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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.

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.

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.

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)

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‘Largest and Widest’ – Resistance Roundup – Day 278

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.

“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.”

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)

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Censorship Continues – Meta Restricts Use of Another Word

A campaign against Facebook censorship of pro-Palestine content. (Photo: File)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Meta Platforms announced on Tuesday that it will restrict the use of the term ‘Zionists’ when it refers to Israelis. 

The company stated in a blog post that it will specifically target content attacking ‘Zionists’ when it is not clearly about the political movement.

The word ‘Zionist’, according to Meta, “has layers of meaning based on its origins and usage today, and may also be highly dependent on context”.

The post explains that, according to Meta, based on their “research, engagement, and on-platform investigation” the term is used as “a proxy term for Jewish people and Israelis in relation to certain types of hateful attacks”.

Israel’s Targeting of Pro-Palestinian Voices has Grown More Pernicious since Oct 7 – Analysis

The British newspaper The Guardian quoted advocate for digital rights and social entrepreneur Nadim Nashif as saying that “Shadow-banning is just one of the many ways in which we have seen Palestinian content silenced and censored over the last week.”

Instagram users have accused the platform of censoring posts that support Palestine, raising further concerns about content moderation.

The policy update reportedly comes after consultations with 145 stakeholders from civil society and academia around the world and amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The social media giant has faced longstanding criticism over its handling of content related to Palestine.

We Can Defeat the Lobby – ILAN PAPPE

These criticisms have intensified since the onset of the war, with rights groups accusing Meta of suppressing pro-Palestinian content on Facebook and Instagram.

“Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups,” Human Rights Watch stated in a report last December. 

“Human Rights Watch identified six key patterns of censorship, each recurring in at least 100 instances,” the report added, listing them as “content removals, suspension or deletion of accounts, inability to engage with content, inability to follow or tag accounts, restrictions on the use of features such as Instagram/Facebook Live, and ‘shadow banning’, a term denoting a significant decrease in the visibility of an individual’s posts, stories, or account without notification.”

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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‘Like Guantanamo Bay’ – Released Detainee Speaks of Torture in Israeli Prison

Palestinian detainee Muazzam Khalil Abayat after detention in an Israeli prison. (Photo: via social media)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

“The Negev Prison is like Guantanamo Bay. Everything is beyond what the mind can imagine.”

After nine months in Israeli detention, Palestinian detainee Muazzaz Khalil Abayat was barely recognizable, having endured daily beatings and abuse.

“Since the moment of my arrest until today, I have been severely beaten,” Abayat, 37, said after being released from the Negev (Naqab) prison on Tuesday.

The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said in a statement that “Abayat was released from the Negev prison in a grave and shocking health condition,” adding that he “was subjected to a series of vicious assaults, including torture and starvation.”

The brutal assaults included “the breaking of all his limbs,” the PPS said, pointing out that Abayat, reported to be a former boxer, did not suffer any health problems before his arrest.

‘Ben-Gvir Danced on My Body’

In footage shared on social media, Abayat is seen limping and unable to walk upright, with an injury to his right arm.

“I was stabbed on December 4. I was subjected to attempted murder in Ofer prison, and (Itamar) Ben-Gvir danced on my body,” he said in a video posted by the Institute for Middle East Understanding. “They announced my death on December 4, and I woke up to find myself in Al-Ramla Prison hospital. I didn’t receive any treatment, the situation is horribly bad.”

‘Death Penalty a Solution’ – Ben-Gvir Adamant On Overcrowding in Israeli Prisons

“The Negev Prison is like Guantanamo Bay. Everything is beyond what the mind can imagine,” Abayat stated.

He said 2,000 prisoners are facing “severe illnesses and extremely harsh conditions.”

‘Criminal Behavior’ – Hamas

The Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas has said the condition of Abayat and other recently released detainees “confirm the extent of the severe violations and heinous crimes committed” in Israeli prisons and detention centers.

“What detainee Moazaz Abayat mentioned about the participation of the terrorist Ben-Gvir in the brutal torture operations himself confirms the level of sadism he and members of this extremist and fascist government possess,” the movement said in a statement on Wednesday.

“The suffering endured by our prisoners in occupation prisons far exceeds the brutality faced by detainees in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prison, proving that the occupation government and its army are devoid of ethics and have disregarded all international agreements and laws regarding the treatment of prisoners.”

