1/13/2024–|Last updated: 1/14/202412:01 AM (Mecca time)
On the 99th day of the Israeli war on Gaza, dozens were martyred in artillery and air strikes on Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip and in the eastern central region, bringing the number of martyrs to more than 23,800, according to the Ministry of Health.
While the occupation army suffered new losses, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the war would continue despite its high price, indicating the necessity of intervening in the Philadelphia axis on the Egyptian border.
The toll of martyrs and wounded
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Saturday afternoon that the Israeli occupation committed 12 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, killing 135 martyrs and 312 injured within 24 hours.
Thus, the death toll since the beginning of the war rose to 23,843 martyrs and 60,317 injured, according to the ministry’s spokesman, who said, “The genocide made one out of every 20 Palestinians in Gaza either a martyr, wounded, or missing.”
Battles and missile attacks
The Israeli army announced that one of its soldiers was killed during the battles in Gaza and that two officers and a soldier were seriously injured, bringing the death toll among its ranks since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood to 521, and those injured to 2,523, according to official data.
Meanwhile, the Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – announced the bombing of the settlements around the Gaza Strip with a batch of missiles. It also stated that its fighters killed two Israeli soldiers from a distance of zero east of Khan Yunis, and targeted a helicopter with a surface-to-air missile. They also targeted foot groups of Occupation soldiers and a number of tanks and vehicles.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, also announced that it had bombed sites and settlements in the northern Gaza Strip with missiles. It also stated that its fighters were engaged in fierce clashes east of the Bureij and Al-Maghazi camps in the central Gaza Strip.
Protests escalate in Israel
Crowds of Israelis took part in demonstrations that extended from Tel Aviv to Haifa to demand that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government resign and to call for the return of prisoners through a new exchange deal.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that the demonstrators closed a main road in Tel Aviv for the first time since the protests began.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu said in a televised speech that the war exacts a heavy price but will continue, noting that intervention in the Philadelphia axis in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt is necessary, as he described it.
The fate of 4 prisoners is unknown
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced in a video recording that it had lost contact with a cell responsible for 4 Israelis captured in Gaza since 2014, and said in its message to the families of the remaining prisoners that “time is running out.”
On the other hand, Israeli Channel 12 said that it had begun transporting medicines to Israeli detainees in Gaza under an agreement with the State of Qatar.
Clashes in the West Bank
Clashes broke out between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation forces that stormed Al-Far’a camp, south of Tubas, in the northeast of the West Bank, where a number of Palestinians were injured.
By nightfall, large forces of the occupation army stormed the city of Jenin, and surrounded the main entrance to its camp amid armed clashes.
New strikes in Yemen
American forces continued to bomb sites in Yemen, targeting a naval base for the Ansar Allah Houthi group in Hodeidah, west of the country, hours after targeting a radar site in Sanaa.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden said that his country sent a special message to Iran regarding these strikes in Yemen, stressing that his country is well prepared to deal with the situation in the region.
On the other hand, the New York Times quoted American officials as saying that finding targets for the Houthis proved “more difficult than expected.”