The 101st day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip witnessed a series of developments, the latest of which was announced by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades regarding the fate of 3 prisoners that it had promised on Sunday evening to reveal, in addition to the ignition of the front in the West Bank and the exchange of bombing between Hezbollah and the occupation, in addition to the tension. In the Red Sea.
Gaza
The Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – revealed that its two Israeli captives, Yossi Sharaabi and Tice Frisky, were killed in an Israeli army bombing of Gaza, while one prisoner survived.
Regarding the humanitarian situation in Gaza, a spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent in the Strip said that the situation is very catastrophic due to the extreme cold and conditions of displacement.
For his part, the Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council confirmed that the residents of Gaza were exposed, within 100 days, to one of the worst humanitarian crises of this century.
As for the head of the emergency department at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, he said that the hospital is facing a health catastrophe due to the lack of medicines, power outages, and fuel scarcity.
Dozens were martyred after targeting the homes and tents of displaced people in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City. The Ministry of Health announced that the total number of martyrs exceeded 24 thousand, more than two-thirds of whom were women and children.
Israeli statements
In terms of field developments, Israeli Army Radio said that the 36th Division withdrew from the Gaza Strip, and 3 army divisions remained in the Strip; They are 99, 162 and 98.
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that Israeli army estimates indicate that the majority of Hamas fighters and leaders in Gaza are alive after 100 days of war.
In this context, the Israeli army announced that 18 officers and soldiers were injured in the battles in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.
At the same time, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said that this year will be a year of war, and stressed that military pressure is the way to return the detainees, while demonstrations continue in front of the government headquarters and the Knesset to demand the conclusion of a prisoner exchange deal and the resignation of Netanyahu’s government.
Tel Aviv
In Tel Aviv, an Israeli woman was killed and 4 were seriously injured and 9 moderately injured in a double attack that included stabbing and trampling.
A preliminary investigation by the Israeli police said that a person stabbed a woman and took her vehicle, then ran over others in more than one location, indicating that helicopters were chasing a relative of the suspect in carrying out the attack.
West Bank
In the occupied West Bank, 3 Palestinians were martyred and dozens were injured in confrontations with the occupation forces. This coincided with statements by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant that the presence of a strong Palestinian authority is an Israeli security interest.
In the same context, the occupation army decided to transfer Duvdovan’s unit from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank in anticipation of the situation there erupting.
International positions
Within international positions, US President Joe Biden confirmed that he looks forward to maintaining contacts with Qatar, Egypt and Israel to return Israeli detainees in Gaza.
On the other hand, the Washington Post quoted an American official as saying that the priority of the American administration has now shifted to tolerating the Israeli military operation throughout this month.
The official, whom the newspaper described as high-ranking, added that there is no point in urging the Israelis to move to a less intense phase of the war on Gaza.
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that the war in Gaza continues to escalate and that China calls for holding a broader, more reliable and effective international peace conference and setting a concrete timetable for implementing the two-state solution.
As for Colombian President Gustavo Petro, he said, “The massive massacre committed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against the people of Gaza was carried out by direct bombing.”
In turn, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian assured his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that the continued Israeli aggression on Gaza and Washington’s intervention in the Red Sea and its attack on Yemen are increasing tension in the region.
Lebanese Front
On the northern front, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported that the occupation army bombed sites in southern Lebanon, from which shells were fired towards the town of Mitat in the Upper Galilee.
On the other hand, the Lebanese Hezbollah announced that its members targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Mitat Barracks (off the Lebanese town of Rmeish) with missile weapons, and the party confirmed that there were casualties among the Israelis.
Red Sea Front
In the Red Sea, a Yemeni military source told Tel Aviv Tribune that the forces of the Ansar Allah Houthi group targeted a ship in the Red Sea that was heading to Israel, noting that “the targeting came after the ship rejected the warnings directed to it.”
US Central Command confirmed that the Houthis fired a ballistic missile and hit an American container ship flying the Marshall Islands flag.
In a related matter, the Washington Post quoted American officials as saying that the two American soldiers missing in the Gulf of Aden since last Thursday were participating in an operation to search for an arms shipment heading to Yemen.
