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Israeli forces are besieging hundreds of Palestinians in their homes and inside shelter centers east of Jabaliya camp, amid continuous artillery shelling.
At least 11 people were killed and numerous others wounded in the Israeli bombing of a house and an UNRWA school in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades and Al-Quds Brigades carried out several successful operations targeting invading Israeli forces.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 35,173 Palestinians have been killed, and 79,061 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
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Wednesday, May 15, 01:00 am (GMT +2)
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli occupation army announced that its warplanes intercepted two drones coming from the east towards Israel, indicating that the Air Force shot down the two drones before they entered Israeli airspace.
WALL STREET JOURNAL: The administration of US President Joe Biden informed Congress that it would provide weapons worth one billion dollars to Israel.
SENIOR ISRAELI OFFICER (to Haaretz): The majority of our soldiers see the Jabaliya operation as absurd.
WHITE HOUSE: US President Joe Biden would veto a bill on Israel security assistance in Congress if it passes.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli artillery shelling continues on the northern areas of the Central Governorate of the Gaza Strip.
AL-JAZEERA: Four Palestinians were martyred and 9 others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a residential apartment for the Abu Zaher family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.
‘Stop Using Hunger as a Weapon’ – Three Elderly Men from Gaza
Wednesday, May 15, 12:00 am (GMT +2)
GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: A mother and her child were killed in a raid on a residential apartment in Gaza City.
UN RAPPORTEUR ON RIGHT TO HEALTH: Israel does not abide by international humanitarian law.
CHANNEL 14: The Jabaliya Battalion in Al-Qassam restored its military capabilities after our first withdrawal, and now there is an entire battalion fighting us.
POLITICO (citing US officials): We agree that Israel is unlikely to achieve complete victory in Gaza. The current Israeli operations in Gaza are breathing life into the Hamas movement.
In this video, Al-Qassam fighters are seen targeting Israeli soldiers and vehicles east of Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Translation Notes:
0:13 – Camera 1
0:32 – Camera 2
0:45 – "Say 'O Lord.'"
0:51 – "Come on, go. Say 'O Lord.'"
0:54 – "O Lord. Allah is the… pic.twitter.com/8YEt0UgHWl— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 14, 2024
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: he agreement between the government and the hotels in which settlers evacuated from the Gaza Strip and the north were staying was extended until the end of the year.
Tuesday, May 14, 11:00 pm (GMT +2)
AL-JAZEERA: Demonstrators in support of the release of Israeli prisoners set fire to the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We are attacking the Zionist forces penetrating the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City with mortar shells.
AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted a car in the city of Tyre, southern Lebanon.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: An Israeli raid targeted a car in the city of Tyre, southern Lebanon.
In this just-released video, Al-Qassam Brigades fighters are seen targeting Israeli soldiers and vehicles on the combat axes east of the city of Rafah.
Translation notes:
0:12 – Executing a complex operation against enemy soldiers and vehicles.
0:19 – The first Shuath… pic.twitter.com/rpA1Nf9gH5— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 14, 2024
JOSEP BORRELL: Israel must stop settler attacks and hold those responsible accountable.
PENTAGON: In the coming days, we will begin delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza via the waterway.
CHANNEL 12: The UN Security Council will hold a session on Thursday about prisoners held by the resistance.
Tuesday, May 14, 9:45 pm (GMT +2)
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: Gaza’s health system is being dismantled, leading to dire consequences for those trapped in the Strip.
AL-QASSAM BIRGADES: We were able to capture a Zionist drone that was carrying out an intelligence mission west of the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
WHITE HOUSE: We will continue to monitor the situation in Rafah closely. Israel told us that it was carrying out limited attacks in Rafah, and we made clear our concerns about a major operation.
‘Free Palestine’ – Students at Columbia Rip Up Diplomas in Solidarity with Gaza (VIDEOS)
Tuesday, May 14, 9:00 pm (GMT +2)
US DEPARTMENT OF STATE: The Gaza Strip cannot return to the administration of Hamas, nor can it become a launching pad for attacks against Israel.
CHANNEL 12: Egypt and Israel exchanged accusations about responsibility for closing the Rafah crossing and causing a humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip.
