Three Palestinian boys sit, distraught and crying, amongst the injured brought to a hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip following an Israeli airstrike. Israel resumed its airstrikes in full force on Friday, December 1, after a temporary truce ended in the Strip. (APA Images) Casualties
- 15,207 killed*, including 6,150 children, and 40,752 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
- 247+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
*This figure was confirmed by the Gaza Ministry of Health on December 2. However, due to breakdowns in communication networks within the Gaza Strip (particularly in northern Gaza), the Gaza Ministry of Health has not been able to regularly and accurately update its tolls since mid-November. Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 20,000.
Key Developments
- Israeli airstrikes kill close to 300 Palestinians and injured hundreds in Gaza since the collapse of the truce on Friday morning, with a particular focus on Khan Younis, where thousands of residents from northern and central Gaza have taken refuge in the past two months.
- Among those killed are three journalists, raising the death toll for Palestinian journalists since October 7 to 67.
- An airstrike in Jabalia refugee camp on Saturday is believed to have killed more than 100 people.
- A UN rapporteur slams Israel’s strategy in Gaza as having shifted “from indiscriminate killing of civilians to organized killing”.
- The Wall Street Journal reports that the United States has sent Israel some 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells since October 7, including one-ton “bunker buster bombs.”
- Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor calls for an international investigation into the fate of five Palestinian babies found dead in a hospital that was forcibly evacuated by Israeli forces.
- Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says “all elements point to Israeli army responsibility” in deadly attack on evacuation convoy on November 18.
- +972 Magazine investigation reveals that the Israeli army is using artificial intelligence to “generate” military targets, in a “mass assassination factory” focused on “quantity and not on quality.” The Guardian publishes a report with similar findings.
- Israeli army injures a number of Palestinians across the West Bank, and settlers stage attacks on Palestinian communities, property, and livestock.
- Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon kill at least two civilians, three Hezbollah fighters.
- Demonstrations are scheduled in Tel Aviv and other parts of Israel on Saturday calling for the release of hostages.
- International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan is scheduled to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says “Israel’s uncompromising approach” is to blame for breakdown of truce, adding: “The exclusion of Hamas or destruction of Hamas is not a realistic scenario.”
- In response, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Eli Cohen vows to “free Gaza from Hamas,” and calls for Turkey to “host in your country Hamas terrorists who aren’t eliminated and flee from Gaza.”
- Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva tells Al Jazeera that U.S. President Joe Biden has no “sensitivity” to stop the Gaza war.
- Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo says he told Israeli President Isaac Herzog “no more civilian killings.”
- A pro-Palestine protester is left in critical condition after self-immolating outside of the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, Georgia.
