GAZA LIVE BLOG: Socialist Leader Assassinated | Many Killed in Rafah, Sabra | Resistance Counteroffensive – Day 219

May 12, 2024 Blog, News
Palestinians in northern Gaza were forced to evacuate again. (Photo: via QNN)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Israeli media reported that a member of the National Security Council resigned in protest against Benjamin Netanyahu’s lack of a political vision, while the Israeli army estimates that the achievements in Gaza may be eroded as negotiations falter.

The war has returned to the northern area of the Strip, with intense bombardment of Jabaliya and more forced evacuations.

Meanwhile, the Resistance fought back, with clashes reported in several areas of Gaza and missiles targeting Israeli territory. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 35,034 Palestinians have been killed, and 78,755 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Monday, May 13, 02:15 am (GMT +2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation forces launched an air raid on Al-Geneina neighborhood, east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

ISRAEL’S CHANNEL 12 (Citing US ambassador to Israel): There will be no interruption in U.S. aid to Israel, and Israel did not cross the red line in Rafah.

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Monday, May 13, 1:00 am (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: Talal Abu Zarifa, top member of the political bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), a leading socialist movement, was assassinated in Israeli attack on Al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.

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Monday, May 13, 12:00 am (GMT +2)

TELEGRAPH: Britain’s Labour Party has called for a halt to arms sales to Israel for the first time, amid fears of a military offensive on Rafah.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA:

Three were killed and eight others were wounded in an Israeli shelling on a residential building in Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

An Israeli raid targeted a house in the Brazil neighborhood of Rafah, while Israeli drones targeted ambulance crews in the area.

Sunday, May 12, 9:00 pm (GMT +2)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted with missiles the spy equipment at the Al-Malikiyah site.

ISRAELI CHIEF OF STAFF: I bear responsibility for the failure of the Israeli army on October 7.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: One person was killed and 3 others were injured in an Israeli bombing on a group of citizens south of the city of Rafah.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded again in Sderot and its environs in the Gaza Strip.

Sunday, May 12, 8:00 pm (GMT +2)

HAARETZ: Israel fears that the International Court of Justice will order a halt to the operation in Rafah

HAMAS: Ismail Haniyeh discussed with the head of the Turkish Intelligence Service, Ibrahim Kalin, the developments after approving the mediators’ proposal, and the subsequent abort of the mediators’ efforts to reach an agreement.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli occupation army blew up buildings east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

TURKISH SOURCE (to Al-Jazeera): The intelligence chief met today in Doha with Haniyeh.

US SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM (to NBC):

We have to supply bombs to Israel.

Israel must do whatever it has to to survive as a Jewish state.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We destroyed enemy crowds and vehicles east of the Rafah land crossing in the southern Gaza Strip with heavy-caliber mortar shells.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed enemy soldiers and vehicles in Rafah with a barrage of mortar shells.

IRANIAN FM: Peace will not be achieved except after the nuclear disarmament of the Zionist entity

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We target enemy soldiers and vehicles penetrating the Rafah land crossing.

Sunday, May 12, 7:00 pm (GMT +2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We attacked a gathering of enemy soldiers and vehicles inside the Al-Mabhouh site in Jabaliya.

KAN: missiles were launched today from the Strip towards the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: 50 soldiers were injured during the past 24 hours in the Gaza Strip.

HAMAS: Biden’s position on the truce is step back from the results of the Cairo negotiations.

Sunday, May 12, 6:00 pm (GMT +2)

BLINKEN: If Israel remains in Gaza, it will face an insurgency, and if it withdraws, it will leave a vacuum for Hamas to fill.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We are carrying out a complex operation near the Al-Mabhouh site, east of Jabalia camp, during which we targeted a Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell.

After the enemy soldiers fled to a pre-prepared booby-trapped house, it was detonated, leaving the force dead and wounded.

AL-JAZEERA: The student demonstrators at Johns Hopkins University agreed with its administration to disperse the sit-in in exchange for accelerating the severing of its relations with Israel.

Sunday, May 12, 4:00 pm (GMT +2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES:

Our fighters targeted a Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell east of the Jabalia camp, causing it to catch fire and killing and wounding those inside it.

We targeted crowds of enemy forces east of Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip with mortar shells.

We targeted two Zionist tanks with two “Al-Yassin 105” shells east of Jabaliya camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

Sunday, May 12, 3:00 pm (GMT +2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters dropped an anti-tank missile with a drone on a Merkava tank east of the Jabalia camp, north of Gaza.

