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SvennoJ on 01 March 2024
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Injuries in Israeli tank attack, air raids on Deir el-Balah

Israeli tanks have attacked al-Qastal towers, east of Deir el-Balah, where thousands of Palestinians have been taking shelter.

The continuous bombing hasn’t stopped for three days, and this time an apartment was hit, leading to three injuries. “This is causing us panic,” Hassan al-Omari, a 21-year-old resident of the towers, told Al Jazeera. “It’s not the first time the towers have been hit. I was injured before in a previous attack before the ground operations in Deir el-Balah. We evacuated to the west as a result and then returned.”

“Even the sound of the tanks during the night is terrifying. We can’t sleep at all, and now they’re attacking us. We simply may have to leave again.”

Separately, an air raid has hit a family house in central Deir el-Balah, leaving many injured, who have been taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

Bombing ongoing in Khan Younis

We have been hearing more loud explosions in the southern part of Khan Younis. From Rafah, we can see plumes of smoke rising on the horizon from the continuing bombardment. In addition, Israeli forces have surrounded a school housing evacuees in Khan Younis and opened fire in its vicinity.

Air raids are also going on in the north of the territory, with three reportedly carried out in the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital.

Child in Rafah among victims of latest Israeli strikes

The latest round of Israeli strikes this evening have caused dozens of casualties, reports the Palestinian Wafa news agency. They include:

  • One child killed and others injured from Israeli bombardment on the Yibna refugee camp in Rafah, southern Gaza.
  • Numerous killed and injured from Israeli bombardment on a home in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza.
  • One man killed by Israeli drone fire in the village of Maghraqa in central Gaza.
  • Several injured by Israeli artillery fire in eastern Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.




Moving goalposts again. Israel knows damn well Hamas is no longer able to keep track of all the hostages, definitely not without a ceasefire.

Israel says no more ceasefire talks until Hamas sends list of live captives

Israel has told mediators Egypt and Qatar that it will not proceed with ceasefire negotiations until Hamas sends it a list of Israeli captives who remain alive in Gaza, Israel’s Walla news site reports, citing a senior Israeli official. The official said Israel is also seeking a “serious answer” from Hamas on the number of Palestinian prisoners it is requesting be released as part of a potential deal, Walla reported.

Deaths of seven Israeli captives show Israel’s war strategy ‘not working’

The deaths of the captives, whom Hamas says were killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, show that Israel’s government considers them a “secondary priority”, says Omar Ashour, professor of security and military studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. “The [Israeli military’s] first priority is to destroy the armed wing of Hamas and the other Palestinian factions, to undermine them in any way, even if it costs the lives of some of the hostages,” Ashour told Al Jazeera.

The latest reported deaths of captives also indicate that Israel’s war strategy is not achieving its objectives after more than 140 days of fighting, he said. “We are in the 147th day of war and there are more and more hostages dying, the majority of them by Israeli fire,” Ashour said. “The only way to release the hostages safely is the way it was done before – through some sort of negotiations. The Israeli government knows that. … They just don’t want to admit it.”



Preparing for the next massacre

Israeli general warns of mass protests in West Bank during Ramadan

Yehuda Fox, who heads the Israeli military’s Central Command, has warned troops to be prepared for the possibility that “hundreds of thousands” of Palestinians will stage protests during the holy month in the occupied West Bank, Israeli media is reporting.

“Readiness for escalation is fundamental,” Fox said at a training session for the military’s Central Command, according to the Times of Israel. “We must improve our [readiness] every day. There may be an event [whether Israel is to blame or not] that will cause hundreds of thousands to take to the streets. This needs to be imagined and prepared for in all respects.”

Israeli settlers build symbolic house on Gaza border

The settlers are calling for Israel to take permanent control of the enclave and build Israeli settlements in it after the war.

“We must settle. We must spread Jewish towns all over the Gaza Strip,” one Israeli woman told Al Jazeera.

The call to permanently displace Palestinians in the enclave comes as Israeli settlers grow emboldened during the war in Gaza, waging at least 561 attacks on Palestinians since October 7, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Chief of US government’s top aid agency: Israeli settler violence ‘must stop’

Samantha Power, head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has shared footage of a visit she made to a Palestinian youth center in the occupied West Bank that has been shuttered due to frequent attacks from Israeli settlers.

“Repeated attacks by extremist Israeli settlers have forced its doors to close and sent shock waves of fear through the community, Power wrote on X. “This violence is intolerable and must stop.”