GAZA LIVE BLOG – Israeli Army Shells Deir Al-Balah | Fierce Fighting in Khan Yunis | Qassam Strikes Tel Aviv | New Massacres throughout Gaza – DAY 87

January 1, 2024 Blog, News
The majority of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes are women and children. (Photo: via Eye on Palestine)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The Israeli army has decided to withdraw five of its nearly 17 brigades operating in Gaza, under intense pressure from stiff and growing Palestinian Resistance. 

Meanwhile, fierce fighting continued in Khan Yunis and Bureij, as Israeli forces continued to shell central Gaza by air, sea and land. 

Despite Israeli claims that it has downgraded the missile capabilities of the Resistance, Al-Qassam Bridges fired a volley of rockets at the greater Tel Aviv areas.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health,  21,978 Palestinians have been killed, and 57,697 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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LATEST UPDATES:

Tuesday, January 2, 07:30 am

YNET NEWS: “Israel plans to present its case against South Africa petition for interim order demanding immediate suspension of Israeli military actions in Gaza.”

REUTERS (Citing US Official): Israel’s decision to withdraw some of its troops from the Gaza Strip appears to be the beginning of a gradual shift to less intensive operations in the northern enclave.

TASNIM: Iran’s Alborz warship has passed through the Bab al-Mandab Strait and entered the Red Sea.

Abu Obeida: 42 Missions, 71 Vehicles, 16 Soldiers

AL-MAYADEEN:

Strong winds and rain destroy tents of displaced Palestinians in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Intense Israeli bombardment of east and central Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.

Continued fierce clashes between Palestinian fighters and invading Israeli troops in the Tufah and Daraj neighborhoods in Gaza.

Israeli boats shell Palestinians areas in central Gaza.

Tuesday, January 2, 1:00 am

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: There are 50,000 pregnant women and more than 900,000 children who lack the necessary health care in shelter centers in the Strip.

LIKUD: The right-wing Likud Party, led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, criticized the Supreme Court’s cancellation of the controversial ‘reasonableness law’, which Netanyahu had long advocated as part of a package of judicial reform laws.

AL-JAZEERA: Residents of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, were able to rescue a baby boy alive, who had been trapped for hours under the rubble of his demolished house as a result of Israeli occupation bombing.

Tuesday, January 2, 12:00 am

ISRAELI ARMY: We withdrew our forces from Gaza to reduce the economic burden.

ANSARALLAH: A source in the Ansarallah Houthi group denied to Al Jazeera that any clashes had occurred with an American warship in the Red Sea.

Monday, January 1, 10:20 pm

MAARIV: The Ansarallah group attacked an American warship in the Red Sea.

PRISONERS AND EX-PRISONERS AFFAIRS COMMISSION: “A prisoner from the West Bank was martyred as a result of being subjected to torture, without knowing any details yet about the identity of the martyr, and verification and follow-up are underway.

GANTZ: The Supreme Court’s decision to abolish the “reasonableness” law must be respected.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the southern occupied Syrian Golan.

Monday, January 1, 9:20 pm

HAARETZ: 11 Israeli soldiers were injured in a battle in northern Gaza.

ISRAELI ARMY: An Israeli military aircraft launched a raid on the outskirts of the town of Alma al-Shaab in the western sector of southern Lebanon.

ABU OBEIDA: We destroyed 71 vehicles and carried out 42 military missions within 4 days.

ISRAELI SOROKA HOSPITAL: We received 24 soldiers within 24 hours.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: The priority is the return of the residents of the south and north to their areas.

ISARELI MEDIA: The army continues to withdraw from northern Gaza.

Monday, January 1, 8:20 pm

ISRAELI COMMANDERS: Fighting continues in the Al-Daraj and Al-Tuffah neighborhoods.

YAIR LAPID: We support the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the reasonableness law.

UNRWA: Israeli forces ordered a thousand displaced people to evacuate a school in the Bureij camp.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted 26 occupation vehicles within 48 hours.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Five soldiers were injured after Hezbollah fired anti-tank missiles towards Admit in the Western Galilee.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Supreme Court strikes down “limitation of reasonableness” law.

Monday, January 1, 7:15 pm

REUTERS: Reuters quoted a US official as saying that Israel’s decision to withdraw forces from Gaza appears to be the beginning of a shift toward less intense operations in northern Gaza, but he said that this shift does not change the situation in the south.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced the killing of an officer in battles in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing the official death toll since October 7 to 507.

CHANNEL 12: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold a discussion tomorrow about the day after the war in the Israeli War Council, after pressure from the Minister in the Council, Benny Gantz, and the Minister without Portfolio in the Israeli War Cabinet, Gadi Eisenkot.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: detonated a minefield with Israeli force after entering the Hebron military site in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, killing 15 soldiers.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Yaara barracks and we achieved a direct hit.

SETTLEMENT OFFICIAL: The head of a settlement council in southern Israel accused the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to bribe residents with financial grants in exchange for returning to the settlements around the Gaza Strip, which are still subject to missile attacks from the Strip.

HAMAS: The occupation’s statements displacing our people from Gaza are a daydream.

Monday, January 1, 6:15 pm

AL-JAZEERA: The Palestinian resistance launched a batch of rockets from the northern Gaza Strip towards Israeli sites and cities.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: 42 people who were at the “Nova” festival during the Palestinian Resistance operation on October 7 filed the first civil lawsuit against the Israeli army, police, and Shin Bet.

AL-JAZEERA: The death toll from Israel’s bombing of a house in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip rose to 15.

