Israel’s Security Cabinet will meet on Thursday evening to discuss Hamas’ response to the prisoner exchange deal and ceasefire in Gaza.
Thousands of Palestinians continue to flee from areas east of Khan Yunis to the Al-Mawasi area, west of the city, after receiving orders from the Israeli occupation forces to evacuate it.
Air raid sirens are sounding in more than 25 settlements in the Upper Galilee, the Hula Valley, and the occupied Syrian Golan.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 38,000 Palestinians have been killed, and 87,445 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
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Thursday, July 5, 12:00 am (GMT+2)
CHANNEL 14:
The army is moving towards accepting the deal and we will switch to the method of raids that select specific targets.
The army leadership is ready to accept any deal with Hamas at any price, and the important thing is to stop the war.
CHANNEL 12 (citing Israeli official): Some in the Israeli negotiating delegation are concerned that parties close to Netanyahu will sabotage the opportunity to conclude a truce deal.
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PRCS: A Palestinian was killed and three injured in a drone strike on Al-Sikka Street, east of Jabaliya camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
WHITE HOUSE: US President Joe Biden said he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss efforts to finalize an agreement that would lead to a ceasefire and the release of detainees in Gaza.
Thursday, July 4, 11:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli military said its air defenses intercepted 150 rockets and 15 drones on the northern border today.
SENIOR US OFFICIAL: Hamas’s response pushes the process forward, and may provide the basis for a deal to reach a final agreement.
ISRAELI ARMY: 13 Israeli soldiers were killed during the last week, and the army is facing a challenge in the Shejaiya area.
ISRAELI MEDIA: A soldier from Battalion 8101 was seriously injured during a battle in the central Gaza Strip.
Thursday, July 4, 8:30 pm (GMT+2)
CHANNEL 13 (citing informed sources): For the first time in months there is optimism in Israel about the possibility of concluding a swap deal.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a building used by Israeli occupation soldiers in the settlement of Admit, which led to it catching fire and killing and wounding those inside.
CHANNEL 12: The Israeli security cabinet is currently meeting to discuss the exchange deal.
AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike on the Al Mawasi area, west of Rafah.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for an attack involving rockets and drones on multiple Israeli military sites.
Several fires broke out in the occupied Syrian Golan as well as Al-Jalil, in northern Israel. pic.twitter.com/CDJL8Ojk0l
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) July 4, 2024
Thursday, July 4, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced the death of a company deputy commander as a result of a rocket explosion launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel.
AP: The Israeli government has approved plans to build nearly 5,300 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
SMOTRICH: The Israeli concept of security must undergo a radical change in everything related to the West Bank, Gaza and the North.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli occupation army said that its aircraft bombed Hezbollah military facilities in Qantara, Rab Thalatheen, Deir Sereen, Taloussa and Naqoura in southern Lebanon.
GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: Two Palestinians were killed and six injured people from a house targeted by Israeli occupation aircraft in the center of Gaza City.
Thursday, July 4, 6:00 pm (GMT+2)
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters lured an Israeli force to a tunnel opening, then blew it up, killing and wounding all members of the force in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah.
Thursday, July 4, 5:30 pm (GMT+2)
CHANNEL 12: Netanyahu confirms that the war will not end until its goals are achieved.
GADI EISENKOT: Benjamin Netanyahu is limited by his political and personal interests, and must be replaced quickly.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Our fighters shelled Israeli crowds in the Shejaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City with mortar shells.
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WSJ: The Wall Street Journal cited a senior Israeli official as saying that Hamas’ response and the changes made to the deal are sufficient to move forward with the talks.
ISRAELI ARMY: 17 soldiers were injured in the Gaza battles during the past 24 hours.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters ambushed an Israeli force and clashed with its members, killing and wounding them in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood.
AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted the town of Naqoura in southern Lebanon.
Thursday, July 4, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)
GADI EISENKOT: We are at the closest point to a swap deal in 9 months.
