The Jordanian army announced the implementation of the largest aid landing operation over the Gaza coast (Anatolia)

On the 143rd day of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the occupation’s massacres continued against civilians in the Strip, while the resistance continued to confront the Israeli army and inflicted new losses, while the Lebanese front recorded notable developments.

As the hunger crisis worsened, especially in the northern Gaza Strip, amid international warnings of an imminent catastrophe, Jordan announced the implementation of the largest aid landing operation for the residents of Gaza since the start of the Israeli war on the Strip on October 7.

Massacres and martyrs

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the death of 90 Palestinians in one day, as Israeli bombing continued on residential neighborhoods in Rafah and Khan Yunis in the south of the Strip, and Deir al-Balah in the centre.

The ministry explained that the occupation committed 10 massacres in the Gaza Strip, killing 90 martyrs and 164 injured within 24 hours.

The Ministry also announced that the number of victims of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7 had risen to 29,782 martyrs, in addition to 70,782 injured.

Ambushes and losses for the occupation

On the ground, intense battles continued between the resistance and the occupation army in the south and north of the Gaza Strip.

The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that two Israeli forces had been killed or wounded in the Abasan area of ​​Khan Yunis, and bombed a gathering of occupation soldiers south of the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, also announced that it targeted two military vehicles in the same neighborhood, and sniped a soldier east of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

For its part, the Israeli army acknowledged that 8 of its soldiers were injured in the battles, and said that it had found a 10-kilometre-long tunnel system linking the northern and southern Gaza Strip, according to its claim.

The occupation army suffers losses on a daily basis as a result of battles with the resistance (Anatolia)

Jordanian aid landing operation

The Jordanian army announced that it carried out - today, Monday - the largest aid landing operation for Gaza residents since the start of the Israeli war on the Strip.

The Jordanian army said, in a statement carried by the official news agency, that the aid landing operations were carried out by 3 Jordanian aircraft and a French C-130 aircraft, targeting 11 locations on the Gaza coast from the north to the south of the Strip.

He added that the aid that was dropped under the direction of King Abdullah II included relief and food supplies, including ready-made meals of high nutritional value, noting that its aim was to alleviate the suffering of the residents of the Gaza Strip.

Hundreds of displaced people trying to get aid that was dropped by air in the western airspace of the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip#Gaza_War #Video pic.twitter.com/nvOvayUBbX

- Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) February 26, 2024

Escalation on the Lebanon front

The Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it bombed - today, Monday - the headquarters of the Golan Division of the Israeli army with dozens of missiles in response to the Israeli aircraft targeting its sites in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon.

Hezbollah said - in a statement - that it targeted the headquarters of the Golan Division in Nafah with 60 Katyusha rockets in response to the Israeli bombing that targeted Baalbek in the Bekaa and resulted in the killing of two members of the party.

This is the first time that Israeli aircraft have targeted the Baalbek area since the outbreak of confrontations between Hezbollah and the Israeli army on October 8.

In the morning, Hezbollah announced that it had shot down an Israeli “Hormuz 450” drone with a surface-to-air missile over the Iqlim al-Tuffah area in southern Lebanon.

In turn, the occupation aircraft launched raids on several areas in southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah bombed several Israeli sites in the occupied Syrian Golan and off the Lebanese border.

Occupation aircraft targeted Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, for the first time since the outbreak of the current confrontation with Hezbollah (European)

Israel's response to international justice

The International Court of Justice confirmed to Al Jazeera that it had received the Israeli response and transferred it to South Africa, which filed a lawsuit before the court accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.

The court indicated that the content of the Israeli response came after the end of the month-long deadline granted to Tel Aviv to take measures to prevent acts of genocide against the Palestinians, and noted that this response would remain secret.

Figures issued by the Ministry of Health in Gaza revealed that the Israeli army has killed 3,500 Palestinians since the Court of Justice decided to oblige Israel to take temporary measures to prevent genocide.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that the volume of aid entry has decreased by half since last month.

The death of the American pilot

The Pentagon confirmed on Monday the death of a US Navy pilot who burned himself in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington to protest the war in Gaza.

Pilot Aaron Bushnell (25 years old) died of the serious burns he sustained yesterday, Sunday.

This incident comes amid mounting protests in the United States against the ongoing war in Gaza.

The New York Times had previously quoted a US Air Force spokeswoman as saying that Bushnell set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington on Sunday afternoon in an "apparent act of protest against the war in Gaza."

Resigned Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh (Palestinian Prime Minister)

Resignation of the Shtayyeh government

Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh announced today, Monday, the submission of his government’s resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas, in view of the political, security and economic developments related to the situation in the Gaza Strip and the unprecedented escalation in the West Bank.

Shtayyeh delivered his speech during the weekly government session in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, where he stressed that his government was able to achieve a balance between the needs of the Palestinian people and confronting the political challenges and changes in the region.

Shtayyeh indicated that he submitted his government's resignation to Abbas last Tuesday, and today he officially confirmed its submission in writing. Later, the Palestinian President announced that he had accepted the resignation of Shtayyeh's government and assigned it to conduct business.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies