The withdrawal of Israeli forces revealed a staggering level of destruction in Shejaiya. (Photo: via QNN)

The withdrawal of Israeli forces revealed a staggering level of destruction, reducing the neighborhood to rubble. 

In the aftermath of a prolonged Israeli ground offensive in the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya, Palestinian rescue and ambulance crews have recovered over 60 bodies of victims from the rubble of destroyed buildings, with many more feared trapped beneath the debris, the WAFA news agency reported.

Local sources reported that the Israeli airstrikes and ground operations have decimated more than 85% of residential buildings in Shejaiya, rendering the area uninhabitable and akin to a devastated wasteland. 

A medical clinic that served over 60,000 citizens was also destroyed, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis, according to WAFA.

The withdrawal of Israeli forces revealed a staggering level of destruction, reducing the neighborhood to rubble. 

“We are steadfast and we will rebuild it again”

A Palestinian woman sends a message as she returned to the Shejaiya neighborhood in Gaza following the Israeli occupation’s withdrawal. pic.twitter.com/c1mmaXRm8e

— PALESTINE ONLINE ?? (@OnlinePalEng) July 11, 2024

Entire residential blocks have been leveled, streets obliterated, and critical infrastructure targeted throughout the area.

Eyewitnesses from the neighborhood recounted harrowing tales of Israeli forces firing on civilians as they attempted to evacuate, despite designated exit routes

Evacuation Orders 

Meanwhile, Israeli forces continue their incursion into Tel al-Hawa neighborhood and several others in Gaza City, systematically targeting all aspects of life. 

Initial estimates indicate at least 50 civilians have been killed in Tel al-Hawa, with reports of families trapped in areas surrounded by advancing Israeli military vehicles, unreachable due to ongoing bombardments.

Last Monday, Israeli forces simultaneously invaded western neighborhoods of Gaza City, issuing evacuation orders for the local population to evacuate to Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

One of the prominent "attractions" in the Shejaiya neighborhood after the departure of the maneuvering forces is the remains of #Israeli APCs that the forces left in the field.
I will mention that these are M113 (Zelda) type APCs which, according to Palestinian reports, (1/4) pic.twitter.com/ofmkMGEiCN

— Abu Ali Express English (@AbuAliEnglishB1) July 11, 2024

In a related incident, at least five civilians were killed and others injured this evening in an Israeli airstrike on a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Additionally, three civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Rashid Street west of Nuseirat camp. 

Meanwhile, another civilian was killed and several others wounded due to Israeli shelling on the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah in southern Gaza.

Gaza Genocide 

Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.  

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 38,345 Palestinians have been killed, and 88,295 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. 

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Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’. 

Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children. 

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.  

(PC, WAFA)

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez. (Photo: European Parliament, via Wikimedia Commons)

Spanish officials continue to speak out against the Israeli war on Gaza, urging other Western countries to take action that would end the Israeli genocide. 

The latest comments were made by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday. He urged the West to reject “double standards” regarding the war on Gaza.

“If we are telling our people that we are supporting Ukraine because we are defending international law, this is the same as what we have to do towards Gaza,” he said at NATO’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington.

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The Spanish leader also said there should be a “consistent political position” in which “we don’t have double standards.”

Sanchez added that the world needed to press to “stop this terrible humanitarian crisis” affecting the Palestinians and called for an international peace conference to push for a Palestinian state.

“We need to create the conditions for an immediate and urgent ceasefire,” he said. 

On May 28, Spain became the 140th country to recognize the State of Palestine. It was joined by Norway and Ireland and later followed by Slovenia. 

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In a social media video on May 23, the Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, Yolanda Diaz, said “We will continue pressuring, from our position in the government, to defend human rights and put an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people”. 

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” she added.

Gaza Genocide

Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.  

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 38,345 Palestinians have been killed, and 88,295 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. 

Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’. 

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Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children. 

 The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.  

(PC, WAFA)

Ali Hassan Ali Rabai’a, 17, was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. (Photo: via social media)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

A 17-year-old Palestinian youth has been shot and killed by Israeli occupation forces during a raid on the town of Meithalun, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Several other towns were also raided.

Ali Hassan Ali Rabai’a, 17, was killed during the clashes, the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, reported on Thursday.

Two other youths were injured from live ammunition in the nearby village of Siris.

The killing of Rabai’a brings to 537 the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank since October 7, said WAFA.

Elsewhere in the village of Al-Jadeeda, in Jenin, another Palestinian child was shot in the back with live ammunition during clashes that erupted following a raid by Israeli forces.

