GAZA LIVE BLOG: Biden: Not a Genocide | Massacres throughout Gaza Strip | 1,000 Israeli Soldiers Invade Jenin – Day 228

May 21, 2024 Blog, News
Israel continues to carry out massacres against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.(Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Israeli forces carried out new massacres in various areas of the Gaza Strip, including Al-Bureij, in the center, and Rafah, in the south. 

Fierce clashes are taking place between the Palestinian Resistance and the invading Israeli forces in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza. 

US President Joe Biden said that what is happening in Gaza is not a genocide while the Russian delegate to the United Nations Security Council urged an investigation into the mass graves in the Strip. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 35,647 Palestinians have been killed, and 79,852 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Wednesday, Day 22, 01:00 am (GMT +2)

WHO: We are concerned about the siege imposed on Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza. A medical team of 148 people and 22 patients are trapped inside Al Awda Hospital.

Wednesday, Day 22, 12:00 am (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: A Palestinian was killed by Israeli occupation bullets in the target area in the Jenin camp.

Tuesday, Day 21, 11:00 pm (GMT +2)

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: The top priority now is for Israel to stop bombing Gaza.

Tuesday, Day 21, 10:00 pm (GMT +2)

KAN: The Israeli government retracted the action taken against the Associated Press.

PENTAGON: There are discussions about finding alternative ways to deliver aid to Gaza.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters were able to snipe an Israeli soldier in the Netzarim axis, southwest of Gaza City.

UNITED NATIONS: The bloodshed in Jenin must stop.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelling targeted areas in the center of Rafah.

UNRWA: Food distribution in Rafah is currently suspended due to lack of supplies and insecurity.

ISRAELI ARMY: We are ready to carry out dangerous missions to recover the bodies of the hostages.

WHO DIRECTOR: Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip was targeted 4 times today.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: Children are the focus of Israeli targeting as part of the comprehensive extermination campaign.

Tuesday, Day 21, 9:00 pm (GMT +2)

KAN: The mini-ministerial council (cabinet) will meet tomorrow to discuss a new approach to resuming negotiations to complete a prisoner exchange deal.

BLINKEN: If we have information about the location of Yahya Sinwar, we will pass it to Israel.

Tuesday, Day 21, 8:00 pm (GMT +2)

ISRAELI AIR FORCE COMMANDER (to Israeli Channel 13): We will intensify the attack on Hezbollah if necessary.

NORWEGIAN FM: “We are obligated to arrest Netanyahu if he visits our country after a decision by the International Criminal Court.”

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli raids targeted the center and east of the city of Rafah.

NETANYAHU: Our first goal is to destroy Hamas, otherwise the people of Gaza will have no future, and the other goal is to disarm Gaza.

Tuesday, Day 21, 7:00 pm (GMT +2)

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The northern Gaza Strip is still suffering signs of famine as a result of the occupation’s use of starvation as a tool of war.

Tuesday, Day 21, 6:00 pm (GMT +2)

BLINKEN: We stand with Israel to ensure that the events of October 7 are not repeated.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Families of Israeli prisoners demand to know the developments of the exchange deal.

NETANYAHU: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is not afraid to travel around the world following the decision of the ICC prosecutor.

WHITE HOUSE: We are concerned by reports of Israel confiscating AP equipment.

YAIR LAPID: Confiscating Associated Press equipment is an insane act.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the Israeli Al-Malikiyah site with artillery shells.

WASHINGTON POST: We monitored 90 documented incidents involving Israeli forces targeting hospitals in Gaza since the start of the war.

AL-JAZEERA: Two missiles were launched from Lebanon towards the Israeli site of Ramtha.

Tuesday, Day 21, 5:00 pm (GMT +2)

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We targeted an Israeli drone base in the occupied Golan with drones.

Tuesday, Day 21, 4:00 pm (GMT +2)

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Israeli officials seized our camera and equipment in southern Israel and accused us of violating the embargo imposed on Al-Jazeera.

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MAARIV: The Israeli newspaper Maariv cited Itamar Ben-Gvir as saying that he expects Netanyahu to include him in the war council or cancel it.

Tuesday, Day 21, 3:00 pm (GMT +2)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted with a guided missile “a positioning point for enemy soldiers at the Ruwaisat al-Qarn site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms.”

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: Member states must protect the independence of the International Criminal Court and condemn attempts to intimidate it.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 35,647 Palestinians have been killed, and 79,852 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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AL-QASSAM BRIGADES:

We targeted 5 Zionist soldiers with a hand grenade and finished them off from zero distance in the Tal al-Zaatar area in the northern Gaza Strip.