HAARETZ (Citing Israeli officer): Haaretz newspaper reported that Israeli soldiers are frustrated by the resistance’s missile barrages and by their return to Jabaliya.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted a special Zionist force holed up in a house on Jabalia Camp Schools Street with a combined operation, leaving them dead and wounded. As soon as a Zionist force advanced to retrieve the dead and wounded, we targeted a Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell and blew up another.
‘Directly Hit’ – Hezbollah Downs Israeli Spy Balloon, Targets Soldiers
AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli was killed and 5 soldiers were injured by Hezbollah bombing.
KAN: The American floating port – which was supposed to be placed off the coast of the Gaza Strip – is still present in the Israeli port of Ashdod.
Tuesday, May 14, 8:00 pm (GMT +2)
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed a position of enemy soldiers and vehicles in the Netzarim axis with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
UNICEF: About half a million people were displaced from Rafah.
EGYPTIAN FM: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said that his country rejects Israel’s policy of distorting the facts, pointing out that Israel is responsible and causing the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli occupation army announced that 28 soldiers were injured in the battles taking place in the Gaza Strip during the past hours, some of them seriously injured. 95 soldiers were injured since the end of last week.
Tuesday, May 14, 7:00 pm (GMT +2)
TOP HAMAS OFFICIAL: The prisoners will not see the light until the occupation adheres to our conditions.
ISRAELI MEDIA: 13 soldiers were injured, some seriously, in battles in the Gaza Strip today.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: Israel bombed eight convoys and sites of humanitarian organizations.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We took control of an occupation army drone after we shot it down in the sky east of Khan Yunis.
ISRAELI ARMY: FOUR soldiers were seriously injured in Gaza’s battles today.
Tuesday, May 14, 6:00 pm (GMT +2)
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER: Biden is complicit in the devastating famine in Gaza. About 19 internal memoranda at USAID criticized American support for the war on Gaza.
REUTERS (citing Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz):
Egypt, not Israel, should reopen the Rafah crossing to bring aid into the Gaza Strip.
The task of averting a humanitarian crisis in Gaza now falls to our Egyptian friends.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES:
We bombed the enemy crowds east of the city of Jabaliya with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
We bombed enemy forces stationed inside the Rafah crossing with mortar shells.
'Take the one in the back, I will take the one in the middle' a Palestinian fighter is heard telling another before they aim and shoot the Yassin 105 shells towards Israeli tanks advancing somewhere in northern Gaza.
This was only one of many such scenes, likely the highest… pic.twitter.com/gA8yqGkLBe
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 14, 2024
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Our fighters bombed “with a barrage of heavy mortar shells enemy soldiers and vehicles penetrating the vicinity of Ibn Tayma Mosque in the Brazil neighborhood, east of Rafah.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted a Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell northeast of the city of Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the 801st Brigade’s headquarters in the Maale Golani Barracks with missile weapons.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted a D-9 military bulldozer with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell in the vicinity of Haroun Mosque, east of Rafah, “and it caught fire.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We carried out a complex operation by targeting a Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell, killing and wounding its crew, and then eliminating seven soldiers who were behind the targeted vehicle from zero distance east of the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Tuesday, May 14, 5:00 pm (GMT +2)
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli army helicopters were landing amidst the firing of smoke bombs east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. This city witnessed clashes between the resistance and the occupation forces.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES:
We bombed an artillery position northeast of the Gaza Strip with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
We sniped a Zionist soldier in the advance axis east of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, and achieved a direct hit.
AL-JAZEERA: The death toll resulting from the Israeli occupation bombing of a house and a school in the Nuseirat camp on Monday evening has risen to 40.
AL-JAZEERA: The death toll resulting from the Israeli occupation bombing of a house and a school in the Nuseirat camp on Monday evening has risen to 40.
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 14, 2024
NORWAY: We are seriously considering recognizing Palestine as a fully sovereign state.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed, with a barrage of 60-caliber regular mortar shells, military concentrations in the vicinity of Mazaya in Jabalia Camp.
CNN (citing Biden Administration officials): We are not sure that Netanyahu will make a final decision to invade Rafah.
MEDIA REPORTS: 27 students were arrested at the University of Athens who demonstrated in solidarity with Palestine.
AL-JAZEERA: The occupation blows up a residential square in Rafah.