According to WAFA, Israeli forces stormed Al-Jadeeda and surrounded a house where they arrested two Palestinians, Mohammad Alian and Ahmed Zahran. The Israeli military also set fire to their vehicle during the attack.

Arrests

Four Palestinians, including a woman and a child, were injured during a dawn raid by Israeli occupation forces into Balata camp, east of Nablus, reported WAFA.

A 26-year-old man was injured by live bullets in the abdomen during confrontations that broke out inside the camp. In addition,  a woman, aged 34, a child, aged 13, and another young man, aged 23, were injured after the occupation soldiers assaulted them.

The Israeli forces raided several homes in the camp and detained youths.

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Ghassan Abu Hanish, from the Al-Maajin neighborhood in the city, former prisoner Bilal Kayed Yassin from Asira Al-Shamaliah, and Abdul Rahman Al-Kaabi from Rujib, were detained.

Yassin had previously spent 17 years in Israeli detention, during which he went on a hunger strike that lasted for more than two months. He was released in 2016.

In Qalqilya, Israeli forces detained the parents of a former prisoner, Tariq Dawoud. It is the seventh time that his mother, Dunia, has been detained in the last six weeks, according to Palestinian sources, and the 20th time that the family’s home has been raided in the same period.

Dawoud was freed during the prisoner exchange deal in November 2023.

Hebron (Al Khalil)

Three Palestinians, including a child, were injured on Thursday during a raid by the Israeli occupation forces on the town of Halhul, north of Hebron.

Several homes were raided and sound bombs were fired by the military, which caused a fire in more than one area in the town, including the archaeological site of Ain Al-Dhara, reported WAFA.

Clashes occurred between Palestinians and the occupation forces, who opened fire, injuring a 25-year-old and a 17-year-old youth, with live bullets in the abdomen and limbs.

West Bank Invasion – Two Palestinians Shot, Homes Raided

A third Palestinian, aged 57, was injured in the head after Israeli forces assaulted him with their rifles.

Israeli occupation forces on Thursday also detained detained Youssef Yaghmour in the Deir Bahha area of ​​the city after raiding his home.

Illegal Jewish settlers also severely assaulted Ahmed Abdullah Al-Sallal at the Beit Anoun roundabout, east of Hebron. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.

The occupation forces set up several military checkpoints at the entrances to towns and camps in Hebron during their raid on several neighborhoods in the town reported WAFA.

Homes demolished

Israeli occupation bulldozers on Thursday began demolishing a three-story house in Khirbet Qalqas area, south of Hebron.

Sufyan Sidr, the brother of the owner, told WAFA that the occupation bulldozers began demolishing the house of his deceased brother, Mustafa, which houses a family of 30, under the pretext of not having a building permit.

He said the soldiers forced the residents of neighboring houses to remain in their homes, preventing them from assisting in removing furniture from the house.

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The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said in its report that the occupation authorities demolished 318 facilities in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, during the first half of 2024, and issued notices to demolish 359 other facilities, and uprooted about 10,000 trees.

Israeli occupation forces on Thursday also began demolishing several dwellings, east of the city of Jericho,  under the pretext that they were built without a permit.

Trees Uprooted

On Thursday, Israeli occupation forces razed a large tract of land and uprooted dozens of trees in the village of Haris, located in the central West Bank province of Salfit.

Mahmoud Dawood informed WAFA that Israeli forces bulldozed approximately 20 dunums of his land on the outskirts of the village, ostensibly for the benefit of nearby illegal Israeli settlements. Additionally, they uprooted around 150 grape and olive trees, aged between 8 to 10 years.

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Omar Samara, the head of the Haris village council, explained that the Israeli occupation has been systematically confiscating land in the area for some time now. This particular action, he noted, is purportedly for installing sewage networks to serve the nearby illegal Jewish settlements.

The ongoing expansion of the settlements in the West Bank, deemed illegal under international law, has been a major obstacle to achieving peace in the region, reported WAFA. Local Palestinian communities continue to face displacement and loss of livelihood as a result of such measures.

(PC, WAFA)

Thousands of children have been killed in Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The surgeons, who have been working in Gaza over the past few months, emphasized the devastating effects of these weapons on the civilian population, especially children.

Surgeons volunteering in Gaza have reported severe injuries among children caused by Israeli-made weapons designed to maximize shrapnel dispersion, resulting in significant casualties, the British newspaper The Guardian said on Thursday.

These surgeons, who have been working in Gaza over the past few months, emphasized the devastating effects of these weapons on the civilian population, especially children.

Doctors at Gaza’s European Hospital and al-Aqsa Hospital described conducting numerous operations on children injured by tiny shrapnel fragments. These fragments often leave barely visible entry wounds but cause extensive internal damage.

