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May 26, 2024 Blog, News
According to UNRWA, there is no safe place in Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank celebrated Abu Obeida’s announcement of the capturing of Israeli soldiers at the hands of the Resistance in Gaza. 

According to informed sources,  the Israeli government will not agree to a ceasefire despite senior officials in the security apparatus expressing their willingness to stop the war. 

A Palestinian woman was killed and others were injured in an Israeli artillery shelling on the town of Abasan, east of the city of Khan Yunis, as UNRWA reiterated that there is no safe place in Gaza.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 35,984 Palestinians have been killed, and 80,643 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Monday, May 27, 01:00 am (GMT +2)

HAMAS (Translated):

We call on the masses of our people in the West Bank, Jerusalem, the occupied interior (Palestine ’48) and abroad to rise up and go out with angry marches against the ongoing Zionist massacre against our people in the Gaza Strip.

We also call on the peoples of our Arab and Islamic nation and free peoples around the world to intensify the movement and activities condemning the war of genocide, and to pressure to sever relations with this rogue entity that continues to disregard the international community and UN resolutions, especially the recent decision of the International Court of Justice that demanded that it stop its aggression and invasion of Rafah.

Rafah Massacre – Israel Targets Camp for Displaced Palestinians

Monday, May 27, 12:30 am (GMT +2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The death toll resulting from the Rafah massacre has risen to 35, including children and women, while relief crews in Gaza believed that it would rise as a result of the absence of medical capabilities to provide treatment for severe burns.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: Many of the victims of the Rafah massacre were women and children.

KAN: The Israeli army confirmed launching an attack targeting Tal al-Sultan in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

RAFAH RED CROSS: We are dealing with an influx of wounded people with severe burns.

ISLAMIC JIHAD: The Rafah massacre confirms the depth of the military failure suffered by Israel.

GAZA MEDIA OFFICE: The Rafah massacre coincided with the region’s hospitals being out of service.

HAMAS: The occupation ignored the international justice’s decision to commit the Rafah massacre.

AL-JAZEERA: The ambulance was unable to transport the charred bodies after the bombing of the tents of the displaced in Rafah.

RAFAH EMERGENCY COMMITTEE: The massacre undermines all the occupation’s claims to the existence of safe areas.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The occupation committed a massacre in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, by bombing the tents of displaced people in areas it claimed were safe and asked the displaced to take refuge there.

Sunday, May 26, 10:30 pm (GMT +2)

YAIR LAPID: The gap between reality and Netanyahu’s statements is greater than ever.

AL-JAZEERA: Two missiles were launched from southern Lebanon towards an Israeli site.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The Israeli army aircraft bombed a camp for displaced people northwest of Rafah with more than 8 missiles, killing at least 27 people.

WASHINGTON POST (citing American official): Washington is considering imposing sanctions on Israelis who attacked aid to Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Eight Palestinians were killed and others were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing of displaced persons’ tents near the warehouses of UNRWA, southeast of Rafah.

Sunday, May 26, 9:30 pm (GMT +2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Several Palestinians were killed and wounded as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted the vicinity of an area housing displaced people northwest of the city of Rafah, while raids continued west of the city.

SAUDI FM: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan stressed the importance of supporting the Palestinian government and removing obstacles to it.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: We continue to work to return 125 detainees.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the Khirbet Maar base, its artillery positions, and Israeli army soldiers in its vicinity in northern Israel with dozens of Katyusha rockets.

KAN: The security system believes that it is possible to deal with Hamas’ request for a ceasefire within a possible exchange deal.

Game Over? – How the Capturing of Israeli Soldiers in Jabaliya Could Change the Rules of the Game in Gaza

Sunday, May 26, 8:30 pm (GMT +2)

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army acknowledged the killing of a soldier from the Rotem Battalion in the Givati ​​Brigade during the battles taking place in the northern Gaza Strip today, after it said hours ago that a soldier died from his injury in the Gaza battles a week ago.

