GAZA LIVE BLOG: Deadly Ambush in Tel Al-Sultan | Fierce Battles in Deir Al-Balah | Ceasefire Talks to Resume in Cairo – Day 323

Israel continues to carry out massacres against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.(Photo: via QNN)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

A delegation from the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas is heading to Cairo on Saturday, according to Al-Jazeera.

The bodies of 12 Palestinians were recovered from Hamad Residential City, northwest of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah launched 14 attacks on Israeli military sites. This is the largest number of attacks launched bin 35 days.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 40,334 Palestinians have been killed, and 93,356 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

This blog has been discontinued. Click here for the new blog.

Sunday, August 25, 03:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli aircraft are flying intensively in the skies of Gaza City, accompanied by violent shelling of the Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of the city.

Sunday, August 25, 02:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelled the eastern line area in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: 6 Palestinians were killed and a number were wounded in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Sunday, August 25, 12:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli drone strike targets the town of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon.

ISRAELI MEDIA: the Israeli police arrested 3 people during a demonstration in occupied Jerusalem demanding a prisoner exchange deal and the dismissal of the government.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli airstrike targets Tel Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah.

Saturday, August 24, 11:00 pm (GMT+2)

LAPID: Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go to Cairo himself immediately, rather than sending a negotiating delegation to conclude the deal, as negotiations are expected to resume tomorrow in the Egyptian capital.

Saturday, August 24, 10:00 pm (GMT+2)

IRGC COMMANDER: You will hear good news about our revenge.

MEDICAL SOURCES: 71 Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli raids on various areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip today, in light of forced evacuation orders issued by the occupation for Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held consultations with the negotiating team tonight regarding the powers that will be granted to them before the resumption of the Cairo talks tomorrow, Sunday.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN HAGARI: We are waiting for a political decision regarding the northern front.

Saturday, August 24, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a military intelligence force with missiles in the vicinity of the Israeli Raheb site, indicating that a direct hit had been achieved.

KAN (citing Israeli officials): Estimates indicate that Hezbollah is determined to attack soon, in light of its vow to respond to the assassination of the leader Fouad Shukr in Beirut.

EGYPT: The Egyptian Foreign Ministry stated that Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed the regional situation in light of the ongoing war on Gaza in a phone call with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi.

Saturday, August 24, 8:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli air strike targeted the vicinity of the station area in the center of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the Ruwaysat al-Alam site.

Saturday, August 24, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)

LAPID: Netanyahu has to go and should have resigned on October 8.

CHANNEL 12: A number of rockets were launched towards the northern Golan Heights, and air defense systems intercepted some of them.

FAMILIES OF ISRAELI PRISONERS: The kidnapped can be saved and we believe that the Cairo negotiations are a last chance.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We blew up a tunnel booby-trapped by a Zionist force east of Deir al-Balah.

Saturday, August 24, 6:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Enemy soldiers killed and wounded in clashes east of Deir al-Balah.

KAN: A delegation will travel to Cairo tomorrow to participate in the negotiations.

AL-JAZEERA: A demonstration took place in front of the Israeli President’s home in Tel Aviv, demanding that he clarify his position on the exchange deal.

CHANNEL 12: Security forces found the two Jewish settlers who entered Qalqiliya.

Saturday, August 24, 5:00 pm (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Palestinians in the Hakr al-Jami’ area in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.

HAMAS: We condemn the burning of copies of the Holy Quran by Zionist soldiers during their storming and desecration of the Bani Saleh Mosque in the northern Gaza Strip.

GEN. YITZHAK BRIK: Netanyahu told me there is no solution to the tunnels and I wonder what can be done in Philadelphia.

CHANNEL 14: Two settlers who entered Qalqilya in the northern West Bank “to repair their car” had disappeared, noting that the forces that entered Qalqilya to search for the Israelis were shot at and did not find them.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The bodies of two martyrs were recovered from the Al-Satar Al-Gharbi area in Khan Yunis.

AXIOS (citing Israeli sources): The US Army Chief of Staff will visit Israel tomorrow, Sunday, to coordinate a possible attack by Iran and Hezbollah.

Saturday, August 24, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)

UNICEF to Al-Jazeera: I was denied entry to Gaza as part of the polio vaccination campaign.

AL-JAZEERA: A Palestinian was killed and another wounded in Israeli shelling of the Al-Hakr area in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with a “Yassin 105” shell east of the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

REUTERS (citing informed source): There is a disagreement between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli negotiators after his insistence on keeping the army in the Philadelphi corridor in the Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the occupation soldiers with artillery shells in the vicinity of the Hadab Yaron site, and achieved a “direct hit.”

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Several Palestinians, most of them children, were killed and injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Saturday, August 24, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

MAARIV: Israeli air defenses intercepted a “suspicious” aerial object off the coast of the city of Nahariya.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a number of Israeli military sites, in a continuation of the confrontation between the two parties across the border.