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According to Amnesty International, these weapons seem to be intentionally designed to increase casualties. 

“About half of the injuries I took care of were in young kids,” said Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon from California who worked at the European Hospital in southern Gaza in April.

“We saw a lot of so-called splinter injuries that were very, very small to the point that you easily missed them while examining a patient. Much, much smaller than anything I’ve seen before but they caused tremendous damage on the inside,” he added.

Weapons experts indicated that these injuries match the characteristics of Israeli-made weapons intended to maximize harm rather than merely destroying infrastructure. This raises concerns about their use in densely populated civilian areas.

Six foreign doctors who recently worked at Gaza’s hospitals confirmed the widespread injuries from these fragmentation weapons, resulting in a high number of amputations since the conflict began.

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“Children are more vulnerable to any penetrating injury because they have smaller bodies,” explained Sidhwa.

“Their vital parts are smaller and easier to disrupt. When children have lacerated blood vessels, their blood vessels are already so small it’s very hard to put them back together,” the doctor said. 

“The artery that feeds the leg, the femoral artery, is only the thickness of a noodle in a small child. It’s very, very small. So repairing it and keeping the kid’s limb attached to them is very difficult,” he added.

Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic surgeon from North Carolina, also worked at the European Hospital and confirmed Sidhwa’s observations.

The surgeons’ testimonies reveal a grim situation where the youngest and most vulnerable suffer life-changing injuries from weapons designed for maximum impact.

“Amnesty International first identified ammunition packed with the metal cubes used in Spike missiles in Gaza in 2009,” the Guardian reported.

“They appear designed to cause maximum injury and, in some respects, seem to be a more sophisticated version of the ball-bearings or nails and bolts which armed groups often pack into crude rockets and suicide bombs,” Amnesty said in a report at the time, according to the paper.

Ongoing Genocide

Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 38,345 Palestinians have been killed, and 88,295 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. 

Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’. 

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Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children.  

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.

(PC, Anadolu)

Testimonies of six Israeli soldiers have corroborated that of Palestinians throughout the ongoing war on Gaza. (Photo: screen grab)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

“It’s permissible to shoot everyone, a young girl, an old woman.”

Testimonies of six Israeli soldiers have corroborated that of Palestinians throughout the ongoing war on Gaza; that soldiers were “authorized to open fire on Palestinians virtually at will, including civilians,” an exposé by +972 Magazine has revealed.

The soldiers, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, described an atmosphere of “total freedom of action” in the enclave, with some Palestinian civilians executed “simply because they entered an area that the military defined as ‘no-go zone’.”

“I personally fired a few bullets for no reason, into the sea or at the sidewalk or an abandoned building. They report it as ‘normal fire,’ which is a codename for ‘I’m bored, so I shoot,’” a reservist, identified as S, told the magazine.

The soldiers were all released from active duty in the past few months.

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Yagil Levy, a political sociologist, said that since the Second Intifada, “the army has not given soldiers written rules of engagement.” This has left much open to the interpretation of commanders and soldiers in the field, the report said.

“If there is (even) a feeling of threat, there is no need to explain — you just shoot,” another soldier, B, recounted.

If someone is seen approaching, he explained, “It is permissible to shoot at their center of mass (their body), not into the air,” adding “It’s permissible to shoot everyone, a young girl, an old woman.”

Shooting at Displaced Evacuees

B also related an incident when soldiers killed several Palestinians during the evacuation of a school, which had served as a shelter for the displaced, in Gaza City in November.

The evacuees were ordered to exit to the left, toward the sea, rather than the right, where the soldiers were present, the report said.

“There was intelligence that Hamas wanted to create panic,” B reportedly said. “A battle started inside; people ran away. Some fled left toward the sea, (but) some ran to the right, including children. Everyone who went to the right was killed — 15 to 20 people. There was a pile of bodies.”

B also said that it was difficult to distinguish between civilians and fighters, claiming that Hamas often “walk around without their weapons.” This meant that “every man between the ages of 16 and 50 is suspected of being a terrorist.”

“The (army’s) perception is that any contact (with the population) endangers the forces, and a situation must be created in which it is forbidden to approach (the soldiers) under any circumstances. (The Palestinians) learned that when we enter, they run away.”

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‘Demonstrating Presence’

Soldiers would also “shoot a lot, even for no reason – anyone who wants to shoot, no matter what the reason, shoots,” S said, in a procedure known as “demonstrating presence.”

This took place place even in areas that seemed abandoned.

Another reservist, known as M, told the magazine that such orders would come directly from the field commanders.

