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August 16, 2024 Blog, News
Israel continues to carry out massacres against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.(Photo: via QNN)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Hezbollah published a video titled ‘Our Mountains Are Our Treasures’ showing a missile launch facility called Al-Imad 4.

At least 20 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes on several homes in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, over the past few hours.

The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to dismiss Defense Minister Yoav Galant due to increasing tensions between them.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 40,005 Palestinians have been killed, and 92,401 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Saturday, August 17, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Three Israeli raids targeted the vicinity of the southern entrance to the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip.

TOP HAMAS OFFICIAL HUSSAM BADRAN: Netanyahu is stalling negotiations and America continues to provide cover for the occupation.

BIDEN: No one in the Middle East should undermine the achievement of a ceasefire and the release of detainees.

Saturday, August 17, 12:00 am (GMT+2)

SECURITY OFFICIALS (cited in Kan): The Israeli army’s operations in Gaza have generally ended. Israel could re-enter Gaza when new intelligence becomes available.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A number of Palestinians were injured tonight after the occupation bombed a house located near the European Hospital east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed Israeli army artillery positions in Al-Zaoura in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights with rockets.

IRANIAN FM: By supplying the Zionists with war weapons, the US is itself an accomplice, not a neutral mediator, so I emphasized on using all capacities to force the Zionist aggressors to stop killing and crimes in Gaza.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli warplanes launched a raid tonight on the town of Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip.

Friday, August 16, 11:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded tonight in the Upper Galilee to warn of rocket fire.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: a Palestinian was killed and others were injured tonight in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.

UNICEF: Polio vaccination in Gaza is impossible without a seven-day humanitarian truce.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Two rockets fired this evening from the Gaza Strip fell inside what is known as the Gaza Envelope, which includes several settlements.

WASHINGTON POST: Iran has asked China for help in the field of surveillance satellites. Iran seeks partnerships with two Chinese satellite companies. The Iran-China deal could provide Tehran with enhanced capabilities for its ballistic missile arsenal.

CHANNEL 12 (citing Israeli officials): We do not agree with the estimates of lowering the state of alert of Iran and Hezbollah. We assume that an attack from Iran or Hezbollah could happen at any moment.

AL-AQSA TV: The Ministry of Health in Gaza recorded the first confirmed case of polio in the besieged Strip, noting that the infected person is a 10-month-old infant from Deir al-Balah who did not receive any vaccination against the disease.

Friday, August 16, 10:00 pm (GMT+2)

TOP HAMAS OFFICIAL (to Al-Jazeera): The new American proposal responds to the conditions of the occupation and aligns with them.

Friday, August 16, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)

US MEDIA: Anthony Blinken will travel to Israel tomorrow, Saturday.

Friday, August 16, 8:30 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted buildings used by Israeli occupation soldiers in the settlement of Metulla with appropriate weapons.

AL-AQSA TV: There Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli shelling targeting the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: Injured in Israeli shelling targeting land in the Qaa al-Qurain area east of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: We shelled the Asi site with artillery shells and achieved a “direct hit”.

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AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed the Miftahim compound and the Nirim military site with short-range 114mm Rajum rockets.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted residential apartments in the Hamad City Towers, northwest of Khan Yunis.

GUTERRES: We are ready to launch a polio vaccination campaign in Gaza.

Friday, August 16, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)

BIDEN: We haven’t reached a ceasefire agreement in Gaza yet, but we are closer.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli air strike targets the vicinity of the town of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon.

NETANYAHU’S OFFICE: We hope pressure will lead Hamas to accept the principles of the May 27 proposal.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A number of Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli raid on the Qaa al-Qurain area, southeast of Khan Yunis, while two people were killed in an Israeli drone strike on Palestinians near the Dawla Junction in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: Settler attacks in the West Bank are unacceptable and must be stopped.

ISRAELI ARMY: We intercepted a drone and another fell in the northern Golan.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH (citing Israeli security official): Israel received the American proposal, which is completely unacceptable to Netanyahu.

KIRBY: The Doha negotiations are a positive step but there is a lot of work to be done.

TOP HAMAS OFFICIAL: A leading source in Hamas told Al-Jazeera that what they were informed about the results of the Doha meetings “does not include commitment to what was agreed upon on July 2.”

