Tuesday, June 25, 2024

mondoweiss on the genocide but i suspect their 'killed' number is quite low; 


Casualties 

  • 37,598 + killed* and at least 86,032 wounded in the Gaza Strip. Among the killed, 27,706 have been fully identified. These include 7,779 children, 5466 women, and 2418 elderly. In addition, around 10,000 more are estimated to be under the rubble.*
  • 553+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. These include 135 children.**
  • Israel revised its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,140.
  • 665 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7.***

* Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirmed this figure on its ًWhatsApp channel on June 23, 2024. 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 June 23, this is the latest figure.

*** These figures are released by the Israeli military, listing the soldiers whose names “were allowed to be published.” According to the head of the Israeli army’s wounded association to Israel’s Channel 12, The number of Israeli soldiers wounded exceeds 20,000 including at least 8,000 permanently handicapped as of June 1. Israel’s Channel 7 reported that according to the Israeli war ministry’s rehabilitation service numbers, 8,663 new wounded joined the army’s handicap rehabilitation system since October 7, as of June 18.

Key Developments 

  • Israel has killed 167 Palestinians and wounded 379 across Gaza since Thursday, June 20. This raises the death toll since October 7 to 37,598 and the number of wounded to 86,032, according to the Gaza health ministry.
  • Israel’s war minister Gallant begins on Monday top-level meetings in Washington to discuss the continuation of the war in Gaza and a possible attack on Lebanon.
  • Netanyahu says in his first full interview with Israeli media that he is not ready to end the war.
  • The Israeli army says that most of its operations in Rafah are over.
  • Israel bombs a medical clinic in Gaza City’s Daraj neighborhood, killing its director and another health worker.
  • Save The Children says that 17,000 children in Gaza are unaccompanied by any parent or related adult and that an estimated 21,000 children are missing.
  • The Palestinian education ministry says that 85% of schools and colleges in Gaza have been put out of service and that 110 education facilities of all levels have been destroyed or damaged, including all the universities in the Gaza Strip, while 321 facilities were partially damaged.........more.......

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