Civilian Toll since October 2023
AT LEASt
palestinians KILLED
including at least 16,164 children, 10,399 women, 172 journalists
with more than
10,000
missing
at least
injured
with 75% of them children and women
At least
GAZAN RESIDENTS NOW HOMELESS
forced out of their homes, of which the homes likely no longer exist
at least
Residential units damaged
including 136,700 completely destroyed
at least
tons of explosives dropped
5 times more than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb and more than any amount used to bomb any European city during WWII
at least
pregnant women
unable to obtain basic health services
Last Updated: Sep 3, 2024 at 11:41 am EDT. Source: Euro-Med Monitor, Al Jazeera, Palestinian Ministry of Health/Gaza, Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Palestine
is being
systematically erased.
“The reality today in Gaza is that there is not much humanity left and hell is settling in.”
— Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner General
The Facts
WHAT is happening in Palestine?
Israel is currently indiscriminately bombing a civilian population — 50% of whom are children. Israel has repeatedly bombed hospitals, refugee sites, ambulances, medical workers, and the press. They have also denied civilians in Gaza access to electricity, food, water and even medicine.
In addition to carpet bombing Gaza – a strip of land the size of Delaware – and making over one million civilians homeless, Israel is now causing Palestinians to die from dehydration and starvation, and endure surgeries ranging from C-sections to amputations without anesthesia.
WHAT happened before October 7th?
Over the last several decades, Israel has maintained an “institutionalized and prolonged racist oppression of millions of people” (Amnesty International). It has been condemned over 45 times by the United Nations Human Rights Council for seizing Palestinian land, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, and the denial of basic rights to self determination.
Israel routinely abuses Palestinian civilians, takes children prisoner (Israel currently has over 160 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons), and maintains a system of oppression that denies Palestinians every right of basic humanity.
HOW are US taxpayer dollars involved?
The United States alone committed over $3.3 billion in foreign assistance to Israel in 2022, the most recent year for which data exists.[1] About $8.8 million went towards the country's economy, while 99.7% of the aid went to the Israeli military. These are our tax dollars being deployed to kill innocent civilians.
Adjusting for inflation, US aid to Israel from 1951 to 2022 totaled $317.9 billion, making it the largest recipient of American foreign aid since World War II.
Read more:
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-military-aid-does-the-us-give-to-israel/
The Impact
In Israel's Own Words
Credit @cravingpalestine