiful” but actually says “These are the captured women.” and “You are not beautiful.”
AP article on debunked claims of sexual assault and rapes committed by Hamas on 10/7, describing false accounts made by ZAKA volunteers which fueled lies that formed a primary justification for IDF genocide in Gaza. There is no survivor testimony or direct forensic evidence of any rapes committed on 10/7. Other debunked claims of Palestinians beheading babies, hanging them from a clothesline, killing them in a nursery, and placing in oven have all been proven untrue.
Spain, Norway, and Ireland recognize an independent Palestinian state.
IDF continues 3rd day of Jenin raid, abducting and beating zip-tied residents, destroying roads and buildings, and shooting at Al Jazeera team about to go live. IDF raids also in West Bank villages near Nablus, Jericho, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Qalqilya.
Frst. Sergeant Marom Harush on social media “There's literally one side that is absolute good and one side that is absolute evil. Just as in '48 we.. did what was necessary for our continued existence, like expelling entire villages and establishing Jewish cities on their ruins.. we must do the same now.. What is needed here is another "Nakba." Expulsion Conquest Settlement This is the formula. There is no other solution.”
5/23: IDF airstrikes kill more than 100 Gazans in last 24 hours, with strikes on homes and apartment building in Gaza City killing at least 26 including 10 children, and airstrikes on aid storage warehouse in Deir el-Balah killing 12 including women and children. IDF fighter jets launch airstrikes on Jabalia neighborhoods starting large fires. IDF expands ground invasion into central Rafah and launches airstrikes on market area while drones start large fires.
Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza warns of imminent health “catastrophe” for 100s of dialysis patients if fuel is not supplied immediately, doctors are keeping premature babies warm using their bare hands with cell phones for lights. MSF says al-Adwa hospital forced to close after 4 day IDF siege.
5/24: ICJ orders Israel to “immediately" halt military offensive in Rafah, to allow investigators into Gaza to conduct inquiries, and to open Rafah crossing allowing for unhindered deliveries of humanitarian aid and basic services. IDF responds by immediately launching waves of airstrikes on Rafah residential buildings and refugee tents causing large number of civilian casualties and shelling area around Kuwaiti hospital, the last health facility in Rafah.
Ben Gvir “Our future doesn’t depend on what gentiles say.” Smotrich “Those who demand that the State of Israel stop the war, demand that it decree itself to cease to exist.” US Senator Graham “As far as I'm concerned, the ICJ can go to hell."
Hamas “welcomes the decision of the ICJ.. which demands the criminal zionist entity to immediately stop its aggression on the city of Rafah.. As the zionist occupation continues to commit the most heinous crimes, horrific massacres, and the war of starvation and siege against unarmed civilians throughout the Gaza Strip, we had expected the ICJ to issue a decision to stop the aggression and genocide against our people throughout the entire Gaza Strip, not just in Rafah. What is happening in Jabalia and other governorates of the Strip is no less criminal and dangerous than what is happening in Rafah.”
IDF intensifies airstrikes and siege of Jabalia, while preventing refugees from leaving evacuation centers with no water, food, or medicine available for last 17 days. All humanitarian aid has been blocked from reaching northern Gaza and there are no functioning health facilities remaining. IDF airstrike assassination of Diaa al-Sharafa, Hamas deputy commander of national security. IDF airstrike on residential building in Nuseirat camp kills at least 4, and strikes in Wadi Gaza area kill at least 3. IDF airstrikes on refugee tents in Al-Mawasi evacuation area.
International Rescue Committee and Medical Aid for Palestinians report that Gazans are surviving on just 3 percent of the internationally recognized minimum requirements of water.
B’Tselem “The war must stop. The international community is clearly signaling to Israel that the war in Gaza has crossed every line.. With Israeli government displaying blatant disregard for human life, of Palestinians and of the Israeli hostages, we, the citizens of Israel, must open our eyes. We must listen to the clear call from around the world: the violence, destruction and killing must stop now. If it continues to ignore the catastrophic reality on the ground and shirk its duty to protect human life, Israel will inevitably incur harsher international intervention.. So long as this regime continues to exist, there will be more violence and more victims —Palestinian and Israeli. The only way to ensure safety for us all is to end the apartheid regime.”
5/25: IDF airstrikes kill at least 60 Gazans and injure more than 100 in the last 24 hours, including airstrike in Rafah killing 6 from same family, and airstrikes on women’s center in Nuseirat killing 6. Thousands of refugees forced to flee again from near Jabalia to the west as IDF orders new evacuations and launches constant airstrikes and heavy artillery shelling, including an IDF dronestrike hitting an-Nazla school killing women and 10 children while they were playing, filling up water, and making bread. “The children were playing in the schoolyard, and suddenly we were bombed.” UN special rapporteur Albanese calls for sanctions against Israel for defying ICJ order as IDF continues Rafah assault.
Hamas fighters ambush IDF soldiers in a tunnel near Jabalia and they are all killed, wounded, or captured, IDF denies any soldiers captured despite Hamas video of showing soldiers bodies and looted gear in tunnel.
10s of thousands of Israelis protest and fight police demanding ceasefire, hostage deal, and new government. Police charge at protesters with horses and use water cannons while conducting violent arrests. Israeli settlers sing and dance while blocking humanitarian aid trucks for Gaza at Erez crossing
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association estimate 9,300 Palestinian political prisoners are held in Israeli prisons and 3,424 administrative detainees held without charge or trial.
IDF soldier video message from inside ruins of Gazan home threatening Defense Minister Gallant with a coup, “We, the reservists, don’t intend to give the Gaza keys away to any entity Hamas, Fatah, or any other Arab entity.. You have 100,000 combatants in reserves who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the nation of Israel.. We want to take apart whoever’s left here.. All of them, we want to kill, no one will stay alive. Those who harmed the nation of Israel.. we want to annihilate them. And you Mr. Gallant are incapable of doing it.. Either you switch the record.. or we’ll only follow the Prime Minister.” Yair Lapid Israeli opposition leader denounces “seditious” videos, “This insanity must be stopped. This government needs to be removed from our lives before it destroys everything that is dear and sacred to this country.”
5/26: Al-Qassam launch a dozen long range rockets from Rafah on Tel Aviv and surrounding settlements in largest attack in 4 months, Iron Dome fails to intercept at least 8 rockets which hit causing several injuries and minor damage. PIJ launches rockets at settlements near Gaza Strip. Palestinian resistance continues constant attacks against IDF near Jabalia and Beit Hanoun using RPGs, snipers, and mortar shells. Hezbollah launches more than 60 attacks in northern occupied Palestine.
IDF has launched more than 60 airstrikes on Rafah in last 48 hours after the ICJ order to halt military offensive in Rafah, as well as systematically setting fires to entire residential blocks, and targeting more than 10 UNRWA displacement centers within 24 hours.
IDF has dropped 75,000 tons of explosives on Gaza, mainly on civilians, equivalent to more than 5x Hiroshima nuclear explosion. Almost 90% of the bombs were provided by the US.
IDF airstrike massacre on entire block of refugee tents and UNRWA aid warehouse in Tal as-Sultan western Rafah, in clear war crime and direct violation of ICJ order, killing at least 45 refugees, mostly women and children, including beheaded babies, causing massive fires, most of the bodies recovered were shredded into pieces and charred, many people still missing, and 250 wounded who will likely die because there is no medical care, supplies, pain killers, or antibiotics. IDF strike hit where where thousands of refugees have been sheltering and where IDF had claimed was ‘safe zone’ in latest evacuation orders for those displaced from eastern Rafah.
IDF claims attack targeted senior Hamas terrorists using precise munitions and are investigating ‘claims’ of fire leading to a number of non-involved people getting injured, says they only used 2 17kg precision missiles.
PFLP, “This crime is a message to every individual in this world about their personal responsibility in facing an unprecedented escalation of brutality, criminality, and terrorism that threatens every meaning of human values.. If this does not shake the entire world and drive every person to the streets in protest, anger, and intifada against the zionist entity, then this can only signify a resounding collapse of humanity as a whole.”
IDF airstrike on 5 storey building kills at least 12 in Jabalia, with survivors trying to recover bodies from concrete rubble with their bare hands. IDF airstrike on home north of Gaza City kills at least 5, including a pregnant mother and her toddler daughter Qamar Hani Al Batran.
IDF kills 14yo Majd ‘Arameen at checkpoint near Hebron West Bank, shooting multiple times as he is on the ground and preventing ambulances or residents from treating him.
Israeli police attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem and Meron, throwing them to the ground, punching and kicking them, and conducting violent arrests.
Knesset approves bill designating UNRWA as a terrorist organization.
5/27: IDF continues heavy artillery shelling and airstrikes on homes and refugee tents across Rafah city and Tal as-Sultan ‘safe zone’, killing at least 7 including children in refugee tents, killing 7 in their home in al-Hashaashin, striking Indonesian field hospital, and tanks shelling ambulances trying to evacuate the wounded. Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah forced to shut down after IDF airstrike killing 2 medical staff at front gate and continuing artillery attacks nearby, patients evacuated to al-Mawasi field hospital which is not yet operational. IDF airstrikes kill at least 2 in Bureij central Gaza, and kill at least 2 in Daraj northern Gaza City. IDF airstrikes also in Nuseirat and Khan Younis, and artillery shelling continues in Deir el-Balah and across Gaza City.
Hezbollah launches dozens of rocket and drone attacks against IDF positions in northern Israel and also hits buildings in Kiryat Shmona causing large fires and several injuries among settlers. Islamic Resistance in Iraq launches drone attacks on Eilat near Gulf of Aqaba southern Israel. Houthis continue launching daily attacks against commercial ships and US destroyers.
Rafah crossing shooting incident between Egyptian and Israeli soldiers kills Egyptian soldier with several others injured.
5/28: IDF launches full scale invasion of central and western Rafah with 5 brigades of ground troops, tanks, and drones, and seizes more border area near Philadelphi Corridor. IDF continues heavy airstrikes in Rafah, including strike on refugee tents in Al Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp killing at least 21, 17 women and children, and wounding 64, IDF denies attack. IDF shoots at more ambulances trying to evacuate wounded, while electricity, internet, and telephone access have been cut off in Rafah. Residents of Rafah City being shot in the streets by snipers and quadcopters. “People are currently inside their homes because anyone who moves is being shot at by Israeli drones.”
IDF airstrikes continue throughout northern and central Gaza, killing at least 3 in Khan Younis including 2 children, and many civilians killed or wounded in airstrikes and fighter jet attacks in Gaza City, Jabalia, and Nuseirat camp. IDF airstrike near Kamal Adwan hospital ruins northern Gaza kills 6 including a doctor.
Red Crescent medic Issam Rouhi Mohammed Aqel, who worked at al-Aqsa hospital, killed by IDF airstrike on his home in Bureij refugee camp central Gaza, the 30th Red Crescent medic killed by IDF since 10/7. Journalist Mahmoud Bassam injured by IDF quadcopter gunfire in Tal as-Sultan Rafah. Journalist Bilal Taweel kidnapped from his house in occupied Hebron.
US $320m pier in Gaza being removed after heavy damage due to strong waves, surviving for just more than a week after taking 2 months and 1,000 soldiers to build, and only receiving 1,000 tons (~50 trucks) of food which wasn’t even distributed to refugees. US says will be replaced but no timeline given. Gazans need at least 500 trucks/day.
+972 article on 9 year intimidation and smear campaign against former ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, led by Mossad director Cohen, including stalking and threatening her family, “You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.”
Hamas suspends ceasefire talks after IDF Rafah massacre, saying Israel is just delaying a deal while continuing attacks and ignoring Hamas demands, “There will be no negotiations except with a comprehensive cessation of aggression, withdrawal from Rafah crossing.. The resistance will not accept using negotiations as a means to give the enemy more time to continue its plans against our people.. We had previously agreed to a proposal presented by mediators that met the minimum requirements of our people, and we will not agree to a new proposal."
5/29: IDF invasion of Rafah continues, shooting residents with quadcopter machine guns, setting fires to homes, and destroying buildings with artillery, killing at least 21 civilians, mostly in refugee tents, also 2 Red Crescent paramedics killed by IDF missile while driving trying to recover wounded victims. “We are receiving numerous calls for help from citizens as quadcopters are targeting displaced people.. even in the safe areas.. The difficulty for ambulances to reach those areas is great due to the targeting of the emergency teams.”
1 Million Gazans have been forced to flee Rafah in the last few weeks.
Gazan Health Ministry statement that IDF deliberately destroyed the health services in Gaza and there is no health capacity to deal with the successive massacres, including al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’, and calls for urgent field hospitals and safe corridors to delivery fuel and medical aid.
IDF airstrikes in Nuseirat and Deir el-Balah kill at least 5 and wound dozens.
IDF seizes control of the entire length of Philadelphi Corridor border area between Gaza and Egypt. Former PM Bennett “Israel MUST retain this corridor indefinitely.”
A call from the Palestinian student movement in the Gaza Strip, “We address the global student movement that was launched in order to stop the genocidal war.. Today, we call on you, from the midst of massacres and siege, to a new revolutionary phase of comprehensive escalation, and to raise the pace and ceiling of your struggle and your honorable stances, quantitatively and qualitatively, against the institutions, corporations, and governments that participate in the slaughter of our children, our students, and our people..”
IDF intensifies West Bank raids near Nablus, Tulkarem, Tubas, Hebron, and Bethlehem, conducting arrests and destroying infrastructure, and burning down a vegetable market in Ramallah. Palestinian resistance also escalates attacks against invading IDF to the point of open war. Fighters attack IDF checkpoints with gunfire near Jenin, explosives on vehicles and checkpoint in Tubas, and vehicle attack near Nablus kills 2. “We are at your call, O Gaza.”
Houthis shoot down their 6th US Reaper drone, recovered intact, US intercepts more Houthi missiles and bombs suspected launcher sites.
IDF airstrike in Baniyas coastal Syria on residential building kills toddler girl, her smashed body is seen laying in the street literally fucking ripped in half.
Israeli Security Hanegbi says IDF war on Gaza could last another 7 months, through the end of the year.
5/30: IDF withdrawals from Jabalia camp after 3 weeks of heavy attacks, residents return to find entire area completely destroyed, dozens of bodies recovered mostly women and children, IDF destroyed the school where refugees had been sheltering and bulldozed a cemetery and scattered decomposing corpses and skeletons in the streets. IDF attacks returning residents with airstrikes, artillery, and snipers. “The devastation is colossal. The destruction is massive, beyond description. No words can describe the scale of the damage. The entire area is unlivable, a ghost city. In addition, there is no food or water.”
IDF airstrikes on homes kill at least 19 in Rafah , at least 11 in Bureij camp central Gaza, and 9 in Beit Hanoun, including many women and young children. IDF snipers kill civilians in the streets of Gaza City, as ground forces move to re-invade ruins of Zeitoun neighborhood. IDF airstrike on car in Nuseirat kills 3 men who had run a kitchen providing free meals to Gazan refugees.
Fayez abu Ataya 7mo old dies of starvation, his body reduced to a withered skeleton.
Smotrich threatens West Bank villages, “We will turn your cities into ruins like in the Gaza Strip.”
US-UK bombing of Yemeni capital Sana’a and Hodeidah kills 16 and injures more than 35. Houthis say they have hit a US aircraft carrier in Red Sea with cruise and ballistic missiles, but no damage reported.
5/31: IDF airstrikes across Gaza kill at least 60 and injure 280 in last 24 hours. Jabalia residents continue to uncover extent of wide spread destruction, more than 1,000 homes destroyed, UNRWA reports many children and women refugees were killed or injured by IDF tanks and gunfire in school and tents set on fire, more than 80 bodies and skeletal remains recovered in Jabalia and Beit Lahia.
Biden US-Israel ceasefire proposal, “It’s time for this war to end.” 3 phases, 1) 6 week “full and complete ceasefire”, IDF withdrawal from populated areas of Gaza, release of women, elderly, and wounded Israeli hostages, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian hostages, release of dead captives, Gazans allowed to return to homes including the north, and humanitarian aid surge to 600 trucks/day. 2) exchange of all living Israeli hostages including soldiers and IDF full withdrawal from Gaza. 3) starting Gaza reconstruction.
Hamas says they “look positively on the remarks.. and his call for a permanent ceasefire, withdrawal of occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, reconstruction and prisoner exchange.”
Netanyahu says war will not end until the “return of all our hostages and the elimination of Hamas’s military and governmental capabilities.”
JUNE 2024
6/1: IDF airstrikes and heavy artillery attacks continue across northern and central Gaza, in Zeitoun south of Gaza City, and in Al-Bureij and Al-Dawa north of Nuseirat camp, killing more than 95 and wounding dozens in last 24 hours. Jabalia civil defense and residents continue digging through rubble with their hands and shovels trying to find killed family members.
More reports and photos of children dying from starvation, including 13yo Abdelqader Al-Sarhi, reduced to withered skeletons, as IDF continues blocking all humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Thousands of Israelis gather for protests in Tel Aviv demanding Netanyahu accept hostage release deal. Ben Gvir and Smotrich threaten to leave coalition and dissolve government if Netanyahu accepts ceasefire proposal. Netanyahu insists no permanent ceasefire until Hamas is destroyed.
6/2: IDF airstrike massacres in Al Zawaida, Al Bureij, and Nuseirat refugee camps near central Gaza kill and wound dozens, including children, babies, and elderly. IDF airstrikes in Khan Younis kill at least 10 including 6 women and children. Civil defense crews recovered 70 more bodies from Jabalia ruins, more than 140 bodies recovered in recent days. IDF orders immediate evacuation of American field hospital, all other hospitals in Rafah have been closed due to IDF attacks. IDF announces 46 officers and soldiers killed or injured in Gaza, largest number of casualties in a single day since 10/7. Israeli settlers set fires to crops and countryside in West Bank, at Duma near Nablus, and Al Mughayyir near Ramallah. IDF airstrikes in Aleppo Syria kill at least 17.
6/3: IDF airstrikes continue destroying buildings and residential towers, killing at least 6 in Al-Bureij camp, all women and children, also in Al-Ahlam, Al-Mughairi, Hamad, and Nuseirat refugee camps, as well as numerous airstrikes in Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Rafah, killing and wounding dozens, including many young children. Pipeline bursts in Khan Younis flooding refugee tents with sewage water where many thousands are sheltering.
Netanyahu on hostage deal says Biden was not accurate in his proposal for permeant ceasefire, and that war will continue even after hostage releases until Hamas is eliminated. Far-right Israeli officials threaten to leave coalition dissolving government if Netanyahu accepts deal, though other slightly less far-right opposition parties offer support for new coalition.
