the ongoing genocide as reported by mondoweiss;

Casualties 

• 32,623 + killed* and at least 75,092 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
• 450+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.**
• Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,139.
• 597 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 estimate the death toll to be much higher when accounting for those presumed dead.

** The death toll in the West Bank and Jerusalem is not updated regularly. According to the 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 

• Israeli forces killed 71 Palestinians and wounded 112 in air and artillery strikes across the Gaza Strip.
• Israel’s raid into al-Shifa hospital enters its 12th day, destroying more buildings in the vicinity of the hospital.
• Israel releases 102 Palestinians detained from Gaza in recent weeks.
• Israel admits eight soldiers wounded in 24 hour period as fighting between Israeli army and Palestinian resistance intensifies in Gaza City and in Khan Younis.
• ICJ orders new provisional measures in South Africa’s genocide case against Srael, including provisions to prevent famine.
• North Gaza-based journalist Bayan Abu Sultan, who was feared missing since March 19 after reporting that Israeli forces killed her brother in front of her, reappears on Twitter and confirms that she is alive.
• At least 40 Syrian soldiers and Hezbollah fighters killed in Israeli strikes on Aleppo, Syria.
• UN special rapporteur for Palestine says, “there is enough grounds to believe that Israel is committing genocide.”
• West Bank: One Palestinian teenager was wounded in al-Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron, in an Israeli raid...........more.........