On the 86th day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli bombing continued, especially on Khan Yunis, and the Government Information Office announced a new toll of martyrs and wounded. At the same time, the Israeli army announced the demobilization of brigades and the injury of a number of soldiers, as the Palestinian resistance continued to target the occupation forces and vehicles.
Israeli Army Radio said that the army decided to demobilize 5 combat brigades operating in the Gaza Strip, including the 551st and 14th reserve brigades, in addition to 3 training brigades.
The Times of Israel newspaper said that the five brigades that were demobilized will return to help revive the Israeli economy.
In turn, the Israeli “Wala” website said that according to developments in the fighting in the Gaza Strip, additional forces are expected to be demobilized during the next week.
The Israeli army said that the combat unit in the Paratroopers Brigade moved from the northern Gaza Strip and joined the forces in the Khan Yunis area and its environs.
On the other hand, Haaretz newspaper reported that 13 Israeli soldiers were injured during the past 24 hours, and Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also reported that a number of wounded Israeli soldiers were transported from the Gaza Strip via military ambulances to Israeli hospitals.
Maariv newspaper quoted the director of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon as saying that the hospital had treated more than 3,500 wounded since October 7, “a number we have never seen before.”
The Israeli Walla website said that senior reserve officers called on the Chief of Staff to begin an investigation into the events of last October 7 immediately.
For its part, Maariv newspaper quoted Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen as saying that the government bears responsibility for the attack of last October 7, and that an investigation committee must be formed to hold those who were negligent accountable.
Cohen added that talk about settlement in the Gaza Strip is “premature” and that restoring security “comes first.”
He added, “There will be no (Islamic Resistance Movement) Hamas, and we will return the kidnapped ones. We will take security control of Gaza, and we will not allow the (Palestinian) authority not to be subject to oversight.”
Displacement of the population of Gaza
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told Army Radio that we must encourage residents of Gaza to emigrate, as they live in hardship and poverty. He added that the Israelis want to return to Gaza because it is a beautiful place and they will turn the desert into a prosperous place.
In today’s events, the Israeli Prime Minister agreed to alternate between the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Eli Cohen, Energy, and Israel Katz.
Resistance operations
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, announced that its fighters were able to blow up the opening of a tunnel with Israeli soldiers in the Shuja’iya neighborhood, resulting in one dead and one wounded. The Al-Quds Brigades also said that they were able to snipe an Israeli soldier in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.
Today, Sunday, the Israeli army announced the killing of an officer and a soldier in battles in the northern and central Gaza Strip.
For its part, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced that it had targeted an Israeli D-9 bulldozer with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell north of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades also said that its members targeted Israeli special forces east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood with explosive devices and shells and clashed with them with machine guns.
Al-Qassam announced that it, along with the Mujahideen Brigades, targeted an Israeli Apache plane with a SAM 7 missile south of the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza.
The Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziad al-Nakhalah, said, “There will be no exchange deals between us and the enemy, unless the aggression stops and its forces withdraw completely from the Gaza Strip.”
Victim toll
The Government Information Office in Gaza said that it recorded 1,825 Israeli massacres, and 28,822 martyrs and missing persons, including 9,100 children, during the 86 days of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
The office added – in a statement – that the number of infected people rose to 56,451 infected people, while the number of displaced people reached 1.8 million people.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that the occupation warplanes launched a series of raids on the Maghazi camp in central Gaza, and that a paramedic from the Civil Defense Service was injured along with his colleague in an Israeli bombing on the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The reporter added that 10 people were injured in an Israeli artillery shelling that targeted a school housing displaced people in the Khan Yunis camp in the southern Gaza Strip.
The correspondent reported that 35 Palestinians were martyred in continuous Israeli raids on Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday.
The Israeli army bombed with artillery a school housing displaced people in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, leaving a woman dead and a number of wounded.
An Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent reported that two girls were martyred in an Israeli bombing in the vicinity of the European Hospital southeast of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, and 48 Palestinians were also martyred in an Israeli bombing of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that 20 Palestinians were martyred in an Israeli bombing of Al-Aqsa University in Gaza.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the Minister of Endowments and former preacher of Al-Aqsa, Sheikh Yusuf Salama, was martyred in an Israeli bombing in the central Gaza Strip.
A medical source told Tel Aviv Tribune that 64 martyrs and 186 wounded were killed in Israeli bombing of homes in the central region of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.
For its part, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said – in a statement – that the number of martyrs this year is the largest in Palestine since the Nakba of 1948.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation called on the International Court of Justice to quickly respond to the lawsuit submitted by South Africa to the International Court of Justice, in order to put an end to the genocide committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the Palestinian territories.
In a statement, the Jeddah-based Organization for Cooperation welcomed the lawsuit submitted by South Africa to the International Court of Justice, claiming that Israel – the occupying power – had committed the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people.
West Bank events
In developments in the West Bank, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that clashes took place between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation forces in the Nour Shams camp, east of Tulkarm in the West Bank.
He pointed out that 3 Palestinians were injured in a bombing by an Israeli drone on the camp, and that a second drone bombed a site in the vicinity of the school district inside the camp, resulting in injuries.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that two young men were injured by shrapnel from the shelling of an Israeli march inside the camp, one of them seriously injured.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that clashes between Palestinian resistance fighters and Israeli forces renewed at the entrance to Tulkarm camp in the West Bank, during the occupation army’s withdrawal from Nour Shams camp.
The reporter had reported that the occupation was besieging Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm, amid successive clashes and explosions.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the occupation forces stormed Al-Fawwar camp, south of the city of Hebron in the West Bank, noting that sniper teams were on the roofs of buildings overlooking the camp.
The correspondent had previously said that the occupation forces were besieging the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital and the Zakat Hospital in the city of Tulkarm, after storming the city from its western axis.
Lebanon Front
An Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent said that an Israeli drone bombed a house on the outskirts of the town of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, and an Israeli drone bombed the vicinity of the town of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli army said that the Air Force attacked infrastructure and military sites of the Lebanese Hezbollah in the village of Ramieh, south of Lebanon.
Israeli Channel 12 reported that two anti-tank missiles were fired from southern Lebanon towards an Israeli military site in the Upper Galilee.
Hezbollah said that its members targeted the Israeli Hanita site with appropriate weapons and achieved a direct hit.
Hezbollah announced the killing of one of its members in the south as part of confrontations with Israeli forces, bringing the number of its deaths to 134 since last October 8.
In the same context, Naim Qassem, Deputy Secretary-General of Hezbollah, said that Israel cannot return the settlers to the north “while we are in the heart of the battle,” stressing that Tel Aviv must stop the war on Gaza so that the war in Lebanon stops.
Source : Tel Aviv Tribune + Agencies + Israeli press