We detonated a shock device against a number of occupation soldiers, killing and wounding them in the Tal al-Zaatar area in the northern Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, Day 21, 2:00 pm (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted a “Zionist” tank with a guerrilla action device, and detonated a device against the occupation soldiers in Tal al-Zaatar in the northern Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Seven Palestinians, including three children, were martyred in Israeli raids on the downtown areas of Rafah since Tuesday morning.

US OFFICIALS (to Israeli army Radio): “We feel hopeless with Netanyahu, and the dialogue with him is tactical without a strategic vision.”

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES:

We targeted with a TPG shell a Zionist force barricaded in a house, killing and wounding its members in Tal al-Zaatar, north of the Gaza Strip.

We bombed with mortar shells “an enemy command headquarters southwest of Gaza City.”

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces besieged Al Awda Hospital in Jabalia Camp for the third day in a row.

AL-JAZEERA: Three children were killed and wounded as a result of an Israeli bombing on the Yabna camp in the center of Rafah.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our mujahideen targeted 3 Zionist Merkava tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells east of the Jabaliya camp.

Tuesday, Day 21, 1:00 pm (GMT +2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: “We detonated an anti-personnel device against a Zionist foot force, killing and wounding its members in the middle of the Jabaliya camp.”

KAN: US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan “feels disappointed after his meeting with Netanyahu, and believes that Israel has no plan to end the war.”

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: targeted the occupying forces advancing in the Al-Wakala area in Jenin with an explosive device.

Tuesday, Day 21, 11:20 am (GMT +2)

GALLANT: We do not recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli forces are shelling Al-Qasaib neighborhood, Tal Al-Zaatar, and Blocks 4 and 5 in the Jabalia camp.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation aircraft launched 3 raids on the center of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

LAPID: Militias sponsored by the Netanyahu regime are the ones attacking aid trucks to Gaza.

Tuesday, Day 21, 10:00 am (GMT +2)

ANSARALLAH: We shot down an American MQ9 drone in the airspace of Al Bayda Governorate.

AL-JAZEERA: Violent clashes between the resistance and the occupation forces in the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens were sounding in several towns in the Western Galilee after a suspected drone infiltration from Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces bombed with artillery the vicinity of Hassan Al-Banna Mosque in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A number of injured people arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after an Israeli bombing of a house in the center of the Bureij camp.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Injured people arrived at Gaza’s European Hospital after artillery shelling on the Khuza’a area, east of the city of Khan Yunis.

AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN (to Maria): Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is unable to achieve victory on the battlefield and must fall.

Tuesday, Day 21, 09:00 am (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: The death toll resulting from the bombing of a building housing displaced people in the Abasan Al-Kabira area, east of Khan Yunis, has risen to three.

Tuesday, Day 21, 08:00 am (GMT +2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The body of a Palestinian was recovered as a result of a bombing on the home of the Abu Amer family in the Abasan Al-Kabira area, east of Khan Yunis.

Tuesday, Day 21, 05:00 am (GMT +2)

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli occupation army announces that two soldiers were seriously injured during the battles taking place in the southern Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, Day 21, 04:00 am (GMT +2)

US CENTRAL COMMAND: 569 tons of humanitarian aid have been delivered to the Gaza Strip so far from the pier.

Tuesday, Day 21, 03:00 am (GMT +2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Airstrikes targeted the north of the Bureij refugee camp and the east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in several towns in the Western Galilee, northern Israel.

Tuesday, Day 21, 02:00 am (GMT +2)

DEPUTY US DELEGATE TO UNSC: The Rafah crossing must be reopened now and there can be no further delay.

RUSSIAN DELEGATE TO UNSC: We are awaiting the results of the investigation into the mass graves in Gaza, which we demanded.

BRITISH DEPUTY DELEGATE TO UNSC: Britain will not support an expanded operation in Rafah under the current circumstances.

Tuesday, Day 21, 01:00 am (GMT +2)

BIDEN: What is happening in Gaza is not genocide.

UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ALBANESE: The announcement of the International Criminal Court is a late but commendable step.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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2 Comments

  1. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t always, make him drink ad that is BYEDONE in a New York second.

  2. Biden is already out of his mind to say that there’s no genocide in Gaza. Already in dementia. Poor USA, no better choices between him and Trump.

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