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SvennoJ on 14 August 2024
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At least 2,650 Palestinians from Gaza remain in Israeli custody: Rights group

The Palestinian group Al Mezan estimated that approximately 2,650 Palestinians taken from the Gaza Strip after October 7 are currently in Israeli custody. They include 12 children and two women.

Among them, approximately 300 are facing trials, Al Mezan said, while 2,350 are classified as “unlawful combatants” without a defined detention period or specific charges.

The facilities they are being held in include,

  • Ketziot Prison in al-Naqab
  • Shikma Prison in Ashkelon
  • Ofer Prison
  • Ofer Military Camp
  • Nafha Prison
  • Sde Teiman Camp
  • Kishon Prison in Al-Jalama
  • The Al-Moskobiya and Petah Tikva detention centres

Israel’s war on children in Gaza


Palestinian children pose for a picture near their tent set on a road’s median at a makeshift displacement camp set up along a road in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 13


Palestinian girls carrying water walk past a wall mural at a makeshift displacement camp set up on a roadside in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday


A paramedic helps an injured Palestinian child brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the aftermath of an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, on Tuesday


Palestinian toddler Rim Abu Hayya, the sole survivor of her family who were killed in an Israeli bombardment that hit their house in the east of Khan Younis, is carried by her aunt Ayat in a tent shelter west of Khan Younis on Tuesday

Israel has killed 2,100 babies under two in Gaza: Rights monitor

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reports that out of nearly 17,000 Palestinian children killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip since October 7, about 2,100 were babies under the age of two.

“The number of Palestinian children – whether infants or children in general – killed by the Israeli army is horrifying, and the rate of their killing is unprecedented in the history of modern wars,” says the Geneva-based organisation.

“It also represents a dangerous trend based on the dehumanisation of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Israel’s military targets Palestinians and their children daily, methodically, and widely in the most heinous and brutal ways possible, and virtually without pause for 10 consecutive months.”


Food aid entering south Gaza drops to lowest level since October

A US-based famine monitoring agency says the amount of humanitarian food supplies entering Gaza through crossings in the south were at their lowest levels in July since Israel’s war on the enclave began.

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) said that only 724 humanitarian trucks with food or mixed items entered through the Karem Abu Salem crossing in July. They carried roughly 5,035 to 5,566 metric tonnes of supplies.

A further 54,764 to 60,529 metric tonnes of food supplies carried on commercial trucks also entered through the crossing, but the network said that increased “commercial cargo entry into Gaza may not necessarily translate to improved food availability and access within Gaza, particularly given low household purchasing power”.



Israeli evacuation orders disrupting efforts to restore hospitals, WHO says

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Israel’s expanding evacuation orders are threatening efforts to restore functionality at the European Hospital in southern Khan Younis.

The facility, which has 650 inpatient beds, has been out of service since July 1, the agency said.

Of the 16 partially functional hospitals across the Gaza Strip, only 12 are partially accessible due “to insecurity or physical barriers, such as damage to both patient and ambulance entrances and surrounding roads”, the WHO said.

The UN agency added that there were no functioning hospitals in southern Rafah – where Israel has launched a ground offensive – for more than nine consecutive weeks now.