BANK OF ISRAEL: The costs of the war will amount to more than 58 billion dollars.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in Al-Qarara in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli forces have targeted a school housing displaced people in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Seven Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Monday, January 1, 5:00 pm

NETANYAHU: We have disagreements with Washington over the Gaza war.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted 3 Israeli soldiers in the Al-Qarara area, north of Khan Yunis, with an anti-personnel missile, confirming that they were killed or wounded.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli army targeted the town of Kafr Kila in southern Lebanon with an Israeli raid for the third time today.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We sniped an Israeli soldier east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, and confirmed his death.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Israel should establish a new settlement in the Strip, stressing that future solutions will not be similar to previous solutions in Gaza.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We blew up a tunnel with a number of occupation soldiers on Jabal Al-Rayes, east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, and confirmed that it left them dead and wounded, amid continuing fighting in the neighborhood.

RED CRESCENT: We transported six dead – most of them children – and two wounded after an Israeli plane targeted a house in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted 5 Israeli vehicles invading the east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, amid the continued bombing of the neighborhood by the occupation for days.

Monday, January 1, 3:45 pm

HEZBOLLAH: Hezbollah announced that it had targeted the Israeli site Hadab Al-Bustan and had achieved direct casualties.

AL-JAZEERA: The continued Israeli bombing of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip since this morning has so far resulted in the death of nine Palestinians and the injury of dozens.

TURKISH FRIENDSHIP ONCOLOGY HOSPITAL: The Turkish Friendship Oncology Hospital in the Gaza Strip announced that it has 10,000 cancer patients who are now without medication after the hospital went out of service.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army informed the family of an Israeli from the Be’eri settlement of his death on October 7, after he was believed to be detained by Hamas in Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Khan Yunis refugee camp, south of the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Tel Aviv plans to bring in 80,000 foreign workers, most of them from Asia, instead of workers coming from the West Bank, especially to support the construction sector.

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We targeted, with a drone, the American base in the city of Al-Shaddadi, south of Al-Hasakah in Syria.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 21,978 Palestinians have been killed, and 57,697 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

ISRAELI ARMY: 2,234 soldiers, including 355 were seriously injured, since the beginning of the war on Gaza, including 41 soldiers during the last 24 hours in the battles in the Strip.

Monday, January 1, 2:30 pm

AL-QASSAM: Our fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell north of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: 15 Palestinians were killed and others were injured as a result of Israeli bombing on citizens’ homes in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

IRANIAN MEDIA: An Iranian destroyer crossed the Bab al-Mandab Strait into the Red Sea as part of “regular missions in international waters.”

HAMAS: We call on the Red Cross and human rights institutions to assume their responsibilities regarding what female prisoners are exposed to in the occupation prisons.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed with Badr 1 missiles a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers and vehicles, east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Monday, January 1, 1:30 pm

CHANNEL 12: An anti-tank missile was launched from Lebanese territory towards Metulla in the Upper Galilee, causing no casualties, while sirens sounded in the area.

AL-JAZEERA: The battles between the Palestinian Resistance and the invading Israeli army are currently concentrated around the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli occupation forces are carrying out continuous artillery shelling on the southern neighborhoods of Gaza City.

HAARET (quoting Israeli source): The next phase of the war will last 6 months, and the forces in Gaza are ready to move to the northern front.

AL-JAZEERA:

Six Palestinians were killed as a result of an Israeli occupation aircraft raid on the Bir al-Na’ja area, west of Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip.

Three Palestinians were killed and a number of others were wounded as a result of an Israeli bombing on a house in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters reported – after returning from the clash areas in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip – that they set up a tight ambush for an Israeli special force, in one of the houses in front of which the occupation vehicles were stationed in the camp.

REUTERS (quoting Israeli official): The forces that withdrew from Gaza will be ready to rotate on the northern border with Lebanon.

Monday, January 1, 12:30 pm

AL-JAZEERA: Injuries were reported as a result of Israeli artillery shelling on the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation aircraft launched raids on Juhr al-Dik, east of the central region of the Gaza Strip, and on the southern neighborhoods of Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA:

Israeli occupation forces are carrying out violent and continuous artillery shelling on areas north of Gaza City and camps in the central Strip.

Sirens sounded in all towns of the Upper Galilee after a suspected drone infiltration from Lebanon.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades announced that it had taken control of an Israeli drone that was on an “intelligence mission” in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH (citing Senior officials in ISRAELI ARMY): Hamas’s missile capabilities will continue for two years.

Monday, January 1, 11:30 am

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Washington informed Israel of the departure of the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford.

IRANIAN FM: Israel’s attacks on Syria constitute a “violation of international law, through which it seeks to transfer its internal crisis to other countries.”

Monday, January 1, 10:00 am

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We are engaged in fierce clashes east and north of Khan Yunis.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli drone bombed, with two missiles, a house in the vicinity of the town of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli artillery shelling targeted Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, coinciding with clashes between the Resistance and the occupation army.

ANADOLU: Thousands of Turks participated in a massive march in Istanbul in solidarity with the Palestinian people on the first day of the New Year.

AL-JAZEERA: Four Palestinians were killed as a result of the continuous Israeli bombing of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, since dawn on Monday.

ISRAEL TODAY: The army is preparing to confront the scenario of fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah or armed groups loyal to Iran to infiltrate through Jordan towards Israeli settlements.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA:  A Palestinian fisherman was injured as Israeli boats opened fire off the shore of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Monday, January 1, 09:00 am

MAARIV: Israel offered America a plan regarding the Philadelphi route. The plan includes establishing a barrier, with American funding, to prevent smuggling between Egyptian Rafah and Palestinian Rafah.

ISRAELI ARMY: 29 of our deaths were caused by the friendly fire and other incidents.

HAARETZ: Fears in Israel regarding genocide charges before the International Court of Justice.

BRITISH DEFENSE MINISTER: We are ready for direct action against the Houthis.

Monday, January 1, 08:00 am

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli army boats shelled the beach of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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