Above photo: Palestinians, navigating winter conditions struggle with the strong winds, heavy rain and floods affecting the region amid Israeli attacks on November 24, 2024. Omar Ashtawy/APA Images.
In Gaza, floods caused by heavy rainfall devastated thousands of families living in displaced tents in southern Gaza.
Meanwhile, UNRWA says that all aid entering Gaza is less than 6% of what is needed.
Casualties
- 44,235 + killed* and at least 104,638 wounded in the Gaza Strip, 59% of whom are women, children and elderly, as of October 21, 2024.*
- 796+ Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. This includes at least 146 children.**
- 3,7678 Lebanese killed and more than 15,669 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 25, 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 24, 2024.
*** This figure was released by the Lebanese Health Ministry, updated on November 25, 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
- As the Israeli siege of northern Gaza hits its 50th day, UNRWA says that all of the aid that entered the Gaza Strip is less than 6% of the population’s humanitarian needs.
- UNRWA says that getting food has become “impossible” for families in the Gaza Strip.
- Israel has killed 59 Palestinians and wounded 165 since Saturday, including women and children, in airstrikes across the Gaza Strip.
- Israel kills 22 Palestinians including 10 children in a strike on the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City on Monday.
- Rainfall floods displaced tent encampments in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, and in the Mawasi area, in the south.
- The Israeli army detonates residential buildings in the Beit Lahia in the north of Gaza and drops leaflets ordering residents to leave the area.
- The director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital Dr. Husam Abu Safiyeh was wounded by shrapnel from a bomb dropped by an Israeli quadcopter on the hospital in Beit Lahia in the north of Gaza.
- Haaretz reports that one-quarter of the Palestinian detainees from Gaza suffer from scabies in Israeli detention.
Lebanon
- The Israeli daily Yediot Ahranot says that Netanyahu and the cabinet agreed in principle to a ceasefire deal with Lebanon.
- The Israeli minister of immigration tells the Israeli army’s radio that ceasefire talks with Lebanon reached advanced stages.
- Israel’s security minister Ben-Gvir says that a ceasefire deal with Lebanon would be a “historical failure.”
- Israel bombs the southern Dahiya district and Haret Hraik in Beirut repeatedly on Sunday and Monday, destroying entire buildings.
- Israel continues to bomb the Lebanese towns of Biut al-Sayad, al-Mansouri, Zebqin, Dabin, Arnoun, Kufr Tebnit, Deir Syrian, Baraashit, Majdal Salm, Jimeijemeh, and Kounin.
- Hezbollah launched the largest daily record of missiles toward Israel since the beginning of the war on Sunday, with 250 missiles directed at the coastal cities of Haifa, Nahariya, Tel Aviv, and Asdod, with direct hits reported.
- Hezbollah says it destroyed five Israeli tanks while fighting off an Israeli incursion near the border village of Bayadha, in the south of Lebanon.
- Hezbollah targets five concentrations of the Israeli army on the outskirts of al-Khyam, where Israeli forces attempted to advance twice this month.
West Bank
- Israeli forces have arrested 29 Palestinians since Sunday, including a woman and a child.
- Israeli forces raided the village of Mughayyir, sealed it off for two days on Saturday and Sunday, and conducted dozens of field interrogations.
- The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club says that Israel has detained 423 Palestinian women since October 7 of last year.
- Israeli forces killed two Palestinians aged 13 and 20 with live bullets during a raid on the town of Yaabad west of Jenin.
- The Palestinian Commission for Settlements and Wall Affairs says that Israel has confiscated 52,000 dunams (12,849 acres) of land in the West Bank since October 7 of last year.
- Israeli settlers destroy an unspecified number of olive trees at the village of Khalayel al-Loz near Bethlehem; settlers destroy 55 olive trees in the village of Lubban al-Sharqiyah south of Nablus.
- Israeli settlers attack Palestinian houses and injure a man at the village of Beit Furik east of Nablus; settlers storm the Islamic cemetery in Tel Rumeidah in Hebron; Israeli settlers storm the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron; hundreds of Israeli settlers storm the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem
Hezbollah and Israel escalate fighting as reports say a ceasefire deal is close
Israel and Lebanon are very close to concluding a ceasefire deal, claimed Israeli reports on Monday, after two days of intense fire exchange between Hezbollah and the Israeli army over the weekend.
On Monday, the Israeli ambassador to the US told the Israeli army’s radio that Israel was close to reaching a ceasefire deal with Lebanon within days, while the Israeli minister of immigration told the same radio station that ceasefire talks with Lebanon reached advanced stages.
These Israeli reports came as the Israeli daily Israel Hayom reported that Netanyahu held a meeting with key ministers in his cabinet late on Sunday, including war minister Yizrael Katz, strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer, finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, and security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and agreed on the final details of the alleged deal.
Paradoxically, Ben-Gvir voiced on Monday his opposition to a ceasefire with Lebanon, calling it “a historical failure,” that would make Israel miss, according to him, “a historical opportunity to destroy Hezbollah.”