Operation Iron Swords - Day 194 - 17 April 2024

“At any point, Hamas could have ended this burgeoning tragedy to
surrender and release every hostage. …
Hamas instigated and owns this humanitarian catastrophe.”
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)

Contents

UPDATED - True Promise IR-IL NEW - War Termination NEW - Operations NEW - Operations - Gaza NEW - Operations - Judea-Samaria NEW - Operations - Lebanon NEW - Operations - Syria / Iraq NEW - Operations - Yemen UPDATED - Operations Maps NEW - By-Standers NEW - Axis of Resistance NEW - Allied for Democracy UPDATED - By the Numbers

Following the Hamas-led massacre at the Nova Music Festival on October 7, about fifty survivors have committed suicide, revealed Guy Ben Shimon. Ben Shimon, a survivor of the massacre, spoke on Tuesday at a Parliamentary hearing for a State Audit Commission on the treatment of the survivors of October 7. "Few people know, but there have been almost 50 suicides among the Nova survivors. This number, which was true two months ago, may have increased since," Ben Shimon said, emphasizing that many of his friends who escaped the massacre could not recover from what they had experienced. "There are many survivors who had to be forcibly hospitalized due to their psychological state. My friends are not getting out of bed, neither am I." The Israeli Ministry of Health said that they do not have any information or statistics about the claim made of 50 survivors who have committed suicide.

War Termination

The Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, announced on Wednesday that Doha is in the process of "evaluating" the mediation role it has been playing for months between Israel and Hamas. The Qatari official said during a joint press conference with the Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, in Doha, “Unfortunately, we saw that there is a misuse of this mediation, employing this mediation for narrow political interests, and this called for the State of Qatar to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of this role,” explaining, “We “Now we are at this stage to evaluate the mediation and also evaluate how the parties engage in this mediation.”

This is an unusual move, since Qatar is actually one of the two most significant mediators in the negotiations - and now it announces that it is considering its steps. Alongside this, there is another effort to start the negotiations for a new hostage deal, despite the disappointment in Israel - which said yes to the far-reaching American offer, while Sinwar refused. Sources in Israel told News 12 that the failure of the latest negotiations proves two things: the Qataris did not do their job And they didn't press hard enough - the "money tap" was not closed and the heads of the Hamas leadership were not expelled from the country. However, the same sources also admit behind closed doors that there is also disappointment with the Americans, who did not put enough pressure on the Qataris.

The Qatari Embassy in Washington commented on the statements of US Representative Steny Hoyer, in which he called on Qatar to put pressure on Hamas to release occupation prisoners in a reasonable manner and achieve a temporary ceasefire. The Democratic representative stressed the importance of Qatar conveying to Hamas the message that it will face "repercussions" if it continues to obstruct efforts aimed at releasing prisoners and achieving a temporary ceasefire, as he put it. “The repercussions should include cutting off funding to Hamas or refusing to grant Hamas leaders asylum in Qatar,” Hoyer said in his statement. “If Qatar does not succeed in applying this pressure, the United States must reevaluate its relationship with Qatar.”

Qatar responded by saying that Hoyer's statements were "unhelpful." The Qatari embassy stated in its statement that “Qatar acts only as a mediator and does not control Israel or Hamas.” The embassy added, "Of course, there is slow progress currently, and Representative Hoyer is not the only one who feels frustrated, but blame and threats do not contribute to building a solution." The statement criticized Hoyer's reference to the presence of Hamas in Qatar. “It is clearly tempting to follow what he suggests and distance ourselves from parties that appear intransigent, but we must remember that Qatar’s role as a mediator continues due to the United States’ request to us in 2012,” the statement said.

On Sunday, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in a statement that Hamas had rejected the latest proposal to return the hostages. He said that Israel "will continue to achieve its goals in Gaza with full force," according to Reuters. The statement added, "The rejection of the proposal shows that Yahya Al-Sinwar, head of Hamas's political bureau in the Gaza Strip, does not want an agreement and is trying to exploit the tensions with Iran and escalate the conflict at the regional level."

On Saturday, Hamas announced that it had delivered to the Egyptian and Qatari mediators its response to a truce proposal with Israel in the Gaza Strip, stressing a permanent ceasefire. In a statement, the movement affirmed its “adherence to its demands and the national demands of the people, which are represented by a permanent ceasefire, the army’s withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip, the return of the displaced to their areas and places of residence, intensifying the entry of relief and aid, and beginning reconstruction.”

