Al-Quds Brigades attacks military base in southern Israel

The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group says it fired a barrage of missiles at an army site around the Nahal Oz Jewish settlement in southern Israel.

A separate statement on Telegram added that Israeli soldiers stationed at the Rafah crossing and its surroundings were hit with mortar rounds.

Nine months on, Hamas fighting capabilities stronger: Abu Obeida

Abu Obeida – the spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas – says the group’s fighters are still confronting Israeli forces with “no external help and our people are still steadfast without food or medicine”.

“Our fighters have been fighting for nine months and defeating the enemy’s army, which is being supported by the United States and Britain,” he said in a prerecorded message.

The Qassam Brigade’s 24 battalions, along with other Palestinian armed groups, are fighting Israeli troops and “striking them painfully at every part they raid in the Gaza Strip”, claimed Abu Obeida.

“The battle for Rafah and our fighting in Shujayea and elsewhere is evidence of the strength of our resistance and the failure and defeat of the enemy,” he said.

Israeli army major killed in Rafah

The Israeli military announced that Jalaa Ibrahim, 25, from the Druze town of Sajur, was killed earlier today in the southern Gaza Strip city. His death brings the toll of slain forces in the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza to 326 since late October 2023.

Israelis protest ‘devastating abandonment’ to mark October attack

Near the fence with Gaza, Israeli demonstrators released 1,500 black-and-yellow balloons to symbolise fellow citizens killed and abducted on October 7. Hannah Golan said she came to protest the “devastating abandonment of our communities by our government”.

She added: “It’s nine months today, to this black day, and still nobody in our government takes responsibility.”

About 120 hostages remain captive after more than 100 hostages were released as part of a November ceasefire deal. Israel has already concluded that more than 40 of the remaining captives are dead, and there are fears that number will grow as the war on Gaza drags on.


_{Police disperse demonstrators blocking a road during a protest in West Jerusalem calling for the release of Israeli captives on Sunday, July 7}

More than 3,300 ‘massacres’ perpetrated since October 7

CIA director expected to visit Egypt for Gaza talks: Report

US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns is expected to visit Cairo this week for Gaza ceasefire talks, Egypt’s Al Qahera News TV has reported, according to Reuters.

Truce in Gaza won’t stop fight against Hezbollah: Yoav Gallant

The Israeli defence minister says the army will continue to battle Hezbollah in Lebanon even if his country reaches a ceasefire deal with Hamas and allied groups in Gaza.

Yoav Gallant wrote on X: “My orders in the south and the north are clear: Even if we reach a settlement in the south, we will continue to fight in the north until we bring Hezbollah to a settlement and restore the [Israel’s] residents with security.”

Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged near-daily fire since Israel launched its war on Gaza in the wake of the deadly Hamas attacks in southern Israel on October 7.

Wtf is going on in Germany

Germany bans inverted red triangle symbol used by Qassam Brigades: Report

Berlin has banned the symbol used by Hamas’s military wing to mark enemy targets in videos and in graffiti, The Daily Telegraph reports.

“The motion passed in the state senate said the scarlet arrow icon represents an immediate threat to Jews and to people committed to the freedom and security of Israel and should be banned at protests and in the context of the Middle East conflict,” the UK newspaper said.

Germany’s government is a staunch supporter of Israel at a time when Berlin has grown into the city with the largest Palestinian population in Europe. Both the ruling coalition and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party voted for the motion. The state parliament also wants to assist in passing the law on a federal level, the paper said.

What does the red triangle mean in Gaza?

A symbol used within the "Free Palestine" movement to show solidarity with Palestinians. It references the red triangle on the Flag of Palestine, which is inverted when hung up, or the inverted red triangles used by the Al-Qassam Brigades to indicate targets in their released videos.



Why not ban the whole flag while you're at it. Just like Israel did with the colors of the flag.

https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-flag-ban-history-israelis/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/01/israel-opt-flag-restrictions-are-the-latest-attempt-to-silence-palestinians-and-reduce-their-visibility/

Enforced disappearance escalated since October: Rights group

Addameer says that with the launch of Israel’s ground offensive, the organisation received reports of large numbers of civilians in Gaza, some nearly naked, crowded together in army vehicles and taken to an unknown destination.

The Palestinian NGO based in Ramallah said it received reports from the north of Gaza of mass detentions, ill-treatment, and forced disappearance of possibly thousands of Palestinians, including children, at the hands of Israeli forces.

Israeli authorities can detain Palestinian residents of Gaza under a law that does not guarantee the right to meaningful judicial review and violates due process rights, it said.

