GAZA LIVE BLOG: New Massacre in Maghazi | Abu Obeida Issues Statement | Battles in Central Gaza | Hezbollah, Ansarallah Escalate – DAY 83

December 28, 2023 Blog, News
The death toll among Palestinians continues to rise as a result of new massacres. (Photo: via Eye on Palestine)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

After 83 days of a genocidal war, the battle is finally reaching central Gaza – following Israeli failure and partial retreat in northern Gaza, and a standstill in its attempt to take over Khan Younis. 

Several Israeli officers and soldiers were killed in central Gaza battles, according to the Israeli military. Meanwhile, the Resistance continues to push back against advancing Israeli troops in all the Gaza axes. 

The death toll among Palestinians continues to rise as a result of new massacres in Khan Younis, Deir al-Balah, central and northern Gaza. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 21,110 Palestinians have been killed, and 55,243 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7. Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

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LATEST UPDATES:

Friday, December 29, 08:00 am

AFP (Citing Hamas Official): A Hamas delegation will travel to Cairo on Friday to provide observations on Egypt’s ceasefire initiative in the Gaza Strip.

RED CRESCENT: There are plans to establish a refugee camp in the city of Khan Younis, which is witnessing fierce battles between Resistance fighters and invading Israeli forces.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation raids on Palestinian homes in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip resulted in the death of 20 people, in addition to dozens of missing under the rubble.

Friday, December 29, 02:40 am

AL-JAZEERA: The number of Palestinians killed following an Israeli shelling targeting a residential apartment in Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip has risen to eight.

CENTCOM (US Central Command): US military shot down a drone and an anti-ship ballistic missile “launched by the Houthis in the southern Red Sea.”

From Vietnam to Gaza – Abu Obeida Issues New Statement (TEXT)

Friday, December 29, 12:45 pm

HAARETZ: “Yotam Haim, one of the three hostages killed by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip two weeks ago, was shot to death around 15 minutes after the other two, according to an army investigation whose findings were released Thursday evening.”

Our Palestinian Vision – Leadership of Palestinian Resistance Groups Issue Join Statement

Thursday, December 28, 11:00 pm

KAN: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided at the last minute not to discuss “the next day of the war” in the war cabinet. Netanyahu’s decision reportedly came due to pressure from partners in the ruling right-wing coalition. Specifically, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said that the War Cabinet was authorized to manage the military operation, not to discuss future political scenarios.

AL-JAZEERA: Eight Palestinians were killed and others were injured on Thursday evening in an Israeli raid on a house in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Thursday, December 28, 10:00 pm

AL-JAZEERA: Eight Palestinians were killed and others were injured on Thursday evening in an Israeli raid on a house in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Nine Palestinians were killed and others were injured this Thursday evening in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Al-Fokhari area, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12: the War Council will discuss tonight a new Qatari proposal for a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas.

Thursday, December 28, 08:55 pm

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army published the results of the investigation into the killing of 3 of its captured soldiers in Gaza. Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a press conference in Tel Aviv that the army is responsible for what happened in the killing of the three prisoners, expressing regret for what happened.

PENTAGON: The US Department of Defense (Pentagon) said that Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed by telephone with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant the preparations for the phase that will follow the major combat operations in the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: We carried out massive attacks in southern Lebanon.

DJIBOUTI FM: We did not condemn the Ansarallah attacks (in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab ) because we consider them a right to provide relief to the Palestinians.

OSAMA HAMDAN: The occupation will not see its prisoners alive until the aggression stops.

AL-JAZEERA: The death toll from the Israeli bombing of a house in Rafah, in southern Gaza, has risen to 20. According to eyewitnesses, many of them were children and women.

Thursday, December 28, 08:15 pm

Abu Obeida (The military spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades):

Our Resistance remains steadfast, fighting in every corner of Gaza.

Since the start of the war on October 7, our fighters at Al-Qassam Brigades have destroyed 825 Israeli military vehicles, including tanks, personnel carriers, and bulldozers among other vehicles.

There will be no prisoner exchanges without a full ceasefire.

The Israeli aggression will break soon, and our people will rise with their heads held high.