Israel rejected a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal of its armed forces from Gaza. Netanyahu also announced his intention to carry out a ground operation in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, considering that the city constitutes the last major stronghold of Hamas.

There will be another effort to check whether it is possible to formulate a deal as discussed with more Qatari pressure. If not, the leaders of the negotiations will probably hope for the moment when they will have to tell the public and the decision makers whether it is possible to have both things or whether a choice must be made - returning hostages or continuing fighting.

Operational Update

"Netanyahu said he would overthrow Hamas, free the hostages, and ensure that Gaza no longer posed a threat to Israel's security. He failed." said the spokesperson for the Egyptian Information Ministry. Diaa Rashwan, the spokesperson for the ministry, voiced these concerns during an interview with the Saudi channel Al-Arabiya. "Does Israel fully understand the meaning of Egypt's warnings against entering Rafah? Will it choose this option to the detriment of the peace that has lasted for 45 years?" Rashwan questioned, highlighting the gravity of the situation.

An article in the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post wrote about Israel setting a minimum threshold for "victory" on multiple fronts highlighting its failure in dealing with Hezbollah and Hamas, whose capabilities have been increasing over the years. Israeli writer and analyst Seth Frantzman said that Israel started systemically from the bottom in every war to set a minimum threshold for victory on multiple fronts. As an example, he added, the Israeli occupation is not trying to respond to Yemen or Iraq; it has evacuated Israeli settlers from the occupied north and the borders of Gaza, which is a first.

He further elaborated that Israel is mainly focusing on facing Hezbollah's Radwan Force and Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, as it seems to believe that defeating them is a victory. However, it is the root of the problem from an analytical perspective.

Frantzman said that when Hamas was created, it did not have any organized brigades as it was a much smaller group, but it turned into an "army" including battalions because no one stopped it. In all of Israel's wars against Gaza, it claimed that it had achievements against Hamas, but in reality, Hamas quickly recovered and further expanded. Hence, he added, the 24 battalions are an example of Israel's failure in managing the "conflict with Hamas" as it has only become exponentially stronger.

Frantzman further said that many of those brigades diverged when the war started in Gaza last year which means that claims of defeating the brigades are only partially true "on paper." This also means that Hamas can quickly reshape itself regardless of any losses it might face as it can compensate for the latter as it has always done in the past, he added. As more than six months have passed since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, Hamas still has a strong grip over most parts of Gaza, Frantzman said, and that is exactly because it dispersed its brigades.

Thus, gauging victory over Hamas based on the number of its battalions will only lead to the same false narrative of victory Israel attempted to deliver in the past, he said. It is unclear whether the declared goal of the war is to defeat Hamas or if Hamas will still exist but it seems that the goal has been diminished to only defeating its brigades, Frantzman stressed.

He added that this also applies to the frequently mentioned Radwan Force, highlighting that the excessive talks about defeating it are also set by Israel as a way to gauge victory against Hezbollah. However, in reality, all talks about getting Radwan Force to push away from the border will likely be meaningless in terms of Hezbollah's actual strength, actions, and impact, Franztman explained. He stressed that Hezbollah's capabilities are much more than just the Radwan Force, and turning the latter into a symbol for Hezbollah is an easy way to create something and then pretend to remove it.

Frantzman concluded his article by saying that based on these facts, the strengths of Hezbollah and Hamas have increased to a point where Israel is refraining from waging a war on both fronts to "defeat them" and this has dragged it into a long war with diminishing returns.

Operational Update - Gaza

The Israeli "Wala" website said that the Israeli army has raised the level of preparedness for ground operations in Rafah and the camps in the central Gaza Strip. The website added that the operational concept of the Rafah invasion plan was approved by the Israeli Army General Staff and Defense Minister Yoav Galant. It was reported from Israeli security sources that the army began increasing the number of artillery forces, armored personnel carriers, and mobile war rooms at the Gaza Division headquarters. The Israeli website also stated that within the framework of preparing the area, several decisions were taken, including increasing humanitarian aid to include all parts of the Gaza Strip, so that Israel would gain what it described as international legitimacy to support the operation in Rafah.

Western countries warned Israel against invading Rafah, saying that this would have dire consequences for hundreds of thousands of civilians. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his government announced that they were determined to carry out a military operation in the city under the pretext of eliminating the remaining Hamas brigades.