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT: There is a review with Egypt and Qatar regarding Hamas’ response.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli artillery shelling targeted areas in the center of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Thursday, July 4, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)
KUWAITI FIELD HOSPITAL: Health services will stop within 24 hours.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted the enemy’s operations command near the Nahal Oz site.
HEZBOLLAH: Response to the assassination of Commander Mohammad Nehme will continue.
ISRAELI ARMY: We bombed Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
HEZBOLLAH: We bombed Israeli military sites with Burkan missiles.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelling targeted the town of Kounine in southern Lebanon.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We carried out several attacks against the occupation forces in Shejaiya.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: 25 firefighting teams participate in extinguishing fires in the Golan and Upper Galilee.
‘On the Brink of Framework Agreement’ – Gallant Says Prisoner Swap is ‘Closer than Ever’
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted two Merkava tanks with “Yassin 105” shells in Shejaiya.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 38,000 Palestinians have been killed, and 87,445 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Thursday, July 4, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI MEDIA: Families of prisoners in Gaza threaten Netanyahu’s government with million-man demonstrations.
ISRAELI MEDIA: A soldier was killed and others were injured, one of whom is in critical condition, as a result of a missile attack from Lebanon that targeted their vehicle.
Thursday, July 4, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI ARMY: Fire breaks out in northern Israel after rocket falls from Lebanon.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli airstrike targeted a school housing displaced people in the Al-Daraj neighborhood east of Gaza City, leaving a number of martyrs and wounded.
#WATCH : Hezbollah claims responsibility for firing over 200 rockets and 20 UAVs into Israel
There are casualties in the north and fires broke out in the Golan Heights due to the strikes.
Shrapnel also landed on the roof of a mall in Acre causing a small fire.#Hezbollah… pic.twitter.com/VjVMtbYyjU
— upuknews (@upuknews1) July 4, 2024
CHANNEL 12: The Israeli Air Force began launching raids on various sites in southern Lebanon.
AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens are sounding again in all the towns of the Hula Valley and the settlements of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights after shelling from southern Lebanon.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Air raid sirens are sounding again in all the towns of the Hula Valley and the settlements of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights after shelling from southern Lebanon.
Thursday, July 4, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A Palestinian was killed and others were injured when the occupation forces targeted a house near Hamam al-Samra in Gaza City.
ISRAELI MEDIA: There were serious injuries among soldiers after a military vehicle was targeted by shelling from southern Lebanon.
CHANNEL 13: Hundreds of rockets and drones were launched during the last hour from southern Lebanon towards Israeli sites.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelling targeted the surroundings of the towns of Kfar Shuba, Rashaya al-Fakhar and Kfar Hamam in southern Lebanon.
HEZBOLLAH: We fired more than 200 missiles of various types at Israeli sites.
BREAKING: Hezbollah claims responsibility for a dual attack involving rocket rockets and drones on multiple Israeli military sites including bases in Avivim, Katsafya, and Gamlah.
Over 200 rockets of various types were reportedly launched. pic.twitter.com/ZJ0an4PCrj
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 4, 2024
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip warned that within a few hours, the electricity generators in the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, will be shut down due to the lack of fuel needed to operate them.
ISRAELI MEDIA: The army is bombing large areas in southern Lebanon, while air defenses intercept dozens of missiles and drones belonging to Hezbollah.
AL-JAZEERA: A missile was fired towards the Israeli “Ruwaisat al-Alam” site in the occupied Kfar Shuba hills.
CHANNEL 12: Israeli Channel 12 reported that Defense Minister Yoav Galant told the families of prisoners held in Gaza, “We are closer than ever to concluding a swap deal with Hamas.”
Thursday, July 4, 11:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens are sounding in more than 25 settlements in the Upper Galilee, the Hula Valley, and the occupied Syrian Golan.
MUJAHIDEEN BRIGADES: In cooperation with the Al-Quds Brigades, we bombed the enemy’s soldiers and vehicles in the axis of advance in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza, with a barrage of mortar shells.
