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August 30, 2024 Blog, News
Israel continues to carry out massacres against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.(Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Haaretz reported, citing informed sources, that the Israeli security cabinet approves remaining in the Philadelphi corridor despite opposition from the defense minister.

The Israeli occupation army said it assassinated Wissam Hazem, the Hamas commander in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. 

Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in northern and central Gaza as the Israeli army withdrew from Khan Yunis, leaving massive devastation behind.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 40,602 Palestinians have been killed, and 93,855 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Saturday, August 31, 04:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Three Palestinians were killed, and more than 20 others were wounded in an Israeli shelling that targeted a house in the Jourt Al-Lot area, south of Khan Yunis.

PALESETINIAN MEDIA: Clashes between resistance fighters and the Israeli occupation forces in Al-Jabriyat area in Jenin, northern West Bank.

KAN (The Israel Broadcasting Corporation): Army imposed a siege on Hebron after the two attacks in the Gush Etzion area.

ISRAEL ARMY RADIO: Commander of the Gush Etzion District Brigade (a settlement south of Bethlehem) and an IDF soldier were wounded by other soldiers during the “neutralization of the attacker” that took place Friday night.

ISRAELI ARMY:

Two security incidents occurred in the Gush Etzion Brigade, and we killed the attackers.

At this stage it is not possible to determine whether there is a connection between the two events.

A car exploded at a gas station at the Gush Etzion junction, and the forces arrived at the scene and killed the attacker.

An attempt was made to run over a security guard near the town of Carmei Tzur and the forces killed the attacker.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid that targeted a house west of Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH (Israeli newspaper): The Israeli military is investigating the suspicion that the attack, which took place near the settlement of Gush Etzion, south of Bethlehem, was linked to the attack on the nearby settlement of Carmei Tzur.

Saturday, August 31, 01:30 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: A loud explosion near a shopping mall in the Gush Etzion settlement, south of Bethlehem.

CHANNEL 12: Air defenses intercepted part of the missiles fired towards the western Galilee.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: an Israeli raid on a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip left martyrs and wounded.

Friday, August 30,11:00 pm (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army said it targeted rocket launching areas in Shebaa with artillery and bombed a Hezbollah building in Tyre Harfa.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli raids targeted the vicinity of the town of Hadatha and the vicinity of the town of Majdal Zun in southern Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens continued to sound in 8 different locations in northern Israel, warning of rocket launches.

CHANNEL 12: Hezbollah launches drones daily due to their high ability to bypass air defenses. Hezbollah’s marches left dead and wounded, damaged infrastructure, and worried the security establishment.

‘Black August’ – Army Warned of ‘Sinking in Gaza Mud’ amid Stalled Negotiations

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: Residents of Western Galilee towns were instructed to stay near bomb shelters.

HAMAS: The occupation’s targeting of an aid convoy belonging to an American relief organization is a repeated war crime that was carried out deliberately.

KAN: The Israeli Broadcasting Authority quoted security officials as opposing the imposition of military administration in Gaza, adding that the cost of military administration of the Strip would reach 20 billion shekels annually (about 5.5 billion dollars) and would add 400 jobs to the army.

Friday, August 30, 10:00 pm (GMT+2)

REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS: Reporters Without Borders has called for an independent investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul by the Israeli military.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES-JENIN BATTALION: Our fighters are confronting enemy forces on various battle fronts and targeting infantry forces.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted two military vehicles in Jenin camp.

Friday, August 30, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)

KAN: The assassination of leader Khalil al-Maqdah in Sidon aims to prevent the smuggling of weapons from Lebanon to the West Bank.

FRENCH PRESS: The French Press Agency quoted Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares as saying that the violence in the West Bank is completely unacceptable and puts the two-state solution at risk.

FRENCH FM: Israeli operations in the West Bank create unprecedented instability.

ISRAELI SECURITY SOURCES (to KAN): the Philadelphi Corridor has no security importance if it is temporarily removed.

AL-JAZEERA: A source in the Al-Qassam Brigades told Al Jazeera that their fighters detonated an explosive device in an Israeli army vehicle in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin.

Israel’s ‘Deadly Warfare Tactics Exceed International Standards’ in West Bank – UN

LEBANESE MEDIA: the Israeli occupation carried out a raid on the town of Tyre Harfa in southern Lebanon.

