{"id":251668,"date":"2024-01-01T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T12:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=251668"},"modified":"2024-01-01T05:15:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T05:15:55","slug":"operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-86-israel-falls-in-serious-strategic-trap-in-gaza-as-netanyahu-vows-to-fight-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-86-israel-falls-in-serious-strategic-trap-in-gaza-as-netanyahu-vows-to-fight-for-months\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Operation Al-Aqsa Flood\u2019 Day 86: Israel Falls in \u2018Serious Strategic Trap\u2019 in Gaza as Netanyahu Vows to Fight \u2018for Months\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_251669\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251669\" class=\"wp-image-251669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine.jpg 996w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine-768x450.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-251669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaza massacre damage Dec 2023 &#8211; via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>31 Dec 2023 &#8211; <em>The Israeli war cabinet pressures Netanyahu to discuss &#8220;the day after&#8221; in Gaza as Hamas broadcasts videos of targeting Israeli tanks, and the PFLP says a captive soldier died during an Israeli airstrike. Meanwhile, UNRWA warns of widespread hunger.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Casualties<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>21,822+ killed* and at least 56,451 wounded in the Gaza Strip.<\/li>\n<li>316 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem<\/li>\n<li>Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.<\/li>\n<li>504 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 1,952 injured.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*<em>This figure was confirmed by Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health on December 31. 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\u00a0<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroMedHR\/status\/1738558892643123665\" ><em>closer to 28,000<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0when accounting for those presumed dead.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Developments<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Israeli airstrike kills Yousef Salama, former Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs, in his home in Al-Maghzai refugee camp.<\/li>\n<li>UNRWA warns of widespread hunger in Gaza Strip as Israeli forces choke off aid, food, water, and fuel supplies from entering.<\/li>\n<li>With scarcity of staples such as flour, dozens of Palestinian families resort to sea for food, throwing primitive nets to catch fish for a meal, Al-Jazeera Arabic reported.<\/li>\n<li>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says fighting in Gaza will continue \u201cfor months\u201d as government postpones local election until February.<\/li>\n<li>Haaretz newspaper warns Israel is finding itself in \u201cstrategic trap\u201d in Gaza as it battles Hezbollah in Lebanon, Ansar Allah in Yemen, and Islamic Resistance movement in Iraq.<\/li>\n<li>Netanyahu says \u201cif Hezbollah widens the fighting, it will absorb strikes it never dreamed of. And so, too, Iran.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>PFLP\u2019s Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades announces death of Israeli soldier in captivity, spokesperson Abu Jamal says PFLP fighters destroyed 95 Israeli vehicles since late October.<\/li>\n<li>Hamas\u2019s Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades broadcasts video compilation of fighters attacking Israeli tanks and bulldozers with 105mm Palestinian-made Al-Yaseem anti-tank shells.<\/li>\n<li>Israeli drones fire missiles in Nour Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, injuring two residents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Israeli air raid kills Yousef Salama, former Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health announced on Sunday morning that 21,822 Palestinian martyrs were killed and 56,451 injured in the 86 days of Israel\u2019s aggression in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds remain missing under the rubble and are believed to be dead.<\/p>\n<p>In the past 24 hours, Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling killed at least 50 martyrs in 12 massacres; according to the Ministry of Health, 64 of them were killed in Israeli attacks in central Gaza.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wafa.ps\/Pages\/Details\/87285\" >Yousef Salama<\/a>, the former Palestinian Authority\u2019s (PA) Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs, was killed in an Israeli raid on his home in Al-Maghzai refugee camp on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Salama, who was an Imam and a preacher at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, was killed along with other members of his family.