Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians and wounded 43 others in the previous 24-hour period.
The latest violence brings the Health Ministry’s death toll since October 7 to 41,467 and the number of wounded to 95,921. The figures are considered an undercount since they don’t account for the thousands who are missing under the rubble, and the number of indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege is not known.
“There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry wrote on Telegram. The post included a link for Palestinians to report missing family members.
Later in the day, Reuters reported that Gaza medics said a total of 22 people were killed by Israeli strikes on Tuesday. The toll is higher since the Health Ministry puts out its numbers about mid-day Gaza time, and it only counts bodies that have been brought to hospitals or morgues.
Strikes on Tuesday included an Israeli attack on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that at least six Palestinians, including two children, were killed in the strike, and others were injured. WAFA also reported that a total of seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli operations in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Last week, Gaza’s Health Ministry released the names of 34,344 Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli forces, including 11,355 children. Among the children were 710 infants who did not make it to their first birthday.
The Biden administration continues to support the genocidal slaughter in Gaza by providing weapons to the Israeli military. A senior Israeli Air Force official recently acknowledged that without the US military aid, Israel would not be able to sustain operations in Gaza for more than a few months.
Gaza Is Gone: interview with Norm Finkelstein
https://rumble.com/v5g6zvd-gaza-is-gone-prof.-norman-finkelstein-on-israels-destruction-and-war-goals.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Gone, not entirely and we will never forget!…
Very powerful. That interview has been playing in my head since I watched it. He talks about 300,000 to 500,000 Palestinians/Gazans "disappeared" and I think I know exactly where they are. I think they are mixed in with the dirt.
I was incredibly heartbroken after it.
I listened to it. I think he's too pessimistic. Palestine has never been closer to statehood as it is now.
I hope you are right.
There is real concern both in U.S. military and political circles and in IDF/Israeli security circles about the devastating effects of a full scale war, not least on the economic implications for the West if the Gulf oil supply is cut off and other critical factors. The Palestinian demand is now for a national referendum. That is the alternative. They might just take it. An offensive to the Litani would mean the IDF would get chewed up and the Israeli economy would collapse. American boots o the ground would be inevitable. The empire knows this. Norman is a hero but he has a limited bandwidth on some issues.
The people who have been co-conspiring are fucking insane, though. People like Blinken.
Yes, but there is now a counterforce to them in the military and security state.
“It’s every man’s war, that keeps us apart, forever to struggle and to never know peace, the day will come, when humankind will be set free, from humankind’s suffering, for all of eternity”…djv
Petro said the same thing.
Israel is a loose cannon, prepared to strike anyone, anywhere, truly on the warpath, which I can say, I am very literally familiar with,, since I am part Comanche. My ancestor is a bit famous: Quanah Parker. A great Comanche chief.
thats a slow day for them