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December 2, 2023 Blog, News
Israel renewed airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. (Photo: via social media)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Fighting continues between invading Israeli forces and Palestinian Resistance in Gaza, while Israel’s strikes carried on unabated resulting in the killing and wounding of hundreds of Palestinians.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 178 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes across various areas of Gaza since Friday morning, as Israel resumed its aggression after a seven-day truce.

Since October 7, over 15,207 Palestinians, including over 6,200 children and more than 4,000 women were killed, with another 40,652 wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

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LATEST UPDATES:

Sunday, December 3, 08:15 am (GMT+3)

WHO: World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said reports of continuous and violent bombardment of Gaza were appalling and a ceasefire must be ceased now.

AL-JAZEERA:

A number of Palestinians killed, and others injured in Israeli shelling that targeted a house in Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City.

Israel continues its raids and shelling on the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, which led to the killing and wounding of a number of Palestinians during the targeting of a house west of the city.

Nine Palestinians killed in an Israeli raid that targeted a house at dawn on Sunday in the Al-Geneina neighborhood, east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

A number of people were killed and injured as a result of an Israeli shelling that targeted a house in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian died from his wounds he suffered when he was shot by Israeli soldiers in the city of Qalqilya, in the northern West Bank.

ISRAELI MILITARY: The Israeli occupation army announced on Sunday morning the killing of one of its officers in the battles taking place in the central Gaza Strip. It was also announced that a soldier from the 932nd Battalion of the Al-Nahhal Brigade was killed from injuries sustained during the battles of the past few days in northern Gaza.

Sunday, December 3, 01:30 am (GMT+3)

NBC NEWS (quoting US official): Israel agreed to allocate safe areas in the southern Gaza Strip

BRITISH DEFENSE MINISTER: Britain announced that it intends to conduct reconnaissance flights over the Gaza Strip to provide intelligence information to Israel under the pretext of supporting the prisoner rescue operation.

COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT: Colombian President Gustavo Petro strongly criticized the Israeli bombing of the city of Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, and described the Israeli attack on it as Nazi practices.

Saturday, December 2, 11:50 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli shelling targeting a house in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip rose to 13.

US DEFENSE OFFICIAL (Cited in Al-Jazeera): One of our planes intercepted an Iranian drone hovering over the aircraft carrier Eisenhower in the Gulf. We did not take military action against the march, but we monitored it. The Iranian drone prevented our planes from taking off and landing safely on-board Eisenhower.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, north of the West Bank.

Israel Kills Top Palestinian Scientist, President of Islamic University, with Whole Family in Gaza

US SECRETARY OF DEFENSE:

Our support for Israel is not negotiable, never will be, and we will not allow Hamas to win.

Without a horizon of hope, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will continue to be a driver of insecurity and human suffering.

A two-state solution is the only viable way out of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Israelis and Palestinians must find a way to share the land they consider home.

I have repeatedly made clear to Israeli leaders that protecting civilians in Gaza is a moral responsibility and a strategic imperative.

Saturday, December 2, 10:45 pm (GMT+3)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli raids that targeted homes in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12: A failure in one of the Iron Dome missiles during the interception operation led to its downing.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: An Israeli was injured when fragments of a missile fell in the city of Holon, south of Tel Aviv.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Large explosions rocked the city of Tel Aviv following a large missile attack launched from northern Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed and wounded when Israel targeted a residential building in the Al-Saftawi area, north of Gaza City.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: Military pressure on Hamas is what led to the recent agreement.

IRANIAN FM: There is a possibility of expanding the scope of the war if the crimes of the Zionist entity do not stop.

AL-JAZEERA (citing medical source): 29 Palestinians were killed as a result of the Israeli bombing on Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, during the past 24 hours.

MACRON: Eliminating Hamas requires a war that would last ten years.

AL-JAZEERA: Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrate in Tel Aviv to protest the cessation of negotiations on the swap deal.

Saturday, December 2, 9:20 pm (GMT+3)

NETANYAHU: International pressure is increasing on us, but we will stand up to it.

IRANIAN PRESIDENT: America calls on the world to exercise restraint so that the Zionist entity continues the genocide in Gaza.

KAN: Hostage release talks continue at a low pace.

AL-JAZEERA: Dozens of Palestinians were killed and wounded in an Israeli bombing on Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.

Saturday, December 2, 8:00 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli aircraft launch raids on Khan Yunis, south of Gaza.

GALLANT: Military pressure will contribute to the return of the kidnapped people and the achievement of the goals of the war.

AL-JAZEERA: Three Palestinians were injured by occupation bullets during confrontations in the village of Awarta, east of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

AXIOS: Washington is pressuring Israel to provide aid similar to that before the end of the truce.

SALEH AL-AROURI TO AL-JAZEERA: There are no negotiations now regarding the truce.

NYT (citing Israeli official): Israel will launch a high-intensity operation in the coming weeks in the Gaza Strip, followed by a lower-intensity operation.

Saturday, December 2, 6:20 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Three Palestinians were injured by bullets from the occupation forces during confrontations in the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit, in the northern West Bank.

ISRAELI ARMY: The commander of the Southern Brigade of the Gaza Division was killed in Gaza.

AL-QASSAM: We targeted a Zionist D9 bulldozer with a Yassin 105 shell in Juhr al-Dik and achieved a direct hit.

GAZA MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION: Sufyan Tayeh, President of the Islamic University, and his family were killed in an Israeli bombing on Al-Faluga in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Upper Galilee and Nazareth.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the Israeli site of Metulla and it achieved a direct hit.

ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER: “We will adapt to the conditions of the field and will continue to fight with intensity and precision.”

Saturday, December 2, 5:15 pm (GMT+3)

AL-QASSAM: We targeted an Israeli tank “with a strobe device, which led to its complete destruction,” a second tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell, and a house with soldiers inside it with a “TBG” shell in the Sheikh Radwan area.

AL-QASSAM: We targeted a Zionist force inside a building in the Tawam area, killing and wounding its members.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the Israeli Al-Marj and Doviv sites and achieved direct hits.

ISRAELI ARMY: Hamas still possesses complex underground capabilities and the war will be long.

DIRECTOR OF AL AWDA HOSPITAL: If medical supplies and fuel are not available within days, all health services will stop.

AL-JAZEERA: 5 missiles were fired from southern Lebanon towards the Asbaa al-Jalil area.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed Re’im with missile salvoes.

Saturday, December 2, 4:20 pm (GMT+3)

AL-QASSAM: We bombed Tel Aviv with a missile attack.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Demonstrations took place today, Saturday, in a number of European cities in solidarity with the Gaza Strip.

GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: Israeli aircraft destroyed more than 50 residential buildings and houses in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli military spokesman said that the army is attacking Hezbollah infrastructure with drones and artillery shelling inside Lebanese territory.

AL-QASSAM: We bombarded enemy crowds in Zikim with missiles.

AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinian women were killed in an Israeli raid that targeted a house in Khan Yunis.

KAMALA HARRIS TO EL-SISI: Washington “will not, under any circumstances, allow the deportation of Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank.”

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid destroys a mosque in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza.

Saturday, December 2, 3:15 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: A Palestinian child was injured by live bullets south of Jenin.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli drone targeted the vicinity of the town of Kfar Shuba, south of Lebanon.

ISRAELI PM’S OFFICE: The truce negotiations have reached a dead end.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: More than 60 Palestinians were killed in the occupation’s bombing of the Shuja’iya neighborhood.

AL-JAZEERA: Dozens of Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli aircraft’s bombing of about 50 homes in the Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaza.

HEZBOLLAH: The Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it targeted the headquarters of the 91st Division in the Israeli Baranit Barracks and the Al-Raheb and Ruwaisat Al-Alam sites and that it achieved direct hits there.

Saturday, December 2, 2:15 pm (GMT+3)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The number of victims of the Israeli aggression since its beginning has risen to 15,207 martyrs. 70% of the victims of the Israeli aggression are children and women. The number of wounded has increased to 40,652.

EGYPTIAN SECURITY SOURCES: The first aid trucks since the end of the humanitarian truce in Gaza entered from the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, and are on their way to the Al-Awja crossing for inspection before continuing on to the Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: More than 100 Palestinians were killed when Israeli aircraft bombed a house housing families and displaced people in the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI MEDIA: All roads in the Upper Galilee Regional Council were closed to traffic on instructions from the army.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted the occupation crowds east of the Magin settlement with a missile salvo. We bombed the Kissufim, Nirim, and Third Eye settlements with missile salvos.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed crowds of Israeli forces in the Kissufim forests with a barrage of mortar shells.

Saturday, December 2, 1:00 pm (GMT+3)

TURKISH PRESIDENT ERDOGAN: Hamas cannot be excluded from potential solutions to the war in Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli aircraft launched 6 successive raids near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: Two young Palestinian men were injured by occupation bullets south of Nablus.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli bombing targeted the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, after dozens of injured people and the bodies of martyrs arrived there following the bombing of inhabited homes in the city.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation demands the residents of areas in Khan Yunis to evacuate.

 

DIRECTOR GENERAL OF GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: Israeli occupation threatened kidney patients at Al-Shifa Hospital.

Saturday, December 2, 12:15 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: More than 20 people were killed as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a number of homes east of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: Women and children were killed in an Israeli bombing of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Israel demanded residents of Jabaliya, Al-Shuja’iya, Al-Zaytoun and the Old City of Gaza leave their homes.

AL-QUDS BRIGADESS: We bombed Kissufim with a missile salvo.

CIVIL DEFENSE IN NORTHERN GAZA: We need excavators and bulldozers to continue rescue operations.

AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing of an apartment in Hamad Town, west of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Saturday, December 2, 10:45 am (GMT+3)

REUTERS (quoting Israeli official): Releasing the largest number of hostages is a top priority.

HUWWARA MUNICIPALITY: The occupation authorities confiscated five dunums for military purposes.

AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing targeting the town of Al-Mughraqa in the central Gaza Strip.

Saturday, December 2, 10:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We are engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: Most of the victims of the Israeli bombing were women and children, “and we observed deformities on the bodies of some of them.”

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli raid targeted the vicinity of Yarmouk Market in central Gaza City.

BELGIAN PM: The Belgian Prime Minister expressed his regret at the resumption of “violence” in Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Three Palestinians were killed and several others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Saturday, December 2, 08:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded south of the Gaza Strip.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: Israeli boats are intensifying their bombardment of the coast of Khan Yunis, south of the Strip.

Saturday, December 2, 07:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli raids targeted several areas east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli boats were shelling the coast of Deir al-Balah in the middle of the besieged Gaza Strip.

US SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: We continue to work with Qatar and Egypt to resume the truce in Gaza.

Saturday, December 2, 06:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: At least 7 Palestinians were martyred in heavy Israeli raids on Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip and Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza.

POLITICO: Israel did not inform America of warnings about the Hamas attack on October 7.

Saturday, December 2, 05:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces arrested a number of Palestinians in raids in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Saturday, December 2, 03:40 am (GMT+3)

GAZA GOVERNMENT OFFICE: The Rafah border crossing is operating “normally” on Saturday, denying “rumors” that the crossing was closed.

UNITED NATIONS: UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths stressed that there is nowhere safe for the residents of the Gaza Strip to go. He pointed out that all residents of the Strip, especially children, women and men, live in terror in the second month of the Israeli war on Gaza, adding that they live in a cycle of death, destruction and disease.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces stormed the suburbs of the cities of Jenin, Qalqilya, Al-Khalil (Hebron), the villages of Beita south of Nablus and Bidya, west of Salfit in the West Bank.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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