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>UNWRA warns of widespread hunger in Gaza\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Thomas White, the director of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, warned of widespread hunger in the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces are choking off sufficient supplies of aid, food, water, and fuel from entering the enclave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are hungry and just desperate for food,\u201d he wrote on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomWhiteGaza\/status\/1741106313357033977\" >X<\/a>, sharing a video of hundreds of people swarming and climbing one of the few UNRWA aid trucks allowed into Gaza last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c40% of the population [are] at risk of famine. More regular supplies needed \u2013 require safe and sustainable humanitarian access everywhere including to the North of Gaza,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Journeys of UNRWA\u2019s conveys to and from north Gaza were fraught with risk. White said that last week, Israeli soldiers opened fire at a UNRWA convoy while it was heading back from north Gaza, damaging one vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>With the scarcity of essential food, such as flour, dozens of Palestinian families resorted to the sea, throwing their nets to catch fish or crab for a meal.<\/p>\n<p>In the early days of Israel\u2019s pummelling of Gaza, dozens of bakeries were bombed, some of them while people were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elwatannews.com\/news\/details\/6899970\" >queuing<\/a> to get their ration of bread for the day.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b6tCPREf2gI\" >Al-Jazeera Arabic<\/a> reported that Palestinians went back to the damaged seaside by Israeli tanks and bombardment. One fisherman told Al-Jazeera that Israeli forces destroyed all motorized boats in the Gaza port, leaving intact a few <em>hasakahs<\/em>, or small fishing boats that cannot venture deeply into the sea.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Israeli forces continue bombing Palestinian houses in Gaza<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>As of Saturday evening, 25 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli bombing of houses in Al-Maghazi and Al-Nuseirat refugee camps and Al-Zawaida neighborhood in central Gaza, and Rafah in the south.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wafa.ps\/Pages\/Details\/87265\" >Wafa<\/a> news agency reported that three people were killed when Israeli forces attacked the house of the Salem family in Al-Nuseirat\u2019s Al-Sawarha area, while dozens of people were injured from the Abu Hamda family, west of the camp.<\/p>\n<p>The Shehadeh family saw five members killed in an Israeli airstrike on their house in Al-Maghazi, and dozens were injured in the attack and were transferred to the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Israel also bombed the Abu Jumaa family home in Al-Zawaida in central Gaza, killing 12 people and injuring others, while in eastern Rafah, Israeli warplanes bombed the house of Eid Rafiq Salman Abu Rashid in the Al-Salam neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>In Rafah\u2019s Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, the house of Abu Jamous was also bombed.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, Israeli forces destroyed three mosques in different areas in the Gaza Strip. Al-Muhajireen and Al-Sahaba mosques were bombed in Al-Maghazi camp, and Al-Furqan mosque in the Al-Hakar area in Deir Al-Balah.<\/p>\n<p>The house of the Qandil family was attacked by Israel on Sunday morning, as well as the offices of the Al-Salah Association in Al-Maghazi refugee camp, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wafa.ps\/Pages\/Details\/87273\" >Wafa<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wafa.ps\/Pages\/Details\/87273\" >Wafa<\/a> reported that the Al-Awda Hospital received dozens of injured and dead Palestinians in Israeli airstrikes in Al-Nuseirat camp on Sunday morning. In the east of Khan Younis, an Israeli helicopter fired machine gun rounds at Palestinians while ground forces shelled the eastern part of Al-Bureij and Al-Nuseirat refugee camps.<\/p>\n<p>The Al-Tahrawi family\u2019s house, west of Rafah, was targeted by an Israeli drone missile on Sunday. Dozens were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wafa.ps\/Pages\/Details\/87273\" >reportedly<\/a> killed and injured.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Israel\u2019s Netanyahu says fighting will drag on for months<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Armed battles between Palestinian resistance fighters and Israeli forces are now focused in northern Gaza\u2019s neighborhoods and in the towns around Khan Younis in central Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces released a video on Friday of targeting a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.watanserb.com\/2023\/12\/30\/%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%81-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88-%D8%B7%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%B4%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7\/\" >Palestinian fighter<\/a> from the air, killing him while he was running. He was identified as Tayseer Abu Ta\u2019imeh, a fighter in the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades.<\/p>\n<p>His gesture before his last breath in Khan Yunis went viral on social media. Abu Ta\u2019imeh raised the index finger of his right hand in a sign of <em>Shahada<\/em>, a testimony in Islam, before bowing down on the ground and dying.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that fighting in Gaza will continue \u201cfor months\u201d as his government postponed the local election to February.