GAZA LIVE BLOG: Hezbollah’s Capabilities Revealed; Massacre In Khan Yunis; Netanyahu To Dismiss Gallant – Day 315

 

Palestine Chronicle Staff 

Aug. 16, 2024

Hezbollah published a video titled ‘Our Mountains Are Our Treasures’ showing a missile launch facility called Al-Imad 4.

At least 20 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes on several homes in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, over the past few hours.

The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to dismiss Defense Minister Yoav Galant due to increasing tensions between them.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 40,005 Palestinians have been killed, and 92,401 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

Friday, August 16, 5:30 pm (GMT+2)

QATARI-AMERICAN-EGYPTIAN STATEMENT: The talks in Doha were serious and constructive and were held in a positive atmosphere. ill continue to work in the coming days on the details of implementing the ceasefire proposal in Gaza.

UNRWA: We call for a seven-day humanitarian truce in Gaza to allow polio vaccination.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: The Israeli negotiating delegation will return from Doha this evening.

LEBANESE PM: We call on our Arab brothers to rein in Israel and restore calm to southern Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens are sounding in the town of Shlomi in the Western Galilee, warning of rocket fire.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Four people were injured in an Israeli bombardment targeting displaced people near Hamad City, north of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Israeli forces positioned in the Netzarim axis with short-range Rajum rockets of 114 mm caliber.

Friday, August 16, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)

WASHINGTON POST: Progress was made in the Doha negotiations on their first day.

AL-JAZEERA: Air raid sirens are sounding in Nirim, in the Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a deployment of occupation soldiers around the Metla barracks with rockets.

Friday, August 16, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

WALL AND SETTLEMENT RESISTANCE COMMISSION: Aettlers, under the protection of the occupation army, have set 273 fires on Palestinian lands and property since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip.

TOP HAMAS OFFICIAL IZZAT AL-RISHQ: The occupation’s forcing of the residents of northern Khan Yunis and eastern Deir al-Balah to flee is a deepening of genocide and collective punishment.

EU BORRELL: We condemn the settler attacks in the village of Jit in the West Bank.
Settler attacks aim to terrorize Palestinian civilians.

Friday, August 16, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)

IRANIAN EMBASSY IN BEIRUT: Iran can attack the enemy from any point in the Islamic Republic of Iran if necessary.

HAARETZ: The Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted soldiers in the occupation army who served in the Sde Teiman prison as saying that prisoners are tortured in a hidden place.

Friday, August 16, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: Hezbollah published a video titled “Our Mountains Are Our Treasures” showing a missile launch facility called Al-Imad 4.

US AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL Shocked by settler attack on Palestinians in West Bank yesterday. Settler attacks on Palestinians must stop and the criminals must be punished.

Friday, August 16, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

MAARIV: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to dismiss Defense Minister Yoav Gallant after tensions between them reached a boiling point.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted “a building where enemy soldiers were fortified with a suicide plane east of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.”

Friday, August 16, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

KAN: US President Donald Trump said he would provide Israel with the support it needs to win, stressing, “But I want them to win quickly.”

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: At least 20 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes on a number of homes in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, over the past few hours.

TRUMP: “Israel looks small on the map, and I have always thought about how it can be expanded.”

Friday, August 16, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

POLL BY MAARIV: 40% of Israelis say Netanyahu is preferred to head the government, compared to 39% in favor of Gantz.

47% of Israelis oppose the dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Galant, compared to 27% who support it.

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will become the party’s first force if he returns to politics.

NORWAY: Norway’s support for the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people must continue with full force.

The Israeli occupation army announces the bombing of “military targets belonging to Hezbollah in Kfar Kila, Rmeish and Ramya in southern Lebanon.”

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli occupation army announced the bombing of “military targets belonging to Hezbollah in Kfar Kila, Rmeish and Ramya in southern Lebanon.”

Friday, August 16, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli artillery shelling targets Al-Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip and Rafah city in the south.

Friday, August 16, 07:00 am (GMT+2)

AXIOS: Some progress was made on the first day of the new round of ceasefire negotiations in Gaza.

Friday, August 16, 04:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: One person was killed and five others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: One person was killed and five others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/dqaahpYm8p

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AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli airstrike targeted a house north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli bombing of a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City killed and wounded scores of Palestinians.

Friday, August 16, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

REUTERS (citing US official): The mediators concluded a constructive day of discussions on Gaza, and the talks will continue today, Friday.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in towns in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights to warn of the launch of missiles and drones.

REUTERS (citing Pentagon): 40,000 American soldiers are currently in the Middle East, compared to about 34,000 under normal circumstances.

Thursday, August 15, 11:30 pm (GMT+2)

SYRIAN MEDIA: Syrian media reported hearing explosions in the sky of Homs in central Syria.

(The Palestine Chronicle)