The Israeli bombing and massacres against the people of the Gaza Strip are still continuing (Getty)
On the 132nd day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, the occupation forces continued to target hospitals and medical centers in the Strip, as the occupation forces bombed the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis.
While movements and positions continued regarding the prisoner exchange deal between the Palestinian resistance and Israel, the escalation continued in the West Bank and on the southern Lebanon and Red Sea fronts.
Massacres and martyrs
Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that dozens were martyred and injured in an Israeli bombing of a camp and a street in the center of Gaza City and its eastern neighborhood.
The reporter said that at least 12 Palestinians, including 7 children, were killed in a bombing that targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
Al Jazeera's correspondent also reported that a young Palestinian man was martyred, and 3 wounded, in the occupation forces' bombing of a gathering of citizens in the Shuja'iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Also in central Gaza City, an Al Jazeera correspondent reported that at least 3 people were killed and 5 people were injured in a bombing that targeted civilians, residential buildings, and cars on Al-Jalaa Street.
In the south, an Al Jazeera correspondent reported the death of a Palestinian and the fall of a number of wounded in a bombing that targeted the orthopedic department of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis. The reporter added that the occupation arrested a number of doctors as they were leaving the complex at dawn today.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said that on the 132nd day of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, the occupation army committed 9 massacres within 24 hours, leaving 87 martyrs and 104 wounded.
Thus, the number of victims of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has risen to 28,663 martyrs and 68,395 wounded.
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The Israeli occupation army admitted that 569 of its members were killed and 2,864 were wounded since the start of the war (Anatolia)
Losses to the occupation
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced the killing of a soldier and the wounding of an officer and two soldiers in the paratroopers unit, whose wounds were described as serious, in addition to the wounding of a number of soldiers with varying injuries.
The Israeli army had previously announced that 11 soldiers had been wounded in battles during the past 24 hours.
Haaretz newspaper had quoted the Israeli Ministry of Defense as saying that the Medical Rehabilitation Department had treated more than 5,500 wounded since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip on October 7th.
Israeli Army Radio reported that the Rehabilitation Department of the Ministry of Defense is preparing to receive 20,000 wounded this year, compared to 5,500 wounded received last year since the start of the war.
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Burns arrives in Tel Aviv with an unannounced visit to discuss a possible prisoner exchange deal (French/Archive)
Prisoner exchange deal
Regarding negotiations related to the prisoner exchange deal, the War Council and the expanded government will hold two separate meetings tonight.
The American website Axios quoted informed sources as saying that CIA Director William Burns arrived in Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad Director David Barnea to discuss negotiations regarding the detainees.
In a related development, the American CNN network quoted an informed source as saying that Qatar is still waiting for Hamas to respond to Israel’s position that it presented earlier this week after the Cairo meeting regarding the prisoner exchange deal.
The network said that the main point of disagreement regarding the exchange proposal is the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, and Israel had rejected a proposal submitted by Hamas to release a large number of Palestinian prisoners.
For his part, the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, stressed that any agreement must guarantee a ceasefire, the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza, and the completion of a serious exchange deal.
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Raids and arrests in the West Bank
In the occupied West Bank, the Israeli occupation forces continued their raids and attacks on Palestinians in various cities, and arrested a number of them.
The occupation forces stormed the town of Al-Samou, south of Hebron, confiscated a number of vehicles, beat sheep shepherds in the south of the town, and arrested them. They also stormed the town of Taffuh, west of Hebron, and raided a number of shops.
In Ramallah, Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that the occupation forces withdrew from the city center, about an hour after they stormed it, amid confrontations with Palestinian youths.
According to a joint statement by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority (governmental) and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (private), the occupation forces arrested at least 20 Palestinians from the West Bank from Wednesday evening until Thursday morning, including a child and former prisoners from Bethlehem, Tulkarm, Nablus, Jenin, and Jerusalem.
Thus, the number of detainees in the occupied West Bank has risen to 7,400 Palestinians since October 7, 2023.
The occupation army claimed - in a statement - that it had arrested 3,100 Palestinians in the West Bank since the beginning of the war on Gaza, claiming that 1,350 of them belonged to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
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In a scene that has become familiar in Gaza but happened in Lebanon: a child was pulled alive from under the rubble following an Israeli bombing of the city of Nabatieh. pic.twitter.com/asDWPGZWnZ
- Al Jazeera Live (@ajmubasher) February 15, 2024
Bombing and deaths in southern Lebanon
On the Lebanese front, Hezbollah mourned 3 of its members who were killed in the Israeli bombing that targeted - yesterday, Wednesday - the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon.
Thus, the number of Hezbollah deaths since the start of the border exchange of fire on October 8th rose to 198.
On the other hand, the Israeli army reported that it killed yesterday the main commander of the Radwan Force, Muhammad Al-Debs, and his deputy, Hassan Ibrahim Issa, saying that Al-Debs led, planned, and carried out many attacks against Israel, especially during the war.
For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said that the army had escalated one level out of 10 that it had with Hezbollah.
Meanwhile, mutual bombardment continues across the Lebanese-Israeli border, and Hezbollah announced that it targeted the Al-Samaqa military site and the spy equipment at the Al-Marj site, hitting them both directly.
The party also announced that it targeted the Zibdin barracks in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with a Falaq missile and spy equipment at the Al-Raheb site and the Ruwaisat Al-Alam site.
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Ansar Allah leader: The American is primarily responsible for the level of destruction and crime in #Gaza and its continuation for all this time, and the high-explosive bombs confronting the armies fall on the heads of children, women, and infrastructure in #Gaza #Gaza_War #News pic.twitter.com/CwxuN1m13z
- Al Jazeera Channel (@AJArabic) February 15, 2024
A maritime accident and the Houthis threaten
In terms of developments in the Red Sea, the British maritime security company Ambrey said that a cargo tanker suffered minor damage today after it was targeted by a missile about 100 nautical miles east of the coastal city of Aden in Yemen.
For his part, the leader of the Ansar Allah group (Houthis), Abdul Malik al-Houthi, said that the group will continue its naval attacks.
Al-Houthi explained - in a television speech - that their attacks will continue "as long as the Israeli aggression, which carries out the most heinous crimes in the Gaza Strip, continues."
He added, "The Americans are primarily responsible for the level of destruction and crime in Gaza and its continuation for all this time, and the Israeli occupier would not have inflicted all this destruction and terrible crimes on Gaza, had it not been for American support."
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Source: Al Jazeera + agencies