GAZA LIVE BLOG: Nasrallah Delivered Speech as Blinken Arrives in Israel | More Horrific Israeli Massacres in Gaza amid Growing Palestinian Resistance – DAY 28

November 3, 2023 Blog, News
Gaza reel under new massacres carried out by the Israeli army. (Photo: via Social media)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah, has delivered a much-anticipated speech.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Israel.

Death toll as a result of Israeli massacres in Gaza continues to climb while more Israeli officers and soldiers are killed by strong Palestinian resistance. 

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LATEST UPDATES BELOW

Saturday, November 4, 07:15 am (GMT+3)

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Saturday he was “horrified” by the Israeli army’s strike on an ambulance convoy in Gaza on Friday, stressing that the conflict between Israel and Hamas “must stop.”

AL-JAZEERA:

Israeli occupation forces stormed at dawn on Saturday the Balata camp east of Nablus, and the town of Jaba, south of Jenin in the West Bank.

Seven people were killed in Israeli raids targeting two houses in Nuseirat refugee camp and the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.

AXIOS: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel that agreeing to a humanitarian truce in Gaza would help Washington weather the pressure. Israeli commanders told Blinken that the truce would not happen unless the hostages were released.

Saturday, November 4, 02:35 am (GMT+3)

CNN (Citing a Senior US Official):  The Biden administration expects Israel to scale back its air attacks on Gaza and focus on the ground campaign.

REUTERS (Citing a Senior US Official): No agreement has yet been reached on a humanitarian truce in Gaza. Any effort to remove some 200 hostages from Gaza would require a major cessation of hostilities.

CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists): Israel’s war on Gaza is the deadliest journalist in more than 30 years. (It is estimated that 46 journalists have been killed since the start of the war.)

AL-JAZEERA: Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that heavy Israeli raids targeted a number of areas in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

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Saturday, November 4, 00:30 am (GMT+3)

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced that its air force targeted a person who approached the border fence with Lebanon.

UNICEF SPOKESMAN: The escalation in Gaza costs the lives of children.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: The Al-Quds Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement – announced that its fighters bombed with mortar shells Israeli forces penetrating near the equestrian club in the northwestern Gaza axis.

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Friday, November 3, 11:43 pm (GMT+3)

POLL: 56% of Israelis do not trust Netanyahu’s management of the war

UNRWA: 72 of our staff were killed in Gaza, the largest number of UN aid workers killed in a conflict in a short time.

Friday, November 3, 11:00 pm (GMT+3)

RED CROSS SPOKESWOMAN: International humanitarian law is clear that medical facilities are fully protected.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: We demand the establishment of a safe corridor to ensure the exit of the wounded.

US VICE-PRESIDENT: The Palestinians deserve equal measures to provide security.

ISRAELI BROADCASTING CORPORATION: High-ranking American officials urged Israel to begin discussing the issue of the day after the war.

UN ORGANIZATIONS: A joint statement by United Nations organizations said that there is an urgent need for an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza to alleviate the suffering.

POLITICO: Politico quoted an American official as saying that the administration of President Joe Biden urged Israel to carry out precise targeting operations, to avoid harming civilians in Gaza.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed Tel Aviv in response to the Zionist massacres.

JORDANIAN FM: The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, and Palestinian officials will meet with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken tomorrow in Amman.

Friday, November 3, 10:00 pm (GMT+3)

MINISTRY OF HEALTH: Israeli occupation committed a massacre in a school housing displaced people in Gaza. Al-Jazeera correspondent said that more than 20 people have been killed in the Israeli attack. 

REUTERS: Honduras recalled its ambassador to Israel to protest the war waged by the Israeli army on the Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We shelled Tel Aviv in response to the Israeli massacres against civilians in Gaza. 

Friday, November 3, 08:30 pm (GMT+3)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 13 Palestinians were killed and 26 were injured as a result of the occupation bombing of ambulances at the gate of Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

WHITE HOUSE: Washington warns of “potential destruction” in Lebanon if the conflict expands.

HAMAS LEADER ISMAIL HANIYEH: The systematic targeting of hospitals expresses the difficulties that the occupation and its ground forces are going through as they receive strikes from the resistance.

PENTAGON: “We are conducting unarmed drone flights over Gaza in support of efforts to recover the hostages.”

MACRON: “Fighting terrorism does not mean attacking civilian populations indiscriminately.”

Friday, November 3, 07:30 pm (GMT+3)

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: The Israeli army bombed with artillery a Hezbollah cell that was preparing to launch an anti-tank missile at the border.

AL-JAZEERA: 3 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza.

Friday, November 3, 07:20 pm (GMT+3)

UNICEF: On average, around 420 children are killed or injured every day in Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has told Al Jazeera: “Reportedly more than 3,450 children killed; staggeringly this rises significantly every day,” according to UNICEF. “Gaza has become a graveyard for thousands of children.”

Friday, November 3, 06:20 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes are currently bombing the vicinities of Al-Quds Hospital.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY SPOKESMAN: The Israeli bombing targeted ambulances in more than one location.

AL-JAZEERA: Dozens of Palestinians were killed and wounded in the Israeli bombing of the entrance of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.

ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER: We will not agree to a ceasefire in Gaza without the return of the prisoners.

ISRAELI ARMY: A soldier was killed in the Gaza ground battles, and the total number of soldiers killed since the beginning of the ground battle is 25.

Friday, November 3, 4:00 pm (GMT+3)

SECRETARY-GENERAL OF HEZBOLLAH, HASSAN NASRALLAH: On the Lebanese front, all options are on the table.

SECRETARY-GENERAL OF HEZBOLLAH, HASSAN NASRALLAH: To the Americans, I say: You are the ones who can end the aggression on Gaza because it is your aggression.

