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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 88: Israeli army kills 4,000 students in Gaza, detains hundreds in torture camps

Israel’s opposition welcomes Supreme Court ruling against Netanyahu's law restricting judicial powers. Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in a single West Bank village, and a seventh Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli prisons.

BY MUSTAFA ABU SNEINEH  JANUARY 2, 2024  

PEOPLE GATHER HUDDLE TO KEEP WARM BY A STOVE OUTDOORS AT A CAMP FOR DISPLACED PALESTINIANS IN RAFAH IN THE SOUTHERN GAZA STRIP NEAR THE BORDER WITH EGYPT ON DECEMBER 31, 2023. (BASHAR TALEB/ APA IMAGES)

Casualties

·        21,978+ killed* and at least 56,451 wounded in the Gaza Strip.

·        321 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.

·        506 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 2,193 injured.

*This figure was confirmed by Gaza’s Ministry of Health on January 1. Due to breakdowns in communication networks within the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of Health in Gaza has been unable to regularly and accurately update its tolls since mid-November. Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 30,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.

Key Developments

·        Israeli forces kill at least 4,156 Palestinian students and injure 7,818 others, majority of them in Gaza Strip, since October 7.

·        Israeli forces bomb and vandalize 278 governmental schools in Gaza Strip and 65 schools affiliated with UNRWA.

·        At least 133 schools turn into shelters for thousands of displaced Palestinians as students stopped attending school since October 7.

·        Haaretz newspaper says number of Palestinians arrested in Gaza went up by 150 percent in January compared to December.

·        Al-Akhbar reports Israeli forces are finding it hard to tackle resistance fighters in Gaza as their tactics are elusive and change rapidly.

·        Israeli Shin Ben officers attempt to extract information on hideouts of resistance fighters in north Gaza, locations of tunnels and boobytraps.

·        Israel’s Supreme Court rule against law passed in July to eliminate reasonableness clause.

·        National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, lambasts Supreme Court ruling as “dangerous, anti-democratic event,” while opposition leader, Yair Lapid, welcomes it.

·        Israeli rights group, Yesh Din, says 2023 was the worst year of settlers’ violence in occupied West Bank.

·        According to PA’s Ministry of Health, Israel killed 520 Palestinians in West Bank, 51 of them in Jerusalem.

·        A total of 55,158 Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem in 2023, according to Al-Quds Governate report.

·        Abdul Rahman Bassem Al-Bahash, 23, seventh Palestinian prisoner to die in Israeli jail.

Israel’s bombardment kills 4,000 Palestinian students in Gaza

In 2023, Israeli forces killed at least 4,156 Palestinian students and injured 7,818 others, the majority of them in the past three months in the Gaza Strip, according to a report by the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Ministry of Education. 

The figure includes students killed in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, where settlers’ attacks and Israeli forces’ raids on Palestinian towns ran amok.

In Gaza alone, 4,119 students were killed and 7,536 injured in the relentless Israeli bombardment since October 7, while in the West Bank, Israeli forces or settlers killed 37 students, injured 282 others, and arrested 85 pupils.

Teaching staff and administrators also found themselves under Israeli fire as 221 of them were killed and 703 injured in the Gaza Strip, while in the West Bank, Israeli forces arrested 71 teachers.

The PA’s Ministry of Education said that Israeli forces bombed and vandalized 278 governmental schools in the Gaza Strip and 65 schools affiliated with the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).

Israeli forces severely damaged 83 schools and completely destroyed seven in the Gaza Strip, while in the West Bank, it vandalized and stormed 38 schools.

Since October 7, Palestinian students stopped attending schools due to the Israeli bombardment in Gaza. At least 133 schools were turned into shelters for thousands of displaced Palestinians. Ninety percent of all school buildings in the Gaza Strip were damaged, and 29 percent could not be operated as they were either destroyed or severely bombed.

Israeli forces bomb houses as intelligence extracts information from Gaza’s detainees

In the past 24 hours, Israeli bombing and shelling killed at least 70 Palestinians and injured more than 100 in the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli airstrike on the house of the Matar family killed 15 members of the household in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

Gaza’s Ministry of Health announced on Monday that 21,978 Palestinians were killed and 57,697 injured since Israel’s aggression on October 7.

Israeli artillery shelled north of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza on Monday night and launched airstrikes on the center and east of Khan Yunis, Wafa news reported.

Several Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on Al-Nuseriat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Alongside its bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces had arrested hundreds of Palestinians from the enclave. 

The Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper reported that Palestinian detainees were harshly interrogated for long hours, verbally abused, and threatened if they did not collaborate with the Israeli internal intelligence, the Shin Bet.

According to one of the detainees, who was released in December, the Israeli Shin Ben officers tried to extract information on the hideouts of resistance fighters in north Gaza, the locations of tunnels, and boobytraps.

Al-Akhbar said that Israeli forces are finding it hard to tackle resistance fighters as their tactics are elusive and rapidly change as armed battles develop. Al-Akhbar’s correspondent in Gaza reported that in the case of boobytraps, some of them are set up amid Israel’s bombardment and reconnaissance drone activity.

Israel cages hundreds of Gaza’s detainees in ‘New Guantánamo’

Haaretz newspaper said that the number of Palestinians arrested in Gaza went up by 150 percent in January compared to December.

Currently, there are 661 Palestinian prisoners from the Gaza Strip in Israeli jails. Last month, 260 were detained, most of them in the notorious desert prison of Sde Teman, which was described as Israel’s Guantánamo.

