GAZA LIVE BLOG: Israel Wants to Return to Negotiations as Military is Beaten by Resistance | New Massacres against Gaza Civilians | Ansarallah Escalates – DAY 71

December 16, 2023 Blog, News
Gaza reels under new massacres carried out by the Israeli army. (Photo: via Eyes on Palestine)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The Lebanese Resistance group Hezbollah struck Israeli military positions in northern Israel resulting in ‘direct hits’.

While fierce fighting continued between Palestinian Resistance and invading Israeli forces Israel bombed several residential neighborhoods in Gaza, focusing mostly on Jabaliya.

Internationally, pro-Palestinian rallies and protests are reported in many cities around the world as the White House still refuses to call for an immediate ceasefire. 

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LATEST UPDATES:

Sunday, December 17, 09:10 am (GMT+3)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Intense fighting between Palestinian Resistance and Israeli forces east of Khan Younis.

ANADOLU NEWS: Around 12 Palestinians were killed and 20 wounded following Israeli strikes at a home in Deir Al-Balah refugee camp in Central Gaza.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israel killed six Palestinians in various parts of the West Bank, including two by an Israeli military drone in Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm.

ISRAELI ARMY: An Israeli officer and a soldier were killed and two officers and three other soldiers seriously wounded in ongoing battles in northern and southern Gaza.

Sunday, December 17, 01:20 am (GMT+3)

ISRAELI MILITARY SPOKESMAN:

The incident of the killing of Israeli prisoners in Gaza shook all elements of the army, and we issued a statement bearing responsibility.

The soldiers violated the rules of engagement and were not to fire when the detainees approached.

Hamas uses every trick to confuse our soldiers and kill them, and that played a role in killing the detainees.

Hamas is trying to use loudspeakers broadcasting a recording in Hebrew to lure our soldiers into an ambush.

Our soldiers are suffering from exhaustion and the burdens of war, and some of them have been fighting in the field for a month and a half.

AL-JAZEERA: A Palestinian was killed and several others were injured as a result of an Israeli raid on a house in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Saturday, December 16, 10:40 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported the start of an Israeli war council session to discuss the possibility of returning to negotiations in order to reach a prisoner exchange deal with the Palestinian resistance.

FAMILIES OF ISRAELI CAPTIVES: The War Council did not make clear promises regarding a hostage deal.

CNN: 130 employees of the US Department of Homeland Security urged President Joe Biden to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

HAMAS: We reject any prisoner exchange negotiations with the Israeli occupation unless the aggression stops completely.

HAARETZ: The Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted a former captive as saying that she had warned the war council that the fighting might harm the hostages, “and we were right.”

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: The White House believes that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is unable to lead the Authority.

NETANYAHU: We are facing an existential war, and Gaza will be under our control after the elimination of Hamas.

Saturday, December 16, 9:30 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA NETWORK: Al Jazeera Network decides to urgently refer the case of the assassination of our colleague Samer Abu Daqqa to the International Criminal Court.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT:

Injuries in the recent Israeli bombing south of Rafah.

Injuries in the bombing of a house for the Abu Anza family, south of Rafah.

ISRAELI SOROKA HOSPITAL: The Israeli Soroka Hospital revealed that it received 24 wounded soldiers during the last 24 hours, including three in serious condition.

Saturday, December 16, 8:15 pm (GMT+3)

KAN: Israel is studying moving towards another prisoner exchange following the army’s killing of its own captives on Friday.

ISRAELI MILITARY:  35 soldiers were wounded in the last 24 hours.

ISRAELI MILITARY: We have completed our operations in the Kamal Adnan Hospital in Jabaliya and we arrested 90 people.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli war council members Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot are holding a meeting with the families of Israeli military captives held in Gaza.

TOP HAMAS OFFICIAL OSAMA HAMDAN: Top Hamas official Osama Hamdan said in a press conference in Beirut:

The Israeli military carried out 1,700 massacres in 71 days in Gaza

The Israeli army is moving from one failure to the next

Hamas has no confidence in the US position regarding the war and Biden is a partner in the Gaza massacres.

45 percent of all of those killed in Gaza are displaced refugees, which exposes the lie of Israel that there is such a thing as safe zones.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters attacked invading Israeli soldiers in the Beit Lahia area, in the northern Gaza Strip, using hand grenades. They killed and wounded several.