Israelis protest and demand Netanyahu accept deal after IDF confirms 4 Israeli prisoners were killed in Khan Younis during IDF airstrikes. IDF attacks have killed 43 Israeli hostages since 10/7.
UNSC US ambassador circulating new resolution supporting Biden's proposal, “Numerous leaders and governments, including in the region, have endorsed this plan, and we call on the Security Council to join them.”
Hamas says “the “israelis" and Americans are dreaming.. Even if the war in Gaza stops, “israel" will not be able to impose a reality other than the one decided by the Palestinians.”
IDF continues raids into West Bank, killing 3 in Nablus, detaining ambulance and arresting critically wounded man, killing 2 at Tulkarem checkpoint, firing on their vehicle and blocking ambulances, also raids in near Qalqilya, Tubas, and Jenin. Israeli settlers continue attacks on Palestinians, destroying homes, setting fires, and stealing 120 sheep near Ramallah.
Massive fires sparked by Hezbollah attacks continue engulfing countryside and structures near Kiryat Shmona settlements and a military base in northern occupied Palestine. Smotrich regarding the fires, “It is time to return Lebanon to the Stone Age.”
Houthis unveil new ballistic missile named “Palestine" in attack on Eilat southern Israel.
6/4: International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, IDF carpet bombs densely populated areas of central Gaza killing at least 75 refugees in the last 24 hours including many young children. IDF launches new ground invasion in Deir el-Balah with airstrikes and artillery shelling in Bureij refugee camp killing at least 20 with dozens wounded, and IDF drone strike on vehicle killing 8 policemen and injuring children. IDF airstrikes on home in Maghazi kills at least 11.
Al-Aqsa hospital, overrun with wounded in central Gaza attacks, has no supplies or fuel and calls for international assistance and opening of border crossings to transfer critically wounded. Al-Aqsa is only hospital nearby providing basic healthcare to more than a million people.
IDF airstrikes and shelling in Rafah City and Tal Al-Sultan kill at least 7.
IDF sniper shoots a mother as she tried to leave hospital shelter in northern Gaza to bring food to her children, resulting in amputation of her leg.
Ahmed Al-Najjar identified as the 18mo baby decapitated by 5/26 IDF tent massacre in Rafah, “He loved playing on the trampoline, soccer and playing with cats." His brother says he hopes he is killed so he can join Ahmed in heaven.
Many Gazans are forced to walk for miles and wait in line for hours each day just to obtain some drinking water contaminated with sewage.
Biden when asked whether he’s seen evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza says “The answer is it’s uncertain.”
UN rights chief Turk says norms and standards on the conduct of war have been violated brutally in Gaza, calling the situation “beyond catastrophic”.
Ben Gvir calls for war in Lebanon “All Hezbollah strongholds must be burned down and destroyed. War!” Hezbollah deputy chief Qassem warns “If Israel wants to fight an all-out war, we are ready for it. Any Israeli expansion of the war on Lebanon will be met with devastation, destruction and displacement.”
6/5: IDF airstrike massacres kill at least 100 starving refugees in last 24 hours, with continuous attacks in Gaza City, Deir el-Balah, al-Maghazi, and Rafah, with many child casualties.
IDF airstrike massacre on Al-Sardi school in Nuseirat, where thousands of refugees are sheltering, kills at least 40, including many women and and at least 14 young children, their bodies recovered in shredded fragments. IDF airstrikes and ground invasion continues in Bureij camp destroying residential buildings while civilians are unable to evacuate. Last water facility in central Gaza shuts down due to lack of fuel. IDF airstrike in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in northern Gaza wounds more than 30 children.
At least 75 bodies and more and 350 wounded received at Al-Aqsa hospital in last 24 hours. MSF says there has been an “insane escalation of violence” and “the situation is apocalyptic.” More than 700 wounded in Al-Aqsa at imminent risk of death. “The shutdown of one of the power generators.. signals an impending humanitarian disaster that could result in the deaths of dozens of wounded patients, sick individuals, and premature infants.” “People are literally on the floor of the hospital.. The number of ambulances, trucks, and carts pulled by animals bringing injured people here is beyond imagination. This is the first time I’ve seen this large a number of wounded people come here at one time. The number is so massive with women, children, and the elderly included.”
Oxfam describes horrible conditions at al Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp, there are only 121 toilets for about 500,000 people, or 1 per 4,130 people. “This area was designated a humanitarian zone, but there is nothing humanitarian about the situation here. The conditions are unbearable, there is no access to clean water.”
Thousands of ultranationalist right-wing Israelis gather for ‘flag day’ march at Damascus gate and Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, dance and chant “death to Arabs.. we will burn your village.. we hate all Arabs", and assault Palestinian journalist, protected by Israeli police. Ben Gvir “Jerusalem is ours. Damascus gate is ours. The Temple Mount is ours.”
Israeli ICJ judge at resigns citing personal and family reasons.
Hezbollah launches more attacks on IDF military bases and positions, killing 4 soldiers and wounding more than 20 in Hurfeish base, using kamikaze drone to destroy Iron Dome site in Ramot Naftali base, and missile attacks on Al-Baghdadi and Al-Aramshe military bases, amongst other attacks in northern occupied Palestine. IDF escalates heavy airstrikes on towns in southern Lebanon. Human Rights Watch reports IDF committing war crimes by unlawfully using white phosphorus directly on at least 5 civilian areas and have used in at least 17 towns in Lebanon since October.
Former Israeli Justice Minister Ramon “Hamas is unshakable and strong in all areas of the Gaza Strip, and we are on the verge of a historic strategic defeat.”
6/6: IDF attacks kill at least 70 Gazans and wound 235 in last 24 hours. IDF continues full ground invasion of Rafah City and Tal al-Sultan, with nonstop airstrikes and shelling, IDF launches more airstrikes on al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp. IDF airstrike massacres continue throughout Gaza, with heavy airstrikes and artillery in Bureij refugee camp, at least 5 killed in Nuseirat airstrikes including mayor Iyad al-Maghari, airstrike on residential tower in Deir al-Balah, airstrike in Maghazi kills at least 4, and airstrike on home in Khan Younis kills 10.
Hamas official “The movement is not willing to discuss any new ideas that do not include ending the Israeli aggression, the withdrawal of the occupation forces from Gaza, and reconstruction.”
IDF daily raids continue in West Bank, killing 3 and wounding 13 Palestinians in Jenin, firing on residents with Apache helicopters, soldiers seen in video killing 2 Palestinian men riding a motorcycle, driving alongside victims and then driving off without checking them, then later firing on ambulances that came to retrieve the bodies. Numerous reports of random Palestinians wounded by indiscriminate shooting attacks in Jenin. IDF demolish buildings in Qalqilya. Israeli settler militias set fire to homes and crops near Nablus.
Spain joins South Africa’s ICJ genocide case against Israel, 13 other countries have also joined the lawsuit including Egypt, Turkey, Ireland, Belgium, Columbia, and Chile.
6/7: IDF airstrikes continue in Nuseirat, Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps in central Gaza. In Rafah, dozens of corpses seen scattered in the streets, and Kuwaiti hospital caught fire after being shelled. IDF airstrike on home in Gaza City kills 5 and injures 14, including women and children. IDF airstrike damages WFP warehouse in Deir el-Balah when missile hit adjoining flour mill. IDF airstrike on home in Bureij camp kills 6 and injures many others. IDF airstrike in Zeitoun neighborhood, kills 4 and injures 10 others.
Mass grave of about 20 bodies uncovered in Jabalia after IDF withdrawal a couple days ago, decomposed bodies discovered under piles of rubble and sand after dogs started picking at the remains.
NYT article on prisoner torture at Sde Teiman desert concentration camp, detailing reports of brutal inhumane treatment of prisoners. Multiple reports of IDF using electric metal rod to anally rape the tortured Palestinian prisoners kidnapped from Gaza.
IDF releases more names of alleged ‘terrorist operatives’ killed in Nuseirat UN school massacre on 6/5. IDF claims 30 terrorists were gathering in 2 rooms of the school, and 2 precision missiles were used to strike the refugee shelter, despite the presence of many women and children, though names released of alleged Palestinian fighters are inconsistent. They include an 8yo boy, someone who has been outside Gaza for 18 years, another died the day before the strike, and an elderly man who died naturally several years ago.
UN adds Israel to ‘list of shame’, annual ‘blacklist’ of countries who commit grave violations against children during armed conflict. Israel fought for years to be kept off list despite countless incidents of abuse and killings of Palestinian children, including killing and maiming, sexual violence, and attacks on schools and hospitals. UN human rights lawyer who recently resigned says UN kept Israel off list for years due to pressure campaign by Israel and allies. Israeli Ambassador Erdan, when called with the news, says “The only one who is blacklisted today is the Secretary General.”
Israeli threatens to cut ties with Spain following their recognition of Palestine. Spain’s President “Our country's consulate in Jerusalem has existed long before an Israeli state was created."
Doctors in Gaza report on the staggering impacts of IDF genocide. More than 3,000 Palestinian children have lost limbs. 3,500 children at risk of death due to malnutrition and lack of food. 11,000 injured need to travel for treatment abroad. More than 1.4 million people suffering with infectious diseases and more than 70,000 cases of viral hepatitis infection as a result of being displaced. 60,000 pregnant women are at risk due to lack of access to healthcare. 350,000 chronic patients are at risk due to preventing medications from entering Gaza.
UNICEF reports 90% of children in Gaza are experiencing severe food poverty.
US temporary Gaza pier re-established.
6/8: Nuseirat Massacre, IDF kills at least 274 Palestinians, including 57 women and 64 children and babies, and wounds 700 during daylight raid which rescues 4 Israeli prisoners, while killing 3 other prisoners including US citizen.
IDF entered the densely populated area hidden in a truck carrying furniture and mattresses, then breaching 2 apartment buildings, “They arrived in an undercover truck, pretending to be moving furniture as if they were displaced individuals.” “Suddenly the operative got out two ladders and came into our home fully armed. Chaos erupted with gunfire and explosions.”
IDF launches heavy indiscriminate airstrikes and helicopter gunfire, amid clashes with Palestinian resistance, as IDF exits with rescued prisoners, striking central Nuseirat market and al-Awda Mosque areas which were filled with crowds of civilian refugees.
Soldiers execute anyone moving in the streets of Nuseirat and along road used to evacuate to helicopter extraction at US pier. The streets are filled with dozens of scattered bodies, many in shredded pieces, as hundreds of wounded are taken to Al-Aqsa hospital. An unknown number of victims are still missing under the rubble.
Al-Aqsa hospital turned into a “slaughterhouse” and overwhelmed by “back-to-back mass casualties as densely populated areas are bombed” with patients, including children, “lying everywhere in pools of blood.” “How many more men, women and children have to be killed before world leaders decide to put an end to this massacre?”
IDF have rescued only 7 prisoners in military raids, while killing at least 70 over last 8 months of destroying all of Gaza and the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. More than 100 prisoners were released during previous ceasefire, and about 120 Israeli prisoners remain in Gaza.
UN Albanese “Israel has used hostages to legitimize killing, injuring, maiming, starving and traumatizing Palestinians in Gaza.. Israel could have freed all hostages alive 8 months ago when the first ceasefire and hostage exchange was put on the table. Yet, Israel refused in order to continue to destroy Gaza and the Palestinians as a people. This is genocidal intent turned into action. Crystal clear.”
IDF launches continuous airstrikes throughout central Gaza in Deir el-Balah, Darraj, and eastern Bureij, and heavy shelling and ground forces in Zeitoun and Sabra in Gaza City. IDF continues invasion and airstrikes across southern Gaza, in Rafah City, Tal as-Sultan, and Shaboura.
6/9: Palestinians in Nuseirat continue to excavate bodies from under the rubble with their bare hands and without tools. Numerous witnesses assert that soldiers indiscriminately shot and killed anyone they encountered during the assault. More recent video of decomposed corpses killed by IDF in the streets of Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood Rafah. Efforts to retrieve the bodies are thwarted as ambulances trying to enter the area are targeted by IDF drones and aircraft. IDF detonate residential blocks in eastern Deir Al-Balah central Gaza.
Benny Gantz resigns from emergency ‘unity’ government and calls for elections as soon as possible. Netanyahu still holding power with enough votes from far right parties to maintain coalition. Several other officials and war council ministers also resign after Ganz.
Bassem Tamimi, released after 6 months in IDF prison, seen in emaciated weakened condition due to harsh treatment and torture in prison, father of well-known young female activist Ahed Tamimi.
6/10: IDF airstrike on residential apartment in Gaza City kills at least 8, mostly children. IDF airstrikes on home in the az-Zawayda Deir el-Balah central Gaza kills 3, airstrikes in Khan Younis kill at least 10, and airstrike in southern Rafah kill 5, a mother and her 4 children, and wound more than 30.
UNRWA “The destruction in Gaza is indescribable.. Clearing the rubble will take years. Healing from the psychological trauma of this war will take even longer.. This suffering must come to an end.”
IDF raids in West Bank, in Kafr Danin near Jenin soldiers in civilian clothes and helicopter attack on a home kills 6, victims left to bleed to death as IDF stops ambulance from reaching, and in Kafr Nima, near Ramallah firing on a vehicle killing 4 Palestinians. IDF arrest at least 30 in latest raids, in Bethlehem, Qalqilya, Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, Salfit, Jerusalem, and Tubas, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society. Among those arrested were a woman and several minors who had previously been imprisoned.
Hezbollah air defense systems shoot down an IDF Hermes 900 UAV in southern Lebanon. IDF airstrike on convoy of tankers in Hermel northern Lebanon kills 3 Hezbollah members IDF airstrikes on Hezbollah military compound in Baalbek area northern Lebanon,
UN Security Council has adopted a resolution endorsing a US-backed ceasefire proposal, US vetoed prior 3 ceasefire resolutions. Netanyahu rules out permanent truce while Hamas wants clear guarantees of an end to the war. Proposal explicitly states ceasefire will continue after six weeks, and be renewed as long as negotiations continue, “but it’s still not a categorical, permanent ceasefire”. White House officials have discussed striking unilateral deal with Hamas to release 5 American captives in Gaza if Israel does not reach an exchange deal.
Israeli Knesset approves law extending exemption of large segment of Haredim ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service.
6/11: IDF airstrike west of Gaza City kills 8. Dozens of casualties reported following IDF airstrike on group of civilians near Tayaraan Intersection Gaza City, and airstrike on residential apartment where Gazans gathered to receive food aid in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood. IDF artillery shelling of Al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp. IDF airstrike on refugee tents in coastal Bahr al-Zawayda central Gaza.
IDF full invasion of Rafah continues amid fierce clashes with Palestinian resistance, though very little information available about what is happening on the ground, and no ambulances or civil defense teams have been able to rescue people trapped under the houses. IDF soldiers have been moving towards western parts of Rafah where shelling and shooting attacks and on sheltering refugees has been escalating. UNRWA estimates fewer than 100,000 Gazans still in Rafah.
Hamas ambush on IDF soldiers kills 4 with many wounded using explosion to collapse a building on troops in Shaboura neighborhood of Rafah.
Hamas response to ceasefire proposal received by mediators and US, viewing the deal positively, while standing by position of permeant ceasefire and requiring IDF full withdrawal from Gaza Strip.
US pier resumes humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza after 10 days since damaged. Gaza Media Office says “this pier is useless.. humanitarian aid worth 120 trucks have been channeled through the pier since it was built.” More than 2,000 trucks are spoiling at the border
IDF raids continue in West Bank, Ramallah, Qalqilya, Nablus, Bethlehem, Hebron, and occupied East Jerusalem, with at least 15 arrested.
IDF airstrikes in southern Lebanon, in Aita al-Shaab, Aitaroun and near towns of Kafra and Hari. Hezbollah launches over 170 rockets from southern Lebanon towards Israeli settlements and military bases in the northern areas of Israeli-occupied Palestine in response to the ongoing IDF attacks.
Jordan summit, emergency international conference, to accelerate process of delivering humanitarian assistance, and strengthen the international community’s response to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. UN chief Antonio Guterres “Nowhere is safe, conditions are deplorable, public health situation is beyond crisis level. Gaza’s hospitals lie in ruins, medical supplies and fuel are scarce or non-existent. More than one million Palestinians in Gaza do not have enough drinking water and face desperate levels of hunger. Over 50,000 children require treatment for acute malnutrition.”
UN Children in Armed Conflict annual report, adds Israel to “parties that commit grave violations affecting children in situations of armed conflict.” Grave violations against children in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories have increased by 155%. More grave violations against children were committed in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel than anywhere else in the world last year. UN verified 8,009 grave violations against 4,360 children in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, more than twice the figures for the DRC, the next worst place for violence against children, including 4,247 Palestinian and 113 Israeli victims.
6/12: Day 250. IDF escalating attacks across Rafah, looting and setting fires to homes, and demolishing residential blocks. IDF attacks on al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp force refugees to flee to Khan Younis and central Gaza. IDF airstrikes on homes in Gaza City kills at least 14 in Zeitoun, and at least 7 in Shujayea. IDF airstrikes in al-Mughraqa central Gaza kills 5.
Videos show IDF field executions of unarmed civilians on beach attempting to cross between northern and southern Gaza along Al-Rashid Street.
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found nearly 80% of Gazans polled say that at least one of their family members has been killed or injured in the current Israeli war.
Israel gov tweets ad claiming “There are no innocent civilians there” in Gaza.
UN Human Rights Council report accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza including extermination, using starvation as a method of war, intentional attacks on civilians, collective punishment, torture, sexual violence, and arbitrary detentions.
Famine in northern Gaza has reached catastrophic point, food has run out, 100s of children are at risk of death as a result of catastrophic famine. WHO says there are more than 8,000 children under 5 years old who had been diagnosed and treated for acute malnutrition, including 1,600 children with severe acute malnutrition. 8yo Hanan Al-Zaanin dies of starvation, seen in video as emaciated withered skeleton before her death.
Gaza’s Health Ministry reports more than 10,000 cancer patients “are at a risk of dying and require urgent treatment”, also 71,338 have viral hepatitis infections, 60,000 pregnant women are in danger of losing their babies because of a lack of healthcare, and 350,000 chronic patients are at risk due to lack of medication.
US continues to lie about failed ceasefire negotiation, trying to blame Hamas. Blinken says Hamas’s response to UN-backed ceasefire plan included new amendments, saying some of their requested amendments are workable, but some are not, and claims Israel has accepted the plan even though senior Israeli leaders, including Netanyahu, have repeatedly said Israel will not stop the war before defeating Hamas. Hamas denies adding new amendments but is seeking guarantees from the US that Israel will live up to its commitments under the proposal, including withdrawing from Gaza and negotiating a permanent ceasefire.
