Source: Mondoweiss.net
Following Israel’s brutal attack on Al-Shifa Hospital, Israeli forces have set their sights on the Indonesian hospital, besieging it and shooting at anyone who tries to leave.
Casualties
- Gaza: 12,012 killed*, including 4,900 children, and 32,300 wounded
- West Bank and East Jerusalem: 216 Palestinians killed
- Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,200
*This figure covers the casualties from October 7 to November 16. Due to breakdowns in communication networks within the Gaza Strip (particularly in northern Gaza), the Gaza Ministry of Health has not been able to regularly update its casualty numbers.
Key Developments
- Among US voters ages 18 to 34, 70 percent disapprove of how Biden is handling Israel’s war on Gaza, according to a poll by NBC News.
- 21-year-old Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces in Hebron and denied medical care until he bled out, according to Wafa news.
- Israeli forces have put the Indonesian Hospital, the last remaining hospital in northern Gaza, under siege.
- About 250 critically injured Palestinians are still stuck inside al-Shifa Hospital, unable to leave due to their conditions with no access to food, water, or medical supplies.
- According to state-run media, twenty-nine of the original 39 prenatal babies in al-Shifa Hospital reached Egypt successfully. At least eight babies died before they could be evacuated.
- Palestinian political prisoners are facing severe punitive measures, including shutting down electricity inside cells from 6 pm to 6 am, canceling all lawyer and family visits, stopping doctor checkups, and more, according to the Palestinian Authority Commission for Prisoners.
- As of November 19, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) confirmed 48 journalists and media workers have died since October 7, including 43 Palestinian, 4 Israeli, and 1 Lebanese.
- Egypt believes Israel’s policy of blocking aid from entering Gaza is aimed at systematically pushing Palestinians to leave the Strip under the weight of bombardment and siege.
North Gaza Hospitals become ‘circle of death’
Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system have only intensified as the death toll mounts and tens of thousands of wounded people require medical care as Israel’s bombardment continues across the besieged enclave.
Following the Israeli military destruction of Al Shifa Hospital, rendering it entirely out of service, Israeli forces are now surrounding the only remaining hospital providing basic medical care in the north of the Gaza Strip, targeting it with artillery shelling.
On Monday morning, the Indonesian Hospital was put under siege by the Israeli military. At least 12 people have been killed in the attacks so far according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health who describe the siege as a “circle of death.”
Al Jazeera reported that almost 6,000 people are seeking shelter in the complex, including 100 medical workers and about 700 patients. …