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January 19, 2024 Blog, News
Some Gaza children have lost all of their family members due to the relentless Israeli bombing. (Photo: via Eye on Palestine)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Former Chief of Staff and member of Israel’s War Council Gadi Eisenkot said that the Israeli prime minister clearly bears responsibility for the October 7 attack. His comments were the latest addition to the growing rift among Israeli politicians. 

Meanwhile, the Israeli genocidal war continues unabated. Israeli massacres are reported in Khan Yunis, Rafah and other areas in central and southern Gaza. 

Palestinian Resistance also continued at all axes of fighting in Gaza, including the northern regions. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 24,620 Palestinians have been killed, and 61,830 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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Saturday, January 20, 8:20 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces intensified their artillery shelling on the town of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip.

Israeli bombardment was also reported in Bani Suheila, Al-Zana and Abasan east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Saturday, January 20, 7:50 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINE INFORMATION CENTER: Videos broadcast by Palestinian media showed Israeli artillery firing flares in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. For several hours, fierce clashes have taking place between the Palestinian Resistance and Israeli forces in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital, in conjunction with heavy aerial and artillery shelling.

AL-JAZEERA: Heavy Israeli shelling targeted the Batn al-Samin area in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli warplanes and artillery intensively shelled the Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis.

CNN (Citing a source familiar with the matter: The administration of US President Joe Biden recently held discussions about the establishment of a possible demilitarized Palestinian state.

Saturday, January 20, 1:15 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation artillery has continued to bombard the eastern areas of the town of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip for several hours.

US ARMY CENTRAL COMMAND: We carried out strikes against three Houthi anti-ship missiles that were directed towards the southern Red Sea.

Gaza Detainees Humiliated, Dressed in Diapers by Israeli Forces – UN Rights Official

Saturday, January 19, 12:15 am (GMT+2)

ARAB LEAGUE: The Palestinian representative to the Arab League, Ambassador Muhannad al-Aklouk, announced on Friday evening that an emergency meeting would be held next Monday, to discuss developments in the war on the Gaza Strip.

BLOOMBERG: Washington and London are considering strengthening their campaign against the Houthis.

BIDEN: One of the reasons for what Hamas did on October 7 is that we were about to reach an agreement with Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel.

AL-AQSA TV: The Israeli occupation aircraft launched violent raids on several areas in the northern Gaza Strip, coinciding with shooting from military vehicles.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Violent clashes are taking place between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli occupation forces in the vicinity of Nasser Medical Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Friday, January 19, 11:30 pm (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A Palestinian woman was killed and five others from the Abu Assi family were injured in a bombing that targeted their house near the Haidar Abdel Shafi roundabout, west of Gaza City.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The families of Israeli prisoners held by the resistance in the Gaza Strip will stage a sit-in tonight in front of the house of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the city of Caesarea, south of Haifa.

US DEMOCRATS: 60 Democrats in the US House of Representatives urged Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in a letter to reaffirm opposition to forced and permanent displacement from the Gaza Strip.

KAN: Tel Aviv warned Washington in a letter against launching military action if it did not remove Hezbollah’s Raxwan Unit from the northern borders.

ISRAELI ARMY: Sirens sounded in Haifa after an interceptor missile was launched.

Friday, January 19, 9:15 pm (GMT+2)

WHITE HOUSE: Spokesman for the White House, John Kirby, said that President Biden told Netanyahu that he strongly believes in the two-state solution.

WALLA: Sirens are heard in the northern city of Haifa from the first time since the start of the war on Gaza. It was followed by a loud explosion.

Friday, January 19, 8:50 pm (GMT+2)

WASHINGTON POST: Washington and many Israeli army commanders think that Israel is far from defeating Hamas.

PALESTINIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY: Communications are partially restored to Gaza after a week-long interruption.

DEMOCRATIC SENATOR BEN CARDIN (to MSNBC):

Israel must recognize a Palestinian state.

Israel will focus on normalization when the war stops and the Hamas threat ends.

US OFFICIAL (to AL-Jazeera): We targeted Houthi sites in self-defense.

HEZBOLLAH: There will be no stability in the region unless the aggression against Gaza stops.

LEADER OF UK LABOR PARTY: A Palestinian state is the only way to reach a safe settlement, stressing that a Palestinian state is a right, not a gift.

Friday, January 19, 7:50 pm (GMT+2)

UN SPOKESMAN: Israel’s restrictions on importing equipment are affecting relief operations in northern Gaza, and the Israeli army is preventing the increase of humanitarian aid to northern Gaza.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We blew up a tunnel opening with Israeli soldiers.

WHITE HOUSE: President Joe Biden, in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, discussed developments in Israel and the Gaza Strip.

CHANNEL 12: Israel postponed the vote on transferring tax revenues owed to the Palestinian Authority, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir announced that he would vote against.

Friday, January 19, 6:30 pm (GMT+2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli tank southwest of Gaza City with an Al-Yassin 105 shell, and another Merkava tank northeast of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

GALLANT: The continuation of fighting in the Gaza Strip in southern Israel means it will also continue on the northern border with Hezbollah, but Israel will not accept the current situation for long.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Artillery shelling and fierce clashes took place between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces penetrating northeast of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted a building in which occupation soldiers were barricaded in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, and opened fire on a soldier near it, wounding him directly.