Call to ICJ

Hamas said Israel’s  “criminal behavior…. necessitates immediate intervention from the international community, the International Court of Justice, the United Nations and its institutions.”

It urged “the formation of committees to enter these detention centers, investigate the violations committed therein, and bring the war criminals among the occupation leaders to international justice and hold them accountable for these crimes.”

Gaza Detainees Injected with Unknown Substance as Torture Escalates – Euro-Med Monitor

Abayat is the nephew of Hussein Abayat, one of the founders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the southern West Bank, according to the PPS. Abayat was killed during the Second Intifada (uprising) in 2000.

Abayat’s case is not an isolated one, with scores of testimonies from released prisoners pointing to torture and abuse inside Israeli detention camps and prisons.

Euro-Med Report

In a recent report, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said testimonies from released Gaza detainees have revealed an escalation of abuse and torture including prisoners being forcibly injected with an unknown substance.

The recently released Director of al-Shifa Hospital, Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya, spoke about the horrifying reality facing detainees, noting that “prisoners in Israeli jails endure different types of torture.”

“The army treats them as if they were inanimate objects, and Israeli doctors physically assaulted us,” he said.

‘Worse than Abu Ghraib’ – This is How Israel Tortures Its Palestinian Hostages

He also stated that no international organizations were permitted to visit inmates, nor were they allowed access to lawyers, while the Palestinian prisoners were subjected to “severe torture and almost daily assaults inside the prisons and were denied medical treatments”.

According to statistics from various Palestinian organizations including the PPS and Addameer Association for Human Rights, a total of 9,600 Palestinians, including women and children, have been arrested across the West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7.

(PC, Anadolu)

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West Bank Invasion – Two Palestinians Shot, Homes Raided

Israeli forces detained several of young men at Beit Furik checkpoint, east of Nablus. (Photo: via social media)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

A young Palestinian man was shot and critically wounded in the head and neck by Israeli forces in Tulkarm, and a child shot and wounded in Nablus, as several military raids were conducted across the occupied West Bank.

Israeli forces also stormed the Tal Al-Sultan Camp in Areeha, the town of Salfit, Biddu Al-Qubeiba, northwest of Jerusalem and Husan, southwest of Bethlehem on Wednesday, according to Palestinian sources.

In Tulkarm, Israeli military forces including snipers stationed on one of the buildings fired heavily during the raid on the town, wounding the young man, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.

In Beit Furik, east of Nablus, a 14-year-old Palestinian child was shot in the foot during clashes that erupted following a raid in the area.

Fertilizer Seized

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said in a statement that it confronted an incursion of Israeli forces into the Ras al-Ain area of Nablus, and engaged in intense clashes. They also confronted invading troops in the Thannaba suburb and the outskirts of Tulkarm camp.

In Thannaba, Israeli forces stormed a store selling agricultural materials and seized large quantities of fertilizer.

West Bank Escalations – Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Child, Injure Three

They also seized fertilizers in the town of Sarda, north of Ramallah, as well as in the town of Salfit.

WAFA reported that Israeli forces posted leaflets warning farmers against using fertilizers.

Armed clashes also occurred between resistance fighters and invading occupation forces in the Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem.

Homes Raided

Israeli occupation forces also raided a number of homes in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron (Al Khalil).

A witness told WAFA that the occupation forces stormed the town with a large number of military vehicles and deployed in the Safa area in the north.

Soldiers raided a number of homes after breaking down doors and throwing sound bombs inside the dwellings, sparking panic amongst the children.

Israeli forces also stormed Ain Sultan camp, in the city of Jericho, reported WAFA.

Soldiers closed the southern and northern entrances to those exiting the city, and stopped several vehicles.

Water Well Filled

Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday filled an underground water well in the village of Tayasir, east of Tubas, reported WAFA.

Human rights activist Arif Daraghmeh said that the soldiers filled the well of resident Suleiman Khudairat in Al-Batoun area, and seized a well-drilling machine in the area.

The occupation forces also raided the village of Aqaba, east of Tubas.

Beit Iksa is a Village and a Prison – How Israel Made Life in West Bank ‘Unbearable’

Al-Aqsa Raid

Illegal Jewish settlers, under the protection of Israeli police, on Wednesday morning broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem.