“When there are no (other) IDF forces (in the area) … the shooting is very unrestricted, like crazy. And not just small arms: machine guns, tanks, and mortars,” he said.

‘War Harms’ Captives

Yuval Green, 26, who was willing to be identified by the magazine said “There were no restrictions on ammunition,” and added, “People were shooting just to relieve the boredom.”

Green, who co-signed a letter recently by 41 reservists who refuse to continue serving in Gaza, raised concern that the rules of engagement posed a danger to the captives.

He said he was told about “a practice of blowing up tunnels, and I thought to myself that if there were hostages (in them), it would kill them.” After Israeli forces killed three captives waving white flags in Shejiya in December, Green said he was told “there’s nothing we can do.”

Green said the sentiment was that “We’re here for the hostages,’ but it is clear that the war harms the hostages.”

‘No Briefing’

Another officer, A, who served in the army’s Operations Directorate, said “From the moment you enter, at no point is there a briefing.”

“We didn’t receive instructions from higher up to pass on to the soldiers and battalion commanders,” he added.

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Besides instructions not to shoot along humanitarian routes, for everywhere else “you fill in the blanks, in the absence of any other directive. This is the approach: ‘If it is forbidden there, then it is permitted here.’”

Soldier A said shooting at buildings such as hospitals, clinics, schools, religious institutions and buildings of international organizations “required higher authorization,” the report stated.

However, he could “count on one hand the cases where we were told not to shoot. Even with sensitive things like schools, (approval) feels like only a formality.”

He said “the consensus” was that soldiers “shoot first, ask questions later,” adding “No one will shed a tear if we flatten a house when there was no need, or if we shoot someone who we didn’t have to.”

‘Kill Zones’

In April, the Israeli Haaretz newspaper reported on the creation of “kill zones” in Gaza where the orders were to “shoot to kill” anyone who entered them.

“This is the default. No civilians are supposed to be in the area, that’s the perspective. We spotted someone in a window, so they fired and killed him,” A said.

Even civilians who entered areas where aid convoys passed through, looking for scraps, were targeted.

“If they cross the red line, you report it on the radio and you don’t need to wait for permission, you can shoot,” Soldier D told the magazine.

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The soldiers “testified that throughout Gaza, corpses of Palestinians in civilian clothes remained scattered along roads and open ground,” the magazine said.

Bodies Dumped

Another testified that before aid convoys arrived, the bodies were removed along the route that trucks took.

“A D-9 (Caterpillar bulldozer) goes down, with a tank, and clears the area of corpses, buries them under the rubble, and flips (them) aside so that the convoys don’t see it — (so that) images of people in advanced stages of decay don’t come out,” he stated.

Another soldier, identified as C, told the magazine that unrestricted shooting meant incidents of friendly fire which was “more dangerous than Hamas.”

“On multiple occasions, IDF forces fired in our direction,” C said.

According to the report, at least 28 soldiers had been killed in “friendly fire” incidents, citing the army.

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‘Burn Down the House’

Soldiers also told the magazine that it was common practice to burn Palestinian homes after they had been occupied.

“Before you leave, you burn down the house — every house,” one soldier said. “This is backed up at the battalion commander level. It’s so that (Palestinians) won’t be able to return, and if we left behind any ammunition or food, the terrorists won’t be able to use it.”

An Israeli military spokesman, in a lengthy response to +972 Magazine, said “Open-fire instructions were given to all IDF soldiers fighting in the Gaza Strip and on the borders upon entering combat. These instructions reflect the international law to which the IDF is bound.”

The spokesman said the instructions were “regularly reviewed and updated” in light of the “changing operational and intelligence situation, and approved by the most senior officials in the IDF.”

(The Palestine Chronicle)

A drone attack from Lebanon caused extensive damage in northern Israel. (Photo: video grab)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

An Israeli was seriously injured on Thursday when a drone launched from Lebanon crashed in the Western Galilee.

The Israeli army confirmed that several drones launched from southern Lebanon had fallen in northern Israel, while the Lebanese group Hezbollah reported attacks on two Israeli military headquarters.

Israeli media reported that a person was seriously injured in the Kabri area, east of Nahariya, due to the recent shelling from Lebanon. Israeli radio indicated that the bombing caused significant damage to the town of Al-Kabri in Upper Galilee.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent confirmed that air raid sirens were heard in the Upper Galilee following drone infiltrations from southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah announced that it had launched an attack with a squadron of drones on the headquarters of the artillery battalion of the 146th Division in the Israeli army, located south of the Kabri area in northern Israel.

