Israeli forces carried out new massacres in Maghazi, Nuseirat and Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, killing and wounding several Palestinians.
An employee at the US Department of the Interior announces her resignation from her position in protest against the US policy towards the Gaza war.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported that a state of exhaustion persists among soldiers after nine months of war.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 37,953 Palestinians have been killed, and 87,266 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
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Thursday, July 4, 00:30 am (GMT+2)
HAMAS: We dealt with the ongoing talks in a positive spirit.
Wednesday, July 3, 11:30 pm (GMT+2)
HAMAS: Pressure on the movement’s leadership and continuous threats are useless.
ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: Israel announced the killing of an officer and the wounding of 3 soldiers in the Gaza battles.
FAMILIES OF ISRAELI CAPTIVES: If you don’t accept the deal with Hamas, millions will take to the streets.
‘US Policy on Gaza a Failure, Threat to National Security’ – Former US Government Officials
Wednesday, July 3, 10:30 pm (GMT+2)
HAMAS: We exchanged some ideas with mediators to stop the aggression.
Wednesday, July 3, 9:30 pm (GMT+2)
CHANNEL 12: For the first time, Hamas’ response allows progress, and there is a basis for launching negotiations.
NETANYAHU’S OFFICE: We will study Hamas’ response and respond to the mediators.
REUTERS (citing Mossad): Mediators presented Israel with Hamas’ response to the proposed deal.
CHANNEL 13: Senior Shin Bet official reprimanded over the release of Dr. Abu Salmiya.
‘Worse than Abu Ghraib’ – This is How Israel Tortures Its Palestinian Hostages
MEDICAL SOURCES: 38 Palestinians were killed in Gaza due to the bombing of different areas of the Strip since dawn today.
NYT (citing officials): Qatar sent new amendments to the American proposal for a prisoner exchange deal yesterday to Hamas.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Washington will seek to pressure Tel Aviv regarding the future of the war on Gaza.
Wednesday, July 3, 8:30 pm (GMT+2)
TIMES OF ISRAEL: Israeli Finance Ministry transferred $116 million to the Palestinian Authority from tax revenues withheld by Israel.
KAN: No change in the instructions of the home front in northern Israel, and the army raises the security alert.
Hezbollah’s Response – Rocket Barrage Targets Israel following Commander’s Assassination
CHANNEL 12: Avigdor Lieberman, a member of the Israeli Knesset and head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, called for the use of non-conventional weapons against Iran, in reference to nuclear weapons.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelling targeted the town of Shebaa in southern Lebanon.
HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the Zar’it barracks and the ground forces battalion at the Israeli Kela barracks with Burkan and Katyusha rockets in response to the assassination of the leader Abu Nimah Nasser.
Wednesday, July 3, 7:30 pm (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: A Palestinian was shot by an Israeli settler while herding sheep near the town of As-Samu, south of the city of Hebron in the West Bank.
ISRAEL HAYOM: Benjamin Netanyahu gave his approval to the security establishment and the army a few days ago to assassinate a senior Hezbollah official.
CHANNEL 14: A settler was injured in a run-over attack that took place in Mount Hebron, south of the West Bank.
HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the Golan Division headquarters in the Nafah barracks and the air and missile defense headquarters in the Kila barracks with 100 Katyusha rockets.
AP (citing Peace Now): Israel approves largest land confiscation in the West Bank.
BREAKING: Hezbollah Leader Abu Mahdi Nasser (Hajj Abu Nimah) Has Been Killed In An Attack On His Car
The rise of Hezbollah leader Abu Mahdi Nasser (Hajj Abu Nimah) in the raid on his car in Al-Housh
Israeli Radio:
“The commander who was assassinated in Tyre was in charge of… pic.twitter.com/BEqwZgfvxd
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) July 3, 2024
HEZBOLLAH: A large barrage of rockets was launched from southern Lebanon towards the Galilee Finger.
