On Saturday, Palestinian Resistance group Hamas launched a large-scale operation with a heavy barrage of rockets in response to the Israeli regime’s desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and increased settler violence. The Israeli regime’s military forces also announced it was launching Operation ‘Iron Swords’ in retaliation for the attack.
On Sunday night, Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voted to put the regime officially at war.
The death toll from the Palestinian side and the Zionist side are increasing dramatically as the conflict between them continues.
The following are the latest updates:
Israeli regime’s air attack kills at least 16 Palestinians in Khan Younis: Report
At least 16 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli regime’s air raid on the southern city of Khan Younis, the Palestinian Wafa news agency has reported.
Local sources reported that Zionist forces bombed two houses belonging to the Al-Agha and Abu Shab families without prior warning, killing eight people from each family and wounding dozens.
Hezbollah issues statement on striking Zionists’ position
Issuing a statement on Wednesday, the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance movement claimed responsibility for a strike on an Israeli regime’s position that led to the killing and injury of a number of the enemy’s forces.
The attack was launched in response to the killing of three of Hezbollah fighters during an Israeli aggression on southern Lebanon on Monday.
Hezbollah also stressed that it decisively and seriously responds to the crimes of the Zionist enemy that target the Lebanese territory and the security of the Lebanese people.
UN says Gaza has food and water supplies for 12 days
The UN agency for Palestine told Al Jazeera it has less than two weeks’ supply of food and water to assist the more than 180,000 people who have sought refuge in their schools in Gaza.
“We’ve got supplies for 12 days for food and water. Roads are blocked, we don’t have telephone lines, we have had networks hit by air strikes. It is really difficult for us to know what’s happening,” Jennifer Austin, Deputy Director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Gaza, said.
“We are relying on our staff, who are themselves refugees, who are going out to provide a service. It is really unprecedented situation we are facing. We don’t turn anyone away,” she added.
Hezbollah destroys Israeli regime’s military vehicle
Lebanese Hezbollah announced in a statement that its fighters struck back after an attack by the Zionist regime on Tuesday evening and destroyed an Israeli regime’s military personnel carrier in the Avivim settlement.
The following footage shows the moment when the Zionists’ military vehicle was destroyed by Hezbollah forces:
Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah warns US
Iraq’s anti-terror group Kata’ib Hezbollah has warned that the US bases will be targeted if Washington gets involved in the Israeli regime’s aggression against the Gaza Strip.
“Our missiles, drones, and special forces are ready to … strike the American enemy in its bases and disrupt its interests if it intervenes in this battle,” the group’s Secretary General Abu Hussein Al-Hamidawi said in a statement on Tuesday.
The positions held by the Israeli regime and its mercenaries will also be among Kata’ib Hezbollah’s targets in case of US meddling, he added.
Hamidawi emphasized that Kata’ib Hezbollah has a duty to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians, citing religious commandments.
He further praised the resilience of the Palestinian nation and Resistance groups against the Israeli regime’s forces, PressTV reported.
On Monday, the head of the Iraqi Resistance group Harakat Hezbollah Nujaba said that any intervention by the US or any other country against Palestine would result in a military response.
Akram al-Kaabi also called on the Iraqi people to participate in Friday’s rally in a show of support for the Palestinian cause.
Similarly, Hadi al-Amiri, the secretary general of the Badr Organization, said, “If they (the Americans) intervene, we would intervene … we will consider all American targets legitimate.”
Death toll in Gaza rises to 950
The death toll in Gaza from the Israeli regime’s attacks has now risen to 950 and injuries top 5,000, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.
Israeli regime receives first batch of US munitions
The first US plane carrying a load of munitions for the Israeli regime arrived in occupied Palestine in the early hours of Wednesday, Zionist officials said.
The munitions are intended for carrying out significant strikes and preparing for additional scenarios, TASS quoted Zionists as saying.
Over 263,000 Gaza residents forced to flee their homes due to conflict: UN OCHA
The number of internally displaced persons (IDP) in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 263,000, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) has said.
“Mass displacement has continued over the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip, with the total displacement now exceeding 263,934 people. This number is expected to rise further,” UN OCHA said.
According to the organization, over 175,486 people among the displaced are seeking shelter in 88 schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
The report says that according to Gaza healthcare services, at least 830 Palestinians have been killed and 4,250 were injured since the conflict broke out, TASS reported.
Hamas says Biden’s speech ‘cover-up’ of Israeli regime’s occupation
Hamas has “vehemently” rejected the latest Pro-Israeli remarks from Biden, which it says “cover-up” the Zionists’ “crimes and terrorism against the Palestinian people”.
The Palestinian Resistance group described Biden’s latest comments as “inflammatory” and said they came amid “barbaric Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip”.
Hamas said that Biden’s speech “did not point to the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people in cold blood and under the nose of the whole world”.
Hamas described the Israeli regime’s policies as “collective punishment against more than two million people in Gaza” and “a blatant violation of all international norms and conventions”.
In the statement, Hamas also called on the US administration to “reconsider its position and reverse its double-standard policy in favor of the Israeli occupation,” Al Jazeera reported.
UNRWA headquarters in Gaza has ‘significant damage’
The UN agency for Palestinians says its headquarters has sustained significant damage as a result of nearby air attacks.
All UN international staff present in Gaza are taking shelter in another building within the same compound, UNRWA said in a statement on Tuesday.
UNRWA did not record any deaths among its staff from the incident but two UNRWA staff members and five UNRWA students have been killed since 7 October.
More than 137,000 of the 187,500 people the UN estimates to be displaced within Gaza are sheltering in more than 80 UNRWA schools across the Gaza Strip.
At least 18 UNWRA buildings, including schools sheltering displaced civilians, have been directly or indirectly damaged, the statement said.
Israeli death toll rises to 1,200 in Palestinians’ operation
An Israeli regime’s military spokesperson has confirmed that the Zionists’ death toll has now risen to 1,200, with more than 2,700 injured.
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