Israel’s Genocide Day 381: Israel pummels northern Gaza amid intensifying extermination campaign

Casualties

• 42,010 + killed* and at least 97,590 wounded in the Gaza Strip, including 59% women, children and elderly, as of October 21, 2024.*
• 759+ Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. This includes at least 146 children.**
• 2,367 Lebanese killed and more than 10,096 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 748 Israeli soldiers and the injury of at least 4,969 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 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 October 19, 2024.

*** This figure was released by the Lebanese Health Ministry, updated on October 20, 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 branch of Palestinian Health Ministry says death toll surpasses 42,010, with 97,590 wounded since October 7, comprising 33% children, 18.4% women, and 8.6% elderly; at least 115 Palestinian children born and killed by Israeli forces since October 7.
• Palestinian Health Ministry says the death toll in the West Bank and Jerusalem at the hand of the Israeli army or settlers has reached 759 since October 7.
• Lebanese Ministry of Health says 2,367 Lebanese people killed, over 11,088 wounded in hundreds of Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon, especially in the south and the Beqaa Valley as of the beginning of escalating hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel in September 2024.
• Israel kills at least 110 civilians in bombings on Beit Lahia and Jabalia over the weekend.
• Israeli army forces civilians to leave displacement shelters in Jabalia to Beit Lahia and Gaza.
• The Kamal Adwan Hospital says it’s operating with the bare minimum amidst a lack of medicine and food as the Israeli siege of northern Gaza continues for the 16th day.
• U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein meets Lebanon’s parliament speaker in Beirut, and calls for a diplomatic solution between Lebanon and Israel.
• Axios reports that Israel informed Washington of its conditions for a ceasefire in Lebanon, including freedom of operation for Israeli forces in Lebanese territory and airspace.
• Hezbollah intensifies rocket launching on the Galilee and Haifa, strikes Netanyahu’s home in Caesarea with drone attack.
• Israeli strikes target Beirut’s southern district and towns in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley and south.
• Combat continue at the Lebanese border for the third week.
• U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says U.S. has deployed THAAD air defense system in Israel.
• Iran warns that it will respond to any Israeli reprisal for Iran’s missile attack in early October.
• 1000 Israeli settlers storm the al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem on Monday and perform prayers in the mosque’s external yards.
• Israeli army seals off Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron for two days, bans Muslim call to prayer during Jewish holiday.
• Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers during olive harvest in Burqa, near Nablus, steal agricultural tools.
• Israeli settlers storm farming lands in the Qana valley in the village of Deir Istia near Nablus, install signs advertising Israeli tourism on Palestinians’ farming lands.
• Israeli soldiers wound three Palestinian teenagers in village of Beit Furik near Nablus.

Israel commits largest massacre yet in northern Gaza

Israel continues to besiege northern Gaza and Jabalia refugee camp for the 16th consecutive day, cutting off the entry of humanitarian aid for some 200,000 people amid continuous airstrikes and artillery shelling.

On Saturday, Israeli forces bombed a residential block in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, killing at least 80 Palestinians and wounding over 100, marking the largest massacre in northern Gaza in months. Also on Saturday, Israeli forces bombed the Tel al-Zaatar neighborhood in Jabalia, killing 33 Palestinians, including 21 women, and wounding over 85.

The director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, Dr. Husam Abu Safiyeh, told Al Jazeera that the hospital is overwhelmed with limited and exhausted medical staff amidst a severe shortage of medical supplies, food, and fuel for power generators.

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Israel presents its conditions for Lebanon ceasefire as Hezbollah intensifies operations

U.S. envoy to Lebanon Amos Hochstein said on Monday from Beirut that the situation between Lebanon and Israel “has gone out of control,” adding that “linking the fate of Lebanon to other conflicts” — referencing Hezbollah’s refusal to stop operations against Israel unless Israel ends its war on Gaza — was not in Lebanon’s interests.

Hochstein’s remarks came during a visit to Lebanon, which included a meeting with the Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri. Simultaneously, Israeli media and Axios reported that Israel had informed the U.S. of its conditions for a ceasefire with Lebanon ahead of Hochstein’s visit.

According to reports, Israel’s conditions include allowing Israel to operate inside Lebanese territory against Hezbollah and freedom of movement for Israel’s airforce in Lebanon’s airspace.

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