The military and strategic expert, Colonel Hatem Karim Al-Falahi, said that the Israeli occupation army used very large destructive energy in the Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip , as part of the strategy it has adopted since the beginning of the war, which does not pay any attention to civilians. Al-Falahi suggested - in his military analysis of the developments in the war in Gaza on Al-Jazeera - that the occupation army had discovered, through aerial or ground reconnaissance, the presence of elements of the Palestinian resistance in the Nuseirat area.

Regarding the reason for the occupation’s focus on destroying buildings in the areas extending from the Gaza border all the way to the sea, Colonel Hatem Al-Falahi explained that the occupation army may take this area as a place for its concentration during the coming period, and therefore it will bulldoze and destroy it to provide open spaces for its military sectors, to carry out shooting, surveillance and monitoring. .

The occupation army is trying to arrange the conditions of the sectors within the Gaza Strip to secure their protection, but it will not feel this security - in the opinion of the military and strategic expert - because the Palestinian resistance continues its operations, and yesterday it launched missiles towards areas in the Gaza Strip. He pointed out that the problem facing the occupation army in Gaza City is that it occupies a very narrow strip, which means that it is vulnerable to violations by the Palestinian resistance from any side.

Regarding the Israeli incursion into Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip and then the withdrawal, the military expert likened this entry to what happened previously in Al-Shifa Hospital, where he arrested Palestinians there and subjected them to investigation in an attempt to find information that would benefit him militarily and intelligence-wise. According to the military and strategic expert, the occupation army is carrying out inspections and disinfection of the areas it previously entered, such as Beit Hanoun, because these areas were not under complete control.

The Israeli army's vehicles withdrew from Beit Hanoun after an incursion that lasted more than 36 hours, during which they besieged the shelters for the displaced, arrested a number of them, and harassed the people of the town. Scenes of devastation caused by the occupation forces were shown, as they bulldozed agricultural lands before they withdrew from the town.

Last week, IDF and Shin Bet forces under the command of the Northern Brigade in the Gaza Division carried out a targeted operation in a civilian area in Beit Hanon following intelligence indications of the presence of terrorists there. The combat teams of the 401st Brigades, Nahal, the 215th Fire Brigade and other units under the command of the 162nd Division continue their activity focused on the center of the Gaza Strip to eliminate terrorists and destroy terrorist infrastructure. As part of the activity in the center of the Gaza Strip, Air Force aircraft have in the last day eliminated a number of terrorists and destroyed terrorist infrastructures. In one of the attacks, an aircraft attacked a terrorist squad that operated an armed drone against the forces operating in the area.

In additional attacks, Air Force aircraft in cooperation with the 215th Fire Brigade attacked a number of rocket launchers ready to be launched into the country. In the last day, the Nahal Brigade fighters eliminated a terrorist that was detected operating near the forces using a drone. In addition, the forces eliminated with sniper fire a terrorist that was detected moving towards them. Over the past day, fighter jets and aircraft of the Air Force attacked more than 40 terrorist targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including underground launch sites, trapped buildings, military buildings including armed terrorists, observation posts, underground terrorist infrastructures and other military infrastructures.

Palestinian sources also said that Israeli aircraft launched raids at night on Salah al-Din Street and the al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City. The sources added that a raid targeted the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Mosque in the al-Sabra neighborhood of the city.

Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that 12 Palestinians were martyred in an Israeli bombing of a market in the Maghazi camp. 9 others were martyred in a similar bombing of the Nuseirat camp, and Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported intense gunfire from Israeli Quadcopter aircraft targeting residents, ambulances, medical crews, and journalists. North in Gaza City, 8 were killed in a bombing that targeted a police car in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City. The Ministry of Interior in the Strip said that among the martyrs were 7 police officers and members.

The Israeli army has intensified its raids on the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, while continuing its operations north of the camp for the sixth day in a row. The occupation army spoke of destroying a missile launch pad, dozens of infrastructure, tunnels, and military buildings, and killing militants in the middle of the Gaza Strip.

In the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their incursion into Beit Hanoun for the second night, about 4 months after they withdrew from the area. At the beginning of their incursion near the main entrance to the city, the occupation forces surrounded a school housing displaced people and carried out a massive arrest campaign of young men. The Al-Qassam Brigades , the military arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ), announced that it was able to snipe an Israeli soldier in Beit Hanoun. The Palestinian resistance clashed with the forces penetrating Beit Hanoun and north of the Nuseirat camp, and carried out several operations against them.

