GAZA LIVE BLOG: Israel: Maximum Alter | Gaza: Two School Massacre | Hamas: New Leader Soon – Day 303

August 4, 2024 Blog, News
Israeli drones dropped bombs on tents in the yard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah. (Photo: Sales Aljafarawi, via QNN Tw page)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

An Israeli shelling targeted a tent housing displaced people in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, leaving five dead and a number of wounded.

Two Israelis were killed and two were seriously injured in a stabbing operation in the city of Holon, south of Tel Aviv. 

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that at least 10,000 Israeli soldiers were killed or wounded during the genocidal war on Gaza.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 39,550 Palestinians have been killed, and 91,280 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

Monday, August 5, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli airstrike targeted Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens are sounding in the settlement of Snir in the Galilee finger to warn of rocket launches from Lebanese territory.

G7: A joint statement by the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven countries warned of rising tensions in the Middle East, stressing that it threatens to ignite a wider conflict in the region.

Monday, August 5, 12:00 am (GMT+2)

HAMAS: In a few days, we will conclude our consultations to choose a new leader for the movement.

MAARIV: Reserve units throughout Israel, especially in the north, are on high alert.

TURKISH FM: Our citizens should avoid traveling to Lebanon unless absolutely necessary.

Sunday, August 4, 10:00 pm (GMT+2)

WALLA: A state of maximum alert on the Israeli border with Lebanon, and the commander of the Northern Command reviews the home front.

IRAQI PM: Preventing escalation depends only on stopping the aggression on Gaza.

IRANIAN PRESIDENT: The assassination of Haniyeh is a grave Zionist mistake that will not pass without a response.

CHANNEL 14: Six people were injured in a shooting at the Nevatim Junction in southern Israel.

Sunday, August 4, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)

IRANIAN PRESIDENT: We will not hesitate to defend our security and sovereignty to create deterrence against Israel.

WALLA: Residents of the Zikim settlement in the Gaza envelope, after 10 months of war on the Gaza Strip, have become afraid to leave their homes due to a new problem related to aggressive dogs coming from the Strip, which crossed the fence between the Strip and the settlement.

GAZA DIVISION COMMANDER: We, the regular army, were surprised and failed to repel the Hamas attack on October 7.

CHANNEL 12: the Palestinian Authority secretly transferred to the United States a 101-page document detailing its plans to take over the Gaza Strip.

CHANNEL 13: Benjamin Netanyahu has added new conditions that could hinder the possibility of concluding a swap deal.

Sunday, August 4, 8:00 pm (GMT+2)

HERZOG: The axis of evil has declared its intention to attack us, and we are ready to confront this threat.

BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE: British nationals in Lebanon should leave now while commercial flights are still available.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: Blinken discussed with G7 foreign ministers efforts to prevent conflict escalation.

NETANYAHU: Our long arm reaches Gaza, Yemen, Beirut and everywhere.

ISRAEL HAYOM: Defense Minister holds consultations on response to Iran attack.

JORDANIAN FM: I do not carry a message to or from Israel for Tehran.

WALLA: The commander of the US Central Command will arrive in Israel tomorrow to coordinate the confrontation with a possible Iranian attack.

ISRAELI ARMY: We are prepared for defense on land, air and sea.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli airstrike targeted an area between the towns of Aita al-Shaab and Debel in southern Lebanon.

Sunday, August 4, 6:30 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians were killed in the Israeli bombing of a house in the center of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip.

JOHN KIRBY: We continue to send additional forces to the region. We must ensure that we are prepared and have sufficient capabilities to assist Israel and defend our people and our interests.

KIRYAT SHMONA MAYOR: We have lost the deterrent capability we built with our blood over many years.

GALLANT: We are prepared for a wide deployment in defense and attack, and the enemy will pay a heavy price if it dares to attack us.

New Airstrikes on Gaza Schools: 25 Killed, Majority of Casualties are Children

HAMAS: The occupation is persisting in the Nazi war of extermination.

