GAZA LIVE BLOG: Gaza Ceasefire Talks Continue | Scores Killed in New Israeli Strikes | WHO: Only Civilians Were at Shifa | Indonesian Hospital Under Siege – DAY 45

November 20, 2023 Blog, News, Videos
Israel has intensifed its attacks against Gaza hospitals. (Photo: Waleed Musleh, via Social Media)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi is meeting with his Arab and Islamic counterparts to discuss the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Scores were killed in renewed Israeli massacres targeting various parts of the Strip. They include an attack on the Indonesian hospital, which is currently under Israeli military siege. Many patients have been killed or wounded in the Israeli strikes. 

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Tuesday, November 21, 07:30 am (GMT+3)

WFP: The World Food Program (WFP) says nearly 2.2 million people in Gaza are in need of urgent food assistance.

AL-JAZEERA:

Palestinian Resistance is engaged in clashes in a number of areas in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip.

Israeli shelling targeted a school housing displaced people in the Fallujah area, west of Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Communications were cut off in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip after Israeli shelling targeted communication towers.

ISRAELI MILITARY: Two occupation soldiers were killed, and five others were wounded during the ongoing fighting in the northern Gaza Strip.

XINHUA: Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron agreed during a phone call on the need to avoid the deterioration of the situation in the Gaza Strip.

Putin’s Speech at BRICS Summit Will Focus on Gaza – Kremlin

Tuesday, November 21, 02:00 am (GMT+3)

ISRAELI PM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he, and the War Council met with the families of the detainees and told them that bringing them back is a sacred mission.

HIZBOLLAH: The Lebanese Hezbollah announced the death of one of its members in clashes with the Israeli occupation army on Lebanon’s southern border. Hezbollah’s death toll rises to 77 since October 8, according to previous data issued by the party.

WHO: The World Health Organization announced that its teams only saw civilians at Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip and stressed that “there is no evidence that it was used as a military headquarters” by the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas. Rob Holden, WHO’s senior emergency officer, said: “Our main focus has been on patients and doctors. We focused on getting patients out of the hospital. We only saw civilians.”

AL-JAZEERA: 17 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

ICRC: The International Committee of the Red Cross said that the head of the committee met in Doha with the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas abroad, Ismail Haniyeh, as part of efforts to promote humanitarian issues related to the war.

‘Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Health-Care is Systematic’ – Dr. Mads Gilbert

Monday, November 20, 11:00 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians, including women and children, were killed and wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted an inhabited house in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The northern Gaza Strip is now without any health services at all.

AL-JAZEERA: 200 wounded from the Indonesian hospital arrived in hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller on Monday condemned the Yemeni Houthi group’s seizure of an Israeli cargo ship in the Red Sea and demanded the release of the ship and its crew.

RED CROSS: The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross met with Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar.

GAZA LIVE BLOG: Israel Bombs Indonesian Hospital | China Meets Arab, Islamic Leaders | Scores Killed Overnight in New Israeli Massacres – DAY 45

Monday, November 20, 10:00 pm (GMT+3)

US STATE DEPARTMENT: We want a longer ceasefire n Gaza and more humanitarian aid entering the Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians, including women and children, were killed and wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12: Politicians in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government are interested in conveying a message to the Qatari mediator that they are ready to negotiate to reach a prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas.

AL-JAZEERA: Satellite images obtained by Al-Jazeera show the positioning of Israeli tanks in Ga<za hospitals and schools.

SHEHAB AGENCY: Palestinian journalist Alaa Taher Al-Hasanat was killed as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of her family’s home in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Arraba, southwest of Jenin.

HAMAS TOP OFFICIAL: There are no details regarding reaching a prisoner exchange deal.

ISRAELI FM: Israel has summoned its ambassador to South Africa for consultations after “recent statements made by South Africa.”

Monday, November 20, 8:40 pm (GMT+3)

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We are engaged in violent clashes with the occupation in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: We reached the heart of Gaza faster than Hamas expected.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: The Israeli army is reducing the size of its reserve forces, confirming that thousands of them have been demobilized without official notice.