Witnesses said that dozens of settlers entered the holy site in groups, conducted provocative tours throughout the compound, and performed Talmudic rituals.

During the incursion, Israeli police imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshippers to the mosque.

Additionally, Israeli police intensified the restrictions at the gates of the Old City, effectively turning the area into a military zone.

Israeli raids on the West Bank have intensified since Israel launched its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip which has killed more than 38,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

(PC, WAFA)

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No More Exemptions – Israeli Military to Issue Draft Orders to Ultra-Orthodox Jews 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Last month, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that the Haredi must be conscripted into the army and that financial aid should be withheld from religious institutions whose students do not comply with military service requirements.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the military have agreed to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jews from next month, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The paper noted the exact number of draft orders to be issued was not indicated. However, the military said that “it could immediately integrate around 3,000 ultra-Orthodox men, in addition to the around 1,800 it already has.”

“Gallant approved the army’s recommendation to issue draft orders to members of the Haredi community next month,” the Defense Ministry statement said in a statement, according to the Anadolu news agency.

The statement did not specify the number of ultra-Orthodox Jews (or Haredi) to be drafted.

The Jerusalem Post said, “The 3,000 is out of a class of around 10,000–12,000 per academic year, with over 60,000 Haredi potentially in play from several academic years.”

There was no immediate comment from Israeli religious parties on the decision, Anadolu said.

Supreme Court Mandate – Ultra-Orthodox Jews Must Serve in the Army

Supreme Court Ruling

Last month, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that the Haredi must be conscripted into the army and that financial aid should be withheld from religious institutions whose students do not comply with military service requirements.

Haredi Jews, who make up about 13% of Israel’s population of approximately 9.9 million, do not serve in the military, citing a commitment to study the Torah, Judaism’s holy book.

Israeli law requires every Israeli citizen over the age of 18 to serve in the military, while the exemption of Haredi from service has been a controversial issue for decades.

The Times of Israel reports that an estimated 67,000 Haredi males are eligible for military service.

Staggering Death Toll

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, 38,243 Palestinians have been killed, and 88,033 wounded. Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

Genocide Continues – Children among Dozens Killed in Latest Israeli Airstrikes

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, Anadolu)

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

The majority of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza are women and children. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

“It’s an immeasurable political failure that this war has ground on for nine months – the same time it has taken for a mother to survive a full-term pregnancy, or for a baby to learn to crawl.”

An estimated 50,000 babies have been born in the Gaza Strip over nine months of conflict, with some women self-inducing labor to avoid giving birth on the move while others are scared to seek vital prenatal care because of fears of bombing, according to the Save the Children organization.

Many women are “giving birth in traumatic, unhygienic and undignified conditions without access to basic services,” and some have lost their lives due to a lack of access to doctors, the organization said earlier this week.

“We’ve seen the continuous stress and misery taking a toll on women, with some making drastic choices such as self-inducing labor using medication out of fear they might lose their babies if they have to flee again for survival,” Sharifa Khan, a midwife with Save the Children’s Emergency Unit said.

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Khan said one woman was rushed to the maternity unit with serious obstetric complications after self-medicating before term.

“The medication caused her uterus to overstretch and rupture, leading to severe bleeding and a distressed fetus,” she explained.

While the team was able to manage the case, had the mother been delayed by just a few minutes in reaching the maternity unit, “the baby’s life could have been lost or the baby could have been born with disabilities due to prolonged lack of circulation. The woman might have lost her life too.”

Untreated Infections

The midwife mentioned another mother who delivered her child safely and was discharged the following day.

However, she was back three days later when her baby was lethargic, had a high temperature, was refusing to breastfeed, and had a swollen umbilical cord that was discharging pus.

“This condition is only common in places with poor hygiene and a lack of clean water. It can be life-threatening if untreated as the infection can spread to the bloodstream,” Khan emphasized. “Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case.”

Urgent Action Needed – 150,000 Pregnant Women in Gaza Suffer amid Ongoing Genocide

Pregnant women were facing significant challenges, including a lack of food and clean water, frequent displacement, the traumatic loss of loved ones, and the fear of injury or death.

