On the 77th day of the war on Gaza, battles raged between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation army in the neighborhoods of Gaza City and the areas north and south of the Gaza Strip, coinciding with the occupation intensifying its raids and artillery shelling on most areas of the Gaza Strip from Jabalia in the north, passing through the Gaza neighborhoods and reaching Nuseirat and Bureij in the center, as well as Rafah. Khan Yunis in the south, resulting in dozens of martyrs and wounded.
In conjunction with developments on the ground, and after postponing the vote seven times, the Security Council adopted a draft resolution described as mitigating, expanding the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza following Washington’s use of its veto, which prevented Russian amendments calling for a cessation of hostilities.
The death toll rises
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported that the toll of the Israeli aggression had risen to 20,57 martyrs and 53,320 injuries since the seventh of last October.
While the Director General of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, was injured along with all his family members, and his daughter was martyred in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in Jabalia on Thursday evening, at a time when the Ministry announced the sniper death of a health worker at Al-Awda Hospital in the northern Strip.
New Israeli losses and 3,000 disabled soldiers
With the announcement of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades and the Al-Quds Brigades targeting Israeli forces penetrating the Gaza Strip with a number of vehicles and troop carriers, the Israeli army said that an officer and a soldier were killed, in addition to 23 soldiers being wounded in the battles in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.
This brings the number of Israeli army deaths to 145 since the start of the ground incursion into Gaza on October 27. The occupation army also announced that 179 soldiers and officers were seriously injured and 302 were moderately injured.
For its part, Channel 12 said that the Israeli authorities classified 3,000 war wounded as having permanent disabilities in the Israeli army.
5 brigades to Khan Yunis
The Israeli army announced that it had reinforced its forces in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, with five new brigades, hours after Israeli media revealed that the occupation army had withdrawn the 13th battalion of the Golani Brigade from Gaza, after 60 days of fighting in which it suffered heavy losses.
Israeli Channel 13 reported that soldiers from the battalion in the Golani Brigade, which is classified as one of the Israeli elite forces, left Gaza to reorganize their ranks. 42 Golani soldiers and officers, including the commander of the 13th Battalion, were killed in the battles in the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza.
Preparation for a buffer zone
While the Israeli army was talking about expanding the scope of its operations to include areas in central Gaza, including Deir al-Balah, the Tel Aviv Tribune team, southeast of Gaza City, near the Karni-Al-Mintar crossing, monitored the occupation forces bombing a number of Palestinian buildings near the security fence for the second time in days.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the Israeli army deliberately destroyed hundreds of residential buildings and public facilities near the security fence in recent weeks, especially east of Gaza City and Jabalia to the north, as part of a plan to create a buffer zone that gives the Israeli towns on the Gaza Strip a security depth.
The Israeli media revealed a military plan to establish military barracks near all Israeli towns close to the security fence.
A UN decision to introduce aid
On Friday, the UN Security Council adopted by a large majority a reduced resolution on expanding humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and monitoring it, but without adopting the draft resolution on an immediate suspension of “hostilities” between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
13 of the 15 member states of the Security Council voted in favor of Resolution No. 2720, while the United States and Russia abstained from voting.
The resolution calls on “all parties to enable and facilitate the immediate, safe and unhindered delivery of large-scale humanitarian assistance” to Gaza, to take “urgent” measures in this regard, and to “create conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.”
Lebanese Front
On the Lebanese front, the Israeli army announced the killing of a soldier and the wounding of another in a Hezbollah attack on the Upper Galilee, bringing the number of its soldiers killed on this front to 10 since last October 7.
In turn, Hezbollah mourned two of its fighters, and said that it bombed barracks and border settlements with dozens of missiles.
On Friday, Hezbollah launched new attacks on Israeli military sites off southern Lebanon, while the occupation forces launched raids on several Lebanese towns.