mondoweiss, gaza, mass murder;

Casualties

• 31,490+ killed* and at least 73,439 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
• 427+ 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.
• 590 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.***

*Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirmed this figure on its Telegram channel. Some rights groups put the death toll number at more than 40,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.

** The death toll in West Bank and Jerusalem is not updated regularly. According to PA’s Ministry of Health on March 6, this is the latest figure.

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

Key Developments

• Israeli warplanes and drones open fire on a group of Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza City
• Spanish aid vessel “Open Arms” visible off coast of Gaza.
• Israeli military installs iron barriers at the gates of al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem.
• Israeli security forces turn away thousands of Palestinians traveling from West Bank to East Jerusalem the first Friday prayers of Ramadan.
• New ceasefire proposal put forward by Hamas, calls for release of Israeli captive women, children, elderly and the ill in exchange for release of 700 – 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.
• Israeli Office of the Prime Minister describes Hamas plan as “unrealistic.”........more........