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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 108: Israel is systematically obliterating Gaza, section by section 

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As Israeli forces surround yet another hospital in Gaza, Hamas releases a letter clarifying its motives behind the October 7 attack, reiterating the Palestinian demand for the right to self-determination.

Mondoweiss, BY LEILA WARAH  JANUARY 22, 2024,

Casualties

• 25,295+ killed* and at least 63,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
• 387+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
• Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
• 532 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

*This figure was confirmed by Gaza’s Ministry of Health on January 22. Some rights groups put the death toll number higher than 32,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.

Key Developments

• UNOCHA: Only 15 bakeries still operational across Gaza, none in north.
• UNOCHA: Approximately 1.7 million internally displaced people in Gaza.
• Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor: Israel killed 94 professors in Gaza since October 7.
• Palestine Red Crescent Society: Israeli tanks near al-Amal City Hospital in Khan Younis, all contact with PRCS team in area lost.
• Palestine Red Crescent Society: Israel besieges ambulance center in Khan Younis, prevents lifesaving movement.
• Israeli forces destroy entire neighborhood in Khan Younis via demolition, after soldier takes selfie with explosives.
• Two Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanon by Israeli drone strike.
• Palestinian Ministry of Health: 190 Palestinians killed and 34 injured in the last 48 hours.
• Hamas publishes 16-page report to “clarify” background and dynamics of October 7 surprise attack.
• Israelis protest outside Netanyahu home, demand return of Israeli captives.

Hospitals under attack in southern Gaza

The Israeli army is systematically destroying Gaza as its genocidal war on the beleaguered strip enters its 108th day. The Israeli army, after having almost completely decimated northern Gaza, continues to move further south, setting its sights on Khan Younis, the second-largest district in the besieged enclave.

The area was initially designated a safe zone by Israel, leading hundreds of thousands of residents from the north to seek refugee in the city. Yet Khan Younis has now already become a shadow of itself after extensive damage and destruction wrought by the relentless Israeli airstrikes.

The ground invasion continues the campaign of obliteration, as Israeli soldiers filmed themselves blowing up 40 residential buildings at once with the use of explosives. Earlier, soldier Itamar Bello shared a selfie of himself posing with the mines used for the demolition.

Meanwhile, Israeli tanks and military vehicles are approaching al-Amal Hospital in the center of Khan Younis, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported on Monday morning.

As a result, PRCS has lost all contact with its crews in the area.

PRCS later added that the Israeli military was preventing first responders from reaching the wounded in Khan Younis as it intensified the ground assault and attacked the PRCS ambulance center.

Meanwhile, about 1 kilometer away, the Nasser Medical Complex was surrounded on three sides by the military in conjunction with the ongoing Israeli artillery bombardment in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital, Wafa reported……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..more https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-108-israel-is-systematically-obliterating-gaza-section-by-section/

January 23, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | weapons and war