mondoweiss presents the growing bad news of which i'm sure we haven't heard even half of it;

Casualties 

• 31,341+ killed* and at least 73,134 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
• 423+ 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 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 closer to 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 parliament approves 2024 budget that “guarantees continuation of war.”
• Israeli attack on UN aid distribution center in Rafah kills at least one UNRWA staff member and wounds over 20 others.
• Israeli army plans to displace Palestinians in Rafah towards “humanitarian islands” in the center of the Gaza Strip, according to AP News.
• Israeli forces open fire yet again on aid seekers in Gaza City, killing at least 7 Palestinians, wounding 86, reported Wafa. 
• Human rights groups call for all Gaza land crossings to be opened for aid. 
• Israeli military confiscates body of slain 13-year-old. 
• UN: Since October 7, Israeli forces killed over 400 people sheltering in U.N. facilities in Gaza. ......more........