SECRETARY-GENERAL OF HEZBOLLAH, HASSAN NASRALLAH: A possible escalation depends on two factors. One, the course of events in Gaza, because this is a front of solidarity; and two, the behavior of the Zionist enemy towards Lebanon.

SECRETARY-GENERAL OF HEZBOLLAH, HASSAN NASRALLAH: The battle of Al-Aqsa Flood has become extended on more than one front and in more than one arena.

HEAD OF GAZA MEDIA OFFICE: The martyrs of the coastal road massacre were supposed to go to the areas that the occupation claimed were safe.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: We call on the Red Cross to accompany a convoy of wounded to secure its passage until it reaches the south of the Strip after the coastal road massacre.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers near the Mitat site opposite the town of Rmeish, and we inflicted confirmed casualties on their side.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Videos show fierce clashes with enemy forces in the streets of Beit Hanoun and the destruction of a number of Israeli vehicles.

Friday, November 3, 3:00 pm (GMT+3)

NBC (CITING US OFFICIALS): The administration is concerned that Washington will become isolated globally due to Biden’s close alliance with Israel.

CNN (CITING DIPLOMATIC SOURCE): Blinken will push Israel to agree to a temporary halt to raids on Gaza to allow for mediation.

PALESTINIAN HEALTH MINISTRY: The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that a young man was killed by the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Budrus in Ramallah Governorate.

IRANIAN FM: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said , “The resistance in Palestine and the region is ready to face various possibilities with the Zionist entity.”

CNN: The Biden administration informed Israel of the difficulty of achieving its military goals.

Friday, November 3, 2:00 pm (GMT+3)

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: The Al-Quds Brigades announced that they bombed the Israeli military crowds in the sites of Sufa, Halit, and Nir Ishaq in the Gaza Strip with concentrated missile bursts.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: 8,000 artillery shells were dropped on Gaza.

US SECRETARY OF STATE BLINKEN (FOLLOWING MEETING WITH ISRAELI PRESIDENT HERZOG): We will not hesitate to support Israel and we have affirmed the protection of civilians.

AL-JAZEERA: An Al Jazeera correspondent said that the families of Israeli prisoners in Gaza demonstrated again on Friday, in front of the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tel Aviv, to demand the return of their sons.

AL-JAZEERA (CITING MEDICAL SOURCE): 8 children were killed in an Israeli raid that targeted the sea road, near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip.

LAVROV: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called for an immediate ceasefire and the transfer of humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza.

KUWAITI FM: Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah said that the international community must bear responsibility in stopping the war and immediately bringing aid into Gaza.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The number of Palestinian casualties since the beginning of the war on October 7 has risen to 9,227 killed – including 3,826 children and 2,405 women – and 23,516 wounded.

Friday, November 3, 1:00 pm (GMT+3)

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said that next week it will begin “a new phase in confronting enemies” in support of Palestine.

KREMLIN: The Kremlin denied a Wall Street Journal report that said the United States had intelligence information indicating that the Russian private military group Wagner intended to supply Lebanese Hezbollah with air defense equipment.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades said that they surprised an Israeli foot force west of Erez (northern Gaza Strip) and clashed with it from zero distance.

UNITED NATIONS: The situation in the West Bank requires urgent action.

AL-JAZEERA: 15 Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house west of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced the killing of a tank commander during ground operations in Gaza.

IRISH PM: What Israel is doing in Gaza will not guarantee its security

Friday, November 3, 12:00 pm (GMT+3)

IRANIAN FM: “America has proven that it is a decisive part of the continuation of the war and genocide in Gaza and is not part of the solution.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades announced that they targeted an Israeli force holed up in a building north of Beit Hanoun (northern Gaza Strip) with five TPG shells.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation aircraft launched raids on the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, resulting in Palestinians being killed and wounded.

AL-JAZEERA: Al-Jazeera correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh reported that Israeli planes bombed the office of the French Press Agency and a number of press offices in Gaza City.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: 338 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Al-Quds Brigades said that its fighters clashed with the Israeli occupation forces at close range in the areas east of Khan Yunis, northwest of Gaza, and east of Jabalia.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades announced that they bombed the crowds of vehicles penetrating west of Erez (northern Gaza Strip ) with heavy-caliber mortar shells.

Friday, November 3, 10:10 am (GMT+3)

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Israel released 3,200 workers from Gaza, whom it arrested after the October 7 attack, and returned them to the Strip via the Kerem Shalom crossing.

ISRAELI MILITARY SPOKESMAN: Two Israeli soldiers were injured as a result of a Lebanese Hezbollah drone targeting an army camp in Shebaa Farms on Thursday.

PALESTINIAN PRISONERS’ CLUB: Israeli occupation forces arrested 50 Palestinians from different areas in the occupied West Bank last night.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the Kissufim settlement on the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli army bombarded with artillery the vicinity of the towns of Al-Qozah, Aita Al-Shaab and Ramia in southern Lebanon.

MAARIV: Only 28% of Israelis believe that current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is suitable to head the government.

ERDOGAN: Crimes against humanity are being committed in Gaza.

Friday, November 3, 9:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: A young Palestinian man was killed in the Qalandiya camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, by Israeli gunfire.

PALESTINIAN MEDICAL SOURCES: Five Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank.

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS: US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Israel on his third visit since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Seven Palestinians were killed as a result of an Israeli bombing targeting the Beit Lahia cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip.

REUTERS (CITING AMERICAN OFFICIALS): American reconnaissance drones were flying over Gaza, searching for those detained by Hamas.

Friday, November 3, 8:00 am (GMT+3)

PALESTINIAN NEWS AGENCY: Two young men were killed by Israeli gunfire in Al-Fawwar camp, south of Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the occupied West Bank .

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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