GAZA LIVE BLOG: Famine in Gaza | Israel Attacks UN trucks | Massacres throughout Gaza | North Leads Resistance – Day 138

February 21, 2024 Blog, News
Israel continues to commit massacres against civilians in Gaza. (Image: Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Israel committed new massacres throughout the Strip, killing over 50 Palestinians in central Gaza alone. 

Fierce clashes took place between Palestinian Resistance groups and invading Israeli forces. At least one soldier was killed and three wounded, according to the Israeli army. 

Meanwhile, the Yemeni Armed Forces, affiliated with the Ansarallah group, escalated by attacking a US military ship for the first time, while Israeli airstrikes targeted Syria. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 29,313 Palestinians have been killed, and 69,333 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Thursday, February 22, 12:00 am (GMT+2)

AXIOS: The CIA director will visit Paris to hold talks on detainees.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli forces launched raids on Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

‘No Food, No Water. Shame on the World!’ – Gaza’s Children Decry Aid Scarcity (VIDEO)

Wednesday, February 21, 11:00 pm (GMT+2)

UN HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES: Civilians in Gaza are in grave danger and the world is watching.

GALLANT. Israel is facing difficulties in returning the kidnapped people from Gaza.

CNN (quoting US Diplomat): Netanyahu is not ready to reach a prisoner exchange agreement.

KAN: The Israeli army is investigating weapons thefts during the war on Gaza

Wednesday, February 21, 9:45 pm (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: 14 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing of a house in the Nuseirat camp.

BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE: Britain and Jordan airdropped 4 tons of aid, including medicine, fuel and food, to Tal Al-Hawa Hospital in northern Gaza.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains difficult and dire.

‘We Should Kill Them All’ – US Congressman on Children Being Killed in Gaza (VIDEO)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We blew up a Merkava tank with a strobe device in the Zaytoun neighborhood.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: an Israeli air strike targeted a house in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, leaving a number of martyrs and wounded.

EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL: Aid cannot be brought into Gaza without an agreement with Israel.

FRANCE: Israel’s continued construction of settlements undermines the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Wednesday, February 21, 6:55 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes launched a raid on the town of Khiam in southern Lebanon.

UNITED NATIONS: Major challenges hinder the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip.

UN EXPERTS: Israel must stop firing in Gaza immediately.

GANTZ: Initial signs that enhance the possibility of progress in the negotiations.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We, along with the Al-Nasser Brigades, bombed the occupation forces east of Jabalya.

SMOTRICH: There is one way to return the kidnapped people, which is to put pressure on Sinwar.

Wednesday, February 21, 6:55 pm (GMT+2)

HAMAS: The international community is required to recognize a fully sovereign Palestinian state.

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the Avivim settlement, killing and wounding those inside.

NORWEGIAN FM: Norway calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and the strengthening of humanitarian work.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted two Israeli vehicles and a tank in Khan Yunis.

Wednesday, February 21, 5:20 pm (GMT+2)

BLOOMBERG (quoting British officials): The British government is considering restricting some arms exports to Israel if it launches an attack on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted two groups of occupation soldiers in Khan Yunis.

WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: The northern Gaza Strip needs humanitarian aid to avoid a disaster.

RUSSIA’S REPRESENTATIVE TO ICJ: Israel rejects the right of the Palestinians to self-determination.

‘Horrified’ – Two Killed in Israeli Attack on Doctors Without Borders Shelter

ABC: Israel is considering opening the Karni crossing to bring aid into northern Gaza.

Wednesday, February 21, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: Citizens of the northern Gaza Strip eat animal feed.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli troop carrier in the Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis.

GRIFFITHS: Half a million people in Gaza are on the brink of famine.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombarded with mortar a gathering of occupation soldiers in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

AL-JAZEERA: Knesset voted by a majority on the Israeli government’s proposal not to unilaterally recognize the Palestinian state.

Wednesday, February 21, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

GALLANT: We are committed to destroying Hamas and returning the hostages.

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters targeted two Israeli military sites with guided missiles.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters were able to target a group of Israeli occupation soldiers barricaded inside a house in the Al-Amal neighborhood, west of Khan Yunis (southern Gaza Strip), with an anti-fortified shell. Three soldiers were killed and an Israeli helicopter landed to evacuate them.

Wednesday, February 21, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Marj site with missile weapons, and achieved direct hits.