ANERA: An Israeli airstrike yesterday killed 4 Palestinians who were part of our convoy in Gaza.

PRCS: A Palestinian was injured by the occupation forces’ bullets near Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin.

DIRECTOR OF AL-RAZI HOSPITAL IN JENIN: The elderly martyr was shot with 9 bullets by occupation snipers in the eastern neighborhood.

Friday, August 30, 8:00 pm (GMT+2)

AFP: 4 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted its convoy in Gaza yesterday, Thursday.

AL-JAZEERA: Haaretz quoted EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell as saying that “criticism of the Netanyahu government cannot be considered anti-Semitism.”

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An exchange of fire is taking place between Palestinian resistance fighters and occupation forces around the Jenin camp.

PRCS: The occupation forces opened fire on two ambulances while transporting a dead and an injured person from the eastern neighborhood of Jenin in the West Bank.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: Artillery shelled several areas in southern Lebanon throughout the day.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces blow up residential buildings northwest of Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip.

JENIN GOVERNMENTAL HOSPITAL: The occupation forces surround the hospital, obstruct the movement of ambulances and search them.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli special forces stormed Al-Far’a camp, south of Tubas, in the northern West Bank.

Friday, August 30, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed enemy soldiers in Jabal Nadhir.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: A stabbing attack on the Egyptian-Israeli border left 6 people injured. The stabbing victims are on their way to Israel and background checks are underway.

WSJ: The Wall Street Journal reported that there have been 180 attacks attributed to Israel on Syria since last October.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli helicopters target the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in the south of Gaza City with machine guns.

Friday, August 30, 6:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted enemy soldiers at the Medulla site.

COMMANDER OF AL-QUDS BRIGADES IN WEST BANK: The enemy will see what we will do to its soldiers and vehicles.

PRCS: two ambulance crews in Jenin were injured by live bullet shrapnel after the occupation targeted an ambulance, noting that it is facing great difficulty in responding to the appeals of those besieged in Jenin and its camp for the third day.

LEBANESE MEDIA: An Israeli drone raid targeted the vicinity of the town of Zebqin, south of Lebanon.

BORRELL: We reject any attack on UN humanitarian missions operating in the Palestinian territories.

Friday, August 30, 5:00 pm (GMT+2)

MAARIV: The Chief of Staff and the head of Mossad expressed their reservations before the vote on keeping the army on the Philadelphi corridor.

HAMAS: The occupation’s aggression on Jenin will fail as it failed in Tulkarm, Tubas and others. We call on our people and our heroic resistance fighters in all the West Bank governorates to further support and rise up to repel the aggression and escalate the clashes.

Friday, August 30, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Netanyahu said that Washington and Cairo agreed to his plans, and Gallant responded that the discussion was not with them, but with Sinwar. Two senior ministers described the confrontation between Netanyahu and Gallant as the most serious clash between the two men to date.

Stalling Gaza Talks – Israel Approves Philadelphi Route Control despite Gallant’s Opposition

FRENCH FM: We express our concern over the deterioration of the situation in the Palestinian territories.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces have completely surrounded Jenin camp and deployed snipers at its entrances.

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the Zabadani site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms and the Ramtha site in the occupied Kfar Shuba Hills, achieving a “direct hit.”

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Clashes erupted between Palestinian youths and Israeli occupation forces at the northern entrance to the city of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation forces shot a Palestinian young man near the “Kiryat Arba” settlement in Hebron in the southern West Bank.

Friday, August 30, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Violent clashes are taking place between Palestinian resistance fighters and Israeli occupation forces in the neighborhoods of Jenin camp in the northern West Bank.

ISLAMIC JIHAD: The occupation’s crimes in the West Bank will not stop the resistance.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: The military operation in Jenin is not time-bound and will end after achieving its goals.

Friday, August 30, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 12: 15 Israeli soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade refused to return to fighting in Gaza.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO (citing a diplomatic source): The decision to stay in the Philadelphi axis is a blow to negotiations.

Friday, August 30, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN HEALTH MINISTRY: The number of victims of the Israeli military operation in the West Bank has risen to 19.