Friday, August 16, 5:30 pm (GMT+2)

QATARI-AMERICAN-EGYPTIAN STATEMENT: The talks in Doha were serious and constructive and were held in a positive atmosphere. ill continue to work in the coming days on the details of implementing the ceasefire proposal in Gaza.

UNRWA: We call for a seven-day humanitarian truce in Gaza to allow polio vaccination.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: The Israeli negotiating delegation will return from Doha this evening.

LEBANESE PM: We call on our Arab brothers to rein in Israel and restore calm to southern Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens are sounding in the town of Shlomi in the Western Galilee, warning of rocket fire.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Four people were injured in an Israeli bombardment targeting displaced people near Hamad City, north of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

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AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Israeli forces positioned in the Netzarim axis with short-range Rajum rockets of 114 mm caliber.

Friday, August 16, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)

WASHINGTON POST: Progress was made in the Doha negotiations on their first day.

AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens are sounding in Nirim, in the Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a deployment of occupation soldiers around the Metla barracks with rockets.

Friday, August 16, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

WALL AND SETTLEMENT RESISTANCE COMMISSION: Aettlers, under the protection of the occupation army, have set 273 fires on Palestinian lands and property since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip.

TOP HAMAS OFFICIAL IZZAT AL-RISHQ: The occupation’s forcing of the residents of northern Khan Yunis and eastern Deir al-Balah to flee is a deepening of genocide and collective punishment.

EU BORRELL: We condemn the settler attacks in the village of Jit in the West Bank.
Settler attacks aim to terrorize Palestinian civilians.

Friday, August 16, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)

IRANIAN EMBASSY IN BEIRUT: Iran can attack the enemy from any point in the Islamic Republic of Iran if necessary.

HAARETZ: The Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted soldiers in the occupation army who served in the Sde Teiman prison as saying that prisoners are tortured in a hidden place.

Friday, August 16, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: Hezbollah published a video titled “Our Mountains Are Our Treasures” showing a missile launch facility called Al-Imad 4.

US AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL Shocked by settler attack on Palestinians in West Bank yesterday. Settler attacks on Palestinians must stop and the criminals must be punished.

Friday, August 16, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

MAARIV: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to dismiss Defense Minister Yoav Gallant after tensions between them reached a boiling point.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted “a building where enemy soldiers were fortified with a suicide plane east of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.”

Friday, August 16, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

KAN: US President Donald Trump said he would provide Israel with the support it needs to win, stressing, “But I want them to win quickly.”

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: At least 20 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes on a number of homes in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, over the past few hours.

TRUMP: “Israel looks small on the map, and I have always thought about how it can be expanded.”

Friday, August 16, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

POLL BY MAARIV: 40% of Israelis say Netanyahu is preferred to head the government, compared to 39% in favor of Gantz.

47% of Israelis oppose the dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Galant, compared to 27% who support it.

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will become the party’s first force if he returns to politics.

NORWAY: Norway’s support for the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people must continue with full force.

The Israeli occupation army announces the bombing of “military targets belonging to Hezbollah in Kfar Kila, Rmeish and Ramya in southern Lebanon.”

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli occupation army announced the bombing of “military targets belonging to Hezbollah in Kfar Kila, Rmeish and Ramya in southern Lebanon.”

Friday, August 16, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli artillery shelling targets Al-Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip and Rafah city in the south.

Friday, August 16, 07:00 am (GMT+2)

AXIOS: Some progress was made on the first day of the new round of ceasefire negotiations in Gaza.

Friday, August 16, 04:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: One person was killed and five others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli airstrike targeted a house north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli bombing of a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City killed and wounded scores of Palestinians.

Friday, August 16, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

REUTERS (citing US official): The mediators concluded a constructive day of discussions on Gaza, and the talks will continue today, Friday.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in towns in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights to warn of the launch of missiles and drones.

REUTERS (citing Pentagon): 40,000 American soldiers are currently in the Middle East, compared to about 34,000 under normal circumstances.

Thursday, August 15, 11:30 pm (GMT+2)

SYRIAN MEDIA: Syrian media reported hearing explosions in the sky of Homs in central Syria.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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