6/13: IDF helicopters, drones and jets attack Rafah and fight with Palestinian resistance in running street battles. “There was very intense fire from warplanes, Apaches and quadcopters in addition to Israeli artillery and military battleships, all of which were striking the area west of Rafah.”
IDF airstrike on home in Gaza City kills 8, airstrike on home in northern Gaza City kills 3 women, and airstrike in Bureij camp central Gaza kills a child and wounds at least 10. IDF fighter jet airstrike in Nuseirat camp central Gaza kills 5 and injures at least 17 others.
IDF raid in Jenin continues for over 10 hours, bulldozers destroy streets, sewage lines, buildings, and cars. IDF raid in Qabatiya south of Jenin kills 3 Palestinians as soldiers besiege a home and attack with shoulder-fired missiles, a bulldozer seen dumping body of killed Palestinian youth.
Ben Gvir from Jerusalem day speech “For victory we need to enter all of Gaza and fight until victory. For victory we need to encourage emigration from Gaza. For Victory we need to enter the north and fight Hezbollah and annihilate them. We must not agree to dangerous deals.. Jerusalem is ours forever and ever.”
Hezbollah launches more than 300 missiles and drones against Israeli targets in last 2 days following assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Taleb Sami Abdallah. After months of destroying IDF air defense and surveillance systems, many of the missiles are not intercepted, starting large fires and damaging military bases and settlements. IDF continues airstrikes across in southern Lebanon including attack on 3 storey residential building which kills 2 women and wounds 19. IDF uses medieval-style trebuchet catapult to launch fire balls into southern Lebanon to spread fires.
6/14: IDF airstrikes kill at least 20, including a baby, and 50 others wounded in Tuffah and al-Shujayea neighborhoods eastern Gaza City. IDF airstrikes on residential building in northern Gaza kill at least 7 and seriously injure MSF nurse and her daughter, and airstrikes in Deir el-Balah kill at least 2. IDF shelling kills 2 in ash-Shawka east of Rafah, IDF airstrike kills 3 in Saudi neighborhood west of Rafah city, and IDF shoots a Palestinian mother and her child west of Rafah City. IDF kills Palestinian fishermen in Gaza and denies them medical care.
Benny Gantz criticizes Netanyahu for rejecting hostage release plan and ceasefire offers and for prolonging war solely for his personal political gain.
A Palestinian boy shows US made munition used by IDF tanks, “Do you pay your taxes to kill us?"
A Palestinian girl grieves for her family members “I wish I had died with them."
Hamas says 2 Israeli captives were killed in an IDF raid in Rafah several days ago, “Your government only wants to recover the hostages in coffins.”
US pier in Gaza dismantled again due to bad weather.
Mustafa Hijazi 12yo Palestinian boy dies of starvation. Kamal Adwan hospital’s director says there are more than 200 Palestinian children currently at risk of death due to malnutrition. Resident in northern Gaza describes the ongoing famine caused by Israel “We are being starved, the world has forgotten about us.. Except for flour and bread, we have nothing else. We don’t have anything to eat it with, so we eat bread only.”
6/15: Eid al-Adha, end of Hajj, Palestinians are prevented from making pilgrimage. IDF continues burning homes and demolishing buildings in Rafah, destroying personal property of Palestinians for fun, and looting money and valuables. IDF destroys residential blocks in Nuseirat camp.
Hamas fighters kill 8 IDF soldiers in Tal as-Sultan western Rafah, using RPG to explode bulldozer then ambushing APC of rescue soldiers. “Our painful strikes on the enemy will continue wherever they are, and the occupation army will find nothing but ambushes of death in any part of our land.” 2 other IDF soldiers killed in northern Gaza when their tank was exploded by resistance. IDF says only 307 soldiers have been killed since 10/7.
UN warns there is “critically low” access to water in Gaza and “catastrophic hunger” is affecting a significant portion of the population. Dr Ahmad “There is going to be a portion of the population that is going to die because of the lack of food.. people who are malnourished, who are dealing with dehydration, if they have a common cold or if they have some sort of stomach virus, they will die as a result of this because of the conditions on the ground.. People are starving to death.”
Israelis gather for mass protests in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu and demanding ceasefire, blocking roads, attacked with horses and water cannons, some brutally arrested. Protesters arrested outside Netanyahu’s house.
US Navy says it has spent $1 billion bombing Yemen and fighting Houthis to support Israel's Gaza War, conducting more than 450 strikes and intercepting 200 drones and missiles. Houthis have hit at least 77 cargo ships. “Their supply of weapons from Iran is cheap and highly sustainable, but ours is expensive and our logistics tails are long. We are playing whack-a-mole, and they are playing a long game.”
6/16: IDF airstrike on home in Bureij camp kills at least 9, including 6 children, airstrikes on homes in Gaza City kill at least 5 and injure 13, and airstrike in Tel al-Sultan kills 2 and ambulances trying to reach the victims are attacked. IDF airstrikes in Al-Maghazi and Beit Hanoun, and artillery shelling in Al-Zeitoun near Gaza City and eastern Khan Younis and Rafah.
IDF announces daytime ‘tactical pause’ along 1 road in southern Gaza, to allow aid trucks through Karem crossing. Netanyahu and many politicians oppose pauses, and 70% of Israelis want to stop all aid. Smotrich says humanitarian pauses are wrongly prioritizing international legitimacy over victory.
IDF raids in West Bank, in Qalqilya, Jenin, Jericho, Hebron, and Nablus. IDF abducts 7yo Bahaa Kazem and Israeli settlers set fire to olive trees and attack resident’s vehicles near Ramallah.
Moshe Feiglin, far-right Israeli politician, on Israeli news show, “And like Hitler, may god curse his name, said: ‘I cannot live in this world even if only one Jew is left in it’, we will not be able to live in this land if one Islamo-Nazi is left in Gaza, and we do not go back to Gaza and turn it into a Hebrew Gaza. ” An Israeli TV anchor “How many of you will we slaughter? You will not see this killing in all Arab history. We will kill as much as we want from you and those who support you.”
IDF Hagari “Hezbollah’s increasing aggression is bringing us to the brink of what could be a wider escalation, one that could have devastating consequences for Lebanon and the entire region. Israel will take the necessary measures to protect its civilians until security along our border with Lebanon is restored.” Retired Israeli General Yitzhak Brick says Netanyahu is prolonging war for his own political gain and “any decision by Netanyahu to attack Lebanon would bring catastrophe to the state.”
6/17: IDF continues heavy airstrikes and systematically demolishing homes in Rafah City, with heavy fighting and attacks by Palestinian resistance. IDF claims operational control of 60% of Rafah City, with 22 soldiers killed and 300 injured, and claims to have killed 550 Palestinian fighters since operation began last month. IDF burns Rafah Crossing departure hall.
IDF airstrike assassination of 10 civilian workers waiting to receive and secure humanitarian aid trucks near main eastern road of Gaza, just 1 day after IDF announced daytime ‘pause’.
IDF airstrike on market in Rafah kills 9, airstrikes on homes in Nuseirat kill at least 19, and airstrikes and quadcopter shootings continue in central Gaza Bureij camp, Maghazi, and Deir el-Balah. IDF airstrike kills journalist Mahmoud Qassem.
Netanyahu dissolves war cabinet, after Gantz and Eisonkot resignations, rather than letting Gvir and Smotrich join, “he will make all the decisions himself, or with people he trusts who don’t challenge him, and his interest is in having a slow-attrition war.”
Israeli top intelligence knew Hamas planned taking 250 hostages weeks before 10/7. Shin Bet document “Detailed End-to-End Raid Training” includes detailed survailence of Hamas training and plans to breach fence and attack IDF bases and kibbutzim, including Hamas protocol for handling soldier and civilian prisoners.
6/18: IDF continues demolishing Rafah City. IDF airstrike on home in Gaza City kills at least 6, including women and children. IDF airstrike on refugee tents in al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp kills at least 7 and injures dozens. IDF murders unarmed old man sitting in a chair at his vending cart in Daraj Gaza City. Video of IDF murdering 3 unarmed civilians with dronestrikes in Rafah. A Palestinian boy cries “My mom is gone!”
Red Crescent “90% of children in Gaza suffer from severe malnutrition.” “We have recorded over a million cases of infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip, particularly hepatitis, and we are concerned about the spread of cholera due to contaminated water.”
Iyad al-Rantisi, 53yo head of Kamal Adwan hospital maternity department, killed at Shin Bet interrogation facility 6 days after arrested in Gaza last November. Gaza officials demands “release of 310 medical personnel who are being subjected to torture.”
IDF daily raids and arrests continue throughout West Bank including 5 arrests in Ramallah, a 16yo arrested in Hebron, dozens arrested and interrogated in school in Qursah near Nablus, and 4 shot and 9 arrested and in Qalqilya. Israeli settlers attack Palestinian residents in Deir Dibwan near Ramallah, and set up illegal outpost on private land near Hebron.
Hezbollah releases drone survailence video of military and infrastructure targets in northern occupied Palestine, including Haifa 20km from border, without activating air defense systems. IDF says battle plans for Lebanon offensive have been “approved.”
More than 70,000 disabled IDF soldiers treated by Rehabilitation Division, with 8,663 new soldiers since 10/7.
Yair Lapid, opposition leader, calls for Netanyahu to be overthrown, “This government should be overthrown, I think it can be overthrown.. Now that Gantz has finally left the government, we have the means. The opposition will work together, we will unite it without ego to bring down the government.”
6/19: IDF continues Rafah demolition, with fighter jets, drones, and tanks attacking neighborhoods in western Rafah City, where many thousands of refugees are trapped. IDF airstrike on group of civilians waiting for humanitarian aid trucks kills at least 11 and wounds 30 near Karem crossing eastern Rafah. IDF airstrike in Nuseirat kills 2 women and injures 12, including women and children. IDF heavy shelling and gunfire targeting refugee tents in al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp. IDF airstrikes in Sabra and Zeitoun neighborhoods Gaza City.
UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry found IDF intentionally and directly uses heavy weapons to attack civilians. Chris Sidoti “The Israeli army is one of the most criminal armies in the world.”
6/20: IDF airstrikes and heavy fighting with Resistance continue across Rafah, Khan Younis, Deir el-Balah, Gaza City, and northern Gaza. IDF airstrike on home kills 8 people in Zeitoun neighborhood, an airstrike kills 2 and wounds 12 including women and children in Nuseirat camp, an airstrike kills 1 and injures other in Deir el-Balah, and heavy shelling continues in Maghazi and Bureij refugee camps. Civil defense workers recovered bodies of 3 children and their mother from rubble of home bombed days ago in Nuseirat camp. IDF airstrike kills Al-Aqsa TV journalist Salim al-Sharafa.
Witness reports and video of Palestinians released from IDF prisons demonstrate systemic use of torture and abuse of prisoners. Released survivors describe being subjected to continuous torture, physical and sexual abuse and humiliation, including severe beatings and being attacked by dogs. 54 Palestinian prisoners have died due to torture and harsh conditions in prisons since 10/7. Currently 9,000 Palestinian prisoners held by IDF, including 300 women, 635 children and 80 journalists.
US official and mediators say there may only be as few as 50 captives still alive in Gaza. 109 were released in exchange deals, and 7 have been rescued in military raids, out of roughly 250 total prisoners taken 10/7.
Israeli Channel 12 reports on leaks from IDF 10/7 investigation expected in July, probe identified operational failures in responding to the attacks and numerous cases of IDF killing Israeli civilians.
Red Crescent delivers 11 tons of meat from West Bank to Gaza.
IDF kills 15yo Naeem Abdullah in Qalqilya West Bank.
6/21: IDF massacre in Al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp, tanks shelling refugee tents near Red Cross building kills at least 25 civilians and wounds 50, “Women and children are burned, and body parts are everywhere.” IDF airstrikes on Gaza City kill at least 43, including mostly women and children, airstrikes on residential buildings, airstrikes in Al-Shati camp kills 10, and airstrike on municipality building kills 5 employees.
AJ Fault Lines ‘The Night Won’t End’ video documenting numerous horrific cases of IDF war crimes in Gaza, including intentional killing, executing, and torturing civilians.
Undercover IDF unit in civilian car executes 3 Palestinian resistance fighters after attacking their car in Qalqilya West Bank and prevents ambulances from arriving.
Ilan Pappe ‘The Collapse of Zionism’ article describes economic crisis, growing isolation, military weakness, and other factors leading to collapse of Israel which depends “on their ability to violently impose their will on millions of indigenous people, who have never given up their struggle for self-determination and freedom.”
6/22: IDF airstrikes continue in Gaza City after earlier massacres killed more than 40, airstrike on home in Al-Sabra neighborhood kills at least 8, airstrike on home kills 2 children and their father near Beach Square, airstrike on residential building near al-Jawhara Tower kills at least 3 and wounds others, and quadcopter bombs kill 5 civilians in Al-Zaytoun.
More reports of horrific torture reported by detainees releases from IDF prisons, including electric shocks, suspension, stretching and uprooting nails, and being raped by dogs. Dr. Al Barsh “These sadistic behaviors have been reported by several detainees treated in hospitals.”
A baby girl dies of starvation at Kamal Adwan hospital northern Gaza. More than 60 Palestinians suffering from food poisoning from eating expired aid packages in Gaza.
IDF ties critically wounded Palestinian man to jeep as a human shield and drives through Jenin, avoiding ambulances prevented from helping, before finally transferring to Red Crescent for treatment. IDF says it was a violation of standard operating procedures, Human Rights organizations say it is well documented behavior. IDF raid near Bethlehem wounds dozens of residents confronting soldiers. IDF abducts 3 boys from their houses near Hebron.
Hezbollah video ‘To Whom It May Concern’ shows military and infrastructure targets, ports, airport, and Dimona nuclear reactor. “The Resistance will fight without restraints, without rules, without limits.”
150,000 Israeli protest government in Tel Aviv, demanding return of captives and new elections, likely biggest demonstration since 10/7.
6/23: IDF airstrike on UNRWA aid center in Gaza City kills at least 8 refugees, including children, 193 UNRWA workers have been killed by IDF attacks in Gaza. IDF shelling of Daraj health clinic in Gaza City kills 2 medics including Emergency Director Hani al-Jafrawi. IDF airstrike in Sabra neighborhood Gaza City kills at least 7 and wounds dozens, and airstrike in Bureij camp central Gaza kills a Palestinian woman and injures others.
2 more babies die of starvation in Beit Lahiya, UNRWA says 50,000 children in Gaza require immediate medical care for acute malnutrition, as Israel continues blocking humanitarian aid.
Save the Children reports 21,000 children reported missing since 10/7, 19,000 orphaned, 17,000 children unaccompanied or separated from their families, and least 4,000 believed to be trapped under rubble.
IDF raids in West Bank, arresting at least 40 men and boys near Ramallah, arresting 12yo boy Muhammad Al Za’aqiq near Hebron, and arresting legislator Azzam Salhab from his home in Hebron, who had been released from detention a few days ago.
Netanyahu interview on far right Channel 14 confirms he did not accept Biden’s ceasefire proposal, “I am only willing to reach a partial agreement with Hamas to recover some of the detainees, and this is no secret, but we will resume the war after the ceasefire to achieve its objectives.” Hamas demands “clear affirmation of a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.”
US Foreign Affairs Magazine article “There is no military-only solution to defeat Hamas,” which “is neither defeated nor on the verge of defeat,” and “is stronger today than it was on October 7.”
6/24: IDF airstrike on group of starving refugees kills 10 who were waiting for food aid trucks and security personnel at Bani Suheila circle Khan Younis. IDF airstrikes on 2 UN run schools housing refugees kill at least 14 in Gaza City, including many young children burned to death, at Abdel Fattah Hamoud school in Daraj and Asmaa school in Shati camp. IDF airstrike on home kills 10 relatives of Ismail Haniyeh including his sister in Shati camp. IDF airstrike on home in Maghazi kills 5, including 3 children. Refugees trapped in Rafah describe IDF quadcopter drones killing anyone walking in the streets.
Yair Lapid opposition leader criticizes Netanyahu “Netanyahu is a threat to Israel's security and is not qualified to serve as Prime Minister.”
Smotrich announces his intention to issue legislation imposing “Israeli sovereignty” over the occupied West Bank.
6/25: IDF airstrike in Beit Lahiya kills more than 15 with many wounded. IDF airstrikes on refugee tent in Al-Mawasi and home in Khan Younis kills and wounds 6. IDF dronestrike kills MSF doctor Fadi Al-Wadiya on his bike near health clinic, along with 5 others including 3 children, IDF says he’s a terrorist but provides no evidence. IDF sniper murders unarmed young man selling coffee in Gaza City. IDF continues demolitions and setting homes on fire in Rafah, and dronestrike near school kills at least 4 civilians north of Rafah City. Leaked video of IDF sending dog to attack 66yo women while she was sleeping in her house in Jabalia camp, “They unleashed their dogs on me because I refused to leave my house.” Another young child Azam Al-Shaer dies of starvation.
6/26: IDF airstrikes continue killing dozens across Gaza. IDF airstrike on Jabalia kills 8, and airstrike on home in Nuseirat kills 7. IDF launces 6 airstrikes on displaced families sheltering at Al-Khansaa school in Abasan near Khan Younis. IDF airstrikes and tank shelling on Al Shejaiya eastern Gaza City kills at least 13 and forces hundreds of families to flee, and airstrikes destroy entire residential bock of homes in Sabra Gaza City killing at least 3 with many missing under rubble. IDF gunboats fire on refugees at Al Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp in Rafah.
IDF continues invasion of Jenin, resistance fighters ambush soldiers with explosive IEDs and gunfire, killing a commander and wounding 17. IDF storms Al Ahmad Jenin hospital and deploys snipers on residential buildings. IDF demolishes homes in South Hebron Hills West Bank.
Israeli Al Jazeera ban extended permanently.
6/27: IDF airstrike and gunfire attacks on refugee tents in Al Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp kills at least 11 and wounds more than 40. IDF continues invasion and airstrikes on al-Shujayia and Al-Tuffah neighborhoods east of Gaza City, killing at least 9 and wounding more than 30, as helicopters and tanks fire on thousands of fleeing refugees. IDF airstrike in Al-Zaytoun kills 3, a woman and her 2 children, and airstrike in Al-Nuseirat on Civil Defense building kills 3 rescue workers. IDF airstrikes in Khan Younis kills 4 and wounds 5 others, and airstrike on home in Deir Al-Balah kills a baby girl Hajar.
Israel allows a few cancer patients to travel to Egypt, but not allowing mothers to go with sick children. Thousands of Palestinians in need of urgent medical care abroad are blocked from leaving by Israel.