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0645\u062d\u0631\u0642\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u062f\u0628\u0627\u0628\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0631\u0627\u0626\u064a\u0644\u064a\u0629 .. \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u062a\u0628\u062b \u0645\u0634\u0627\u0647\u062f \u0644\u0627\u0644\u062a\u062d\u0627\u0645 \u0645\u0642\u0627\u062a\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0627 \u0645\u0639 \u0622\u0644\u064a\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0627\u062d\u062a\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u0641\u064a \u062e\u0627\u0646\u064a\u0648\u0646\u0633\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CGxueDZAnfA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu is facing mounting pressure from the war cabinet to discuss \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/12\/29\/pressure-on-netanyahu-amid-row-over-israels-plan-for-day-after-gaza-war\" >the day after<\/a>\u201d in Gaza, as well as widespread and continued protests in Tel Aviv calling for his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>His two coalition ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, are also pushing him to carry on with the war in Gaza. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/hardline-israeli-minister-ben-gvir-threatens-to-quit-government-if-fighting-against-gaza-stops\/3062318\" >Ben-Gvir<\/a> previously threatened to resign if the war stopped, while Smotrich had objected to last week\u2019s meeting about \u201cthe day after\u201d in the war cabinet, which led Netanyahu to cancel it altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Though Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are not members of the war cabinet, they have immense leverage over Netanyahu\u2019s government, as their alliance won 14 seats in the Knesset.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Haaretz says Israel fell into \u2018serious strategic trap\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Israeli political analyst Amos Harel warned in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2023-12-29\/ty-article\/.premium\/catch-24-israel-is-caught-in-a-strategic-trap\/0000018c-b19e-d014-a3cd-bb9edd900000\" ><em>Haaretz<\/em><\/a> that Israel is finding itself in a \u201cstrategic binding\u201d in Gaza as it is battling the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, Yemen\u2019s Ansar Allah group (commonly known as the \u201cHouthis\u201d), and Iraq\u2019s Islamic Resistance movement.<\/p>\n<p>Harel wrote that \u201cthe truth must be told: Israel finds itself in a serious strategic trap\u201d following Hamas cross-fence attacks on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201csecurity threats that were repressed for years, in a manner that allowed most Israeli citizens to go about their daily routine with a limited sense of risk, escalated greatly, fundamentally altering Israeli everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harel said that it remains unclear how Israel could get out of the trap, warning that \u201ca near-permanent situation could emerge in which a prolonged war of attrition will be waged along two borders at least,\u201d referring to Gaza and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Israel had kept these two conflicts unresolved on the back burner, but after October 7, Harel wrote that \u201cPalestinian conflict and the confrontation with Hezbollah\u2026have returned to the center of the regional stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Netanyahu threatened that \u201cIf Hezbollah widens the fighting, it will absorb strikes it never dreamed of. And so, too, Iran. We will fight by all means until we have restored security for the residents of the north.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since October 27, the Israeli military said that 174 soldiers were killed in battles with Palestinian fighters in Gaza. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maariv.co.il\/breaking-news\/Article-1063943\" >Maariv<\/a> reported that since October, the Barzilai Hospital in Tel Aviv has treated 3,500 injured Israelis.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>PFLP\u2019s Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades announce death of Israeli soldier in captivity\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On Saturday, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hZ2AV8jfEcQ\" >military spokesperson<\/a> of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), announced the death of a soldier in its captivity during an Israeli airstrike.<\/p>\n<p>The PFLP is the second-largest political group in the Palestine Liberation Organization after Fatah, as Hamas is not a formal member of the PLO.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Jamal, the military spokesperson of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, said that the airstrike took place after a botched operation by an Israeli special force to free the soldier. Several other captives were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Jamal said that the PFLP still holds the body of the Israeli soldier captive, and it seized some of the special force\u2019s equipment, which included flash memory sticks and a laptop. A video showing the dead body of the Israeli soldier and electric equipment was broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Jamal said that the PFLP fighters destroyed 95 Israeli vehicles since late October.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas\u2019s Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam also broadcast a video compilation of its resistance fighters attacking Israeli tanks and bulldozers with the 105mm Palestinian-made Al-Yaseem anti-tank shells.