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SvennoJ on 03 March 2024

Israel claims 14,000 aid trucks entered Gaza since war began

The Israeli military has published an infographic, claiming that the Gaza Strip has received 14,000 aid trucks since the start of the war, containing food, medical equipment and “additional equipment”.

It also claimed that tens of ambulances have entered the war-torn enclave and six hospitals have been established throughout Gaza.

These statements have been refuted by most aid agencies and the UN agencies. Thousands of people are starving in northern Gaza, with children dying from malnutrition and dehydration. The UNICEF on Saturday warned against acute malnutrition, while UNRWA accused Israel of blocking aid in Gaza.

Human Rights Watch accused Israel of violating the International Court of Justice order by blocking the supply of humanitarian aid amid looming famine. The dire hunger situation forced the US to airdrop aid in northern Gaza on Saturday.


Palestinian mother Warda Mattar feeds her newborn dates, instead of milk, amidst food scarcity and lack of milk, at a school where they shelter in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip

We're on day 149. Even if all those 14,000 trucks managed to actually deliver aid, that's a 94 daily avg out of the 500 daily before Oct 7 when there was still water, electricity, fuel, agriculture and fishing possible in Gaza. The daily avg is way down now while aid trucks get blown up as the deliberate starvation keeps getting worse.

Even assuming all those 14,000 aid trucks delivered, that's 1.2 kg of supplies per person per day (assuming all trucks can carry 30 tons each), less than 3 pounds. Your necessary daily intake in water already exceeds that. (3.7 kg for men, 2.7 kg for women) And food/water is only 40% of the aid trucked in, so really it's only a pound per person per day of food/water that has been allowed in.

Maternity kits, anaesthetics, sleeping bags among items banned by Israel: Report

A CNN investigation has found that Israel is obstructing the entrance of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, as some parts of the territory face famine. Interviewing more than two dozen humanitarian and government officials, the report says Israel has imposed “arbitrary and contradictory criteria” regarding access to vital aid.

The items most frequently rejected by the Israelis include anaesthetics and anaesthesia machines, oxygen cylinders, ventilators and water filtration systems. Other products such as dates, sleeping bags, medicines to treat cancer, water purification tablets and maternity kits have also been denied entry.

According to Janti Soeripto, Save the Children US president, who was interviewed by CNN, she has “never seen anything like the level of barriers being put in place to hamper humanitarian assistance”.

Famine deepening, aid drops not effective: Gaza government

Gaza’s government media office has said in a statement that “the famine is still deepening in the governorates of the Gaza Strip to a great extent”. It said on Telegram that “2,400,000 people are still suffering from severe food shortages”.

"Dropping aid by air and turning a blind eye to bringing it in through the crossings is an attempt to circumvent the radical solutions to the problem,” it added.


Health Ministry: 15 children died from lack of food, water in Kamal Adwan Hospital

Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 15 children have died in the past few days from malnutrition and dehydration at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City. “We fear for the lives of SIX [other] children suffering from malnutrition and diarrhea at the hospital’s intensive care unit as a result of the cessation of the electric generator and oxygen and the weakness of medical capabilities,” ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement on Sunday.

On Friday, the hospital director announced the death of seven children, noting that they suffered from severe dehydration and malnutrition. The hospital has been out of service for months due to Israel’s attacks and lack of fuel and medicine.


Babies, hospitalized due to malnutrition and dehydration, lie on a hospital bed at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, Gaza on Saturday


Palestinian health minister urges world to push for ceasefire

Mai al-Kaila, the caretaker Palestinian health minister, has told Al Jazeera that “the ceasefire is much more important than having food under fire”.

“The top priority is to have a ceasefire,” she said from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. “People are running from one place to another just to save their lives. People all over the world should mobilise to push for a ceasefire.”

“The second call is, stop providing Israel with weapons. Third, make Israel accountable in front of the international law,” al-Kaila added.


A Palestinian child carries away items salvaged from the rubble of the Abu Anza family home destroyed in an overnight Israeli air strike in Rafah on Sunday


MSF official says ‘nowhere in Gaza is safe’, calls for ceasefire

Meinie Nicolai, the general director at Doctors Without Borders who has spent the past two weeks in Gaza, has told Al Jazeera that “the reports of malnutrition, especially among young children, are very concerning”.

