Source: Mondoweiss.net
At least 700 Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombing in Gaza over the past 24 hours as Israel pushes people south to Rafah. In Jerusalem, Israeli forces stormed the house of Al-Aqsa Mosque Iman Shiekh Ekrima Sabri.
Casualties
- 15,207+ killed*, including 6,150 children, and 40,752 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
- 250 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
- Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,200
*This figure was confirmed by the Gaza Ministry of Health on December 2. However, 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 and accurately update its tolls since mid-November. Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 20,000.
Key Developments
- Israeli warplanes flattened an entire residential block in the Hamad City development in Khan Younis. The airstrikes were filmed by Palestinians who fled to an open area, knocking down one building after the other.
- 84 bodies arrived at Al-Mamadani Hospital in Gaza Strip, which called for help as it is overwhelmed treating hundreds of injured.
- Israeli forces cut the three main roads that connect Gaza Strip, leading Palestinians to travel off-road on foot.
- Sufyan Al-Tayeh, 52, the rector of the Gaza Islamic University was killed along with his family in an Israeli airstrike in Al-Faluja area in Jabalia on Saturday.
- The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that it received 100 aid trucks on Saturday evening from Egypt, carrying food, water, relief aid, medical supplies, and medicines.
- The director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza said that Israel cut fuel by 50 percent since the bombardment resumed on Friday and warned of Hepatitis A liver infection outbreak.
- Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, warned that Israel has attempted to push nearly 1 million Palestinians from Gaza into Egypt.
- Hamas launched a barrage of rockets from north Gaza. Sirens went off in Tel Aviv and other towns on Saturday, and one Israeli was injured in the town of Holon.
- France’s President Emmanuel Macron cautioned on Saturday that the war in the Gaza Strip could last a decade.
- Israeli forces stormed the house of Shiekh Ekrima Sabri, a prominent Imam in Jerusalem and the preacher at Al-Aqsa Mosque. Sabri was notified of a demolition order for five floors of the residential building, where he lives, in the Al-Sawana neighborhood.
Israel bombs homes in Khan Younis; Gaza Islamic University rector killed in Jabalia
At least 700 Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombardments in Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to Gaza’s government media office on Sunday morning.
On Friday, Israel resumed the genocide in Gaza Strip and focused firepower in Khan Younis, and the center and north of Gaza. Israeli forces have now told people to evacuate to the southernmost city of Rafah on the border with Egypt. However, Rafah is not a “safe zone” as Israeli artillery shelled the eastern parts of it on Saturday
Israeli warplanes flattened an entire residential block in Khan Younis called Hamad City, a project initiated after the visit of Qatar’s former emir to Gaza in 2012, to build 60,000 affordable housing units for families. The airstrikes were filmed by Palestinians who fled to an open area, knocking down one building after the other. …