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Israel continues to carry out massacres in Gaza. (Photo: via WAFA)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Israel carried out eight massacres against Palestinian civilians in the last 24 hours. 72 percent of the victims are women and children.

US President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address that Washington intends to establish a temporary port to deliver aid by sea, but reiterated Israel’s ‘right to pursue Hamas’.

Following the failure of the Cairo negotiations, CIA Director William Burns headed to Qatar to hold a meeting with mediators, in an attempt to reach a ceasefire agreement before the holy month of Ramadan.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 30,878 Palestinians have been killed, and 72,402 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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LATEST UPDATES

Saturday, March 9, 06:05 am (GMT+2)

CNN: Democratic Representative Pramila Jaipal said there must be a shift in Washington’s policy towards Israel and Palestine, and that the US must immediately bring aid into Gaza.

PENTAGON: The U.S. military said it carried out a strike on Friday against two anti-ship missiles mounted on trucks in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.

63 Women Killed in Gaza Every Day – Israel’s Genocide Continues

Saturday, March 9, 03:150 am (GMT+2)

PENTAGON: We are not responsible for the deaths of civilians in Gaza as a result of aid landings. (Gaza’s government media office said on Friday that indiscriminate airdrops of humanitarian aid had killed five Palestinians including two children.)

UNRWA: Some of its staff released from Israeli prisons in Gaza reported being pressured by Israeli authorities to make false confessions.

AL-JAZEERA:

-Israeli warplanes bombed the residential Al-Masri tower in the center of the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation forces carried out artillery shelling on the eastern and western areas of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation aircraft launched raids on Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We targeted oil refineries in Haifa on Friday with drones.

Saturday, March 9, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The Israeli occupation aircraft launched raids on the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, without any initial reports of casualties or injuries.

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We targeted oil refineries in Haifa yesterday, Friday, with drones.

BIDEN: Reaching a truce in Gaza before Ramadan seems difficult.

Saturday, March 9, 12:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A number of people were injured, most of them children, in Israeli raids on residential areas in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians were killed and one was wounded when the occupation opened fire on those waiting for aid.

Is the Gaza Pier a US Conspiracy? – Gaza on the Line (PC TV)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: the number of victims of malnutrition and dehydration in the Strip has risen to 23 martyrs.

SPANISH PM: The state of indifference of the international community will not continue any longer regarding the Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Friday, March 8, 11:45 pm (GMT+2)

CANADA: Canadian Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussein, announced that his country will resume funding UNRWA.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli aircraft launched violent raids tonight on western Gaza City.

‘Stop Arming Israel’ – Pro-Palestine Protesters Challenge Biden’s State of Union Address

Friday, March 8, 10:00 pm (GMT+2)

HAMAS: Hamas praised the double operation that took place near the Homesh settlement in the northern West Bank, and resulted in the injury of seven Israeli soldiers.

Expect This in Ramadan – Abu Obeida Delivers Longest Speech since October 7

Friday, March 8, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)

BERNIE SANDERS: The United States is complicit in what is happening in Gaza.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: 24 Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli raids that targeted homes in the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip since dawn today.

Friday, March 8, 8:00 pm (GMT+2)

BLINKEN: We are focused on working to reach an agreement for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza.

ABU OBEIDA: Israel is carrying out a true Nazi holocaust against our people

Friday, March 8, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 12: Families of detainees in Gaza are blocking Central Route 1, which connects Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Your ‘Aid’ is Killing Us – Five Gazans Killed in Shati Refugee Camp (VIDEO)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Nine Palestinians, including 3 children, were killed in Israeli raids on two homes in the city of Rafah since dawn today.

UKMTO: The British Maritime Trade Operations Authority announced an incident 50 nautical miles southeast of the Yemeni city of Aden, indicating that the ship and crew are safe.

Friday, March 8, 5:45 pm (GMT+2)

UNITED NATIONS: UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk has warned that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories constitutes a “war crime”.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Two Palestinian fighters opened fire on an army position in the Homesh settlement in the northern West Bank, and withdrew from the place.

RNN: Three occupation soldiers are wounded, two seriously, after resistance fighters targeted the settlement of Homesh between Nablus and Jenin with gunfire and explosive devices, according to zionist sources.

DAVID CAMERON: Building a temporary port in Gaza will take time, and renewed the call for Israel to open the port of Ashdod to deliver aid.

Friday, March 8, 3:30 pm (GMT+2)

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights warned that any ground attack launched by Israel on the city of Rafah – south of the Gaza Strip – would cause massive loss of life and increase the risk of more brutal crimes.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Three rockets launched from southern Lebanon landed in open areas in Western Galilee, northern Israel.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Eight Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted two homes in the town of Al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Friday, March 8, 1:45 pm (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two young men were killed and others were wounded as a result of the wrong landing of air aid on homes in northwest Gaza City.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES:

We ambushed an Israeli force of 6 soldiers inside a residential apartment and eliminated its members from point zero, north of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Two anti-personnel shells were dropped by a drone on an Israeli army headquarters east of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

Friday, March 8, 12:40 pm (GMT+2)

PRESIDENT OF CYPRUS: We aim to make the sea corridor sustainable to alleviate the suffering in Gaza.

EU COMMISSION PRESIDENT: The sea corridor from Cyprus to Gaza will begin operation soon.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in an Israeli bombing on the Al-Qarara area, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, which has been besieged by the occupation army for days.

UNITED NATIONS: An attack on Rafah cannot be allowed.

Friday, March 8, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

BRITISH FM: British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said – via the X platform – that his country agreed with the United States and other partners to open a direct sea corridor to Gaza, stressing that civilians in Gaza are in dire need of humanitarian aid.

UN OFFICIAL: United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk confirmed that settler violence and violations have reached shocking new levels since October 7.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli aircraft carried out two raids on the vicinity of the towns of Mansouri and Bara’shit in southern Lebanon.

Friday, March 8, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

UNRWA: 37 mothers are killed daily in Gaza.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 30,878 Palestinians have been killed, and 72,402 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

UN OFFICIAL: The UN rapporteur on violence against women, Reem Salem, said in an interview with Al-Jazeera that the situation of Palestinian women is the test that the international community has failed, stressing that women in the Gaza Strip live in inhumane conditions in light of the severe lack of aid.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A young man was killed and many others were wounded after a civilian car was targeted in the Al-Attar area, south of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

LEBANESE NEWS AGENCY: The Israeli army fired heavy machine guns at dawn toward the woods adjacent to the towns of Ramieh and Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.

Friday, March 8, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

US CENTRAL COMMAND: The US Central Command announced that it carried out strikes against 4 Ansarallah anti-ship cruise missiles in Yemen.

Fate of Detained Ship Crew in Yemen is in Hamas’ Hands – Source Reveals

Friday, March 8, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The death toll resulting from the Israeli raid that targeted a house in the Al-Hakar area in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip had risen to 9 people, including women and children.

ISRAELI CHANNEL 13: Although the army invested most of its capabilities in fighting in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, it has not yet been able to eliminate six Hamas battalions active there.

CNN: CNN quoted an American official as confirming the arrival of CIA Director William Burns to Qatar, in what may be the last attempt to secure a ceasefire agreement before the month of Ramadan.

Friday, March 8, 07:00 am (GMT+2)

AUSTIN: There is an urgent need to increase aid to Gaza.

Friday, March 8, 06:00 am (GMT+2)

BIDEN AT THE STATE ADDRESS: Israel has the right to pursue Hamas and must release the hostages.

Friday, March 8, 05:00 am (GMT+2)

US MEDIA: Joe Biden’s convoy took a longer route than usual to get from the White House to the Congress building, after avoiding roads witnessing demonstrations.

Friday, March 8, 04:05 am (GMT+2)

US MEDIA: US media said pro-Palestine protesters blocked several roads near the Capitol in Washington, D.C., ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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