“The Unlawful Combatant Law, enacted by the Knesset in 2002, permits the Chief of General Staff of the Israeli forces to incarcerate a person based on ‘reasonable cause’ that ‘he is an unlawful combatant and that his release will harm national security’,” Addammeer said, adding that this “unlawful combatant” designation is not recognised under international law.

Several rights groups, including Israeli ones, have petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court to have authorities disclose the whereabouts of hundreds of Gaza residents taken. But so far, Addameer said, they’ve only managed to get some information on “a limited number of detainees without [authorities] disclosing the legal grounds for their detention”.

Long suspected but now proven in an investigation by Haaretz.

Israeli army used Hannibal Directive during Hamas’s October 7 attack: Report

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/7/israeli-army-used-hannibal-directive-during-october-7-hamas-attack-report

The Israeli army ordered the Hannibal Directive – a controversial Israeli military policy aimed at preventing the capture of Israeli soldiers by enemy forces at any cost – on October 7 last year, according to an investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Citing testimonies from Israeli soldiers and senior army officers, the newspaper said the Israeli army made decisions with limited and unverified information, and issued an order that “not a single vehicle can return to Gaza”.

The protocol “was employed at three army facilities infiltrated by Hamas”, the newspaper said, adding that while it was not aware how many soldiers and civilians were hit, “the cumulative data indicates that many of the kidnapped people were at risk, exposed to Israeli gunfire, even if they were not the target”.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-07/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-ordered-hannibal-directive-on-october-7-to-prevent-hamas-taking-soldiers-captive/00000190-89a2-d776-a3b1-fdbe45520000

'There was crazy hysteria, and decisions started being made without verified information': Documents and testimonies obtained by Haaretz reveal the Hannibal operational order, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity, was employed at three army facilities infiltrated by Hamas, potentially endangering civilians as well.

Up to 186,000 people may have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza: Report

Three researchers, writing in the Lancet Journal, said the estimate includes direct deaths from the conflict as well as indirect deaths from causes such as reproductive, communicable and non-communicable diseases.

The researchers – who include Martin McKee, a member of the editorial board of the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research – came up with the estimate by extrapolating the death toll of 37, 396 given by the Gaza Health Ministry on June 19.

“Armed conflicts have indirect health implications beyond the direct harm from violence,” the researchers said in the letter published by The Lancet.

“The total death toll is expected to be large given the intensity of this conflict; destroyed health-care infrastructure; severe shortages of food, water, and shelter; the population’s inability to flee to safe places; and the loss of funding to UNRWA,” they wrote.

“In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza,” they added.

The estimate was published in The Lancet’s correspondence section, which includes letters from readers that are not normally externally peer-reviewed.

France’s Melenchon says Palestinian statehood must be recognised

Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of France’s left-wing New Popular Front (NFP), made the statement after exit polls from the French election projected that his coalition would become the biggest parliamentary bloc and consequently able to appoint the next prime minister.

Melenchon said France’s next prime minister will come from the NFP and that the coalition can “decide many things by decree”.

He added, “On the international level, we will have to agree to recognise the State of Palestine.”

Nous aurons un ou une Premier ministre du Nouveau Front Populaire.

Nous pourrons décider de nombreuses choses par décrets.

Sur le plan international, il faudra s'entendre pour reconnaître l'État de Palestine.#VictoireNFP pic.twitter.com/XYkzTk0zS4

— Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) July 7, 2024

Palestinians in Gaza ‘trapped in a hell without comparison’

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur to the occupied Palestinian Territory, spoke to Al Jazeera about Israel’s war on Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

“The people in Gaza are trapped in a hell without comparison,” she said. “It is shocking to me that there is even a resolution of the UN Security Council ordering a ceasefire and it still is not in place.”

Albanese also noted that the “international community seems to be oblivious” to the increasing violence Palestinians are facing in the occupied West Bank. “In recent days, Israeli ministers have spoken of advancing the annexation of all the largest weights of the West Bank,” she said.

“Gaza is not an isolated case. Israel seems to be at war with the Palestinians as a whole.”

Three killed, 12 injured in Israeli attacks on southern Gaza City

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting several casualties from two separate Israeli artillery attacks on Gaza City.

Two people were killed and five injured in the first attack on a residential apartment of the Kashkawa family in al-Rayes neighbourhood near al-Sinaa junction, south of Gaza City.

At least one was killed and seven others injured in the second attack on the Tatar family home near the Tayaran junction, south of Gaza City.

Israeli soldier seriously wounded in Gaza

An Israeli soldier is receiving medical treatment after being “seriously injured in a battle in the northern Gaza Strip”, the Israeli military said in a post on X.

Injured Palestinians forced to evacuate al-Ahli Hospital

Medical staff at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City have evacuated injured Palestinians from the facility after the Israeli military ordered residents of the city’s several eastern neighbourhoods to flee their homes, according to the Anadolu news agency.

