Source: Mondoweiss.net
A reported 15 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on the Abdel Fatah Hamoud and the al-Zahraa schools in Gaza City. With these latest massacres, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks on Thursday alone rose to at least 56.
Casualties
- 39,699 + killed* and at least 91,722 wounded in the Gaza Strip. The identities of 32,280 of the killed have been identified, including 10,627 children and 5,956 women, representing 60% of the killed, and 2,770 elderly, as of August 6, 2024. Some 10,000 more are estimated to be under the rubble*
- 620+ Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. This include 140 children.**
- Israel revised its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,140.
- 690 Israeli soldiers and officers have been recognized as killed, and 4096 as wounded by the Israeli army, since October 7.***
* Gaza’s branch of the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed this figure in its daily report, published through its WhatsApp channel on August 8, 2024. Rights groups and public health experts estimate the death toll to be much higher.
** The death toll in the West Bank and Jerusalem is not updated regularly. This is the latest figure according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health as of August 8.
*** These figures are released by the Israeli military, showing the soldiers whose names “were allowed to be published.” Israeli daily Yediot Ahranot reported on August 4, 2024 that some 10,000 Israeli soldiers and officers have been either killed or wounded since October 7. The head of the Israeli army’s wounded association told Israel’s Channel 12 the number of wounded Israeli soldiers exceeds 20,000 including at least 8,000 permanently handicapped as of June 1. Israel’s Channel 7 reported that according to the Israeli war ministry’s rehabilitation service numbers, 8,663 new wounded joined the army’s handicap rehabilitation system since October 7, as of June 18.
Key Developments
- Israel has killed 116 Palestinians and wounded 324 across Gaza since Thursday, August 1, raising the death toll since October 7 to 39,699 and the number of wounded to 91,722, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
- Israel continues to strike displaced camps in Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah, killing 24 in the past 24 hours alone.
- The Israeli army orders Palestinians to evacuate Beit Hanoun north of Gaza City.
- The Palestinian Civil Defense says that Israel concentrates its bombing on displaced camps and that Israeli bombings caused widespread fires in Beit Lahia, north of the strip.
- UNRWA chief calls for allowing fast delivery of 1.3 polio vaccines to Gaza amidst warnings of the disease spreading.
- Hamas elects Yahya Sinwar as head of its politburo succeeding Ismail Haniyeh.
- Hamas says that its senior leader Khalil Al-Hayeh will continue to lead ceasefire negotiations.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that a ceasefire deal is in the last phase of negotiations.
- Netanyahu’s office says in a statement that it has not received a response from Hamas to its latest deal proposal.
- The UN calls for accountability for Israeli soldiers who abused Palestinian detainees.
- West Bank: Israel kills 12 Palestinians in a single day in separate incidents on Tuesday.
- Lebanon: Hezbollah attacks two military bases of Israeli elite units in the western Galilee in response to Israeli bombings on southern Lebanese towns.
- Lebanon: One Israeli killed and 17 wounded in Nahariya, near Haifa, during Hezbollah’s drone attack. The Israeli army said the explosion in Nahariya was due to an iron dome round malfunction.
- Norway says that it will be obliged to arrest Netanyahu in case he visits its soil if the ICC issues an arrest warrant against him.
- Israel revokes accreditation of Norwegian diplomats in Palestinian territories.
- Norway says that Israel’s revocation of its envoy’s diplomatic status ‘will have consequences.”
Israel bombs two schools sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City
At least 15 Palestinians were killed earlier on Thursday, August 8, 2024, in two new massacres by Israeli forces in Gaza, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported.
According to reports, Israeli aircraft conducted separate strikes on the Abdel Fatah Hamoud and the al-Zahraa schools in eastern Gaza City. Both schools sheltered Palestinian families displaced by previous bombings.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that 15 killed Palestinians and dozens of wounded were transferred to the Baptist Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City. The Palestinian Civil Defense also reported that three Palestinians were killed in a strike on the Zeitoun neighborhood in the city.
The Palestinian civil defense said earlier this week that Israeli forces had been systematically attacking sheltering centers. The Palestinian presidency reacted to Thursday’s massacre in a statement calling on the international community to “intervene and force Israel to halt its aggression on the Palestinian people.”…