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They also bombed newly built technical equipment at the Israeli Al-Malikiyah site, confirming direct hits.

In response, Israeli artillery reportedly shelled areas surrounding the towns of Naqoura and Tyre Harfa in southern Lebanon.

The Lebanese News Agency reported that the outskirts of the town of Alma al-Shaab were also shelled by Israeli artillery, causing fires in forests and olive groves.

Additionally, phosphorous artillery shelling targeted the southern and eastern outskirts of the town of Mays al-Jabal, with interceptor missiles exploding in the skies above the town and surrounding areas.

Since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, on October 7, the Lebanese movement Hezbollah has engaged directly, but relatively in a limited way in the war against the Israeli occupation.

The escalation between Tel Aviv and Hezbollah has increased in recent weeks, raising fears of a full-scale war. The Israeli army has announced the approval of operational plans for a large-scale attack on Lebanon.

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‘Leading Israel to Ruin’

Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, stated on Wednesday that his group would support whatever the Palestinian Movement Hamas accepts, emphasizing that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues the battle, it will lead Israel to ruin.

Nasrallah’s remarks came during a televised speech at a memorial service for party leader Mohammad Nehme Nasser, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the southern Lebanese city of Tyre last week.

He stressed that Hamas is negotiating on behalf of itself, Palestinian factions, and the axis of resistance, and Hezbollah is aligned with Hamas’s stance because Gaza bears the greatest burden in this conflict.

Nasrallah highlighted that his party has turned the northern front of Israel into a front supporting Gaza’s resistance, aiming to deplete the enemy in terms of human, economic, and moral resources.

?? Leader of the Islamic Resistance Hezbollah, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, makes a major promise to the Israelis pic.twitter.com/oF1Aveu9v6

— Hussain ?? (@Baseeji_313) July 11, 2024

He stated that stopping the war in Gaza is the only way to cease hostilities on the northern front, pending an agreement between Hamas and Israel.

Nasrallah also responded to Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz’s threat, demanding that Hezbollah withdraw beyond the Litani River. He remarked that Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s claim that a tank leaving Rafah could reach the Litani is contradicted by videos showing its destruction by Palestinian Resistance.

Nasrallah vowed to defend Lebanon if Israel attacks after a Gaza ceasefire, urging his fighters and supporters to remain prepared for the worst-case scenario while hoping for the best.

In a related context, Yisrael Ziv, commander of the Operations Division in the Israeli army, stated in an interview with Channel 12 that Israel is facing a war of attrition with Hezbollah in Lebanon and must make decisive decisions.

He criticized the current government as being incapable of managing the war, both on the border with Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip.

(PC, AJA)

Diana Ayesh is one of the Palestinian lawyers who were detained by Israel. (Photo: via social media)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Scores of testimonies from recently released prisoners point to torture and abuse inside Israeli detention camps and prisons.

Israel has arrested at least 30 Palestinian lawyers since October 7, according to the Commission for Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.

This includes two female lawyers, the organizations said in a joint statement to mark Palestinian Lawyers Day.

They said law professionals have “historically” been targeted by Israeli authorities but that it has escalated in the recent past, particularly since the case of alleged genocide was brought against Tel Aviv in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The organizations said that the arrests of lawyers were seen as a “crackdown” on their profession, with legal teams working in human rights institutions, “especially those who visit and represent detainees” being subjected to “many obstructions” since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began.

“Furthermore, the occupation authorities imposed a series of restrictions on lawyers working in military courts, which significantly affected their ability to continue their work to follow up on detainee cases,” the statement said.

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‘Strict Conditions’

The organizations highlighted the “crime of enforced disappearance” amongst “the majority” of Gaza detainees, “by preventing legal teams and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from communicating with them.”

They noted that a few lawyers were permitted to visit the detainees “under strict conditions” as the legal representatives were “subjected to thorough searches and prevented from bringing any note to detainees.”

In this context, the Commission and the Prisoner’s Society confirm the crucial role played by Palestinian lawyers, especially during the war” amid “the unprecedented level of crimes.”

The organizations called for the protection of legal teams and support from international human rights organizations for them to be “able to perform their vital and important duties at all levels.”

Scores of testimonies from recently released prisoners point to torture and abuse inside Israeli detention camps and prisons.

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Ongoing Genocide

Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 38,295 Palestinians have been killed, and 88,241 wounded. Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’.

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Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

According to UNRWA, there is no safe place in Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

Israeli planes have dropped leaflets, urging “everyone in Gaza City” to leave because the area “will be a dangerous combat zone.” 

The Israeli occupation army instructed all remaining residents of Gaza City to flee south towards Deir al-Balah. 