Israel cabinet approves proposed legislation expanding settlements in West Bank, and imposes Israeli law in areas nears Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
6/28: IDF raids Shakoush and Al Mawasi ‘safe zone’ and near Rafah, attacking with tanks, gunfire, and setting fires to refugee tents, killing or injuring dozens of refugees and forcing thousands to flee. IDF escalates attacks on al-Shujayia, killing at least 14 civilians and forcibly displacing more than 60,000 residents and causing dozens of casualties, Palestinian resistance ambush invading soldiers, killing at least 4 and wounding 5 using IED made from unexploded F-16 bomb.
IDF airstrike in Gaza City kills 4 including 2 children and wounds more than 10, airstrikes in Rafah kill 7, airstrikes in Al Nuseirat kill at least 3, and airstrike on home in Bureij camp kills at least 4 children.
IDF destroys remaining Palestinian farm lands near Rafah, about 500 acres, only remaining source of food since IDF blocked all aid into Gaza. 9yo child Mohammed Kloub dies of starvation and lack of medical treatment.
Spain joins South African ICJ lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.
6/29: IDF airstrikes across Gaza kill at least 40 Palestinians and wound 224 in last 24 hours. IDF airstrike on water distribution point in Gaza City kills family of 4 including a child, airstrike in Rafah kills at least 6 including children, and airstrikes and shelling in Khan Younis, al-Sabra, al-Daraj and Jabalia.
UNRWA “Trash is piling up everywhere, people are living under plastic sheeting where temperatures soar.. Families in Gaza live next to mountains of garbage and sewage.” Over 300,000 tons of waste piling up and sewage flooding the streets, Gazans facing severe health risks and outbreak of diseases especially with intense summer temperatures. Video shows Gazan children sift through rubble of destroyed aid center with their hands for scraps of food.
IDF continues 4th day of assault on al-Shujayia, now completely destroyed, saying operation could last weeks, amidst heavy fighting from Palestinian resistance. Many families unable to escape due to quadcopters shooting people leaving their houses, and civil defense teams unable to recover large number of casualties scattered in the streets. Euro-med monitor reports IDF is “committing widespread massacres.. Our field team is receiving reports of dozens, possibly hundreds, of victims being executed on the spot or having their shelters bombed.”
IDF raids in West Bank, in Hebron, Tulkarem, Nablus, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem, arresting more than 20 Palestinians, beating detainees, and damaging homes. IDF missile strikes on home in Nour Shams camp assassinates Tulkarem brigade leader Saeed Al-Jaber, cousin of Abu Shoja.
6/30: IDF ground invasion in al-Shujayia continues, with constant airstrikes and demolishing residential areas, where many people have been trapped for days with no food or water. IDF orders immediate evacuation of eastern Khan Younis, forcing more than 250,000 residents to flee while there is no safe area to go. European hospital forced to evacuate more than 400 patients, was last hospital operating in Gaza. IDF airstrike targeting group of civilians near Abdel Aal junction near Gaza City kills 5 and wounds 10 others. IDF airstrike kills journalist Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Sharia.
Al Jazeera video shows IDF using Palestinians as human shields, forced to enter tunnels and buildings, hands tied and strapped with cameras.
Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya Al Shifa Director released without charges, after 7 months, with 54 other released detainees abducted from Gaza. Salmiya says prisoners face daily abuse including torture and are deprived of food and medicine, and that many inmates were killed in interrogation centers. “They are torturing Palestinian detainees day and night.” Israeli politicians complain about release and order inquiry.
IDF escalates raids in Nur Shams and Tulkarem, blowing up a home, and killing woman and 15yo boy.
Hezbollah dronestrike wounds 18 IDF soldiers in occupied Golan Heights. IDF retaliates bombing more villages in southern Lebanon.
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis protest IDF conscription, after Supreme Court ruling last week removing exemptions, many beaten by police and attacked with horses and water cannons. Defense Minister urgently calling for 10,000 recruits for war plans in Lebanon.
PIJ fires more than 20 rockets from Gaza into Israel, no reported casualties.
July 2024
7/1: IDF airstrikes and artillery shelling in Khan Younis kill at least 10 as many thousands of residents are trying to evacuate to al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp which has also been bombed repeatedly. IDF airstrike massacre in Al-Zaytoun near al-Sham'a Mosque kills more than 20 including many children. IDF airstrike massacre in Nuseirat camp kills 17 civilians and massacre in Deir al-Balah kills 12 including 4 children. IDF continues invasion and demolitions in Shujayia amidst attacks by Palestinian resistance which have killed or wounded dozens of IDF soldiers. Airstrikes and shelling continue in ruins of Rafah. Palestinian resistance ambush IDF at ‘Netzarim’ axis, firing over 200 mortars killing several IDF officers. Father of 6yo Hind Rajab, killed by IDF tank in January, has also been killed.
IDF General Yitzhak Brik “They are deceiving the public and don’t tell the truth that we are not winning! We don’t come face to face with Hamas.. all the claims that the army ‘killed 100 here and 200 there’ are false! They are underground. They come out, launch rockets, and detonate houses we are in with explosives and we are being killed, and there is now way to seal the tunnels.” “We lost greatly in Gaza.. If we go out now into a battle against Hezbollah, this will be a strategic defeat.. The “army” is exhausted.”
Israeli politicians continue fighting over releasing prisoners from Gaza amid concerns of prison overcrowding, Shin Bet admits 21,000 Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons, while capacity is only 14,500. Previously reported count was only 9,088. Ben Gvir says “one of the highest goals I have set for myself is to worsen the conditions of the terrorists in the prisons, and to reduce their rights to the minimum required by law.. Everything published about the abominable conditions of these vile murderers in prison was true.. I have already proposed a much simpler solution, of enacting the death penalty for terrorists, which would solve the overcrowding issue.”
7/2: IDF airstrikes in Gaza City kill at least 22 in Daraj, Tal al-Hawa, al-Zarqa, and Sheikh Radwan neighborhoods, many victims still buried in rubble. IDF airstrikes in Tal as-Sultan Rafah kills at least 7, airstrike kills 2 women in Nuseirat camp, and artillery shelling kills at least 3 in Maghazi. IDF continues demolition of al-Shujayia amidst attacks by Palestinian resistance, airstrikes and shelling kill at least 10 and wound 17 others as drones shoot at fleeing refugees. IDF airstrike in Deir el-Balah kills Dr. Hassan Hamdan, head of the Burns and Plastic Surgery at Nasser Hospital, along with 9 family members including 5 children and 3 women.
Israeli Likud official document 10/13 which “was not supposed to reach the media” calls to “evacuate the Gaza population to Sinai” establishing tent cities and then “create a sterile zone several kilometers inside Egypt, prohibiting any population activity or residence near the Israeli border.”
WHO reports over 150,000 Gazans have contracted skin diseases such as scabies, lice, chicken pox, and other infectious diseases caused by living in horrible conditions contaminated with sewage and huge piles of rotting trash and exacerbated by summer heat.
IDF raids in West Bank, in Hebron, Tulkarem, Jenin, Qalqilya, Bethlehem, and Nablus. IDF dronestrike in Nur Shams camp kills 4 Tulkarem Brigade fighters. Illegal Israeli settlers attack Palestinian residents in Eli near Nablus, and are protected by IDF soldiers.
Palestinian resistance stabbing attack in Israeli mall in Karmiel settlement kills 1 soldier and injures 2 others, attacker is killed and his family arrested and their home is raided.
IDF dronestrike on car assassinates Hezbollah commander Mohammed Ni’ma Nasser in Tyre, largest city in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah retaliates firing 100 rockets into occupied Golan Heights causing large fires.
7/3: IDF airstrikes kill at least 50 and wound more than 180 in last 24 hours. IDF shelling of market in Gaza City kills at least 4 refugees, airstrikes on home in Nuseirat kills 5 including a baby, and airstrike in Khan Younis kills 2 civilians riding bicycles. IDF airstrikes 2 UN schools sheltering refugees in Gaza City at Musa bin Nassier school in Daraj and Al Kahra school in El Furkan.
IDF airstrikes destroy 5-storey building next to school full of refugees in ‘safe zone’ near Nasser hospital in Khan Younis killing at least 12 with many wounded. Many thousands of refugees forced to flee eastern Khan Younis, Rafah, and Al-Mawasi fill the streets with no safe area to escape, there are no shelters, there are no hospitals, there is no water or food. “Nowhere and no one is safe in Gaza.”
7/4: IDF airstrikes throughout Gaza City, airstrikes in Jabalia kill 6 including 3 children, airstrike on historic gold market kills 4 and injures dozens, and airstrikes on home in Daraj kill 2 women and 2 young children and wound 6 others. IDF airstrikes on homes in Nuseirat kill at least 7, airstrikes in al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ kill 3 refugees, and airstrikes in Rafah kill at least 6.
IDF continues systematic demolition of residential blocks in Al Shujayia, many residents remain trapped in the area though ambulances and journalists have been unable to enter area for days. Qassam fighters kill at least 10 IDF soldiers in ambush, striking building with should-fired missile and attacking with close range gunfire.
IDF airstrike kills 2 Palestinian journalists Saadi Madowkh and Ahmad Sukkar in attack on homes in Al-Daraj.
IDF airstrike near UNRWA warehouses kill 2 UN employees and wounding another near Maghazi.
IDF raid in Jenin kills 7 Jenin Brigade fighters after 5 hour siege on home and launching shoulder-fired missile. IDF snipers shoot a father and his son standing on the roof of their own home. IDF raid in Hebron injures 5 residents after opening fire and using tear gas targeting group of civilians.
Israeli army official “The army leadership is ready to accept any deal with Hamas at any price, and what is important is to stop the war.”
7/5: IDF continues constant daily attacks targeting groups of refugees and civilian infrastructure, destroying all means of human survival in Gaza, killing dozens and wounding more than 160 civilians in last 24 hours, with many victims still trapped in rubble unable to be reached by civil defense teams.
IDF airstrikes in Jabalia kill 8 including young children, IDF airstrike in Zeitoun Gaza City kills an elderly man and his wife, IDF airstrikes in Deir al-Balah kill at least 2, and IDF airstrikes in Khan Younis kill at least 5 refugees including babies. IDF airstrikes kill 5 journalists in their homes along with their families, 3 in Nuseirat and 2 in Gaza City.
IDF continues 10th day of Shujayia invasion, many residents still trapped without water or food, ambulances unable to enter area to recover dead and wounded. Qassam and Al-Quds brigades continue ambushing and killing or wounding dozens of IDF soldiers.
UNRWA “Children in Gaza spend up to 6-8 hours a day collecting water and food, often carrying heavy weights and walking long distances. Sanitation facilities & infrastructure are severely compromised, forcing thousands of families to rely on seawater to wash, clean, and even drink.”
IDF releases 15 detainees from Gaza and then bombs them killing at least 4, survivors report being beaten, tortured, urinated on, and then attacked with grenades and drone missile after being released.
Hamas gives initial approval for US backed ceasefire proposal, dropping key demand Israel gives upfront commitment for complete end to the war. Deal would include “full and complete” 6 week ceasefire with release of Israeli prisoners for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, IDF withdrawal from densely populated areas of Gaza, and allowing return of residents to their homes in the north.
7/6: More than 50 Palestinian civilians killed in last 24 hours. IDF airstrikes in Gaza City kill 6 civilians and wound more than 15 in Sheikh Radwan, and kill family of 3 in al-Mina. IDF airstrikes on home in Zawayda central Gaza kill family of 6, including 4 women and children. IDF airstrike kills at least 3 civilians, including two children, in Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah.
IDF airstrike massacre on UN run al-Jaouni school in Nuseirat, sheltering about 7,000 refugees nearby, kills 16 and wounds more than 75, majority of victims are children and women. IDF claims without evidence school was used as Hamas command center.
Haaretz reports IDF ordered Hannibal Directive on 10/7, ordering military to prevent any vehicles or groups returning to Gaza even if attacks kill their own soldiers and civilians. “Not a single vehicle can return to Gaza.” IDF ordered airstrikes on at least 3 IDF bases, “Anyone making such a decision knew that our combatants in the area could be hit as well.”
Save the Children estimates more than 20,000 children in Gaza are unaccounted for. “We are continuing to see children being killed in the most horrific ways imaginable. We’ve seen children.. dismembered, their limbs are ripped off of them by explosive weapons, they are being crushed by falling rubble… it is just relentless.”
IDF airstrike on car kills 6 policemen and 4 civilians in Saudi neighbourhood western Rafah, and airstrikes on foot patrol officers in Tal al-Sultan kills police director and 3 other officers.
IDF dronestrike on a car assassinates senior Hezbollah fighter Meitham Mustafa al-Attar in Lebanon’s Baalbek region. Hezbollah attacks Mount Meron, Nimra, and al-Baghdadi IDF bases with 150 rockets, causing fires and significant damage.
Tens of thousands of Israeli protestors clash with police, blocking roads, setting fires, while attacked with horses and water cannons. Protestors set fires outside Netanyahu’s home.
7/7: 9 months since 10/7, Gaza Strip has been reduced to rubble, including Rafah City, after continuous daily IDF airstrikes and intentional mass killings of civilians, as 2 million refugees are subjected to IDF imposed man-made famine due to blocking all humanitarian aid and destroying all farm land.
186,000 Palestinians have likely been killed by Israel in Gaza, including direct and indirect deaths, according to The Lancet. “Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37,396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.”
IDF airstrike on home in Jabalia kills at least 10, mostly women and children with many bodies found in pieces. IDF airstrike on Holy Family Christian school in western Gaza City kills at least 7 refugees and labor minister Ihab Al-Ghussein. IDF airstrike kills 3 in Nuseirat, airstrike in Rafah Shaboura refugee camp kills 3 including 2 children, airstrikes kill at least 5 and wound dozens in Al-Bureij refugee camp and Al-Zeitoun, and airstrike on Sabra Gaza City kills at least 2 civilians.
IDF orders new evacuations of Gaza City in Daraj, Tuffah and Old City neighborhoods, as thousands of refugees flee on foot under heavy IDF fire-belt airstrikes, shelling, and gunfire attacks, considered among the most violent since 10/7.
UNRWA reports 1,800,000 civilians are trapped in central Gaza.
A 6yo child Hikmat Badr dies of starvation in Deir al-Balah. More than 50,000 children require immediate treatment for acute malnutrition.
Netanyahu said any Gaza ceasefire deal must allow Israel to resume fighting until its initial war objectives are met, even though there is no military option possible to defeat Hamas.
Dozens of Isreali settlers attack Palestinian villages in Ramallah, Jenin, Hebron, and Qalqilya, damaging property and setting fires.
7/8: UN rights experts accuse Israel of intentionally starving Palestinians in Gaza. “We declare that Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza.” UNRWA Lazzarini “At least 10 children lose a limb every day in Gaza due to the continuing aggression.. Nearly 17,000 children are no longer accompanied by their families.” WFP warns almost 500,000 people in Gaza face catastrophic levels of hunger.
IDF dronestrike in Bureij camp targeting gathering of civilian refugees kills at least 10, including 6 children playing the in street. IDF airstrike on UN school and market in Nuseirat camp kills at least 8 refugees. IDF airstrikes in Deir el-Balah kills 6 including 3 children. IDF airstrike in Tal al-Sultan Rafah kills 5. IDF kills journalist Salama Juma'a Al-Hashash at his home near Rafah.
IDF new evacuation orders in Gaza City, forcing thousands of families to flee areas IDF told refugees to evacuate to yesterday. IDF ongoing heavy airstrikes and artillery shelling in Gaza City kill at least 15 refugees. “People are running around amid relentless attacks from one neighbourhood to the other. It is more of an enforced displacement rather than an evacuation because people are fleeing in areas that are being attacked. The designated safe areas are death-trap zones for displaced families.. The whole of Gaza has evolved into a killing box.”
Hamas chief Haniyeh blames Israel for blocking new ceasefire negotiations with non-negotiable demands, warning escalation of IDF attacks in Gaza could push talks back to square one.
+972 reports testimonies from IDF soldiers returning from Gaza describing near-total absence of firing regulations. IDF have freedom to shoot at will, set homes ablaze, and leave corpses in the streets, all with their commanders' permission. Soldiers routinely executed Palestinian civilians who entered military-defined "no-go zones.”
IDF airstrike in port city of Baniyas western Syria . IDF airstrike on shepherd’s home in southern Lebanon kill more than 700 goats.
52nd anniversary of Ghassan Kanafani assassination by Mossad car bomb in Beirut, retaliation for Lod Airport shooting. He was novelist who became PFLP spokesman and editor for Al-Hadaf weekly magazine.
7/9: IDF airstrike on al-Awda school and nearby tents kills at least 30 sheltering refugees in Khan Younis, mostly women and children, and injures more than 55, in the 4th IDF school bombing in 4 days. IDF airstrike on home in Nuseirat kills 17 from same family, including 14 children and women, also in Nuseirat an airstrike on home kills 8 including 6 children, and airstrike kills at least 4. IDF airstrike on Salah al-Din street central Gaza kills 4, an airstrike in Deir al-Balah kills 7 including children, and an airstrike in Bureij camp kills 9 including 5 children.
IDF orders new evacuations for all of Gaza City and the north, forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands of civilians, though there is no safe area in Gaza that is not being bombed.
IDF has been blocking all humanitarian aid to Gaza for 65 days.
Palestinian prisoner Moazaz Obaiat, from Bethlehem, released after 8 months of administrative detention without charges or trial, and in shocking physical and mental condition due to starvation and torture. “We are dying everyday.. Al Naqab Prison is like Guantanamo. Everything that the mind cannot conceive. Murder, beating, starvation, destitution, disease. They only have God. I left them but we should have died together.”
IDF shoots and kills 13yo Ghassan Gharib Zahran in near Ramallah.
Hezbollah releases Hudhud part 2 aerial reconnaissance video of many IDF military and intelligence sites in occupied Golan Heights.
7/10: IDF artillery shelling and snipers kill more than 30 refugees fleeing Gaza City, in Tal al Hawa and Al Rimal neighborhoods areas, with bodies “filling the streets” as rescuers are unable to reach them. Civil defense workers recover more than 60 bodies from Shujaiya after IDF withdrawal leaving area completely destroyed and more than 120,000 without homes, and dozens of residents still trapped under rubble. IDF executes Mohammed Salah Bahar who has Down's syndrome and autism, was held hostage at home in Shujaiya. IDF airstrikes on homes in Nuseirat camp kill more than 5 civilians, and airstrikes in Rafah kill at least 7 including several children.
Biden lifts suspension on shipment of 500lb bombs to Israel, used in 2,000lb MK84 JDAMs, after 2 month pause meant to “reduce civilian casualties in Gaza.”