ISRAELI ARMY: The 98th Division had completed its mission in Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah.

UNRWA: 150 children killed in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war.

Friday, August 30, 12:15 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli airstrike targeted the Al Mawasi area west of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.

MEDICAL SOURCES: 23 Palestinians were killed since dawn today in Israeli raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: A woman was killed and others were injured in Israeli artillery shelling that targeted the town of Abasan, east of Khan Yunis.

IRANIAN ARMY COMMANDER: Our forces are now at the highest level of readiness and combat strength.

PALESTINIAN HEALTH MINISTRY: Three men were killed in an attack on the town of Zababdeh in Jenin, and the occupation forces are holding their bodies.

Friday, August 30, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

WHO: 1.2 million doses of polio vaccine will be delivered to Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: A number of people were killed and wounded in an Israeli raid on a house in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A number of Palestinians were killed and others, including children, were injured in an Israeli bombardment of Al-Ajarmah Street in Jabaliya camp, in the northern Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, claimed the Israeli army assassinated Wissam Hazem, the Hamas commander in Jenin.

MEDICAL SOURCES: 16 Palestinians were killed since dawn today in Israeli raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip.

CHANNEL 12: Defense Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir does not want a reduction in forces on the Philadelphi corridor in any agreement.

ISRAELI LABOR PARTY CHAIRMAN: The government chose to abandon the potential deal by its own decision.

Friday, August 30, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

LEBANESE NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY: Israeli raids took place at dawn on Friday on the outskirts of the villages of Zebqin, Naqoura and Wadi Hamoul in southern Lebanon, causing extensive damage.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Ambulance crews recovered the bodies of 9 Palestinians in different areas east of Khan Yunis, following the withdrawal of the occupation forces after a military operation that lasted 22 days.

Friday, August 30, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: One person was killed and a number of others were injured in an Israeli raid on the Al-Masdar area in the central Gaza Strip.

MAARIV POLL: 40% of Israelis prefer Benny Gantz to head the government, compared to 39% who prefer Benjamin Netanyahu.

CHANNEL 12: One Israeli was killed and another injured in a light plane crash south of Haifa.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army said it targeted a Palestinian cell from the air during a confrontation with its forces in Jenin.

CHANNEL 13: Two people were injured in a light plane crash south of Haifa.

Friday, August 30, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli forces withdrew from several areas in Khan Yunis after a military operation that lasted 22 days.

PRISONERS’ FAMILIES FORUM: Netanyahu does not miss an opportunity to thwart the conclusion of a swap deal.

JENIN BATTALION: Our fighters detonated an explosive device in an Israeli military bulldozer of the type D9, and achieved confirmed injuries.

AL-JAZEERA: Armed clashes are taking place between the occupation army and resistance fighters in the Al-Damj neighborhood in Jenin camp.

Friday, August 30, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 12: Israeli Channel 12 said that Defense Minister Yoav Galant informed the security cabinet that there is no security impediment to withdrawing from the Philadelphi corridor.

Friday, August 30, 06:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Haaretz reported, citing informed sources, that the Israeli security cabinet approves remaining in the Philadelphi corridor despite opposition from the defense minister.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We detonated pre-prepared explosive devices against an occupation infantry force in the Al-Bayader axis in Jenin, causing confirmed casualties among its ranks.

AL-AQSA MARTYRS BRIGADES: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said it was engaged in fierce clashes with machine guns with an Israeli special force that infiltrated the town of Zababdeh in Jenin.

PRCS: The occupation prevents the Red Crescent crews from reaching a house that was bombed in Jenin.

Friday, August 30, 04:00 am (GMT+2)

US CENTRAL COMMAND: We destroyed a missile system and a drone in an area controlled by the Houthis in Yemen.

AL-JAZEERA: Three Palestinians were killed and a number of others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two Palestinians, one of them a child, were killed and others were injured in the targeting of a residential apartment near the Al-Hawja intersection in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces storm neighborhoods in the Al-Ain refugee camp in Nablus in the West Bank.

Friday, August 30, 02:30 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israel carried out raids in the vicinity of the town of Zibqin in southern Lebanon.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation forces are conducting violent raids targeting residents in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin in the West Bank.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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