Displaced Palestinians squeezed between two tanks. They are waiting their turn to cross an Israeli checkpoint leading to Rafah governorate southern Gaza, as hostilities continue in Khan Younis and following evacuation orders.
Photo by OCHA/Olga Cherevko
Between the afternoons of 2 and 4 February, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, 234 Palestinians were killed (107 people on 3 February, and 127 people on 4 February), and 343 Palestinians were injured (165 people on 3 February, and 178 people on 4 February). Between 7 October 2023 and 13:30 on 4 February 2024, at least 27,365 Palestinians were killed in Gaza and 66,630 Palestinians were injured, according to the MoH.
As of 31 January, according to UNRWA, there are an estimated 1.7 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Gaza Strip; UNICEF estimates that these include some 17,000 children who are unaccompanied or separated, “each one, a heartbreaking story of loss and grief.” According to UNICEF, almost all of Gaza’s 1.2 million children are in need of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), twice as many children as compared with pre-war estimates. UNICEF states that the only way to deliver MHPS “at scale is with a ceasefire. Before this war, in 2022, the child protection cluster led by UNICEF provided this support to nearly 100,000 children. It is possible to scale up now. We have done it before. But it is not possible under the current security and humanitarian conditions.”
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Rafah: The penultimate step in Israel’s march of genocide
On Sunday, while 100 million Americans were watching the kickoff of the Super Bowl, Israel took the opportunity to unleash the next stage in its genocide of Palestinians. Air strikes over Rafah killed at least 67 Palestinians, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered soldiers to prepare for a ground entry into the city.The drive for maximum land, minimum Palestinians
The drive for maximum land, minimum Palestinians
This onslaught, led by the Netanyahu government, represents the sharpest edge of the historic goal of Zionism: to control the maximum amount of Palestinian land with a minimum number of Palestinians on it. For the last four months, we have watched this logic play out in real time.
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