WALLA: Israel and the United Nations are negotiating to place Elon Musk’s internet system in the Gaza Strip.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Hezbollah and Israel reached an understanding whereby, at the end of the war on Gaza, a political solution would be reached that would allow the residents of northern Israel to return to their homes.
Wednesday, July 3, 5:30 pm (GMT+2)
KAN: A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip directly hit a building in the Netivot area in the western Neqab.
Wednesday, July 3, 4:45 pm (GMT+2)
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted spy equipment at the al-Malikiyah site with appropriate weapons and scored a direct hit.
OCHA (The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs: The Israeli occupation forces targeted areas in Gaza previously declared ‘safe’, forcing their residents to flee.
AL-QASSAM: Our fighters were able to attack the headquarters of the operations of the occupation forces penetrating into the ShEjaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, with appropriate weapons, which led to the death and injury of a number of of Israeli soldiers.
YOAV GALLANT (Israeli Defense Minister): We prefer to reach an agreement on the northern front (Lebanon). If reality dictates something else on us, we will know how to fight. The tank leaving Rafah is able to reach the Litani (river).
‘Death Penalty a Solution’ – Ben-Gvir Adamant On Overcrowding in Israeli Prisons
ISSAC HERZOG (Israeli President): All of Israel wants the return of the hostages and the clear majority supports the hostage deal and the duty of the state to return them. Our leaders must recognize that they are being tested in the efforts to repatriate abductees.
Wednesday, July 3, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)
QUDS BRIGADES:
A number of enemy (Israeli) prisoners attempted suicide persistently as a result of their deep frustration with the neglect of their cause by their government.
Our treatment of prisoners differed by depriving them of some of the privileges that were offered to them prior to the heinous crime of Nuseirat.
NEW YORK TIMES: University of Texas researchers have identified an Israeli air base as the main source of attacks on GPS. Israeli attacks on the global GPS system have disrupted civilian air navigation in the Middle East.
HAMAS: The stabbing attack in Karmiel is a natural reaction to “the crimes of occupation and aggression against our people in Gaza and the West Bank.”
Israeli Soldier Killed, Another Wounded in Stabbing Attack in Upper Galilee – UPDATED
Wednesday, July 3, 3:30 pm (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA (Citing Lebanese sFecurity source): The Israeli raid on the Al-Hosh area in southern Lebanon led to the death of Abu Nimah Nasser, commander of Hezbollah’s Aziz unit.
These are Hezbollah Conditions to End Conflict with Israel – Sheikh Naism Kassem
YAIR LAPID (Israeli opposition leader): There is no greater gift to Israel’s enemies than Itamar Ben-Gvir and Benjamin Netanyahu’s irresponsibility. We thought October seventh was the lowest point of our lives, but it’s just the beginning of the deterioration.
‘Attempt to Satisfy ICJ’ – Israeli State Prosecutor Seeks to Lay Incitement Charges Against Ben-Gvir
Wednesday, July 3, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)
KAN: One of the soldiers wounded in the stabbing attack in Karmiel was killed.
Israeli Soldier Killed, Another Wounded in Stabbing Attack in Upper Galilee – UPDATED
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We destroyed a Merkava tank in the middle of Rafah.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The death toll resulting from the Israeli bombing of a residential apartment in the middle of the Nuseirat camp has risen to three, including a child.
AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli airstrike targeted a car in the Al-Hawsh area, near the city of Tyre, in southern Lebanon.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 37,953 Palestinians have been killed, and 87,266 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Wednesday, July 3, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: The perpetrator of the operation holds Israeli citizenship.
NYT: US envoy to Lebanon, Amos Hochstein, will meet today with French officials in Paris to discuss defusing the escalation on the Lebanese border.
CHANNEL 12: Large police forces arrive at the scene of the stabbing attack in Karmiel.
Wednesday, July 3, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: The perpetrator of the operation holds Israeli citizenship.
NYT: US envoy to Lebanon, Amos Hochstein, will meet today with French officials in Paris to discuss defusing the escalation on the Lebanese border.
