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January 4, 2024 Blog, News
Israel continues to pound Gaza by air, land and sea. (Photo: via Eye on Palestine)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken is scheduled to arrive in the region as Israel continues with its attempt to expand the war fronts beyond Gaza. 

Despite the killing of a top Hamas leader in Lebanon, the Resistance on both fronts, Gaza and South Lebanon remains strong, pushing back against Israeli military advances. 

Hundreds more Palestinians were killed and wounded in ongoing Israeli strikes and shelling of the central regions of the Gaza Strip.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 22,313 Palestinians have been killed, and 57,296 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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Friday, January 5, 07:30 am

VIDEO: Employees of the Ambulance and Emergency Unit in Gaza City demonstrated in protest against the continued direct Israeli targeting of ambulance crews, resulting in the death of a large number of them and the disruption of more than 100 ambulances.

Friday, January 5, 03:15 am

POLITICO (Citing US Officials):

US military is preparing plans to strike targets in Yemen.

There are no signs that pro-Iranian groups are scaling back attacks.

The conflict is likely to expand following confrontations in Iraq, Lebanon and Iran in recent days.

AL-JAZEERA: Six Palestinians killed in Israeli shelling that targeted a house in the center of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

AL-MAYADEEN:

Israel resumes its bombardment of the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Israel military boats shell the coast of Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza.

The Fighting is Everywhere – Resistance Roundup – Day 90

Friday, January 5, 12:15 am

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We attacked with drones a US military field in the Omar oil field in the Deir Izzor in Syria.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians killed and wounded in Israeli shelling targeting a residential home in the Qarara region in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (Pentagon): USS Gerald Ford is returning from the eastern Mediterranean.

Thursday, January 4, 11:00 pm

CHANNEL 12: The Israeli army began conducting investigations into the October 7 events.

AL-JAZEERA: 31 Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in Khan Yunis since dawn Thursday.

BLINKEN: US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken tweeted about the goal of his visit to the Middle East.

Thursday, January 4, 10:00 pm

HAMAS: UN institutions must confront the Israeli occupation’s decision to forcibly transfer hundreds of Palestinians from Jerusalem and the 48 areas.

Thursday, January 4, 9:00 pm

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that Israel does not plan to run civil affairs in Gaza, which would be run by “Palestinians who are not enemies of Israel”.

Thursday, January 4, 8:30 pm

ISRAELI ARMY: 3 Israelis who were missing were found to have been kidnapped, bringing the number of kidnapped people in Gaza to 136.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted a gathering of occupation soldiers near military vehicles in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City with an RPG shell, leaving them dead and wounded.

AMBREY: The global maritime risk management expert Amber said it had received intelligence information about the launching of missiles from Taiz in Yemen towards the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

UNICEF: Time is running out for the children of Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: The death toll as a result of the Israeli bombing rose today, Thursday, to 39 in Gaza City and 30 in Khan Yunis, south of the Strip.

Thursday, January 4, 7:30 pm

DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: No one and no place is safe in Gaza.

Thursday, January 4, 6:15 pm

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a gathering of enemy soldiers around the Marj site.

AL-JAZEERA: A Palestinian was killed in an Israeli bombing near the European Hospital, southeast of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

ANSARALLAH LEADER: The attack on our naval heroes will not remain unpunished.

US NAVY: The Ansarallah group carried out 25 attacks in the Red Sea since last November 18.

HAARETZ: Israeli police are finding it difficult to find eyewitnesses to confirm that sexual assaults were committed on October 7.

‘We Can’t Find Witnesses’: Israeli Police Contradicts NYT Report on Oct. 7 Sexual Assaults

YEMENI DEFENSE MINISTER: Our response to the American attack will be harsh.

Thursday, January 4, 5:00 pm

ISRAELI ARMY: The 669 Rescue Unit evacuated more than a thousand wounded soldiers since the start of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip.

REUTERS: Gunmen boarded a cargo ship while it was sailing southeast of Eil in Somalia .

Thursday, January 4, 3:45 pm

BRITISH FM: Attacks in the Red Sea must stop.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 22,438 Palestinians have been killed, and 57,614 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

WASHINGTON POST (quoting US official): US forces in the region have been subjected to about 115 attacks since October 17.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We targeted two occupation vehicles east of Al-Bureij camp.

Thursday, January 4, 2:30 pm

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We targeted two Israeli occupation military vehicles with RPG shells east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

BLOOMBERG: Container shipping prices rise due to ship diversions in the Red Sea.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We targeted two Merkava occupation tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells at the station and the battalion in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

NBC (quoting US officials): There is no agreement yet on any military options to strike the Houthis.

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12: Air Canada has canceled all its flights to Tel Aviv until April 8.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation army continued its operations on the Al-Tuffah and Al-Shuja’iya neighborhoods in Gaza City.

Thursday, January 4, 12:55 pm

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed a gathering of occupation vehicles and soldiers in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, with mortar shells.

PPC: Israeli authorities arrested 51 female prisoners from Gaza.

UN: United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk said he was deeply concerned about calls to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: The bodies of three Palestinians were recovered in Khan Yunis, which brings the death toll resulting from the Israeli bombing of the city to 25.

ISRAELI ARMY: 19 soldiers were injured in the battles in Gaza during the last 24 hours.

AL-JAZEERA: A massive raid and explosions occurred in the Juhr al-Dik area, south of Gaza City.

Thursday, January 4, 12:55 pm

AL-JAZEERA: 22 Palestinians were killed due to the continuous Israeli bombing of Khan Yunis since dawn today.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We destroyed an Israeli Merkava tank with two “Al-Yassin 105” shells north of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA:

Israeli occupation bombed the town of Khiam in southern Lebanon with incendiary shells.

An Israeli air strike targeted the western areas of Juhr al-Dik, south of Gaza City.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We destroyed an Israeli Merkava tank with a shock device, west of Al-Maghazi, in the central Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: A Palestinian was killed and others were injured by violent and continuous Israeli bombing in the vicinity of Al Amal Hospital and the association’s headquarters in Khan Yunis.

Thursday, January 4, 12:00 pm

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: Israeli occupation forces bombed the vicinity of Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers in Shtoula.

Thursday, January 4, 10:30 am

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted the town of Maroun al-Ras in the central sector of southern Lebanon. Another raid also targeted the vicinity of the town of Bint Jbeil in the south.

REUTERS: 17 employees of US President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign warned in a letter that he would lose voters due to his position on the war between Israel and Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: One death and one wounded in an Israeli bombing on the Red Crescent building in Gaza.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The Israeli occupation army forced civilians to flee, then bombed them and committed massacres against them 48 times.

ISRAELI MEDIA: A large missile salvo was launched from Gaza, and sirens were sounding in Ashkelon (Asqalan) and southern Israel.

Thursday, January 4, 9:00 am

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Doviv and areas in Upper Galilee on the border with the eastern sector of southern Lebanon.

Thursday, January 4, 7:00 am

AL-JAZEERA:

Two killed and a number of others wounded, while many are still missing people following Israeli shelling on a house in Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Israeli fighter jets are launching a series of raids on the Maghazi and Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces are launching heavy artillery and air bombardment on Al-Zawaida area in the central Gaza Strip.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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