GAZA LIVE BLOG: 125 Rockets from Lebanon | Hamas on Ceasefire | No Polio Vaccines in Gaza – Day 319

August 20, 2024 Blog, News
Israel continues to carry out massacres against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.(Photo: via QNN)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The Israeli army said it monitored the launch of 55 rockets from southern Lebanon.

Medical sources confirmed that 14 people were killed and dozens injured in Israeli raids on the central and southern Gaza Strip since dawn on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said it is still waiting for the arrival of vaccines for the polio campaign.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 40,173 Palestinians have been killed, and 92,857 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Wednesday, August 21, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

DAVID LAMMY: British Foreign Secretary calls for immediate end to Gaza war and release of detainees

Wednesday, August 20, 12:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: There were dead and wounded as a result of an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential apartment in Tal al-Zaatar in Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

HUSSEIN AL-SHEIKH: Israel will reject Abbas’s visit to Gaza.

‘UN Building Should be Wiped off Face of Earth’ – Outgoing Israeli Envoy 

Tuesday, August 20, 11:00 pm (GMT+2)

ISRAELI MEDIA: 125 rockets were fired from Lebanon towards northern settlements.

BLINKEN: Netanyahu has agreed to the deal proposal, and Hamas must agree.

Hamas Releases Statement Regarding Ceasefire Talks – Main Points

LEBANESE HEALTH MINISTRY: 4 people were injured, including 3 paramedics, in an Israeli airstrike on Wadi Hamoul in southern Lebanon.

Tuesday, August 20, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)

ISRAELI MEDIA: About 40 rockets were fired from Lebanon in the past hour.

SENIOR US OFFICIAL:

Netanyahu’s tough statements on Gaza are not constructive.

Reports that Blinken was persuaded by Israel’s request to remain in Philadelphia are false.

ISRAEL HAYOM: Two rockets fell directly on the settlement of Matat in the Western Galilee and that significant damage was caused to a building.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: We cannot return all the kidnapped people in Gaza through military operations.

KAN: The Israeli Broadcasting Authority quotes people close to Netanyahu as saying that if the negotiating team does not like Netanyahu’s position, they can leave the mission.

CHANNEL 13 AND KAN: Netanyahu seeks to blow up negotiations with today’s statements.

‘Stop US Funding Genocide’ – Protests as Biden Delivers Farewell Speech at DNC

Tuesday, August 20, 8:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens sounded non-stop in several towns in the Upper Galilee.

Tuesday, August 20, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)

HAMAS: The US administration is responsible for the continuation of massacres against our people.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces blew up a number of residential towers in the Tal al-Hawa area, southwest of Gaza City.

MEDICAL SOURCES: 52 Palestinians have been killed as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombardment of various areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn today.

Tuesday, August 20, 6:00 pm (GMT+2)

NETANYAHU: We will not accept any proposal that ends the war in Gaza.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: At least 8 people, most of them children and women, were killed in an Israeli bombing of the Deir al-Balah market in the central Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY (cited in Channel 12): Our activity in Gaza may have killed the prisoners whose bodies we recovered.

WSJ (citing Israeli security officials): More captives will return dead if an agreement is not reached.

UNICEF: There are many challenges facing the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza. We expect the first shipment of vaccines to arrive in Gaza on August 25 or 26.

IRGC: We will not leave any attack on our targets without a response, and the enemy must await the well-studied responses at the appropriate time. Our response may not resemble previous military operations, and the response scenarios are not the same.

FAMILIES OF PRISONERS: Netanyahu’s statements mean the deal is invalidated.

Tuesday, August 20, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: The explosion that occurred in Tel Aviv two days ago contained highly explosive materials of local manufacture, and of the type used in suicide operations during the Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Intifadas.

GADI EISENKOT: We did not achieve any of the war goals and Netanyahu opposed the deal.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Rats attack occupation soldiers and bite the nose and ear of two soldiers.

ISRAEL’S AMBASSADOR TO UN: In a TV interview, Gilad Erdan said that the UN building must be closed and wiped off the face of the earth.

CHANNEL 12: I’m not sure there will be an agreement, but if there is, it will be an agreement that preserves our interests.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades announced targeting a D-9 military bulldozer with an explosive device in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah city.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The number of journalist martyrs has risen to 170 since the beginning of the war, after the martyrdom of journalist Hamza Murtaja.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombarded with mortar shells a gathering of enemy vehicles and soldiers who had penetrated the Al-Qarara area, northeast of Khan Yunis.

NETANYAHYU: I told Blinken that we will continue until Hamas is eliminated. We will not leave the Philadelphia axis under any circumstances.

Tuesday, August 20, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

NETANYAHU: We will not withdraw from the Philadelphi and Netzarim axes despite the pressures.

ISRAELI ARMY: The occupation announces the detection of about 80 rockets launched from southern Lebanon.

EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT: Sisi stresses the danger of expanding the scope of the conflict regionally.

HAMAS: The movement followed with great astonishment and disapproval the statements of US President Joe Biden, in which he claimed that the movement is backing away from the ceasefire agreement.

Tuesday, August 20, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY DIRECTOR GENERAL: The occupation prevented the entry of a UN convoy loaded with medicine and fuel. Ambulances are now without fuel, hampering the rescue of the wounded. Fuel in the Gaza Strip is only enough for 24 hours.

LAPID: Despite the political difficulty, all the abductees must now be returned.

AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted Mustafa Hafez School, which houses displaced people west of Gaza City.

Tuesday, August 20, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)

NETANYAHU: The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied what the mother of a prisoner had reported from the head of the Israeli intelligence agency (Mossad) that it was not possible to reach a deal with the Palestinian resistance under the current government.

AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens are sounding in Israeli towns north and east of Nahariya and Shetula in the western sector of the border with Lebanon.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted citizens in the vicinity of the Qastal Towers, east of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted a Zionist force entrenched inside a house with a TPG shell next to Al-Qadisiyah School.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Three Palestinians were killed and others were injured as a result of Israeli shelling of Mustafa Hafez School, which houses displaced persons west of Gaza City.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted a Merkava tank with a 105 Al-Yassin shell west of Rafah.

When Men Cry – Resistance Roundup – Day 318

Tuesday, August 20, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted a Merkava tank with a 105 Al-Yassin shell west of Rafah.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli aircraft bombed the Mustafa Hafez School, which shelters displaced people west of Gaza City.

SMOTRICH: Israel must decide and end the war by annihilating Hamas.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 40,173 Palestinians have been killed, and 92,857 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

SON OF ISRAELI CAPTIVE: Benjamin Netanyahu’s government decided to abandon the detainees in Gaza in order to remain in power.

GADI EISENKOT: Heads of security institutions supported the deal, Netanyahu opposed it.

HEZBOLLAH: We shelled the Israeli Baranit military barracks with appropriate weapons and achieved a direct hit.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli shelling targeted a tent housing displaced people in the Jouret al-Aqqad area of ​​Khan Yunis, leaving one dead and a number of wounded.

Tuesday, August 20, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

HERZOG: We must not stop working to return the kidnapped.

BEN-GVIR: The return of the kidnapped will be achieved through military pressure and stopping aid.

ISRAELI ECONOMY MINISTER: I will support the exchange deal even if it leads to the fall of the government.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The Ministry of Health in Gaza said it is still waiting for the arrival of vaccines for the polio campaign.

LAPID: Days pass and we lose more hostages and we have to make a deal

MEDICAL SOURCES: 14 people were killed and dozens injured in Israeli raids on central and southern Gaza Strip since dawn on Tuesday.

Tuesday, August 20, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY AND SHIN BET: We recovered 6 bodies of captives from the Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, August 20, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY: We monitored the launch of 55 rockets from southern Lebanon.

HEZBOLLAH: We attacked military sites in the Galilee and Golan.

CHANNEL 12: Two fires broke out in the Golan and the Hula Plain after the recent shelling.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Renewed artillery shelling and gunfire by occupation forces east of Jabalia camp and Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

KYRIAT SHMONA MUNICIPALITY: The municipality of the Kiryat Shmona settlement in the Western Galilee asked residents to stay near shelters and reduce movement after a security assessment, for fear that Hezbollah would fire rockets towards the area.

AL-JAZEERA: A second batch of rockets was launched from southern Lebanon towards the Upper Galilee and the occupied Syrian Golan.

AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens are sounding in the Ortal settlement in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, and in several areas in the Hula Valley near the border with Lebanon.

Tuesday, August 20, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation artillery is targeting the eastern areas of Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, August 20, 07:00 am (GMT+2)

BIDEN: We continue to work to recover the hostages and end the war.

SANDERS: I hope Harris will stop military aid to Israel.

Tuesday, August 200, 3:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The Israeli occupation army is blowing up residential buildings west of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Bir’am and Doviv in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel.

Tuesday, August 20, 1:30 am (GMT+2)

HAMAS: We mourn the companions of martyr Ismail Haniyeh and his office workers who were killed in the massacre in the Beach camp on Monday.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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