WASHINGTON POST (quoting Western, Lebanese officials): “Israel has threatened to escalate its fight with Hezbollah if an agreement is not reached within weeks.”

Netanyahu is to Blame for October 7 – War Cabinet Minister Eisenkot

Friday, January 19, 5:50 pm (GMT+2)

SAUDI FM (to MSNBC): The region is experiencing turmoil and is facing a humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip. There is a need to avoid expanding the conflict in the region.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing on the Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

NBC (quoting US official): There are new proposals on the table regarding a deal to release captives held by Hamas in Gaza, but he stated that the agreement is still far away.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli army continued its violent and intense bombardment of the Sheikh Ajlin area, southwest of Gaza City.

UN: Israel must treat detainees from Gaza in accordance with international rules.

Friday, January 19, 5:10 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted Israeli soldiers with a “Burkan” missile between the Summaqa and Ramtha sites in the occupied Shebaa Farms, confirming that a direct hit had been achieved.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli occupation army blew up a residential and commercial square in the Al-Balad area in the center of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA: Israeli violence has reached its highest levels in the West Bank.

Crimes against Humanity – Israeli President Hit with Criminal Complaint in Switzerland

Friday, January 18, 4:15 pm (GMT+2)

RUSSIAN FM: A delegation of Hamas, headed by the movement’s International Relations Office, Mousa Abu Marzouq, is headed to Moscow.

SWISS ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE (to Al-Jazeera): The office is working on a statement following criminal complaints against Israeli President Isaac Herzog. A human rights legal group in Switzerland announced that individuals had filed accusations against the Israeli president to federal prosecutors and authorities in Basel, Bern, and Zurich.

YEMENI MEDIA: Massive demonstrations took place in Sanaa and Hodeidah, Yemen, in support of the Palestinian people, and denouncing the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, and the American-British strikes on Yemen.

REUTERS: Israeli President Isaac Herzog has been targeted with a criminal complaint during his visit to Switzerland to participate in the Davos WEF, amid allegations of crimes against humanity over the war on Gaza.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We destroyed three Israeli Merkava tanks with “Shawaz” explosive devices east of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

DUTCH PM: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that he urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – in a phone call – to significantly reduce the level of violence against Palestinians.

YEMENI MEDIA: Massive demonstrations took place in Sanaa and Hodeidah, Yemen, in support of the Palestinian people, and denouncing the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, and the American-British strikes on Yemen.

Friday, January 19, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We sniped two Israeli soldiers with a Ghoul rifle east of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, amid continued Israeli bombing of the area since this morning.

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: Injuries among the displaced at Al Amal Hospital and the association’s headquarters in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, as a result of heavy gunfire from an Israeli drone.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: A drone from Lebanon was intercepted in the Acre area and sirens were not activated.

Friday, January 19, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)

GAZA MUNICIPALITY: The continued aggression and the fuel shortage crisis pose a challenge to providing basic services to citizens.

ISRAELI ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF: The Israeli army is demobilizing some reserve forces due to the tension of the battlefield and the necessities of life.

ISRAELI ARMY: 19 Israeli officers and soldiers were injured during the past 24 hours.

Friday, January 18, 1:30 pm (GMT+2)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 24,762 Palestinians have been killed, and 62,108 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

AL-JAZEERA: The bodies of three Palestinians were found following the Israeli bombing of the Qaizan al-Najjar area, in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Friday, January 19, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

GALLANT: “The goals of the war have not changed and we are determined to continue until they are achieved.”

AP: The tension between Netanyahu and the Biden administration reflects disagreement over the war

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The death toll from the bombing of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, has risen to ten since dawn.

AL-JAZEERA: Two Israeli raids targeted the town of Al-Adisa in southern Lebanon, following 10 raids that targeted the town of Ramia and Jabal Balat in southern Lebanon.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed with a barrage of mortar shells a position of Israeli occupation soldiers and vehicles in Al-Saida, east of Al-Maghazi, in the central Gaza Strip.

Friday, January 19, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The death toll from an Israeli bombing targeting a residential building near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has risen to 15.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli forces carried out ten raids between the town of Ramia and Jabal Balat in southern Lebanon.

ISRAELI HOME FRONT: Sirens sounded around Gaza.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: WE targeted an Israeli occupation military vehicle with a Tandem shell east of Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip. We are engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation soldiers east of Gaza City.

Friday, January 19, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

EISENKOT (to NYT): An agreement with Hamas is the only way to guarantee the release of the “hostages”. Israel must ask itself how it will continue with “a leadership that has completely failed.”

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli warboats launched intense bombardment on the coast of Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip.

Friday, January 19, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

LAPID: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “does not care about Israel, but about his own political interests and must be replaced quickly.”

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The outage of communications and Internet services in the Gaza Strip continues for the eighth day in a row.

AL-JAZEERA: Clashes and Israeli artillery shelling were reported in the center and west of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Friday, January 19, 06:30 am (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY: Death of a soldier from wounds sustained three days ago during battles in the southern Gaza Strip. Three other soldiers were seriously wounded in battles that took place two days ago in the southern Gaza Strip.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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