GAZA LIVE BLOG: Ansarallah Promises Escalation | Israel Widens Operation | Fierce Clashes in Northern, Central Gaza – Day 199

April 22, 2024 Blog, News
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continue. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The Israeli army is preparing to invade the southern city of Rafah, according to reports by Israeli media. 

The head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Division, Aharon Haliva, resigned after he took responsibility for what happened on October 7.

Regional tensions have intensified, with Iraqi Hezbollah forces announcing that they will resume attacks on American bases. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 34,151 Palestinians have been killed, and 77,084 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Tuesday, April 23, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

EU BORRELL: The dire situation in Gaza cannot be forgotten and we immediately need to release all hostages, cease fire and mitigate the humanitarian catastrophe.

Tuesday, April 23, 12:00 am (GMT+2)

ORIENT XXI (citing Western diplomat): Israeli requests for Western passports have increased more than 5 times.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed “a gathering of enemy soldiers southwest of Gaza City with mortar shells.”

Monday, April 22, 10:30 pm (GMT+2)

US STATE DEPARTMENT: There is no way to carry out an operation in Rafah that does not harm civilians.

UN: The United Nations calls for a “credible” investigation into mass graves in Gaza.

AL-AQSA MARTYRS BRIGADES: Our fighters are engaged in fierce clashes with the Israeli occupation forces and their military vehicles with machine guns and RPG shells in the city of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

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BLOOMBERG (citing Israeli official): Israel has a range of options on how to invade Rafah. The army may not attack Rafah with all its might, and it can move from one neighborhood to another and evacuate civilians at the same time.

Monday, April 22, 9:30 pm (GMT+2)

ANSARALLAH: The Ansarallah group urged its forces to escalate its military operations against Israeli and associated ships in the Red and Arabian Seas and the Indian Ocean.

Monday, April 22, 8:30 pm (GMT+2)

BLINKEN: We continue to look into accusations against Israel of committing violations in Gaza, but it requires time and investigations.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: Israel must conduct its military operations in accordance with international law.

NYT (citing Israeli officials): We believe that the impending operation in Rafah is the only thing that kept Hamas in the negotiations.

ISRAELI FM: UNRWA cannot be part of the solution in Gaza.

UN Report: Israel Lacks Evidence for Allegations Against UNRWA Employees

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES:

We bombed a gathering of occupation forces penetrating Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

We targeted a Zionist military bulldozer with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

We sniped an occupation soldier in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation army vehicles and bulldozers are advancing towards Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, and are carrying out sweeping operations.

WALLA: Israeli Minister of Construction and Housing Yitzhak Goldknob threatened to dissolve the government over the conscription law.

Monday, April 22, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)

NEW YORK POLICE: The New York Police say that they arrested 108 people participating in the sit-in in support of the Gaza Strip and demanding an end to the aggression against it at Columbia University in New York State.

QATAR: The European Union must achieve an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: An opinion poll conducted by the Harvard School of Management in the United States showed that 17% of young Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 show sympathy with Hamas.

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According to the poll, 56% showed sympathy for the Palestinians, and 52% towards the Israelis.

WALLA: The families of prisoners held by the resistance are demonstrating in front of Netanyahu’s house in the city of Caesarea, chanting “Freedom now.”

HEZBOLLAH: 30 missiles were fired from southern Lebanon towards Upper Galilee and the Finger of Galilee. According to Israeli media, sirens sounded in 14 Israeli towns and settlements, including Safed.

Monday, April 22, 6:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes bombed a building behind Al-Baraa Mosque in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

KAN: Israeli Yoav Gallant said during his meeting with the soldiers of Netzah Yehuda: “No one in the world teaches us values ​​and morals”.

US to Sanction Israeli Military Unit over West Bank Rights Abuses – Report

UN OFFICIAL: The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health said, “Israel is systematically working to starve the residents of the Gaza Strip and deprive them of their rights.”

The UN official added, “Gaza is unequivocally witnessing genocide.”

Monday, April 22, 5:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: American police arrested dozens of students at Yale University and dispersed a sit-in denouncing the war on Gaza.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli occupation army said that it had begun a military operation in the corridor separating the northern, central and southern Gaza Strip.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: The commander of the Central Command in the Israeli occupation army, Yehuda Fuchs, informed Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy that he will retire from his job by next August.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: For the fourth day, we continue to exhume bodies from the mass grave in the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis. We call on the International Criminal Court prosecutor to investigate the Nasser Complex and Al-Shifa massacres.

