October 2024: Israel's Aggression Against Occupied Palestine

The end of October marked the 391st day of Israel's genocidal aggression against the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli Occupation Forces, IOF, continued their targeting of defenceless Palestinian civilians and their property.

The IOF concentrated its operations in the northern areas of the Gaza Strip, where the occupation forces continued to launch a military ground operation since October 5 and imposed a tight siege on it, especially around the Jabalia refugee camp, to evacuate the area, reoccupying it and allowing for illegal settlements. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that due to evacuation orders, at least 70,000 Palestinians have been displaced again since the beginning of the current ground military operation. Moreover, Israel continues to use starvation as a weapon for killing and displacing Palestinians in the north by preventing the entry of aid since the beginning of October, thus risking the lives of thousands of Palestinians who are refusing to leave.

In her report titled “ Genocide as a colonial erasure”, Francesca Albanese the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, concluded that Israel had committed acts of genocide in Gaza, stressing that genocide should be seen as integral and instrumental to the aim of complete Israeli colonisation of Palestinian land while removing as many Palestinians as possible. “Obscured by false Israeli narratives of a war waged in ‘self-defence’, the genocidal conduct of Israel must be viewed within a broader context, as numerous actions (totality of conduct) jointly targeting the Palestinians as such (totality of a people) across the entire territory where they reside (totality of the land), in furtherance of the political ambitions of Israel for sovereignty over the whole of former Mandatory Palestine. Today, the genocide of the Palestinians appears to be the means to an end: the complete removal or eradication of Palestinians from the land so integral to their identity, and which is illegally and openly coveted by Israel.”

In parallel with the ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, the occupation forces escalated their aggression against the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. A comprehensive campaign throughout the West Bank that included raids, arrests, and assassinations was carried out, primarily concentrated in the governorates of Tulkarem, Nablus and Jenin, killing a total of 46 Palestinians.