There Is No Cease Fire for Palestinians In Gaza or the Occupied West Bank
S. E. Anderson
Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel
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Casualty count: Over the last 24 hours, two Palestinians were killed and 22 were injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 has risen to 72,553 killed, with 172,296 injured. Since October 11, the first full day of the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 777 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 2,193, while 761 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
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Israeli attacks continue in Gaza:
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An Israeli drone strike targeted a group of Palestinians in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City. At dawn, one person was killed and another injured in a drone strike on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Three more people were injured on Al-Rashid Street, west of Gaza City, and others were wounded by gunfire in Khan Younis.
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Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, according to Palestinian media and medical sources. A child, Hala Darwish, was killed near Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, Wafa reported, while Khalil Nasser, 62, was shot in the head outside his tent in a displaced families’ camp in Jabalia while helping others collect water. Ayman Abu Hasna, 38, was killed in an Israeli drone strike on a motorcycle along Salah al-Din Street northeast of Nuseirat camp, Al-Awda Hospital said.
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Israeli forces killed a Palestinian identified as Yousef Bin Hasan northwest of Rafah, and a young girl was separately reported shot in the southern Mawasi area.
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Israel kills two UNICEF water truck drivers: Two truck drivers contracted by UNICEF to deliver clean water to Palestinian families in Gaza were killed by Israeli fire at the Mansoura water filling point in northern Gaza. Mansoura is the only operational truck filling point for the Mekorot water supply line serving Gaza City, according to UNICEF.
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Senior Hamas official denies NYT report on disarmament: The New York Times reported on Sunday that Hamas is willing to relinquish “thousands of automatic rifles and other weapons,” and that it would turn these weapons over to the Palestinian administrative committee set up under the Gaza Board of Peace. A senior Hamas official told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill, however, that this report is “rubbish.”
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Satellite imagery shows Israeli military entrenchment expanding across Gaza: An investigation by Al Jazeera using satellite imagery found that Israeli military construction is accelerating across Gaza while civilian reconstruction has essentially ceased. Satellite images show Israeli forces have secretly moved concrete boundary markers hundreds of metres further into Palestinian territory, building new fortifications, paved roads, watchtowers, and permanent outposts expanding across the territory. Meanwhile, the “New Rafah” reconstruction vision promoted by Jared Kushner at Davos in January has shown no ground-level progress. Read the full report here.
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Gaza reconstruction costs estimated at $71.4 billion: A joint assessment by the European Union, United Nations, and World Bank estimates that Gaza will require $71.4 billion for recovery and reconstruction over the next decade, including $26.3 billion in the first 18 months to restore essential services and infrastructure. The report notes that more than 371,888 housing units have been destroyed or damaged, over 50% of hospitals are non-functional, nearly all schools have been affected, and the economy has shrunk by 84%. According to the report, development has been set back by an estimated 77 years, about 1.9 million people have been displaced, and over 60% of the population have lost their homes.
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Israeli attacks on the occupied West Bank:
Israeli forces detained more than 50 Palestinians on Monday during raids in Hebron, Yatta, Beit Ummar, and Anabta near Tulkarm, according to WAFA. Three others, including a local Prisoners Society director, were also detained in Tammun. Meanwhile, military bulldozers uprooted dozens of olive and almond trees for the second consecutive day. In the Tubas area, Israeli forces also destroyed water pipelines near Tammun as part of ongoing land clearing reportedly linked to plans for a 22-kilometer road connecting checkpoints east of Nablus and Tubas.
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Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian who allegedly entered the illegal settlement of Negohot in the southern Hebron Hills on Saturday. The military claimed—without providing evidence—that the person was armed with a knife. ///
s. e. anderson
author of The Black Holocaust for Beginners
"If WORK was good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor." (Haiti)
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