Monday, April 22, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY: Eight Israeli soldiers were injured in battles in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours.

UNRWA: We will face a funding crisis next July. The United States and Britain are the two most important countries that are still halting their contributions.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip announced the recovery of 73 bodies from a mass grave in the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, bringing the number of bodies discovered to 283.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip warned that Israel would implement threats to invade the city of Rafah, south of the Strip, which “means eliminating what little remains of the health work system.”

CHANNEL 12: Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said: “We are shocked by the wave of despicable anti-Semitism. Silence is complicity. I call on the mayor of New York and leaders in the United States to take immediate and unequivocal action to combat this scourge. Students Jews deserve security, respect and procedures.”

Monday, April 22, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: The Shin Bet Commander of the southern region said: We are fighting a long and complex war in the Gaza Strip. There are few troops in Gaza, but the work continues. Achieving victory and returning the kidnapped people is an existential necessity for us.

Monday, April 22, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Rescue teams recovered the bodies of 73 Palestinians from the mass grave at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of bodies to 283.

PAKISTANI PM: Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif praised the Iranian position regarding the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, describing it as strong. During a joint press conference with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, who is visiting Islamabad, Sharif called on Islamic countries to take a unified stance in order to put an end to the war in Gaza.

WHO: Kamal Adwan Hospital did not receive the fuel and medical supplies it was supposed to receive, for the second time in a week.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The occupation bombed a house in Al-Hadba in Deir Al-Balah.

Monday, April 22, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 34,151 Palestinians have been killed, and 77,084 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

IRANIAN PRESIDENT: Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said that the UN Security Council has proven its failure in shouldering its responsibilities to work to stop the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: Our Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi said that the UN Security Council has proven its failure in shouldering its responsibilities to work to stop the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

Monday, April 22, 12:30 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli occupation army aircraft bombed the Al-Taqwa Mosque in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, leading to its destruction.

Monday, April 22, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

IRANIAN FM: We will respond to any measures against our territory, and the response will include countries that help the Israeli occupation.

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed with artillery a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Hanita site in the Western Galilee.

Monday, April 22, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

SPANISH FM: We demand a permanent ceasefire to prevent the risk of Israeli military operations extending to Rafah.

ISRAELI MEDIA: the head of the Military Intelligence Division, Aharon Halvba, resigned after he announced that he took responsibility for what happened on October 7.

Monday, April 22, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: there were killed and wounded in an Israeli bombing of citizens next to the Abu Salim Mosque in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Monday, April 22, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

ISRAELI RADIO: The army is preparing to start its invasion of Rafah.

ISRAELI AMBULANCE: Three Israelis were slightly injured in what was suspected to be a ramming attack.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli army is strengthening its presence in occupied Jerusalem to secure the Jewish Easter celebrations.

CHANNEL 12: Three shells from Lebanon fell in open areas in the Arab Al-Aramsha border area in northern Israel after activating sirens.

Monday, April 22, 07:00 am (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: Hezbollah said that it targeted with missiles a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Dhahira site in southern Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the Western Galilee, northern Israel, due to suspected rocket shells.

Monday, April 22, 05:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli gunboats bombed the coast of the central and southern Gaza Strip, and drones also targeted a school in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli gunboats bombed the coast of the central and southern Gaza Strip, and drones also targeted a school in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

IRAQI HEZBOLLAH FORCES: the armed factions will resume attacks on American forces, attributing their decision to the lack of progress regarding the withdrawal of American forces during the visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani to Washington.

Monday, April 22, 03:10 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA, PALESTINIAN MEDIA:

An Israeli artillery shelling targeted the eastern Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, in parallel with an Israeli raid targeting the southeastern area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation forces shelled with artillery north of Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Injuries reported following in an Israeli raid targeting Al-Taqwa Mosque in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

An Israeli raid targeted a house in the Al-Brook area of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

An Israeli raid targeted the Zaytoun neighborhood south of Gaza City.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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  1. “KAN: Israeli Yoav Gallant said during his meeting with the soldiers of Netzah Yehuda: “No one in the world teaches us values ​​and morals”.” — naturally, the Zionist regime and its terrorist “brigades” are entirely without “values and morals”.

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