CHANNEL 12: A fire broke out in the town of Dishon in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, as a result of a missile strike from Hezbollah.

KAN: Demonstrators protest in front of the Israeli Ministry of Defense to demand a deal.

GALLANT: The army was close to an agreement on the conscription law, but each political party’s adherence to its position hindered the talks.

Sunday, May 26, 7:30 pm (GMT +2)

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the Yiftah, Ramim, and Habushite barracks in northern Israel with dozens of Katyusha rockets and artillery shells.

AL-QASSAM: We targeted a Merkava tank in the vicinity of the Caliphs Mosque in the JabaliYa Camp in the northern Gaza Strip, and an Israeli troop carrier and a D-9 military bulldozer with two Al-Yassin shells in the Jabalia Camp as well.

AL-JAZEERA: More than 60 missiles were launched from southern Lebanon towards Israel.

Sunday, May 26, 6:30 pm (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: Al Jazeera’s correspondent confirmed the launching of missiles from southern Lebanon towards Israeli positions in the occupied Golan

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: Israeli Army Radio announced that the reservist who appeared in the mutiny video was released under restrictive conditions after the end of the police investigation against him. The soldier appeared masked in a video clip that circulated on social media platforms, in which he said that he was in the Gaza Strip and threatened a large-scale military rebellion if Defense Minister Yoav Gallant decided to enter the Palestinian Authority into Gaza, or withdraw from the Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: We detected the launching of 15 rockets from southern Lebanon.

AXIOS: Washington rejected an Israeli request to boycott a meeting organized by Norway to strengthen the Palestinian Authority.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army acknowledged the death of a soldier from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion as a result of wounds he sustained last week in the battles in the Gaza Strip.

Sunday, May 26, 6:00 pm (GMT +2)

KAN: The head of the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad), David Barnea, will present to the War Council this evening a summary of his talks in Paris regarding the release of detainees.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: In conjunction with the Al-Qassam Brigades, we bombed the occupation soldiers in the Al-Taqaddum axis, north of the Jabalia camp, with a barrage of mortar shells.

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the Israeli site of Zabdin in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms, and also targeted buildings used by Israeli army soldiers in the areas of Avivim, Margaliot and Sinir.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The specter of famine threatens the northern Gaza Strip, and the food security crisis is worsening in the center and south of the Gaza Strip. The amount of aid that came through the sea pier did not exceed 100 trucks.

EGYPTIAN FM: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry renewed his country’s refusal to use Israel’s persistence in controlling all crossings of the Gaza Strip as a tool to tighten the siege and starve the Palestinian people in Gaza, and create a reality uninhabited by life in the Strip.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We targeted soldiers who were barricading themselves in a house in Jabalia.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli drones raided the towns of Yaroun and Houla in southern Lebanon.

Sunday, May 26, 5:00 pm (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: At least 12 Palestinians were killed and about 20 others were injured after a house was targeted in the Jabalia al-Nazla area, north of the Gaza Strip.

JOSEP BORRELL: We need a strong Palestinian authority for the peace process to be possible.

AL-JAZEERA: The Knesset approves a bill declaring UNRWA a “terrorist” organization.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We confronted occupation vehicles and soldiers on the advance lines in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, where fierce clashes have continued for more than two weeks.

CNN (citing Israeli official): <the war council will meet this evening to discuss negotiations on the exchange deal and a ceasefire, after reports of new efforts to revive the negotiations were denied by Hamas.

Sunday, May 26, 4:00 pm (GMT +2)

SMOTRICH: It is unacceptable to launch rockets towards the Gaza envelope.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: bombed the Gaza Strip settlements with a missile attack, and confirmed that they bombed the Israeli Ofikim military base in the Naqab region.

SPAIN: International Court of Justice decisions are mandatory and must be implemented.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the settlements of Kfar Azza, Kfar Saad, and Shufa, in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip.

Sunday, May 26, 3:00 pm (GMT +2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed Tel Aviv with a large missile barrage.

