Escalations are reported on several fronts: nine Israeli massacres resulted in the killing of 97 Palestinians in Gaza in the last 24 hours; a Palestinian military operation in Jerusalem; Israeli strikes on south Lebanon; Ansarallah attacks on British ships east of Aden, in the Red Sea, and much more.
Politically, CIA chief William Burns is returning to Paris amid rumors of progress in the truce negotiations between the Palestinian Resistance and Israel.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 29,410 Palestinians have been killed, and 69,465 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
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Thursday, February 22, 9:15 pm (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The death toll resulting from the Israeli bombing of a number of homes in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip had risen to 22, along with a large number of injured and missing people.
AL-JAZEERA: Iron Dome intercepts rocket shells in the occupied Golan.
JOHN KIRBY: The prisoner talks are still ongoing and going well.
WALLA: The Israeli War Council approved sending a delegation to the French capital, Paris, to resume negotiations on a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
WALLA: The Israeli War Council approved sending a delegation to the French capital, Paris, to resume negotiations on a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
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HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the Yoav and Kaila barracks with Katyusha rockets, in response to Israeli attacks on villages and homes in southern Lebanon.
CHANNEL 13: There are positive indicators of progress in negotiations for a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
ANSARALLAH: We targeted an American destroyer and a British ship.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We destroyed an Israeli troop carrier with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell in the Sheikh Nasser area in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Thursday, February 22, 7:20 pm (GMT+2)
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a building in which Israeli occupation soldiers were holed up in the Al-Manara settlement with appropriate weapons and achieved a direct hit.
ISRAELI ARMY: We intercepted a ballistic missile outside the southeastern airspace.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli warplanes launched several raids on Beit Hanoun and the Tal al-Zaatar area in the Jabaliya camp, northern Gaza Strip.
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“Victory is our custom, and our dignity is from God, martyrdom.”
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AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON PALESTINE: The United States hijacks the Security Council.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed Maflasim and Nir Am with a missile salvo, in response to the occupation’s targeting of civilians in the Gaza Strip.
AXIOS: Brett McGurk urged Israel to send a delegation to the Paris talks.
RUSSIA: Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, called on Western countries to reverse the decision to suspend UNRWA’s work in Gaza because millions of Palestinians were affected by the decision.
RUSSIA: Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, called on Western countries to reverse the decision to suspend UNRWA's work in Gaza because millions of Palestinians were affected by the decision.
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US SENATOR WARREN: Biden must rein in Netanyahu and his companions.
US SENATOR SANDERS: It is not possible to continue giving Netanyahu billions to continue the war.
ISRAELI ENERGY MINISTER: It is clear that heavy and painful prices must be paid to return the kidnapped people.
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: We have seen a systematic disruption of hospitals in Gaza.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa flood, we have carried out 57 sniper missions during which dozens of enemy soldiers were killed.
Thursday, February 22, 5:45 pm (GMT+2)
UN MIDDLE EAST PEACE ENVOY: Gazan displaced face a severe shortage of shelter, food and medicine.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation army blew up residential squares in various areas of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
LIBYA’S REPRESENTATIVE TO ICJ: Israeli crimes amount to genocide.
Israel Destroys Gaza City’s Few Remaining Bulldozers – PHOTOS
KAN: The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation quoted Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as saying that he informed Biden’s envoy that they would expand the powers of the negotiating delegation in the exchange deal.
AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted a residential apartment in the town of Kafr Rumman in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed a gathering of enemy soldiers in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.
Thursday, February 22, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation army blew up homes in the Al-Dhahra area of Khan Yunis camp, south of the Gaza Strip.
IRAN: War is not a solution to the situation in Gaza and the West Bank.
ISRAELI MEDIA: An object was intercepted over the city of Safed in Galilee.
KUWAIT’S REPRESENTATIVE TO ICJ: What is happening in the Gaza Strip is the result of 75 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
‘Lift the Siege Before It’s Too Late’ – PRCS on Al-Amal Hospital
Thursday, February 22, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the spy equipment at the Israeli Birkat Risha site with appropriate weapons and achieved a direct hit as a result.
NORWEGIAN MINISTER OF INTL. DEVELOPMENT: Israel has the responsibility to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.
AL-JAZEERA: 6 children were injured in an Israeli bombing of a house in Bureij.
NETANYAHU: We aim to return the residents of the north by military or political means.
AL-JAZEERA: Rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards the Kiryat Shmona settlement in the Galilee region.
Palestinians have Right to Armed Struggle – Chinese Envoy to ICJ (VIDEO)
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Expectations that Fitch will lower Israel’s credit rating.
ISRAELI MEDIA: The Israeli army is in the process of forming a new battalion of reserve soldiers to protect the border.
JORDANIAN FM TO ICJ: Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
displaced persons in the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Thursday, February 22, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: Medical staff at Nasser Hospital are unable to provide care for 120 patients.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli bombing on an UNRWA building housing displaced persons in the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Thursday, February 22, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: Israeli occupation army artillery fired shells in the vicinity of Al-Amal Hospital, west of Khan Yunis.