Thursday, December 28, 7:20 pm

AL-JAZEERA:

16 people were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing of a house in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

There were casualties in an Israeli raid that targeted a house in the Shaboura camp in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Thursday, December 28, 6:40 pm

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We shot down an Israeli Skylark 2 reconnaissance plane, which was on an enemy intelligence mission in the Tal al-Zaatar area in the northern Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted an Israeli vehicle inside the Ramot Naftali barracks.

GANTZ: We are prepared for the next stage in the war that will last a long time.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted enemy soldiers in the vicinity of the Mitat Barracks.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed Israel’s operations center north of Khan Yunis.

NETANYAHU: We are in contact regarding negotiations to return detainees from Gaza.

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12: The war cabinet is discussing for the first time the issue of the post-war scenario in Gaza.

Thursday, December 28, 5:30 pm

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted artillery positions in Khirbet Maar.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in southern Asqalan (Ashkelon).

AL-AQSA TV: Clashes between the Resistance and the invading Israeli forces in the Bureij camp in central Gaza.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the Ramim barracks and achieved direct hits.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed enemy crowds and vehicles east of Khan Yunis.

AL-JAZEERA: Five Palestinians were killed and several wounded in an Israeli bombing targeted citizens returning to the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We destroyed an Israeli tank in Khan Yunis.

LEBANESE PM: In a meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called for an end to the Israeli aggression against Gaza and southern Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Renewed missile and artillery shelling between Lebanese Hezbollah and the Israeli occupation forces along the border strip.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed a large gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers and a command and control headquarters southeast of the Zaytoun neighborhood with concentrated missiles and mortar shells.

Thursday, December 28, 4:25 pm

HAMAS: The Palestinian resistance factions agree on the necessity of stopping the aggression and withdrawing the Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip before any prisoner exchange agreement.

KAN: The Forum of Directors of Psychiatric Hospitals called in a letter to the state comptroller to declare a state of emergency warning of a rise in the number of cases of mental illness and suicide among Israelis.

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters targeted the Israeli military site Al-Samaqa in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with appropriate weapons, and achieved direct hits.

AL-JAZEERA: 10 missiles were launched from southern Lebanon towards Israeli positions in the vicinity of the Sa`sa settlement in the Upper Galilee, and 10 other missiles were launched towards Kiryat Shmona.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We destroyed an Israeli troop carrier east of Khan Yunis.

THE GUARDIAN: the German Foreign Ministry as saying that Berlin is studying with partners in Europe the possibility of carrying out a mission to protect ships in the Red Sea from Ansarallah attacks.

AL-JAZEERA: 12 missiles were fired from southern Lebanon towards Israeli military sites in the occupied hills of Kafr Shuba.

Thursday, December 28, 3:45 pm

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli missile strike targeted a group of citizens at the entrance to the city of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, leaving a number of dead and wounded.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: Our capabilities have been damaged by the war and we need support.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted 5 Merkava tanks east of Khan Yunis.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli bombing targeted the town of Aita al-Shaab in the central sector of southern Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Three Palestinians were killed and a number of injuries due to the Israeli bombing of the Bureij and Nuseirat camps.

IRANIAN FM: “Washington sent messages to Tehran that it does not want to expand the Israeli war on Gaza, and our response was that ‘we are not the ones expanding it, but you are.’”

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 21,320 Palestinians have been killed, and 55,603 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

ISRAELI ARMY: We intercepted a drone that tried to cross from Lebanon.

ISRAELI FM: There is no way to return our ambassador to Turkey as long as Recep Tayyip Erdogan is its president.

Thursday, December 28, 2:20 pm

ISRAELI MEDIA: Thousands of Israelis participated in a march heading to the government headquarters in Jerusalem to demand the release of prisoners detained in Gaza, amid increasing internal criticism of the Israeli government’s handling of the prisoners’ file.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli air defenses intercepted two missiles in the sky of the old city of Akko, launched from southern Lebanon, amid the sound of explosions.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: Israeli Air Force launched a preemptive attack in southern Lebanon and targeted Hezbollah infrastructure, while the party has not commented or responded to the bombing yet.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli tank east of the Bureij camp.

ISRAELI ARMY: Nine soldiers were injured in the battles in the Gaza Strip during the last 24 hours.