The call on Wednesday came as the Israeli military intensified attacks throughout the besieged Palestinian enclave, including a raid on a UN refugee agency compound that it claimed was being used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters.

The Israeli army has issued several evacuation warnings in Gaza City in the past few days, as Israeli troops carried out operations in its western, southern, and eastern neighborhoods, according to the Times of Israel. 

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain in the northern part of the enclave despite repeated Israeli efforts, since the start of the war, to empty northern Gaza from its inhabitants. 

Israeli planes have dropped leaflets, urging “everyone in Gaza City” to leave because the area “will be a dangerous combat zone.” 

The flyers outlined two “safe routes” for evacuation and instructions to head south. 

Israel is calling on the people of northern Gaza to head south.

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‘Mass Suffering’ 

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) warned that the latest set of Israeli evacuation orders will exacerbate the already dire situation in Gaza, where most of the population has been displaced since the start of the war in October. 

The directive “will only fuel mass suffering for Palestinian families, many of whom have been displaced again and again,” the agency said. It warned that the repeated displacement of Palestinians makes the work of relief groups more difficult because they are forced to “reset their aid operations over and over again.”

“Aid workers are responding but what they can deliver falls far short of the needs,” UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory Muhannad Hadi wrote on X on Wednesday after a trip to Gaza.

During the early stages of the invasion of Gaza, Israel told Palestinians to evacuate from the northern part of the enclave. As the Israeli army expanded its raids, it instructed people to leave certain southern areas as well, including eastern Khan Younis and Rafah, a city near the Egyptian border that has become a giant refugee camp.

The Israeli army said it is continuing a “targeted, intelligence-based operational activity” in Rafah and elsewhere. 

Addressing the Knesset on Wednesday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the Israeli army’s actions have “led to the elimination of over 14,000 terrorists and the collapse of the military frameworks of Hamas.”

‘Immeasurable Failure’ – Gaza’s Women Self-Inducing Labor, Giving Birth in Traumatic Conditions

Genocide 

Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7. 

 According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 38,295 Palestinians have been killed, and 88,241 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. 

Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’. 

Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

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The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children.  

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.

(PC, RT)

Israel continues to carry out massacres against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.(Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Head of Hamas’ Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, received a message from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, confirming Iran’s continued support for the Palestinian people.

According to Israeli media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed with his close associates in recent days the dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Four Palestinians, including a child, were killed in Israeli raids on the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah city.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 38,295 Palestinians have been killed, and 88,241 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Friday, July 12, 12:00 Am (Gmt+2)

MOSSAD CHIEF: without Netanyahu’s principles we will not return the prisoners, so military pressure on Gaza must be doubled.

ISRAELI ARMY: Air Force planes attacked Hezbollah military buildings in the Taybeh area in southern Lebanon.

Thursday, July 12, 11:00 pm (Gmt+2)

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: The Israeli occupation forces are firing dozens of shells randomly in the vicinity of the municipal park and the Qattan Center, west of Gaza City.

HAGARI: We failed to defend the citizens of Israel on October 7 and were not prepared.

Thursday, July 12, 8:30 pm (Gmt+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Hundreds of Israelis continue to march for the second day towards the city of Jerusalem to pressure Netanyahu to conclude a prisoner exchange deal.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades announced that it had targeted a “Zionist infantry force with a TPG shell, killing and wounding them near the Al-Zahar junction in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City.”

Deliberate Harm – Israel Uses Weapons Designed to Maximize Child Injuries

Thursday, July 12, 7:30 pm (Gmt+2)

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed a deployment of enemy soldiers around the Zar’it barracks with a Burkan missile.

SULLIVAN: There are still details to be finalized to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted two buildings used by enemy soldiers in the Shtula settlement with missiles.

HALEVI: The results of this war will affect future generations.

NETANYAHU: This war will continue until we achieve victory.

‘Fueling Mass Suffering’ – Israeli Army Orders ‘Everyone’ to Leave Gaza City

Thursday, July 12, 6:00 pm (Gmt+2)

ISRAELI MINISTER OF CULTURE: After 9 months of events on several fronts, we must say that Israel has lost its ability to deter.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: The US State Department announced sanctions on 3 Israelis and 5 entities linked to violence against civilians in the West Bank.

COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: 60 media and civil society organizations have sent a letter to Israel urging it to grant journalists free access to the Gaza Strip.

Thursday, July 12, 5:00 pm (Gmt+2)

THE GUARDIAN: Israeli weapons designed to increase the number of victims in Gaza.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli occupation army announces that 12 soldiers were injured within 24 hours, including 7 who were injured in the battles of the Gaza Strip.