“We need a ceasefire. We need it immediately … to increase humanitarian aid. Airdrops will not solve this. We need a sustained ceasefire to bring the aid and the medical care to the people in a safe way,” she said speaking from Brussels. “Nowhere in Gaza is safe.”

She said even the buildings that were notified to the Israeli army as the place where humanitarian aid workers and their families were staying were not safe. Nicolai said the Israeli army had attacked the building where her staff and their families were staying following the Israeli evacuation order despite her organisation notifying the military that it was housing humanitarian aid workers. The incident killed two women in the building.

She said neither the US nor Israel provided her office with any clarifications about why they were targeted in the building in an area designated as safe by the Israeli army.


Red Crescent: Food supplies at al-Amal Hospital enough for only one more week

As Israeli forces continue to besiege al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis for the 42nd consecutive day, the Palestine Red Crescent Society says food supplies are sufficient only for one more week.

The available drinking water is enough for three more days, it said on Sunday.

“Continuous shelling and gunfire around the hospital or directly targeting it endanger the safety of patients and medical teams, making it difficult for medical and nursing teams to move between hospital floors to monitor patient conditions,” the PRCS said.



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Euro-Med Monitor: Israeli tanks ran over dozens of Palestinians

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has confirmed that Israeli tanks deliberately ran over dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The Geneva-based organisation has documented the Israeli army killing a Palestinian man who was deliberately run over in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City on February 29 after he was arrested and his hands were tied with plastic handcuffs.

Another documented incident took place on January 23, when an Israeli tank ran over a family sleeping in a shelter caravan in the Taiba Towers area in Khan Younis, leading to the death of a man and his eldest daughter, and the injury to his remaining three children and wife.


Number of Palestinians arrested in occupied West Bank rises to 7,340

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says the total number of Palestinians arrested by Israel since October 7 in the occupied West Bank has reached 7,340.

Palestinian cities, towns and villages have been subjected to nightly raids that are often accompanied by widespread abuse, severe beatings, and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to widespread sabotage and the destruction of their homes.



Hezbollah says it struck army site in northern Israel

Lebanese group Hezbollah says it targeted an Israeli military establishment on Sunday morning, following earlier reports that rocket sirens sounded in northern Israel. The group said on Telegram that it hit “the Jal al-Alam site” with a Volcano missile and achieved a direct hit.

Hezbollah claims hitting Israeli forces in Lebanon’s occupied territory

Hezbollah has claimed that it targeted Israel’s military forces opposite the village of Wazzani in southern Lebanon, saying that it had achieved direct hits. The Lebanese armed group said that the Israeli forces fired smoke shells to cover the transportation of the dead and wounded by helicopter from the site.

It also said that it targeted the Al-Samaqa site in Lebanon’s occupied Kfar Shuba hills with missile weapons and achieved direct hits.


Houthis say they will continue sinking British ships

Yemen’s Houthi fighters have said they will continue targeting British ships in the Gulf of Aden following the sinking of the UK-owned vessel Rubymar. The US military confirmed on Saturday that Rubymar had sunk after being struck by an antiship ballistic missile fired by the Houthis on February 18.

“Yemen will continue to sink more British ships, and any repercussions or other damages will be added to Britain’s bill,” Hussein al-Ezzi, deputy foreign minister in the Houthi-led government, said in a post on X.

“It is a rogue state that attacks Yemen and partners with America in sponsoring ongoing crimes against civilians in Gaza.”


This undated photo released Sunday shows the Belize-flagged vessel Rubymar sinking in the Red Sea



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Israeli strike scatters bodies after hitting Jabalia cemetery

The Israeli military, in the last hours, targeted a cemetery in the Jabalia refugee camp that was recently built by the residents of the repeatedly bombed area in northern Gaza. Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif confirmed that the cemetery was hit.

Videos and reports from the site indicate that human remains came out of the soil as a result of the explosion, and residents are trying to bury them again at another site.

The video below, posted by Palestinian journalist Momin Abu Owda – and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit, Sanad – shows the large crater left by the strike, and the shrouded bodies of the dead that were displaced by the explosion.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4D4eBmtuj7/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=31a5ca02-34bf-4359-8751-eb01c90f5129

Hamas: No date set for reaching truce agreement

A senior Hamas source has spoken to Al Jazeera on recent developments in ongoing negotiations to bring about a pause in the fighting in Gaza.

