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By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, Herzi Halevi, ordered during the past two days to intensify military operations in Rafah, in southern Gaza. 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will begin on Sunday his ninth visit to Israel since the start of the war on Gaza.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that a reconnaissance drone launched by the Lebanese group Hezbollah flew over the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea, and photographed the surrounding area.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 40,099 Palestinians have been killed, and 92,609 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Sunday, August 18, 11:00 pm (GMT+2)

NETANYAHU’S OFFICE: The Prime Minister insists on staying in the Philadelphi corridor to prevent Hamas from rearming.

AL-JAZEERA: Two Israeli raids targeted the towns of Houla and Beit Lif in southern Lebanon.

TEL AVIV POLICE: The person killed in the truck bombing was carrying an explosive device, and the condition of his body prevents his identification to determine the background of the operation.

MAARIV: The explosion in Tel Aviv was the result of an explosive device.

Sunday, August 18, 10:00 pm (GMT+2)

ISRAELI MEDIA: The police and the Shin Bet are investigating the background of the truck bombing in Tel Aviv.

GUARDIAN: A British Foreign Office official resigned due to his country’s refusal to ban arms exports to Israel.

FAMILIES OF ISRAELI CAPTIVES: Most of the detainees were released through a deal, and the government failed to reach a new deal.

HAMAS: After listening to the mediators about what happened in the talks, we became certain that Netanyahu is still putting obstacles in the way of reaching an agreement.

Sunday, August 18, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 13: The negotiating team is urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday to show more flexibility on points of disagreement in order to move toward an agreement.

NETANYAHU: There are those who were repeatedly leaking information that was harming the ability to advance a deal.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli media reported the death of an Israeli security guard who was injured in an attack in the Kedumim settlement in the West Bank.

UNIFIL: We are investigating the details of the injury of 3 soldiers in an explosion.

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters targeted the espionage equipment at the Misgav Am site with appropriate weapons and destroyed it.

Sunday, August 18, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters shelled the Zabadani and Ruwaysat al-Qarn positions in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms and achieved a direct hit.

ISRAELI MEDIA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel, where he will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday.

ISRAELI ARMY: A soldier from the paratrooper unit was seriously injured during the fighting in the southern Gaza Strip.

Sunday, August 18, 6:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters shelled the Israeli Jal al-Alam site with artillery.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Dead and wounded among the occupation forces north of Khan Yunis.

AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens are sounding in the Nir Oz area in the Gaza Strip.

Sunday, August 18, 5:00 pm (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli airstrike targeted Hamad residential city, northwest of Khan Yunis.

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters targeted the Israeli Al-Malikiyah site with artillery and achieved a direct hit.

CHANNEL 14: An Israeli was seriously injured after being attacked by a Palestinian near the Kedumim settlement in the northern West Bank.

NETANYAHU: Israel is engaged in very complex negotiations.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stormed the village of Al-Malha in the town of Za’tara, east of Bethlehem.

Sunday, August 18, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: About 20 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Upper Galilee in the recent bombing by the Lebanese Hezbollah.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli infantry force of ten soldiers with a shell near the university college in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed the Mars military site with a barrage of rockets. We bombed with a barrage of 60mm mortar shells a gathering of enemy vehicles and soldiers north of Hamad City, west of Khan Yunis.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli interceptor missiles exploded in the skies of border villages in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon after missiles were fired towards the Galilee Finger.

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: The shortage of fuel supplies in the Gaza and North Gaza governorates threatens to stop ambulance and health relief services.

Sunday, August 18, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli shelling targeted the Al-Shakoush area northwest of Rafah city, leaving two martyrs and a number of wounded.

HERZOG: Tel Aviv will continue to work with all its might and by all possible means to return the hostages to their families.

ISRAELI MEDIA: American Airlines has extended its suspension of flights to and from Tel Aviv until April 2025.

UNIFIL: Three of our soldiers were injured in an explosion in southern Lebanon.

Sunday, August 18, 1:30 pm (GMT+2)

WALLA: The Israeli cabinet has instructed the military to intensify fighting in Khan Younis and Rafah in the Gaza Strip to improve Israel’s negotiating position in ceasefire talks.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli forces blow up residential buildings east of Deir al-Balah.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 40,099 Palestinians have been killed, and 92,609 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

ISRAELI MINISTER COHEN: We will not leave Gaza until the last of the kidnapped is released.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli raid targets the town of Dahra while a UNIFIL patrol is passing.

ISRAELI FIRE AUTHORITY: A violent explosion was heard in the Western Galilee, without activating the sirens.

Sunday, August 18, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: The occupation forces do not allow our crews to respond to distress calls. 82 of our cadres were killed by Israeli occupation fire.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli air strike targeted a house in the town of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.

CHANNEL 13: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding discussions before the Israeli delegation leaves for Cairo to participate in the next round of negotiations.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli helicopters were firing near the tents of the displaced people in the vicinity of Hamad residential city, north of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the Israeli military site in Al-Marj with rockets.

ISRAELI ARMY: Our forces continue fighting in Rafah, Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli drone launched a raid on the vicinity of the town of Shebaa in southern Lebanon.

MEDICAL SOURCES: 21 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: The suspicion that a reconnaissance drone belonging to the Lebanese Hezbollah was flying near the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea is most likely a false alarm.

ISRAEL HAYOM: A reconnaissance drone launched by the Lebanese Hezbollah flew over the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea, and photographed the surrounding area.

US MEDIA: More than 250 organizations have announced their intention to participate in demonstrations and rallies in the American city of Chicago, coinciding with the Democratic National Convention, which will be held between August 18 and 22, to demand an end to the genocide in the Gaza Strip and an end to support for the Israeli aggression.

Sunday, August 18, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

WALLA: The Chief of Staff of the occupation army, Herzi Halevi, directed during the past two days to intensify military operations in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

PALESITNIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation forces are carrying out fire belts around the Taiba Mosque in the Tel Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Sunday, August 18, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 12: Three rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward the Margaliot settlement in Upper Galilee, without any injuries.

AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens are sounding in the Israeli town of Margaliot in the Galilee Finger on the border with Lebanon.

KAN: US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will begin his ninth visit to Israel today, Sunday, since the start of the war on Gaza.

PIC: Israeli occupation forces carried out bombing operations against residential buildings in Rafah and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Sunday, August 18, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Seven people, including 6 children, were killed when the occupation bombed a house on Al Mazraa Street in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

KAN: The differences over the Philadelphi route can be resolved, and there is support for the American proposal.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli artillery shelling targeted the southwestern areas of Gaza City.

Sunday, August 18, 06:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: A Palestinian woman was killed and a number of people were wounded in an Israeli bombardment of a house in the Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

Sunday, August 18, 02:00 am (GMT+2) (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Four people were killed and 6 others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Sunday, August 18, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli aircraft bombed a residential apartment on Al-Houja Street in Jabaliya camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

Sunday, August 18, 12:00 am (GMT+2)

LAPID: Another opportunity to reach a deal on the detainees could not be missed.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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  2. Taking out Netanyahu and his cabinet would be an excellent proportional response for the Israeli terrorist attack on Tehran.

    We can only hope …. 🙂

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