IDF continues raids in West Bank, near Qalqilya, Ramallah, Salfit, and Tulkarem, and kills 17yo Hassan Rabay’a in Jenin. Israeli settlers burn a shop and attack cars in Bazarya near Nablus.
7/11: Civil defense workers recover more than 60 civilians killed in Tel Al-Hawa southwest of Gaza City, most of them children, women, and elderly, many bodies found decomposing on the streets, in burned out homes, and under rubble. Many refugees killed attempting to flee Gaza City along IDF designated ‘safe routes’. More than 300,000 residents still sheltering in northern Gaza. IDF snipers kill Palestinian boy riding his bicycle firing at anyone attempting to reach him, and IDF drone kills 4 civilians by dropping explosive grenades in Gaza City.
IDF airstrike on humanitarian aid warehouse in Al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp kills Al-Khair Foundation director Hossam Mansour and 3 other aid workers. IDF claims without evidence Mansour was Hamas.
IDF airstrikes in Khan Younis kill 7 civilians at Abu Hamid roundabout, and 8 in refugee tents. IDF airstrikes in Rafah kill at least 8 refugees including 3 children. IDF airstrike in Nuseirat camp kills at least 4 including an infant.
IDF re-destroys Patients’ Friends Charity hospital western Gaza City less than a month after medical teams and civilians rebuilt parts of it.
Guardian article on Israeli made weapons designed to spray high levels of shrapnel disproportionately causing extensive injuries to children. More than 16,000 children have been confirmed killed in Gaza since 10/7.
IDF kills 14yo Ali Hasan Rabaya and wounds five other children near Jenin.
Israeli settlers have carried out more than 1,000 attacks against Palestinians in West Bank since 10/7, while protected by IDF soldiers, assaulting residents and burning homes, businesses, cars, and crops.
7/12: IDF airstrikes in Gaza City kill at least 10 and dronestrike kills fisherman off coast of Gaza City. IDF quadcopter snipers target civilians in northern Gaza. IDF airstrike in Nuseirat camp kills at least 4. IDF airstrikes on homes in Deir al-Balah kill at least 5 including 3 children, the floor of Al-Aqsa hospital is filled with wounded children. IDF continues demolishing entire residential blocks in Gaza City and Rafah.
IDF bans the entry of soap and cleaning products to Gaza. More than 70,000 Gazans are infected with viral hepatitis, and more than 350,000 are suffering from chronic diseases with no treatment available due to Israel blocking all aid and supplies in to Gaza.
7/13: IDF airstrike massacre in al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp kills at least 90 in refugee tents and wounds over 300, using 5 US-made MK84 2,000lb missiles, and drones with machine guns and missiles to attack ambulances, killing or wounding 10 paramedics. IDF claims they targeted 1 Hamas senior leader Al-Deif, Hamas says claims are false. Netanyahu says in news conference the massacre and obvious war crime was worth it anyway “because it sends a deterrent message to all of Iran's proxies.”
IDF airstrike kills at least 22 civilians praying outside the ruins of a mosque in al-Shati camp. IDF airstrikes on homes in Gaza City also kill at least 10 including young children and wounding dozens.
IDF airstrikes in Damascus Syria targeting residential areas military sites.
7/14: IDF airstrike massacre at UN school full of hundreds of sheltering refugees kills at least 17 and injures 80 in Nuseirat camp, mostly children and women, 2nd IDF airstrike targets people trying to rescue the many trapped under rubble. “Human remains, all of them children, are scattered everywhere.” IDF has destroyed over 190 UNRWA aid facilities and shelters.
IDF airstrikes kill more than 21 and wounds dozens of civilians in Gaza City, airstrikes in Maghazi kill at least 4 including a child, IDF shelling and quadcopter attacks in al-Zawayda central Gaza, and airstrike kills at least 2 near Rafah crossing. Dozens of bodies recovered from the streets and homes of Tel Al-Hawa near Gaza City after IDF withdrawal.
Hamas attacks undercover IDF soldiers disguised in humanitarian aid truck during operation in Rafah.
Car ramming and shooting attack at bus stops injures 4 Israeli soldiers in Ramla central Israel, attacker Mohammad Shehab is killed, and IDF arrests his mother and father from their home in East Jerusalem. Palestinian resistance says operation is a natural and legitimate response to ongoing horrific massacres and calls for continued escalation of attacks against zionist occupation sites and soldiers.
7/15: IDF airstrike massacre at another UN run school kills at least 23 sheltering refugees in Nuseirat, mostly women and children, with more than 70 injured. “These were civilians who were killed. These were children who were torn up in the strike, there’s nothing left of them.” Almost 100 killed as 6 school shelters attacked in 10 days. Also in Nuseirat, IDF airstrike on apartment kills 4 including 3 children.
IDF airstrike massacre on refugee tents in al Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp kills at least 18. IDF airstrike in Tel al-Sultan Rafah kills at least 5 and injures dozens, airstrike in Abasan east of Khan Younis kills at least 4, airstrike in Jabalia camp kills 2, airstrike in al-Zawaida camp kills 2, and airstrikes kill several residents including children in Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun.
Haaretz reports IDF holding 1,500 corpses of unidentified prisoners executed or tortured to death at Sde Teiman concentration camp.
IDF soldiers pose for photo at Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospital used as a military base for months and left completely destroyed, was the only cancer hospital in Gaza. At least 436 cancer patients have died due to IDF total blockade of medical supplies.
IDF admits significant shortage of tanks and ammunition in Supreme Court filing. “Many tanks were damaged, which are disabled at this stage and are not used for combat or training, and it is not expected that new tanks will be introduced into the corps in the near future.”
IDF airstrike kills 3 civilians in southern Lebanon. IDF airstrike kills Syrian businessman Baraa Katerji.
7/16: IDF continues daily intentionally targeting and killing of civilians. More children die of starvation due to IDF imposed siege. More than 292 wounded and sick Gazans needing treatment in hospitals outside Gaza have died due to IDF closing Rafah crossing 72 days ago. IDF airstrike massacre near Cairo School in Gaza City kills at least 9 including 3 children, airstrike on home in Gaza City kills 2 and injures others including children, airstrike kills 4 on beach road in Al-Shati camp, and airstrike on home in al-Zawaida kills 8. IDF airstrike in Nuseirat kills 8. IDF airstrike on home in Abasan east Khan Younis kills 5, including 3 children, and airstrike near Rafah kills 2.
IDF sniper kills 11yo girl Rasha Nahid Abdel Latif, shot in the head as she fled from tanks near her home. IDF sniper kills unarmed man in northern Gaza, leaving him to bleed out while shooting at anyone trying to rescue him.
Netanyahu blocks proposal for official investigative committee into 10/7.
Channel 14 reports ICC is expected to issue arrest warrants against Gallant and Netanyahu within next 2 weeks.
7/17: IDF airstrike on Abdullah Azzam mosque north of Nuseirat camp kills 2. 820 mosques in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed.
IDF publishes footage of dronestrike on civilians in donkey pulled cart in Rafah. claims without evidence they had explosives. IDF airstrike kills 5 civilians at an internet spot along coast north of Gaza City. IDF airstrike in Bureij camp kills at least 2. IDF airstrike on home in Nuseirat injures 5.
Turkey announces end to all exports and imports with Israel due to attacks on Gaza.
7/18: IDF airstrikes and shelling on homes in Gaza City and northern Gaza kill at least 21 including many young children and 2mo baby girl. IDF airstrike on UN run Al-Falah School full of refugees in Al-Zeitoun kills at least 2 and wounds 8. IDF airstrike on group of civilians in Gaza City kills 4. IDF airstrike on home in Nuseirat kills at least 5. IDF airstrike on residential building in Al-Bureij refugee camp kills 4 and wounds dozens. 12 bodies recovered from mass grave inside Al-Amal hospital in Khan Younis, 10s of other mass graves discovered in area after IDF withdrawal. Polio detected in Gaza sewage water.
Ben-Gvir storms the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, calls for banning entry of fuel into Gaza and reaffirming rejection of prisoner exchange deal with Palestinian resistance. Israel’s parliament passes resolution rejecting Palestinian statehood. Smotrich “A Palestinian state cannot be established because there is no such thing as a Palestinian People.” Netanyahu rejects plan for field hospital to treat Palestinian children in Gaza.
IDF expands airstrikes and artillery shelling in Lebanon, with attacks in at least a dozen villages. IDF dronestrike on car in Bekka Valley kills Islamiya leader Mohammed Jabara, and airstrike on 3-storey home in southern Lebanon kills at least 2 including Hezbollah Radwan commander Ali Jaafar Maatuk and injures a dozen others.
Yemeni drone explodes in Tel Aviv near US consulate, killing 1 and wounding 10. “The operation was carried out with a new drone named ‘Yafa’, which is capable of bypassing the enemy's interception systems and cannot be detected by radar.. The Yemeni Armed Forces declare the occupied Yafa area as an unsafe zone and a primary target within our weapon range. We will focus on targeting the zionist enemy's internal front and penetrating deep into its territory.. Our operations will not cease until the aggression stops and the siege on the Palestinian people in Gaza is lifted.”
7/19: IDF airstrikes on homes kill at least 28 civilians in Nuseirat and Jabalia as dozens are missing under rubble. A baby is rescued from mother’s womb killed in IDF airstrike in Nuseirat. IDF airstrike on home in south of Khan Younis injures 3, an airstrike in Rafah kills at least 5, and in Deir el-Balah airstrike on car kills 5 and dronestrike kills boy carrying food for his family. Journalist Mohammad Jaser killed in airstrike on his home, along with his wife, his children and his paralyzed mother in Jabalia. IDF continues demolitions of whole city blocks in Rafah and Gaza City.
ICJ rules Israel’s occupation and settlements in Palestinian territories are illegal, calls on Israel to end its more than 57yr unlawful presence in occupied Palestinian territory, cease new settlement activity, and make reparations for harm and damages. “This provides the basis for the creation of a global anti-apartheid movement against the Israeli system and occupation.” Oxfam “There must now be an end to the occupation, the dismantling of settlements, and complete self-determination for Palestinians.” Ben Gvir calls ICJ anti-Semitic, proudly rejecting international law. Armed Israeli settlers protected by IDF attack Palestinian villages, throwing rocks at residents, damaging property, and setting fires.
7/20: IDF airstrike on refugee shelter near Khan Younis kills at least 10 and wounds dozens, and airstrikes on homes in Bureij camp kill at least 9 civilians including women and young children. “They killed children and a pregnant woman. This is an unprecedented crime.” IDF airstrike on home in Abasan al-Kabira kills 7, airstrike on home in northern Gaza kills at least 3, and airstrike in Rafah kills at least 3. IDF continues constant airstrikes in Nuseirat camp, with airstrike on residential tower killing at least 4, an airstrike kills journalist Mutasim Ghurab at his home, and an airstrike kills 5 15yo quintuplets, Ismail, Khaled, Mahmoud, Maria, and Maryam, along with their parents. IDF quadcopter shoots at children on rooftop, causing injures and leg amputations. At least 11,000, including 4,000 children, have had limbs amputated due to IDF indiscriminate attacks on civilians in Gaza.
IDF fighter jets bomb Yemeni oil storage facility and a power plant in port city of Hodeida, causing massive fires and killing at least 6 and wounding 83 with many severely burned. Houthi Council promises an “effective response.” “Our stance for the support and victory of the Palestinian people stems from our principles, beliefs and religion. We will not falter or back down. We will continue this support, God willing, and there will be more significant hits on our enemy.”
7/21: IDF orders new evacuations of eastern Khan Younis to al-Mawasi, and begins bombings within minutes forcibly displacing nearly 400,000 refugees. IDF airstrikes and shelling in Bani Suheila and other areas of eastern Khan Younis kill at least 70 and wound 200 others in indiscriminate attacks on homes and groups of refugees. IDF dronestrike on journalist tent at Al-Aqsa hospital kills writer and activist Haider Ibrahim Al-Masdar and wounds 3 others. IDF airstrike in Al Tuffah Gaza City kills at least 3 and wounds a dozen others. IDF airstrike in Al-Qizan south of Khan Younis kills 3 children. IDF shoots at clearly marked UN convoy heading to Gaza City, despite coordinating movements with IDF. Gallant issues orders to ‘eliminate’ resistance in the West bank, and removes restriction of use of military drones. Israeli settlers attack Palestinian and foreign activists in West Bank, including an American citizen.
7/22: IDF airstrikes in Khan Younis kill more than 100 and wound 300 since yesterday. IDF airstrike on home in Bureij kills at least 9 including 4 children. IDF airstrikes across northern Gaza kill at least 25 refugees in Gaza City, Sabra, Nafaq, Daraj, and Jabalia. Gaza Health Ministry reports devastating statistics, 1.7 million suffering from infectious diseases, 350,000 patients with chronic diseases at risk with no medicine, 71,338 hepatitis cases have been recorded, 60,000 pregnant women and 10,000 cancer patients at risk with no healthcare, and 15,000 need urgent medical treatment abroad. IDF soldier destroys ultrasound machine for fun at Gaza’s only cancer hospital which is now a military base.
IDF raid and dronestrike in Tulkarem kills 5, including Qassam commander Ashraf Nafeh, 2 Al-Aqsa Martyrs commanders, as well as a woman and young girl, taking bodies away in bulldozers, blocking ambulances, and destroying roads and water pipes, while residents defend city with gunfire and explosive attack on IDF vehicles.
Palestinian resistance groups sign unity pact in China, between Hamas, Fatah, and 14 other factions, to establish interim national government responsible for West Bank and Gaza until elections can be held to form Palestinian National Council. President Xi “Palestine needs to be recognized as an independent state to resolve the conflict in the Middle East.”
Knesset approves the classification of UNRWA as a ‘terrorist organization’.
Hezbollah fires dozens of missiles into northern occupied Palestine.
7/23: IDF reduces size of al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp while bombing and invading already destroyed Khan Younis, 150,000 refugees flee in panic under heavy IDF gunfire. IDF demolishing entire residential blocks with explosives in Bani Suheila eastern Khan Younis. IDF sniper kills a child in Khan Younis. Euro-Med Monitor “the Israeli army purposefully increases the number of massacres and mass killings of Palestinian civilians.”
7/24: IDF indiscriminate airstrikes in Khan Younis kill at least 44 Palestinians in last 24 hours, as snipers shoot anyone moving in the streets. IDF dronestrike on car and group of civilians in eastern Khan Younis kills at least 4 electricity company workers. IDF airstrike in Beit Lahia kills at least 3. IDF airstrike in Sheikh Radwan kills at least 4 including women and children.
Red Crescent reports “there is no space even for a single tent” in Al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp. IDF has marked more than 80% of Gaza Strip as unsafe for civilians, but bombs the remaining 20% anyway. IDF releases 8 Palestinian prisoners into Gaza who report being continually tortured for a month. “We were thrown pieces of stale bread as food and denied medicine too. We were electrically shocked, and verbally and physically abused day and night. I was even electric-shocked in my mouth.” ActionAid UK reports IDF only allowed 710 aid trucks into Gaza in July, according to UN data, while at least 500 trucks are needed per day.
Netanyahu gives speech to US congress, with half the time spent receiving standing ovations. More than 80 Democratic representatives, including Jewish lawmakers, boycott speech. 3 family members of Israeli prisoners arrested for wearing ‘Seal the Deal Now’ shirts. Bernie Sanders says “Netanyahu is a war criminal.”
7/25: IDF airstrikes kill at least 32 refugees in Khan Younis and Rafah, and continuous shelling and quadcopter attacks cause numerous casualties in Gaza City, Al Nuseirat, Al Sabra, Al Zaytoun, Al Daraj, and Tal al Hawa. IDF airstrike kills baby girl Masa Yasin, born in the war and killed in the war in her mother’s arms while breastfeeding, airstrike on home kills 3 young girls, Sahar, Julia, and Hour Tayeh while they are sleeping, and airstrike in Nuseirat kills 4yo Ziad Sidam. “I love you, Ziad, but you left too soon, my love.”
NRWA reports 9 out of every 10 people in Gaza have been forcibly displaced. "None of these places are safe. People have nowhere left to go.” Dozens of US doctors and nurses who worked in Gaza send letter to Biden regarding Israel’s widespread violations of international humanitarian law, and call for immediate ceasefire and arms embargo. “It is likely that the death toll from this conflict is already greater than 92,000, an astonishing 4.2% of Gaza’s population.. With only marginal exceptions, everyone in Gaza is sick, injured or both.”
Hamas leader 63yo Mustafa Muhammad Abu Ara dies in Israeli prison after being subjected to torture and deprived of medical treatment. At least 55 Palestinian prisoners have been killed in Israeli prisons since 10/7.
7/26: IDF airstrikes targeting homes and groups of civilians kill at least 26 across Khan Younis, as IDF announces new evacuations for southern area of city. IDF dronestrike on refugee tents in Khan Younis Old Cemetery kills 2, including 17yo Abdullah al Farra who was carrying bread for his family, as people are forced to sleep in cemetery due to overcrowding in displacement camps and repeated attacks. IDF shelling in Bureij camp kills 5, airstrikes on homes kill 10 near Rafah, airstrikes in Gaza City kill at least 5, and airstrikes on residential building in Nuseirat kills a couple and their 3 children.
IDF film themselves committing war crime by detonating a water reservoir and pumps near Rafah. Genocide convention includes crimes of "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” UN Human Rights Office says “It is indeed strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law to attack civilian objects.. Moreover, it is prohibited to attack objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as drinking water supplies.”
Qassam fighters ambush 10 IDF soldiers with explosives in Rafah building, showing video from repurposed car camera.
IDF raids West Bank villages, and arrests 40 mainly in Qalqilya and Nablus, including children, former prisoners, and family members of wanted men. IDF shoots at residents in Beit Awa near Hebron, 2 children hit with IDF bullets in Ramallah, and other raids near occupied East Jerusalem, Jenin, Tulkarem, and Bethlehem.
IDF assaults worshippers attending Friday prayers Al-Aqsa Mosque.
US-British airstrikes on Hodeidah International Airport in western Yemen.
7/27: IDF airstrike massacre on field hospital in Khadija school kills more than 35 refugees in Deir el-Balah, including at least 8 women and 15 children, and wounds more than 100, firing 3 missiles where 4,000 starving refugees are sheltering in a clear war crime. IDF claims without evident that school full of refugees was “Hamas command and control centre.”
Explosion at football field in Majdal Shams occupied Golan Heights kills 12 Syrian Druze children and young adults between 10 and 20 years old, and wounds 19 others. IDF blames Hezbollah and vows to retaliate, while Hezbollah denies responsibility. IDF launches wave of airstrikes on Lebanese villages. 44 people have been killed on Israeli side of border since 10/7, while more than 540 have been killed in Lebanon. Smotrich says “Lebanon as a whole has to pay the price.”