One mother reported to Save the Children that she had not eaten meat for five months of her pregnancy and lost weight in the final months before giving birth.

In addition, power blackouts pose extreme risks to critically ill babies, including those in incubators.

Premature Labor

“The Gaza we see today is no place for a child to be born. We know that prolonged exposure to stress and trauma, coupled with substandard medical facilities, can lead to premature labour and death of newborns,” Rachel Cummings, Save the Children’s Team Leader in Gaza, said.

She added, “It’s an immeasurable political failure that this war has ground on for nine months – the same time it has taken for a mother to survive a full-term pregnancy, or for a baby to learn to crawl.”

‘Critical Shortages’ – UN Says Access Limitations Hampering Entry of Fuel, Aid into Gaza

Any woman who has become pregnant during this time “will have only known fear, trauma, deprivation, and displacement,” the team leader added.

“Any mother who has given birth will have done so lacking the critical support all women need to deliver safely. And any baby born – who manages to survive these conditions – will only have known war,” she stressed.

Cummings called for “an immediate and definitive ceasefire as the only way to save lives in Gaza and end the relentless, serious violations of children’s rights. There is no alternative.”

Over 38,000 Killed

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, 38,243 Palestinians have been killed, and 88,033 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’.

‘Under Rubble, Detained, Buried’ – 20,000 Children Missing in Gaza

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)

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‘Enough of the Government Destruction’ – Nine Protesters Arrested in Tel Aviv

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Design: Palestine Chronicle)

The police reportedly intervened to clear the highway of the protesters and arrested nine of them.

The Israeli police arrested on Wednesday nine protesters after they blocked a highway near Tel Aviv, demanding early elections and a prisoner swap deal with the Palestinian Resistance.

The protesters holding a big banner reading “Enough of the government of destruction” blocked traffic on the Morasha Junction, and burned tires on the road, according to Anadolu news agency.

The police reportedly intervened to clear the highway of the protesters and arrested nine of them.

In recent weeks, Israeli opposition parties – along with families of Israeli captives held in Gaza – escalated protests to pressure the Israeli government to go for a prisoner swap deal with the Hamas group.

Indirect talks have resumed this week in both Cairo and Doha as Israeli delegations were dispatched to both capitals.

So far, efforts to secure a truce were not successful, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists on continuing the war until the full defeat of the Hamas group in Gaza.

Genocide Continues

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, ​​38,243 Palestinians have been killed, and 88,033 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’. 

GAZA LIVE BLOG: Four Children Killed in Nuseirat | Israeli Protesters Arrested | Soldier Killed in Gaza – Day 278

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)

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Genocide Continues – Children among Dozens Killed in Latest Israeli Airstrikes

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

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Scores of Palestinians, mostly children, were killed and wounded at dawn on Wednesday by Israeli airstrikes and artillery raids, with the Nuseirat camp and Gaza City being heavily targeted. 

The official Palestinian News Agency WAFA confirmed the killings of eight Palestinians, including 6 children, and injuries to ten others, including women, due to an Israeli airstrike on homes in the Nuseirat camp. Commercial stores and residential buildings in the Al-Maghraqa area of central Gaza were also targeted by Israeli aircraft.

In southern Gaza, in the town of Bani Suhaila near Khan Yunis, two Palestinians were killed and others injured from Israeli shelling of a residential house. 

The previous day’s raids by the occupation forces led to the deaths of 50 Palestinians, including a massacre that killed 17 members of a single family west of the Nuseirat camp.

Gaza’s government media office reported that the occupation forces committed a massacre in Nuseirat, resulting in 17 deaths from the Abu Freih family, including 14 children and one woman. 

Furthermore, an Israeli attack on the Al-Awda School in Abasan, housing displaced Palestinians, increased the death toll to nearly 30, with dozens more wounded.

Since the onset of the aggression, Israel has targeted multiple shelters for displaced Palestinians across Gaza, causing numerous deaths and injuries. 

Genocide Continues

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, ​​38,243 Palestinians have been killed, and 88,033 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.

GAZA LIVE BLOG: Four Children Killed in Nuseirat | Israeli Protesters Arrested | Soldier Killed in Gaza – Day 278

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, AJA)

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GAZA LIVE BLOG: Gallant to Be Removed | Biden to Release 500-Pound Bombs | 500 Families Erased – Day 278

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

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Four children were killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The Israeli police detained demonstrators demanding a prisoner exchange deal, according to Israeli media.