AL-JAZEERA: The continuous Israeli bombing of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip since the morning resulted in the death of 17 Palestinians, including five children.

Thursday, December 28, 1:00 pm

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The number of journalist martyrs in the Gaza Strip rose to 105 martyrs, after two journalists were martyred today in an Israeli bombing of Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: Ambulance crews recovered the bodies of two Palestinians from under the rubble in the Al-Sika area in the center of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, after an Israeli bombing that targeted the area.

LEBANESE NEWS AGENCY: Israel renewed bombardment of areas in southern Lebanon.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted an Israeli tank with a stun device east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, amid intensifying clashes in the area.

UNRWA: The Israeli evacuation order for central Gaza causes forced displacement. More than 150,000 people, including children, women, the disabled, and the elderly, have no place to go.

Thursday, December 28, 12:00 pm

ISLAMIC JIHAD: The occupation’s intensification of massacres in Gaza will not compensate for its losses

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: WE targeted two Israeli military vehicles with two RPG shells in the Al-Tuffah axis, east of Gaza City, amid Palestinian resistance factions engaged in fierce clashes in the Al-Tuffah axis.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: At least 50 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli bombing this morning on citizens’ homes in Beit Lahia in the north of the Strip, Al-Maghazi in its center, and Khan Yunis in its south.

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We targeted, with a missile strike, the American base in the Conico gas field in Deir ez-Zor, Syria.

FORMER ISRAELI OFFICIAL: The American Wall Street Journal quoted former Israeli National Security Advisor Yaakov Amidror as saying that Hamas now has confidence to reject any deal that does not grant it victory.

Thursday, December 28, 11:00 am

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted seven Israeli vehicles with Al-Yassin 105 shells and strobe charges in the Al-Tuffah and Al-Daraj areas in Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: At least 30 Palestinians were killed in the bombing of a residential square in the Beit Lahia project in the northern Gaza Strip, as Israeli artillery shelling intensified in the northern Gaza Strip.

WSJ: An Israeli raid on the Jabaliya camp killed scores of civilians to target a Hamas leader. The investigation confirmed that Israel decided not to warn civilians in the area of ​​an imminent raid for fear of giving Hamas members time to evacuate.

AL-JAZEERA: Huge explosions were heard in the northern suburbs of Gaza City, amid continued Israeli artillery shelling on the north and center of the Strip.

Thursday, December 28, 10:00 am

AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians were killed and wounded after the occupation forces bombed a house in the Beit Lahia project in the northern Gaza Strip.

SPANISH PM: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Gaza is living in a tragic situation.

AL-JAZEERA: A Palestinian was killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing on the Al-Wafiya neighborhood in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: 12 Palestinians were killed and 12 others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house near its Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

IRANIAN FM: Israel will not achieve its goals in the war on the Gaza Strip of eliminating Hamas, disarming it, arresting the movement’s leader, Yahya Sinwar, or freeing the prisoners.

ISRAELI OFFICIAL (to AP): The Israeli authorities do not realize the seriousness of the high number of army wounded.

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: Eight Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted Al-Amal Hospital, affiliated with PRCS.

PALESTINIAN MEDICAL SOURCE: 17 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli bombardment of central Gaza last night.

RUSSIAN FM: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed the need to break the vicious cycle of violence that generations of Palestinians have suffered from, and called for the injustice against them to be lifted.

Thursday, December 28, 09:00 am

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli bulldozer with an Al-Yassin 105 missile in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD: The Al-Aqsa Flood operation was a completely Palestinian operation and was carried out by the Palestinians themselves.

LEBANESE NEWS AGENCY: More than 75% of the population of towns in southern Lebanon were displaced to other places following the continuation and intensification of Israeli raids in the past two days.

Thursday, December 28, 08:00 am

ISRAELI PM’S SPOKESMAN: France is ready to help us restore safety on the Lebanese borders.

UN: United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, warned – via the X platform – of the rapid spread of infectious diseases in shelters in the Gaza Strip, stressing that hospitals in the Strip are barely functioning.

Thursday, December 28, 06:30 am

ISRAELI ARMY: Three military personnel – two officers and one soldier – were killed in battles in the central Gaza Strip.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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