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La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, December 17, 2024, p. 22

Tel Aviv., The war in the Gaza Strip, where more than 50 people were eliminated yesterday, caused a unprecedented change in recent history of the Palestinian economy, totally devastated by the Israeli attacks launched since October 2023, indicated the World Bank, specifying that the enclave’s GDP plummeted 86 percent at the end of the first half of 2024, compared to last year.

Food prices increased 440 percent in one year, energy prices more than 200 percent due to major disruptions to the electricity supply and the difficulty of delivering food aid.

In the daily count of deaths in Gaza, authorities reported that 45,028 Palestinians died, while the number of wounded stood at 106,962 since the beginning of the war between Hamas and Israel.

Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that the troops of Division 98 were withdrawn from southern Lebanon, where a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah is in force, and will now head to the Palestinian enclave, where fighting with Hamas they are still active.

The Islamic Resistance Movement accused Israel of committing a massacre yesterday in the offensive against a school in the city of Khan Younis, which left at least 20 dead, most of them children, women and the elderly.

The attack against the Ahmed Abdelaziz squad It is an example of the Zionist insistence in their brutal war of extermination in Gaza and its systematic offensive against schools and centers for displaced peoplehe expressed.

Yemen’s Houthi group reported launching a hypersonic missile towards Israel and hit a military target in Tel Aviv.

The organization will continue to carry out more military operations against Israelhe indicated, while ensuring that These operations will not cease until the aggression against Gaza stops and the siege is lifted.declared the Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Sarea.