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

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

17 people were killed and dozens injured in the central Gaza Strip, after residential homes were bombed at dawn on Tuesday in the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps.

The Gaza government media office announced that the Strip is rapidly heading toward famine, accusing Israel and the Biden administration of preventing aid.

Benny Gantz called on Netanyahu to remove the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Nissim Vaturi, after the latter said Israeli demonstrators are a branch of Hamas. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 37,372 Palestinians have been killed, and 85,452 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Wednesday, June 19, 06:15 am

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation warplanes launched at dawn on Wednesday five raids on the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AXIOS: The White House canceled a high-level meeting with Israel on Iran scheduled for Wednesday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked President Joe Biden’s administration over arms exports.

Conflicting Report on Weapon Shipment to Israel – What We Know So Far

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli Quad Copter drones were firing on Palestinian homes east of the central Gaza Strip city of Deir al-Balah.

BERNIE SANDERS (US Senator): Washington should withhold all offensive military aid to Israel. Washington should use its influence to demand an end to the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Five were killed and others were wounded in an Israeli shelling targeting the tents of displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, northwest of Rafah.

‘Four Generations from Same Bloodline’ – Israel Wiping Out Entire Gaza Families – Report 

Wednesday, June 19, 01:30 am

AL-JAZEERA: an Israeli bombing targeted the tents of displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, northwest of the city of Rafah, leaving a number of martyrs and wounded.

LEBANESE MEDIA: Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a house in the town of Baraashit, near Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.

MEDICAL OFFICIAL IN GAZA: The health situation in Gaza is catastrophic and patients are dying due to a lack of medicines.

Famine Looming – Gaza Accuses Israel, US of Using Aid Blockade as Political Weapon

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house for the Abu Safiya family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.

AL-AQSA TV: Violent clashes are taking place between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation forces in the Saudi neighborhood west of the city of Rafah, coinciding with intense air and artillery bombardment.

Tuesday, June 18, 11:30 pm (GMT +2)

USAID: The humanitarian situation in Gaza is very difficult

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told Netanyahu during a protest: You are the main responsible for the most dangerous security failure in the history of Israel.”

WASHINGTON POST (citing Israeli military official): The fighting against Hamas in Rafah is more intense than other areas.

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the Balasan factory for Israeli military industries in the Sa`sa settlement with Falaq missiles.

Prominent Palestinian Doctor, Iyad Rantisi, Dies during Interrogation in Israel

KAN: Netanyahu clearly chose to open another front of confrontation with the Biden administration. Fears in Israel that Washington may restrict additional arms shipments to prevent any Israeli attack in Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, met today with senior Hamas officials in Doha.

Tuesday, June 18, 9:30 pm (GMT +2)

KAN: Mutual accusations between Israeli intelligence and the Gaza Division regarding the October 7 document.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Ten missiles were monitored from Lebanon towards Kiryat Shmona and its environs in the Galilee Finger.

Conflicting Report on Weapon Shipment to Israel – What We Know So Far

GALLANT: The difficult war we are waging came suddenly and we paid a heavy price.

KAN: US President Joe Biden’s envoy to Lebanon returned to Israel after his talks in Beirut, and will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army says it carried out a series of precise strikes targeting a group belonging to Hezbollah’s air unit.

‘Four Generations from Same Bloodline’ – Israel Wiping Out Entire Gaza Families – Report 

AXIOS: Restrictions on shipments of two thousand-pound bombs to Israel will be lifted after the end of the Rafah operation

LAPID: There are no limits to Netanyahu’s corruption and negligence, and he must get out of our lives.

Tuesday, June 18, 7:30 pm (GMT +2)

ISRAELI FM: In an all-out war, Hezbollah will be destroyed and Lebanon will be subjected to a devastating blow.

LEBANESE SOURCE (to Al-Jazeera): The American envoy confirmed that his country is working to avoid the opportunity for a comprehensive war to break out.

AL-JAZEERA: Blinken once again holds Hamas responsible for not reaching an agreement on Gaza.

