mondoweiss brings you news about gaza;

Casualties 

• 33,899 + killed* and at least 76,664 wounded in the Gaza Strip.*
• 468+ 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.
• 604 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, and at least 6,800 injured.***

*Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirmed this figure on its Telegram channel on April 17. 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 April 5, this is the latest figure.

*** This figure is released by the Israeli military, showing the soldiers whose names “were allowed to be published.” The number of Israeli soldiers wounded is according to Israeli media reports.

Key Developments 

• Israel killed 56 Palestinians and wounded 89 in the past 24 hours across Gaza, raising the death toll since October 7 to 33,899 and the number of wounded to 76,664, according to the Gaza health ministry.
  
• Iran says it is “ready” for a major confrontation with Israel.
  
• Israel has detained at least 5,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip since October 7, according to the Gaza government media office.
  
• The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club says 16 identified Palestinians have died in Israeli detention since October 7.
  
• Israeli ‘Walla’ news website says that 60 Israeli soldiers have been wounded per day during the current war.
  
• Israeli forces withdraw from Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
  
• Human Rights Watch says Israeli settlers’ violence has expelled seven Palestinian communities since October 7.
  
• Lebanon: Hezbollah attacks several Israeli positions in Upper Galilee, Israel strikes southern Lebanon towns.

Gaza: Israel kills 56 Palestinians in the past 24 hours...........more................