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SvennoJ on 21 August 2024

Israeli forces bomb UNRWA school in Gaza City

Israeli forces have attacked the Salah al-Din School west of Gaza City, where hundreds of people have taken refuge, the Palestinian Civil Defence has said.

“In an initial tally, two people have been killed and 15 wounded in the attack on the school,” a spokesperson for the civil defence said. The military acknowledged it carried out an attack, saying on its official Telegram channel, however, that it was “a precise strike on Hamas terrorists”.

Those some really dumb 'terrorists', still hiding in the most targeted places in Gaza... Enough with the lies.

Health Ministry calls on international community to protect Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

The ministry issued a statement calling for protection of the facility located in the central Gaza Strip “in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression” and as Israeli troops continue to advance to the vicinity of the hospital, where hundreds of patients have taken refuge.

“We call on all relevant international and UN institutions to take the necessary measures to protect the hospital, medical staff and patients inside it, at a time when the ministry has no other options or alternatives,” the ministry said.


Israeli forces carry out multiple deadly attacks in Gaza

The Gaza Health Ministry has said that at least 50 Palestinians were killed and 124 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza in the last 24 hours.

Here are some of the attacks launched by Israeli forces today:

  • Israeli military struck Salah al-Din School and a nearby house in Gaza City, killing four people and wounding 18, the Government Media Office said.
  • In the town of Bani Suhaila near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, an Israeli air raid killed seven Palestinians, two of them children and five women, at a tent encampment for displaced people, medics said.
  • The military issued new evacuation orders in the heavily overcrowded area of Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the fighting have sought shelter. Israeli forces then fired into the crowds, killing at least one person and wounding several others, medics and residents said.


Palestinians packed in Deir al-Balah have few options

Israeli forces have continued to push into Deir el-Balah, where a majority of Gaza’s population is now taking refuge in with little access to necessities like food and water and nowhere to go, says Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from the besieged enclave.

“Recently, the Israeli army started a very controversial new military evacuation and displacement order,” he said.

“We’ve been seeing Israeli tanks starting to thrust deeper into Deir el-Balah town. We’re talking about a very overcrowded area with displaced families, but the entire Strip has been under massive attacks by Israeli artillery and fighter jets.”


Israel’s evacuation orders in Deir el-Balah displace Palestinians again


Fear, panic after Israeli tanks reported in Deir el-Balah

Since evacuation orders were announced for parts of Deir el-Balah, a wave of terror and panic has swept through the area. Deir el-Balah is home to nearly a million displaced people, is under immense strain and its infrastructure – particularly water and sanitation networks – has largely collapsed.

Upon hearing the orders, people scrambled to leave their homes. Eyewitnesses also reported Israeli tanks near the al-Mazraa school area, southeast of Deir el-Balah. “The tanks approached one of the schools and started shelling near civilians. Quadcopters were also shooting at people,” Dia Lafi, a fellow journalist, reported. “There’s no place to go, no transportation for those trying to flee.”


‘We don’t want aid or food coupons. Just stop this war’

As Palestinians start fleeing Deir el-Balah, Abu Ahmed Khalil, standing outside the home he had fled to, gathered his few belongings and said, “Every day, there’s a new evacuation map … where are we supposed to go?”

“We pack our beds and whatever we can carry, and leave without knowing the destination. This has been our life for 10 months.”

Mohammad Yasser, in the middle of loading more mattresses onto a car outside their temporary shelter, shouted in desperation, “Have mercy on us, world, have mercy. We don’t want aid or food coupons. Just stop this war.”

“The evacuation feels like a mass exodus. There’s nowhere to go. Deir el-Balah is the final station. We’ll end up sitting in the streets,” Yasser continued. “If it weren’t for my children, I’d stay, even if it meant dying here. My daughter was born and raised in this war. We’ve suffered enough.”


Palestinians, carrying their belongings, are on their way to safer areas following the Israeli army’s warning for the evacuation of Abu Areef and al-Mazra areas in Deir el-Balah


Eight Palestinians killed in Beit Lahiya

The Palestinian Wafa news agency is reporting that at least eight people have been killed and many wounded in an Israeli attack targeting a house in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza.