AL-AQSA SATELLITE CHANNEL: Fierce clashes are currently taking place between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation forces in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

KAN (ISRAELI BROADCASTING COMPANY): Israel gave the green light for a deal and is awaiting Hamas’ response.

ISLAMIC JIHAD: The Islamic Jihad Movement said that its Secretary-General, Ziad al-Nakhalah, discussed in a telephone call with the head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Ismail Haniyeh, the developments in the situation and negotiations related to the prisoner exchange deal.

WHO: All health facilities in northern Gaza have stopped

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, announced the bombing of Tel Aviv for the second time, in response to the ongoing occupation targeting civilians in the Gaza Strip.

Monday, November 20, 7:00 pm (GMT+3)

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: Over 13,300 Palestinians, including 5,600 children and 3,550 women, were killed since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza. More than 31,000 Palestinians were wounded, 75% of whom were women and children.

BIDEN: I believe that an agreement on the release of the prisoners is near.

ISRAELI HOME FRONT: Sirens sounded in 129 locations in Tel Aviv.

AL-JAZEERA: Dozens of Palestinians were killed and wounded in Israeli raids that targeted 4 homes in Khan Yunis and Rafah (south) and the Bureij and Nuseirat camps in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Al-Qassam Brigades bombs Tel Aviv with one of the largest missile attacks.

Monday, November 20, 6:00 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sound in Kiryat Shmona and Misgav Am.

WHO DIRECTOR: We are horrified at the Israeli attack on the Indonesian hospital.

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: Our clinic in Gaza City came under fire on Monday morning.

Israeli settlers flee towards shelters after sirens sounded and rockets were fired from Gaza toward Tel Aviv. Al-Jazeera said that this was one of the largest missile attacks since the beginning of the war.

Monday, November 20, 5:05 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Four Palestinians were killed as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Al-Mughraqa area in the central Gaza Strip.

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES: Guterres has renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the delivery of humanitarian aid.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli drone targets a house in the town of Khiam, southern Lebanon.

YEMENI COASTAL DEFENSE FORCES: Our forces are ready to carry out any combat missions.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: The Islamic Jihad movement, announced that it bombed the Israeli Kerem Shalom site in the southeast of the Gaza Strip with a missile attack.

AXIOS (QUOTING US OFFICIALS): Amos Hochstein, advisor to the US President, is currently holding discussions in Tel Aviv about avoiding the outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanon.

Monday, November 20, 3:50 pm (GMT+3)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The occupation turned the Indonesian hospital into a military barracks.

ISRAELI CENTRAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS: The war on Gaza raised the number of unemployed people in Israel from 163.6 thousand last September to 428.4 thousand in October.

HEZBOLLAH: We attacked with three drones the gathering centers of Israeli occupation soldiers west of Kiryat Shmona, causing direct casualties.

DIRECTOR OF GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: We cannot remove or count the victims of the Israeli bombing.

ISLAMIC JIHAD MOVEMENT: Bombing the Indonesian hospital is a continuation of Israel’s violations of international law.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in an Israeli bombing of a house in “Bani Suhaila” east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

HAMAS: The Nazi Zionist occupation bombed an UNRWA school in the Bureij camp, a heinous crime and a disdain for the United Nations. We demand action to stop targeting civilians in schools protected under international law.

Monday, November 20, 2:30 pm (GMT+3)

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12: 25 rockets were fired from Lebanon towards Kiryat Shmona.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed Nair Oz with a missile salvo and the Mars military site with a barrage of heavy-caliber mortar shells.

KING OF JORDAN: During a meeting with European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, King Abdullah II of Jordan stressed the necessity of working intensively to stop the war on Gaza and lift the siege imposed on it.

BEN-GVIR: Issuing death sentences for Hamas terrorists is important to put pressure on Hamas.

Monday, November 20, 1:30 pm (GMT+3)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted an Israeli infantry infantry force in the vicinity of the Al-Dhahira site with artillery shells and caused direct hits.‏

MEDICAL DIRECTOR AT INDONESIAN HOSPITAL: Panic spread among the injured and doctors after the Israeli bombing.

