mondoweiss gives you some genocide info;
Casualties
- 31,645 + killed* and at least 73,676 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
- 435+ 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.
- 591 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.***
*Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirmed this figure on Telegram channel. Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 35,000 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 17, 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
- Israel’s PM Netanyahu says the army “will operate in Rafah” as international and U.S. officials warn of invading the southernmost Gaza district, where at least 1 million Palestinians have been displaced to.
- WHO chief says “further escalation of violence in [Rafah’s] densely populated area would lead to many more deaths and suffering, especially with health facilities already overwhelmed.”
- According to Al-Jazeera Arabic, clan chiefs in Gaza and UN officials deliver aid following directions issued by Hamas security agencies asking Palestinians not to gather near areas where aid trucks arrive due to frequent Israeli attacks on crowds seeking aid.
- Euro-Med chairman says instruction from Gaza police to people to back off when aid deliveries arrive “was met with full commitment from the population.”
- Israel tries to create authority in the Gaza Strip in place of Hamas, by using humanitarian aid as a tool to strengthen and push some clan leaders to the front seat.
- EU’s top humanitarian aid official says Israel did not present any evidence of claims against UNRWA to him or any official at the EU executive or to any other donor..........more........
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