The report added that “intensive raids” are currently taking place in Deir el-Balah.



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SvennoJ on 21 August 2024

‘Is there any humanity left?’ UNRWA chief condemns Israeli attack targeting Gaza school

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini has condemned Israel’s raid on a UNRWA school in Gaza City, the latest in a series of deadly Israeli attacks on schools sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza.

“Is there any humanity left? Reports of another horrific attack today on one of our UNRWA schools in Gaza City. Children reported killed and injured. Some were burnt to death,” Lazzarini said in a post on X.

“Gaza is no place for children anymore. They are the first casualty of this merciless war. We cannot let the unbearable become a new norm. Enough. A ceasefire is beyond over due.”



That's equivalent to the population density in Kolkata, India

Except all in tents on the ground without any amenities.


Banks across Gaza forced to suspend operations

The Association of Banks in Palestine, a group that represents banks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, said that banks across Gaza have suspended operations.

The news comes amid deteriorating conditions in Gaza, a result of Israel’s destructive campaign that has erased entire neighbourhoods, displaced nearly the entire population and targeted key civilian infrastructure.

The Associated Press reported that Bashar Yasin, the association’s general manager, confirmed the closures.

Displaced people in Gaza, whose economy has been devastated by the war, have struggled to access necessities such as food and water amid widespread Israeli rejection of humanitarian assistance into the Strip.


Report accuses Israel of systematic torture of Palestinian children

The civil society group Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) has released a report documenting what they say is an Israeli policy of “systematically detaining and torturing Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, including using some as human shields”.

The report is the latest to document widespread torture and abuse of Palestinians, thousands of whom have been rounded up and detained by Israel without charge since October 7.

“They insulted us, slapped me on my face, and kicked me in my stomach and waist. I almost died from the beating,” Karim, a 12-year-old who was stripped and bound by Israeli forces in Gaza, is quoted as saying. “Then they made us walk in front of bulldozers and tanks in the streets so that the resistance wouldn’t target them.”

DCIP says it has recorded at least 31 cases of Palestinian children being used as human shields by Israeli forces since 2000.

The report also quotes a 14-year-old boy named Shadi who says Israeli forces detained him after shooting into a crowd of Palestinians awaiting food assistance in Gaza in March.

“They stripped us of our clothes, blindfolded us, tied us up, and beat us over our heads. They cursed us with filthy insults, saying things like, ‘You hungry ones, let Hamas feed you, you filthy, lice-ridden ones,'” he said. “It was humiliation in every sense of the word.”



SvennoJ on 21 August 2024

Israeli settler violence triggers largest forcible transfers since October: NRC

The largest wave of forcible transfers of Palestinian communities since October 7 has taken place in the northeast of the occupied West Bank, triggered by Israeli settler attacks, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) says.

The NRC said three communities comprising 119 Palestinians have been forced out over the past 10 days as Israeli settlers attacked community members in their homes, erected new settler outposts and blocked access to water.

Two communities, al-Farsiya Khallet Khader and al-Farisiya al-Zu’bi, have been completely depopulated while only one family remains in the third community, Ein al-Hilweh – Umm al-Jamal.

“These attacks, occurring in broad daylight under the watching eyes and the protective force of the Israeli military, highlight the unlawfulness of Israel’s presence in the West Bank, as recently ruled by the International Court of Justice,” said Allegra Pacheco, chief of party of the NRC-led West Bank Protection Consortium (WBPC).

Overall, 18 communities in the al-Maleh region in the northeastern West Bank, all of which are supported by the WBPC, have already been displaced or are at imminent risk of forcible transfer due to ongoing settler violence, the organisation said.


Israeli forces detain woman at military checkpoint near Nablus

Israeli forces have detained a 19-year-old Palestinian woman at the Beit Furik checkpoint, located east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports. According to Palestinian security sources, the woman, identified as Saja Imad Draghmeh from Tubas, was detained while going through the checkpoint.


Palestinian man shot by Israeli forces in West Bank dies

Jamal al-Saoudi, 21, from Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, has died a week after being shot by the Israeli military, medics told the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

On August 15, an Israeli drone fired into a gathering of people at the refugee camp, killing two men and injuring seven others, including al-Saoudi, who was taken to Rafidia Governmental Hospital in Nablus.

