Sunday, February 18, 2024

 mondoweiss returns with more numbers and incidents for your awareness of those responsible;


Casualties:

  • 28,858+ Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including at least 12,000 children, and 68,667+ Palestinians have been injured. 
  • 394+ 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 have been 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 36,500 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:

  • US President Joe Biden has had “extensive” talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pushing for a temporary ceasefire
  • Hamas will not accept anything less than a “complete” cessation of hostilities, blames Israel for stalling truce agreement
  • Head of Egyptian State Information Service (SIS) Diaa Rashwan rejects reports that the country is creating a buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza
  • Six NGOs issue a joint statement, warning of “catastrophic” consequences of an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah
  • The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rejects an urgent request from South Africa to safeguard Rafah
  • Without police escorts, it is virtually impossible to get humanitarian aid into Gaza
  • Israeli military tanks block WHO humanitarian aid trucks trying to enter the Nasser Hospital medical compound in Khan Younis.......more..........

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