Wednesday, November 29, 2023

 here be the daily mondoweiss cost of living under israeli oppression;


Casualties

  • 15,000+ killed*, including 6,150 children, and 33,000 wounded in Gaza Strip.
  • 238 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 is based on an estimate as reported by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa on October 28. 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 tolls.

Key Developments

  • As of Tuesday evening, 69 captives held by Hamas, the majority of them Israelis, were released from the Gaza Strip, while 150 Palestinians were freed from Israeli prisons.
  • Hamas chief Yahya Al-Sinwar met Israeli captives in Gaza tunnels and spoke with them in Hebrew in the early days of the war, Channel 12 reported.
  • Palestinian prisoners released on Monday spoke of ill-treatment, lack of proper food, and beatings inside Israeli prisons.
  • Israeli forces kicked out the Al Jazeera crew from the house of Nofoth Hammad, 16, the youngest female prisoner in Israeli prisons. Hammad was accused of attempting to stab an Israeli settler and sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2021.
  • UNICEF spokesperson said that “sorrow and sadness have taken root here in Gaza.” 
  • PA Minister of Health, Mai Keileh, said that 35,000 Palestinians were injured and 6,000 are missing in the Gaza Strip.
  • Israel released 150 Palestinians but arrested 260 others during the four days of temporary truce.
  • Smotrich doubles down on his war budget.........more........

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