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A Palestinian was killed and others were injured, while many people are still missing, in an Israeli raid that targeted a house near the Yarmouk market in the center of Gaza City.
According to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the worst-case scenario for Israel is a simultaneous Iranian-Hezbollah attack.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry called on the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, following his call to starve two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to death.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 39,677 Palestinians have been killed, and 91,645 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
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Friday, August 9, 01:00 am (GMT+2)
CNN: CNN quoted an American official and a Western intelligence official as confirming that concerns about a move by Hezbollah against Israel are greater than concerns about Iran.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Three Palestinians were killed and others were injured after the Israeli occupation bombed a house in the town of Abasan, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Again, occupation forces are forcibly displacing Palestinians from one bombed-out area to another.
This is Khan Yunis today, where Palestinians in the area are being forced to traverse environments that seem to be taken from the most dystopian films.
— Dima Sarsour (@SarsourDima) August 8, 2024
UNITED AIRLINES: United Airlines announced the cancellation of all scheduled flights to Tel Aviv until further notice.
SYRIAN NEWS AGENCY: Four soldiers were injured in an Israeli attack on the Shayrat military airport in Homs Governorate.
AL-AQSA TV CHANNEL: The occupation artillery fires flares in the skies of Tal al-Hawa neighborhood.
Thursday, August 8,11:00 pm (GMT+2)
LEBANESE MEDIA: Israeli warplanes launched raids on the towns of Hanawiya and Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli shelling targeted tents housing displaced people in Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, leaving a number of martyrs and wounded.
UN REPORT: Every building in Gaza was bombed at least once.
⚡️🇸🇾 Syria Update
** Israeli Airstrike **
Reports indicate that an Israeli strike caused the ammunition depot explosion near Homs, Syria. One of the Israeli missiles fell short of its intended target and landed in the town of Miryata in northern Lebanon. Locals provided an… https://t.co/NwnsBHYa7S pic.twitter.com/7MQfjnuI0e
— Veritas Global News (@Veritas_Nexus) August 8, 2024
Thursday, August 8, 10:00 pm (GMT+2)
BORRELL: I condemn Israel’s revocation of diplomatic status of Norwegian representatives.
WSJ: Washington warned Iran against launching a major attack on Israel.
US STATE DEPARTMENT: Ceasefire in Gaza will ease tensions in the region.
Thursday, August 8, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)
AXIOS: The commander of the US Central Command, Gen. Michael Kurilla, visited Israel today, for the second time in a few days.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli airstrike targeted agricultural land in Al-Zawayda, in central Gaza.
HAMAS: Massacres in displacement centers aim to exterminate and displace civilians in Gaza.
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Axios: US Central Command Commander Michael Kurilla visited Israel today for the second time since the beginning of the week. pic.twitter.com/J3qq99aKfC
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) August 8, 2024
Thursday, August 8, 8:00 pm (GMT+2)
ITALIAN PM: The Italian government said that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni asked Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during a phone call to avoid escalation in the Middle East.
GALLANT: If Hezbollah continues its aggression, Israel will fight it with a very fierce war.
KAN: The Israeli army forces returned tonight to the city of Khan Yunis for the third time since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip.
Thursday, August 8, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)
US ARMY: F-22 aircraft have arrived in the region as part of the US military reinforcements to confront the threats of Iran and its proxies to Israel.
HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the Zarit military barracks with high-explosive Burkan missiles in response to Israeli attacks on civilians in southern Lebanon.
AL-JAZEERA: Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that violent Israeli air and artillery bombardment targeted the Wadi al-Salqa area east of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip.
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US ARMY: The commander of the US Fifth Fleet said that the military arsenal of the Ansarallah group (Houthis) in Yemen has become more powerful.
HEZBOLLAH: We bombed Israeli military sites in Khirbet Manot with Katyushas.
Thursday, August 8, 6:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI MEDIA: Two Burkan missiles were launched from southern Lebanon, targeting the Branit military base in Western Galilee.