IDF raid and dronestrike in Balata camp Nablus kills 2 Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades fighters, 17yo Loay Mohammed Masha and 24yo Ali Bassam Hashash, and wounds 37 others, after shooting attacks on IDF checkpoints.
7/28: More than 66 Palestinians killed in last 24 hours. IDF airstrike on refugee tents in al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp kills at least 5 including baby girl Maria Abu Ziada, and IDF airstrike on home in Khan Younis kills 12, mostly children including a beheaded baby. IDF orders new evacuations in Bureij and Nuseirat forcing ~30,000 refugees to flee with no where to go. IDF airstrike kills 7 and quadcopter kills 72yo man sitting at his doorstep in Sabra Gaza City. IDF continues demolishing residential blocks in Gaza City, Khan Younis, and Rafah.
Netanyahu blocks 150 critically ill Gazan children from receiving treatment in UAE. Erdogan says Turkey could intervene in occupied Palestine against Israel, “We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these things to Palestine. Just as we entered Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we might do the same to them.”
7/29: More children dying in Gaza everyday due to starvation and no medicine. IDF airstrike in Khan Younis targeting group of civilians kills at least 4, and airstrike kills Journalist Mohammad Majed Abu Daqqa. IDF airstrikes in southern Gaza kills family of 8 in their home and damages mosque minaret. IDF airstrike on residential building in Bureij camp kills 2 civilians. IDF airstrike on home in Gaza City kills 3, and airstrike on St. Porphyrius Church causes injures though warhead does not explode. IDF soldiers film themselves pouring fuel and setting fires in Palestinian homes in Gaza.
IDF withdraws from eastern Khan Younis after 8-day invasion that killed more than 300 civilians, while 42 more corpses retrieved from ruins of Bani Suhaila and 200 people still missing.
Gaza Health Ministry declares a polio epidemic across Gaza and calls for an “immediate intervention to end the aggression and find radical solutions.”
IDF military police detain 10 soldiers for torturing and gang raping Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman concentration camp, where Palestinian prisoners are routinely sexually assaulted and tortured to death. Hundreds of far right fascist Israelis gather for mass protests and attack Sde Teiman and Bayt Lid base demanding the release of the rapist soldiers. Knesset ministers debate whether it is good to anally rape and torture prisoners with electric rods, Israeli Likud minister when asked “To insert a stick in a person’s rectum, is that legitimate?” responds “Shut up! yes, if he is a Nukhba everything is legitimate to do. Everything!” Ben Gvir calls rapist soldiers “our best heroes” and Smotrich calls them “heroic warriors” and protests “are justified and I support them with all my heart.”
Israel adds new conditions to ceasefire talks, Hamas “It is clear from mediators that Netanyahu has once again returned to the strategy of procrastination, stalling, and evading reaching an agreement by setting new conditions and demands. These represent a retreat from what mediators transmitted as the ‘israeli’ proposal, which was part of Biden's project and later a UNSC resolution.”
7/30: IDF airstrike kills group of 10 civilians transporting wounded victims from Bureij in animal-drawn cart. IDF airstrike in Nuseirat camp kills 12 and injures dozens. IDF airstrike on vehicle in Al Zawaida kills 8, and airstrikes on homes kill 3 in Gaza City and 3 in Rafah.
IDF airstrike on apartment building in Beirut Lebanon assassinates Hezbollah top commander Fuad Shukr, and 3 women and 2 children 6yo Amira and 10yo Hassan, and injures more than 70 civilians. US airstrikes in northern Iraq kill Kataeb Hezbollah leader Abu Hassan Al-Maliki and 3 other soldiers.
IDF airstrike assassinates Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran Iran after meeting with Iran’s new president. “To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return. And it is a jihad, victory or martyrdom.”
7/31: IDF intentionally targets and murders Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman Ramy El Rify in dronestrike on their vehicle in Shati camp Gaza City, reporting near residence of Ismail Haniyeh, attack also kills 17yo boy Khalid Al-Shawwa riding bicycle. Gaza journalists throw down their press vests in protest. Ismail al-Ghoul 7/24 “The genocide continues, and so does our coverage, We remain on the ground, ready to bring the new first. We won’t stop, no matter how exhausted our bodies or weary our spirits. We persist in delivering the truth to ensure ongoing coverage from the heart of the events.” IDF accuses al-Ghoul of being a terrorist and brags about killing him, even though he was arrested 3/18 during Al-Shifa massacre and released after interrogation.
August
8/1: Day 300 of continuous IDF airstrikes and massacres targeting civilians in Gaza. IDF airstrike massacre on Dalal Al-Maghribi school sheltering displaced families kills at least 15 refugees in Al-Shujaiya including 5 children and injures 40 with many trapped under rubble. IDF airstrikes in Nuseirat camp kill 12 civilians, and artillery shelling of vehicle in Maghazi camp kills 8. IDF airstrikes across Gaza City cause many civilian casualties, killing a baby girl and injuring 4 family members in Zeitoun, killing 2 in Sheikh Radwan, 2 at Kuwaiti Roundabout, killing 4 and injuring 12 near Jalaa Street, and killing at least 6 including children near Tal al-Hawa. IDF airstrike on apartment building in Khan Younis kills 4 including women and children.
IDF releases 22 Palestinian prisoners who describe being tortured, beaten, starved, forced to remain in harsh physical positions all day, electrocuted, and attacked by dogs. “They broke our hands and feet.” 2 Palestinian prisoners announced killed after being tortured to death in IDF prison camps months ago, 26yo Omar Abdel Aziz Junaid 42yo Islam Al-Sarsawi. IDF drone operator posts video of targeted killings of fleeing civilians on social media.
IDF airstrikes in Lebanon kill Syrian family of 5 including 3 children and wound dozens of civilians. Hezbollah retaliates launching dozens of rockets into northern occupied Palestine.
8/2: IDF airstrikes on homes in Gaza City kill 4 in Sheikh Radwan, 3 near Jordanian hospital in Tal al-Hawa, and 5 in Al Sabra including 3 children, a women, and an elderly man. IDF airstrike on home in Bureij camp kills 3 including a mother and baby, an airstrike in al-Zeitoun kills 2, and airstrike on home in Khan Younis kills 5 including a child and 3 women. Red Crescent volunteer 21yo Tamer Saqr dies from IDF gunshot injuries inflicted a few days ago in Balata camp near Nablus. IDF arrests Al-Aqsa imam Sheikh Ikrima Sabri for eulogizing Ismail Haniyeh during Friday prayers, releases him a few hours later.
8/3: IDF airstrikes on Hamama school sheltering thousands of refugees massacres at least 17 and wounds more than 60 in Sheikh Radwan, IDF drops 3 bombs in secondary strike as rescuers and volunteers were trying to rescue victims from the rubble. “Bodies are everywhere. The medics are retrieving them and there are body parts everywhere. It’s a huge massacre. The school has been completely destroyed.” Gaza’s Media Office reports IDF have targeted 172 refugee shelters including 152 schools since 10/7.
IDF airstrike on refugee tents in yard of Al-Aqsa hospital kills at least 5 and wounds 20. IDF airstrike on homes in Jabalia camp kills at least 8 civilians including women and children, and IDF quadcopter shooting attacks kill 3 in Al Sabra Gaza City.
IDF dronestrikes on vehicles in Tulkarem kill 9 resistance fighters, including Qassam Brigades in Tulkarem commander Haitham Balidi. IDF arrests more than 30 in raids on Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Tulkarem, Hebron, Tubas, and East Jerusalem. Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and foreign activists and set fires to homes and land in villages near Hebron. An elderly Israeli couple is killed in stabbing attack near Tel Aviv, attacker Ammar Awda from West Bank was released from PA jail last week after social media post criticizing their lack of response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Ben Gvir calls for more settler attacks against Palestinians, “We have distributed thousands of weapons to citizens in order to use them.. I call on citizens to take up arms and use them.”
Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets into northern occupied Palestine.
8/4: IDF airstrike massacres at al-Nasr and Hassan Salama schools kill at least 37 refugees in Deir al Balah, with missiles striking classrooms full of families, 80% of victims are children, and more than a dozen still missing under the rubble. “The remains of children were scattered on the walls and in the classrooms” “They killed children and old people. They killed women. Only God will save us. What did the children do?”
IDF orders new evacuation orders in southern Khan Younis, warning “any presence of civilians in these areas is dangerous and of high risk” even though there is no safe area for refugees to go. IDF airstrike in Jabalia kills at least 4 and injures 8, airstrike in Deir el-Balah kills 2, airstrike in Tal al Hawa kills 4, airstrike near Kuwaiti Roundabout kills 2, airstrike in al-Sha’af kills 3, and airstrike in Al Shujayia kills 3.
Israeli media reports 10,000 IDF soldiers have been killed or wounded since 10/7.
Former prisoner 50yo Wafa Jarrar dies from injuries caused when kidnapped by IDF in May from her home in Jenin, released after IDF amputated legs to avoid treating her injuries, but did not release her legs. IDF airstrike in Meiss el-Jabal southern Lebanon kills a woman and a paramedic. Smotrich orders seizure of $26m tax funds owed to Palestinian Authority. Houthis shoot down another $32m US MQ-9 Reaper drone and strike cargo ship Gulf of Aden.
8/5: IDF returns 89 unidentifiable desecrated corpses and skeletons in cargo container to be buried in mass graves in Khan Younis. IDF have taken more than 2,000 corpses from Gaza since 10/7. IDF airstrike on vehicle kills 8 Gazan police securing arrival of humanitarian aid trucks and injures 18 in Deir el-Balah. Journalist Mohammed Issa Abu Saada killed in IDF airstrike. IDF airstrikes in Khan Younis kill 5, airstrike in Tal al-Hawa kill 6, and airstrike in Bureij camp kills 4 brothers. IDF navy kills fisherman off coast of Nuseirat camp. PPS confirms Omar Junaid 26yo tortured to death at Sde Teiman concentration camp in July.
B’Tselem report “Welcome to Hell” includes testimonies from 55 Palestinians describing IDF torture at more than a dozen prisons which were converted into a network of torture camps “dedicated to the abuse of inmates” after 10/7 “in which every inmate is intentionally condemned to severe, relentless pain and suffering..” including “frequent acts of severe, arbitrary violence; sexual assault; humiliation and degradation; deliberate starvation; forced unhygienic conditions; sleep deprivation; prohibition on, and punitive measures for, religious worship; confiscation of all communal and personal belongings; and denial of adequate medical treatment.” At least 60 Palestinians have been tortured to death in IDF prison camps since 10/7.
IDF raid and airstrikes in Jenin kill 5 including young boy, while shooting at journalists and ambulances and destroying streets and buildings with bulldozers. IDF raid in Aqaba near Tubas kills 4 including 3 teenagers.
Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan warns US and Israel, “Friends, this is no longer a sustainable pattern. We are no longer playing this game. America's attempts to clean up behind the scenes and mitigate every wrongdoing by Israel have become unacceptable. Israel's owners must now take its leash and protect it. The region can no longer tolerate continued Israeli provocations.”
Smotrich says blocking humanitarian aid and letting 2 million Palestinians in Gaza Strip die of hunger would be “justified and moral” and that government is working “to remove the threat” of Palestinian statehood through expanding illegal settlements and infrastructure in West Bank.
Qassam fighters claim at least 9 IDF soldiers killed or wounded in tunnel ambush explosion east of Khan Younis, as well as casualties from anti-personnel mine and shooting attacks.
100s of Ultra-Orthodox Israelis break into IDF base protesting and clashing with police over new conscriptions.
US soldiers wounded in resistance missile attack on Ain al-Asad base Iraq.
8/6: More than 25 Palestinians killed in last 24 hours in Gaza. IDF issues new displacement orders in northern Gaza, Beit Hannon, al-Manshiyeh, and Sheikh Zeid, after rocket attacks fired toward Ashkelon. IDF airstrikes in Gaza City kill at least 4 in Al Sabra, 3 in Al-Tuffah, and family of 3 in Al-Daraj. IDF airstrike on refugee tents kills at least 5 including Palestinian journalist Mohammed Issa Abu Saada and his family in Al-Zana east of Khan Younis. Health Ministry reports 70% of victims in Gaza since 10/7 are children and women.
IDF increases airstrikes in Deir el-Balah, critically wounding dozens, including missile strikes on refugee tents and homes in designated safe zone near Bilal Mosque, “There is not a single safe zone in all of Gaza. The Israelis are lying to the world.. They warned people to leave, but before anyone could move, Israeli planes fired missiles at us, more than a dozen were killed, others dismembered, their bodies ripped apart, this is Nazism at its worst.”
Israeli media reports leaked video of IDF soldiers gang raping and torturing a Palestinian prisoner, while hiding behind their shields, at Sde Teiman concentration camp. Israeli pro-rape protesters interrupt court hearing for detained rapist IDF soldiers.
Hamas elects commander Yahya Sinwar as new chairman of Political Bureau and leader of the movement, following Haniyeh assassination.
IDF raid continues in Jenin with dronestrikes killing 9 Palestinians and causing extensive destruction to neighborhoods, and withdrawing after more than 24 hours. Israeli settlers block roads, attack Palestinian vehicles, and set fires to trees in Bethlehem, and burn Palestinians’ homes near Nablus.
620 Palestinians have been killed in West Bank since 10/7, including 145 children and 9 women.
Hezbollah launches “swarm of drones” in northern Israel causing injuries at multiple IDF bases. Iron Dome missile malfunctions and lands on a highway in Nahariya causing injuries with blast similar to Majdal Shams explosion which Hezbollah denied responsibility. IDF says “it emerged that it was an interceptor that missed the target and impacted the ground.” IDF launches airstrikes on villages in southern Lebanon killing and wounding civilians.
8/7: IDF airstrikes continue throughout Gaza killing more than 30 refugees, with 18 killed in Khan Younis, mostly women and children, including 6 killed in airstrikes on refugee tents, many of the dead burned alive. Turkey submits formal bid to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. IDF fighter jets creating sonic booms and flying low over Beirut Lebanon. IDF raids in Qalqilya and villages near Bethlehem and Nablus. IDF storms Yabous Cultural Centre in occupied East Jerusalem and bans screening of short films by artists from Gaza. “Gaza’s Untold Stories, From Ground Zero”
8/8: IDF airstrike on home in Bureij camp kills 15 including many young children. IDF orders new displacements in eastern Khan Younis forcing more than 70,000 refugees to flee with no where to go. IDF airstrikes massacre children at 2 schools full of sheltering refugees killing at least 17 and wounding more than 30 mostly children in northern Gaza, at Abdel Hamoud school and Al-Zahraa school where IDF dronestrike targeted water truck as refugees are filling tanks and drinking.
IDF airstrikes on refugee tents and homes east of Khan Younis kill at least 10 civilians. airstrike in Nuseirat camp kills 4 refugees, airstrikes in Maghazi kills 2, airstrike in Zeitoun kills 3, airstrike in Beit Lahiya wounds 6, and Jabalia airstrike kills at least 3 and injures 18. IDF navy and helicopters target refugee tents on the beach in Al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ concentration camp. IDF continues demolitions of whole residential blocks in Rafah.
Video of Palestinian child receiving a chicken despite IDF efforts to starve or murder all Palestinians. This is the only reason my soul can bear writing!!
8/9: IDF airstrike on al-Mawasi concentration camp kills 6 including 2 children. IDF airstrikes on homes kills 4 in Nuseirat camp and 6 in Jabalia wounding dozens, and airstrike on refugee tent east of Deir el-Balah kills 4 including 3 children. IDF airstrikes in Khan Younis kill at least 12 including killing journalists Tamim Abu Muammar and Abdullah al-Suwaisi along with their families in separate targeted strikes on their homes. US releases $3.5 billion to Israel for weapons and military equipment, as part of $14 billion spending bill passed in April.
Biden blocks sanctions and approves US weapons funding for Netzah Yehuda “Judea Forever" IDF battalion of terrorist right-wing settlers, saying war crimes they committed have been “effectively remediated” despite evidence unit “has clearly committed gross human rights violations using US weapons,” including killing 80yo American citizen Omar Assad in 2022.
IDF shoots American activist Amado Sison in leg while violently dispersing weekly demonstrations against expanding illegal settlements in Beita near Nablus. Isreali settlers attack American journalist Rains Brendan while covering settler attacks on water infrastructure in West Bank.
IDF rapist soldier Meir ben Shatrit goes on TV to defend IDF raping and torturing Palestinian prisoners at Sde Teiman concentration camp, had been quickly released after being detained with 10 soldiers from Force 100 seen on CCTV torturing prisoner, “These people are illegitimate as far as I’m concerned.. I think our IDF is a very healthy army.. I’m here to protect our good name.”
Israeli far-right ministers threaten to dissolve Netanyahu's government if he agrees to a ceasefire in Gaza, and call for regional war with Lebanon and Iran.
Hezbollah missile strikes kill and wound IDF soldiers at Dovev, Metulla, Manara, and at least 7 other IDF barracks and bases in northern occupied Palestine.
8/10: IDF massacre at Al Tabi’in school kills more than 100 sheltering refugees during morning prayers in Al Daraj Gaza City, with 3 direct airstrikes with US weapons, most the “bodies ripped to pieces” and rescue teams “did not find a single body that had not had limbs severed.” IDF claims without evidence that school was a Hamas headquarters, and they used precise munitions and intelligence to minimize civilian causalities, even though they intentionally bombed while they are praying. IDF releases photos of 19 victims claiming they are Hamas, but many are quickly identified as civilians with no ties to Hamas, and several had already been killed in previous airstrikes. IDF has provided zero evidence that any school they’ve bombed since 10/7 was used by Hamas. IDF have bombed at least 20 schools killing more than 330 refugees since beginning of July.
IDF airstrike in Nuseirat destroys residential building and kills family of 10 sheltering in nearby refugee tents. IDF airstrikes in Khan Younis kills at least 7 civilians, and airstrike in Rafah kills 2.
IDF arrests 40 Palestinians in West bank including women, children, and former prisoners, in Jenin, Hebron, Ramallah, Qalqilya, and Jericho.
8/11: IDF airstrike in eastern Khan Younis kills 3 including paramedic Abdullah Al-Breim and his wife and sister. IDF airstrike on 6-storey building kills 4 near Al Mubeen school in Sheikh Radwan Gaza City. IDF airstrikes kill at least 4 and destroy multiple buildings near Al-Hassanat Mosque Nuseirat camp. IDF airstrike near Al-Matar east of Rafah kills 5 civilians, and airstrike in Al Zawaida kills at least 2.
Hamas statement on ceasefire negotiations. “The movement calls on the mediators to submit a plan to implement what they presented to the movement and approved on 7/2/2024, based on Biden's vision and the Security Council resolution, and to oblige the occupation to do so, instead of going to more rounds of negotiations or new proposals that provide cover for the occupation's aggression and give it more time to perpetuate the war of genocide against our people.”