The injured were taken to other hospitals in northern areas of the enclave, the agency reported citing a medical source. “The source said Israeli quadcopter drones were heavily present around the hospital, firing at civilians and prompting the medical teams to evacuate the hospital,” it added.

The UN says Israel’s war on Gaza has put some 21 of the enclave’s 36 hospitals out of service.

Another child dies of starvation in Gaza

The Wafa news agency is reporting that a six-year-old child has died of starvation, dehydration and a lack of medical supplies at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza. The child’s death takes the total number of Palestinians who’ve died from malnutrition since Israel’s war on Gaza to 41, the agency said.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said in June that more than 50,000 children in the Gaza Strip require immediate medical treatment for acute malnutrition.

Israeli raid kills women and children in Jabalia

At least 10 Palestinians have been killed after an Israeli air raid hit a home in Jabalia in northern Gaza. Many of those killed were women and children. Civil defence crews are still searching for several people missing under the rubble.

Sudden Israeli incursion traps dozens of families in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa

Dozens of families are trapped in their homes under a barrage of violent bombardment in the vicinity of universities and industry, south of the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood, west of Gaza City, after the sudden occupation advance at dawn, according to the Palestinian media.

Israeli aircraft bombed the top floors of the Florya Commercial Complex on the Communications Roundabout in ar-Remal neighbourhood, west of Gaza City, the reports said, adding that the vicinity of the Bank of Palestine was also targeted.

⭕️ »» عاجل | طيران الاحتلال ينفذ غارة في محيط بنك فلسطين بمدينة غزة. pic.twitter.com/DcM7NmpwLn

— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) July 8, 2024

Translation: Occupation aircraft carry out a raid in the vicinity of the Bank of Palestine in Gaza City.

Families flee as Israeli forces bomb Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa

Journalist Abdalqader Sabbah has shared a video on Instagram showing families fleeing overnight with the sudden advance of Israeli vehicles in the Tal al-Hawa area in the southern part of Gaza City.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9JMBoIItoD

Israeli troops launch operation at UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City

The Israeli army says its forces have launched a military operation at the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City, claiming that the complex contained combat equipment and detention rooms belonging to the Hamas movement.

It said it had previously operated in the area, killing many Hamas members and destroying a tunnel passing under the complex. The military said it called on civilians via loudspeakers to leave and that it would open a corridor for the exit of uninvolved civilians from the area.

Four Palestinians killed in Gaza City’s Shujayea

At least four Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli raid on the Shujayea neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera’s team in Gaza.

Gaza City evacuees describe harrowing scenes

More disturbing news is coming from Gaza City where the Israeli army has expanded its operations.

Witnesses say they are caught in areas where the army entered from the southern and eastern parts of the city, all the way close to the UNRWA headquarters where the vast majority of Palestinian families had moved to seek shelter.

Civilians are trapped amid bombing and a ground incursion, making it difficult for them to evacuate. Those who managed to flee to the Wadi Gaza area described harrowing scenes, including dead bodies in the streets that paramedics were unable to remove.

We are now entering the 10th day of the Israeli operation inside Gaza City’s Shujayea – the fourth time they are storming the district since the start of the war.

_{Thousands of Palestinians leave from the eastern Gaza City}

Two missiles hit al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City: Report

Richard Sewell, the dean of St George’s College in Jerusalem, says he received information that al-Ahli Arab Hospital was hit by two missiles overnight. “Today the complete evacuation of the hospital has been ordered,” Sewell said on X. “Full information yet to be received. Deeply distressing,” he added.

I am just hearing that our Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City was hit by two missiles last night. Today the complete evacuation of the hospital has been ordered. Full information yet to be received. Deeply distressing.

— Richard Sewell (@sgcjerusalem) July 8, 2024

At least 2 killed in Israeli shelling of Gaza City’s Sabra area: Report

Israeli shelling has killed at least two people and injured many others in the Sabra neighbourhood in the south of Gaza City, according to Palestinian media.

Israel kills at least 40 people in 24 hours across Gaza: Ministry

At least 75 people have also been injured in Israel’s attacks across Gaza, raising the total number of injuries since October 7 to 87,903, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. The new figures raised the overall death toll to 38,193, including more than 15,983 children and 10,637 women, the ministry said.

At least 4 killed west of Rafah: Report

Israeli forces have attacked a gathering of people near the Qadisiyah junction in the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, west of the Rafah city in southern Gaza, according to the Palestinian media.

The attack killed at least four people and injured many others, the reports said

Palestinian groups say they hit series of Israeli targets in Gaza

The armed wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) say they have targeted a number of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles throughout the besieged Gaza Strip.

Palestinians fleeing amid intense fighting