Operation "Noah's Flood" entered its 321st day, while the Zionist occupation forces continue to commit a war of genocide in the Gaza Strip, through launching dozens of airstrikes, artillery shelling, and bloody massacres against civilians.
The occupation committed 4 massacres in 24 hours, and a campaign against polio faces Zionist complications
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli occupation "committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, of which 42 martyrs and 163 injuries arrived at hospitals in the past 24 hours."
The ministry said in a press statement today, Thursday, that "a number of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them."
The ministry confirmed that "the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 40,265 martyrs and 93,144 injuries since October 7th."
Civil Defense in Gaza: We condemn the occupation's refusal to allow our crews to evacuate the injured in Khan Younis
The Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza condemned the Israeli occupation's refusal to coordinate to allow its crews to evacuate the injured from the "Abu Hadros" family who are being held inside their home that the occupation forces destroyed over their heads while they were inside it yesterday in the Hamad area in Khan Younis.
The Civil Defense condemned, in a press statement today, Thursday, "the silence of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, despite the numerous appeals and communications that reached them to save the lives of the injured and missing in the Abu Hadros house."
3 martyrs during the occupation forces' storming of the city of Tulkarm and its camp
Three Palestinians were martyred in an Israeli occupation army shelling that targeted homes and sites in the Tulkarm camp and the "Iktaba" suburb this morning, Thursday, at a time when the occupation continues to carry out a large-scale military aggression in the city of Tulkarm and its camp in the northern occupied West Bank.
Quds Press reported in Tulkarm that large forces of the Israeli occupation army stormed Tulkarm city and camp early Thursday morning, destroying their infrastructure, amid clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters.
UN: 600 Palestinians killed in the West Bank since October 7
The United Nations said on Wednesday that “Israeli airstrikes on the West Bank have resulted in the death of at least one Palestinian per day on average since October 7.”
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs stated in its daily report that “since October 7, 600 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, including Jerusalem.”
The office added that the occupation forces “have forcibly demolished or forcibly confiscated 1,416 Palestinian buildings throughout the West Bank since October 7, displacing more than 3,200 Palestinians.”
International newspapers: Netanyahu practices "empty propaganda" at the expense of prisoners
International newspapers continued to talk about the Israeli occupation's aggression on the Gaza Strip and the repercussions of not reaching an agreement to stop the fighting and return the Israeli prisoners to their families. They accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of practicing empty propaganda at their expense.
The Hebrew newspaper "Haaretz" stressed in its editorial that Netanyahu's government should devote all its energy to recovering the remaining living prisoners "instead of engaging in empty propaganda at their expense." It said that the number of living prisoners has decreased to only 109 "due to the negligence of this government and the man who heads it."
Hamas: The occupation's intensification of its crimes in the West Bank confirms its criminal plans
The Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” said that the occupation’s intensification of its raids and crimes in the cities and camps of the West Bank, and the systematic destruction of the camps of Tulkarm, Jenin, Balata and others, is a practical translation of the fascist positions issued by the entity’s government. This confirms its continuation of its criminal plans towards our people and our land in the occupied West Bank.
The movement mourned the martyrs of Tulkarm, and stressed that the ongoing crimes of the occupation will not succeed in breaking the will of resistance among the Palestinian people
Netanyahu insists on controlling the Philadelphi Corridor
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed his insistence on controlling the Philadelphi Corridor on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Ahead of an expected round of negotiations in Cairo to reach an agreement for a prisoner exchange and a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, US President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Netanyahu.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said: “For Biden, the goal of the call is to save the negotiations, and he will even send his envoy to the Middle East, Brett McGurk, to Cairo to ensure the convening of the summit (negotiations) and the continuation of the contacts.” The Broadcasting Corporation also quoted an unnamed Israeli political source as saying that “the prime minister has not changed his position on the necessity of Israeli control and presence in the Philadelphi Corridor.”
Campaign against polio faces Zionist complications
The plans of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to vaccinate 640,000 children across Gaza face many complications, including what Juliette Touma, Director of Communications at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said: “It is difficult to implement a vaccination campaign of this size under a sky full of airstrikes.”
A second American aircraft carrier arrives in the region
The US military announced on Wednesday that the aircraft carrier “USS Abraham Lincoln” and its accompanying destroyers arrived in the region after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered this naval strike group to speed up its transfer. This brings the number of US aircraft carriers currently in the region to two, as fears of a regional military escalation grow.