His killing raises the death toll in occupied West Bank since October to 637. The figure includes 147 children.


Israeli forces ransack mosque, stores in occupied West Bank village

Israeli forces have ransacked a mosque and stores in ar-Ras village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, the Wafa news agency reports.

Local sources told Wafa that soldiers raided the mosque along with a number of houses and stores, conducted searches and seized footage from surveillance cameras.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces erected a checkpoint on the road linking ar-Ras to Jabara, stopping Palestinian vehicles and inspecting passengers’ identity cards.


Israeli forces detain medics, patient companion near Ramallah

Israeli forces deployed near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank have detained an ambulance crew who work at Al-Hayat Medical Centre in Jenin after they transported a patient, the Wafa news agency reports.

The head of Al-Hayat Medical Centre, Fadi Jarrar, said Israeli soldiers stopped one of the ambulances and detained paramedic Amjad Qassem and Sameh Hanoun, the driver.

Jarrar said the soldiers also detained the companion of a patient as the three men were on their way back to Jenin. Israeli forces also impounded the ambulance after stopping it at a checkpoint east of Ramallah.



SvennoJ on 21 August 2024

Israeli intelligence head steps down, laments failures of October 7

Israeli intelligence chief Major General Aharon Haliva has left his position after announcing his resignation in April, Reuters is reporting.

In a ceremony on Wednesday, Haliva called for an investigation into the country’s failure to prevent the October 7 attack by Hamas and took responsibility for some of those shortcomings.

“The failure of the intelligence corps was my fault,” he said.


Netanyahu ‘no longer has a soul’: Israel’s opposition leader Lapid

Israel’s opposition leader Yair Lapid has called on Prime Minister Netanyahu to reach a deal to bring home the remaining Israeli captives held in Gaza, amid persistent reports in the Israeli media that Netanyahu is working to scuttle those efforts.

In a post on Tuesday, Lapid had said Netanyahu’s “attempts to sabotage the negotiations should stop”, warning that failure to reach a deal could place the lives of the remaining captives in jeopardy.

“If Netanyahu is so sure of his negotiating skill, let him go to Egypt and sit there until he makes a deal,” Lapid said on Wednesday.

“That is what a responsible PM who cares about his citizens lives should do. The only reason he doesn’t do it is because he no longer has a soul.”



SvennoJ on 21 August 2024

Egyptian official says US offering ‘promises, not guarantees’ on ceasefire

The Associated Press is reporting that Egypt is sceptical about the prospects of a ceasefire proposal, with little clarity over the status of Israeli forces in the Philadelphi Corridor and the Netzarim Corridor.

Blinken said on Tuesday that the proposal is “very clear on the schedule and location” of Israeli withdrawals, the AP reported, quoting an unnamed Egyptian official with knowledge of the negotiations, appeared to cast doubt on that claim, saying that Israel has only offered vague promises in those areas.

The Egyptian official added that the US-backed “bridging proposal” includes the release of the most vulnerable Hamas-held captives, with negotiations on other key issues to take place during a six-week “pause” in the fighting.

“The Americans are offering promises, not guarantees,” the official was quoted as saying. “Hamas won’t accept this, because it virtually means Hamas will release the civilian hostages in return for a six-week pause of fighting with no guarantees for a negotiated permanent ceasefire.”

Latest ceasefire deal ‘went too far’ to accommodate Israel: Report

Two Arab officials from a mediating country and a third official involved in the ceasefire talks are quoted as saying by The Times of Israel that the “bridging proposal” submitted last week by the Biden administration “went too far” to accommodate Netanyahu’s position regarding a continued Israeli military presence in Rafah and the Netzarim Corridor.

The newspaper reported, quoting an Arab official, that talks are at an impasse and there is no point holding another high-level meeting in Cairo this week “unless the US pressures Netanyahu to come down from his new demands and amends its bridging proposal accordingly”.

“A second Arab official expressed his bewilderment at US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s repeated public insistence in recent days that Netanyahu backs the US bridging proposal, arguing that this inaccurately frames Hamas as the lone obstructionist party,” the report said.