Operational Update - Judea-Samaria

IDF, IDF and Shin Bet forces destroyed the homes of the terrorists Mahmoud Ali Zaidat and Ahmed Mohammad Zaidat, who carried out the attack in Ra'anana on January 15, 2024, in the village of Bnei Naim, in which the late Edna Blustein was murdered, and about twenty other civilians were injured In addition, the fighters will interrogate other suspects in the area. At the same time, the IDF forces, the Shin Bet and the Special Intelligence Service, operated tonight to arrest six wanted persons throughout Judea and Samaria. The fighters arrested two wanted men in the village of Azira Kavalia in the Samaria Division and in the village of Akbara they arrested two more wanted men. A wanted man was arrested in Hawara and another wanted man was arrested by the forces in Tsarah in the Samaria division. The wanted persons who were arrested were transferred for further investigation by the security forces, there are no casualties to Israeli forces.

Following the warning in the Western Galilee a short time ago, a number of launches were detected that crossed territory from Lebanon, there were no casualties. IDF forces attacked the sources of the shooting.

Israeli forces blew up the homes of two prisoners in Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank, hours after they destroyed the home of a martyr’s family in occupied Jerusalem. Local sources said that the occupation forces stormed the town of Bani Naim, east of Hebron, besieged the Al-Zaidat neighborhood, raided the homes of the two prisoners, 'Zaidat', and destroyed them as part of a policy of collective punishment, while confrontations broke out between young men and the occupation forces in the streets near the house of the two captives, 'Zaidat'. The occupation forces arrested the two prisoners and accused them of carrying out the Raanana operation in Tel Aviv, which resulted in the death of an Israeli woman and the injury of 18 others last January.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces blew up the home of the family of the martyr Khaled Al-Muhtaseb in the town of Beit Hanina, north of occupied Jerusalem, and forced the residents of the building and neighboring buildings to evacuate their homes. In the south of Nablus , the occupation forces stormed the town of Asira Al-Qibliya and arrested two young men. They carried out raids in the town of Rujib, east of the city, and arrested two other young men.

In addition, Jenin witnessed confrontations between resistant youth and the occupation forces inside the village of Al-Fandakumiya, south of the city, and a young man was arrested after he was assaulted after the confrontations that broke out between them. In Tubas, violent clashes broke out between the resistant youth and the occupation forces, who stormed the city reinforced with a military bulldozer, and the resistance fighters detonated a number of explosive devices.

The occupation forces stormed the city of Tulkarm from the direction of the Taiba military checkpoint, southwest of the city, and deployed in its neighborhoods, while the resistance confronted the invasion of the occupation forces, and the resistant youth detonated an explosive device with the occupation forces. In Bethlehem , the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem, and stationed themselves in the vicinity of the Great Mosque on the main street leading to the gate area.

Operational Update - Lebanon

As part of the acceleration of readiness for defense and a strong attack in the northern arena, a large-scale exercise was completed yesterday (Tuesday) in the Galilee led by the 91st Division (the Galilee Formation) and in cooperation with the Air Force, the Israel Police alongside rescue forces. The exercise is a significant part of the division's preparation process for a variety of scenarios in the north while dealing with complex terrain, difficult weather conditions and multi-casualty incidents. All of the forces in the sector, including chiefs and members of the standby squads in the various localities, the police and rescue forces, armored forces, engineering and the division's brigades are working to maintain full readiness for a strong defense of the Upper Galilee and an attack in Lebanese territory.

Fighter jets of the Air Force attacked a terrorist infrastructure used by the air defense system of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in the area north of Baalbak. In addition, IDF forces attacked to remove a threat in the area as planned. Fighter jets attacked military buildings and terrorist infrastructure of Hezbollah in the areas of A-Nakura and Yarin in southern Lebanon. A number of launches of anti-tank missiles and UAVs that crossed from Lebanese territory towards the Arab al-Aramsha area were identified. As a result of the launches, six fighters were seriously injured, two were moderately injured and another six were slightly injured, the fighters were evacuated for medical treatment and their families were informed, the IDF attacked the sources of the shooting.

