the mondoweiss daily genocide compilation;

Casualties

• 22,313+ killed* and at least 57,296 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
• 321 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.
• 506 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 2,193 injured.

*This figure was confirmed by Gaza’s Ministry of Health on January 3. 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 say the death toll is higher than 30,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.

Key Developments

• Israel kills Hamas deputy political leader, Saleh Al-Aruri, alongside two commanders and four cadres, injuring eleven others in drone attack in Beirut.
• Aruri was one of masterminds of The Al-Aqsa Flood operation and talked about it openly in an interview with Al-Mayadeen channel in August.
• In the interview, Aruri revealed the Palestinian resistance was ready for a scenario that later manifested in the October 7 surprise attack on Israel.
• Israel’s military spokesperson says Israel is “in a high state of readiness for any scenario” without officially admitting if Tel Aviv was behind the assassination.
• Axios reveals Israel was behind the Aruri killing.
• Hamas political leader Ismael Haniyeh says assassination is “a full-fledged terrorist act” violating Lebanon’s sovereignty.
• Haniyeh says resistance fighters in Gaza turned Israel’s Merkava tanks into “charred coffins” and “no security, stability, or future in the region” without Palestinians achieving their political rights..........more..........