Blinken ‘seriously undermined the negotiations’: Report

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth has published a report quoting unnamed Israeli sources who say Blinken “seriously undermined the negotiations and demonstrated a lack of understanding” when he claimed that Netanyahu had accepted a US-backed proposal that could bring about a suspension of fighting in Gaza.

Blinken’s statement was met with surprise by Israeli negotiators, who have accused Netanyahu of “putting forth new demands with the aim of hindering the negotiations”, according to a report by the Israeli public broadcaster Kan.

A source told Yedioth Ahronoth that Blinken’s claim offered Netanyahu a “gift” by making Hamas appear as the major obstacle to an agreement, dealing a potential “death blow” to efforts to reach a deal.



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SvennoJ on 22 August 2024

Thirteen Palestinians wounded in Israeli attack on Nuseirat refugee camp

The Anadolu news agency is reporting that at least 13 Palestinians have been wounded in an Israeli attack on the home of the al-Judaili family in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Four others were taken to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in critical condition, Anadolu said. Casualties were also reported in northern Gaza City, where Israeli artillery shelling hit the Sabra neighbourhood, according to the Wafa news agency.

And as we reported earlier, another eight were killed in an Israeli attack targeting a house in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza.


Israeli attack kills mother and child in Khan Younis

Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent in Gaza is reporting that Israeli forces have bombed the home of the Abu Daqqa family in southern Khan Younis, killing a mother and child.

AJA also reported that a number of other Palestinians were also killed and wounded in an Israeli attack on an apartment in Tall az-Zaatar in the northern Jabalia refugee camp.


Death toll rises from Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya

The Wafa news agency is reporting that 11 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli attack on the Hamouda family home in Beit Lahiya. Most of the victims were women and children, it said, citing medical sources. Their charred bodies were taken to the Kamal Adwan Hospital.

Several others remain under the rubble, Wafa added.


Six killed, four wounded in Israeli attack on Maghazi

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have shelled a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least six Palestinians and wounding four others.

Videos posted online by the Palestine Information Centre and verified by Al Jazeera showed the bodies of the victims laid out in body bags and blankets at a hospital. The attack targeted the home of the Dabaki family, the Wafa news agency reported.

Al Jazeera’s reporters also said that Israeli forces are carrying out artillery attacks on the nearby city of Deir el-Balah.


Three killed in Jabalia refugee camp

Gaza’s civil defence said at least three Palestinians have been killed and a number of others wounded after Israeli forces attacked a residential apartment belonging to the Salman family in the Tall az-Zaatar area in the northern Jabalia refugee camp.

The deaths are the latest from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip overnight.


Palestinian child beheaded in Israeli attack on Khan Younis

We have verified a video from Khan Younis in which a Palestinian man is seen recovering the body of a child beheaded in an Israeli attack on Khan Younis.

“This is Israel’s target!” the man shouts as he holds up the child’s body. “Israel is not targeting Hamas, they target our children!”

Translation: Without a head or a skull, a man carries the dead body of a child killed in an Israeli attack in Khan Younis.


22 killed as Israeli tanks push deeper into Gaza

Israeli attacks in Gaza this morning have killed at least 22 people, according to medical officials quoted by our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

There was a wave of attacks on homes which killed six people in Maghazi, three in the Jabalia camp, and two others – a woman and her child – in Khan Younis.

The Israeli military said its forces intensified their operations in Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, and Khan Younis, in the south, dismantling dozens of military structures and killing Palestinian fighters over the past 24 hours.


Gaza’s death toll rises

At least 40,265 people have been killed and 93,144 wounded in Israeli military attacks on Gaza since October 7, the enclave’s Health Ministry says. Of those, 42 Palestinians were killed and 163 wounded in the past 24-hour reporting period, the ministry added.



SvennoJ on 22 August 2024

Belgium condemns attack on Gaza school

Belgium’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that “attacks against civilians must stop” in a post condemning the latest Israeli attack on a school in Gaza. “According to [the UN], more than 20 strikes on schools sheltering displaced people took place since July 4, killing nearly 300 people,” the ministry said in a post on X.


