The Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip continues for the 78th day in a row, and video recordings from Tel Aviv Tribune showed horrific scenes of massive destruction and bodies in the streets as a result of the intense Israeli bombing and ground war.
In confirmation of this, the Washington Post said that Israel carried out its war in Gaza with a level of destruction unparalleled in this century.
Meanwhile, Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – announced the loss of contact with a group responsible for 5 Israeli prisoners as a result of the occupation’s bombing of the Gaza Strip, suggesting that these Israeli prisoners were likely killed as a result of the bombing.
Also in developments, Israeli media said that army tanks began a ground operation from Kerem Shalom to the Philadelphia axis on the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt.
More than 200 martyrs
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the number of martyrs had risen to 201 and 368 were wounded in the Strip during the past 24 hours.
The Ministry explained in a statement that the death toll had risen to 20,258 martyrs, in addition to 53,688 wounded since the start of the aggression on Gaza on October 7.
Al-Jazeera’s correspondent reported that 12 martyrs, all of them women and children, were recovered from the Al-Bursh family’s home that was bombed by the occupation in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip. He had reported that dozens had been martyred, noting that it was impossible to reach the injured in the streets to treat them.
The occupation aircraft launched a series of intense air strikes on Palestinian homes in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Khan Yunis and the Bani Suhaila area in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Al-Aqsa satellite channel said that an Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, leaving 18 martyrs, most of them children and women.
In this context, the government media in Gaza announced that the number of journalist martyrs had risen to 99 martyrs since the start of the war on Gaza on October 7 last year.
In the face of hunger
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that people in Gaza are facing hunger and selling their possessions in exchange for food.
Ghebreyesus confirmed – in a blog post on his account on the social networking site “X” – that there is hunger and famine in Gaza.
For its part, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that more than 80% of children in the Gaza Strip “suffer from acute food poverty.”
Resistance operations
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced the infliction of heavy losses on the ranks of the Israeli occupation army, and confirmed that a troop carrier was destroyed by a “Yassin 105” shell north of the city of Khan Yunis, and that it caught fire.
It said in another statement that its fighters lured 5 Israeli soldiers from the “Yahloum” unit to the tunnel east of Khan Yunis, blew it up after they entered, and “eliminated them from point zero.”
Al-Qassam also announced that two Israeli soldiers were targeted with an RPG shell in Khan Yunis, killing them instantly and turning them into pieces.
It also said that it destroyed a tank and killed members of 4 jeeps in a precise ambush in Juhr al-Dik, by detonating a field of anti-personnel and anti-armour devices. It also targeted two Israeli vehicles with two “Al-Yassin 105” shells in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City.
The Brigades confirmed that their fighters destroyed 5 Israeli tanks in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, using two unexploded Israeli missiles, and killed and wounded all of their members.
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced that one of its members killed 4 Israeli soldiers from zero range in the Al-Qasaib neighborhood in the Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
In turn, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Jihad movement, said that they bombed Israeli vehicles that penetrated east of Rafah with a barrage of mortar shells, noting that they caused certain injuries.
Occupation losses
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced that 5 officers and soldiers were killed in battles in the south and north of the Gaza Strip.
It was announced earlier today that 44 soldiers were injured in the Gaza battles within 24 hours, noting that 10 of them were seriously injured.
Escalation in the West Bank
In the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces stormed the central neighborhood of the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and launched raids and arrests among Palestinians.
The occupation forces also stormed several cities and towns in the occupied West Bank and launched raids and arrests of Palestinians.
According to eyewitnesses, the occupation forces stormed the cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, Nablus, and Jericho, and the towns of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, and Ein Yabrud, east of Ramallah, in addition to the Ain Sultan and Aqabat Jabr camps, and the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that the Israeli occupation forces stormed Jenin and its camp and stationed themselves in the city’s government hospital, and cut off its electrical power.
Palestinian media confirmed that resistance fighters opened heavy fire at the occupation forces trying to storm Jenin.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said that the head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Aziz Dweik, is going through very difficult health conditions in the Negev prison in southern Israel.
Armistice and prisoners of occupation
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported – from sources in the ceasefire talks – that the differences with the Hamas movement are major, but the talks did not reach a dead end.
In turn, the American CNN news network, citing high-ranking officials, reported that Israel had offered a week-long truce in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of 35 detainees.
The US State Department said that Secretary Anthony Blinken discussed yesterday – in contact with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant – efforts to facilitate the release of “hostages” and increase humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Clashes with Hezbollah
In developments on the northern border, Lebanese Hezbollah published a video documenting the targeting of the Shomira Barracks and the Al-Abad site of the Israeli occupation army on the Palestinian-Lebanese border.
Al-Manar TV, affiliated with Hezbollah, said that an Israeli military plane bombed a house on the outskirts of the town of Yaroun in the south of the country at dawn on Saturday.
The party also announced the killing of two of its members on the road to Jerusalem in Lebanon.
Targeting a ship
Regarding developments in the Red Sea, Israeli Channel 12 said that the attack on the ship off the coast of India, which is linked to Israel, was carried out by a plane from Iran.
The American Wall Street Journal quoted officials as saying that an Iranian spy ship was helping the Houthis and directing their attacks on ships heading to Israel in the Red Sea.
Earlier, the White House accused Tehran of involvement in planning operations against commercial ships in the Red Sea.