1/5/2024–|Last updated: 1/5/202410:23 PM (Mecca time)
On the 91st day of the Israeli aggression against Gaza, the occupation army intensified its bombing of the central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, resulting in more martyrs, bringing the total toll to 22,600 martyrs and more than 57,000 injured since the start of the aggression.
In Israel, it was estimated that the number of Israeli soldiers with disabilities during the war had risen to more than 12,000, while Israeli media published leaks from a stormy Cabinet meeting that witnessed screaming and quarrels after the formation of a committee to investigate the circumstances of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation.
The death toll rises
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that the Israeli occupation committed 15 massacres against civilians in the Strip, claiming 162 martyrs and wounding 296 during the past 24 hours.
Thus, the toll of the aggression against Gaza rises to 22,600 martyrs and 57,910 wounded.
A stormy session in the war government
Israeli Channel 12 revealed a dispute that broke out between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant, against the backdrop of Netanyahu preventing the heads of the Mossad intelligence service, David Barnea, and the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, from attending a war cabinet session.
The Israeli Walla website also reported that the mini-ministerial council meeting ended after sharp disagreements between the Chief of Staff and a number of ministers over the formation of a team to investigate the events of last October 7, and this is what prompted Netanyahu to break up the meeting that was scheduled to discuss the post-war phase. Gaza.
The website added that the session witnessed sharp arguments and screaming, which prompted Netanyahu to stop it, noting that ministers in the mini-council attacked Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy because of the appointment of Shaul Mofaz – who supervised the implementation of the unilateral withdrawal plan from Gaza in 2005 – as head of the investigation team. .
The occupation suffers more losses
The Palestinian resistance inflicted on the occupation army more losses in soldiers and equipment in several operations it carried out in areas in the Gaza Strip.
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that its fighters targeted 9 Israeli vehicles, clashed with foot forces, and killed soldiers east of al-Tuffah in Gaza City.
Al-Qassam also announced that its fighters targeted a gathering of occupation vehicles in Khan Yunis with mortar shells. It also, in a joint operation with the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, targeted 3 Israeli Merkava tanks with “Al-Yassin 105” and “Tandum” shells in the Ma’an area of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Blinken on a tour of the region
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived this evening in Istanbul, his first stop on a tour in the Middle East centered on the war on Gaza.
In addition to Turkey and Greece, Blinken will visit five Arab countries, as well as Israel and the West Bank, as part of this fourth tour in the region since the outbreak of the war.
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that Blinken would discuss issues including “immediate measures to significantly increase humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip… and prevent the expansion of the conflict,” following the assassination of Hamas leader Saleh Al-Arouri in an Israeli strike in Lebanon.
Escalation and incursions into the West Bank
The Israeli occupation forces continued their attacks on West Bank cities in conjunction with the continuation of their war on Gaza, where a Palestinian was martyred and others were injured in Ramallah. The occupation forces also stormed areas in Nablus and Balata refugee camp, while calling on national and Islamic forces in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, to participate in marches following Friday prayers in support of the Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that the 17-year-old young man, Asid Al-Rimawi, was killed by occupation bullets in the town of Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah, while the Palestinian Red Crescent said that 6 Palestinian youths were injured, including two seriously injured, during confrontations with the occupation forces that broke out in the center of the town after… The occupation forces and their vehicles stormed it at dawn.
Thus, the number of Palestinian martyrs shot by the occupation and settlers in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem since the beginning of the war on Gaza rose to 326 martyrs, including 7 martyrs in less than a week.
12 thousand disabled people in the occupation army
An estimate by the Israeli Ministry of Defense expected that the number of soldiers with disabilities in the war taking place in the Gaza Strip since October 7 of last year would reach 12,500 soldiers.
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said that the Soldiers’ Rehabilitation Department of the Ministry of Defense has dealt with 3,400 soldiers who were classified as disabled in the army since last October 7.
Lebanese complaint to the Security Council
Lebanon submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council regarding the Israeli assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri, deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas, during an attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut a few days ago.
The complaint stated that Israel used 6 missiles in the assassination, and that it was using Lebanese airspace to bomb Syria.