IRELAND REPRESENTATIVE TO ICJ: Ireland supports the two-state solution.
BREAKING| Israeli forces storm Bethlehem and break into the house of two of the executors of today's operation at Al Zayim military checkpoint in occupied Jerusalem, in which one soldier was eliminated and 8 others were wounded, two of whom had critical injuries. pic.twitter.com/0Ipx3IJbk9
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) February 22, 2024
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted a Zionist force in a house west of Khan Yunis with a TGB missile, clashing with them and causing deaths and injuries among them.
BLOOMBERG: Israeli officials secretly admitted that they did not have a strategy to transfer 1.2 million civilians from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a building where Israeli army soldiers were stationed in the Kfar Yuval settlement and achieved a direct hit.
AL-JAZEERA: Confrontations broke out with the Israeli occupation forces at the northern entrance to Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank.
Thursday, February 22, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)
IRAN’S REPRESENTATIVE TO ICJ: Israel has grossly violated international law.
BREAKING: CHINA PRESENT THEIR POSITION TO THE ICJ ON DAY 4 REGARDING ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES AND ILLEGAL OCCUPATION pic.twitter.com/sxmIHwpU7V
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) February 22, 2024
AL-JAZEERA: Seven Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli raids that targeted homes and a mosque in the city of Rafah.
CHINA’S REPRESENTATIVE TO ICJ: Armed resistance is a right of colonized peoples and does not contradict international law.
Thursday, February 22, 11:15 am (GMT+2)
AMBREY MARITIME RISK MANAGEMENT: A missile attack caused a fire on board a ship off the coast of Yemen.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli forces targeted the towns of Khiam, Kafr Kila and Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon with raids.
HAMAS: The heroic operation south of occupied Jerusalem is a natural response to the occupation’s massacres.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 29,410 Palestinians have been killed, and 69,465 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 29,410 Palestinians have been killed, and 69,465 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) February 22, 2024
AL-JAZEERA: More than 30 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli bombing of citizens’ homes in the central Gaza Strip since Wednesday evening.
SMOTRICH: I demand that Netanyahu immediately approve plans to build thousands of housing units in Maale Adumim and the entire region.
Thursday, February 22, 10:00 am (GMT+2)
BEN-GVIR: We continue to give the Israelis weapons to protect themselves.
SHIN BET: The perpetrators of the attack that targeted soldiers near the Maale Adumim settlement are the two brothers Muhammad and Kazem Zawahra and Ahmed Al-Wahsh from Zaatara, south of Bethlehem.
KAN: The perpetrators of the shooting in Maale Adumim were two brothers from Bethlehem.
Thursday, February 22, 09:00 am (GMT+2)
ISRAELI MEDIA: An Israeli soldier was killed in a shooting at a military checkpoint east of Jerusalem.
ISRAELI MEDIA: An Israeli soldier was killed in a shooting at a military checkpoint east of Jerusalem.
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ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: 9 soldiers were injured, including 3 in critical condition, in shooting operation at a military checkpoint east of Jerusalem.
AL-JAZEERA: 26 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli bombing of the central Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI POLICE: Two Palestinians were killed by gunfire near the Maale Adumim settlement.
Thursday, February 22, 08:00 am (GMT+2)
ISRAELI MEDIA: 6 Israelis were injured in a shooting near the Maale Adumim settlement, east of occupied Jerusalem, and some of the injured are in serious condition.
WHO DIRECTOR: The situation in the Gaza Strip is inhumane.
WHO DIRECTOR: The situation in the Gaza Strip is inhumane.
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Thursday, February 22, 07:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces blew up several homes in the center of Khan Yunis, amid heavy smoke rising in the city.
ISRAELI ARMY: Sirens sounded in the city of Eilat and its surroundings in southern Israel, warning of possible air threats.
A “suspicious object” was intercepted when it was on its way to Israel over the Red Sea.
Thursday, February 22, 04:00 am (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli bombing targeted two homes in Jabaliya, north of the Gaza Strip.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes destroyed Al-Farouq Mosque in the Shaboura camp in central Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes destroyed Al-Farouq Mosque in the Shaboura camp in central Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
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Thursday, February 22, 03:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes launched a raid on Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Thursday, February 22, 02:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli forces carried out an air strike on the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation forces bombed areas west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, with artillery.
AL-JAZEERA: Two people were killed and others wounded in Israeli raids on 3 homes in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli aircraft bombed a house in the Shaboura camp in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Thursday, February 22, 01:00 am (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A Palestinian was killed and others were injured in Israeli raids that targeted two homes in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
AL-JAZEERA: There were casualties in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Al-Mashroua area, east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The Israeli occupation forces launched an air strike near Salah al-Din Gate on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
Thursday, February 22, 12:00 am (GMT+2)
AXIOS: The CIA director will visit Paris to hold talks on detainees.
(The Palestine Chronicle)