Ben Gvir calls to block ceasefire talks and cut all aid to Gaza, saying a ceasefire talks are a “grave mistake by the prime minister” and that only way forward to release prisoners is through “increasing military pressure.” “If we cut off their fuel, within a week, they would be on their knees.. And if we stop the aid trucks, within 2 weeks they would be on their knees.”
Letter from over 70 IDF officers to Chief of Staff “We, who came from the field, know very well that the situation is still far from victory.. We are astonished by repeated statements from high-ranking military officials claiming that victory is near.. The public sees the bombings and targeted assassinations and thinks this is how a war should be fought.. It is important to us that the public knows that this is not how wars are won, wars are won on foot. You conquer territory, cleanse it, hold it, and move on to the next target.. The ‘resistance’ still possesses cross-border capabilities, drones, and a vast tunnel infrastructure."
Hezbollah launches more than 30 rockets near Nahariya with some evading iron dome and landing near military base and settlements without causing any damage.
8/12: 75 years since Geneva Conventions, 76 years of ongoing Nakba, and 310 days of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. IDF airstrike kills Abu Haya family of 10 in Abasan eastern Khan Younis, including women and children and wounding dozens, 3mo baby girl Named Reem is the sole survivor “This little girl was pulled out of the rubble. Her whole family is dead. Who will take care of her now?” IDF airstrikes in Khan Younis kill at least another 20 as thousands of families are forcibly displaced from the area.
IDF airstrike on home in Bureij camp kills at least 7 including 2mo baby girl Oday Al-Sawed. IDF airstrike next to international kitchen at Abu Amra school kills 4 including 2 children and airstrike kills 5 near Al-Mujahideen mosque in Deir el-Balah. IDF airstrikes targeting groups of civilians across Gaza City causes numerous casualties, killing at least 5 near Bader mosque in Zeitoun, killing 3 at home in Maghazi, and airstrike on residential building kills 2 and wounds 6 in Sheikh Ridwan.
Abu Obeida announces an Israeli prisoner was killed by guards and 2 female prisoners were critically wounded. “attempts are being made to save their lives.. The zionist government bears full responsibility for these massacres and the resulting reactions that affect the lives of zionist captives. A committee has been formed to investigate the details, and the findings will be announced later.”
US resumes weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, after 3yr pause due to human rights abuses.
8/13: IDF airstrike kills 2 babies, Aisel and Aisar Abu al-Kumsan only 4 days old, along with their mother and grandmother as father was getting birth certificates in Dier eh-Balah, buried in same body bag as their mother who was a doctor. IDF used laser-guided US made missile to target their apartment on top floor of building. Health Ministry reports more than 115 infants born after 10/7 have been murdered by IDF. Euromed reports IDF “has killed 2,100 Palestinian infants and toddlers under the age of two, out of the about 17,000 children it has killed in Gaza.”
IDF airstrike on home kills family of 7 in Nuseirat camp including an infant who was beheaded, airstrike on residential building in Khan Younis kill family of 4, airstrike in Maghazi camp kills 3 injured children have limbs amputated, and IDF shelling of residential building kills at least 2 in northern Beit Lahiya. 4yo Lina Sheikh Khalil has died from starvation.
US approves more than $20 billion of new weapons sales to Israel, including 50 fighter jets, advanced missiles, tank shells, mortar cartridges, vehicles.
Haaretz investigation reveals IDF systematically used Palestinian detainees as human shields, including children and elderly, during their invasion of Gaza with knowledge of senior officers including Chief of Staff.
Israeli media reports 10,056 IDF soldiers have needed rehab since 10/7, more than 1/3 have PTSD or mental health issues, 37% have limb injuries, and at least 690 have been killed.
Hamas fires two long-range rockets at Tel Aviv from ‘controlled area’ of Khan Younis, no damages reported.
Ben-Gvir storms Al-Aqsa Mosque compound with 2,000 right-wing activists and armed guards to lead Jewish prayers marking “Destruction of the Temple" anniversary, the illegal incursion is seen as a desecration and major provocation by Muslim world, and is condemned by world leaders.
IDF sniper kills 16yo boy in the town of Anata east of Jerusalem. Undercover IDF units raid Tubas and clash with residents when discovered, soldiers besiege home and kill Qassam fighter. IDF dronestrike on car kills 5 in Tammun near Tubas, and they confiscate bodies while blocking ambulances. IDF forcibly evacuates Palestinians and closes shops in Hebron to escort Israeli settlers performing prayers.
8/14: IDF airstrikes kill more than 40 Palestinians in last 24 hours, with airstrikes in Khan Younis and Rafah killing 15. IDF airstrike on residential building kills at least 12 refugees in Al-Zeitoun, ripping their bodies to pieces, and aistrike kills 4 in Sabra Gaza City.
IDF shooting attack kills 2 civil defense workers in Rafah, Suhaib Abu Taqiya and Hussein Abu Jamous, IDF have killed 82 civil defense personnel while providing humanitarian duties in Gaza.
Abu Obeida says guard who killed an Israeli captive “acted out of revenge contrary to orders, after receiving news that his two children were martyred in one of the enemy’s massacres.. We stress that the incident does not represent our ethics or teachings of our religion in dealing with captives.”
US and Israel send delegations to Qatar for ceasefire talks. Hamas says it will meet with mediators after tomorrow if there are developments or a serious response from Israel.
IDF dronestrike kills 2 and injures 7 in Balata Camp West bank while IDF escort praying settlers, and raids continue in Hebron, Nablus, Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and East Jerusalem, arresting more than a dozen residents. IDF have arrested more than 10,100 in West Bank since 10/7.
Smotrich approves new illegal settlement near Bethlehem, at UNESCO World Heritage site, “No anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist decision will stop the development of settlements.. We will continue to fight against the dangerous project of creating a Palestinian state by creating facts on the ground.” Crowds of Israeli settlers continue to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound performing rituals for the second day in a row.
IDF dronestrike on car in Marjayoun southern Lebanon kills 2 Hezbollah fighters and wounds 4.
8/15: IDF airstrike in Jabalia kills 7 including children, body parts strewn around the area and rescuers work to retrieve body of man dangling from wreckage of the building. “Look at that body hanging from the wall. This defies humanity. May God punish all those responsible.” IDF airstrike on apartment kills woman and her children in Deir el Balah, airstrike kill 3 in Khan Younis, airstrike on home in Al-Daraj kills 6 and wounds 8. IDF airstrike kills UNRWA employee at Al-Bureij camp.
Gaza ceasefire talks begin in Doha.
Mob of 100 masked Isreali terrorist settlers attack village of Jit east of Qalqilya West Bank, torching homes and vehicles with Molotov cocktails and opening fire on Palestinian residents, injuring 11 and killing 23yro Rasheed Abdel Qader Sada shot in the chest. IDF soldiers block ambulances and do nothing to stop terrorist attacks.
Illegal settlers attack Bedouin shepherds and steal 200 sheep at gunpoint in Ein Al-Auja near Jericho.
Hezbollah launches 25 rockets into northern occupied Palestine.
8/16: IDF airstrike massacre on warehouse sheltering refugees kills 16 members of same family including 9 children and 5 women in al-Zawayda, launching 3 missiles which cause massive fires burning victims to death, children’s bodies are beheaded and torn to pieces. IDF issues new forcible displacement orders in Maghazi and Beit Hanoon and areas of Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah. “Once again, fear spreads as families have nowhere to go. People remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale.” IDF artillery shelling on al-Mawasi area ‘safe zone’ concentration camp kills 4 including 3 children sheltering in a refugee tent.
10-month-old baby is first confirmed case of polio in Gaza since 25 years. Hamas supports request from UN for 7 day humanitarian pause to vaccinate children against polio.
IDF airstrikes continue throughout Gaza City, airstrike on home in Sheikh Radwan kills 1, airstrike kills 3 in Tel al-Hawa, and airstrike targeting group of civilians kills at least 2 and injuries 5 near as-Saraya. IDF shelling of home kills 1 and injures 5 and quadcopter attack kills 1 near Nuseirat.
IDF sniper executes 9yo girl Alaa Abu Aasi, shot through the spine while playing near her family’s tent. IDF quadcopter shoots 6yo boy Yousef Abu Ayada in the head while sleeping in refugee tent west of Khan Younis. IDF airstrike on horse-drawn cart in Al-Zana Khan Younis kills 2. IDF sniper kills horse transporting humanitarian aid.
IDF airstrike in Nabatiyeh southern Lebanon kills 10 Syrian citizens, including woman and her 2 children.
8/17: IDF airstrike in Deir el-Balah kills a couple and their 6 children including 4 infant quadruplets, airstrikes on apartment buildings in Jabalia kill 7 including infant girl, airstrike in Khan Younis kills at least 4 and wounds 6, airstrike on home in Nuseirat camp kills 7 including 4 children, airstrikes in Rafah kill 5, and several casualties reported in IDF shelling and artillery fire in Sabra and Zeitoun Gaza City.
UNRWA report on latest forcible displacement orders says ‘humanitarian zone’ has shrunk to only 11% of Gaza Strip, though IDF repeatedly bombs the ‘safe’ concentration camp areas anyways killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians in refugee tents.
Video from UN officials that made it into northern Gaza shows total devastation of all buildings as far as the eye can see. IDF soldiers continue systematic demolition of Rafah, vowing to completely destroy the city. “Not a single building will remain intact.”
IDF assassination dronestrike on car kills 2 Qassam commanders in Jenin. Qassam roadside bombs kill 2 IDF soldiers in central Gaza.
8/18: IDF airstrike on home in the Nuseirat camp kills 5 people and injures 20 including children and fighter jets bomb Zaqout residential building. IDF airstrike on home in Deir al-Balah kills 4, aistrike on refugee tent kills 6yo girl Sama Ahmed Al-Af in Khan Younis, airstrike targeting gathering of civilians near Anwar Aziz mosque kills 1 in Jabalia, and shelling in Rafah kills 2.
Palestinian journalist Ibrahim Muhareb killed and Journalist Salma al-Qadoumi wounded shot in the back by IDF while covering invasion near Hamad City Khan Younis. Video shows IDF tanks firing directly at group of journalists as they run for their lives.
Hamas statement condemns Netanyahu for blocking ceasefire deal by insisting on new demands IDF remain in control of Philadelphi corridor, Rafah crossing, and Netzarim corridor which cuts through central Gaza. “The Israelis, in the two-day negotiations, rejected the paper, introduced by the Americans on June 24 based on Biden’s initiative, the Security Council resolution.” “The new proposal aligns with Netanyahu's conditions and complies with them, particularly his rejection of a permanent ceasefire, his refusal to fully withdraw from the Gaza Strip, and his insistence on continuing the occupation.. He has also introduced new conditions regarding the prisoner exchange file and reneged on other previously agreed-upon terms, preventing the completion of the exchange deal."
Tel Aviv Truck bomb attack claimed by Hamas and PIJ, causing minor injuries, attacker killed in blast. “The Brigades affirm that martyrdom operations within the occupied territories will return to the forefront as long as the massacres by the occupation, the displacement of civilians, and the assassination policy continue.”
Israeli settlers burn Palestinian lands east of Tulkarem West Bank.
Hezbollah launches 55 rockets from southern Lebanon in retaliation for an Israeli attack yesterday that killed 10 in Nabatiyeh, landing in open areas causing fires. IDF airstrike wounds 3 UN peacekeepers in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
8/19: IDF attacks kill at least 35 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours. IDF continuous attacks in Gaza City kill at least 13, airstrike on civilian car kills 4 and wounds a dozen in az-Zarqa, airstrike in Al Zaytoun, airstrike in Sheikh Radwan, shelling in Al Sabra, and airstrike in Al-Tuffah kills a young girl. IDF continuous attacks in Khan Younis, airstrike targeting group of residents near Al-Albani mosque kills 1 and injures others and airstrike kills 5 civilians and dozens injured at shop in Al-Namsawi west Khan Younis, IDF airstrike targeting water tank kills 2 children in center of Khan Younis, gunfire targets refugee tents killing a baby and his mother, and IDF quadcopters shoot directly into crowds of Palestinians sheltering in refugee tents.
IDF airstrike kills at least 9 in Shati camp, including 6 aides of Ismail Haniyeh. IDF airstrike in Nuseirat camp kills 4, airstrike on home in Bureij camp kills 6 civilians, and airstrike north of Rafah kills at least 4 civilians.
Hamas say they are committed to the 7/2 proposal and “will not lower the ceiling to please “israeli” side while the US is biased and giving it time to carry out new massacres. The “israeli” enemy will not submit except by force and pressure from brothers and allies.” “We agreed to the proposal presented by Biden, but the U.S. administration failed to convince Netanyahu.. "Israel" does not want a ceasefire, and it is natural for the resistance to do everything necessary to pressure for stopping the aggression.”
8/20: IDF airstrikes kill at least 52 Palestinians in Gaza in last 24 hours. IDF airstrike massacre kills at least 12 at Mustafa Hafez school Gaza City, including at least 8 children and journalist Hamza Murtaja. “All who were in this part of the school were killed. The entire building collapsed on their heads.” “The school building was flattened to the ground.” More than 20 victims buried in rubble, rescuers try to dig children out with their bare hands.
IDF dronestrike targeting civilians at crowded market area in Dier el-Balah kills 9 and wounds 10 mostly children with no warning of attack. “We saw them in the hospital in the corridors lying on the ground, covered in blood and waiting for doctors.” There are no medical supplies entering Gaza for months due to continued IDF siege.
IDF airstrike on home kills a woman and wounds 3 children in Tall az-Zaatar Jabalia camp, airstrike targeting civilians at phone charging point kills at least 4 and wounds 6 in Bani Suheila east of Khan Younis, and airstrike on home in Rafah kills 4 and tanks open fire on residents and refugees near al-Mawasi ‘concentration camp’.
UNRWA spokeswoman says “It does feel like people are waiting for death. Death seems to be the only certainty in this situation” for 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza with no way to escape Israeli attacks on civilians.
IDF recovers 6 bodies of Israeli captives, reports suggest they died 6 months ago in a tunnel caused by gas leak during an IDF attack. Less than 71 of remaining captives are believed still alive. Netanyahu tells relatives of captives in Gaza that “Its not certain there will be a deal, but if there is a deal, it will be one that preserves Israel’s strategic assets” “Israel will not leave the Philadelphi Corridor under any circumstances.” Egypt insists IDF withdraw from border and Rafah crossing.
Outgoing Israeli UN Amb Gilad Erdan says UN headquarters should be “closed and wiped from the face of the earth."
DF kill 18yo Mahmoud Ibrahim al-Haroub during raid in Dura near Hebron, shot in the head, mourners gather to fill the streets for large funeral procession. At least 636 Palestinians including 147 children have been murdered by IDF and settlers in West Bank since 10/7.
IDF airstrike kills 2 in Dheira southern Lebanon, airstrike wounds 2 young Palestinian girls in Mansouri, and airstrike wounds 19 including 5 children in Bekaa Valley 100km from border. Hezbollah launches 135 rockets into northern occupied Palestine.
8/21: IDF issues new forcible displacement orders for parts of Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis triggering fear and panic as hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees are forced to flee with no where safe to go. IDF airstrike targeting refugee tents kills 7 including 5 women and 2 children in Bani Suheila, Khan Younis, videos show dead babies and child with their skull blown open. Also in Khan Younis, IDF tanks open fire on refugee tents killing 5 including a woman and her child. “The tanks approached one of the schools and started shelling near civilians. Quadcopters were also shooting at people.”
IDF airstrike on Salah al-Din school full of hundreds of sheltering refugees kills at least 4 and wounds 18 mostly children in Al Rimal Gaza City. IDF airstrike on home kills 11 mostly women and young children burned to death in Beit Lahiya northern Gaza. IDF airstrike on home in Maghazi kills 6 including Journalist Husam Dabaki with his wife and children, airstrikes on home in Nuseirat camp kill at least 4 and wound 15 civilians, and airstrike kills 3 in Tall az-Zaatar Jabalia camp.
Defense for Children International Palestine reports Palestinian children subjected to “systematic” torture and abuse by IDF, including their use as human shields in Gaza. “They insulted us, slapped me on my face, and kicked me in my stomach and waist. I almost died from the beating.. Then they made us walk in front of bulldozers and tanks in the streets so that the resistance wouldn’t target them.”
IDF dronestrike on car assassinates senior Fatah member Khalil al-Muqdah in Sidon Lebanon.
8/22: IDF airstrikes kill at least 50 Palestinians in Gaza in last 24 hours. IDF airstrike kills 3 including a child in eastern Khan Younis, airstrike on school kills 2 in Deir el-Balah, airstrike on home in Nuseirat camp kills at least 4, and airstrike targeting group of civilians kills 1 in Zeitoun Gaza City. Gazan refugees forced to set up tents in cemeteries and beaches as there is where to go after latest IDF forcible displacement orders. UN says 90% of Palestinians in Gaza have been forcibly displaced.
IDF airstrike on home in Tulkarem kills 3 during 14 hour raid attacking residents and destroying infrastructure including streets, sewage systems, water, electricity, and communications.
Israeli official “So long as Hamas doesn’t agree to a deal, we will continue fighting. Even if they do, the war will continue. Of course, if there is a deal, there will be a lull in the fighting in the first stage. But we will continue fighting until we achieve all of our war aims.”
8/23: More than 70 Palestinians killed in Gaza and more than 200 wounded in last 24 hours. IDF airstrikes across Khan Younis kill at least 20, including airstrike on car killing 4, and airstrike on home killing 11 including women and children. IDF soldiers and quadcopters open fire on displaced Palestinians in refugee tents east of Deir el-Balah killing 1 and injuring at least 5 including children. IDF airstrike on refugee tents in al-Mawasi concentration camp kills 1 and wounds at least 17. IDF airstrikes in Jabalia kill 3, shelling in Beit Lahia kills 5, and airstrike on home in Nuseirat kills 5 refugees.
UNICEF reports an estimated 19,000 unaccompanied children in Gaza, including children separated from parents by displacement, or whose parents have been killed.
Video of IDF demolishing ancient Grand Mosque with explosives in Khan Younis. Video of IDF soldiers burning Qurans while raiding Bani Saleh mosque in northern Gaza. IDF attacks worshipers during Friday prayers at mosque in Kafr Qaddum northern West Bank.
IDF releases more than 40 Palestinian detainees in West Bank, Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says some showing signs of abuse and torture.