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12: Explosion heard in the Tiberias area in northern Israel.

Saturday, December 16, 6:50 pm (GMT+3)

ISRAELI MEDIA: Another Israeli detainee was killed in Gaza.

Saturday, December 16, 6:00 pm (GMT+3)

ABU OBEIDA: The enemy is still gambling with the lives of their soldiers held captive by the resistance, indifferent to the feelings of their families.

Yesterday, they deliberately executed three of them, preferring their deaths over their liberation.

This is the same criminal behavior they have continuously practiced towards their captives in Gaza, in a desperate attempt to rid themselves of the burdens and obligations of this issue, which they are well aware of.

REUTERS: A French shipping company suspended the narration of containers from the Red Sea

GERMAN NEWS AGENCY: The Foreign Press Association called for an investigation into the killing of Al-Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa.

US CENTRAL COMMAND: A guided missile destroyer shot down 14 drones launched by the Ansarallah In Yemen in the Red Sea.

Saturday, December 16, 5:00 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT IMAD ZAQOUT: Israeli occupation forces buried dozens of patients and displaced people alive after running over their tents with bulldozers in the courtyard of the hospital located in the northern Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The war council is meeting tonight to discuss the possibility of returning to negotiations aimed at reaching an exchange deal.

FRENCH MP: More than 4,000 Israeli-French soldiers are fighting in Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Kiryat Shmona and areas in the Upper Galilee

Saturday, December 16, 3:50 pm (GMT+3)

ISRAELI ARMY: We did not and will not intentionally target journalists, but shooting in an active area carries risks.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed a gathering of incursive vehicles east of Khan Yunis.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Goren and Eilon in Western Galilee.

HEZBOLLAH: WE targeted Israeli occupation soldiers inside two houses in Al-Manara and that it had achieved “casualties between one dead and one wounded”.

BRITISH DEFENSE MINISTER: A ship of our navy shot down a drone in the Red Sea

PALESTINE CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT:

Five Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli bombing of the Sharab family’s house inside the Al-Manara neighborhood in Khan Yunis.

The bodies of two female martyrs were recovered from under the rubble of the Shehadeh family home, which was bombed by the occupation two days ago in the Brazil neighborhood, south of Rafah, bringing the death toll from the bombing to 27 martyrs.

Israeli aircraft launch a series of new raids on the Ma’an area, east of Khan Yunis.

Israeli forces blow up a number of buildings and facilities in Shejaiya.

Two military helicopters landed inside the eastern region of Khan Yunis amid intense smoke bombs, air strikes, and artillery shelling.

Five Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in the bombing of a house for the Sharab family in the Al-Manara neighborhood, south of Khan Yunis.

A drone targeted a group of citizens near the Abu Sharkh roundabout in the northern Gaza Strip.

New Israeli bombing on the vicinity of Al-Dawa Mosque, south of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted three Israeli Merkava tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells east of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Saturday, December 16, 2:20 pm (GMT+3)

PALESTINIAN JOURNALIST ANAS AL-SHARIF:

What the occupation did inside Kamal Adwan Hospital is a horrific crime against the citizens and medical staff. Dozens of displaced were buried under the rubble.

Israeli bulldozers advanced on the displaced, the sick, the wounded, inside the hospital and crushed the tents over their heads to bury them under the rubble.

The hospital’s buildings and courtyard were being destroyed.

The scenes inside the Kamal Adwan Hospital are beyond description.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT:

Communications and the Internet were cut off in the Gaza Strip for the third day in a row, the longest period since the beginning of the war.

Artillery and air bombardment targets the Al-Shejaiya and Al-Zaytoun neighborhoods, east of the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army said that a preliminary investigation showed that the three Israeli detainees who were declared dead in Gaza waved white flags and said in Hebrew, “Save us.”

AL-JAZEERA: Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported the killing of journalist Asem Musa in an Israeli bombing on Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

SPOKESPERSON OF YEMENI ARMED FORCES: The military spokesman for the Yemeni Ansarallah group, Yahya Saree, announced that the group’s fighters targeted the city of Eilat in southern Israel with drones.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: An Israeli tank and bulldozer were targeted with Tandom shells in Tal al-Zaatar, northern Gaza Strip.

Saturday, December 16, 1:20 pm (GMT+3)

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12: 20 soldiers were killed in the battles of Shujaiya, east of Gaza City, during the last week.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli helicopter carrying wounded soldiers lands on a football field in Jerusalem

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF JOURNALISTS: Israel is trying to hide what is happening in Gaza.

ISRAELI ARMY: Two injured in the explosion of a drone that infiltrated from Lebanon

Saturday, December 16, 11:40 am (GMT+3)

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12: 20 soldiers were killed in the battles of Shujaiya, east of Gaza City, during the last week.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli helicopter carrying wounded soldiers lands on a football field in Jerusalem

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF JOURNALISTS: Israel is trying to hide what is happening in Gaza.

ISRAELI ARMY: Two injured in the explosion of a drone that infiltrated from Lebanon

Saturday, December 16, 11:40 am (GMT+3)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 18,800 Palestinians have been killed and more than 51,000 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

EGYPTIAN MEDIA: A “flying object” fell into Egyptian territorial waters, off the city of Dahab, located on the Gulf of Aqaba.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli occupation army launched artillery shelling on the northern areas of the Gaza Strip.

Saturday, December 16, 10:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed crowds of the occupation army in Juhr al-Dik.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the city of Sderot and other towns around the Gaza Strip.

Saturday, December 16, 09:00 am (GMT+3)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 12 babies are trapped within incubators at the Kamal Aswan Hospital, which has been besieged by the Israeli occupation army and has no access to food or water.

AL-JAZEERA (citing Palestinian medical source): 14 Palestinians were killed in a bombing that targeted several homes on Old Gaza Street in the town of Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: Our forces targeted with a missile a site where Israeli occupation soldiers were holed up in Birkat Risha, resulting in deaths and injuries.

Saturday, December 16, 08:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in areas in the Gaza envelope, while the Israeli occupation army said that fragments of projectiles fell in the Netiv Haasara area in the Gaza envelope without causing any injuries or damage.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded in an Israeli raid that targeted a house in Jabaliya, north of the Gaza Strip.

Saturday, December 16, 07:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Hundreds of activists participated, Saturday morning, in a massive march in the main streets surrounding Los Angeles International Airport, in support of Gaza, which has been witnessing a bloody Israeli aggression for 70 days.

Saturday, December 16, 06:00 am (GMT+3)

PALESTINE CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT:

Heavy artillery shelling in the center of the city of Khan Yunis and in the northwestern regions.

Injuries in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house near the Al-Rus roundabout in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Very violent, unprecedented clashes in the center of the city of Khan Yunis.

Several Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded in a bombing that targeted several homes in the Al-Manara neighborhood, southeast of Khan Yunis.

Violent raids launched by Israeli aircraft on the Al-Fokhari area, east of Khan Yunis.

Violent clashes between the Resistance and Israeli forces in the Tal al-Zaatar area in the Jabaliya camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli artillery shelling targets the vicinity of the European Hospital in the Al-Fokhari area in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Violent clashes between the Resistance and the occupation forces in the Tal Al-Zaatar area in Jabalia camp.

AL-AQSA TV: Violent clashes are currently taking place between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation forces in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest of Gaza City, amid intense artillery shelling.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT:

Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured as a result of occupation aircraft targeting a house for the Al-Sarhan family in the Al-Manara area in Khan Yunis.

Very violent artillery shelling are reported in the center of the city of Khan Yunis in conjunction with continuing clashes.

Saturday, December 16, 05:00 am (GMT+3)

WHITE HOUSE: The Israeli army’s killing of three Israeli detainees in the Gaza Strip is heartbreaking and tragic.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT:

14 dead Palestinians arrived at the Jabaliya Medical Center as a result of the occupation committing a massacre on Old Gaza Street and targeting two homes for the Al-Najjar and Khader families.

Mahmoud Anwar Saleh was killed after Israeli snipers shot him inside his house in the Tal al-Zaatar area, north of Gaza.

The bodies of eight Palestinians were found in a classroom at Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the northern Gaza Strip. They were field-executed.

Saturday, December 16, 04:15 am (GMT+3)

US STATE DEPARTMENT: US Secretary Antony Blinken discussed with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock what they describe as urgent need for humanitarian aid delivery and to protect civilians in Gaza, the State Department said.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Fierce clashes have been taking place for several hours in the city of Khan Yunis, between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli occupation forces.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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