UNICEF;:There is no safe place for 600,000 children to go in Rafah.

AL-JAZEERA: The rocket salvo fired by the resistance towards Ashkelon was launched from the site of the occupation forces’ incursion into the JabaliYa camp.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 35,034 Palestinians have been killed, and 78,755 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted concentrations of enemy forces on “Street 8” south of the Zaytoun neighborhood with heavy-caliber mortar shells.

Sunday, May 12, 1:30 pm (GMT +2)

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Israel’s control of Rafah is unlikely to deal a strong tactical blow to Hamas. The return of fighting in Gaza City and the northern areas of the Gaza Strip shows that Hamas maintains its fighting capabilities.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: We have lost 80% of our capabilities, and no one is responding to the appeals we make to international institutions.

LEADER OF ISLAMIC JIHAD MOVEMENT: “Our Palestinian people and their resistance are fighting in Gaza in a battle the likes of which they have never faced before. We will fight and fight until victory, and I pray to God to strengthen the hearts of our people.”

MAARIV: Major General Yogav Bar Shesht, deputy superintendent of the security system, was injured during clashes with the resistance in Gaza the day before yesterday, Friday.

HAARETZ: Ten Israeli officers and soldiers have committed suicide since October 7.

ISRAELI MEDIA: A missile was launched from Gaza towards the surrounding settlements.

AMERICAN MEDIA: About 3,000 people were arrested during university demonstrations.

Sunday, May 12, 12:00 pm (GMT +2)

ERDOGAN: Netanyahu has reached a level that would arouse Hitler’s jealousy.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: The occupation continues to target our crews and uses all means at its disposal to kill Palestinians.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Violent clashes are taking place between the resistance and the Israeli occupation forces in Jabaliya, north of the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelling continues on residential buildings in the Jabalia camp, north of Gaza, noting that the occupation forces are penetrating the vicinity of shelter centers for displaced people in the camp.

ABC (quoting former US State Department officials): More than 34,000 Palestinians – including 14,000 children – were killed, most of them killed by American munitions.

ISRAELI OFFICIALS (to Haaretz): The ministers expressed their support for the continued authorization of the Israeli delegation to resume negotiations.

Sunday, May 12, 11:00 am (GMT +2)

NUSEIRAT MUNICIPALITY: Running out of fuel within 48 hours heralds a humanitarian crisis and serious health and environmental disasters.

SPANISH FM: The evacuation of thousands of Palestinians is unacceptable, and the military operation in Rafah must stop.

ISRAELI MEDIA: About 30 people were arrested during a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Saturday.

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Sunday, May 12, 10:00 am (GMT +2)

WALLA: The army estimates that achievements in Gaza may be eroded as negotiations on the return of the kidnapped falter.

The army accuses Netanyahu’s government of not exploiting operational achievements in Gaza to achieve political progress.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: The Israeli army failed to intercept a drone over the sea in the Nahariya area, and the location of its landing is being verified.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombarded enemy crowds east of Rafah with a missile barrage.

Sunday, May 12, 09:00 am (GMT +2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We are engaged in fierce clashes with the enemy east of Jabaliya.

UNRWA: About 300,000 people fled Rafah last week

ISRAELI RADIO: Israeli Radio reported the resignation of the person responsible for drawing up strategic affairs in the Israeli National Security Council, Yoram Hamo, indicating that the reason for the resignation was the failure of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take decisions regarding the day after the war and the return of operations in northern Gaza.

Sunday, May 12, 08:00 am (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli drones were firing at shelter centers and residential buildings in the Jabalia camp, indicating that the occupation forces were penetrating the eastern regions of Jabaliya.

Sunday, May 12, 04:00 am (GMT +2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli warplanes launched new raids on the northern Gaza Strip before dawn on Sunday.

Sunday, May 12, 03:00 am (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli army carried out artillery shelling early on Sunday in the center and east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Sunday, May 12, 02:00 am (GMT +2)

ASQALAN (ASHKELON) MUNICIPALITY: Two missiles were fired early Sunday towards the city from the Gaza Strip, one of which fell into the city, while the other was intercepted by the Iron Dome.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: The occupation is carrying out intense bombardment of Jabaliya, and we cannot advance to retrieve the wounded. All hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are out of service.

Sunday, May 12, 01:30 am (GMT +2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Izzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’ political bureau said that the war waged by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his army on the Gaza Strip is absurd and aimless.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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