Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
SPECIAL FEATURE, 18 Dec 2023
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service
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** Gazans have no means to rescue bodies from under the rubble of flattened buildings. Victims are left to die trapped under tons of dirt, making diseases practically inevitable. **
GAZA and WEST BANK, 18 Dec 2023
Casualties up to 17 Dec 2023
- 18,800+ killed* and more than 51,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
- 297 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.
- 450 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 1,682 injured.
*This figure was confirmed by Gaza’s Ministry of Health on December 16. Due to breakdowns in communication networks within the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of Health in Gaza has not been able to regularly and accurately update its tolls since mid-November. Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 20,000. (Mondoweiss)
Injured children receive treatment on the floor at the Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital following an Israeli bombardment on Az-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on 10 Dec 2023.
Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Palestinians cry beside the bodies of their family members at Nasser Hospital after Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza, on 10 Dec 2023.
Photo: Belal Khaled/Anadolu via Getty Images
First responders and civilians look for survivors amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following Israeli bombardment in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 14 Dec 2023
(Photo: Bashar Taleb/APA Images)
Massive airstrikes on Gaza as numbers of Israeli victims continue to rise – Dec 2023
Photo Atia Mohammed | All Israel News
Smoke rises as Israeli strikes Rafah, Gaza, 8 Oct 2023
Photo: Attia Mohammed Peace & Planet News
Gaza Dec 2023 – Peace & Planet News
A Palestinian man tries to use his phone as he sits amid the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on 24 Nov 2023. [AFP/Omar El-Qattaa]
An Israeli flag stands on the top of a destroyed building in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Wed 15 Nov 2023. [AP Photo/Leo Correa]
Smoke billows over the northern Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment from southern Israel on 14 Dec 2023. [Jack Guez/AFP]
Palestinians gather at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on 14 Dec 2023. [Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa]
Palestinians searched for survivors of an Israeli strike in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Thursday 14 Dec 2023. ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza Dec 2023 – The Transnational
Rebuilding Gaza will require lots of energy and building materials – and therefore emissions. Haitham Imad / EPA
Gaza Dec 2023 – Popular Resistance – Mazin Qumsiyeh
Image via Tasnim News Agency (CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED)
Israeli air strike on Gaza Dec 2023. (photo: AFP)
Gaza, 17 Oct 2023 (Saleh Najm and Anas Sharif/Fars News/Wikimedia Commons)
Bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks are placed in a mass grave in Khan Younis, Gaza, on 22 Nov 2023. Photo: Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images
Rubble Nativity Scene in Lutheran Church, Bethlehem
Gaza – Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
Gaza Strip Dec 2023 – World Beyond War
Gaza 15 Dec 2023 – World Beyond War
Gaza Dec 2023 – Centro Studi Sereno Regis
Gaza, Rafah Kid CC BY-SA 2.0
Gaza Dec 2023. Israeli warplanes have used at least 29,000 munitions on the Gaza Strip since 7 Oct. ScheerPost – antiwar.com
Gaza, Oct 2023 – Mondoweiss
Palestinians search for remnants of their belongings amidst the debris of their destroyed home following Israeli bombardment in Rafah, Gaza on 14 Dec 2023.
(Photo: © Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa via ZUMA Press/APA Images)
A Palestinian child peers out of his family’s tent at a camp for displaced people in the central Gaza Strip town of Deir al-Balah. Pools of rainwater collect outside the tent, turning the dirt ground into cold mud. Approximately 1.9 million Palestinians have been displaced due to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. As the winter sets in, rainfall is bringing floods, causing a disaster for people sleeping in the streets. (APA Images).
A displaced Palestinian family now living in a makeshift camp in southern Gaza without water, electricity, or enough food. Photo: WFP/Ali Jadallah
An Israeli flag stands on the top of a destroyed building in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel Wed 5 Nov 2023. [AP Photo/Leo Correa]
Mahmoud and Nader Zindah were among hundreds of Palestinian men and children arrested, beaten and interrogated for days by Israeli forces. [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]
A Palestinian from Khan Yunis follows his father carrying the wrapped body of his daughter who died sleeping in a tent from a shrapnel fragment that hit her in the head following Israeli bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip on 12 Dec 2023.
(Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images)
Damage in Gaza Strip during the Oct 2023 Israeli aggression.
Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bombed House, Gaza Dec 2023, by Marius Arnesen is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 / Flickr
Gaza Dec 2023
Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages (CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED)
IDF’s Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer and Israeli combat engineers completing the destruction of Gaza, 2 Nov 2023 (Wikimedia Commons)
In the first two weeks of fighting, the BBC (22 Oct 2023) reported, Israel killed 89 Palestinians on the West Bank.
The New York Times‘ biased label (2 Dec 2023) suggests to readers that Israel’s attacks on the Gazan population is being aimed at a distinct group–Hamas.
Damage in Gaza Strip during the October 2023.
Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Palestinian child being arrested in Jerusalem by masked Israeli police forces, Dec 2023
Jews for Justice for Palestinians
Palestinian school children arrested by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank.
Jews for Justice for Palestinians
UN 1947 partition plan for Palestine (From the Public Domain)
Global Research
Tags: Collective Punishment, Ecocide, Ethnic Cleansing, Gaza, Genocide, Hamas, Inhuman Punishment, Israel, Israeli occupation, Massacre, Palestine, Warfare
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