The genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip has entered its 267th day, with the Zionist occupation forces continuing to commit war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and various murders in the Gaza Strip, by launching dozens of air strikes, artillery shelling, and bloody massacres against civilians.
At Least 30 Martyrs since Dawn
The occupation continues its aggression against Gaza, as medical sources reported that 31 Palestinians were killed as a result of the continued “Israeli” bombing of various areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn today.
For his part, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that the bodies of 13 martyrs had been recovered as a result of the continued “Israeli” bombing of the city of Rafah since this morning.
3 Massacres within 24 Hours
The Ministry of Health announced that the occupation committed 3 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, including 40 martyrs and 224 injuries during the past 24 hours.
The Ministry confirmed in a statement that the toll of the aggression had risen to 37,834 martyrs and 86,858 injuries since the seventh of last October.
Prominent Resistance Operations
The Palestinian resistance continues to confront the Zionist forces penetrating into several areas of Gaza, as the “Al-Qassam Brigades,” the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced today, Saturday, that it had destroyed the enemy forces penetrating the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, with several shots of 120 mm mortar shells, resulting in direct casualties among their ranks. Pointing to the landing of the occupation helicopter to evacuate the dead and wounded.
Al-Qassam said: In a pre-prepared ambush, Al-Qassam Mujahideen detonated an anti-personnel device with a Zionist force penetrating the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, killing and wounding its members. The Mujahideen monitored the helicopter landing to evacuate them.
It announced the targeting of a “D9” military bulldozer with a “Shawaz” device behind the Abdullah bin Omar Mosque, south of the Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
She added that the “Al-Qassam” mujahideen and “Al-Quds Brigades” were able to target two Zionist troop carriers and a “D9” military bulldozer with “Al-Yassin 105” and “RPG” shells near the Al-Shu’an Junction, south of the Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city of Rafah.
It indicated that its mujahideen continued to confront the Zionist forces penetrating the Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, within pre-prepared complex ambushes, causing deaths and injuries among their ranks, and more than one plane landed to evacuate them.
The “Jerusalem Brigades” announced the bombardment with regular mortar shells of a gathering of Zionist enemy vehicles and soldiers penetrating the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
The brigades said: They bombed, with 60-caliber regular mortar shells, the enemy’s command center for incursions into the Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
It announced the detonation of two ground devices in a number of Zionist enemy vehicles near the Issa site in Tal al-Hawa, southwest of Gaza City.
It added that it targeted a Zionist military vehicle of the “Numir” type with a “Tandum” shell on the land of Qandil in the Shuja’iya neighbourhood, confirming that its crew was killed and wounded and that it caught fire, noting that a Zionist helicopter had landed to evacuate the dead and wounded from the place.
The brigades also confirmed the destruction of a Zionist military vehicle by detonating a high-explosive ground device near the Al-Hidaya Mosque in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.
Zionist Leader: Eliminating “Hamas” is Impossible
The commander of the “Israeli” 12th Brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Hevri El-Baz, said: The dismantling of the military capabilities of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, will take at least another two years, according to the “Al Jazeera Net” website.
He added that the task of eliminating the Qassam Brigades is not easy, and it requires time and great military pressure.
He also confirmed that Hamas is waging a guerrilla war in Rafah made up of independent groups, which makes the task of dealing with it more difficult.
He also stated that anyone who believes that the sirens will stop within the next year is throwing sand in the eyes of the “Israelis.”
Two-thirds of Israelis support Netanyahu's retirement
An opinion poll conducted by a Hebrew channel showed that about two-thirds of Israelis support Benjamin Netanyahu’s retirement from political life and that he not run for a new term as prime minister, according to the Anadolu Agency.
According to the poll conducted by the private Hebrew channel 12, the results of which were published on Friday, 66 percent believe that Netanyahu, who is 74 years old, should retire and not run for a seventh term.
While 27 percent of respondents believe that he should run for a new term and continue his political career, and 7 percent do not know, according to the Hebrew channel.
Demonstrations around the World
The Palestinian News Agency reported that many cities and world capitals witnessed demonstrations today, Saturday, denouncing the continued “Israeli” aggression against the Gaza Strip.
The agency said: Thousands participated in demonstrations organized in the Swedish city of Malmo, Manchester and Birmingham in Britain, the capital London, Esbjerg and Esbjerg in Denmark, and the capital Copenhagen, in support of the Palestinian people, and to demand a ceasefire and the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
Participants in the demonstrations raised Palestinian flags and banners denouncing the crimes committed by the occupation against the Palestinian people.
The participants called for an end to double standards, and the need to prosecute the occupation for its massacres against the Palestinian people, especially children, and condemned the genocide in the Gaza Strip.