The Israeli army announced the death of a soldier from the Maglan unit during fighting in the central Gaza Strip.

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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LATEST UPDATES

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.

WSJ: Biden administration will give 500-pound bombs to Israel.

ISRAELI ARMY: A soldier was injured after three drones were launched from Lebanon and fell in the Golan.

CNN: The ammunition used by the Israeli occupation to bomb a school complex in Khan Yunis was manufactured in the United States.

CIVIL DEFENSE: 500 Palestinian families were erased from the civil registry due to the Israeli aggression on the Strip.

CHANNEL 14: Gallant wants to transfer control of the Philadelphi Corridor to Egypt, but Netanyahu refuses.

HEZBOLLAH: We attacked “with suicide drones the positions of officers and soldiers of the artillery regiment in the Yarden barracks, and we killed and wounded them.”

Wednesday, July 10, 10:00 pm (Gmt+2)

HALEVI: The security updates ahead of us are greater than ever, and Iran is arming armies to fight against us.

GALLANT: It is necessary and obligatory to conclude a deal to return the prisoners.

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed “buildings where enemy soldiers were positioned in the settlement of Shtula with appropriate weapons.”

KAN: Significant progress on the issue of the Rafah crossing and the Philadelphi corridor during the negotiations in Doha.

CHANNEL 12: The decision on the potential deal is ultimately in Netanyahu’s hands.

Wednesday, July 10, 8:30 pm (Gmt+2)

ISRAELI MEDIA: Tel Aviv asked Washington for guarantees to resume the war.

CHANNEL 12: Rabbi Dov Landau, a leader of the Lithuanian Haredi community, attacked the Defense Ministry’s decision to issue compulsory conscription orders for 3,000 Haredim.

CHANNEL 12: The head of the southern command of the Israeli Shin Bet security service resigned from his position due to the events of October.

CHANNEL 13: The security cabinet will meet tomorrow, and additional Israeli delegations will visit Qatar and Egypt to discuss the exchange deal.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: An Israeli soldier from the Givati ​​Brigade was killed by an anti-tank missile in the Kerem Shalom area east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

UN: Evacuation of Gaza City residents will exacerbate collective suffering.

Wednesday, July 10, 7:00 pm (Gmt+2)

AL-JAZEERA: The occupation army expands its military operations in the Al-Rimal neighborhood.

ISRAELI ARMY: Evacuation orders include neighborhoods from which rockets are launched.

GAZA INTERIOR MINISTRY: Israel’s leaflets calling on citizens in Gaza City to leave their homes are part of psychological terrorism.

CHANNEL 14: The Prison Service is planning to place a number of Palestinian prisoners in large cages to relieve prison overcrowding.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Two Israeli soldiers from the Alexandroni Brigade were seriously injured by an explosive device explosion during battles in the Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation artillery renewed its violent shelling of the neighborhoods of Tal al-Hawa, al-Sabra, al-Rimal and the industrial area in the south of Gaza City.

Wednesday, July 10, 6:00 pm (Gmt+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A citizen was killed and others were injured as a result of Israeli shelling of the Musbah area, north of Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip

NASRALLAH: If Netanyahu insists on continuing the battle, he will lead his entity to ruin.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli forces carried out extensive destruction and demolition operations in the Shejaiya neighborhood.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted the occupation forces on the outskirts of Tulkarm camp.

Wednesday, July 10, 5:00 pm (Gmt+2)

HAMAS: The confessions of the Israeli occupation soldiers that were published about their brutal behavior in the Gaza Strip require urgent follow-up by the International Criminal Court.

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed Israeli artillery positions in the occupied Golan.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli drone strike on the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip left one martyr and a number of wounded.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted 3 Merkava tanks in Tal al-Hawa neighborhood.

MSF: Shortages of supplies and the influx of patients push Nasser complex to the brink of collapse.

GALLANT: We support opening the Rafah crossing without Hamas returning to it.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We detonated an anti-personnel bomb against an infantry force east of Rafah.

