the daily mondoweiss cost of war on gaza;

Casualties

• 20,424+ killed* and at least 54,036 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
• 303 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
• Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
• 489 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 1,952 injured.

*This figure was confirmed by Gaza’s Ministry of Health on December 24. Due to breakdowns in communication networks within the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of Health in Gaza has been unable to regularly and accurately update its tolls since mid-November. Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 28,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.

Key Developments

• UNRWA says 142 employees killed in Israeli bombardment in Gaza Strip since October 7.
• UNRWA warns it is struggling to provide health care for 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza.
• WHO chief calls for ceasefire and decries Israel’s destruction of Gaza health system.
• Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor accuses Israeli forces of turning Palestinian schools in Gaza Strip into “settings for brutal crimes against civilians.”
• Israeli military says 162 killed in armed battles with Palestinian fighters since late October.
• Israeli forces recover five bodies of captives in a tunnel in Gaza, and Hamas says it killed 48 Israeli soldiers and destroyed 35 military vehicles since Thursday...........more..........