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The number of martyrs rose on the 128th day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip to reach more than 28,176 martyrs, and the occupation forces committed 14 new massacres in the besieged Strip, amid mounting warnings of a catastrophic famine and deaths due to hunger in northern Gaza.
The occupation forces' attacks on Rafah intensified, at a time when international and regional voices were rising warning of a massive humanitarian catastrophe if Israel invaded Rafah, while the Hamas movement warned that any Israeli attack on Rafah would undermine the prisoner exchange negotiations, amid American news about US President Joe Biden approaching... Breaking away from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Meanwhile, Israel continued its incursions into the West Bank and transferred the largest division of its army from Gaza to the border with Lebanon. While Arab and European cities witnessed demonstrations in support of Gaza and demanding an immediate end to the aggression against it, the US Central Command announced the destruction of two pilot boats and three anti-ship cruise missiles, north of The Yemeni city of Hodeidah was prepared for launching against ships in the Red Sea.
Battles and losses of the occupation
The Gaza Strip, especially west of the city of Khan Yunis, witnessed fierce clashes between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation forces.
The occupation army announced that two officers and a soldier were seriously injured in battles south of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army website also reported that 7 soldiers from the occupation army were injured in battles in Gaza during the past 24 hours.
According to Israeli army data, 2,855 officers and soldiers have been injured since the beginning of the war, 432 of them seriously injured.
For its part, the Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast pictures of what it said was its members’ seizure of a drone that was carrying out an intelligence mission north of Gaza.
The Al-Quds Brigades also broadcast images of its members targeting an Israeli force holed up in a house west of Khan Yunis, resulting in deaths and injuries.
Killing and wounding of Israeli prisoners
Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - announced on Sunday that two Israeli prisoners were killed in the Gaza Strip and eight others were seriously injured, in an Israeli bombing of the Strip during the last 96 hours.
Al-Qassam added that the conditions of the prisoners are becoming more dangerous in light of the inability to provide them with appropriate treatment, holding Israel fully responsible for the lives of the injured due to the continued bombing and aggression against Gaza.
12 massacre
The Ministry of Health in Gaza recorded 112 martyrs and 173 injured in the Strip during the past 24 hours, and explained that the number of victims of the Israeli aggression rose to 28,176 martyrs and 67,784 injured, most of them women and children, since last October 7. In addition to thousands of people missing under the rubble, according to the Palestinian authorities.
Al Jazeera obtained photos documenting the moments when the occupation forces sniped at civilians at the Abu Iskandar Junction in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest of Gaza City, before they withdrew from it. The pictures showed that the people succeeded in pulling out a child who had been subjected to intense fire from snipers of the occupation army. About 100 people were also recovered after the occupation withdrew from the Tal al-Hawa and al-Rimal neighborhoods, most of whom were martyred by sniper bullets.
Famine and deaths
Al Jazeera's correspondent in northern Gaza reported that a number of people died of hunger, due to a lack of food supplies. He explained that the occupation forces continue to prevent the entry of aid, and confirmed that some families cannot secure a daily meal.
The Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza, Ismail Al-Thawabta, said that the humanitarian situation in the northern Gaza Strip has passed the catastrophic stage. Some families receive only half a meal within 48 hours. Where Palestinian citizens cannot even find fodder and grains in light of Israel's policy of starvation, thirst and siege.
An imminent invasion of Rafah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he issued instructions to the Israeli army to plan to evacuate hundreds of thousands of Rafah residents before the expected ground invasion of the city, which has become the last refuge for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians who were displaced by the occupation from many areas in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu considered that the calls not to enter the city of Rafah under any circumstances are calls for them to lose the war, while Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said that deepening the military operation in Gaza would bring Israel closer to what he described as a “realistic agreement” to exchange prisoners. Click for more
A leadership source in the Hamas movement warned Israel that any military operation it might launch against the city of Rafah in the far south of the Gaza Strip would lead to "torpedoing" the negotiations related to the exchange of prisoners. Click for more
Netanyahu and Biden call
US President Joe Biden and the Israeli Prime Minister held telephone conversations that focused on the possible military operation in Rafah and the release of prisoners, amid reports of increasing disagreements between the two sides.
Israeli Channel 12 said that Biden, in his call with Netanyahu, expressed his concern about the impact of a military operation in Rafah on the humanitarian situation, and stressed his point of view that the military operation in Rafah should not continue without a reliable and implementable plan, and the necessity of having a plan to ensure the safety and support of more than a million people. They took refuge in Rafah.
A senior US administration official said that Biden's call with Netanyahu lasted about 45 minutes.
This comes at a time when American media on Sunday quoted informed sources as saying that Biden and his aides are close to breaking with Netanyahu, indicating that Netanyahu is focusing on his political survival, ruling out any other goal.
Hamas spying
A former Israeli military intelligence officer told the newspaper "Israel Today" that there is great concern that the Israeli army was exposed to deep counter-espionage operations from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) before the outbreak of war.
Occupation soldiers rob the Bank of Palestine
The Israeli newspaper Maariv said on Sunday that an Israeli force seized 200 million shekels ($54.3 million) a week ago after storming the Bank of Palestine in Gaza City.
Stopping the work of UNRWA
Al Jazeera's correspondent said that the Constitution and Judiciary Committee in the Israeli Knesset approved a draft law to stop the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in occupied Jerusalem.
Part of the demonstrations in Rabat in support of Gaza (Anatolia)
Demonstrations in support of Gaza
Many Arab and European cities witnessed new mass demonstrations against the war waged by the Israeli occupation on the Gaza Strip.
Escalation in the West Bank
The Israeli occupation army continues its raids into cities and towns in the West Bank, arresting a number of Palestinians, including freed prisoners, in various areas during the past 24 hours.
Video clips also documented the occupation forces detaining young men in the center of Hebron and assaulting them. Meanwhile, settlers closed the entrance to the village of Bazaria, northwest of Nablus, and attacked Palestinian vehicles.
The occupation police shot a young Palestinian man, allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack near Lions Gate in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli ambulance announced that an occupation policeman was injured in a stabbing attack in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.
In Bethlehem in the West Bank, Al Jazeera's correspondent said that the occupation forces shot a young Palestinian in the Al-Shurfa area in the town of Battir, west of the city.
Settlement project
Haaretz newspaper revealed that the Israeli government is exploiting the preoccupation with the war on Gaza to push a settlement project to build a new neighborhood for Jews in East Jerusalem.
According to the newspaper, the new neighborhood will bear the name “Novi Rahal,” and its establishment is being prepared and planned in cooperation with far-right activists.
The initial plans provide for 650 housing units a few meters from Palestinian homes in the Umm Tuba suburb, south of occupied East Jerusalem.
Lebanon Front
Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy decided to transfer the 36th Armored Division from the Gaza Strip to the border with Lebanon, where the Israeli army is exchanging bombardments with the Lebanese Hezbollah.
Hezbollah announced the implementation of 5 operations, and direct casualties, on Israeli sites in the Shebaa Farms and occupied Kfar Shuba Hills, and in the Upper Galilee.
The US army launched new raids targeting two Houthi drone boats and missiles (Anatolia - Archive)
Yemen front
US Central Command said that its forces launched raids yesterday, Saturday, on two drone boats and three mobile anti-ship cruise missiles north of the city of Hodeidah in Yemen, indicating that it was “self-defense.”
Iranian request
Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi called for Israel's expulsion from the United Nations, and said that "the war crimes being committed in Palestine are being carried out with the full support of the United States of America." This came during a speech on the occasion of the forty-fifth anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
Source: Al Jazeera