JORDANIAN OFFICIAL SOURCE: No messages in Safadi’s visit to Iran from or to Israel. This comes in response to an Iranian source who said that Safadi arrived in Tehran carrying three messages from the King of Jordan and the leaders of the United States and Israel, and that “Tehran will deliver two messages to Safadi, one to the Jordanian leadership and the other to America and Israel,” noting that Israel sent mediators to contain the situation.

MEDICAL SOURCE: The death toll from the bombing of two schools in Gaza City has risen to 30.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: 172 centers for sheltering displaced people were targeted by the occupation army.

Sunday, August 4, 5:00 pm (GMT+2)

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: The occupation commits a massacre in every sense of the word in Al-Nasr and Hassan Salama schools in Gaza Cityn. 80% of the dead and wounded are children, and the scene is difficult and tragic in Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: 25 Palestinians were killed in the bombing of Al-Nasr and Hassan Salama schools in Gaza City.

WALLA: The Shin Bet is preparing an underground command bunker for Netanyahu to fortify himself in.

WHITE HOUSE: The United States is moving an aircraft carrier to the Middle East for purely defensive reasons.

HEZBOLLAH: We shelled the Al-Malikiyah site with artillery shells, confirming a “direct hit.”

Sunday, August 4, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)

ANSARALLAH: We shot down an American MQ-9 drone with a surface-to-air missile in the airspace of Saada Governorate.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in a raid on Hassan Salama School west of Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli airstrike targeted the town of Beit Lif in southern Lebanon.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Kfir Brigade was completing military maneuvers on the northern front that included training for what it called combat on “enemy” territory.

BEN-GVIR: Israel’s control of the Philadelphi Corridor is “critical to achieving its goal of victory.”

SAUDI ARABIA: The Saudi Embassy in Lebanon renewed its call for its citizens to leave Lebanese territory immediately.

REUTERS: The Ansarallah shot down an American MQ-9 drone over Saada, northern Yemen.

Sunday, August 4, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN HEALTH MINISTRY: Gaza is on the brink of an epidemic disaster, in addition to the environmental and humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip, due to the accumulation of waste, water pollution, and lack of medicines.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We launched a barrage of rockets towards Gan Yavneh and Ashdod in northern Israel, in an initial response to the massacres against the Palestinian people and resistance leaders.

CHANNEL 12: A factory in Kiryat Shmona in the Upper Galilee was directly hit by a missile fired from southern Lebanon.

JORDAN: Jordan’s King calls for intensified international efforts to avoid chaos in the region.

ITALY: Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani called on Italians not to go to Lebanon, in light of the security tensions witnessed in the region.

KAN: The army is working in Salfit in the West Bank to map the house of the perpetrator of the stabbing operation in Holon in the West Bank in preparation for its demolition.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli forces stormed the home of the perpetrator of the stabbing operation in Holon, south of Tel Aviv, after he stormed the city of Salfit in the West Bank and deployed his forces at its entrances.

Sunday, August 4, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 39,583 Palestinians have been killed, and 91,398 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

IRANIAN OFFICIAL (to Al-Jazeera):

Tehran will deliver two messages to Safadi, one to the Jordanian leadership and the other to America and Israel.

Tehran will not accept a non-response or a symbolic response, and any response will be harsh and painful.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to hold a security assessment on Sunday evening regarding the expected responses from Iran and Hezbollah.

ISRAELI OFFICIAL (cited in WSJ): Israel is not prepared for a long war in Gaza. We thought there would be an air strike followed by a ground force maneuver.

NETANYAHU: I am prepared to go a very long way to release all the detainees while maintaining Israel’s security. He insisted on continuing to pressure Hamas to release all detainees later.

Sunday, August 4, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY: Five rockets were launched from the southern Gaza Strip towards the Ashdod area in southern Israel.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We sniped an Israeli soldier in Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood.

NETANYAHU: We will hold accountable those who collaborated with the Tel Aviv attacker.

Stabbing near Tel Aviv – Two Killed, Others Wounded

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery targeted various areas north of Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip.

IRANIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER: We will teach the occupation and the United States a historical lesson.

GAZA MUNICIPALITY: Waste accumulation increases the spread of diseases.