Thursday, July 12, 4:00 pm (Gmt+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Violent clashes took place between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation forces that have penetrated the industrial area west of Gaza City.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Two Merkava tanks with two tandem shells near Al-Zahar Junction in Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

KAN: The Israeli Broadcasting Authority quoted families from the envelope settlements as saying that there was a lack of consistency in the information provided to us in the army’s investigation.

30 Palestinian Lawyers in Israeli Detention – Organizations Call for Protection

HAMAS: We have not been informed of anything new from the mediator brothers yet.

PFLP: The US administration headed by war criminal Biden must be held accountable before international courts.

WALLA: A security delegation held talks in Cairo regarding the Rafah crossing.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requesting an urgent discussion on the law extending compulsory service in the army.

Thursday, July 12, 3:00 pm (Gmt+2)

AL-JAZEERA: A Palestinian was killed and two others were injured, following an Israeli drone strike on the Tel al-Sultan neighbourhood, west of Rafah.

WFP: The collapse of Gaza’s health system and lack of food are putting countless children at risk.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli airstrike targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: There were casualties as a result of Israeli shelling that targeted the Mirage area, north of Rafah city.

AL-JAZEERA: an Israeli airstrike targeted the outskirts of the town of Al-Jabin in southern Lebanon.

Thursday, July 12, 1:30 pm (Gmt+2)

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters bombed a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers around the Hanita site with rockets, hitting it directly.

‘Leading Israel to Ruin’ – Extensive Damage in Israel after Hezbollah Drone Attack

ISRAELI RADIO: The recent bombing from Lebanon caused significant damage to the town of Kabri in Upper Galilee.

HAARETZ: A senior official in the office of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is being investigated after a journalistic investigation revealed that he was distributing gun licenses illegally.

Thursday, July 12, 1:00 pm (Gmt+2)

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: In cooperation with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, we bombed the occupation army’s soldiers and vehicles in the vicinity of the industrial area southwest of Gaza City.

HEZBOLLAH: A squadron of drones attacked the headquarters of the 146th Division’s artillery battalion south of Capri and achieved a direct hit.

AL-JAZEERA: Head of the Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh received a message from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, confirming Iran’s continued support for the Palestinian people.

Thursday, July 12, 12:00 pm (Gmt+2)

ISRAELI MEDIA: The Chief Rabbi of the Supreme Rabbinate Council has said that military service for a single young Torah student would be a disaster.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelling targeted the vicinity of the towns of Naqoura and Tyre Harfa in southern Lebanon.

All the houses of the Shejaiya neighborhood were completely destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces.

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PALESTINIAN MEDIA: One Palestinian was killed and others were wounded as a result of Israeli shelling on Al-Sikka Street, east of Jabaliya camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY INVESTIGATION: What happened in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7 was a disastrous failure.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded several times in areas of Western Galilee and east of Nahariya due to suspected infiltration of drones.

Thursday, July 12, 11:00 am (Gmt+2)

KAN: The Israeli negotiating delegation returned to Israel from Doha.

AL-JAZEERA: Four Palestinians, including a child, were killed in Israeli raids on the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah city.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: More than 30 bodies are lying in the streets of the Al-Rimal neighborhood and the industrial and Al-Katiba areas in Gaza City, where the occupation forces’ vehicles had penetrated during the past few days.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: More than 30 bodies are lying in the streets of the Al-Rimal neighborhood and the industrial and Al-Katiba areas in Gaza City, where the occupation forces' vehicles had penetrated during the past few days.

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Thursday, July 12, 10:00 am (Gmt+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens are sounding in 6 towns south of the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI RADIO: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refrains from giving a security briefing to opposition leader Yair Lapid and recently canceled two meetings with him.

SMOTRICH: Israeli Army Radio quoted Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich as saying that ending the war means that Hamas is still alive and will return within two years to what it was on October 7.

Thursday, July 12, 09:00 am (Gmt+2)

UK: Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed the Ukraine crisis and the situation in Israel and the Gaza Strip with US President Joe Biden.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed with his close associates in recent days the dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Thursday, July 12, 08:00 am (Gmt+2)

UNRWA: Agency buildings were subjected to 453 attacks in the Gaza Strip.

Thursday, July 12, 07:00 am (Gmt+2)

SPAIN: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called on Western countries not to adopt a policy of “double standards” in the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Israel is calling on the people of northern Gaza to head south.

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Thursday, July 12, 06:00 am (Gmt+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The Israeli occupation forces blew up residential buildings in the center of Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip.

