mondoweiss presents the current situation in gaza;

Casualties:

• 28,576+ Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including at least 12,000 children, and 68,291+ Palestinians have been injured. 
• 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.
• 569 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 36,000 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 fighter jets have begun an aerial assault in Lebanese territory
• Dozens of trapped Palestinians flee the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis during deadly sniper attacks
• Israeli ships continue to attack Palestinian fishermen on Deir el-Balah’s beach
• Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urges Hamas to agree upon a ceasefire deal “quickly.”
• The number of Palestinian prisoners that Hamas wants released is now the “main gap” in truce negotiations
• Rafah’s population has increased five times since the Israeli military assault on Gaza began in October.
• Families of Israeli captives are on their way to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to lodge a case against Hamas...........more.........