7/1/2024–|Last updated: 1/8/202412:04 AM (Mecca time)
On the 93rd day of the Israeli war on Gaza, journalists were subjected to new targeting, as journalist Hamza Al-Dahdouh, son of Al-Jazeera correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh, and journalist Mustafa Thuraya, were martyred, while fighting raged between the resistance and the occupation forces in the areas of the central region.
Events also followed in the West Bank, where a number of Palestinians were martyred by occupation bullets, most of them in Jenin, while the occupation announced the killing of a female soldier and the injury of 4 soldiers in clashes in the city, and the injury of two policemen in a run-over operation northwest of Jerusalem.
Gaza martyrs
The government media office in Gaza announced on Sunday afternoon that the death toll had risen to 22,835 martyrs and 58,416 wounded since the beginning of the war.
In the northern region, more than 60 Palestinians were martyred as a result of the Israeli bombing of a house in Al-Fallujah in the Jabalia camp, and 30 others were martyred in the central region as a result of the bombing of the Al-Maghazi school affiliated with UNRWA, and more than 70 Palestinians were martyred in the south of the Strip.
Targeting journalists
Journalists Hamza Al-Dahdouh – the son of colleague Wael Al-Dahdouh – and Mustafa Thuraya were martyred, and journalist Hazem Rajab was injured as a result of an Israeli bombing near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Journalist Ali Abu Ajwa was also martyred in a bombing of Gaza City. This brings the number of martyred journalists since the start of the war to 110, according to the government media office.
Tel Aviv Tribune Media Network strongly condemned the assassination of journalists, and pledged to take legal measures to prosecute the perpetrators of crimes against them.
Gaza battles
Battles raged in the central region – as well as the southern Gaza Strip – as the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that its fighters had destroyed two Israeli tanks, a troop carrier and a bulldozer in the Al-Maghazi and Al-Bureij camps. It also announced the explosion of two tunnels and a minefield with occupation soldiers.
The clashes extended to the Nuseirat camp and the town of Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip, according to what was reported by Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent. On the other hand, the Israeli army announced that it had found tunnel openings in the central region and destroyed a missile launch complex in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.
Developments in the West Bank
Two Israeli policemen were slightly injured as a result of a run-over operation at the Beit Iksa military checkpoint, northwest of Jerusalem, while the occupation forces killed the suspect in carrying out the operation and killed along with him a Palestinian woman and a 3-year-old girl, according to what was reported by Israeli Army Radio.
On the other hand, an Israeli female soldier from the Special Border Guard Unit was killed in clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters in Jenin at dawn on Sunday, while an Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent reported that 7 young men – including 4 brothers – were martyred as a result of a bombing carried out by an Israeli drone near the southern entrance to Jenin, and another young man from the town of Jenin was martyred. Abwein, north of Ramallah, was shot by the occupation forces.
Lebanon Front
The Israeli army acknowledged on Sunday that damage had been caused to the Meron air control base, but said that there was no danger to the continued operation of the base.
The Lebanese Hezbollah announced on Saturday that it had targeted the base with 62 missiles as part of what it described as the initial response to the assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri, deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas, in an air strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
On Sunday, Hezbollah continued to target Israeli positions and concentrations of soldiers across the border, while Israeli media reported a direct hit on a house in the town of Metulla with an anti-tank missile fired from southern Lebanon.
Qatari-American talks
The Emir of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, stressed during his meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Doha the necessity of working towards an immediate ceasefire and protecting civilians in Gaza.
For his part, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani said that he discussed with the US Secretary of State an attempt to prevent the expansion of the conflict in the region.
As for Blinken, he said in his statements in Doha that the displaced Palestinians should be able to return to their homes in Gaza, criticizing the statements of some Israeli officials calling for their displacement outside the Gaza Strip.