Fighter jets attacked a military building where Hezbollah terrorists were staying in the Eyta al-Sha'ab region in southern Lebanon. A number of launches were detected that crossed from Lebanese territory towards the Arab al-Aramsha region, the IDF attacked the sources of the shooting. Fighter jets of the Air Force attacked during the night a series of targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Among the targets that were attacked, Hizbullah military sites and military buildings in the areas of al-Khyam, al-Mansouri, Alma al-Sha'ab and Ya'atar in southern Lebanon.

The Lebanese National News Agency reported that “an Israeli drone attacked a building in a residential area of a town in the Bekaa Valley.

Hezbollah announced in a statement that, “In support of the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance targeted, at 07:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, the headquarters of the 91st Division in the Pranit Barracks with a Burkan missile.” They hit her directly. The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon continued its operations against the sites and settlements of the Zionist enemy, on the border with occupied Palestine, in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance.

In this context, at 11:30 midnight on Tuesday 04/16/2024, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance targeted a military vehicle as it entered the Metulla site with appropriate weapons, directly hitting it and leaving those inside it dead and wounded. This Wednesday morning, they targeted the headquarters of the 91st Division in the Baranit Barracks with a Burkan missile , hitting it directly. They also targeted a new deployment of Israeli enemy soldiers south of Baranit with rocket weapons and artillery shells. The Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers in the vicinity of the Ramia site with rocket weapons and artillery shells.

Yesterday, Tuesday, at 14:25, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance launched an air attack with assault marches in two batches, targeting the missile defense system in Beit Hilal, hitting the Iron Dome platforms and their crew, and leaving its members dead or wounded.

Operational Update - Syria / Iraq

Operational Update - Yemen

An official in the Sanaa government revealed suspicions that members of the Israeli Mossad had entered Yemen through the Al-Mokha area in Taiz Governorate on the Red Sea coast. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Sanaa government, Hussein Al-Ezzi , said in a tweet on the “X” platform: We currently have suspicions that Mossad members entered (Mokha) via a previous flight. He added, "We will not tolerate any carrier carrying out such a dirty job." He continued, "We are in a state of war with the Zionist entity, and we know with certainty that it has a plan to train and recruit tools to tamper with the security and values ??of our Yemeni society, and this matter we will confront decisively and strictly." Sanaa reveals a malicious plan by the occupation entity in Yemen.

Maps

All maps are lies. “Not only is it easy to lie with maps, it is essential,” wrote cartographer Mark Monmoneir in his book How to Lie with Maps. He showed that condensing complex, three-dimensional spaces onto a two-dimensional sheet of paper [in old days] is bound to be reductive. But it is impossible to comprehend the war in Gaza without reference to maps, otherwise the entire conflict is reduced to an endless series of meaningless acts of random violence and the suffering of civilians. The first characteristic of guerrilla warfare is the loss of a front line. Evidently, different mappers have different ideas of how to depict the war in Gaza, notably those that seek to depict Israeli progress in the ground campaign. Part of the problem is latency. The news that forms the basis of the maps takes time to filter out to mappers, and the cartographers take time in crafting their maps, and it takes time to curate them. These processes are uneven among mappers, so their maps may differ in detail. Probably there is some ideological bias, or at least thematic apperception, which is understandable in wartime. It may come as no surprise that al-Jazeera maps depict rather less Israeli territorial progress than other sources. Finally, there remains the epistemological question of just exactly what are the colored in areas depicting. Naively, this might be understood as areas of Israeli control, that are no longer contested by the HAMAS. Or possibly these are areas of Israeli presence, in many of which the possibility of an RPG-wielding HAMAS militant popping out of a tunnel unexpectedly remains a live possibility. With the "zero-range" combat characterized by small unit tactics on both sides, maps may be prey to a fallacy of misplaced concreteness.

Bystanders

Axis of Resistance

Deputy Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, confirmed that the demise of the Zionist entity and the victory of Palestine are cumulative, pointing out that the Islamic resistance imposed its rules in the confrontation using the minimum of conventional force. Sheikh Qassim said in a speech during the political meeting organized by the Muslim Scholars Association : “The demise of the Zionist entity is cumulative and its path is brutality and injustice, and the victory of Palestine is cumulative and its path is jihad, martyrdom and patience,” adding: “Israel is powerless without the arrogant world standing with it.”

