On the 66th day of the devastating Israeli war on Gaza, corresponding to December 11, 2023, talk returned about truce proposals to stop the aggression against the Gaza Strip and conclude a new prisoner exchange deal.
Amid the escalation of the intensity of battles between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces on several fronts, and Israel’s admission that it suffered new losses among its forces, amounting to 7 deaths, the Israeli army continued to commit new massacres against civilians, leaving 208 martyrs, and raising the number of martyrs since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip to 18,205. .
The occupation bombed the family home of Tel Aviv Tribune journalist, colleague Anas Al-Sharif, in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, leading to the martyrdom of his father.
While the occupation continues to escalate in the occupied West Bank with new incursions and confrontations, the Israeli army and Lebanese Hezbollah exchanged shelling of sites across the border.
Israeli Channel 13 quoted an Israeli source as saying that conditions have ripened for a return to consensus on a new prisoner exchange deal.
Israeli Channel 12 also reported from Israeli sources that there are new moves to conclude a prisoner exchange deal.
For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said that if the Israeli army exerts more pressure, there will be proposals regarding new truces that the government will study.
He added that Israel is open to examining all possibilities regarding the future of the Gaza Strip, but there will be no role for Hamas in that, as he put it.
In this context, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will be “alone responsible for security in Gaza after the war, and alone responsible for disarming Gaza.”
This comes at a time when John Kirby, coordinator of strategic policies at the US National Security Council, said that reaching a new truce is important in order to release detainees in the Gaza Strip.
On the sidelines of a ministerial meeting in Brussels, 4 European Union countries called for a truce in Gaza to stop what they described as a “massacre.”
The leaders of Ireland, Spain, Malta and Belgium said in a letter they sent to European Council President Charles Michel that they must immediately call on all parties to declare a humanitarian truce that would lead to a cessation of hostilities.
On the ground, the confrontations between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation army are concentrated in the areas of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, and in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, in addition to the fighting areas east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy announced that his forces are working to deepen their military operation in the north and south of the Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv Tribune obtained pictures of the battles of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and the Israeli army in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza. The Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast images of mortar teams bombing Israeli army concentrations in the areas of the incursion.
In turn, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, broadcast scenes targeting Israeli vehicles on the front lines in eastern Gaza.
On the other hand, the occupation army published, via the X website, video clips that it said were of an airdrop of supplies and equipment for the Israeli forces in Khan Yunis. The military spokesman added that it was the first time a landing operation had taken place since the Lebanon War in 2006, and it included 7 tons of logistical materials for the 98th Division, which is fighting ground battles there.
Tel Aviv Tribune obtained satellite images – taken yesterday, December 10 – showing the movement of the Israeli army’s incursion into northern Gaza. The pictures show the occupation army vehicles gathering in the northwest of the city on Al-Rashid Street, and in Beit Lahia, north of the city. The images also showed an incursion by a limited number of Israeli vehicles into the areas of Al-Faluja and Al-Shujaiya. The pictures showed that the Israeli army had not surrounded Jabalia until yesterday, Sunday.
The Israeli Soroka Hospital said that it received 27 wounded Israeli soldiers, 5 of whom were in critical condition, during the past 24 hours. The occupation army announced that its death toll since the start of the ground operation had risen to 110, after 7 of its soldiers and officers were killed during the past 24 hours. The Israeli army admitted that 5 of these deaths fell in a mine ambush set up by the Al-Qassam Brigades near a tunnel opening in Khan Yunis, bringing the total number of Israeli army deaths to 434 since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th.
In return for suffering losses from resistance strikes, the occupation army continued to commit new massacres against civilians. The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the death of 208 people during the past hours in the Gaza Strip, and that a large number of victims are still under the rubble.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza indicated that the number of martyrs in the Strip rose to 18,205, while the number of wounded reached 49,645.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza expressed its fear for the lives of hundreds of thousands of displaced people due to the spread of epidemics and infectious diseases in shelters.
This comes at a time when schools, various shelter centers and hospitals are crowded with tens of thousands of displaced people.
The Israeli army targeted the home of Tel Aviv Tribune journalist Anas Al-Sharif in Jabalia, leading to the death of his father.
Journalist Anas Al-Sharif said that he will continue to report the suffering of the Palestinians despite the martyrdom of his father as a result of the targeting of the family home in the Jabalia camp, indicating that the occupation does not want the image of its crimes to emerge from Gaza.
Journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who works for Tel Aviv Tribune in northern Gaza, revealed about two weeks ago that he had received threats from Israeli officers to stop his coverage of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. He confirmed at the time that he would not respond to these threats, and would continue his press coverage as usual.
Tel Aviv Tribune Media Network condemned the occupation army’s targeting of the home of fellow Tel Aviv Tribune journalist Anas Al Sharif in Jabalia Camp on Monday, which led to the martyrdom of his father.
Tel Aviv Tribune Network confirmed in a statement that it will take appropriate legal measures before the competent authorities to hold those responsible for this crime accountable.
Tel Aviv Tribune indicated that this targeting comes after a series of threats that Al-Sharif has received since last November in an attempt to discourage him from performing his work. It also comes within a series of deliberate targeting of the families of the network’s correspondents and those working with it in the sector to pressure them with the aim of concealing the truth and concealing the crimes committed by the occupation army.
In the West Bank, photos obtained by Tel Aviv Tribune showed the moment the Israeli occupation forces executed the young man, Rami Al-Aboushi, in the Al-Faraa camp in Tubas in the West Bank a few days ago. The pictures show the occupation forces shooting the martyr Rami more than once, causing him to fall on the ground wounded, but then they opened fire on him again directly, leading to his immediate martyrdom.
The occupation forces stormed the city of Ramallah, surrounded a residential building in the Al-Tira neighborhood, and confiscated a vehicle before withdrawing from the place. Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that more than 30 military vehicles of the occupation raided the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah, and stormed the Beitunia Boys’ School and several homes, and arrested 3 Palestinians, including a freed prisoner and a military intelligence officer, before withdrawing from the town.
Israeli occupation forces and vehicles also stormed areas in Bethlehem, Hebron, and Jenin. The occupation forces raided the Kafr Saba neighborhood in the city of Qalqilya, deployed infantry and sniper teams, and surrounded a number of buildings and homes in the neighborhood.
In the town of Dura in Hebron, the occupation forces stormed an 8-story building. The storm took more than 3 hours, during which the occupation detained a number of the building’s residents before arresting the freed prisoner Iyad Amr and taking him to an unknown destination after beating and assaulting him, according to what his family told Tel Aviv Tribune.
To the north, on the southern Lebanon front, Hezbollah announced that it had attacked 4 Israeli military sites off the Lebanese border. The party said that its fighters attacked a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Samaqa site, bombed the Raheb site with Burkan missiles, and targeted the Pranit barracks and the Hadab Al-Bustan site.
The Lebanese Civil Defense announced the death of an 80-year-old citizen in an Israeli bombing of the town of Taybeh, south of Lebanon. Israeli artillery also bombed the vicinity of several towns, including Al-Habbariyeh, Maroun Al-Ras, Yaroun, and Naqoura. Israeli fighters raided the Khallet Khazen area in Jabal al-Rayhan, at a time when Hezbollah mourned two of its fighters.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that 8 missiles were fired towards the Israeli sites of Ramtha and Al-Samaqa in the occupied Kfar Shuba hills in southern Lebanon. The correspondent also reported that a number of rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards Israeli military sites in the Western Galilee. Israel said it intercepted 8 of them, while two landed in an uninhabited area.
While Israeli artillery bombed the outskirts of towns in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah mourned two of its fighters, who were martyred in confrontations with Israeli forces. Reuters quoted the Israeli Defense Minister as saying that Israel is open to reaching an agreement with Hezbollah if it includes a safe zone on the border and guarantees.
The Washington Post revealed that Israel used American white phosphorus shells in a bombing of southern Lebanon last October, wounding at least 9 civilians, according to what an examination of the remains of those shells showed.
For its part, the White House said – following the publication of the Washington Post report – that the United States is concerned about reports of Israel’s use of white phosphorus.
But a Pentagon spokesman explained that the US Department of Defense cannot verify whether these missiles are American, pointing out that Washington has not supplied Israel with white phosphorus missiles since the seventh of last October.
A comprehensive strike took place today, Monday, in several Arab and Islamic cities around the world, denouncing the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.
In previous days, activists on social media platforms launched calls for a comprehensive strike around the world in solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip in the face of the Israeli aggression.
The activists said that the comprehensive strike aims to put pressure on governments and force them to take serious action to stop the ongoing Israeli massacres and genocide in Gaza.