Fleeing Palestinians say death would be more merciful

As we’ve been reporting, thousands of Palestinians are on the move again after Israeli forces issued new evacuation orders for Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis.

We heard from two of them in Khan Younis.

“Death is more merciful in this country. We were displaced 20 times. I swear to God, our houses and tents were struck. They do not want us to live, oh God, they even do not want us to enjoy our life,” a young man said in a video testimony.

“The people are dying and there are wounded. The people do not know where to go, even al-Mawasi is not safe. We do not know where to go, to the sea or where?”

Another man said, “Where are the human rights? Where are the people? Where is the world that is watching us? Are we just Arabs by name? Where are the Arabs? All the United States and the world are against us because we are Arabs. We want to die.”


Palestinian women and children sit in the back of a vehicle as they flee Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 21


MSF says Israel’s new evacuation orders are ‘inhumane’

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said its staff are among the thousands of people who are having to flee central Gaza after Israel’s military issued new evacuation orders for Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis.

“The continuous forced displacement of people is inhumane,” MSF project coordinator Jacob Granger said in a statement.

“People have no belongings left, nowhere left to go. There is no room to put tents up. The overcrowding, severe lack of water, and minimal sanitation services are fuelling the spread of diseases. We are unable to keep up with the overwhelming needs.”


OCHA says Israel’s evacuation orders ‘hindering people’s access to healthcare’

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Israel’s multiple evacuation orders have disrupted health services in Gaza.

“The distance of these [evacuation] orders is one kilometre or less from four key hospitals: Nasser Medical Complex, Al-Amal and Kuwaiti Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) hospitals, and Al Aqsa Hospital, hindering people’s access to healthcare,” OCHA said in its latest update on Israel’s war on Gaza.

The UN organisation added that the success of an upcoming polio vaccination campaign hinges on both sides committing to a humanitarian pause for at least seven days for each round of vaccinations.

“Without this, insecurity will prevent the campaign from being fully implemented and the risk of poliovirus spreading across the Strip and beyond remains high,” OCHA said.

Many of Gaza’s water wells are in newly evacuated zones: UNRWA

According to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), many of the remaining functional water wells and sanitation facilities in Gaza are now in newly evacuated areas, making access to clean water even more challenging.

“With overcrowding, lack of hygiene and unbearable heat, access to clean water continues to be a struggle,” said the UN agency in a post on X.

Yesterday, Israel issued new evacuation orders for parts of Deir el-Balah, forcing thousands of civilians to move again.




Students in Gaza study online as Israel destroys universities

As a new academic year begins, students in Gaza face an uncertain future. They have missed an entire year due to Israel’s relentless attacks that have damaged or destroyed all of Gaza’s universities since October 7.

Despite challenges and risks, some students are turning to online learning.


Save the Children calls on UK to cease arms sales to Israel

The NGO has taken to X to ask the government of the United Kingdom to immediately stop selling weapons to Israel, “given the clear risk they might be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law”.

It cited a BBC News story about a Gaza nurse who said that an entire family, including multiple children, was killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza. “We simply cannot accept the violence that Palestinian children continue to face as normal,” Save the Children said.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 16,500 children.



SvennoJ on 22 August 2024

Clashes in Tulkarem as Israeli forces continue West Bank raids

The Wafa news agency is reporting casualties and arrests in the West Bank as Israeli forces continued raiding cities and towns across the occupied Palestinian territory.

Here’s where the raids took place:

  • In the city of Tulkarem, where Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians, shooting and wounding at least one of them. The military also deployed snipers on roofs and sent in bulldozers to destroy infrastructure.
  • In the town of Deir Ballut, west of the city of Salfit, where Israeli forces arrested 15-year-old Shadi Ahed Moosa.
  • In the city of Tubas, where 19-year-old Ziad Ghassan Daraghmeh was arrested.
  • In the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, where Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians and deployed tear gas, live rounds and sound bombs.
  • In the city of Hebron, where Israeli forces opened fire on a Palestinian vehicle and threw a sound bomb into the car causing the driver to suffocate.