Sheikh Qassim pointed out that “two things stop the war: America and its elections, and an exceptional event that Israel is unable to confront,” stressing that the “New Middle East project was dropped the first time in Lebanon in July 2006, a second time in Syria, and this third time.” The Deputy Secretary-General of Hezbollah added : “We imposed rules in the confrontation that achieved all the goals, including five: supporting the people of Gaza, occupying the enemy, displacing its settlers, inflicting losses on it, and establishing deterrence, using the minimum amount of conventional force, with precious but natural sacrifices in the face of the major dangers that arise.” Regarding the internal Lebanese situation, Sheikh Qassem stressed Hezbollah’s keenness on unity and achieving the presidential election through dialogue in accordance with the constitution.

Allied for Democracy

Operation Iron Swords - By the Numbers

The Israeli Ministry of War’s Rehabilitation Division said : “7,209 injured people have been admitted to the rehabilitation ward since October 7, and about 30% of them, i.e. 2,111 injured people, showed various mental reactions (psychological crises),” according to the Broadcasting Corporation ( official). The division continued: “For about 60% of those who suffered psychological crises, or about 1,267 injured people, the psychological injury is the main injury.” She reported that “95% of those infected in total are reserve soldiers up to the age of 30 years.”

According to the Rehabilitation Division, “The Rehabilitation Department is preparing to receive about 20,000 new patients by the end of 2024, including those suffering from psychological symptoms, including anxiety, post-traumatic depression, and difficulties in adaptation and communication.” Earlier today, Wednesday, the occupation army admitted to “disabling” more than 2,000 soldiers, policemen, and security personnel, since the beginning of its aggression against Gaza more than 6 months ago, according to the Hebrew “Walla” news website (exclusive). According to the occupation army’s data on its website on Wednesday, 604 officers and soldiers were killed and 3,219 were wounded since last October 7.

• 1,900,000 IDPs in Gaza
• 76,465 Gazans injured, 28% adult male
• 70,000 tons of explosives dropped on Gaza
• 70,000 housing units completely destroyed
• 70,000 Israeli IDPs from Lebanon border
• 45,000 bombs dropped in Gaza
• 43,000 Gazans killed, including buried under rubble
• 33,000 Gaza targets attacked
• 33,797 Gazans martyred
• 20,528 Palestinians in Israeli prisons [Haaretz, 20 Mar 2024]
• 15,140 Israelis injured [i24 TV]
• 15,000 rockets launched from Gaza
• 14,520 Gazan children martyred
• 13,000 HAMAS combatants killed [N12]
• 13,000 HAMAS combatants killed [IDF]
• 11,000 arrested by Israelis in the West Bank in 2023
• 10,000 Gazans missing under the rubble
• 9,920 Gazan women martyred
• 9,400 Palestinians in Israeli prisons
• 9,000 IDF needing psychological assistance
• 8,365 arrested by Israelis in the West Bank since Oct.7th
• 7,209 IDF injured admitted to rehabilitation [IDF]
• 6,800 IDF officers and soldiers injured [Channel 12]
• 6,000 HAMAS combatants killed [HAMAS]
• 5,500 IDF wounded [reports]
• 4,800 West Bank Palestinians wounded
• 4,700 sites targetted in Lebanon
• 3,850 wanted persons arrested throughout Judea and Samaria
• 3,484 administrative detainees
• 3,188 IDF wounded [IDF]
• 2,100 Gazan women are missing
• 1,609 terrorists killed on the first day
• 1,650 wanted persons arrested throughout Judea and Samaria affiliated with Hamas
• 1,160 Israelis killed on the first day
• 604 Israeli officers and soldiers killed since the start of the war
• 468 West Bank Palestinians martyred
• 364 people [including fighters] killed in Lebanon
• 260 Israeli officers and soldiers killed in Gaza
• 240 Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanon
• 126 people recovered, including 91 Israelis, 11 bodies, and 24 foreign workers
• 116 living hostages in Palestinian custody
• 70 civilians killed in Lebanon
• 29 IDF deaths were caused by "friendly fire"
• 15 Israelis killed in the West Bank and Israel

Not every number is reported every day, so sudden jumps generally reflect reporting artifacts rather than actual upticks. Many of these numbers fluctate, up and down, with no apparent explanation. This list records the highest number reliably reported for each matter, under the theory that reality with catch up with reports, as is relentlessly the case.