Here are a few key points he made:

  • We are working very seriously to reach an agreement to stop the aggression and intensify the entry of aid and relief.
  • We are working for the return of our people to the areas from which they were displaced, especially in the north, and for a complete withdrawal of the occupation.
  • The movement’s delegation is in Cairo to meet with the Egyptian and Qatari brothers and to present the movement’s vision. Whether or not the occupation delegation arrives in Cairo does not concern us.
  • We have not announced specific dates for reaching an agreement.
  • The occupation conducts field and negotiation battles with confusion and randomness.

 

Israeli soldiers hit in Gaza City: al-Quds Brigades

The armed wing of the Palestine Islamic Jihad says its fighters attacked a group of Israeli soldiers with mortar shells in the Zeitoun neighborhood.

Earlier, we reported that the armed group, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, shot dead an Israeli soldier near the Zeitoun area.

Gaza City resident documents life amid intense fighting

Video posted on Instagram by Palestinian man Hossam Azzam, who lives in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, shows what life is like amid the heavy clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters in the area.

The sounds of loud explosions and gunfire can be heard as Azzam sits in the stairwell of his apartment building. The video also shows him crawling through his apartment in an attempt to avoid sniper fire and stray bullets.

The fighting has been raging around him for the last 11 days, he said in his post, during which time he has not had access to food or water.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4DtJdotaYB/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=b3693d2f-b194-44f1-992c-9b4918259321



Risk of famine will increase in Gaza amid aid restrictions: Save the Children

The UK-based charity says families in Gaza are unable to find anything to feed their children. “They’re being forced to forage for scraps of food left by rats and eating leaves out of desperation,” the group said in a post on X.

“The risk of famine will increase so long as the government of Israel continues to impede the entry of aid.”

‘Child deaths we feared’ in Gaza are here: UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that many more children in Gaza will die of dehydration and malnutrition unless there is direct intervention to provide assistance.

“Now, the child deaths we feared are here and are likely to rapidly increase unless the war ends and obstacles to humanitarian relief are immediately resolved,” said Adele Khodr, UNICEF regional director for MENA, in a statement.

“The sense of helplessness and despair among parents and doctors in realising that lifesaving aid, just a few kilometres away, is being kept out of reach, must be as unbearable, but worse still are the anguished cries of those babies slowly perishing under the world’s gaze. The lives of thousands more babies and children depend on urgent action being taken now.”

At least 15 children have died in the past few days at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City, and the enclave’s health ministry has said it fears for the lives of six remaining children there.

Israel claims incubators delivered into Gaza

Israel has claimed 50 incubators, which are intended for use at hospitals in the northern and southern Gaza Strip, “have entered Gaza this morning”. Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said on X that the incubators are to be delivered to al-Shifa Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, the European Hospital, Nasser Hospital and “Aqsa Hospital”.

All are major hospitals that have been rendered totally or partially defunct by consistent Israeli air and ground attacks.

The COGAT statement comes hours after the Health Ministry in Gaza said at least 15 children have died of dehydration and malnutrition in the past few days at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in central Gaza City.



Months ago the problem already was that they had no power to run the incubators in al-Shifa. Now most of the other hospitals are also destroyed and don't have anyn more fuel to generate electricity. Even if they manage to get the incubators there, what's needed is clean water, baby formula, food, medication, blankets, fuel for electricity.

An estimated 180 mothers a day are giving birth in war-torn Gaza each day, according to UNICEF. "These women are unable to access the emergency obstetric services they need to give birth safely and care for their newborns,” Ammar said.Jan 26, 2024

Bringing a couple incubators to nearly destroyed hospitals is completely tone deaf. But it will look good on Fox News.



GCC calls for Palestinian state with 1967 borders

The member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have once more called for the establishment of a Palestinian state during their latest ministerial meeting in Riyadh. A statement carried by Qatar’s Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, who chaired the event, said the Arab member nations want to see an “independent State of Palestine on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital”.

They promised to continue pushing for a lasting peace that would include “the Palestinian people obtaining all their legitimate rights approved by international bodies”. Israel continues to oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state.


SvennoJ on 03 March 2024

Another one. It's routine, has been routine for over a month at least

‘Dozens’ of Palestinians killed in attack on Gaza City

Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, says via a statement that Israeli forces “committed a horrific massacre” in southern Gaza City, near the Kuwaiti roundabout on Salah al-Din Street.