ISRAEL HAYOM: A fire broke out in the Galilee region after missiles fell from Lebanon.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Our mujahideen engaged in fierce clashes with machine guns and Tandem shells with a special unit of the occupation army that barricaded themselves inside a residential apartment east of Jabaliya, and we left them dead and wounded.
Tuesday, May 14, 4:00 pm (GMT +2)
GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The occupation destroyed more than 75% of the homes.
HEZBOLLAH: An Israeli military observation balloon was shot down inside Lebanese territory by missiles fired by Hezbollah.
HEZBOLLAH: An Israeli military observation balloon was shot down inside Lebanese territory by missiles fired by Hezbollah.
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 14, 2024
ISRAELI ARMY: The rockets towards Sderot were launched from northern Gaza.
TURKISH FM: Israel’s killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians is genocide.
Tuesday, May 14, 3:00 pm (GMT +2)
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We are fighting fierce battles in Jabaliya with the participation of the other factions.
TZIPI LIVNI: The Israeli army is now stumbling into Gaza needlessly and at a high price because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no plan.
ISRAEL HAYOM: A fire broke out in a warehouse inside the Tel Hashomer base, north of Tel Aviv, and indicated that civil defense crews were working to extinguish it.
ISRAELI MEDIA: A helicopter landed at Beilinson Hospital carrying a dead person and seriously injured people following battles in the Gaza Strip.
NYT (citing Israeli officials): Generals and members of the war council are frustrated with Netanyahu.
UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM: The University of Amsterdam announced on Tuesday – that its campus will be closed for two days, as pro-Palestine demonstrations continue in some Dutch universities.
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Sderot and its environs in the Gaza Strip
Tuesday, May 14, 2:00 pm (GMT +2)
ISRAELI ARMY: 22 soldiers were injured during the past 24 hours, including 15 who were injured in the Gaza battles.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Two buildings in Metulla, Upper Galilee, were hit by missiles from Lebanon.
AL-JAZEERA: One Palestinian was killed and another was wounded in an Israeli bombing near the Salah al-Din Gate on the Palestinian-Egyptian border, south of Rafah.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We blew up Ein Nafaq with Israeli engineering force, east of Rafah.
As the Palestinian Resistance continued to reclaim control over most of northern Gaza, the Israeli military is being forced to fight on several fronts.
News reports coming from Gaza indicate that fighting is taking place in Jabaliya and Zaytoun, in the north, and Rafah in the… pic.twitter.com/Rl91O4TFdZ
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 14, 2024
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Admit, Arab Al-Aramsha, and several towns in the Upper Galilee near the Lebanese border.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted two Israeli Merkava tanks with “Al-Yassin 105” shells in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The number of victims of an Israeli bombing of a house and a school in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip has risen to 20.
Tuesday, May 14, 1:00 pm (GMT +2)
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: : We bombed crowds and occupation vehicles in the vicinity of the Rafah crossing.
ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: A number of soldiers were injured during clashes in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israel continued its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip for the 221st day, committing massacres in Nuseirat and intensifying bombings in Jabaliya, in the north, and Rafah in the south.https://t.co/TzqfgMZiZA pic.twitter.com/Toqydy7KnH
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 14, 2024
AL-JAZEERA: Scores of Israeli demonstrators closed a road in the Upper Galilee near the Lebanese border, in protest against what they described as the government’s neglect of them.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We blew up a house with explosives with Israeli force.
Tuesday, May 14, 12:30 pm (GMT +2)
NORWEGIAN FM: Norway warns Israel against proceeding with a military operation in Rafah.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed Asqalan (Ashkelon) with a missile barrage.
Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah affirmed on Monday that the Lebanese front continues, in various forms and methods, its operations in support of the Resistance in the Gaza Strip and imposes its own rules of engagement.
In a speech… pic.twitter.com/uZuCb6NoZw
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 14, 2024
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a number of homes on Al-Ternis Street in the Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip.
Tuesday, May 14, 12:00 pm (GMT +2)
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a number of homes on Al-Ternis Street in the Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip.
GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: The occupation continues to kill our crews and bomb and destroy our vehicles.
AL-AQSA TV: Israeli occupation forces are besieging hundreds of citizens in their homes and inside shelter centers east of Jabaliya camp, amid continuous artillery shelling.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a number of homes on Al-Ternis Street in the Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip.
GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: The occupation continues to kill our crews and bomb and destroy our vehicles.
AL-AQSA TV: Israeli occupation forces are… pic.twitter.com/TtCHnKul3c
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 14, 2024
KAN: Israeli protesters blocked a road in the Upper Galilee, in protest against the collapse of security and the absence of a government plan for the north.
Tuesday, May 14, 11:00 am (GMT +2)
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli media reported that a helicopter belonging to Military Rescue Unit No. 669 landed at a hospital in occupied Jerusalem to transport soldiers injured during the battles in the Gaza Strip.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted a Merkava tank near the Rafah crossing.
AL-JAZEERA: The death toll resulting from the Israeli bombing of a house and an UNRWA school in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip has risen to 11.
‘We Love Hanan and Hate War’ – Gaza’s Promising Female Footballer Killed with Family
QATARI PM: The exchange deal negotiations are now in a state of stagnation.
Tuesday, May 14, 10:00 am (GMT +2)
UNRWA: About 450 thousand people were forcibly displaced from Rafah.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES:
We targeted a Zionist troop carrier and tank with two Shawaz explosive devices in the Al-Salam neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
We destroyed the enemy forces present inside the Rafah land crossing in the southern Gaza Strip with mortar shells.
In this just-released video, Al-Quds Brigades fighters are seen sniping an Israeli soldier from the engineering unit east of Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/ug3wblXi1t
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 14, 2024
GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: : There are no hospitals operating in the northern Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI OPPOSITION LEADER: “Independence will not be complete unless the government announces that the residents of the north will return to their homes next September.”
AL-JAZEERA: A violent Israeli artillery shelling targeted the vicinity of the Zaytoun Martyrs School in the middle of the Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, leaving a number of injured.
Tuesday, May 14, 09:00 am (GMT +2)
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 35,173 Palestinians have been killed, and 79,061 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
AL-AQSA TV: Israeli occupation forces are destroying water wells and sewage networks in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 35,173 Palestinians have been killed, and 79,061 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 14, 2024
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Ashkelon and towns around the Gaza Strip, after the Palestinian resistance launched a new missile salvo from the Gaza Strip.
Tuesday, May 14, 85:00 am (GMT +2)
UNRWA: Rafah has now turned into a ghost town.
HRW: There is nowhere safe to go in Gaza and international action is needed to prevent further atrocities.
Tuesday, May 14, 75:00 am (GMT +2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A girl was killed and others injured as a result of the targeting of a house opposite Al-Faluja School in Jabalia Camp, northern Gaza Strip
Tuesday, May 14, 65:00 am (GMT +2)
AL-JAZEERA: Violent Israeli artillery shelling and heavy gunfire in the center and east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation forces launched artillery and air strikes on the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, and the Jabaliya camp, north of the Strip.
Tuesday, May 14, 05:00 am (GMT +2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A number of bodies were recovered as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a school housing displaced persons in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Tuesday, May 14, 04:00 am (GMT +2)
CNN (citing US officials): Israel mobilized for a large operation in Rafah. Israel did not make adequate preparations for civilians in Rafah.
Tuesday, May 14, 02:00 am (GMT +2)
ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We attacked a vital target in Eilat.
TIMES OF ISRAEL (Citing US official): The process of marginalizing Hamas will take years. Hamas will remain in Gaza in some form after the war ends.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces launched an air strike on the eastern area of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Tuesday, May 14, 02:00 am (GMT +2)
GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: Our crews cannot reach the wounded as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombing in Nuseirat.
GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: Our crews cannot reach the wounded as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombing in Nuseirat.
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 14, 2024
Tuesday, May 14, 01:00 am (GMT +2)
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces launched two raids on the town of Khiam in southern Lebanon.
ISRAELI ARMY: the Air Force intercepted a drone launched towards Israel from the east.
POLITICO (citing US Deputy Secretary of State): We do not believe that Israel’s current strategy against Hamas will lead to complete victory. Many countries would like to see a political solution in which the rights of Palestinians are more respected.
Tuesday, May 14, 12:00 am (GMT +2)
CNN (quoting US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell): We are wrestling with Israel over what constitutes victory in Gaza. We do not believe that the complete victory that Israel seeks is likely or possible.
(The Palestine Chronicle)