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CrossFireArabia- December 31, 2024
Sarah Wilkinson writes:
We’re concerned over the fate of Kamal Adwan Hospital’s Dr Hussam Abu Safiya: he must be released, says Amnesty. Concern may not be enough, Wilkinson adds.
Israeli Media: 1000 Soldiers Wounded Monthly in War on Gaza
- CrossFireArabia
- December 31, 2024
Different Israeli media confirmed about 1000 soldiers are wounded and registered in the Ministry of War’s Rehabilitation Department every month. This is due to Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority (KAN) reported that more than 13,500 Israeli soldiers wounded have been registered in the Ministry of War’s Rehabilitation Department since 7 October, 2023.
It explained that 51% of the wounded are under the age of 30, noting that 43% of the wounded suffer from psychological trauma.
Last August, the number of disabled in the occupation army who received treatment in the Ministry’s Rehabilitation Department from all the wars that Israel fought reached 72,056. These include soldiers and officers who suffered from mental and psychological disorders and trauma. It pointed however that more than 10,000 were added during the war on Gaza.
The Israeli Ministry of War estimated that by the end of 2024, the Rehabilitation Department will have to care for about 82,000 disabled soldiers, adding more than 20,000 wounded and disabled as a result of the present ongoing war on Gaza.
However, the occupation army has only admitted – according to its website – to only 5,550 soldiers and officers that have been injured since the beginning of the war, 2,504 of whom since the start of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip on 27 October, 2023.
The Israeli occupation army, supported by the United States and Europe, continued its aggression on the Gaza Strip since 7 October, 2023, where its aircraft have bombed the vicinity of hospitals, buildings, towers and homes of Palestinian civilians and destroyed them over the heads of their residents, and prevented the entry of water, food, medicine and fuel.
The aggression left about 154,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and elderly people, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world according Quds Press.
Gaza Population Drops by 6%
- CrossFireArabia
- December 31, 2024
A statement by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics stated, Tuesday, the population of the Gaza Strip decreased by 6 percent by the end of 2024 due to the ongoing Israeli war of extermination on the Strip.
Bureau head Ola Awad, in a statement pointed out “the Israeli extermination resulted in the killing of 45,484 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and the departure of about 100,000 Palestinians from the Strip since October 7, 2023.”
She explained that among the dead were 17,581 children, 12,048 women, in addition to about 11,000 missing persons, and 108,090 other citizens were injured.
She stated that the population of Palestine reached 5.5 million people, including 3.4 million in the West Bank.
The population of the Gaza Strip decreased by about 160,000 people, reaching 2.1 million, a decrease of 6 percent from the population estimates in the Strip for 2023, including more than one million children under the age of 18, constituting 47 percent of the population of the Strip.
The Bureau estimates the number of Palestinians in the world by the end of 2024 at about 14.9 million, “half of whom are outside historical Palestine, including 5.5 million in the State of Palestine (West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip), and 1.8 million in the 1948 territories.”
The statement indicated that the number of Palestinians in the diaspora reached about 7.6 million Palestinians, including 6.4 million in Arab countries.
Since 7 October, 2023, Israel, with American support, has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, leaving about 154,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and elderly people, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
Israel continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on 21 November against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.
- CrossFireArabia
- December 31, 2024
Gaza’s civil defense is responding to hundreds of distress calls from displaced residents after heavy rainfall flooded their tents, worsening the already dire humanitarian situation in the region.