Tuesday, June 18, 6:00 pm (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: The Lebanese group Hezbollah has shared a video through its Telegram channel showing one of its reconnaissance drones flying over northern Israel, including the Haifa port.

FRANCE: The Paris Commercial Court ordered the organizer of the Eurosatory exhibition for arms companies to “suspend” the ban on the participation of Israeli companies in it.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli drone targeted a car in the vicinity of the town of Barghaliya, south of Lebanon.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Missiles landed in Shlomi in Western Galilee.

Tuesday, June 18, 4:00 pm (GMT +2)

KAN: Hamas maintains two battalions in its military wing for the day after the war, and does not involve them in the ongoing fighting.

AL-JAZEERA: Israel is launching artillery shelling around the town of Shebaa in southern Lebanon.

Tuesday, June 18, 3:00 pm (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israel is launching artillery shelling around the town of Shebaa in southern Lebanon.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: We were unable to recover the bodies of martyrs in the Saudi neighborhood in Rafah due to the Israeli bombing.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted, with an assault drone, a Merkava tank inside the Hadab Yarin site, and we achieved a direct hit.

Tuesday, June 18, 2:00 pm (GMT +2)

LEBANESE PM: We are not seeking escalation. What is required is to stop the aggression.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 37,372 Palestinians have been killed, and 85,452 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

ISRAELI MEDIA: A fire broke out in an agricultural area south of Metulla in the Upper Galilee after a rocket fell from Lebanon.

GIDEON SA’AR: Netanyahu’s government is unable to achieve the goals of the war.

ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTRY: The number of disabled IDF soldiers treated at the Ministry of Defense’s Rehabilitation Division has surpassed 70,000 for the first time. The increase came after the addition of 8,663 wounded men and women since October 7.

Tuesday, June 18, 1:00 pm (GMT +2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two people were injured as a result of shelling from an Israeli march in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in areas in the Upper Galilee after a suspected infiltration from Lebanon.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: There were casualties as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted the town of Abasan, east of the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, June 18, 12:00 pm (GMT +2)

AMOS HOCHSTEIN: Stopping the war in Gaza may end the escalation between Lebanon and Israel.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The Strip is rapidly heading toward famine, and the occupation and the American administration are preventing aid.

Tuesday, June 18, 11:00 am (GMT +2)

AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN: Netanyahu’s government is neither right-wing nor left-wing, but rather a disastrous government and we need an alternative.

AL-JAZEERA: One person was killed and one injured in a bombing by an Israeli march on Al-Sahaba Street in Gaza City.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Benny Gantz called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remove Nissim Vaturi, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, from his position and condemn his statements. Vaturi said that Hamas has two branches, the murderous terrorists and the Israeli demonstrators.

Tuesday, June 18, 10:00 am (GMT +2)

CHANNEL 12: Israel informed US envoy Amos Hockstein that operations in Rafah were nearing completion.

ISRAELI HOME FRONT: Sirens sounded in Kerem Shalom in the southern Gaza Strip.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Security estimates that a technological solution to intercept Hezbollah drones will be reached within 3 months.

AL-JAZEERA: Two people were martyred in an Israeli bombing that targeted the town of Al-Qarara, east of Khan Yunis.

Tuesday, June 18, 09:00 am (GMT +2)

GANTZ: We are committed to eliminating the Hezbollah threat.

LAPID: The government of Benjamin Netanyahu must be overthrown, and I believe it is possible to do so.

Tuesday, June 18, 07:00 am (GMT +2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: 17 people were killed and dozens injured in the central Gaza Strip, after two homes belonging to the Al-Rai and Al-Madhoun families in the Nuseirat Camp, and a house belonging to the Harb family in the Bureij Camp were bombed at dawn on Tuesday.

Tuesday, June 18, 06:00 am (GMT +2)

IZZAT AL-RISHQ (Member of Hamas’ political bureau): The Palestinian resistance, led by the al-Qassam Brigades, dismantled the Israeli War Council, which was formed eight months ago to dismantle the resistance.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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