israel joins with the empire, or perhaps owns the empire and is doing all it can to outdo their historical crimes, as mondoweiss displays daily;

Casualties

• 27,585+ killed* and at least 66,978 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.
• 562 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 at more than 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

• Israeli soldier takes video of interrogating handcuffed Palestinian man from Gaza and posts it on his social media account.
• Israeli forces kill three sheep while standing in middle of road with persistent gunfire in Bani Suheila town.
• Israeli forces prevent ambulances from accessing Ansar Square, Abu Mazen Roundabout, and Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City.
• Euro-Med publishes testimonies of detained Palestinians subjected to torture in Israeli jails, including “forced nudity, sexual harassment, and threats of sexual torture, calling for urgent international action to stop these violations.”
• Israeli forces lay siege on Al-Nasser Hospital and trap 300 medical staff, 450 wounded, and 10,000 displaced Palestinians inside it.
• UN chief Antonio Guterres announces independent panel to “assess the neutrality of UNRWA” and respond to allegations of “serious breaches”.
• Guterres says Israel’s accusation of UNRWA comes when “it is working under extremely challenging conditions to deliver life-saving assistance to the two million people in the Gaza Strip”...........more........