The Ministry of Health says dozens of people have been killed and injured. It seems that the Israeli military is right now targeting people who are waiting desperately for food, for anything to survive.

No new humanitarian convoys can be allowed to get to the north without any prior coordination with the Israeli military. And at the same time, Israel’s full control over the ground means that they control what goes in and what comes out now.



Australians march in support of Palestinians in Gaza





IFRC chief calls for ‘powerful actions’ by all parties in Gaza war

Jagan Chapagain, the head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, has made the remarks in a statement on X.

“In Gaza, the needs are staggering and will only continue to increase if the hostilities persist. Civilians are facing an unprecedented level of indignity, misery, and suffering. They are in desperate need of food, water, shelter, and medical care, with no sense of safety,” he said.

Chapagain called on the parties to the conflict to protect civilians and healthcare workers and to scale up aid efforts to civilians in Gaza.

Death of children from malnutrition ‘unlawful’: Amnesty International chief

Agnes Callamard says the deaths of children succumbing to dehydration and malnutrition are the “result of acts by Israeli authorities which engineered famine”.

“They knew the likely outcome of their actions but persisted,” she said in a post on X, adding that countries which halted funding to United Nations aid agency UNRWA also “bear responsibility”.



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Max Blumenthal: Evils Of the IDF



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I don't think even Putin has been so delusional as to ask the UNSC for a resolution for Ukraine to surrender to Russia...

Israel says it wants UNSC resolution telling Hamas to surrender

As the United States continues to use its veto power to shield Israel at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Tel Aviv says it wants a resolution demanding the surrender of Hamas. Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy says in a video on X that “the only positive role” the council can play would be to pass a resolution that condemns the October 7 attack and tells the Palestinian group to lay down its arms immediately.

Levy also said Israel wants Palestinians to “hand over war criminals for a tribunal” and release all the captives held in Gaza.

Israel’s desired resolution includes no clauses on protecting civilians or facilitating humanitarian aid for besieged Palestinians.


Sorry Levy, any war tribunal would be hosting you first, as a defendant. Stop living in your fantasy land and wake up.

Palestinians have a recognized right under international law to resist Israeli occupation under Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions. This right is affirmed in the context of the right of self-determination of all peoples under foreign and colonial rule.

https://law4palestine.org/do-palestinians-have-the-right-to-resist-and-what-are-the-limits-short-article/

 

Hezbollah claims new attack on Israeli soldiers

The armed Lebanese group says it targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the area of Mount Nezer. It said, via a statement on its Telegram channel, that the attack was carried out at 7pm local time (17:00 GMT) and a direct hit was achieved.

Hezbollah has claimed five attacks on Israeli forces so far today, three of which it has said were conducted using missiles.

Israeli air strikes hit southern Lebanon: Report

Israeli warplanes have launched two raids on the north and center of the town of Aita al-Shaab in the south of the country, Lebanese news outlet National News Agency is reporting.

Hezbollah claims sixth attack on Israeli military today

Hezbollah says it struck an Israeli armoured unit in al-Malkiyya. The attack, which the armed Lebanese group said on its Telegram channel took place at 9:45pm (19:45 GMT), was carried out with artillery shells.

This marks the sixth attack on Israeli forces claimed by Hezbollah today. The Israeli military also used warplanes to launch multiple attacks on southern Lebanon on Sunday.



al-Malkiyya doesn't exist anymore: Al-Malikiyya was a Palestinian village located in the Jabal Amil region. In a 1920s census, the village was registered as part of Greater Lebanon. It was later placed under the British Mandate of Palestine. Its population was mostly Metawali Shiite. Now a fenced in military area.

https://www.palestineremembered.com/Safad/al-Malikiyya/index.html



Israel is fighting among themselves as well

Gantz’s planned US trip angers Netanyahu: Report

The Israeli minister’s trip came as a surprise to the prime minister, reports US newspaper The Wall Street Journal. Netanyahu was informed only after the agenda for the trip was set, it said. Earlier, we reported that Gantz will travel to the US in the coming days to meet with US officials, including Secretary of State Blinken, National Security adviser Jake Sullivan and Republican and Democratic members of Congress.

Gantz is also due to meet Vice President Kamala Harris and, according to US broadcaster ABC, the two are expected to discuss a plan for the post-war leadership of Gaza and how the devastated territory will be rebuilt.

