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 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.
MNA