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

AL-JAZEERA; Three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting citizens in the Al-Shaaf neighborhood east of Gaza City, amid the occupation’s intensification of bombing of the city’s neighborhoods since the morning.

HAMAS: The stabbing operation in the Holon area in central Tel Aviv, was a natural response to the occupation’s ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people. We mourn the martyr Ammar Rizq Odeh.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH (citing Israeli security official): The deal is difficult but the best for now.

REGEV: Palestinian workers and illegal residents should be banned from entering Israel, after Israeli police announced that a young man from the West Bank carried out a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv.

Sunday, August 4, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

IRANIAN NEWS AGENCY: Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi will visit Iran today for talks with his Iranian counterpart, at a time of heightened tensions in the region.

MEDICAL SOURCES: 16 people were killed as a result of Israeli raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn today.

LEBANESE NEWS AGENCY: Two people were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the town of Deir Siryan in southern Lebanon on Saturday evening.

ISRAELI OFFICIAL (cited in Yedioth Ahronoth): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is stalling and obstructing the exchange deal, even though he was the one who put forward the latest proposal.

LAPID: Ben Gvir is the reason for the increase in attacks and the deterioration of security.

Sunday, August 4, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

BEN-GVIR: From the site of the operation in Holon, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called on Israelis to take up arms, noting that the government had distributed thousands of weapons to citizens.

ISRAELI AMBULANCE SERVICE: The death toll in the stabbing attack in the city of Holon, south of Tel Aviv, has risen to two, in addition to two serious injuries.

AXIOS: We expect Iran to attack Israel early Monday. We do not know whether Iran and Hezbollah will launch a coordinated attack or separately.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: at least 10,000 Israeli soldiers were killed or wounded during the war in the Gaza Strip.

HIGHER GALILEE COUNCIL: Damage occurred in an agricultural area between the Manara and Yiftach regions as a result of a rocket launched from southern Lebanon.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the espionage equipment at the Israeli Ramya site, confirming its destruction.

Sunday, August 4, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

GADI EISENKOT (to ISRAELI ARMY RADIO): The Holon stabbing operation is a failure of a different kind. There are tens of thousands of illegal residents roaming the country unchecked.

CHANNEL 13: An Israeli was killed and three others were injured in a stabbing and shooting attack in Holon, Tel Aviv.

Sunday, August 4, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

ISRAELI MEDIA: Four Israelis were injured, one of them seriously, in a stabbing attack in the city of Holon, south of Tel Aviv.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli artillery fired southeast of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, and also targeted the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in the south of Gaza City.

Sunday, August 4, 07:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Artillery shelling and gunfire from Israeli military vehicles targeted the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: A soldier was seriously injured yesterday, Saturday, in battles in the southern Gaza Strip.

Sunday, August 4, 06:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-AQSA TV: The Israeli occupation artillery shelled the eastern neighborhoods of Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

MEDICAL SOURCES: An Israeli airstrike on a house in the Al-Fakhoura area in the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip left four martyrs and a number of wounded.

CANADA: The Canadian government has issued a warning to its citizens not to travel to Israel due to “ongoing regional military conflict and unpredictable security situation.”

Sunday, August 4, 03:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli shelling targeted a tent housing displaced people in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, leaving 5 dead and a number of wounded.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes launched two raids a short while ago on the outskirts of the town of Blat in southern Lebanon.

Sunday, August 4, 02:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: forces launched several raids on the eastern neighborhoods of Gaza City and the western neighborhoods of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The Israeli army’s Home Front Command called on residents of border towns with Lebanon to stay near shelters.

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the Beit Hillel settlement for the first time with dozens of rockets.

IRAN: The assistant to the head of the Iranian judiciary confirmed that the public prosecutor ordered the identification and arrest of any spies or negligent persons in the case of the assassination of the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh

Sunday, August 4, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 15: About 50 rockets fired from Lebanon towards the Galilee.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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1 Comment

  1. ” WALLA: The Shin Bet is preparing an underground command bunker for Netanyahu to fortify himself in. ”
    sound familiar?
    who will they kill, the doppelganger who dies instead of Nazinyahu?

    Reply

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