GAZA LIVE BLOG: Resistance Hits Tel Aviv | Ben-Gvir Storms Al-Aqsa | Blinken to Cancel Visit – Day 312

August 13, 2024 Blog, News
Israel continues to carry out massacres against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.(Photo: via WAFA)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said, during a phone call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, that Iran considers responding to aggressors as its right under international law.

Israeli shelling targeted the Qastal Towers east of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, leaving four dead, including two children.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is expected to head to the Middle East on Tuesday evening, according to the American news website Axios.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 39,790 Palestinians have been killed, and 91,702 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Wednesday, August 14, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the settlement of Holit, in the Gaza Strip envelope.

SYRIAN MEDIA: A missile attack targeted a US air base in the Conoco gas field in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor.

ISRAELI ARMY: We monitored the launch of 25 rockets toward the Meron area.

KAN: The Mount Meron area in the north was attacked with about 20 rockets, some of which were intercepted and others fell in agricultural areas.

Wednesday, August 14, 12:00 am (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 12: A major missile attack took place in the Meron area in northern Israel.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip left 7 dead, including 3 children, and several wounded.

HAMAS: We call on international organizations to expose and condemn Israel’s crimes. We call on the International Court of Justice to include these confessions in the file of war crimes for which the occupation is being tried.

Tuesday, August 13, 11:00 pm (GMT+2)

ALGERIA’S REPRESENTATIVE TO UNSC: The massacres would not have taken place without Israel’s financial and military support.

BIDEN: It has become difficult and we will see what we can do and what Iran will do.

AL-JAZEERA: Rockets were fired from southern Lebanon at an Israeli site in the Upper Galilee. Sirens sounded in Dishon and Malkiya to warn of rocket fire.

PENTAGON: We will send the submarine USS Georgia to the Central Region to assist Israel.

AL-JAZEERA: France has condemned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to Al-Aqsa Mosque, considering it a violation of the historical status quo of the holy sites in Jerusalem, describing what happened as an “unacceptable provocation.

Tuesday, August 13, 9:30 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Artillery shelling targeted the Beit Lahia areas in the northern Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: We shelled the Ruweisat al-Alam site in the Kfar Shuba hills, and achieved a direct hit.

HEZBOLLAH: We mourn a second member of the movement who was killed during clashes with the Israeli army in southern Lebanon.

AXIOS: US officials say they did not expect Iran to launch an attack on Israel tonight.

AXIOS (Citing two sources familiar with the matter): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed his visit to the Middle East and will therefore not travel to the region tonight.

AL-QASSAM: We blew up three tunnel openings that had been pre-trapped the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah, resulting in the killing and wounding of Israeli soldiers.

AL-QASSAM: Scenes of the shelling Tel Aviv and its suburbs with two M90 rockets, “in response to the Zionist massacres and the displacement of our people.”

Tuesday, August 13, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We were able, with the Al-Quds Brigades, to destroy a Merkava tank in Rafah.

HAARETZ: Israeli army uses Palestinians as human shields in Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: The occupation forces are blowing up residential buildings in the city of prisoners, northwest of the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, August 13, 6:00 pm (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation forces are blowing up residential buildings in the city of prisoners, northwest of the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Injured as a result of Israeli shelling targeting a residential apartment in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli airstrikes targeted the Al-Mahta neighborhood in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

HAMAS: We demand the international community to investigate the violations against our prisoners.

SAUDI FM: We condemn the repeated incursions by Israeli occupation officials and settlers into the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

LEBANESE HEALTH MINISTRY: Two people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car in the town of Baraachit in the south of the country.

Tuesday, August 13, 5:00 pm (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: The rocket fire from the Gaza Strip towards Tel Aviv is the first since last May.

ISRAELI ARMY: Two rockets were fired from Gaza towards greater Tel Aviv without activating the sirens.

Tuesday, August 13, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed Tel Aviv and its suburbs with two M90 missiles “in response to the Zionist massacres and deliberate displacement of our people.”

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli raids continue on the Deir al-Balah area and the Maghazi, Nuseirat and Bureij camps, in addition to raids on the eastern areas of Khan Yunis, especially Al-Qarara and Al-Zana in the southern Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with a Yassin 105 missile in the Zalata area, east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

‘Blatant Violation’ – Ben-Gvir Storms Al-Aqsa with Thousands of Settlers

NETANYAHU’S OFFICE: The claim that the prime minister added new demands to the terms of reaching a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas is a false claim.

Tuesday, August 13, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters targeted a deployment of Israeli soldiers around the Samaka site with artillery shells and achieved a direct hit.

IRANIAN FM:

Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa changed many global balances.

“Al-Aqsa Flood” turned the Palestinian resistance into a global resistance.

Palestinian resistance has become a present reality in the independent media.

The assassination of Martyr Haniyeh is a violation of our sovereignty, and responding to it is a legitimate and inherent right of Tehran.

Sinwar’s election is a victory for the resistance.

ABBAS: The United Nations has failed to issue a single enforceable resolution to resolve the Gaza crisis, due to the United States.

Retaliation against Aggression is Legitimate Right – Iran Tells US, EU Countries

PUTIN: Moscow will do everything in its power to support the Palestinian people in the humanitarian catastrophe that has befallen them.

NYT: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Hamas for the failure of the negotiations, but he presented the mediators last July with very strict new conditions, which makes the chances of reaching an agreement during the round of negotiations that will begin tomorrow, Thursday, remote.

Tuesday, August 13, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 39,929 Palestinians have been killed, and 92,240 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

IRAQI PM: Aggression on Gaza is the main cause of tensions in the region.

Tuesday, August 13, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)

FAMILIES OF ISRAELI CAPTIVES: A statement by the families of Israeli captives held in Gaza accused Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir of working time and again to thwart a prisoner exchange deal that would allow the return of the detainees.

MIKATI: The only concern that unites the Lebanese is confronting Israeli threats.

Tuesday, August 13, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

IRANIAN FM: We continue our efforts to stop the aggression on Gaza. Kani added in a phone call with his Italian counterpart that Iran is committed to its legitimate right to respond to the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

AL-JAZEERA: Three Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli shelling that targeted a house in Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the espionage equipment at the Israeli military site “Misgav Am” with appropriate weapons, and achieved a direct hit.

ISRAELI RADIO: Air defenses intercepted two drones launched by the Lebanese Hezbollah towards the Kiryat Shmona area in the Upper Galilee.

CHANNEL 14: There is an agreement to release Israeli soldiers accused of abusing a Palestinian prisoner in the Sde Teiman camp to house arrest.

Tuesday, August 13, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

ISLAMIC ENDOWMENTS DEPARTMENT: The far-right Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

ISRAELI RADIO: Thursday’s summit on reaching a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas may not be held or postponed if Iran or Hezbollah launch an attack on Israel.

IRANIAN PRESIDENT: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said – during a phone call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz – that Iran considers responding to aggressors as its right under international law.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli shelling targeted the Qastal Towers east of Deir al-Balah (central Gaza Strip), leaving 4 dead, including two children.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens are sounding in Kiryat Shmona, Margaliot and Manara, due to suspicions of infiltration of drones from southern Lebanon.

LEBANESE MEDIA: Israeli occupation artillery targeted the towns of Abbasiya and Yaroun in southern Lebanon.

MUJAHIDEEN BRIGADES: We targeted an occupation gathering in Netzarim with mortar shells.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 3,400 massacres were committed by the occupation since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

Tuesday, August 13, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-AQSA TV: Intensive artillery shelling targeted the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, coinciding with the firing of gunfire from the occupation vehicles.

GANTZ (cited in Maariv): We will know how to withstand any attack, and the price that Iran and Hezbollah will pay will be very heavy.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: Israel has informed its allies that it will respond to any Iranian attack by striking targets in the heart of Iran.

AL-JAZEERA: Dead and wounded were recovered east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

IRAN: The statement by the three countries (Britain, Germany, and France) calling on us to refrain from responding to Israel lacks political logic. We call on the European Troika countries to oppose the Israeli war on Gaza. Tehran is determined to defend its national security and sovereignty and does not wait for permission from anyone.

Tuesday, August 13, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A series of intensive Israeli airstrikes targeted the southern and western neighborhoods of Gaza City in recent hours.

Tuesday, August 13, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

UKMTO: A ship’s captain reported an explosion 63 nautical miles southwest of Hodeidah, Yemen.

Tuesday, August 13, 07:00 am (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli occupation army said that it attacked last night what it said were military buildings and a Hezbollah observation post in southern Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation aircraft launched raids on two houses in Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

TRUMP: The situation in the Middle East could lead to World War III.

Tuesday, August 13, 04:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in northern Israel to warn of falling rockets.

PRCS: Three Palestinians were injured by Israeli occupation bullets during the night raid on Ramallah.

AXIOS: US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is expected to head to the Middle East on Tuesday evening.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli forces launched a night raid on a house in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, which led to the killing of a Palestinian and the injury of a number of others.

Tuesday, August 13, 02:00 am (GMT+2)

AXIOS: US official heads to Cairo to complete security arrangements on the Egypt-Gaza border.

CHANNEL 12: Fitch Ratings lowered Israel’s credit rating from A+ to A with a negative outlook.

Tuesday, August 13, 12:30 am (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 12: Preparations are underway in Israel to repel attacks that may occur soon.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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