Source: Mondoweiss.net
The UN Secretary-General condemned Israel’s massacre of dozens of Palestinians in Nuseirat after six UNRWA workers were among the slain. Meanwhile, Israeli forces killed 11 Palestinians in the West Bank within two days.
Casualties
- 41,118 + killed* and at least 94,825 wounded in the Gaza Strip. The identities of 32,280 of the slain have been identified, including 10,627 children and 5,956 women, representing 60% of the casualties, and 2,770 elderly as of August 6, 2024. Some 10,000 more are estimated to be under the rubble*
- 708+ Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. This includes 146 children.**
- Israel revised its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,140.
- The Israeli army recognizes the death of 706 Israeli soldiers and the injury of 4096 others 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 September 12, 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 September 11, 2024.
*** These figures are released by the Israeli military, showing the soldiers whose names “were allowed to be published.” Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot 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 that the number of wounded Israeli soldiers exceeds 20,000, including at least 8,000 who have been 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 and as of June 18.
Key Developments
- Israel commits two massacres in two days in two separate bombings of a displaced tent camp in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, and a school shelter in Nuseirat near Deir al-Balah, killing at least 58 Palestinians.
- Palestinian Civil Defense spokesperson in Gaza says that the Jaouni school in Nuseirat, bombed by Israel on Wednesday for the fifth time during the war, sheltered 5,000 displaced Palestinians.
- Palestinian Civil Defense spokesperson in Gaza says rescue crews could have saved more people at Jaouni if Civil Defense teams had appropriate tools.
- Doctors Without Borders says healthcare system in Gaza is in a catastrophic state, affirms that delivery of humanitarian aid has been politicized and Israeli claims are untrue.
- UNRWA announces six of its staff were killed in Israel’s bombing of the Jaouni school in Nuseirat.
- Israel’s Channel 12 says Netanyahu asked the Israeli government’s judicial advisor to open a criminal investigation into the war in Gaza in order to avoid the issuing of international arrest warrants against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Israel’s judicial advisor refuses Netanyahu’s request, because “she won’t open a fake investigation,” according to Channel 12.
- Israel’s public broadcaster releases a new investigation on the October 7 attack, revealing that the Israeli air force didn’t train for scenarios of land attacks from Gaza and did not know about the Nova music festival until 10 hours into the beginning of the attack.
- Israeli families of captives in Gaza seek to pressure for formation of a national unity government that would limit the influence of Netanyahu’s far-right allies.
- Israel’s public broadcaster quotes an Israeli captive family member saying former Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz organized a meeting between the captives’ families and the Prime Minister of Qatar, one of the mediators in the ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas. According to the captive’s family member, Gantz met alone with the Qatari PM after the meeting with the families.
- Hamas says it is ready to implement a deal based on Biden’s July proposal, which includes a complete withdrawal by Israel from the Gaza Strip.
- Hamas says it refuses all new conditions to the already-accepted proposal and all plans for the postwar running of Gaza, insisting that it is an internal Palestinian matter.
- West Bank: Israel kills six Palestinians in Tubas, five in Tulkarem since Tuesday.
Israel bombs two shelters in Gaza in 48 hours
Israeli forces killed at least 58 Palestinians in two separate bombings of two shelters of displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since Tuesday.