LAPID: With Netanyahu, we will not win the war, and he must leave.

Sunday, May 26, 2:00 pm (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli drones had recently opened fire on Palestinians at the Abu Sharkh roundabout in Al-Faluja, west of the Jabalia refugee camp.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted five tanks, two bulldozers, and a troop carrier in Jabaliya camp.

CBS (citing Biden administration official): Communications are ongoing, and we are working closely with Egyptian and Qatari mediators.

MOSHE YALON: The Israeli government is ready to sacrifice the kidnapped people.

ISRAEL HAYOM (citing security officials): Israeli officials expect negotiations to resume within days.

Sunday, May 26, 1:20 pm (GMT +2)

ISRAEL HAYOM: The fighting in Rafah and the northern Gaza Strip will continue during the negotiations until the deal is signed. The talks are expected to resume in the coming days, most likely in Qatar.

HEZBOLLAH: Confirmed losses in an attack on the Israeli site Jal al-Alam

ISRAELI SETTLEMENT MINISTER: Israel does not need to comply with Hague orders. The International Court of Justice is an anti-Semitic theater.

WFP: Famine in northern Gaza continues.

SMOTRICH: It is wrong to send the negotiating delegation again.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 35,984 Palestinians have been killed, and 80,643 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two Palestinians were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the center of Rafah.

HEZBOLLAH: Our forces targeted the technical systems at the Al-Abad site with appropriate weapons and achieved a direct hit, leading to their destruction.

LEBANESE CIVIL DEFENSE: A person was killed in the targeting of an Israeli motorcycle rally in the town of Naqoura.

Sunday, May 26, 12:00 pm (GMT +2)

UNRWA: There is no safe place in Gaza and we need an immediate ceasefire.

LAPID: What matters to Netanyahu and those close to him is political survival.

KARIM KHAN: No one has a license to commit war crimes or crimes against humanity.

Sunday, May 26, 11:00 am (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: A Palestinian woman was killed and others were injured in an Israeli artillery shelling on the town of Abasan, east of the city of Khan Yunis.

GANTZ: I presented a draft resolution to form an official investigation committee into the events of October 7.

Sunday, May 26, 10:00 am (GMT +2)

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: The son of former Israeli Housing Minister Avi Eitam was injured in the Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed the occupation forces penetrating the Al-Qasasib neighborhood.

Sunday, May 26, 09:00 am (GMT +2)

CHANNEL 12: The goal of the new talks is to lay the foundations for an offer to conclude a prisoner deal and a continued truce.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted a Merkava tank in the Beit Lahia project.

CHANNEL 12: Two anti-tank missiles were fired at the Margaliot settlement near the border with Lebanon without activating the sirens.

KAN (citing senior officials): Senior officials in the security apparatus express their willingness to stop the war. However, they confirm that the Israeli government will not agree to stop the war.

Sunday, May 26, 08:00 am (GMT +2)

ISRAELI MK RAM BEN BARAK: Perhaps Israel will have to stop the war in order to return the detainees, and that is what must be done.

Sunday, May 26, 06:00 am (GMT +2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli artillery shelling targeted the Yabna refugee camp in the center of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

ANSARALLAH: The Al-Qassam Brigades operation in Jabaliya was heroic and raised the nation’s head. It is a legitimate right in response to the occupation’s massacres.

Sunday, May 26, 03:00 am (GMT +2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A series of violent raids and fire belts targeting the center and east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Sunday, May 26, o1:35 am (GMT +2)

ISRAELI ARMY: No soldiers had been kidnapped inside the Gaza Strip. (The Israeli army statement was made despite of newly released footage by Al-Qassam Brigades showing captured Israeli soldier and weapons in an underground tunnel in Gaza.)

Sunday, May 26, o1:15 am (GMT +2)

Abu Obeida, the military spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, announced that Israeli soldiers were captured, killed and wounded during a Resistance operation on Saturday afternoon in the northern Gaza Strip.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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