AL-AQSA TV CHANNEL: Heavy Israeli artillery shelling targeted the Sabra neighborhood in the south of Gaza City.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: For the 65th day, the occupation continues its crime of preventing the entry of aid and medical supplies.

Wednesday, July 10, 4:00 pm (Gmt+2)

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.

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We attacked the occupied port of Ashdod with drones.

AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens are sounding in several towns in the Upper Galilee and the occupied Syrian Golan, after Hezbollah fired rockets from southern Lebanon.

AL-AQSA MARTYRS BRIGADES: We bombed the occupation forces south of Rafah.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during his meeting with US Special Envoy to the Middle East Brett McGurk, confirmed his commitment to a possible ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, provided that Israel’s red lines are maintained.

Wednesday, July 10, 3:00 pm (Gmt+2)

JORDANIAN FM: Israel committed war crimes unprecedented in history.

EGYPTIAN FM: Israel’s control of Rafah crossing exposes Palestinians to disaster.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes launched a raid on the town of Tyre Harfa in southern Lebanon.

ISRAELI CHIEF OF STAFF: We are exerting great military pressure on Hamas.

GERMAN FM: The killing of people seeking shelter in schools in Gaza is unacceptable.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 38,295 Palestinians have been killed, and 88,241 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

Wednesday, July 10, 1:00 pm (Gmt+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Three displaced persons were killed as a result of a fire that broke out inside a tent in the town of Abasan, east of Khan Yunis.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We killed and wounded an Israeli force in an ambush after detonating two anti-personnel bombs in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: One person was killed and another was injured in an Israeli drone attack on the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah city.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We blew up 3 Israeli military vehicles with pre-planted land explosives in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City.

KAN: We blew up 3 Israeli military vehicles with pre-planted land explosives in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City.

GALLANT: We are determined to hold accountable anyone who has acted against our citizens and they will either face prison or the grave.

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

IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD: We will take practical steps to support the resistance.

HAARETZ: Netanyahu worked systematically to thwart any exchange deal.

DIRECTOR OF INDONESIAN HOSPITAL: A few hours and the hospital stops working due to lack of fuel.

WSJ: Support for pro-Palestinian campaign to isolate Israel grows months after Gaza war.

Wednesday, July 10, 11:00 am (Gmt+2)

LAZZARINI: Two-thirds of UNRWA schools in Gaza were bombed.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli rescue plane landed west of the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City, coinciding with the heavy firing of smoke bombs.

Wednesday, July 10, 10:00 am (Gmt+2)

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli police are detaining 9 demonstrators from the protest demanding a prisoner exchange deal on Route 4.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A number of people were injured when the Israeli occupation bombed a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: Protesters against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government obstructed traffic on a road extending from southern Greater Tel Aviv to Nahariya.

Wednesday, July 10, 09:00 am (Gmt+2)

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We targeted the Israeli Orot Rabin station.

ISRAELI ARMY: We bombed a Hezbollah target in Lebanon.

Wednesday, July 10, 08:00 am (Gmt+2)

UKMTO: The UK Maritime Trade Operations said it had received a report of an incident 40 nautical miles south of Al Mokha, Yemen.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two Palestinians were killed and six others were injured as a result of Israeli shelling that targeted a house in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis.

Hudhud Episode Two – Resistance Roundup – Day 277

PRCS: We are unable to respond to distress calls in Gaza.

Wednesday, July 10, 07:00 am (Gmt+2)

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced the death of a soldier from the Maglan unit during fighting in the central Gaza Strip.

Wednesday, July 10, 06:00 am (Gmt+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces blew up residential buildings in the Al-Maghraqa area, north of the Al-Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

Wednesday, July 10, 05:00 am (Gmt+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Four children were killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Wednesday, July 10, 04:00 am (Gmt+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli raids targeted the northeast of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation forces carried out artillery shelling targeting the north of the Nuseirat camp and the Al-Maghraqa area in the central governorate of the Gaza Strip.

Wednesday, July 10, 02:00 am (Gmt+2)

US STATE DEPARTMENT: We informed Israel to limit civilian casualties in Gaza.

GAZA’S AMBULANCE SERVICES: 10 Palestinians were injured in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Nasr Street, north of Gaza City.

CHANNEL 14: Netanyahu government intends to build cages to accommodate Palestinian prisoners.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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