IDF airstrikes in southern Lebanese villages kill 7 including a child. IDF airstrikes on airport near Homs Syria. Hezbollah launches at least 40 rockets into northern Israel. Yemeni Navy releases video of explosions on Greek ‘Sounion' oil tanker carrying 150,000 tons of crude oil, attacked 8/21 by small boats and hit with several missiles, all crew evacuated, and ship is drifting.
8/24: IDF increases attacks on civilians in Deir el-Balah with airstrike on home killing 6, quadcopters firing on refugee tents injuring at least 5, and shelling and gunfire targeting World Central Kitchen workers injuring 3 near Al-Aqsa hospital. IDF airstrike kills 4 including 8mo baby girl and her mother in Bureij camp. IDF airstrikes continue across Khan Younis killing more than a dozen Palestinians refugees. Civil Defense crews recover more than 12 bodies of IDF victims in ruins of Hamad City Khan Younis. IDF displacement orders in August have reduced 'humanitarian zones' to only 35 square km, about 9.5% of the area of Gaza Strip.
IDF launches large scale pre-emptive strikes in Lebanon, with over 40 strikes on Hezbollah missile launchers. Hezbollah launches more than 300 rockets and drones targeting IDF bases in retaliation for assassination of commander Fuad Shukr, say IDF strikes caused limited damage. “We launched all the attack drones on time and from all their launch sites, and they crossed the border towards the intended target. The enemy's claims about preemptive action and preventing the resistance's attack are empty claims."
Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Sarra village near Nablus, and burn dozens of centuries-old olive trees.
8/25: IDF airstrike in Deir el-Balah kills 8 including women and children. IDF orders new forcible displacement orders for parts of Deir el-Balah near Al-Aqsa hospital, last functioning hospital in central Gaza, forcing doctors and thousands of patients to flee. IDF airstrike kills 4 in Zeitoun Gaza City, aistrike kills 3 killed in al Nasr area, and airstrike kills 5 west of Gaza City. IDF airstrike in Khan Younis kills at least 4 and airstrike in Rafah kills at least 3.
8/26: IDF airstrikes in Gaza kill at least 50 and injure more than 113 in last 24 hours. Palestinian infant Nada Ismail Kabaja dies of heat attack due to IDF terror bombing of Al-Nuseirat refugee camp. IDF airstrikes across Gaza City kill more than 23 civilians, airstrike on home kills 5 civilians including a father and 4 children near Patient's Friend Medical Center, airstrikes in Tuffah kill 7 including strike that kills 4 all children. IDF dronestrike on gathering of fisherman along beach killing 7 civilians west of Gaza City, IDF has murdered at least 160 fishermen while trying to feed their families since 10/7.
IDF airstrike on apartment in Maghazi kills at least 7 including 5 women and children and an infant, and IDF airstrike on home in Daraj kills 7, and airstrike kills 2 in Amoudi neighborhood. IDF airstrike on home kills at least 4 and IDF soldiers shoot and kill woman in Zeitoun, airstrike on residential building kills 1 and injures others in Shati camp, and airstrike targeting crowded market and food distribution point in Jabalia kills 3 including 2 children and wounds more than a dozen others. IDF airstrikes and shelling in Deir el-Balah kill at least 7 refugees. IDF airstrikes on homes in Khan Younis and Rafah kill 2 women and wound 20, and kill 5 all women and children including an infant, 2 young sisters remains are gathered into a flour bag. IDF sniper executes 15yo girl Lana Shakoura, shot in the head. IDF airstrike targeting car of journalists kills 5 including journalist Ali Nayef Ta’ima in Al Mawasi concentration camp.
Ben Gvir says he wants to build a synagogue at Al-Aqsa Mosque. Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa under IDF protection. Dozens of Israeli settler terrorists attack Palestinians with gunfire near Bethlehem killing a man and injuring 5. IDF prevents Palestinian Muslims from reaching Al-Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron and confines residents to homes so Israeli settlers can have a music festival at the mosque with loud music and alcohol.
IDF launches 5 assassination airstrikes on home in Nur Shams Tulkarem killing 5 young men, they are called terrorists for defending their city against military occupation and invading soldiers, Jibril Jibril, Mohannad Kamal Qarawi, Adnan Aysar Jaber, Muhammad Aliyan, and Muhammad Sheikh Yousef, “Our martyrs will not be buried in silence. Until we meet again, never to part.”
8/27: IDF airstrikes kill more than 58 and injure more than 131 Palestinians in Gaza in last 24 hours, with airstrikes on homes across Khan Younis killing at least 20. IDF airstrikes on homes west of Gaza City kill at least 6 including 3 children, and an airstrike on home in central Gaza City kills at least 5 including 3 women and a child. IDF airstrike kills 7 all from one family in Maghazi, airstrike on car kills at least 5 in Zawaida, airstrike on home kills 5 including 2 young girls and wounding more than 15 in Jabalia, airstrike kills 4 and quadcopter murders child shot in the head in Zeitoun.
IDF airstrike on Al-Manfaluti school full of sheltering refugees kills 8 in Deir el-Balah. Also in Deir el-Balah, IDF airstrikes kill at least 5 including women and children and IDF dronestrike on UNRWA vehicle kills 14yo boy whose head was blown off. UN halts all humanitarian efforts in Gaza due to IDF displacement orders for Deir el-Balah. IDF airstrike on home kills 2 and airstrike on refugee tent kills a young girl and injures other children in Nuseirat. IDF airstrike on refugee tents in Al Mawasi concentration camp kills 2 and drone opens fire on refugee tents killing a child and wounding others.
23 years since assassination of PFLP General Secretary Abu Ali Mustafa, killed by IDF helicopter rockets fired into his office windows in West Bank, PFLP militant wing takes his name.
National Day for the Return of Martyrs’ Bodies, Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) says IDF is currently holding at least 552 bodies of killed Palestinians, refusing to return to their families.
89yo woman Fatima who is older than Israel and survived 1948 Nakba ethnic cleansing dies in refugee tent in Gaza.
IDF rescues Israeli captive 52yo Kaid Al Qadi, Muslim Bedouin taken 10/7 working as a factory guard, found in tunnel without any guards. “I see myself as a Palestinian, not an Israeli. We want all Palestinian prisoners to be released, and for the Jews to be released.” Israelis demand he be sent back to Gaza and handed over to Hamas.
IDF launches large scale invasion of West Bank in Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas with hundreds of soldiers, called Operation Summer Camps, airstrikes and gunfire attacks kill more than 11 and wound 22, blocking entrances to cities, destroying roads, cutting electricity, imposing curfew on residents, and sieging hospitals, in largest offensive in northern West Bank since 2nd intifada in 2002.
8/28: IDF airstrike on home near al-Amal Hotel in Gaza City kills 8 civilians, where it was obvious refugees were sheltering, many burned alive with no one to rescue them. IDF airstrike on home kills journalist Mohammed Abd Rabbuh and his sister in Nuseirat. IDF airstrike on car kills 3 near az-Zawayda. IDF airstrikes on homes kill at least 8 in Khan Younis. IDF dronestrike on vehicle kills 3 and airstrike kills 1 and injures others in Rafah. IDF airstrike in Deir el-Balah kills woman and 2 children.
IDF shoots at UN World Food Progamme vehicle. “A clearly marked UN humanitarian vehicle, part of a convoy that had been fully coordinated with the IDF, was struck 10 times by IDF gunfire, including with bullets targeting front windows.”
IDF large-scale raids in West Bank continue killing at least 17 Palestinians, several civilians including women and an elderly disabled man killed by IDF snipers at their homes, IDF blows up Abu Bakr mosque in Tubas, and 10 resistance fighters killed mostly in airstrikes including Mohamed Jaber Abu Shuja leader of the Tulkarem Brigade assassinated at a mosque with 4 others in a firefight in Nur Shams. “But this doesn't matter whether they assassinate me or someone else.. generations will come after me and continue the path of Abu Shuja’a..”
8/29: IDF airstrike kills 9 members of family in Nuseirat camp, including pregnant woman and her unborn child, 3 women and 6 dead babies wrapped in bloodied shrouds. IDF airstrike kills 5 near Zadna Bakery in Deir al-Balah after residents are allowed return to find their homes and infrastructure destroyed after IDF withdrawal, the area is uninhabitable with families left homeless and nowhere safe to go. IDF airstrike and shelling on refugee tents kills 3 and wounds 20 in Khan Younis, and airstrike on gathering of civilians and motorbike kills at least 13 in Rafah.
IDF airstrike on US humanitarian group Anera kills 4 Palestinians, directly targeting humanitarian convoy carrying medical supplies and fuel to a hospital in Rafah without giving any warning. IDF say “armed men took over a vehicle at the front of the convoy”, Anera confirms they were unarmed security for the convoy. IDF airstrikes on homes kill 5 including a child and injure others in Zeitoun and Shati refugee Gaza City. IDF airstrike on home in az-Zawayda kills a young girl and injures more than 10 people, and airstrike in Jabalia kills 7 including 2 children.
WHO says IDF agreed to 3 day ‘humanitarian pause’ to allow polio vaccinations for 640,000 Gazan children conducted by UN health officials, called ‘a sick joke’ since instead of pause for vaccinations IDF should end it’s genocide of Palestinians.
More than 160 far-right Israeli settlers enter Al-Aqsa Mosque with IDF protection. IDF commander Betalbi “Anybody who talks or condemns the state of Israel will get their citizenship revoked and anyone waving a Palestinian flag will be exiled to Gaza and West Bank, if there’s anything left of it.” IDF launches a dozen airstrikes on villages in southern Lebanon.
8/30: IDF airstrike on home kills Palestinian doctor Abdul Raouf Al-Assar with his brother and 2 sisters in Khan Younis. Rescue crews recover 9 bodies from ruins of Khan Younis after IDF withdrawal following 22 day invasion, including civilians found executed in their homes. IDF airstrike on home west of Nuseirat kills family of 5 including mother and children. IDF airstrikes on homes kill at least 4 in Maghazi, Sheikh Radwan, and Deir el-Balah.
IDF continues Jenin raid, bulldozing more than 70% of roads, cutting off water supplies to 80% of residents, and shooting at paramedics and journalists. IDF snipers kill 82yo Tawfiq Ahmad Younes Kandil, and open fire on rescuers who tried to save him. IDF airstrike on car kills Wissam Hazem Qassam commander and 2 other resistance members. “Do not consider those who have been killed in the way of Allah as dead. They are alive with their Lord, receiving provision."
8/31: IDF airstrikes kill at least 90 Palestinians in Gaza and wound more than 200 in last 24 hours. IDF airstrike at al-Ahli Baptist hospital kills at least 3 and wounds dozens including children. IDF airstrike in Sabra kills 3, airstrike in Zeitoun kills 6, airstrike on home in Jabalia kills 2, and dronestrike targeting group of civilians kills 2 in Rafah.
Israeli settlers attack Palestinians near Hebron and steal 300 sheep. IDF soldier beats up a child riding his bike and then steals his bike near Ramallah.
September
9/1: IDF multiple airstrikes on Sadaf school full of refugees kills 11 and wounds 30 in Zeitoun, airstrike in northwest Gaza City kills 2, and airstrike targeting group of civilians kills 6 in Beit Lahiya northern Gaza. IDF airstrike on car kills 4 on Salah al-Din Street south of Deir el-Balah, and airstrike kills 4 including a child n Bureij camp, and airstrikes on civilians kills at least 5 in Rafah. IDF airstrike near refugee tents kills 3 and wounds 10 west of Khan Younis, rescue crews recover 5 more bodies killed by IDF shelling attacks in Khan Younis.
IDF recovers bodies of 6 Israeli captives in tunnel near Rafah, 4 which were supposed to be released in 1st phase of ceasefire deal, including American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Hamas acknowledges they were executed saying new instructions were issued to guards of captives if IDF approaches their place of detention. “Exchange Deal.. Freedom & Life. Military Pressure.. Death & Failure.” Family member of Israeli captive “Netanyahu and his partners in the cabinet have decided to torpedo the ceasefire agreement for the Philadelphi Corridor, thereby knowingly condemning the hostages to death.” At least 24 Palestinian captives have been killed in IDF prisons since 10/7.
More than 500,000 Israelis gather for largest mass protests since 10/7, blaming Netanyahu's government for failing to save hostages, blocking highways and starting fires. Isreali police conduct violent arrests and attack protesters with ‘skunk’ water cannons and horses including trampling sister of an Israeli captive.
IDF raid continue in Jenin for 6th day, destroying infrastructure, and killing more Palestinians, including man and child shot distributing bread, and 58yo Ayman Rajeh Abed tortured to death shortly after being taken hostage to pressure his son to turn himself in.
9/2: IDF airstrike on group of civilians buying bread in front of Al-Fakhura school shelter kills at least 8 in Jabalia, including women and Dr. Mahmoud Al-Manama, Director of the Central Laboratory Department. IDF airstrike near Al-Firdous School kills 2 children in Al-Mawasi concentration camp. IDF aristrikes kill at least 4 and wound 10 in Zeitoun, and airstrike in Nuseirat kills 4 including a child. IDF airstrike on municipal vehicle kills 4 workers outside Rimal clinic west of Gaza City, airstrike on water well kills 4 and wounds 15 in northwest Gaza City, shelling on home kills 3 women in northern Gaza City, and several others killed in airstrikes in Tuffah and Shuja'iyya.
Israeli General Strike organized by Histadrut Labor Federation, demanding ceasefire hostage deal and blaming Netanyahu for deaths of captives, mass protests and road closures continue. Smotrich directs treasury to not pay anyone who joins strike.
UK suspends 30 of 350 arms exporting licenses for Israel, including some components for drones and fighter jets.
9/3: More than 40 Palestinian refugees killed in last 24 hours in Gaza. IDF airstrike on residential building kills 9 including several children in central Gaza City, young girl Tala Abu Ajwa killed wearing her roller blades. IDF airstrike on Nama College refugee shelter kills at least 7 and wounds 30 in northwest Gaza City, airstrike in Daraj kills doctor Nehad al-Madhoun, airstrikes in Nuseirat kill at least 4 and injure others, and airstrike kills a baby girl in Al Shujayia. IDF airstrikes kill 3 in Rafah and 2 in Khan Younis including a child. Rescue teams recover bodies of 4 women killed in eastern Rafah, and 10 more bodies recovered from Khan Younis and Rafah.
IDF raid continues in Jenin, killing 16yo girl Lujain Osama Musleh shot in the head at her home. Raids continue in Hebron, Nablus, and Bethlehem, demolishing homes and tents, assaulting residents, preventing them from working their farms, and destroying water wells. IDF has killed at least 33 Palestinians in West Bank since last week, including 6 children and more than 130 injured.
9/4: IDF airstrike on refuge tents near Al-Aqsa hospital kills 5 civilians and injures dozens including 2 children in Deir el-Balah, and airstrike kills 2 including an infant in Nuseirat camp central Gaza. IDF airstrike on residential building kills at least 4 in Sheikh Radwan, photo of 12yo child Muhannad Jouda shows only his face ripped from his body. IDF airstrike in northern Gaza kills 6, and airstrike kills 3 Palestinians and injures a dozen near school in Zeitoun. IDF shelling on refugee tents kills at least 1 and wounds 10 in al-Mawasi concentration camp.
IDF continues West Bank raids destroying most infrastructure in Tulkarem and Jenin with bulldozers, and IDF dronestrikes on cars kill 6 Palestinians in Tubas, including son of prominent prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi, and IDF drags body of 16yo boy with a bulldozer. Gallant says regarding West Bank “We are mowing the lawn, but the moment will also come when we will pull out the roots, that must be done.”
9/5: IDF airstrike on Kamal Adwan hospital kills at least 4 refugees wounding several children in northern Gaza. IDF airstrikes in Nuseirat kill at least 5 including 2 women and 2 young girls, airstrike on group of civilians kills young girl in Maghazi, and airstrike targeting civilians kills 2 in Rafah. IDF continues airstrikes on civilians in Gaza City, airstrike kills 6 and injures 5 in Zeitoun, airstrike kills at least 2 and injures 6 in Rimal, airstrike kills 3 in Sabra, airstrike kills a woman and her daughter in Tal al-Hawa. IDF airstrike kills 3 children all siblings, a young boy dies of heart attack from fear of constant IDF airstrikes, and a young girl is found killed after an airstrike hiding under her blanket covering her ears.
9/6: IDF airstrike on home near Al-Rahman mosque kills family of 8 including children and women near Nuseirat, and airstrike kills family of 5, a young couple, their 2 children and their grandmother and wounds at least 10 in Bureij camp. IDF airstrike targeting refugee tents at Halimah al-Saadiya school kills 8 and wounds 20 in Jabalia. IDF airstrike on Amr Ibn al-Aas school evacuation point kills 3 and wounds 20 in Sheikh Radwan northern Gaza City. IDF airstrike on home kills 3 including 2 children in Zeitoun, and airstrike kills 5 refugees in Khan Younis. Another infant dies of starvation in Gaza because of IDF blocking all food and supplies. UN says more than 1 million people in Gaza did not receive any food rations in August.
Leaked footage from Megiddo IDF concentration camp where prisoners are routinely tortured, shows prisoners lying face down on the ground, hands tied behind their backs, while being terrorized by dogs. Mass protests continue in Israeli demanding a hostage release deal, largest protests in Israel’s history.
IDF murders 26yo American-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, shot by IDF sniper in forehead at weekly anti-settlement demonstration in Beita West Bank. “When she was shot, she was standing there doing absolutely nothing with one other woman, it was a deliberate shot because they shot from a very, very, very far distance." “Israel has murdered her for shining a light on their crimes against humanity, but we will continue to work in her name." IDF murders 13yo girl Bana Amjad Bakr shot in the chest in her bedroom with her sisters near Nablus.
Today
9/7: IDF airstrikes kill at least 30 Palestinians and wound more than 150 in last 24 hours. IDF artillery shelling on homes wounds 33 near Al-Qassam mosque in Beit Lahiya northern Gaza. IDF airstrike on home in Jabalia kills 5 including Abu Al-Abd Morsi, deputy director of Civil Defence in northern Gaza, along with wife and mother and siblings. IDF fighter jets bomb homes in Khan Younis killing at least 2 including a woman and her daughter and many injured in artillery shelling, and shelling in Tuffah Gaza City kills a child. Palestinian Health Ministry announces 69% of children in Gaza have received first dose of polio vaccine in last 7 days.
Hezbollah luanches rockets at IDF bases after 3 paramedics were killed by IDF airstrikes in southern Lebanon. Jordanian truck driver kills 3 Israeli private security guards with a handgun at West Bank border crossing. Israeli settlers destroy a dozen olive trees near village of Deir Istiya West Bank.
At least 177 journalists and media workers killed by IDF since 10/7
More than 727 Gaza health workers killed by IDF since 10/7
