mondoweiss presents the latest genocide news;

Casualties

• 31,533+ killed* and at least 73,546 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

• At least 80 people killed in overnight Israeli attacks across Gaza, including at least 36 in the Nuseirat refugee camp
• Netanyahu says that a military plan for a ground invasion of Rafah has been approved
• Civilians in Rafah will be evacuated to “humanitarian islands” throughout the Gaza Strip
• UNRWA: 31 percent of children in northern Gaza under the age of two have acute malnutrition
• Several Israeli NGOs warn that the war in Gaza is leading to a “crisis” in Israeli prisons
• Spanish vessel “Open Arms” starts unloading cargo in Gaza
• Japan announces that it will also begin to deliver aid to Gaza via a maritime corridor........more..........