Above photo: Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza are brought al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, October 31, 2024. Hadi Daoud/APA Images.
There are no more hospitals in northern Gaza as Kamal Adwan Hospital goes out of service.
In Lebanon, Hezbollah’s new Secretary General, Naim Qassem, says the movement will not negotiate before a ceasefire.
Casualties
- 43,204 + killed* and at least 101,641 wounded in the Gaza Strip, including 59% women, children and elderly, as of October 21, 2024.*
- 766+ Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. This includes at least 146 children.**
- 2,822 Lebanese killed and more than 12,937 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 31, 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 31, 2024.
*** This figure was released by the Lebanese Health Ministry, updated on October 31, 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 airstrikes target upper floor of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia, north Gaza, causing a fire in the hospital’s warehouse.
- Kamal Adwan Hospital Director, Husam Abu Safiyeh, says there are 120 patients and one doctor left in the hospital after Israel’s forcible evacuation of the medical compound last week.
- Israel kills 93 Palestinian civilians in the bombing of a marketplace in the center of Gaza City.
- Israel kills 110 Palestinian civilians in the bombing of a five-floor residential building in Beit Lahia, north Gaza.
- Israeli war minister Yoav Gallant tells Israeli troops in Gaza to exercise “as much military pressure as possible” to release Israeli captives.
- Israel’s siege and offensive on north Gaza continues for 27th day in a row.
- Palestinian Ministry of Health calls on international community to send ambulances and medical supplies to north Gaza.
- UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Palestine, Francesca Albanese, says Israel is “trying to reduce the presence of Palestinian identity in the Palestinian territory” in a new report released on Monday, accusing Israel of “long-term, deliberate, state-led displacement and replacement” and “settler-colonial genocide” in Gaza. Albanese warned of a “genocidal risk” in the West Bank.
- Israeli Knesset passes law banning United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) from working in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Lebanon
- Hezbollah elects Naim Qassem as new Secretary General. In his inaugural address, Qassem reaffirms that Hezbollah will not negotiate before a ceasefire, says Hezbollah rebuilt its structure and is ready to fight for months.
- Israel admits to injury of 22 soldiers in Lebanon over past 24 hours. The Israeli war ministry’s rehabilitation services say 900 wounded in Lebanon since the beginning of the war.
- Hezbollah drone attack hits military parts factory in Nahariya, causing fire.
- Israel airstrike targets Lebanese ambulance team in Tyre, southern Lebanon.
- U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein arrives in Israel on Thursday to discuss new proposed deal with Hezbollah; Netanyahu says Israel “knows when to say No” to the U.S. following Hochstein meeting.
- Netanyahu says Israel has set “goals for the war,” but will not set dates to end it.
West Bank
- Israeli forces kill three Palestinians during a raid into Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, northern West Bank.
- Israeli forces raid Nablus and its adjacent Balata refugee camp and the Shu’fat refugee camp north of Jerusalem.
- Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers during thee olive harvest in the village of Kufr Qlil, south of Nablus, stealing Palestinians’ olives.
- Israeli settlers plow private Palestinian lands in the village of Khalayel al-Loz, east of Bethlehem.
- Israeli settlers destroy several olive groves in the village of Yasuf near Salfit.
- Palestinian Official Commission for Settlements Affairs says Israel has confiscated 52,000 dunams of Palestinian land in the West Bank and created 12 buffer zones around settlements on Palestinian land since October of last year.
Hezbollah’s Naim Qassem Says No Negotiations Before Ceasefire
In his first televised address as newly elected Secretary General of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that his leadership of the Lebanese resistance group will be a continuation of the leadership of his predecessor, Hasan Nasrallah, who was assassinated by Israel on September 28. Qassem affirmed that Hezbollah has not changed course despite the heavy blows it suffered with Israel’s assassination of several of its top military leaders, Nasrallah included.
The Hezbollah Secretary General stated that the organization had the capacity to “fight for days, weeks, and months.”
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