UNICEF: The deteriorating nutritional status of children in Gaza is unprecedented globally.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced that it bombed 3 Hezbollah operational command centers in southern Lebanon.

EGYPT’S REPRESENTATIVE AT ICJ: Israel continues its massacre in Gaza and imposes a siege and starvation. Israel continues its illegal practices in the West Bank and supports settler violence.

SYRIAN MEDIA: Syrian media reported hearing explosions in the capital, Damascus.

Us representative at ICJ: There is great international support for the establishment of a Palestinian state.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The situation in Nasser Hospital is dangerous.

UAE’S REPRESENTATIVE AT ICJ: Israel’s violations impede the two-state solution.

Wednesday, February 21, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)

LEBANESE CIVIL DEFENSE: The Civil Defense in southern Lebanon announced the death of the girl who was injured in the Israeli raid that targeted the town of Mansouri.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: One person was killed and others were injured in a bombing that targeted a group of Palestinians in the center of Rafah.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters sniped an Israeli soldier in the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, wounding him directly.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: Israel did not present a plan to protect civilians in Rafah before its threatened attack.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli drone bombardment targeted the Khirbet Al-Adas area in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: Eight patients were killed as a result of the electrical generator stopping and the patients being given oxygen, at the Nasser Medical Complex.

Wednesday, February 21, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a military site of Israeli soldiers in the settlement of Evin Menachem and another in the settlement of Shomira, and achieved a direct hit on both of them.

UNRWA: More than 300,000 students in the Agency’s schools have suspended their education.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 29,313 Palestinians have been killed, and 69,333 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

HAMAS: Suspension of World Food Program aid will double the suffering in northern Gaza.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We destroyed two Israeli vehicles with piercing-type barrel bombs in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

BEN-GVIR: Aid must be prevented from entering Gaza.

Wednesday, February 21, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The occupation uses the weapon of starvation against our people in Gaza to achieve genocide.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli raids targeted the towns of Khiam and Marwahin in southern Lebanon.

Wednesday, February 21, 10:30 am (GMT+2)

RED CRESCENT: We evacuated 21 wounded from Nasser Hospital.

CNN: Israel fired on a UN aid convoy on February 5.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The residents of the Gaza Strip have entered a stage of famine.

SYRIAN MEDIA: Two killed in Israeli bombing on a residential neighborhood in Damascus

CHINESE FM: The humanitarian situation in Gaza is very serious, and the Security Council should take measures to strengthen the ceasefire.

AL-JAZEERA: The bodies of 9 Palestinians, including 3 children, arrived from the Mawasi Khan Yunis area to Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: 52 Palestinians were killed in the continuous Israeli bombing of homes in the central region of the Gaza Strip since yesterday evening, Tuesday.

Wednesday, February 21, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: Israeli army forces faced three serious incidents in the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, resulting in casualties.

RED CRESCENT: A real famine in the Gaza Strip led to the death of a number of Palestinians.

SMOTRICH: Hamas must be destroyed in order to return the detainees.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: 6 Palestinians were killed and others injured, in an Israeli bombing of a civilian car on Abu Hosni Street in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Wednesday, February 21, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: More than 45 people were killed in Israeli bombing of homes in the central region of the Gaza Strip since yesterday evening.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli gunboats bombed the coast of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Bodies and wounded were found in the Al-Mawasi area and the new port, north of Khan Yunis.

Wednesday, February 21, 07:00 am (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced the killing of a soldier, and the wounding of 3 others from the “932 Battalion” of the Nahal Brigade, during battles in the northern Gaza Strip.

Wednesday, February 21, 06:00 am (GMT+2)

US CENTRAL COMMAND: the Houthis in Yemen fired two anti-ship ballistic missiles at the ship “Sea Champion” on February 19 while it was sailing to the port of Aden.

Wednesday, February 21, 02:00 am (GMT+2)

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: Israel bombed a shelter hosting some of our employees and their families in Khan Yunis.

Wednesday, February 21, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

BRAZILIAN FM: The Israeli Foreign Ministry’s statements are unacceptable in form and substance.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The death toll following an Israeli raid on a house in the El Geneina neighborhood, east of Rafah, has risen to 8.

Wednesday, February 21, 12:00 am (GMT+2)

WHO: Israel does not want to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

WSJ: The Houthis targeted American military ships for the first time.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: 20 Palestinians were killed as a result of the continued Israeli bombing of the city of Khan Yunis.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: The US State Department said that an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza benefits the Hamas movement.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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