Here's What Happened During Israel's Genocide In Gaza In August 2024
Here's what happened during Israel's genocide in Gaza in August 2024.
Here's what happened during Israel's genocide in Gaza in August 2024.
1. Israel has now killed more than 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza since Oct. 7, the equivalent of about 130 people every day, according to the UN
2. Out of that number, about 2,100 are babies under the age of two, according to rights group Euro-Med Monitor
3. Israel bombed at least eight schools in Gaza during August, including one of its worst attacks on a school where at least 6,000 Palestinians were sheltering that massacred more than 100 people
Israel bombed Al Talbin school in Gaza where 6,000 people had been sheltering killing more than 100 people including women and children.
It dropped three bombs when people were performing dawn prayers, knowing there were civilians inside, saying the school was “a hideout and command center for Hamas,” without providing evidence.
The attack started a fire that burned people trapped in the school alive.
At least 100 people were killed with more injured, many with severe burns.
Rescue officials said not a single body was found in one piece.
This is Israel's worst attack on a school since Oct. 7, according to Save the Children.
4. Israel killed another Al Jazeera journalist and his cameraman in Gaza while they were reporting, claiming they were Hamas members
Israel targeted and killed Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Refee in an airstrike on their car on July 31, in Gaza’s Shati refugee camp shortly after they had reported on the assassination of Hamas’ political leader, according to Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera has accused the Israeli military of deliberately targeting its journalists, asserting that al-Ghoul and al-Refee were wearing press vests, their vehicle was clearly marked as belonging to the press and they were in contact with their news desk 15 minutes before the strike.
Al-Ghoul was known for his relentless commitment to documenting the suffering and bloodshed in Gaza, particularly Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital and in the north of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces also arrested him, along with several other journalists, when they raided and besieged Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital for the second time on March 18.
5. Israel has now killed at least 172 journalists in Gaza since Oct. 7 This is an average of one journalist every two days
6. Hamas has named Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, as its new political leader after Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated
The political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Iran on Wednesday, July 31, in his residence in Tehran after he attended the swearing-in ceremony of the country’s new president.
Haniyeh, a 62-year-old politician, left Gaza to live in Qatar in 2019, when he became the political leader of Hamas.
He had been leading the ceasefire negotiations with Israel, according to Reuters.
Haniyeh was killed by an explosive device that was planted in the guesthouse he was staying in about two months prior, according to the New York Times, which spoke to seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians, and an American official.
7. Nine Israeli soldiers were arrested after they gang raped a Palestinian man in a detention center
Israeli media has aired a video showing Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian man at a detention center.
The leaked security footage showed rows of bound and blindfolded detainees lying on the ground as a group of Israeli soldiers escorted one detainee to the corner of the facility.
The soldiers appeared to be aware of the security cameras as the soldiers were filmed using their shields to block the cameras from capturing their actions.
The Palestinian man had been kidnapped by Israeli soldiers from a refugee camp in Gaza in March from the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza and held at the Sde Teiman detention center camp.
The detainee was later transferred to a hospital with severe physical injuries, including anal trauma, fractured ribs and a ruptured bowel that required surgery.
Following the allegations, 10 Israeli soldiers were arrested, including a commanding officer.
8. Gaza has recorded its first case of polio in 25 years, with Israel allowing temporary pauses in fighting so that vaccinations can take place
Israel has agreed to a pause in fighting in certain places in Gaza so the UN can vaccinate children against polio after Gaza reported its case in 25 years in a 10-month-old boy who became partially paralyzed.
Polio is a highly infectious disease mostly affecting children under five.
It is mostly spread through sewage and contaminated water, and with no cure, it can cause paralysis, disfigurement or even be fatal.
The WHO had urged for a ceasefire to prevent an outbreak.
Instead, Israel will pause attacks from 6am to 3pm for three days in central Gaza first, then do the same for south and north Gaza.
It will extend to a day per region if needed, which the WHO said is likely.
Some 640,000 children under the age of 10 have to be vaccinated during this time.
90% of children will need a second dose after four weeks for it to be effective.
However, a map seen by Reuters found that the pauses will not cover all of the zones.
9. Israel said it retrieved the bodies of six Israeli hostages from Gaza.
Five were known to have died, with three likely to have been killed by Israeli troops, according to the Israeli military
10. Hamas said one of its militants shot and killed an Israeli hostage against instructions after finding out his sons were killed by an Israeli airstrike
11. Israel launched one of its biggest raids on the occupied West Bank in decades, killing at least 17 Palestinians and arresting 25
Israeli officials claimed that the raid was to put a stop to "Iranian terrorist networks" in the West Bank.
Soldiers razed streets with bulldozers and raided homes in the cities of Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas, arresting at least 25 people.
Communications and internet are now cut off in Jenin due to Israel destruction of the infrastructure, according to the Palestinian Telecommunications Company.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said its teams were having trouble reaching the area because Israeli forces were blocking the ambulances from entering.
Residents at the Nur Shams camp, in Tulkarem, said the Israeli army gave them three hours to leave if they wanted to but with no direct evacuation order, according to Al Jazeera.
Palestinian armed groups, including the al-Quds Brigades and Qassam Brigades, said they were engaged in combat against Israeli forces in the Nur Shams and Jenin refugee camps.
Hamas called on Palestinians in the West Bank to rise up, saying the raids are part of a larger plan to expand the war in Gaza.
12. A new round of ceasefire negotiations have also begun.
However, sources have told Israeli media Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been making statements to sabotage the talks
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