MEDICAL SOURCES: 50 Palestinians were killed in continuous Israeli shelling of various areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip since dawn on Saturday.

Saturday, August 24, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli occupation army issued new evacuation orders for residents of a number of areas in Gaza, in continuation of the policy it has adopted since the beginning of its aggression on the Strip.

IRANIAN FM: The Zionist entity’s aggression against our security and sovereignty will not remain unanswered. Our response will be thorough and thoughtful, taking all issues into consideration.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Four Palestinians were killed and a number of others were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Maan area, southeast of Khan Yunis.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: rockets fired from Lebanon exploded at an army position in Shtula in the Western Galilee, without causing any injuries.

Saturday, August 24, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters targeted the occupation army soldiers at the Harmon site with a suicide drone and achieved a direct hit.

HAMAS: Our delegation, headed by Khalil Al-Hayya, will arrive in Cairo at the invitation of the mediators in Egypt and Qatar to review the results of the recent negotiations. We affirm our commitment to what we agreed to on July 2, which is the agreement based on the Biden Declaration and the Security Council resolution.

Saturday, August 24, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters detonated a minefield prepared in advance with a number of occupation vehicles and equipment east of Deir al-Balah, announcing that helicopters had been spotted landing for evacuation.

DEIR AL-BALAH MUNICIPALITY: 100,000 citizens were displaced from the east of the city during the past two days, and 20 shelters were out of service.

ASSOCIATED PRESS: 90% of Gaza’s 2.1 million population were displaced during the war.

Saturday, August 24, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The bodies of 12 Palestinians were recovered from Hamad Residential City, northwest of Khan Yunis.

IRANIAN MINISTRY OF INTELLIGENCE: Reports indicate that internal elements were not involved in the assassination of the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Ismail Haniyeh.

HAARETZ: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is leading Israel to a dangerous crossroads between a hostage deal or escalation.

CHANNEL 12: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to US President Joe Biden to evacuate one kilometer of the Philadelphia corridor south of the Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens are sounding in Kiryat Shmona, Kfar Giladi and Tel Hai in the Upper Galilee.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted an Israeli troop carrier with a “Yassin 105” shell east of the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: Israeli occupation raids and operations reduced the safe areas in the Gaza Strip from 230 km to 35 km.

Saturday, August 24, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: There were injuries in a bomb explosion dropped by an Israeli drone near a school in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

CALCALIST: Hezbollah’s precision missiles are capable of reaching every corner of Israel.

AL-JAZEERA: One person was killed and three others were injured by Israeli fire in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The number of victims of the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the Al-Katiba area in Khan Yunis has risen to 11.

Saturday, August 24, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two Palestinians were killed in the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the Al-Katiba area in Khan Yunis.

AL-JAZEERA: A delegation from Hamas is heading to Cairo today.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A number of Palestinians were killed and others were injured when the occupation aircraft bombed citizens in the Abu Areef area, east of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

Saturday, August 24, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Artillery shelling from Israeli tanks penetrating the Hakr Al-Jami’ area in Deir al-Balah amid clashes with the resistance.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Air strikes and artillery shelling targeted eastern Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Saturday, August 24, 07:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli occupation targeted eastern Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip with air strikes and artillery shelling.

Saturday, August 24, 06:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli army targeted the outskirts of the Kounine Forest and Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon with artillery shelling.

Saturday, August 24, 05:00 am (GMT+2)

LEBANESE MEDIA: Israeli occupation aircraft targeted the Ain Jalut towers in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Saturday, August 24, 04:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the Kfar Yuval settlement in the Galilee Finger in northern Israel.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The number of victims of the bombing that targeted a house in the Al-Amal neighborhood in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, has risen to 9 martyrs.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli occupation army blew up residential buildings west of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.

Saturday, August 24, 02:00 am (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 12: Interceptor missiles were fired into the skies of the city of Kiryat Ata, east of Haifa in northern Israel, and the Israeli army confirmed the interception of a suspicious air target launched from Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the cities of Tamra and I’billin in the Lower Galilee, northern Israel.

Saturday, August 24, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli occupation forces carried out a violent raid on Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, and also blew up residential buildings in the Kuwaiti roundabout area, the Aliyin square, and the university college, south of Gaza City.

Saturday, August 24, 12:00 am (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: Hezbollah launched 14 attacks on Israeli military sites. This is the largest number of attacks launched in 35 days.

WASHINGTON POST: Netanyahu feels pressure to release captives.

Friday, August 23, 11:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-MASIRAH: The Ansarallah in Yemen broadcast footage of a Greek ship burning in the Red Sea, saying it “violated the decision to ban entry to the ports of occupied Palestine.”

(The Palestine Chronicle)

(The Palestine Chronicle is a registered 501(c)3 organization, thus, all donations are tax deductible.)
Our Vision For Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out