Israel’s Ben-Gvir tries to stop release of administrative detainees

Itamar Ben-Gvir, perhaps the most hardline minister in the most far-right government in Israel’s history, was trying to stop the release of more Palestinians held as administrative detainees on Sunday. The national security minister wrote to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to renew his protest of the releases – which the Israeli government has said are to free up space in prisons.

“Since it is a decision of the head of the Shin Bet [Israel’s security agency] only, it is appropriate to demand that he stop conducting an independent policy and act on initiatives of his own accord,” he is quoted as saying by Israeli news site Ynet.

After the first administrative detainees were released on Friday, Ben-Gvir had called it a “Ramadan gesture to murderers”.



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‘Enough please!’: Pope Francis calls for an end to Gaza conflict

Pope Francis has appealed for an end to the conflict in Gaza, urging the world to say: “Enough please! Stop.”

Addressing believers in St Pete’s Square in Vatican City, the pope expressed concern over the consequences of the conflict on children and asked for the release of all the captives taken during Hamas’s raid on October 7.

“Each day, I carry in my heart with pain the suffering of the populations in Palestine and Israel due to the ongoing hostilities, thousands of dead, injured, displaced,” Francis said.

“Do you really think you can build a better world in this way? Do you really think you will achieve peace? Enough please! Let us all say enough please! Stop!"


A boy waits for customers in front of a building destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on Sunday.


Palestinians walk amid the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on Sunday


Before October last year, more than 750,000 people lived in Gaza City, in the north of the Gaza Strip


A Palestinian child walks amid the rubble of a house destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on Sunday


Since October, Gaza City, has faced bombardment and has been cut off from almost all sources of food, with many resorting to eating animal feed and reports of deaths from malnutrition


Timeline of Israeli attacks on aid convoys, aid seekers

Israeli forces have reportedly again fired on aid convoys on Sunday in Gaza City and Deir el-Balah.

Here is a list of some of the recent Israeli attacks on aid seekers and convoys:

March 3: At least nine people were killed in an Israeli strike on an aid distribution truck in Deir el-Balah, the Wafa news agency reports.

Gaza’s Ministry of Health said there are dozens of casualties in a “horrific massacre” of aid-seekers near the Kuwaiti roundabout in Gaza City.

February 29: At least 112 Palestinians were killed and hundreds wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on people waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City.

February 26: Ten people were reportedly killed when Israeli forces shelled and fired on a crowd waiting for food aid trucks in Gaza City.

February 19: Israeli forces open fire at crowds looking to receive aid in Gaza City. The attack sent people fleeing and killed at least one person.

February 6 and 10: Eight people were reportedly killed in two separate Israeli attacks on police escorting aid convoys in Rafah.

Israeli air strike on home in Rafah kills 7: Wafa

An Israeli air strike on a home in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza, has killed seven people, including women and children, the Wafa news agency reports. More people were injured and others remain missing following the strike on a home in the Khirbet Al-Adas area in the north of Rafah.

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SvennoJ on 03 March 2024

US vice president calls for ‘immediate’ six-week ceasefire

“What we are seeing every day in Gaza is a tragedy,” Kamala Harris said during a speech in Selma, Alabama.

“There must be an immediate ceasefire”, she said, adding that it should be for six weeks, stopping short of the scores of world governmental and humanitarian leaders, including of the UK, one of the US’s closest allies, who have called for a permanent end to the war in Gaza.

“We saw hungry desperate people approach aid trucks, simply trying to secure food for their families, after weeks of nearly no aid reaching northern Gaza,” she said, referring to an incident in Gaza City on Thursday that saw Israeli troops kill more than 100 starving Palestinians in Gaza City. “And they were met with gunfire and chaos,” she continued, without naming Israel as the perpetrator of that massacre.

Despite her criticism of Israel, Harris was also very vocal about her support for the country. “President Joe Biden and I are unwavering in our commitment to Israel’s security,” she continued, adding that Hamas must be destroyed.

‘No excuses’: Harris rebukes Israel over Gaza aid

Harris called out Israel for not doing enough to ease the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza. “People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane and our common humanity compels us to act,” Harris said. “The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid. No excuses.”

She laid out specific ways Israel can allow more aid into Gaza.

“They must open new border crossings. They must not impose any unnecessary restrictions on the delivery of aid. They must ensure humanitarian personnel, sites and convoys are not targeted, and they must work to restore basic services and promote order in Gaza, so more food, water and fuel can reach those in need.”


