🚨 Government Media Office:
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The Government Media Office publishes an update on the key statistics of the genocide war waged by the Israeli occupation on the Gaza Strip for day 230 – Thursday, May 23, 2024:

- 230 days of genocide war.
- 3,191 massacres committed by the occupation army.
- 45,800 martyrs and missing persons.
- 10,000 missing persons.
- 35,800 martyrs who reached hospitals.
- 15,239 child martyrs.
- 31 martyrs due to starvation.
- 10,093 female martyrs.
- 493 martyrs from medical teams.
- 69 martyrs from civil defense.
- 147 journalist martyrs.
- 7 mass graves established by the occupation inside hospitals.
- 520 martyrs recovered from 7 mass graves inside hospitals.
- 80,200 wounded and injured.
- 71% of the victims are children and women.
- 17,000 children living without their parents or one of them.
- 11,000 injured needing to travel for treatment for surgeries.
- 10,000 cancer patients facing death and needing treatment.
- 1,095,000 infected with communicable diseases due to displacement.
- 20,000 cases of viral hepatitis infections due to displacement.
- 60,000 pregnant women at risk due to lack of healthcare.
- 350,000 chronic patients at risk due to the prevention of medication entry.
- 5,000 detainees from the Gaza Strip during the genocide war.
- 310 cases of detention of healthcare personnel.
- 20 cases of detained journalists whose names are known.
- 2 million displaced people in the Gaza Strip.
- 189 government headquarters destroyed by the occupation.
- 108 schools and universities completely destroyed by the occupation.
- 313 schools and universities partially destroyed by the occupation.
- 604 mosques completely destroyed by the occupation.
- 200 mosques partially destroyed by the occupation.
- 3 churches targeted and destroyed by the occupation.
- 87,000 housing units completely destroyed by the occupation.
- 297,000 housing units partially destroyed by the occupation.
- 77,000 tons of explosives dropped by the occupation on the Gaza Strip.
- 33 hospitals put out of service by the occupation.
- 55 health centers put out of service by the occupation.
- 160 health institutions targeted by the occupation.
- 130 ambulances targeted by the occupation.
- 206 archaeological and heritage sites destroyed by the occupation.
- 33 billion dollars in initial direct losses due to the genocide war on the Gaza Strip.

Government Media Office
Thursday, May 23, 2024

"There is no power on earth that could end the brigade and end the resistance."

A leader in the Jenin Brigade sends the message of the resistance following the heroic Walls of Death battle that transpired over the last two days, led by the Jenin Brigade. He challenges the occupation to reveal its significant losses, which the resistance clearly displayed.

Embracing the popular cradle that embraces the resistance, the fighter stresses that the resistance draws its strength from the popular cradle, which grows stronger with each invasion despite the destruction.

"Our message is clear and direct: we will not lay down our weapons."
"Every incursion by the occupier will be met with fiercer and more intense resistance."

🚨 Power has been cut off at the intensive care and neonatal units of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central #Gaza Strip, the last remaining units that had power.

The hospital is the last functioning one in the central #Gaza Strip and is continuing to receive martyrs and wounded while treating over 1,200 patients, portending a health catastrophe.

From Past Victories to Future Freedoms: South Lebanon and Palestine.

Today marks the 24th anniversary of the liberation of 144 prisoners from the colonial Khiam prison camp and torture center just days before the zionist occupation was driven out of southern Lebanon.

The prison was run by colonists and their allies since its inception. In the 1930s, it held rebels against the French occupation, and in 1985, invading zionists and the SLA turned it into a brutal torture facility.

In October 1991, 210 detainees were known to be held in Khiam, of whom 20 were non-Lebanese. This group included 13 Palestinians, four Syrians, two Kurds, and one Algerian. Among the detainees, there were 16 women (15 Lebanese and one Palestinian). Reports indicate that detainees ranged from minors to individuals in their sixties and older.

One of the youngest detainees, Rabah Shahrur, was around 12 years old when he was captured, held in Khiam for eight months to pressure his detained older brother into confessing. Another child, Ahmad Nimr Munther from Markaba, was 14 when he was taken prisoner in 1989. It was common to torture the relatives of the prisoners, their parents, and loved ones to force them to "confess" that they were resisting occupation.

Over the years, over 5,000 people, including 500 women like revolutionary Lebanese resister Suha Bechara (media 4, part 1), would be imprisoned and tortured at Khiam by electrocution, beating, waterboarding, and other brutal methods.

11 martyrs (media 2, part 2) ascended inside the prison due to torture, medical negligence, or suffocation by gas. The Khiam prison remained a testament to the struggle of a people until the 2006 war. The IOF, in an attempt to erase their crimes, bombarded the torture center, reducing it to ruins (media 3,4 part 2). Despite all their attempts, the electrical pole where they tortured the prisoners and two of them were martyred, as well as a cell used for torture, remained (media 5,6,7 part 2). The memories of the freed resisters, children of the land, remained. The voice of Rani Bazzi, who screamed on May 23, 2000, when he was liberated and continued to resist until he was martyred in 2006, in the same war where the enemy attempted to erase his past, still lingers on top of the rubble (media 8, part 2). We bear witness.

Every victory that is not documented may be lost. The scenes of liberation at Khiam prison not only document the victory but also make us feel as if we are living it, moment by moment, breaking into the torture prison where the occupiers fled, to free our prisoners (media 1, part 2). It makes us long for this moment in Palestine.

Last year, RNN wrote: "Khiam reminds us that #FreeThemAll is not a lofty dream or an empty promise to be replaced with compromise. The freedom of all prisoners—from the colonial prisons of the zionist entity, the dungeons of the comprador Authority, and the prisons of Europe, America, and the Arab world—is a reality that will be enforced through armed resistance and popular revolt."

On October 7th, the resistance enforced that reality through armed resistance, backed by the popular cradle, with their first demand being our prisoners, reiterating: "If the prisoner is lost, the nation is lost." 210 prisoners have been freed in the November exchange batches. We await the moment where all of our prisoners shall be free.

Khiam teaches us that the liberation of our prisoners is inevitable. It is a promise, because our people and their resistance pledged to keep it. As the liberation of the prisoners in southern Lebanon on the 23rd of May 2000 announced the liberation of the land two days later, today we affirm that the freedom of our prisoners has begun, announcing: the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, has begun.