Thursday, July 12, 03:00 am (Gmt+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank at dawn on Thursday.

JOHN KIRBY: The United States is cautiously optimistic about the Gaza ceasefire talks.

Thursday, July 12, 02:00 am (Gmt+2)

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli drone targets a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli gunboats opened fire towards the shores of Al Zahraa city and Al Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Water desalination stations supplying the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City have stopped working due to a shortage of fuel.

Thursday, July 12, 12:00 am (Gmt+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The Israeli occupation intensified its artillery shelling of the Al-Maghraqa area and the northwest of the Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, while warplanes launched a series of new intensive raids on areas west of Gaza City.

FORMER US OFFICIAL: Our country today allows sending bombs to kill innocent people in Gaza.

CHANNEL 12: Netanyahu may fire Gallant during the summer.

Wednesday, July 10, 11:30 pm (Gmt+2)

CHANNEL 12: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes that Defense Minister Yoav Galant is no longer part of the coalition, and is discussing whether to remove him from his position during the summer months.

US OFFICIAL: We expressed concern about the use of 2,000-pound bombs before the Rafah operation.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

Al-Qassam fighters target Israeli forces in Rafah. (Photo: video grab)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The Gaza-based Al-Aqsa TV described the latest video released by the Al-Qassam Brigades as “the largest and widest Qassam operation during Al-Aqsa Flood”.

The description was a reference to Al-Qassam’s latest video, showing a raid on “fortified enemy operations command headquarters in the vicinity of Tal Zorob, southeast of Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood in the city of Rafah.”

The details of the operation can be found below, along with the latest statements made by various Palestinian groups in Gaza on Wednesday. 

Below are the latest statements by the two main Resistance forces in Gaza, and the Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah. 

The statements were communicated via their Telegram channels and are published here in their original form.

Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas)

“Al-Qassam fighters were able to ambush a Zionist infantry force by detonating two anti-personnel Television explosive devices as soon as the force reached the kill zone of the ambush, causing all members of the force to be killed or injured in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City. 

“Al-Qassam fighters were able to snipe a Zionist soldier in the industrial area in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, west of Gaza City.

“Al-Qassam fighters were able to detonate an anti-personnel explosive device on a Zionist engineering infantry force, causing its members to be killed and wounded, near the Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq Mosque in the Brazil neighborhood, east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Gaza-based Al-Aqsa TV described the latest video released by the Al-Qassam Brigades as “the largest and widest Qassam operation during Al-Aqsa Flood”. pic.twitter.com/2dbvfb5Fwm

— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) July 10, 2024

“After returning from the combat lines, our fighters reported that they successfully targeted three Israeli Merkava tanks with two Shuath explosives and an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the industrial area around the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood in the south of Gaza City.

“WATCH: The raid on the fortified enemy operations command headquarters in the vicinity of Tal Zorob, southeast of Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood in the city of Rafah.”

Al-Quds Brigades (Palestinian Islamic Jihad)

“Our fighters were able to detonate 3 Zionist military vehicles with pre-planted ground explosives in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City.

“We bombarded the gatherings of enemy forces that infiltrated the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, west of Gaza City, with mortar shells, achieving direct casualties among their ranks.

“We bombarded a gathering of Zionist soldiers and vehicles in the vicinity of the Al-Mintar area in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, with mortar shells.

“We bombed with mortar shells the Zionist enemy gatherings in the industrial area in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, west of Gaza City.

“We bombed Zionist enemy soldiers and vehicles invading the vicinity of Metro Mall on Shuhada Street west of Gaza City with mortar shells.”

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: "Our fighters managed to snipe a Zionist soldier in the industrial area in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, west of Gaza City."

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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) July 10, 2024

Hezbollah

“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance, on Wednesday, 10-07-2024, bombarded the Israeli enemy’s artillery positions in Al-Zaoura in the occupied Syrian Golan with dozens of Katyusha rockets.

“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance on Wednesday, 10/7/2024, targeted buildings where enemy soldiers are positioned in the Shtula settlement with appropriate weapons.

“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance on Wednesday, 10/7/2024, launched an aerial attack with a squadron of assault drones that targeted the artillery battalion headquarters of the 210th Brigade at the Yarden barracks. The attack precisely hit the positions of its officers and soldiers, causing them to fall between killed and wounded.

“The fighters of the Islamic Resistance, at 10:20 PM on Wednesday, 10-07-2024, targeted a gathering of enemy Israeli soldiers between the Ramtha and Al-Samaqa sites in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shuba hills with rocket weapons, hitting it directly.”

(THe Palestine Chronicle)