US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Edmund Pettus Bridge during an event to commemorate the 59th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Selma, Alabama, on March 3, 2024

CNN's version https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/03/politics/kamala-harris-gaza-ceasefire/index.html

Negotiations for a ceasefire stall amid Israeli boycott

Negotiations around ceasefire talks have stalled. Israeli officials speaking anonymously to Israeli media have said Israel decided against sending a delegation to Cairo. That’s because Hamas did not release a list of names of all of the captives who are still alive.

This is something that came at the request of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

However, Hamas has said they are not willing to give up that kind of information until there is a finalised deal. And that remains elusive. Hamas says their position remains the same. They are looking for a permanent ceasefire and an end to the war.

The Israelis say even if there is a six week pause, they are going to continue their military activities. Just on Sunday, Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said under no circumstances will the war end until there is total defeat of Hamas.

Israeli forces blow up home of deceased Palestinian in Nablus

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues are reporting that Israeli forces have stormed the city of Nablus and demolished the apartment of Moaz Al-Masry, a Palestinian man killed by the Israeli military last May.

Palestinian groups fired bullets at Israeli forces in the vicinity of the home in the Al-Makhfiya neighbourhood of the city in the occupied West Bank.

Elsewhere, the Israeli military fired bullets and tear gas as they raided the city of Tulkarem, the Wafa news agency reports. Israeli military vehicles also stormed the nearby Nour Shams camp, where clashes broke out and an Israeli bulldozer was blown up.

Raids and arrests have been reported elsewhere in the occupied West Bank in the following locations:

  • Israeli forces detained two men from the town of Ya’bad and stormed the villages of Al-Jalama, Deir Ghazala, Arana, Arbouna, Faqoua, and Jalboun in the Jenin Governorate.
  • Israeli forces attacked eight men and arrested one of them in the Old City of Hebron.

Translation: Israeli occupation forces blow up the house of the martyr Moaz Al-Masry in the Al-Makhfiya neighbourhood in Nablus

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SvennoJ on 03 March 2024

Something is up

Senior members of Israeli military’s Spokesperson’s Unit resign: Report

Senior members of the Israeli military’s Spokesperson’s Unit have resigned, including high-ranking spokesperson Daniel Hagari, according to Israel’s Channel 14. Also among the resignations are Richard Hecht, the international spokesperson for the Israeli military.

It has not been announced how many officials have left the unit, formerly led by Hagari, but Channel 14 described the large number of resignations at once during wartime as “unusual”.

Hagari is the one doing the daily reports on Israeli news and defending IDF's actions

Mass resignations among senior IOF Spox Unit officials: Israeli media

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/mass-resignations-among-senior-iof-spox-unit-officials--isra

The Israeli Channel 14 reported that senior officials in the Israeli occupation military Spokesperson's Unit have submitted their resignations, including the second man in the team of military spokesperson Daniel Hagari. Channel 14 noted that many officials in Hagari's team have resigned and suggested that the resignations reflect a state of disturbance within the Unit, stemming from the Israeli officers' protests regarding operational and personal matters.

According to the Israeli channel, among the resignees are the second man in Hagari's team Colonel Butbul, Colonel Moran Katz, and the International Spokesperson for the Israeli occupation military Lieutenant Richard Hecht.



RETRACTION

04/03/2024: The text in this update originally cited an Israeli report as saying that senior members of the Israeli military’s Spokesperson’s Unit, including high-ranking spokesperson Daniel Hagari, had resigned. That was incorrect and the Israeli army has since denied it as “false”. We have therefore retracted it.


Looks like they didn't resign




Could the fallout between Natanyahu and Gantz have anything to do with it

Netanyahu had ‘tough talk’ with Gantz over US trip: Report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rebuked Benny Gantz over the rival politician’s trip to Washington, DC on Monday, according to The Associated Press news agency. The visit by Gantz, who joined Netanyahu’s wartime Cabinet following Hamas’s October 7 attack, comes as frictions between the US and Netanyahu rise over Israel’s war on Gaza.

An official from Netanyahu’s far-right Likud party told the AP that Gantz’s trip was planned without authorisation from the Israeli leader. The official, who spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity, said Netanyahu had a “tough talk” with Gantz and told him the country has “just one prime minister”.





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hellobion2 on 03 March 2024

My question is do you guys think there will be a cease fire in March?



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