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Almost 70,000 killed in Israel’s Genocidal war on Gaza
(AL-JAZEERA) Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 69,733 Palestinians and wounded 170,863 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks and about 200 were taken captive.
Despite the US-backed ceasefire, Palestinians are burying their loved ones who were killed as Israel continues to violate the fragile truce. Officials in Gaza say at least 342 people have been killed, many of them children, since the agreement went into effect on October 10.
Mourners pray next to the body of one of two Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, according to medics, during their funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis [Ramadan Abed/Reuters].
Funerals were held across Gaza Monday for Palestinians killed in Israel’s scaled-back but ongoing bombardment of the territory.
Four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire across Gaza. Israel has violated the ceasefire more than 500 times since it came into effect in early October, Gaza officials say.
At least one Palestinian was hit by Israeli fire in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City, a source at al-Ahli Arab Hospital tells Al Jazeera.
Elswhere, an unconfirmed number of people were wounded in Israeli shelling in Beit Lahiya, in the far north of the Gaza Strip.
The entirety of Gaza remains in the grips of Israeli army attacks, anxiously awaiting the second phase of the ceasefire, should it indeed continue to hold.
Three Palestinian families have been forced from their homes due to Israeli settler attacks on a Bedouin community in the occupied West Bank, Wafa is reporting.
The families, from the al-Hathroura Bedouin community in the Khan al-Ahmar area, east of occupied East Jerusalem, fled due to ongoing hostility from settlers, including assaulting residents, stealing property, and harassing shepherds, all under the protection of Israeli forces, officials said.
Two other families from the community have also fled in recent weeks due to the attacks.
In other acts of settler hostility in the occupied West Bank, groups of settlers stormed the northern area of Kafr Qaddum village, east of Qalqilya, under the protection of Israeli soldiers who then clashed with residents, injuring two women and arresting two men, Wafa reported.
In a separate incident, Israeli settlers bulldozed land belonging to Palestinian residents in the town of Turmus Aya, north of Ramallah, as they continued with work on a road linking to an Israeli settlement for a second consecutive day.
Four civilians were killed as a result of these attacks, which Israel claims are measures taken to remove threats towards its troops beyond the yellow demarcation line.
What’s demoralising to see on a daily basis is the wider-scale demolition campaigns taking place in the eastern areas of Gaza City. The scale and consistency of the destruction point to something more systematic than isolated strikes.
Entire rows of houses, farming plots and municipal infrastructure have been destroyed, often in areas where there’s no active combat.
People here see it as an Israeli attempt to carve out new buffer spaces and permanently alter the map of Gaza’s eastern edge. Critics say these actions amount to the erasure of whole communities under the guise of security operations.
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