Three Palestinians killed by Israeli strike in West Bank, ministry says

Three Palestinians were killed by an Israeli strike on a house in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement.

The air attack came as Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said fighters from its Tulkarem Battalion clashed with Israeli soldiers in the camp and detonated explosive devices targeting military vehicles.

“Our fighters continue to clash with the occupation forces and we have achieved direct hits among them,” the Qassam Brigades said.

The Quds News Network also posted a video of a fire in the camp following Israel’s ground assault on the camp in the early hours of the morning.

Translation: Fire continues after an explosive device was detonated near an Israeli military bulldozer during the storming of Tulkarem.


Israel forces arrest 25 Palestinians across West Bank: Report

Israeli forces have arrested 25 Palestinians, including two women and a child, overnight and this morning across the occupied West Bank, Wafa reports.

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a joint statement that the Israeli raids were marked by violence and intimidation.

Witnesses also told PPS that detainees and their families experienced threats and extensive damage to their homes.

Four Israeli settlers detained over West Bank village attack: Report

Israeli police detained four Israeli settlers accused of taking part in a deadly rampage in the Palestinian village of Jit last week, reports The Times of Israel. The four suspects are being investigated for “terrorism against Palestinians”, said The Times of Israel, citing a statement from police and the Shin Bet security service.

As we reported last week, dozens of masked Israeli settlers broke into Jit, near Qalqilya, on August 16, setting fire to cars, destroying property and shooting dead one Palestinian.

Four out of a 100, and will likely not lead to anything.


Two homes belonging to brothers demolished in West Bank village: Report

Israeli forces have started demolishing two homes in the village of Kharbatha al-Misbah in the occupied West Bank, reports the Wafa news agency. The homes belong to two brothers and collectively house 13 people, said Wafa, citing the head of the village’s council.

Home demolitions are common in the West Bank, where Israel rejects nearly all building permits for Palestinians.

In July, Israeli forces demolished 98 structures in the West Bank, including 62 inhabited homes, reports the Ramallah-based Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission. So far this year, demolitions have displaced more than 2,000 people in the West Bank, according to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.


Israeli forces establish outpost north of Jericho city: Report

Israeli forces established a new outpost near the Auja Spring, north of Jericho city in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported.

Hassan Malihat, the general supervisor of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, told Wafa that the number of pastoral Israeli outposts in the Jordan Valley had surged.

He added that there was also an increase in the frequency of attacks against the neighbouring Bedouin community.


Tulkarem homes set on fire as 12-hour Israeli raid drags on

It’s been 12 hours since the Israeli raid started in Tulkarem refugee camp.

We hear sounds of explosives and gunfire here from time to time and see Israeli military jeeps impeding people’s everyday lives in the area as they try to go to work or school.

People inside the refugee camp say the Israeli army has set fire to some of the homes and that civil defence teams are not being allowed in to put out the fires.

Tulkarem is an area that has been hit hard by Israeli raids. Since the war started, 90 homes in the area have been destroyed by the Israeli army’s operations.

We are also seeing an increase in aerial strikes. This morning, one strike killed at least three Palestinians.



SvennoJ on 22 August 2024

Israel claims attacks on south Lebanon

The Israeli military said its fighter jets attacked a building in Chihine in southern Lebanon from where Hezbollah fighters had launched rockets towards northern Israel earlier on Wednesday.

The military said its forces also carried out an air attack on a Hezbollah military structure in Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon and launched artillery attacks on Aita ash-Shaab and Alma ash-Shaab.


Hezbollah claims ‘direct hit’ on Israeli military sites

The Lebanese armed group said it launched a salvo of Katyusha rockets at Israeli military barracks in the Ramot Naftali area in northern Israel and on artillery sites in Zaura in the occupied Golan Heights.

Both of the attacks, carried out on Wednesday night, achieved a “direct hit”, it said.


Israel attacked more than 10 different areas in Lebanon overnight

The military said in a post on X that its fighter jets launched attacks on Hezbollah targets in more than 10 different areas in southern Lebanon. These include warehouses, rocket launches and other infrastructure, it said.

The Israeli military did not elaborate further.

In an earlier post, it said its forces struck Chihine, Kfar Kila, Aita al-Shaab and Alma ash-Shaab.

Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen TV meanwhile said Israeli attacks took place in the town of Khiam, Kfar Shouba, Mahbib, Aita al-Shaab, Zebqin, Ramyah, Kaouthariyet El Saiyad and Kfar Kila, while the NNA news agency reported attacks on Chihine.


Hezbollah claims strike on Israeli military barracks near border

Hezbollah has claimed another attack on northern Israel, this time targeting the Biranit military barracks just 1km (0.6 miles) from Lebanon’s border. In a statement, Hezbollah said it fired artillery shells at the site, directly hitting it.

It comes hours after Hezbollah launched rocket salvoes at several other military sites in northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights, also claiming to achieve “direct hits”.

Israel’s military did not immediately issue a comment or report casualties from the latest Hezbollah-claimed attack.



SvennoJ on 22 August 2024

UKMTO reports multiple explosions near ship off Yemen’s Aden

The UK’s maritime agency (UKMTO) said that the master of a ship sailing off the coast of Yemen has reported five separate explosions in the waters near their vessel, about 57 nautical miles (106km) south of the city of Aden.

No damage or injuries were reported, the UKMTO added.

The agency added that a Greek-flagged tanker was currently adrift in the Red Sea after multiple attacks earlier on Wednesday triggered a fire on board and caused the ship to lose power.

There was no immediate comment from Yemen’s Houthis.

The rebel group has attacked more than 70 ships in the Red Sea since Israel’s war on Gaza began, killing at least four sailors and sinking two ships. They say their campaign will stop when Israel ends its war.


Blaze reported in Red Sea off Yemeni port

British maritime security firm Ambrey has reported a fire in the Red Sea, some 58 nautical miles (107km) off the Yemeni port town of as-Salif.

Ambrey said the blaze was probably connected to the destruction of an unmanned surface vessel in the waters, where Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been waging attacks since November.

“Hostile manned and unmanned craft have been operating in the area,” Ambrey said.

The report comes after the UK’s maritime agency (UKMTO) said a Greek-flagged tanker was adrift in the Red Sea after attacks earlier on Wednesday caused a power blackout and a fire to break out on board.


Crew of attacked Red Sea vessel rescued: Report

The crew of a Greek-flagged ship, which had been drifting in the Red Sea after coming under attack on Wednesday, has been rescued after evacuating the vessel, reports Reuters news agency.

The crew of the ship – the Sounion – was made up of two Russians and 23 Filipinos, said Reuters. They were rescued by the EU’s Red Sea naval mission Aspides it added, quoting an official with the mission.

Yemen’s Houthis have been waging attacks on vessels they claim are linked to Israel passing through the Red Sea since November, acting in what they say is solidarity with Gaza. The campaign has killed at least four sailors and sunk two ships.

The rebel group has not commented on Wednesday’s attacks on the Sounion.


Vessel reports damage after explosion off Yemen’s coast

A ship says it has suffered damage after an explosion from an unmanned surface vessel went off near it off the coast of Yemen, reports the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO). No crew were injured in the incident, which took place 57 nautical miles (106km) south of Yemen’s port city of Aden.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have regularly waged attacks against vessels passing through the Red Sea during the Gaza war, killing at least four sailors and sinking two ships.


‘Environmental risk’ after oil tanker attacked in Red Sea

Earlier, we reported that a ship’s crew had evacuated their vessel in the Red Sea after coming under attack.

The ship has now been identified as the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, whose crew have been rescued and are en route to Djibouti, according to the EU’s Red Sea naval mission Aspides.

However, the crude oil on the vessel now “represents a navigational and environmental hazard,” said Apsides in a post on X.

The vessel’s operator, Athens-based Delta Tankers, said it was working on a plan to move the ship, which Reuters reports is now anchored between Yemen and Eritrea, to a safer destination.

Sounion, which was first targeted on Wednesday by multiple projectiles off Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah, is the third vessel operated by Delta Tankers to be attacked in the Red Sea this month.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have waged dozens of attacks on ships in the area since November, acting in what they say is solidarity with Gaza. The Houthis have yet to comment on the attacks on Sounion.