A plane delivers humanitarian aid to Gaza City (Reuters)

On the 147th day of the aggression against the Gaza Strip, the occupation continued to commit massacres, a day after it committed the “Flour Massacre,” which claimed the lives of more than 110 martyrs and 250 wounded, coinciding with the continuation of battles on the ground between the resistance and the Israeli army, especially in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

Meanwhile, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced the killing of 7 prisoners in an occupation bombing of the Gaza Strip, including 3 whose fate it had promised to reveal earlier.

Victims and massacres

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli occupation committed 16 massacres against families in the Strip, claiming 193 martyrs and 920 injuries during the past 24 hours.

The Ministry said that a number of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, as the occupation prevents ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching them.

The Ministry of Health confirmed that the number of victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip had risen to 30,228 martyrs and 71,377 wounded.

The number of children who died due to malnutrition and the lack of treatment at Kamal Adwan Hospital also rose to 8.

Losses to the occupation

The Israeli army announced on Friday that 5 officers and soldiers were wounded in the Gaza battles during the past 24 hours, while Israeli platforms circulated news of heavy losses suffered by the occupation forces in an ambush in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

According to the same source, more than 240 Israeli soldiers have been killed and more than 1,400 others injured since the start of the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip late last October.

The latest Israeli army data reported that 317 officers and soldiers are still receiving treatment after being injured in the Gaza battles, including 36 whose injuries are serious.

Abu Ubaida, the military spokesman for the “Al-Qassam” Brigades (social networking sites)

7 prisoners killed

For his part, Abu Ubaida, the military spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that seven detainees were killed in the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip after losing contact with them previously. Among the dead were 3 whom al-Qassam had previously promised to reveal their fate.

Abu Ubaida revealed that "the number of enemy prisoners who were killed as a result of the enemy army's military operations in the Gaza Strip may exceed 70 prisoners."

Al-Qassam's statement accused the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of deliberately killing Israeli prisoners "to get rid of the file," as he put it.

Condemning the flour massacre

Angry international reactions to the so-called flour massacre continued yesterday, Thursday, as the Israeli army killed more than 110 Palestinians and wounded 250 others in the northern Gaza Strip by shooting at them during an aid distribution operation.

Demonstrations took place today, Friday, in a number of Arab cities and capitals, denouncing the massacre and in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Based on an analysis of photos published by the Israeli army, a New York Times investigation cast doubt on the Israeli account of the massacre’s deaths being “run over.”

The investigation confirmed that the footage broadcast by the Israeli army was edited, and that footage from Al Jazeera “completes the picture of the incident and shows shooting into crowds from an Israeli military position.”

Lebanese Hezbollah and the occupation army have been exchanging cross-border shelling for about 5 months (French)

Lebanese Front

The Lebanese Hezbollah announced targeting a number of Israeli sites and shooting down an occupation drone, while Israeli aircraft launched raids on a number of southern Lebanese towns.

Hezbollah said in separate statements that it had targeted, with missiles, an Israeli force in the vicinity of the Al-Manara site, killing and wounding its members. It also announced that it had targeted, with a march, a group of occupation soldiers who were to be stationed in the Ma'yan Baruch settlement, achieving a "direct hit."

For its part, occupation aircraft launched raids on several cities and towns in southern Lebanon, including Aita al-Shaab and Jabal Balat.

Biden promised that the United States would carry out an airdrop of food aid to Gaza (European)

American aid

US President Joe Biden announced on Friday that the United States will carry out an airdrop of food aid to Gaza, at a time when hunger is worsening and claiming the lives of more residents of the Palestinian Strip.

Biden said in statements at the White House that the flow of aid to Gaza is not sufficient, and that his administration will do its best to deliver more of it.

He added that Washington is trying to reach an agreement for an immediate ceasefire to allow more aid to enter the Gaza Strip.

For its part, the Wall Street Journal quoted American officials as saying that the Pentagon is scheduled to begin an airdrop campaign for aid in Gaza in the coming days.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies