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December 20, 2023 Blog, News
Gaza reels under new massacres carried out by the Israeli army. (Photo: via Eye on Palestine)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Israeli Channel 12 said that the Israeli government is studying a proposal for a long-term truce in Gaza, though the Palestinian Resistance did not comment on the status of the ongoing indirect negotiations. 

Palestine Chronicle correspondent reported that many massacres have taken place overnight and during the early hours of the day in all parts of Gaza. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 19,667 Palestinians have been killed and 52,586 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7. Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

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Thursday, December 21,07:15 am (GMT+3)

RED CRESCENT: Israeli occupation forces continue to besiege a building belonging to the Red Crescent in Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. Palestinian medics and wounded are trapped inside.

AL-JAZEERA:

Sirens wounded in the northern Israeli border settlement of Misgav Aam.

Israeli occupation continues to cut off communications and internet from the Gaza Strip for the second day in a row.

Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids on several locations in the central Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: Two officers and a soldier killed in battles in the southern Gaza Strip.

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a tweet that heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip, lack of electricity, fuel shortages and communications cuts are limiting the international aid group’s efforts to help Palestinians there.

Thursday, December 21,01:35 am (GMT+3)

HEZBOLLAH: The Lebanese Resistance group Hezbollah said it had shelled the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona with Katyusha rockets, stressing that it would not allow “our villages to be invaded and civilians harmed.”

ISRAELI MEDIA (Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth citing officials):

Hamas is insisting on its positions and is putting forward demands that are “detached from reality.”

Hamas insists on a ceasefire and is unwilling to return to a temporary ceasefire.

Estimates in Israel indicate that a new deal on hostages will not mature until the first week of January.

A meeting of negotiating teams is expected in the coming days and “then we will know if there is anyone to talk to.”

ISRAELI ARMY: Four shootings from the Syrian side. We returned fire and attacked a position that belongs to the Syrian army.

AL-JAZEERA: Fierce clashes between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli occupation forces in areas between Jabaliya and Tal Al-Zaatar in the northern Gaza Strip.

This is What the Gaza Resistance Did Today – Abu Obeida

Thursday, December 21,12:00 am (GMT+3)

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army said that it monitored 4 shooting operations from the Syrian side, and that it attacked the sources of the shooting and a position of the Syrian forces.

AL-JAZEERA: Fierce clashes took place between Palestinian resistance factions and Israeli occupation forces in areas between Jabalia and Tal al-Zaatar in the northern Gaza Strip.

AGENCE FRANCE PRESS: French President Emmanuel Macron was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying that fighting terrorism does not mean destroying everything in Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Sounds of violent clashes were heard in areas between Jabaliya and Tal al-Zaatar in the northern Gaza Strip.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: We are committed, along with France, Germany, and Britain, to establishing a Palestinian state.

Wednesday, December 20,11:00 pm (GMT+3)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES:

We targeted eight Israeli military vehicles in the Sabra and Tal Al-Hawa area in Gaza City. We also engaged in fierce fighting with Israeli army rescue units using machine guns and hand grenades, killing and wounded several.

We targeted, using anti-personnel shells 12 Israeli soldiers who had taken shelter inside a building in the Daraj neighborhood in northern Gaza City, killing and wounding all of them.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT:

25 Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike targeting two homes belonging to the Muamar and Jarun families near the European Hosptial in Khan Younis, south of Gaza.

Fierce fighting between Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli army in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.

Israeli army carries out strikes against homes and agricultural land north of the Maghazi refugee camp.

Renewed Israeli attacks on Jabaliya, Khan Younis and Deir Al-Balah.

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT SOCIETY: We are unable to respond to many rescue calls as many Palestinians were killed and wounded in Nazleh street in Jabaliya in northern Gaza.

Wednesday, December 20,10:00 pm (GMT+3)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Intense Israeli shelling targeting various parts of the Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT SOCIETY: “Occupation forces are still besieging the PRCS Ambulance Center in Jabaliya, northern Gaza.”

ISRAELI FM ELI COHEN (cited in Al-Jazeera): We will kill (top Hamas officials) Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashal and they will not die a natural death.

Wednesday, December 20,9:35 pm (GMT+3)

KAN: Tel Aviv proposed a deal to release the hostages and Hamas refuses to discuss it without a complete ceasefire. The Commission stated that the proposed deal stipulates extending the days of the truce and releasing security prisoners.

AL-JAZEERA: 24 Palestinians were killed in the bombing of the European neighborhood in Khan Yunis.

EUROPEAN UNION: Ansarallah’s actions are a threat to freedom of navigation in the Red Sea.

ISRAELI ARMY: The ground operation will continue and the air strikes will continue.

AL-JAZEERA (quoting diplomatic sources): The vote on a draft Security Council resolution on Gaza will be postponed until tomorrow.

ISRAELI ARMY: We are ready to expand the military operation.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: 20,000 Palestinians have been killed, including 8,000 children and 6,200 women, and 52,600 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli missile bombardment from the occupied Shebaa Farms targeted Syrian territory.

BIDEN: There are no expectations now regarding the release of hostages from Gaza.

ABU OBEIDA: 25 Israeli soldiers were killed within 72 hours

Wednesday, December 20,7:35 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted the vicinity of the European Hospital, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

TOP HAMAS OFFICIAL OSAMA HAMDAN: The Biden administration is a partner in the war and prevents it from stopping.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted an Israeli vehicle in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, with seven soldiers inside, with a Yassin 105 shell and it was completely destroyed.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Amnesty International called for an urgent investigation into the occupation detainees in Gaza.

BLINKEN: We continue to believe that Israel has a commitment to eliminating Hamas and reducing civilian casualties, and we will continue to verify this.

Wednesday, December 20, 6:40 pm (GMT+3)

ISRAELI MILITARY SPOKESMAN DANIEL HAGARI: “We stripped Hamas’ air system of most of its operational capabilities.”

ISRAELI FINANCE MINISTER: The War Council should send the head of the Mossad to assassinate Hamas leaders everywhere and not to negotiate with them.

AL-JAZEERA (citing diplomatic sources): An American veto is expected on a draft Security Council resolution regarding Gaza.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters clashed with an Israeli force in the Saraya area in Gaza City, and we confirm the killing of four soldiers and the injury of others.

WHITE HOUSE: The Joint Forces Alliance has ships in the Red Sea.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli force of 12 soldiers barricaded inside a building in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.

DENMARK: We will be part of the maritime coalition led by America.

REUTERS (quoting White House): The discussions regarding a humanitarian truce and the release of the hostages are very serious, and that it has become possible for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza from Jordan.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli raid targets the town of Kfar Shuba, southern Lebanon.

NETANYAHU: “We are bombarding Hamas with massive fire, and whoever believes that we will stop before we eliminate it is disconnected from reality.”

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted 3 Israeli Merkava tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells east of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed Israeli army sites with missiles.

Wednesday, December 20, 5:35 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: The bodies of about 70 Palestinians were recovered in the Al-Thalatheni area in Gaza City after the occupation forces withdrew from the place.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT:

The occupation aircraft bombed a house northeast of Al-Bureij camp, and the occupation artillery bombed the Al-Mughraqa area.

Due to repeated Israeli bombing, Jabaliya Medical Center was evacuated, which is the only place that provided medical services in the northern Gaza Strip.

Martyrs and injuries as occupation aircraft bombed two houses in Jabaliya al-Nazla, north of the Gaza Strip

The occupation commits massacres  by bombing two homes for the Abu Warda and Abu Khalifa families in Jabaliya al-Nazla, north of the Gaza Strip.

Two martyrs and dozens of wounded and missing under the rubble as a result of the violent Israeli bombing next to the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah.

Four martyrs and dozens of wounded and missing as a result of the violent Israeli bombing of two houses and a mosque near the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah.

New Israeli bombing on Rafah.

Occupation aircraft bombed agricultural lands near the Egyptian border with Palestine.

The occupation air force launched a raid on the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

The latest toll: 5 martyrs and more than 50 injured as a result of intense Israeli raids on two homes and a mosque in Rafah.

Two deaths and injuries when the occupation bombed a house west of Khan Yunis.

The people of Jabaliya al-Balad buried 30 bodies of unidentified martyrs since the morning in the old Jabaliya cemetery, as a result of the ongoing occupation massacres in the northern Gaza Strip.

10 injuries were injured when the occupation bombed a house for the Hammad family in the Al-Amal neighborhood, west of Khan Yunis.

Violent clashes in the Al-Sikka area, east of Jabaliya camp, north of the Gaza Strip.

New Israeli bombing north of Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Wednesday, December 20, 5:10 pm (GMT+3)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell, east of the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH We bombed occupation army sites with missiles.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We detonated a Thaqib bomb against an Israeli force in Shejaiya.

SPAIN: “We will have to discuss recognition of the Palestinian state at some point during this legislative mandate.”

MEDICAL SOURCE (to Al-Jazeera): 32 martyrs arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis during the past hours.

AL-JAZEERA: Four people were killed, including children, in an Israeli raid on the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed crowds of occupation forces in the Al-Mughraqa area in the central Gaza Strip with mortar shells.

AL-JAZEERA: Five Palestinians were killed and more than 60 injured as a result of the recent Israeli raids on Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

BLOOMBERG: 100 cargo ships change their course from the Red Sea.

Wednesday, December 20, 3:45 pm (GMT+3)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an Al-Yassin 105 shell, east of the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH We bombed occupation army sites with missiles.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We detonated a Thaqib bomb against an Israeli force in Shejaiya

SPAIN: “We will have to discuss recognition of the Palestinian state at some point during this legislative mandate.”

MEDICAL SOURCE (to Al-Jazeera): 32 martyrs arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis during the past hours.

AL-JAZEERA: Four people were killed, including children, in an Israeli raid on the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed crowds of occupation forces in the Al-Mughraqa area in the central Gaza Strip with mortar shells.

AL-JAZEERA: Five Palestinians were killed and more than 60 injured as a result of the recent Israeli raids on Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

BLOOMBERG: 100 cargo ships change their course from the Red Sea.

Wednesday, December 20, 3:45 pm (GMT+3)

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We blew up a tunnel hole in the occupation soldiers.

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12: Lebanese Hezbollah fired an anti-tank missile at a military site in the Upper Galilee.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces launched a strong raid on the Shejaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza.

ANSARALLAH LEADER: We asked the countries separating us from Palestine to open the crossings for our mujahideen to pass into Palestine.

AL-JAZEERA: A missile was fired at the Israeli Ruwaisat Al-Alam site in the occupied Kfar Shuba hills.

Wednesday, December 20, 2:55 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Four Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded as a result of an Israeli bombing of two homes and a mosque in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed and wounded as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a mosque in the vicinity of the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Two journalists were injured in a bombing around the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah.

AL-JAZEERA: Shells fired from southern Lebanon fell in open areas in the Galilee, without activating sirens.

AL-JAZEERA: The only medical center receiving wounded people in northern Gaza, the Jabaliya medical center, was evacuated.

QATARI FM: The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported in a statement that Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, discussed with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian ways to reduce the escalation and cease fire in Gaza

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: Ambulance service has stopped in the northern area.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We targeted two Israeli military vehicles in the middle of the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: 29 Israeli soldiers were injured within 24 hours.

Wednesday, December 20, 1:30 pm (GMT+3)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY:

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip called on human rights organizations to open an urgent investigation into the massacre committed by occupation soldiers at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Ministry stressed that the Israeli army took a statement consistent with its account from the hospital director, Ahmed Al-Kahlot, under intimidation and torture.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced the killing of an officer with the rank of major from the Givati ​​Brigade in battles in the southern Gaza Strip, hours after it announced the killing of an officer in clashes in the southern Gaza Strip.

Wednesday, December 20, 12:00 pm (GMT+3)

BIDEN’SENIOR ADVISOR: The Middle East is approaching a regional conflict.

A-JAZEERA: The Palestinian Red Crescent said that the Israeli occupation forces surrounded its ambulance center in Jabaliya, with 127 people inside, including paramedics and displaced people.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT

Violent and continuous bombardment on the city of Jabalia al-Balad and the vicinity of the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip from dawn today until now.

Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in an Israeli air strike on the Shaboura Palestinian refugee camp in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in an Israeli bombing on two houses in Jabaliya, north of Gaza.

Communications outage in areas south of the Gaza Strip

Violent clashes and artillery shelling east of Khan Yunis.

Israeli occupation forces fire flares into the sky of Gaza in conjunction with bombing targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli air strikes in the Ma’an area, east of Khan Yunis

Clashes between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces in several areas north of Gaza, coinciding with intense occupation air raids in the Strip.

A violent air strike targets the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza.

The occupation destroys a house for the Al-Masry family in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah

Occupation artillery is intensely shelling areas around the Sheikh Radwan area, north of Gaza City.

A house was targeted in the Al-Alawin area in Jabaliya Al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip.

A huge explosion east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, coinciding with intense Israeli artillery shelling.

Fierce clashes and raids on Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis

A number of members of the Saleha and Al-Masry families were martyred as a result of Israeli bombing that targeted homes in Deir Al-Balah

Israeli artillery shelling east of the city of Rafah

Martyrs and wounded in the occupation army’s bombing displaced people at Al-Mustaqbal School in the Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City.

Violent artillery shelling targeting the northern Gaza Strip

Israeli bombing targets ,, Tal al-Zaatar, and Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip

Artillery shelling on the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip

Violent and intense bombardment on Jabaliya, Khan Yunis, and Nuseirat.

Wednesday, December 20, 10:55 am (GMT+3)

REUTERS: The head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)Ismail Haniyehthe Gaza Strip and the exchange of prisoners with Israel.

AL-JAZEERA: Clashes with machine guns in the Shejaiya neighborhood

Wednesday, December 20, 10:20 am (GMT+3)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 20 dead and 25 wounded arrived at hospitals this morning.

ISRAELI ARMY: We bombed more than 300 sites during the last 24 hours.

UNICEF: We call on the United Nations to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

ISRAELI ARMY: We bombed Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Communications were completely cut off from the southern Gaza Strip

AL-JAZEERA: A violent air strike targeted the Al-Shejaiya neighborhood

ISRAELI CHANNEL 13: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested that his trial sessions on corruption charges be postponed “because he is busy managing the war on Gaza.”

UNICEF: Children in the Gaza Strip do not get 90% of their natural need for water.

Wednesday, December 20, 09:00 am (GMT+3)

ISRAEL’S AMBASSADOR TO UN (to CNN): Israel is ready to stop the fighting in exchange for the release of the largest number of “hostages.”

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in an Israeli air strike on the Shaboura camp for Palestinian refugees in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and the occupation bombing of two houses in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Two missiles were launched from southern Lebanon towards the Israeli site of Metulla.

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12: el Aviv is considering a long ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in order to allow Hamas to collect detainees.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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