Wednesday, February 21, 2024

 mondoweiss brings you up to date with the genocide;


Casualties

  • 29,195+ killed* and at least 69,170 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • 380+ 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.
  • 575 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

*This figure was confirmed by Gaza’s Ministry of Health on Telegram channel. Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 35,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.

** This figure is released by the Israeli military, showing the soldiers whose names “were allowed to be published.”

Key Developments

  • Palestine’s Foreign Minister presents case at ICJ, accuses Israel of apartheid in Gaza, West Bank, and Jerusalem.
  • ICJ expected to render a non-binding legal opinion on Israel’s occupation.
  • Israel avoids sending representative to ICJ, files five-page written statement saying ICJ case “aimed at harming” Israel.
  • U.S. circulates Security Council resolution supporting temporary ceasefire in exchange for release of Israeli captives held by Hamas.
  • Israeli forces commit nine massacres overnight in various areas of Gaza, according to Ministry of Health, killing at least 103 Palestinians and injuring 124 others. 
  • Dr. Ashraf Al-Qidra says 18 patients evacuated from Nasser medical complex to field hospitals, 118 patients remain inside it.
  • Israeli forces build fortified east-to-west corridor south of Gaza City, cutting Gaza Strip in two halves and blocking Palestinians from traveling north on Salah al-Din Street...........more.......

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