Above photo: Displaced Palestinians ordered by Israeli military to evacuate northern Gaza flee during Israeli military assault, October 25, 2024. Mahmoud Issa/Quds Net News via ZUMA Press Wire/APA Images.
Shuts Down Kamal Adwan Hospital.
The last functioning hospital in north Gaza is forced out of service as Israeli forces continue to besiege and bomb Jabalia and Beit Lahia. In southern Lebanon, Israeli forces continue to take heavy losses.
Casualties
- 43,020 + killed* and at least 101,110 wounded in the Gaza Strip, including 59% women, children and elderly, as of October 21, 2024.*
- 763+ Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. This includes at least 146 children.**
- 2,672 Lebanese killed and more than 12,468 wounded by Israeli forces since October 8, 2023***
- Israel revised its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,189.
- The Israeli army recognizes the death of 890 Israeli soldiers and the injury of at least 5,065 others since October 7.****
* Gaza’s branch of the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed this figure in its daily report, published through its WhatsApp channel on October 28, 2024. Rights groups and public health experts estimate the death toll to be much higher.
** The death toll in the West Bank and Jerusalem is not updated regularly. This is the latest figure according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health as of October 27, 2024.
*** This figure was released by the Lebanese Health Ministry, updated on October 28, 2024. The counting is based on the Lebanese official date for the beginning of “the Israeli aggression on Lebanon,” when Israel began airstrikes on Lebanese territory after the beginning of Hezbollah’s “support front” for Gaza.
**** These figures are released by the Israeli military, showing the soldiers whose names “were allowed to be published.” Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot reported on August 4, 2024, that some 10,000 Israeli soldiers and officers have been either killed or wounded since October 7. The head of the Israeli army’s wounded association told Israel’s Channel 12 that the number of wounded Israeli soldiers exceeds 20,000, including at least 8,000 who have been 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 and as of June 18.
Key Developments
Gaza
- Israeli army forces the Kamal Adwan Hospital to go out of service after forcing medical staff and displaced Palestinians to leave it.
- Israeli forces detain dozens of Palestinians, including medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital.
- Israeli forces besiege al-Awda and Indonesian hospitals in north Gaza.
- Israeli forces kill 35 Palestinian civilians in the bombing of a residential block in Beit Lahia, kills 20 more in bombing of a school sheltering civilians in the Fakhoura neighborhood in Jabalia, northern Gaza.
- Israel kills 11 Palestinian civilians in the bombing of Asmaa school sheltering civilians in the Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City, including three journalists.
- Gaza’s Government Media office says number of journalists killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October of last year rose to 180.
- Israel bombs Sabra and Zeitoun neighborhoods in Gaza City.
- Israel bombs the north of Rafah and Deir al-Balah, killing four Palestinians since Sunday.
- Israel has bombed Beirut’s southern district eight times since Sunday.
- Palestinian Civil Defense says Israel is sabotaging international Polio vaccination efforts by forbidding vaccination teams to reach northern Gaza.
Iran
- Israel conducts airstrikes on Iran in response to Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes on October 1 for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July and Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah in Beirut in late September.
- Iranian Revolutionary Guard says Iran’s air defenses fought off part of Israel’s attack on Iran; Iranian news agency Tasneem says no targets belonging to Revolutionary Guard were struck by Israeli attack.
- Iran denies Israeli claims that 100 warplanes took part in attack and 20 targets were struck, considers Israel claims an attempt to magnify actual size of attack.
- Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says country’s specialized authorities will decide proper response to Israel’s attack.
- Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says Israel’s avoidance of striking strategic and economic targets in Iran was “wrong.”
- Likud Knesset members Tali Gottlieb says Israel’s decision not to attack oil and nuclear facilities in Iran was “a mistake.”
- Israeli opposition leader Avigdor Liberman says Israel “wasted an opportunity” to weaken Iran’s nuclear capacities.
Lebanon
- Israel bombs Lebanese towns of Zibqin, Burgholiyeh, Qleileh, Byut al-Sayad, Jabal Blat, Jebal al-Butm, Ramadiyeh, Sheitiyeh, Kufr Kila, Deir Sirian, and Kufr Tebnit, as well as cities of Nabatieh and Tyre in southern Lebanon, the towns of Suhmor, Halaniyeh, Taria, Mashghara, Asireh and Shimstar, and the Beqaa Valley.
- Israel kills at least 25 Lebanese in several airstrikes on Tyre since Sunday.
- Hezbollah launches five rockets at Haifa on Monday.
- Hezbollah issues call to Israelis to evacuate 25 towns in the Galilee and occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
- Israel’s Channel 12 reports 15 rockets fired at Kiryat Shmona in upper Galilee on Sunday.
- Israeli army admits two of its officers and three soldiers killed since Sunday in combat in southern Lebanon, raising admitted number of Israeli casualties in Lebanon to 15 dead, over 80 wounded in two days.
- Hezbollah drone attack strikes Israeli military factory near Akka.
- Israeli war minister Yoav Gallant says Israel will have to make “painful compromises” and that “not all goals are achieved through military action.”
