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June 1, 2024 Blog, News
Israel continues to carry out massacres against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.(Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Palestinian journalist Ola Al-Dahdouh was killed when the Israeli army bombed her house on Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City at dawn on Saturday.

EU Policy Chief, Josep Borrell, said that double standards on the situation in Gaza and the ICJ decision should be avoided.

The Lebanese Resistance movement Hezbollah has intensified its attacks, targeting military sites in northern Israel. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 36,379 Palestinians have been killed, and 82,407 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Sunday, June 2, 03:45 am (GMT +2)

BERNIE SANDERS: Netanyahu is a war criminal and should not be invited to address Congress.

DAVID CAMERON (Via X): US President Joe Biden’s proposal is an opportunity that must be seized to achieve a lasting and sustainable truce.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli raid targeted a house in the Shawa Square area in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

Sunday, June 2, 02:00 am (GMT +2)

CHANNEL 12: A missile fired from Lebanon had fallen in Arab Al-Aramsha in Upper Galilee.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli raids targeted the Brazil neighborhood, south of the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.

Sunday, June 2, 01:00 am (GMT +2)

KAN: Seven demonstrators who participated in the protests in Tel Aviv were arrested, and Ayla Metzger, the wife of one of the captives in the Gaza Strip, was injured.

‘Why Do You Lie to Your People?’ – Resistance Roundup – Day 239

CHANNEL 12 (citing unnamed Israeli official): US President Joe Biden was keen to clarify the message that if Israel rejects the ceasefire deal proposal, it will bear the consequences, and he considered that Biden’s speech would change the rules of the game regardless of Hamas’ response.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Western Galilee.

NETANYAHU’S SENIOR ADVISOR (to The Times): There will be no permanent ceasefire until we achieve all our goals.

Saturday, June 1, 11:00 pm (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes launched a raid on the town of Hanouiyeh, south of Lebanon.

CHILE: Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced that his country would join South Africa in its lawsuit against Israel before the International Court of Justice.

BRITISH FM: We must seize this opportunity to stop the war.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: Blinken called on Hamas to accept the deal without delay.

LAPID: Ben Gvir and Smotrich want the war to continue forever.

BEN-GVIR: We will topple the government if Netanyahu enters into an agreement that ends the war.

SMOTRICH: We will topple the government if Netanyahu enters into an agreement that ends the war.

OSAMA HAMDAN: We want a complete ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal.

Saturday, June 1, 10:00 pm (GMT +2)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the headquarters of the 411th Artillery Battalion in Jatoun.

EGYPTIAN FM: Egypt supports every effort aimed at ending the Gaza war.

BERNIE SANDERS: Netanyahu is a war criminal, and I will not attend this speech.

NETANYAHU’S OFFICE: The Israeli prime minister accepted an invitation to speak before both houses of the US Congress.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday in the city of Tel Aviv, demanding the conclusion of an exchange deal with the Palestinian factions and the holding of early elections.

UNRWA: One million people fled Rafah in search of a safe place.

CHANNEL 13: Netanyahu will hold a session to discuss international criminal arrest warrants.

Saturday, June 1, 9:00 pm (GMT +2)

KAN (citing informed political source): Israel has agreed to discuss ending the war within the framework of the first phase of the deal. The source says that Israel reserves the right to resume fighting if Hamas violates the terms of the deal.

WSJ (quoting Israeli officials): Destroying Hamas’ capabilities may take longer than what was announced by the head of the Israeli Security Council.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery is violently bombarding the central and western neighborhoods of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed a gathering of Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the Netzarim axis with shells.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation forces carried out violent artillery shelling on the southern areas of the Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City.

Saturday, June 1, 8:00 pm (GMT +2)

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the Hanita colony in the Western Galilee with missiles.

FAMILIES OF ISRAELI PRISONERS: There is a minority that blackmails Netanyahu and threatens the Biden deal.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombarded enemy soldiers and vehicles with a barrage of heavy mortar shells.

Saturday, June 1, 6:30 pm (GMT +2)

FAMILIES OF ISRAELI PRISONERS: The extremists in Netanyahu’s government want the war to continue without end.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombarded enemy soldiers and vehicles with a barrage of heavy mortar shells.

ISRAELI ARMY: Hezbollah hit a camp in Kiryat Shmona with a Burkan missile.

Saturday, June 1, 5:30 pm (GMT +2)

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We sniped an Israeli soldier and bombed soldiers and vehicles with mortar shells in Tal al-Hawa, southwest of Gaza City.

HAARETZ (citing US official): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may put obstacles to the deal proposed by US President Joe Biden, but his initial reaction was encouraging.

‘A Non-Starter’ – Netanyahu Says No Gaza Ceasefire until Hamas ‘Destroyed’

Saturday, June 1, 4:30 pm (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: Seven people were wounded in an Israeli raid in southern Lebanon.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We detonated an anti-personnel Ra’adiya explosive device against an engineering unit consisting of 6 zionist soldiers, inflicting deaths and injuries near the George Junction east of Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON: The war in Gaza must stop.

CHANNEL 12: 70 percent of the facilities of the Manara settlement in Upper Galilee were destroyed.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in 9 towns in the Hula Plain and Upper Galilee after rockets were fired from southern Lebanon.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a school housing displaced people in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

EGYPTIAN MEDIA: An Egyptian, American, and Israeli meeting will take place in Cairo tomorrow, Sunday, to discuss restarting the Rafah crossing.

Saturday, June 1, 3:00 pm (GMT +2)

BELGIUM: We condemn the Israeli Knesset’s attempts to classify UNRWA as a terrorist organization and lift the immunity of its employees.

AP (citing the families of Israeli prisoners): Time is running out, and this may be the last chance to save the lives of our children. The government’s delay in reaching a deal cost us the loss of many of our detained children.

Saturday, June 1, 2:00 pm (GMT +2)

CHANNEL 12 (citing Israeli security source): We warn against Netanyahu bringing Ben Gvir into the war council. Ben Gvir is irresponsible and it is not possible to talk about confidential matters in front of him because he leaks everything.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We blew up an Israeli vehicle with a high-explosive barrel bomb in the Al-Taqadum axis in the vicinity of the Umm Raed area, east of Rafah.

HEZBOLLAH: We shot down, with appropriate weapons, an Israeli Hermes 900 drone over Lebanese territory.

LAPID: There is a deal on the table that must be implemented.

ABU HAMZA: Freedom is near for our brave prisoners. We tell the enemy that the only way to recover the prisoners is to withdraw from Gaza, stop the aggression, and go for an exchange deal.

Saturday, June 1, 1:00 pm (GMT +2)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 36,379 Palestinians have been killed, and 82,407 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

KIRYAT SHMONA MUNICIPALITY: The municipality of the Kiryat Shmona settlement reported severe damage to infrastructure, buildings and cars, but no casualties, as a result of the recent bombing from Lebanon.

NETANYAHU’S OFFICE: There will be no ceasefire until Hamas is destroyed.

ISLAMIC JIHAD: We look with suspicion at what the American President proposed, which suggests that the American administration has changed its position. It is still clear that the American administration is completely biased towards the Zionist entity, covering up its crimes and participating in the aggression

Saturday, June 1, 12:00 pm (GMT +2)

HEZBOLLAH: A building where Israeli army soldiers stationed in the Shomera settlement were targeted with missiles.

KAN: A commercial center in Kiryat Shmona was damaged as a result of a heavy missile.

AP: 36 people from the Gaza Strip have died in Israeli detention centers since October 7.

SAUDI NEWS AGENCY: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan received a call from his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken, to discuss what President Joe Biden announced regarding the exchange deal.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli interceptor missiles exploded in the airspace of the towns of Mays al-Jabal and Houla in southern Lebanon.

JORDANIAN FM: We support efforts to reach an exchange deal.

Saturday, June 1, 11:00 am (GMT +2)

PRCS: the number of PRCS workers killed in Gaza has risen to 33, 19 of whom were killed while performing their humanitarian duty.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens were sounding in Shtoula and Natua in Upper Galilee as a result of the launching of rocket shells from Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: We carried out a drone attack on a gathering of Israeli occupation army officers and soldiers from the armored faction north of Yiftah Barracks.

ALI BAGHERI KANI: We must work to resist the military machine that is killing the Palestinian people. Victory is not far away, and we will pray in Jerusalem soon.

INDONESIAN PRESIDENT: US President Joe Biden’s proposal regarding a ceasefire in Gaza is an important step forward.

Saturday, June 1, 10:00 am (GMT +2)

AL-JAZEERA: Rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards an Israeli position in the Upper Galilee.

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters targeted Al-Baghdadi’s Israeli position with missile weapons and achieved a direct hit.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Mount Hermon, Al-Malikiyah, Dishon and Jephthah in the Galilee on suspicion of infiltration.

Saturday, June 1, 08:30 am (GMT +2)

AL-AQSA TV: Journalist Ola Al-Dahdouh was killed when the Israeli army bombed her house in Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City at dawn today.

Saturday, June 1, 07:30 am (GMT +2)

EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF:

Double standards on the situation in Gaza and the ICJ decision should be avoided.

There are questions we need to answer about Ukraine, Gaza and the question of respecting international laws.

Clearly, international humanitarian law is no longer sufficiently respected.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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  1. Israel should be designated as a terrorist organization. Hamas comes out looking like heroes, while their accusers murder little children.

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