INDONESIAN FM: The Indonesian Foreign Ministry said that it condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli attack on the Indonesian hospital in Gaza.

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: More than 20 premature babies are expected to cross into Egypt on Monday to receive treatment.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: New evidence that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza.

TURKEY: Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca and a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that more than 100 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip were scheduled to arrive in Turkey on Monday, including dozens who would receive medical care there.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: : The occupation is still bombing and shooting everywhere.

AL-JAZEERA: 12 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in a bombing carried out by the Israeli occupation army on a school in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced the death of a soldier in fierce battles north of Gaza, bringing the death toll today to 3. The army said that the soldier was a sergeant in the Givati ​​Brigade.

TASS: A plane arrived at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow coming from Cairo, carrying a group of 117 Russians, who had previously been evacuated from Gaza through the Rafah border crossing.

Monday, November 20, 12:05 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed and wounded when Israeli aircraft bombed a school housing displaced people in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Our fighters killed or critically wounded 6 Israeli soldiers during clashes in the Al-Taqaddum axis, west of Beit Lahia.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades announced that it bombed the Israeli Ra’im military base in the Gaza Strip with a missile salvo.

GAZA INTERIOR MINISTRY: The occupation bombed displaced people in the Indonesian hospital.

A-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded again in several areas around the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Rockets are launched from Lebanon at an Israeli site and the occupation bombs border towns

PPC: Israeli occupation forces arrested at least 38 Palestinians in the West Bank at dawn on Monday.

HAMAS: The occupation’s bombing and siege of the Indonesian hospital is a crime that requires international intervention to protect the last health institution operating in northern Gaza.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the Israeli Zabdin barracks.

Monday, November 20, 10:30 am (GMT+3)

UNRWA: 1.7 million people have been displaced in Gaza since October 7.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli aircraft bombed an inhabited house in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

IRANIAN FM: Washington’s obstruction of the ceasefire in Gaza leads to reactions from resistance forces in the region.

DIRECTOR GENERAL OF GAZA HOSPITALS: There are thousands of displaced people and 200 medical staff inside the Indonesian hospital.

WSJ (QUOTING US OFFICIALS): The Wall Street Journal quoted American officials as saying that they are urging Israel to postpone its operations in southern Gaza until plans are reached to protect civilians.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We targeted 7 military vehicles of the occupation army in northern Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sound in the Gaza Strip and Sderot.

Monday, November 20, 9:00 am (GMT+3)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The Israeli Army besieges the Indonesian Hospital, and we fear that it will repeat what it did to the Shifa Complex.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted, with two Burkan missiles, the command center of the 91st Division in the Israeli Baranit Barracks, hitting it directly.

AL-JAZEERA (QUOTING MEDICAL SOURCES): The death toll from an Israeli bombing of homes in the Nuseirat and Bureij camps had risen to 30 martyrs.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 12 people were killed in the Israeli occupation bombing of the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: Several mortar shells were fired at a site on the border with Lebanon, adding that Israeli army forces were responding to the source of the shooting.

INDONESIAN PRESIDENT JOKO WIDODO: Indonesian President Joko Widodo said that he informed US President Joe Biden of the need to stop the atrocities in Gaza and implement a ceasefire immediately.

Monday, November 20, 8:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a meeting with ministers of Arab and Islamic countries that Beijing fully supports the call for a two-state solution issued by the Arab Islamic Summit recently held in Riyadh.

GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The government media office in Gaza warned that the occupation army would commit a new massacre in the Indonesian hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.

Monday, November 20, 7:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: A young Palestinian man was killed by occupation bullets at the entrance to the Arroub camp, north of Hebron.

AL-JAZEERA: 11 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured, including women and children, in an Israeli bombing that targeted two homes in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced the killing of two soldiers in the ongoing battles in northern Gaza. The total death toll admitted by the Israeli Army has risen to 66 killed soldiers since the beginning of the ground invasion on October 27.

Monday, November 20, 6:00 am (GMT+3)

PALESTINE’S ENVOY TO UN: Israel’s terrorism in Gaza is an insult to humanity.

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