- Head of Mossad meets CIA Director and Qatari foreign minister in Doha to discuss reviving ceasefire negotiations in Gaza and Lebanon.
- Five Israelis killed, 39 wounded or injured in truck ramming attack on bus station in Glilot, north of Tel Aviv; Israeli forces shoot and kill truck driver responsible for ramming attack, Rami Nasrallah, 49, from town of Qalansuwa.
West Bank
- Israeli forces kill Palestinian man Islam Odeh, 29, in Tulkarem, after brief gunfight at besieged house in Tulkarem.
- Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers during olive harvest, force them to leave their harvest behind in the villages of Keisan and Harmala near Bethlehem, the village of Kufr Malik near Ramallah, and village of Kufr al-Deek near Salfit.
- Israeli settlers set fire to vehicle during attack on Palestinian farmers during olive harvest in village of Qabalan near Nablus, open fire at Palestinian farmers harvesting olives in village of Qusra near Nablus.
Israel Forces Kamal Adwan Hospital Out Of Service
The last functioning hospital in northern Gaza has officially stopped functioning after Israeli forces raided it over the weekend, arresting all but two of its medical staff and damaging parts of the hospital premises.
On Saturday, Israeli forces began to raid the hospital, ordering patients and medical staff to leave its wings and descend to the courtyard. Israeli soldiers then separated the men from the women and arrested dozens of Palestinians, including all of the hospital’s staff except one nurse and the hospital’s Director, Dr. Husam Abu Safiyeh.
Earlier on Friday, Israeli forces had opened fire on the hospital’s buildings, shattering windows and shelling the upper floors, which injured and killed several Palestinians inside.
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One doctor left at north Gaza hospital after Israel detains entire staff
The last functioning hospital in northern Gaza has officially stopped functioning after Israeli forces raided it over the weekend, arresting all but two of its medical staff and damaging parts of the hospital premises.
The Kamal Adwan Hospital remained functioning after Israeli troops besieged the Indonesian and al-Awda hospitals earlier this month, becoming the only medical center servicing around 200,000 Palestinians in the area north of Gaza City. Around 150 people were taking shelter in the hospital after the Israeli military forced hundreds to leave displacement centers, including Kamal Adwan Hospital, early last week.
On Saturday, Israeli forces began to raid the hospital, ordering patients and medical staff to leave its wings and descend to the courtyard. Israeli soldiers then separated the men from the women and arrested dozens of Palestinians, including all of the hospital’s staff except one nurse and the hospital’s Director, Dr. Husam Abu Safiyeh.
The Israeli army claimed to have arrested 100 “terrorists,” which included dozens of hospital staff members. They were taken to an unknown location and their fate remains unknown.
Earlier on Friday, Israeli forces had opened fire on the hospital’s buildings, shattering windows and shelling the upper floors, which injured and killed several Palestinians inside.
“We were taking shelter at the Yemen clinic, and then Israeli quadcopters ordered us through speakers to leave, so we came to Kamal Adwan,” Razan Zuhud, a survivor from the Kamal Adwan raid, told Mondoweiss. “We were at Kamal Adwan for four days, then on Friday at 3:00 a.m. they [Israeli forces] began to shoot at us, and many were wounded. A girl was wounded in the arm. My nephew was wounded in the face and hand. My sister-in-law was wounded in the shoulder, and my brother was wounded in the chest,” she detailed.
“The occupation forces began to call for armed men to come out, but there were no armed men in the hospital, so nobody came out,” Marian Zuhud, another survivor, told Mondoweiss. “They [Israeli forces] began to shoot from all sides at the hospital, and bullets began to fly into the external clinic where I was, so I threw myself to the ground, and my son was wounded in the leg,” she explained.
“Then they called the doctor and ordered him to bring everybody out, so we came out of the building and they made us stand in three lines; men, women, and medical staff, and forced us to stand for more than an hour while tanks circled around us,” she went on. “Then they forced the men to strip down to their underwear and forced the women and children to walk, with tanks watching over us all the way to the Indonesian hospital, and from there to the south,” she recalled.
During the two-day invasion of the hospital, the son of Dr. Husam Abu Safiyeh was among the slain in the Israeli attack.
The Israeli army withdrew from the Kamal Adwan hospital late on Saturday after putting it out of service. Palestinians returned to the hospital following Israeli withdrawal, and some Palestinians began to clean up the floors and rooms in an attempt to rehabilitate the hospital. According to local sources, only three medics remained in the hospital after Israel’s withdrawal, including one doctor, Director Abu Safiyeh, who continued to look after dozens of remaining wounded patients.
Israel has been besieging and bombing northern Gaza since early October, attempting to force Palestinians to leave the area in line with the strategy put forward by senior Israeli military officials known as the “Generals’ Plan.” Simultaneously, Israeli politicians have supported settler calls to establish Israeli settlements in Gaza. Since the beginning of the Israeli offensive on northern Gaza, the Israeli assault has killed around 1,000 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.