Thursday, August 8, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)
NORWEGIAN FM: We summoned the representative of the Israeli embassy in Oslo to protest the decision to strip our staff of their diplomatic status.
NETANYAHU: I apologize for the October 7 attacks and am deeply sorry that something like this happened
Thursday, August 8, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A Palestinian was killed as a result of an Israeli drone strike east of Khan Yunis.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 39,699 Palestinians have been killed, and 91,722 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The death toll of Israeli raids that targeted homes in Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip has risen to ten.
At least six civilians were massacred and others injured this afternoon in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house belonging to the Nashwan family home in Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza. pic.twitter.com/XlDrej0WW6
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 8, 2024
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded at the Malkiya site on the Israeli border with Lebanon.
ISRAELI FM: The diplomatic status of members of the Norwegian embassy responsible for relations with the Palestinian Authority would be revoked within 7 days, citing “anti-Israel” measures taken by the Norwegian government since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7.
Thursday, August 8, 11:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: The Palestinian Foreign Ministry called on the International Criminal Court on Thursday to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, following his call to starve two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to death.
UNICEF: Any escalation in the region would lead to dire humanitarian consequences.
Thursday, August 8, 1o:00 am (GMT+2)
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: The worst-case scenario for Israel is a simultaneous Iranian-Hezbollah attack.
Thursday, August 8, 09:00 am (GMT+2)
FORMER ISRAELI OFFICIAL (cited in Maariv): We must be prepared for a very large strike from Iran.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: 7 Palestinian citizens were killed and others were injured in Israeli raids that targeted 3 homes in the Gaza Strip at dawn today.
IOF soldiers continue to blow up Palestinian homes for fun in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/DqROhCSdrD
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) August 8, 2024
LIEBERMAN: We have been fighting a war of attrition for 10 months and this is harming our interests.
Thursday, August 8, 08:00 am (GMT+2)
CANADIAN PRESS: The government announced yesterday, Wednesday, that it had decided to withdraw the children of its diplomats from Israel, amid fears of an expansion of the conflict in the Middle East.
Thursday, August 8, 07:00 am (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A Palestinian was killed and others were injured, in addition to a number of missing persons, in an Israeli raid that targeted a house near the Yarmouk market in the center of Gaza City.
AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli occupation forces blew up the house of the martyr Moamen Masalma in the city of Dura, south of Hebron in the West Bank.
JAPANESE TRADE MINISTER: “We are closely monitoring the situation in the Middle East, and there has been no impact on our energy supplies so far”.
Thursday, August 8, 06:00 am (GMT+2)
ISRAEL HAYOM: The political level in Israel recommends that the security and military levels try not to escalate matters to the point of a comprehensive war.
Footage shows Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport virtually deserted, after dozens of airlines cancelled all flights as Israel awaits retaliation from Iran and Hezbollah pic.twitter.com/xFJRBufHCK
— Wyatt Reed (@wyattreed13) August 7, 2024
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli air strike targeted the Shaldan family’s house in the vicinity of Al-Yarmouk Market in central Gaza City.
Thursday, August 8, 05:00 am (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The Israeli occupation army sent military reinforcements towards the town of Habla, south of Qalqilya, in the occupied West Bank.
AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli airstrike targeted the east of Jabaliya camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
Thursday, August 8, 04:00 am (GMT+2)
PALINFO: Israeli occupation aircraft launched a raid targeting the outskirts of the town of Kfour in southern Lebanon.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two Palestinians were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the center of the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI OFFICIALS: Hezbollah will pay a heavy price if it hits civilians.
Thursday, August 8, 02:00 am (GMT+2)
CNN (citing informed source): Hezbollah and Iran are coordinating a possible attack at this time. Hezbollah may act without warning given Lebanon’s proximity to Israel, which is not the case with Iran.
Thursday, August 8, 01:00 am (GMT+2)
BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY: Starving civilians is a war crime.
IRAN: Our priorities include punishing the aggressor in the assassination of Martyr Haniyeh.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
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