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Day 17 of Israel's onslaught on Gaza update:
◾️The last 24 hours of Israeli attacks on Gaza has been one of the deadliest so far, with 400 people killed, including 60 overnight.
◾️At least 4,651 people have been killed since the attacks started on October 7, equal to 16 people every 5 minutes. 14,245 have been wounded.
◾️The Israeli military said it hit 320 targets in Gaza overnight. One of their targets was the Jabalia refugee camp where 30 bodies were recovered from underneath the ruins, mostly women and children.
◾️50% of all housing units in the Gaza Strip have been damaged from Israeli attacks. Nearly 20,000 housing units have been completely demolished or rendered uninhabitable.
◾️Israel continues its total siege of Gaza, allowing only 14 trucks of aid through the Rafah crossing last night which the UN said carried 3 per cent of the usual deliveries to the enclave.
◾️Israel continues prohibiting fuel from entering and doctors in Gaza have issued an urgent warning that the lives of 130 premature babies are in imminent danger if fuel does not reach hospitals soon. Medical Aid for Palestinians CEO Melanie Ward said: "We call on world leaders to demand that Israel urgently allow fuel in to Gaza’s hospitals. A failure to act is to sentence these babies to death."
◾️In the occupied West Bank Israeli raids continued overnight, including in Hebron where 59 people were arrested, including 40 workers from the Gaza Strip.
◾️During another raid in the Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah, two people were killed and twenty arrested according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
◾️More than 1,200 Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli forces in the West Bank since October 7. 96 people have also been killed and 1,650 wounded.
◾️According to The New York Times, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has been putting pressure on Israel to delay their expected ground invasion of Gaza to allow more US weaponry to be sent to Israel and more time to negotiate the release of hostages in Gaza.