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On the 173rd day of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip and the 17th day of Ramadan, clashes continued in the vicinity of the Shifa Medical Complex, and Al Jazeera broadcast the execution of Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians as they attempted to return to the northern Gaza Strip.

Clashes

Clashes continued between the resistance factions and the occupation forces, on Wednesday, in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, which has been besieged by the occupation for 10 days. The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that its fighters were able to snipe an Israeli soldier in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex. .

For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement - said that it bombed gatherings of occupation soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Complex with 60 mm mortar shells.

It added that it bombed, with Badr 1 missiles, a gathering of Israeli army vehicles and a command headquarters southeast of the Kissufim settlement in the Gaza Strip.

On Wednesday evening, the Israeli occupation army acknowledged the killing of a sergeant in the Givati ​​Brigade during battles that took place in the southern Gaza Strip, after it had previously announced that 22 of its soldiers had been wounded in Gaza during the past 24 hours.

Thus, the number of Israeli army casualties since the beginning of the war on October 7 last rose to 3,152, of whom 1,520 were injured since the start of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip on the 27th of the same month.

The occupation army also said that 592 soldiers were injured in the Gaza Strip as a result of what it described as “incidents” not related to the fighting.

Bombing and martyrs

A number of Palestinians were killed and injured on Wednesday in Israeli raids targeting the popular committees supervising the distribution of aid in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

According to eyewitnesses who spoke to Anadolu Agency, Israeli aircraft targeted the popular committees designated to secure the arrival of aid on Salah al-Din Street, in the Zaytoun neighborhood.

There were also martyrs and wounded in a series of raids launched by the Israeli occupation on Wednesday on Gaza City, as well as tents for displaced people in Rafah, the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, despite continuous international warnings to Israel against targeting the city, which is crowded with more than a million displaced people.

Exclusive scenes

Exclusive scenes obtained by Al Jazeera showed Israeli soldiers executing Palestinian civilians as they attempted to return to the northern Gaza Strip via Al-Rashid Street.

Exclusive scenes show the bodies of Palestinian martyrs being buried in sand and among garbage, while another group of Palestinians whose fate is unknown watch the process.

The occupation soldiers used a bulldozer to bury the martyrs under the sand.

Exchange deal

A source familiar with the indirect negotiations between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel said that the statement issued by the movement two days ago confirming that the occupation’s response did not respond to any of the basic demands of the Palestinian people and their resistance, came after the mediators received a negative Israeli response that confirmed that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is not concerned. By reaching an agreement that stops the aggression and leads to the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip.

The source revealed that the main point that sparked the negotiations was Israel’s insistence on limiting the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip to women, children and the elderly, while postponing the return of all groups to the second phase of the negotiations.

The source indicated that the latest Israeli offer made a slight amendment in this item from the previous offer, adding only the elderly, in contrast to Hamas’s demand for the unconditional return of the displaced.

The isolation of the occupation

The head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, confirmed that the Israeli occupation will not be able to impose its equations on the Palestinian people, and that the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation achieved unprecedented achievements for the Palestinian people.

In a statement coinciding with Haniyeh's visit to Iran and his meeting with its president, Ibrahim Raisi, Haniyeh expressed his appreciation for Iran's positions on Palestine, and reviewed the course of the Israeli war against the Gaza Strip and the political efforts to stop it.

Haniyeh stressed that the occupation's "image of its army was destroyed and it appeared for its true nature without embellishment and was living in political isolation, while the reality of the American positions and absolute support for the occupation and support for its crimes, including genocide, emerged."

He stressed that the occupation "will not be able to impose its equations on the Palestinian people, neither through war nor through politics," and urged the Islamic world "to stand by patient Gaza."

West Bank

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that 3 Palestinians were martyred and 4 others were injured at dawn on Wednesday by Israeli fire during a raid on the city of Jenin, bringing the number of martyrs in the West Bank to 453 - since the Al-Aqsa flood attack - in addition to about 4,750 wounded.

The number of detainees in the West Bank has also increased to more than 7,820 since that date, with the occupation forces arresting 20 Palestinians last night and Wednesday morning.

The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that it responded in the occupied West Bank - along with the rest of the factions at dawn on Wednesday - to the Israeli forces storming Jenin and targeted its vehicles and soldiers.

South Lebanon

The Israeli army said that deep inside Lebanon is turning into a war zone, after it expanded the scope of its strikes to include areas far from the border, while Hezbollah responded with intense missile strikes to an Israeli raid that killed 7 medics.

In field developments, Hezbollah announced that it carried out 5 attacks on Wednesday against Israeli targets in the Galilee and the occupied Lebanese hills of Kfar Shuba.

The party said that its fighters bombed the Kiryat Shmona settlement and the headquarters of the 769th Brigade in the settlement barracks with dozens of missiles in response to what it described as the Israeli enemy’s massacre in the town of Habbariyeh in southern Lebanon.

In the evening, a medical source reported to Al Jazeera that two Israeli raids on the towns of Naqoura and Tair Harfa in southern Lebanon resulted in the deaths of 9 people.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies