Al-Qassam Brigades fighters announced the killing of 15 soldiers after they stormed a house in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah.
48,000 employees, students and graduates at ten universities affiliated with the University of California and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory voted in favor of starting a strike next Monday in defense of the right to protest for Palestine.
Israeli forces carried out new massacres across Gaza, killing and wounding scores of Palestinians.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 35,386 Palestinians have been killed, and 79,366 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
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Saturday, May 18, 11:30 pm (GMT +2)
AL-JAZEERA: 64 Palestinians were killed and hundreds were wounded as a result of the continued Israeli occupation raids on various areas of the Gaza Strip since this morning.
KAN: There is a division in the War Council over the strategy for negotiating prisoners held by the resistance.
NETANYAHU: Gantz’s conditions mean ending the war and defeating Israel.
At Least 20 Killed – Israeli Army Suffers Highest Losses in Rafah
Saturday, May 18, 9:30 pm (GMT +2)
ISRAELI COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER: Gantz threatens to resign by June 8 if we do not give in to his demands, and I suggest he resign tomorrow. The war government has long been left-wing and a means of weakening the Prime Minister and the right-wing government.
FAMILIES OF PRISONERS: The time for talking is over and time is running out for the prisoners, and negotiations must be renewed.
CHANNEL 12: Gantz visited Arab countries before his press conference.
BEN-GVIR: Gantz is a small leader and a big deceiver.
LAPID: I say to Gantz and Eisenkot, enough is enough and get out of the war council.
GANTZ: Netanyahu must choose between division and unity, between victory and disaster.
US Politicians And Their Racist, Genocidal Comments – Palestine Chronicle Explains (VIDEO)
ISRAELI ARMY: The forces of the Paratroopers Brigade are engaged in intense fighting in the heart of the city of Jabaliya and in places they had not previously operated in in the northern Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI ARMY: We found the body of a “kidnapped” in Gaza.
ISRAELI MEDIA: On Saturday evening, families of Israeli prisoners organized a demonstration against the government of Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv.
Saturday, May 18, 7:40 pm (GMT +2)
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli helicopters bombed the southern neighborhoods of Gaza City on Saturday evening.
FORMER MOSSAD CHIEF DANNY YATOM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is deliberately preventing the return of the “kidnapped” and ending the war, because the matter exposes his government to danger.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters were able to lure an Israeli force and detonate a bomb in it, killing 5 of its soldiers and wounding others east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
US CENTRAL COMMAND: The Ansarallah launched a missile into the Red Sea that hit the MT1 oil tanker, flying the Panama flag and operated by a Greek company.
Qassam vs IDF in Jabaliya: Yassin strike against Merkava tank. [Qassam Brigades 16/5] pic.twitter.com/H6sugnmEiR
— Jon Elmer (@jonelmer) May 16, 2024
AL-JAZEERA: Three Palestinians were killed and others, including children, were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a group of Palestinians east of the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.
FAMILIES OF ISRAELI PRISONERS: Netanyahu fails to reach an exchange deal. The Netanyahu government has abandoned our children, and the only way to save them is to stop the war immediately.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted with missile weapons a deployment of Israeli occupation soldiers west of the Raheb site.
Saturday, May 18, 6:00 pm (GMT +2)
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in several towns in the Upper Galilee.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli military bulldozer with a ” Shawaz ” device near Haroun Mosque, east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI ARMY: A drone exploded in the Margaliot settlement in the Upper Galilee.
CHANNEL 12: The war council will meet tonight to resume discussing the issue of prisoners in the Gaza Strip.
GANTZ: Minister Benny Gantz will announce tonight his conditions and demands to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for him to remain in the war council.
Entering Hell – Abu Obeida Assesses Gaza Battle Days following New Israeli Military Push
ABU OBEIDA: Netanyahu prefers the killing of his soldiers to the exchange of prisoners.
HEZBOLLAH: We bombed with artillery shells the headquarters of the Liman Battalion of the Israeli army off southern Lebanon.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said that Minister Benny Gantz should announce his resignation from what he called the worst government in Israel’s history and call for elections.
Saturday, May 18, 5:00 pm (GMT +2)
KAN: War Council member Benny Gantz will deliver a speech this Saturday evening outlining the steps the council must take.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: 10 rockets were fired from northern Gaza at Ashkelon.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted, with a drone, a position of Israeli occupation soldiers inside the Ramim barracks off the southern Lebanese border.
Saturday, May 18, 4:30 pm (GMT +2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: 18 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids targeting various areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip since this morning.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed the command and control headquarters of the Israeli occupation forces east of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed the city of Ashkelon with a missile salvo on Saturday in response to the crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people.
FINANCIAL TIMES: (citing former Israeli officials): There is no idea how the war on Gaza will end, and no vision of what “victory” will actually look like.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted, with artillery shells, the Israeli naval site of Ras Naqoura, off Lebanon’s southern border.
Al-Qassam fighters are seen sniping an Israeli soldier on the axis of advance east of the city of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/CEbbH7wGEy
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 17, 2024
Saturday, May 18, 3:00 pm (GMT +2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: 5 Palestinian citizens were killed in an Israeli occupation raid on Al-Eshreen Street in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
AL-JAZEERA: 22 citizens were killed in an Israeli occupation bombing that targeted a residential neighborhood near Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia Camp, northern Gaza Strip.
NYT: Students at the University of Chicago stormed the Institute of Politics building to protest the university’s relations with Israel.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted a number of army soldiers as saying that they were frustrated by the restrictions imposed on shooting in the north and the uncertain future.
Saturday, May 18, 1:50 pm (GMT +2)
PRIME MINISTER OF SLOVENIA: We will recognize the Palestinian state next month. The situation in Gaza is catastrophic and there is a violation of all human rights laws.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the vicinity of the cemetery, east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
CHANNEL 12 (Citing former head of military intelligence): Absolute victory and the goals of the war are far from being achieved.
The fighters of Saraya Al-Quds – Jenin Brigade salute the Axis of Resistance at the funeral of Jenin Brigade commander martyr Islam Khamaysa.
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 18, 2024
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombarded enemy soldiers and vehicles penetrating the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of Rafah, with a barrage of heavy mortar shells.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 35,386 Palestinians have been killed, and 79,366 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: The intensive Israeli operation in Jabaliya – for the seventh day in a row – resulted in the complete destruction of about 300 homes.
Saturday, May 18, 12:45 pm (GMT +2)
QNN: Two young men were killed by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets near Wadi Gaza, north of the Central Governorate, while that two other young men were killed west of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We fired a missile at an Apache helicopter in Jabaliya camp.
AL-JAZEERA: 15 Palestinians were killed and 30 others injured in Israeli raids on citizens who tried to return to their homes in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
We Killed 15 Israeli Soldiers ‘from Point-Blank Range’ – Al-Qassam Brigades
Saturday, May 18, 11:30 am (GMT +2)
MAARIV (citing Israeli official): The US administration has reached the conclusion that Hamas will not disappear from the Gaza Strip after the end of the war, stressing that it will remain in one form or another in Gaza.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted with missiles a gathering of occupation army soldiers in the vicinity of the Pranit barracks in northern Israel.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We blew up an Israeli tank with a lightning device in Jabaliya camp.
Saturday, May 18, 10:00 am (GMT +2)
QNN: A Palestinian was martyred in a bombing that targeted a house in the Abasan Al Kabira area, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We killed 15 Israeli soldiers after a group of its fighters stormed a house in which a large number of soldiers were barricaded and clashed with them from point-blank range with machine guns and grenades, and then detonated an anti-personnel device in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
CHANNEL 12: Former Israeli Army Chief of Staff Dan Halutz as saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the one who brought Israel to what he described as a miserable situation, calling on him to leave.
Member of South Africa's legal team, Adila Hassim, fights back tears while demanding action from the International Court of Justice.
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 18, 2024
Saturday, May 18, 09:00 am (GMT +2)
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli Merkava 4 tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in the Al-Tanour neighborhood, east of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
AL-JAZEERA: 48,000 employees, students and graduates at ten universities affiliated with the University of California system and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California voted in favor of starting a strike next Monday in defense of the right to protest for Palestine.
Saturday, May 18, 08:00 am (GMT +2)
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the areas of Kiryat Shmona and the Upper Galilee after a suspected drone infiltration from Lebanon.
Saturday, May 18, 06:00 am (GMT +2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Intense artillery shelling and shooting from Israeli helicopters on Rafah.
AL-JAZEERA: Clashes are taking place between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation forces south of the city of Rafah.
Saturday, May 18, 04:00 am (GMT +2)
AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli artillery shelling targeted the east and center of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli raid targeted the Al-Farahin area, east of the town of Abasan Al-Kabira in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
UKMTO: An incident occurred 76 nautical miles northwest of Hodeidah, Yemen.
Saturday, May 18, 03:00 am (GMT +2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two people were killed as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Berbera camp in central Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
GERMAN FM: repeated attacks by Israeli settlers on Gaza aid convoys are a disgrace.
AL-JAZEERA (citing diplomatic sources): Algeria and Slovenia called for an open session of the Security Council to be held next Monday, to discuss the situation in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
4-year-old Rital i has suffered injuries from an Israeli bombing in Gaza.
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 18, 2024
AXIOS: Two senior officials in the Biden administration held indirect talks with Iranian officials this week, in an attempt to avoid escalating attacks in the region.
UNOCHA: There is nothing left for distribution in Gaza.
Saturday, May 18, 01:45 am (GMT +2)
AL-JAZEERA: Dead and wounded in an Israeli shelling targeting a house belonging to the Islah family in the Maan area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
General strikes have been a powerful tactic for labor groups and activists throughout the 20th century to show organized resistance against wars. In 1915, U.S. women textile workers held major strikes to protest American entry into WWI. In 1920, one of the largest anti-war protests occurred in the UK, where over 2 million workers participated in strikes against continued conscription after WWI. More recently, in 2003, large protests and walkouts disrupted ports and public transportation across Europe in opposition to the impending U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.