from Mondoweiss
- 17,177 killed*, including 7,729 children, and 46,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
- At least 272 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank since October 7.
*This figure was given by the Gaza Ministry of Health on December 7. However, due to breakdowns in communication networks within the Gaza Strip (particularly in northern Gaza) and the high number of people trapped under rubble, the Gaza Ministry of Health has been unable to regularly and accurately update its tolls since mid-November. Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to or above 20,000.
- Chilling footage shows scores of Palestinian men detained by Israeli forces in northern Gaza, stripped down to their underwear, blindfolded, and handcuffed.
- Despite Israeli claims that these men are Hamas fighters who surrendered, a number have been identified as journalists, shopkeepers, or other civilians who had sought refuge in UNRWA schools in Beit Lahia.
- These images emerge amid reports of Palestinian men executed in front of their families in northern Gaza, or otherwise killed by Israeli snipers despite waving white flags.
- Relentless bombing across the Gaza Strip kills scores of Palestinians, including renowned academic, author, and poet Refaat Alareer.
- CARE International: “After two months of war, women last to eat and children first to die.”
- U.N. under-secretary-general says “we do not have a humanitarian operation that can be called by that name anymore” in southern Gaza.
- Israeli rights group B’Tselem refutes government claims that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, saying it “is not a side effect, it’s the policy.”
- U.N. Security Council to vote on a resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres invokes Article 99.
- Palestinian ambassador to the U.N. Riyad Mansour says the current situation in Palestine is a “real test of credibility” for the International Criminal Court. ICC credibility.
- U.S.’s Antony Blinken says there is a “gap” between Israel’s alleged efforts to spare civilians in Gaza and the reality on the ground.
- United Voices for America’s Ahmed Bedier: U.S. has “enabled a monster”
- Far-right extremists Israeli march through occupied East Jerusalem, despite being dispersed by Israeli police.
- Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir instructs prison services to detain alleged Hamas members in underground prison.
- Israeli army raid in al-Fara’a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank kills at least six Palestinians.
- A protest encampment by the families of Israeli hostages in Jerusalem, who have been regularly harassed by far-right Israeli extremists, was targeted with a suspected arson attack on Thursday.
- Reuters investigation concludes its correspondent in Lebanon Issam Abdallah was killed by Israeli tank fire.
- Hezbollah strikes on northern Israel kills one civilian, while Israel carries out large number of strikes in southern Lebanon, and Netanyahu threatens to turn Beirut “into Gaza.”
- Huffington Post reports that Israel is seeking weapons from the U.S. to escalate war on the Lebanese front.
- Rockets are fired at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, as American bases have been targeted since October over Washington’s support of Israel.
- Belgium says it wants to deny entry to violent Israeli settlers, and push for a European Union-wide ban.
- This weekend marks the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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