Palestinian prisoners from Gaza were subjected to violence and collective punishment in Sde Timan, according to Haaretz.

Israeli jailers covered the prisoners’ eyes and bound their hands with plastic handcuffs. They allowed them to sleep on thin yoga-like mats, with rough woolen blankets, and were not allowed to change their clothes during their detention periods.

The Geneva-based Euro-Med Monitor said in a report last month that detainees in Sde Teman are “caged in inhumane conditions” and that the Israeli army used “open-air chicken coops to house the detained and withholding of food or drink for long periods of time.”

“The Sde Teman camp detains Palestinians of all ages, from young children to elderly people. Within fenced compounds, detainees are blindfolded and subjected to harsh interrogations with their hands tied,” Euro-Med said.

“According to testimonies, lights are turned on and intensely shone upon them at night, with the intention of exhausting and torturing them,” it added.

Palestinians were not allowed to meet lawyers, access legal help, or make a phone call.

Israel’s Supreme Court rules against Netanyahu’s attempts to limit its powers

On Monday, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled against a law passed in July by the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that eliminated the so-called “reasonableness clause.”

The clause allows the Supreme Court to overrule government decisions and deem it invalid if regarded as “unreasonable,” according to the spirit of law.

Since January 2023, thousands of Israelis have protested against Netanyahu’s government plan to limit the Supreme Court’s power to override government actions.

Judges voted in a razor-thin majority in favor of the decision on Monday. Since January 2023, thousands of Israelis protested weekly against Netanyahu’s plan to curb the power of the Supreme Court, whose decision is viewed as a setback for Netanyahu as he faces protests and calls for resignation. 

The court said that July’s law to eliminate the reasonableness clause was a “severe and unprecedented blow to the core characteristics of the State of Israel as a democratic state.”

Benny Gantz, a minister in the war cabinet but an opposition figure who led protests against Netanyahu’s judiciary overhaul plan, said the Supreme Court’s ruling must be respected.

“These are not days for political arguments, there are no winners and losers today. Today we have only one common goal – to win the war together,” Gantz said.

However, the far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who was a major proponent of limiting the court’s power, lambasted the ruling.

He called the decision “illegal” and “a dangerous, anti-democratic event — and at this time, above all, a ruling that harms Israel’s war effort against its enemies.”

Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader, backed the Supreme Court decision, saying it “protected” the citizens of Israel.

“If the Israeli government again starts the quarrel over the Supreme Court then they have learned nothing,” Lapid said.

“They didn’t learn anything on October 7, they didn’t learn anything from 87 days of war for our home,” he added.

Seventh Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli jail as forces kill four Palestinians in West Bank village

The year 2023 was the worst for settler violence in the occupied West Bank in decades, according to the Israeli monitor group Yesh Din.

“At least 10 Palestinians were killed by settlers and dozens of homes and vehicles were set on fire [in 2023],” the group said.

“[It] was the most violent year in settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank in both the number of incidents and their severity,” it added.

There are nearly half a million Israeli settlers living among three million Palestinians in the West Bank.

Yesh Din said that since October 7, there has been an uptick in settler attacks, which take place with the knowledge and frequent supervision or participation of Israeli authorities. 

The group documented 242 incidents in which hundreds of Israeli settlers “raided Palestinian villages, setting fire to dozens of homes and vehicles.”

Meanwhile, according to the PA’s Ministry of Health, at least 520 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank in 2023, and 51 were killed in occupied Jerusalem.

The PA’s Al-Quds Governorate said in a report that 20 children were killed in Jerusalem, while a total of 55,158 Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa compound under the protection of police and intelligence.

As the Israeli government authorized the construction of 29 settler housing projects in 2023, it issued demolition orders for 316 Palestinian houses in Jerusalem. At least 3,081 Palestinians were arrested, and 740 were barred entry to Jerusalem or to the Al-Aqsa compound in 2023.

Israeli forces arrested dozens of Palestinians overnight from the towns and cities of Nablus, Hebron, Tulkarem, Jenin, and Jericho.

Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in Azzun village, east of Qalqilya, on Tuesday morning, while an Israeli soldier was injured.

Israeli forces stormed Azzun and opened fire, using stun grenades, tear gas and live ammunition on Palestinians in the village.

The Palestinians killed were identified as Walid Ismail Radwan, 18, Qusay Jamal Adwan, 21, Iyad Ahmad Shubita, 22, and Muhammad Abdel Fattah Radwan, 29.

Israeli forces detained their bodies, raided shops and houses, and confiscated security cameras in Azzun.

In Jenin, Israeli forces also stormed the town and arrested and injured a number of Palestinians. 

Meanwhile, another Palestinian prisoner has died in Israeli prison. According to the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners Club in a joint statement on Monday, Abdul Rahman Bassem Al-Bahash, 23, was the seventh Palestinian prisoner to die in Israeli jail since October 7.

The groups accused Israel of assassinating Al-Bahash, who was arrested from his hometown of Nablus on May 31, 2022, and sentenced to 35 months in prison.

Bahash died in Megiddo Prison, which “witnessed horrific crimes and systematic torture against prisoners [since October 7], where three other prisoners were killed prior to the prisoner Abdul Rahman Al-Bahash.”

The Commission and the Prisoners Club added that 4,910 Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli forces in the West Bank since October 7

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