Children in the city of Rafah carry banners during a march demanding an end to the war and their right to live, education and play, amid fears of a humanitarian catastrophe committed by the occupation in the city (Getty)
On the 131st day of the war, the Israeli occupation forces expelled thousands of displaced people from the besieged Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, and carried out intense bombing on areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip, resulting in martyrs and wounded, while the resistance continued its operations and inflicted losses on the occupation.
The occupation massacres continue
The Israeli occupation forces committed 11 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours. The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that 103 Palestinians were martyred and 145 injured in these massacres, noting that the number of martyrs of the Israeli aggression rose to 28,576, while the number of injured reached 68,291 since last October 7.
Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that one person was killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted the Baptist Hospital yard and other buildings and a car in its vicinity.
Six Palestinians were also killed and 25 injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a residential square in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
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Resistance operations
On the resistance level, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - said that it killed and wounded members of an Israeli force by blowing up the openings of 3 tunnels in the Al-Qarara area.
Al-Qassam also said that it killed and wounded members of another Israeli force by blowing up a house in the Al-Satar area, and that it targeted an Israeli tank and a military bulldozer with Al-Yassin 105 shells.
In the battles of the large town of Abasan, east of Khan Yunis, the Al-Qassam Brigades said that its fighters killed and wounded members of an Israeli force consisting of 7 soldiers who clashed with it from a zero distance. It also managed to detonate an anti-personnel device in another Israeli force consisting of 5 soldiers barricaded inside a house.
The Al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement - said that it bombed Ashkelon and the Gaza Strip with missile attacks.
The Al-Quds Brigades had previously confirmed that they had bombed - in conjunction with the Ansar Brigades - gatherings of soldiers and vehicles of the Israeli occupation army in the northern Gaza Strip with a barrage of mortar shells, and also bombed a command and control site for the occupation army in the center of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Strip.
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New video for Al-Qassam
Al Jazeera broadcast new exclusive scenes of the Al-Qassam Brigades targeting soldiers and occupation vehicles in the areas of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The scenes showed the preparation and detonation of an explosive device by an Israeli special force, which led to the killing of the commander of the 630th reserve battalion, a deputy company commander, and a soldier, according to the Al-Qassam video.
It also showed gun battles from point zero between Al-Qassam fighters and Israeli forces, and some occupation soldiers appeared dead after the resistance fighters emerged from one of the attack tunnels.
In a related context, one of the Al-Qassam field commanders - who appeared during the video - denied the presence of resistance fighters among civilians, as the occupation army claims, describing it as “a despicable enemy who does not have any power over us as men present in the field and in our advanced combat nodes.”
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UN warnings
The United Nations warned - on Wednesday - that the people of Gaza are threatened with displacement, and stressed that Israel's measures aim to create conditions that make the Strip uninhabitable, and this is considered an act of genocide.
The UN rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Ben Saul, told Al Jazeera that there is no justification in international law for what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Israel rations the quantities of relief materials sent to the Strip.
For his part, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, said that the displacement of more than a million Gazans towards the city of Rafah in the south of the Strip is a disaster, especially since they are deprived of basic life needs such as water, food and sanitation.
As for the representative of the World Health Organization in the occupied Palestinian territories, Rick Peppercorn, he announced that the Israeli authorities have approved less than half of the WHO missions concerned with delivering aid to Gaza, while the hospitals there are completely overwhelmed and do not have sufficient supplies.
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Soldiers from the Givati Brigade refused to obey orders and carry out military missions inside Gaza City (Reuters)
Refusing military orders
The Israeli army announced that 15 soldiers were wounded in battles in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, while Israeli Army Radio said that the Rehabilitation Department of the Ministry of Defense is preparing to receive 20,000 wounded this year after receiving 5,500 last year.
For its part, Haaretz newspaper said that soldiers from the Givati Brigade refused to obey orders and carry out military missions inside Gaza City due to the deterioration of their psychological and physical conditions.
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Martyrs and wounded in the West Bank
In the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian was martyred and 13 others were injured on Wednesday during confrontations between Israeli occupation soldiers and young Palestinians in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.
The occupation forces had stormed the town, which is subject to almost daily raids, the last of which was an extensive raid that lasted 12 hours a few days ago. They searched a number of homes, confiscated camera recordings in the center of the town, and set up checkpoints inside it.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed - in a statement - "a citizen died from critical wounds sustained by live occupation bullets in the head in the town of Beit Ummar."
She also said that "13 injuries from occupation bullets arrived at Hebron hospitals from Beit Ummar, including 3 in serious condition."
On the other hand, large Israeli forces stormed the city of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank from its southern axis, where they raided homes and arrested a number of young men, most of whom were liberated prisoners, and conducted their patrols in the streets of the city.
Israeli soldiers also stormed earlier the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Earlier, two soldiers from the Israeli Police Border Guard Unit were slightly injured during a military operation carried out by the occupation army in the Jenin camp in the northern West Bank.
The occupation army reported that the operation was aimed at arresting Omar Al-Fayed, whom it described as one of the senior officials of the military infrastructure of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Jenin.
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Major escalation in southern Lebanon
Israel launched massive raids on southern Lebanon, resulting in deaths, including two children, following the Hezbollah missile attack on military bases around the city of Safed, on Wednesday morning, which led to the death of a female soldier and the injury of other soldiers.
The Civil Defense in southern Lebanon announced that 4 people were killed and 11 others were injured in two Israeli raids on the towns of Al-Sawwaneh and Adshit in southern Lebanon. Among the victims was a woman who was killed with her child and her husband's child in the town of Al-Sawana.
At the same time, Hezbollah announced the killing of one of its fighters in southern Lebanon.
For its part, the Israeli army announced that it had completed a wave of large-scale raids on sites in Lebanon, including targets of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force.
Earlier, Israeli War Council Minister Benny Gantz said that the one responsible for launching rockets from Lebanon is not only Hezbollah, but rather the Lebanese state that allows firing from its territory, as he put it, vowing that “the response will come soon and forcefully.”
On the other hand, an Israeli ambulance spokesman announced that a female soldier was killed and 8 soldiers were injured, one of them in serious condition, in the bombing that targeted the city of Safed and its environs this morning.
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The British Air Force prepares to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen (Getty)
US-British raids on Yemen
In Yemen, the Ansar Allah group (Houthis) announced that the United States and Britain had launched a raid on the Ras Issa area in the Al-Salif District, north of Al-Hudaydah Governorate, west of the country, in the fourth targeting of the city during Wednesday.
This came after the Houthis announced today two raids targeting the Bayt al-Faqih District in Hodeidah Governorate, and six other American-British raids targeting the Al-Jabbana and Ras Issa areas in Al-Salif District, northwest of Hodeidah Governorate, without adding any further details.
Earlier Wednesday, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the strike of an anti-ship cruise missile in Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, which was prepared to be launched into the Red Sea.
For his part, Houthi government spokesman Dhaif Allah al-Shami announced - earlier today during a press conference in Sanaa - that the group has targeted 34 Israeli, American and British ships since the start of the war on Gaza on October 7.
The spokesman explained that their forces targeted 14 American ships, 3 British ships, and 17 Israeli ships, stressing that "military operations in the Arab and Red Seas only target Israeli, American, and British ships."
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Source: Al Jazeera