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the settlement of Kiryat Shmona and surrounding settlements in the Upper Galilee.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation artillery renewed its violent shelling of the Shejaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) July 4, 2024
ISRAELI RADIO: Security Cabinet will meet this evening, Thursday, to discuss Hamas’ response to the prisoner exchange deal and ceasefire in Gaza.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation artillery renewed its violent shelling of the Shejaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
LIEBERMAN: I will do everything I can to replace Netanyahu’s government.
Thursday, July 4, 10:00 am (GMT+2)
ISRAELI DIASPORA MINISTER: We do not accept the withdrawal of our forces and the cessation of the war in Gaza.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Biden will pressure Netanyahu to accept the deal.
CHANNEL 12: Hamas’ response does not include the condition of a ceasefire in the first stage of the deal, but it allows for the return of the kidnapped elderly, children, sick, wounded, and female soldiers.
PRCS: The ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip has put most hospitals out of service. 96% of the population of the Gaza Strip suffers from severe food insecurity.
PRCS: The ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip has put most hospitals out of service. 96% of the population of the Gaza Strip suffers from severe food insecurity.
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) July 4, 2024
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli forces began demolishing 7 houses in the village of Birin, east of Hebron in the West Bank, under the pretext of “building without a permit.”
Thursday, July 4, 09:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes launched raids on the towns of Houla and Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.
CHANNEL 12: Anti-government protesters set fires and blocked several axes on Ayalon Street, the main highway in central Tel Aviv.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Disagreement between the security and political establishments regarding the deal.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A Palestinian was killed and three wounded people arrived at the Baptist Hospital after the occupation artillery targeted Palestinians in Al-Shaaf Street, east of Gaza City.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A Palestinian was killed and three wounded people arrived at the Baptist Hospital after the occupation artillery targeted Palestinians in Al-Shaaf Street, east of Gaza City.
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) July 4, 2024
AL-AQSA MARTYRS BRIGADES: Our fighters were able to shell enemy army vehicles with mortar shells on the axes of progress in the Shejaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
Thursday, July 4, 08:00 am (GMT+2)
SOCIAL MEDIA: The far-right Israeli Heritage Minister, Amichai Eliyahu, shared a post on his X account calling for the occupation of the Egyptian Sinai.
AL-AQSA TV: The Israeli occupation artillery is targeting the eastern areas of Khan Yunis city, in the southern Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI ARMY: An officer and a soldier were killed and 3 others were injured in northern Gaza.
Thursday, July 4, 06:00 am (GMT+2)
WHITE HOUSE: Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to US President Joe Biden, met with French officials on Wednesday and discussed with them French and American efforts to restore calm in the Middle East.
REUTERS: Demonstrators supporting Gaza climbed onto the roof of the Australian parliament in the capital, Canberra, to denounce the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.
Thursday, July 4, 03:00 am (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Thousands of Palestinians continue to flee from areas east of Khan Yunis to the Al-Mawasi area west of the city after receiving orders from the Israeli occupation forces to evacuate it.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Thousands of Palestinians continue to flee from areas east of Khan Yunis to the Al-Mawasi area west of the city after receiving orders from the Israeli occupation forces to evacuate it.
AL-AQSA TV: The Israeli occupation artillery is targeting the eastern… pic.twitter.com/UsBN0pGw6C
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) July 4, 2024
ISRAELI MEDIA: Commenting on the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office that it had received Hamas’s response to the ceasefire proposal in Gaza, the Families of Israeli Prisoners in Gaza Authority said it would not allow the government to obstruct a prisoner exchange deal again.
UN: 9 out of 10 people in the Gaza Strip have been displaced at least once since the start of the war waged by Israel on the Palestinian enclave.
AL-JAZEERA: The Presbyterian Church in the United States has decided to withdraw its financial support for Israel, calling on companies that contribute to human rights violations in Palestine to change their position.
US MEDIA: Hundreds demonstrated outside US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s home in Washington over his support for the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, with the demonstrators chanting “Shame on you, bloody Blinken.”
Thursday, July 4, 01:00 am (GMT+2)
HAMAS: We dealt with the ongoing talks in a positive spirit.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
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