CHANNEL 12: Large police forces arrive at the scene of the stabbing attack in Karmiel.
Wednesday, July 3, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were injured in the bombing of a residential apartment near Al-Tabi’in Mosque on Al-Sahaba Street in the center of Gaza City.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters shelled the Israeli occupation forces that had penetrated the Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City with mortar shells.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed with mortar shells the crowds of occupation soldiers stationed at Al-Muntar Hill, east of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood.
ISRAELI MEDIA: A stabbing attack took place inside a shopping mall in the city of Karmiel in northern Israel. Two Israeli soldiers were injured, one of them critically. The suspect was shot.
ISRAELI MEDIA: A stabbing attack took place inside a shopping mall in the city of Karmiel in northern Israel. Two Israeli soldiers were injured, one of them critically. The suspect was shot.
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MEDICAL SOURCES: 26 Palestinians have been killed since dawn today as a result of the continued Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Seven bodies were recovered in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, including 5 charred bodies.
Wednesday, July 3, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted a D9 Israeli military bulldozer at the Halal Market intersection in Rafah city with an RPG shell.
Wednesday, July 3, 11:00 am (GMT+2)
FRENCH PRESIDENCY: French President Emmanuel Macron urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the need to prevent the situation with Hezbollah in Lebanon from escalating.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Four Palestinians were killed and 17 wounded in the Israeli shelling of people who tried to return to the Shejaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted two Merkava tanks with two “Yassin 105” shells in the western camp in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah.
Wednesday, July 3, 10:00 am (GMT+2)
KAN (citing the commanders of 4 military battalions): A state of exhaustion among soldiers after 9 months of war.
AL-JAZEERA: The bodies of three Palestinians arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah after the occupation bombed a car east of the Al-Maghazi camp.
Wednesday, July 3, 09:00 am (GMT+2)
ISRAELI ARMY: 24 soldiers were injured in the past 24 hours, including 23 in the Gaza battles.
AL-JAZEERA: Two people were killed as a result of Israeli shelling that targeted a group of Palestinians east of the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, while the northwest of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip was subjected to Israeli artillery shelling.
Israeli Soldiers from Carmeli Brigade Killing Civilians in Tel Hawwa Neighborhood.
The video captures the moment two civilians, riding their bicycles, were murdered by Israeli occupation soldiers last month.
The incident occurred approximately 150 meters near the Dahdouh… pic.twitter.com/ilK5kZBtrO
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) July 3, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 08:00 am (GMT+2)
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli occupation army said that it bombed Hezbollah sites last night in the areas of Blida, Yaroun, Tyre Harfa and Aitaroun in southern Lebanon.
CNN: US President Joe Biden is expected to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the latter’s visit to Washington to deliver a speech before Congress.
Wednesday, July 3, 05:00 am (GMT+2)
US MEDIA: An employee at the US Department of the Interior announces her resignation from her position in protest against the US policy towards the Gaza war.
FORMER US OFFICIALS: There is undeniable US complicity in the killings in Gaza.
Wednesday, July 3, 03:00 am (GMT+2)
US STATE DEPARTMENT: We have seen disturbing reports about the Israeli army using civilians as human shields.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE: Macron urged Netanyahu not to launch ‘new operation’ near Khan Yunis, Rafah.
An old man is seen getting displaced from Khan Yunis.
According to UNRWA, 250,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from Khan Yunis. pic.twitter.com/FH1CXwtYer
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) July 3, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 02:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: the Israeli occupation launched a bombardment after midnight on the Zarqa neighborhood in the south of Gaza City, which led to the deaths of 5 martyrs.
Wednesday, July 3, 01:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Sofa in the Gaza envelope.
Wednesday, July 3, 12:00 am (GMT+2)
STATEMENT: In a statement, 12 US government officials who resigned in protest of the Gaza war said that Biden’s Gaza policy has failed and threatens national security.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
