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SvennoJ on 15 August 2024
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Forty settlers attempt to enter Gaza Strip: Report

Israeli broadcaster Channel 7 reports that 40 Israeli settlers tried to enter the Strip from the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing in northern Gaza.

The media outlet says that they were intercepted by Israeli security services and transported from the area, and that seven of them were detained for questioning.

Israeli media outlets said the group was trying to conduct a Jewish prayer service in Gaza and its members were taken for questioning by Israeli security forces.

The unnamed group released a statement specifying their intentions, as reported by the Israeli public media outlet Kan.

“We were honored to take part in an attempt to hold Shacharit prayers inside the Gaza Strip, with the belief that Gaza is part of the Greater Land of Israel and from the clear understanding that only settlement can be considered a victory,” the statement read.

“And only a Jewish Gaza will remove the threat of rockets, return the hostages from Gaza, and bring security to the south and country as a whole,” it continued.


Palestinian emergency medics working ‘tirelessly’ to find victims

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has shared a video documenting its medics recovering the bodies of people killed in overnight attacks in Gaza.

In a post on X, the relief group said its medics have been working “tirelessly day and night” to reach victims for all 314 days since Gaza’s war broke out.



Israel has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7: Ministry

In an official update, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says that 40,005 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since the war began.

It added that 92,401 people were wounded in the same period.

  • 33 percent of the total number killed in Gaza – more than 16,456 – were children.
  • 18.4 percent, or 11,088, were women.
  • 8.6 percent of those killed were elderly people.



Israeli captive killed in ‘revenge’ after guard’s children slain

Abu Obeida, the spokesman of the military wing of Hamas, says a Qassam Brigades fighter who was guarding an Israeli captive “acted in a vengeful manner, contrary to instructions, after receiving news of the martyrdom of his two children in one of the enemy’s massacres”.

“We stress that the incident does not represent our ethics and religious teachings in dealing with prisoners, and we will tighten the instructions after the incident is repeated in two cases so far,” he said in a statement.

“We hold the enemy fully responsible for all the suffering and dangers that its prisoners are exposed to as a result of its violation of all the rules of humane and humanitarian treatment and its practice of brutal genocide against our people.”

Abu Obeida had said on Monday that an Israeli captive was killed in Gaza and two female captives were wounded in a separate incident. In his statement on Thursday, he did not elaborate on the fate of the other two or name the captives.


Israeli military claims body of killed captive was recovered in November

After the military wing of Hamas released a purported image of the Israeli captive that it said was killed by his guard in Gaza, the Israeli military claims the man’s body was recovered at the end of November.

The military says in a short statement that the body was recovered in collaboration with internal security agency Shin Bet, but did not identify the killed captive.

“Your brutality is an imminent danger to your prisoners,” Qassam Brigades wrote next to the image of the young man in a white shroud, calling his killing “an unfortunate incident” that took place against orders.


11-year-old boy succumbs to fourth-degree burns sustained in al-Tabin School bombing

Omar al-Jaabari, an 11-year-old boy who sustained grave burn injuries all over his body after multiple Israeli bombs hit al-Tabin School over the weekend, where displaced Palestinians were sheltering, has succumbed to his wounds.

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, which spoke to family members, reports that the child has joined the more than 100 Palestinians who were killed as a result of the attack.

The Israeli military claimed it was attacking “terrorists”.