<\/p>\n<p>A Hamas fighter appears to plant an explosive on the body of the Israeli Merkava tank after emerging from a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fUVtSfIx3dI?si=8DhZGD-80FjrYalK&amp;t=34\" >tunnel shaft<\/a> in Khan Younis. The fighter activates the bomb and then runs back to the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0645\u062d\u0631\u0642\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u062f\u0628\u0627\u0628\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0631\u0627\u0626\u064a\u0644\u064a\u0629 .. \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u062a\u0628\u062b \u0645\u0634\u0627\u0647\u062f \u0644\u0627\u0644\u062a\u062d\u0627\u0645 \u0645\u0642\u0627\u062a\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0627 \u0645\u0639 \u0622\u0644\u064a\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0627\u062d\u062a\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u0641\u064a \u062e\u0627\u0646\u064a\u0648\u0646\u0633\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CGxueDZAnfA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Al-Qassam also released a video of its forces attacking Israeli soldiers in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nTPxs5CyeiU\" >Al-Daraj and Al-Tuffah neighborhoods<\/a> in Gaza City, and of an Israeli <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H0duS5l_TvA\" >Skylark-2<\/a> reconnaissance drone downed in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0628\u0627\u063a\u062a\u0648\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0628\u0627\u0628\u0627\u062a \u0648\u0623\u062d\u0631\u0642\u0648\u0647\u0627 .. \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u062a\u0646\u0634\u0631 \u0645\u0634\u0627\u0647\u062f \u0644\u0627\u0644\u062a\u062d\u0627\u0645 \u0645\u0642\u0627\u062a\u0644\u064a\u0647\u0627 \u0645\u0639 \u0642\u0648\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0627\u062d\u062a\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u0641\u064a \u062d\u064a\u064a \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0631\u062c \u0648\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0641\u0627\u062d\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nTPxs5CyeiU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Israeli forces raid Al-Fawwar and Nour Shams refugee camps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Israeli forces arrested dozens of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank cities of Nablus, Tulkarem, Hebron, and Jericho.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli drone fired missiles, injuring two Palestinians, in Nour Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, while forces surrounded the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in the city, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wafa.ps\/Pages\/Details\/87281\" >Wafa<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The drone attacks were launched at Al-Ghanem and Al-Madars neighborhoods in Nour Shams, in an operation that lasted 10 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Israel fears that Nour Shams will be turned into a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.net\/politics\/2023\/6\/23\/%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B7-%D8%AE%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%AE%D9%8A%D9%85\" >launching pad of resistance<\/a> attacks on settlers and military barracks in the northern West Bank, and its army has been raiding Tulkarem on a near daily basis for the past several months as part of its \u201cmowing the lawn\u201d counterinsurgency strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Israeli military vehicles raided Al-Fawwar refugee camp in Hebron on Saturday night following a car-ramming attack on a military checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Ammar Abu Hussein injured four Israeli soldiers before being shot on Saturday afternoon. Israeli forces stormed his family house in Al-Fawwar camp and notified them of a demolition order. Several Palestinians from Al-Fawwar were also arrested during the raid.<\/p>\n<p>Since October 7, Israeli forces and settlers killed at least 316 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Mustafa Abu Sneineh is a journalist, poet and writer from the city of Al-Quds in Occupied Palestine. His first poetry book<\/em>, A Black Cloud at the End of the Line, <em>was published in Arabic in 2016. He writes for both English and Arabic publications.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2023\/12\/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-86-israel-falls-in-serious-strategic-trap-in-gaza-as-netanyahu-vows-to-fight-for-months\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; mondoweiss.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 Dec 2023:<br \/>\n\u2022\t21,822+ killed* and at least 56,451 wounded in Gaza.<br \/>\n\u2022\t316 Palestinians killed in West Bank and East Jerusalem.<br \/>\n\u2022\t504 Israeli soldiers killed and 1,952 injured.<br \/>\n* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 28,000 when accounting for those disappeared in the rubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":251669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[928,532,1854,101,100,2898,87,865,1029,88,2414,2415,2416,3120,715,767,771,475,427,2897,880,99,124,70,92,965,1025,886],"class_list":["post-251668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-bds-boycott-divestment-sanctions","tag-colonialism","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-ecocide","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-israeli-apartheid","tag-israeli-army","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-jewish-settlers","tag-massacre","tag-middle-east","tag-nakba","tag-netanyahu","tag-palestine","tag-sociocide","tag-state-terrorism","tag-structural-violence","tag-united-nations","tag-usa","tag-violent-conflict","tag-war-crimes","tag-west-bank","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251670,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251668\/revisions\/251670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}