Above photo: A body wrapped in a shroud lies on a gurney as it is brought to al-Ahli Baptist Hospital for funeral procedures following an Israeli army attack on the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, Gaza, on November 21, 2024. Khaled Daoud/APA Images.
As The ICC Issues Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu And Gallant.
On the heels of the ICC issuing arrest warrants for Israeli officials, Israel killed at least 87 Palestinians on Thursday in strikes across the Gaza Strip, as well as nine Palestinians in Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
Casualties
- 44,056 + killed* and at least 104,268 wounded in the Gaza Strip, 59% of whom are women, children and elderly, as of October 21, 2024.*
- 793+ Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. This includes at least 146 children.**
- 3,558 Lebanese killed and more than 15,123 wounded by Israeli forces since October 8, 2023***
- Israel revised its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,189.
- Israel recognizes the death of 890 Israeli soldiers, policemen and intelligence officers 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 November 21, 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 November 21, 2024.
*** This figure was released by the Lebanese Health Ministry, updated on November 21, 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
- The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued international arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant, and against Hamas’s military wing commander Mohammad Deif.
- Israel kills 66 Palestinians and wounds 100 more in a strike on the surroundings of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia, in the north of Gaza.
- The director of the Kamal Adwan hospital. Dr. Husam Abu Safiyah tells Al-Jazeera that some of the victims by the Israeli strike on the hospital’s surroundings were “torn to pieces”, and that many wounded died because of a lack of medical supplies.
- Israeli strikes on the central Gaza Strip killed 22 Palestinians on Thursday, including 10 children.
- The Israeli army informs the Israeli cabinet that it ended its operations in Jabalia, and that expanding to other areas would “put soldiers’ lives at risk.”
- The Israeli army admits the killing of a staff sergeant in combat in the north of Gaza.
- The Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post quotes an Israeli military official saying that Israel is planning to stay in the Gaza Strip for a long time.
Lebanon
- Axios quotes Israeli and US officials saying that the ceasefire deal proposal in Lebanon has many gaps.
- US envoy Amos Hochstein visits Lebanon and Israel and leaves with no deal.
- US envoy Hochstein meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s war minister Israel Katz, and Israeli chief of staff Herzi Halevi on Thursday, after saying that talks with Lebanese officials in Beirut “made progress” on Tuesday.
- The secretary general of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem says that Hezbollah has two main stipulations in ceasefire negotiations: The complete end of the war, and the safeguard of Lebanon’s sovereignty, in reference to Israel’s demand to have freedom of military action in Lebanon’s territory.
- Lebanese authorities announce 40 Lebanese killed and 52 wounded by Israeli air strikes on Lebanese villages in the Beqaa Valley and the Baalbek area on Thursday and Friday.
- Israel bombs the crowded Zqaq al-Balat residential neighborhood in Beirut on Monday, killing four Lebanese, and several parts of the Dahyiah district.
- Israel continues bombing the towns of Kufr Rumman, Arnoun, Ainata, Hanin, Kounin, and the city of Nabatiyeh in the south of lebanon, and bombs for the first time since 2006 the towns of Jebshit, Shoukin and Harouf, and the outskirts of the town of Zebdin.
- Hezbollah rockets directly hit a building in Ramat Gan in central Tel Aviv on Tuesday wounding six Israelis, Israeli police confirmed.
- Hezbollah rockets hit Nahariya on Thursday and kill one Israeli, hit Kiryat Shmona, twice since Thursday and reach Haifa, where Israeli anti-missile systems intercepted part of them.
- Hezbollah announces rocket and drone attacks on the headquarters of the Israeli Golani elite unit in the Galilee and Israeli military gatherings across the border from the Lebanese town of Kufr Kila.
- Heavy fighting renewed between the Israeli invading forces and Hezbollah fighters in the outskirts of the city of al-Khyam in the south of Lebanon, while Hezbollah says it fought off all Israeli attempts to advance into the city.
West Bank
- Israel launches a two-day-long invasion on Jenin in the northern West Bank, killing nine Palestinians on Tuesday and Wednesday.
- Israeli forces kill a Palestinian during a raid on Nablus on Thursday.
- Israeli settlers burn 60 trees near the Palestinian town of Salfit; settlers burn Palestinian cars in Mazraa Gharbiyeh, north of Ramallah.
- Israeli settlers block the flow of the crucial water source of al-Awja, north of Jericho.
Israel kills nine Palestinians in 48-hour raid on Jenin
Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in a military raid on Jenin that lasted more than 48 hours between Wednesday and Thursday. Local residents told Mondoweiss that Israeli forces entered the industrial area in Jenin late night Wednesday and headed towards the city’s refugee camp, where they clashed with Palestinian fighters. The Israeli army also took over several rooftops and installed snipers on the refugee camp’s perimeter.
Shortly before the start of the invasion of the refugee camp, Israeli forces raided the village of Kufr Dan, to the west of Jenin city, where the Palestinian Red Crescent said that its teams treated a Palestinian man wounded by a live bullet in the chest. The Israeli army told the Palestinian civil liaison office that it had killed two other men in Kufr Dan and withheld their bodies. Meanwhile, an Israeli drone bombed a Palestinian car traveling between the villages of Yamun and Burqin, west of Jenin, and killed at least one Palestinian.
In the refugee camp, the Israeli army pushed military bulldozers into the camp’s alleys, destroying several streets and fronts of houses, as Israeli soldiers broke in searching for weapons and fighters, according to local testimonies.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces besieged a house in the ‘Martyrs Triangle’ area at the entrance of the city, and ordered three men inside to hand themselves over. The men refused, which led to a brief exchange of fire, according to Palestinian media reports, and ended in the killing of the Palestinian men inside.
During the attack, Israeli forces withheld the bodies of five slain Palestinians and arrested an unspecified number, including a woman. Israeli soldiers also conducted field interrogations of several Palestinians, while Israeli bulldozers completely destroyed the ‘Schools street’ and partially destroyed a public playground in the eastern part of the city.
Jenin has been at the center of Israel’s offensive on the West Bank since October 7 of last year. Since the beginning of 2024, Israeli forces have killed 141 Palestinians in Jenin, and 215 since October 7 of last year, marking the highest number of Palestinians killed by Israel, followed by Tulkarem, where Israeli forces have killed 125 Palestinians since the beginning of 2024 and 185 since October 7 of last year.
Across the West Bank, Israeli forces or settlers have killed, since the beginning of Israel’s genocide in Gaza in October of last year, 793 Palestinians, including 167 children, 14 women, 13 elderly, two ambulance workers, one journalist, and 20 detainees.
Israeli forces have also wounded 6,250 Palestinians and arrested more than 10,000. Israel has also demolished an estimated 1,750 Palestinian properties, including 839 homes, displacing 5898 Palestinians.