Everything turned to dust and stoneslaments a Gazan // Hamas and Hezbollah launch rockets at Tel Aviv // More than a million displaced in Lebanon
▲ Palestinians leave the Jabaliya refugee camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip, after the intense attacks by the Israeli army last Sunday.Xinhua Photo
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024, p. 20
Cairo. Yesterday, Israel demanded to evacuate Khan Younis (south), surrounded the Jabaliya refugee camp (north) with tanks and intensified its air and ground offensive against the population and alleged Hamas command posts in the Gaza Strip, while Both belligerent sides commemorated the first anniversary of the war that has left almost 42,000 Palestinians murdered and more than 93,000 injured and amputated.
The trigger for the confrontation was the incursion of the Islamic resistance movement into Israel, which left 1,200 dead and 250 hostages on October 7, 2023.
In this context, in the reoccupied West Bank, which is also severely hit by Tel Aviv and Israeli settlers, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy was killed in clashes between youths and Israeli soldiers, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Tel Aviv security reality is changing in the Middle East to prevent what happened on October 7 from happening againand warned that they are forced to bring back to the hostages. He added that Israel is in a war for its existence, the war of resurrection. That’s what I would like to call it officially.
The armed wing of Hamas, the Ezzeldin Al Aqsa Brigades, reported that they are preparing for a long war of attrition that it will be dear to the enemy. The operation Storm Al Aqsa – this is what Hamas calls the October 7 attacks – owes its name to the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the third holiest site, along with Mecca and Medina, for Sunni Islam.
In April of that year, the Israeli police carried out an eviction in Al Aqsa, located on the Esplanade of the Mosques, an act that Hamas claimed, among others, as justification for its attack six months later. It was a natural response to the occupation, its acceleration of settlement plans, the siege and aggression against the Al Aqsa mosque trying to liquidate the Palestinian cause, and the increase in torture against prisoners.explained a senior official of the organization, Khaled Meshal, to the newspaper Filastin.
The Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared that this operation set the Zionist regime back 70 yearsin a message in Hebrew published on his X account.
At least 17 bodies were taken to Al Awda hospital, after the offensive in Jabaliya by air and land. In Deir Balah (center), where a million displaced people are taking refuge, 11 people were injured in an airstrike that hit tents inside the Al Aqsa hospital, where, according to Israel, there was a Hamas command center.
Gazan civilians told Reuters their desperate desire to return to pre-war life. I have six children, my biggest burden was how to provide them with a home and get them married. But after October 7, this came to nothing. After 58 years of work for me, just like for my father, everything turned to dust and stonesdeclared Abu Hassan Shaheen.
AP reporters described Gaza as a land of mountains of rubble, where there were once apartment blocks, and puddles of contaminated water. The streets have become dirt canyons and the air is filled with the stench of unrecovered corpses..
Yesterday the sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities. Hamas fired two rockets from Gaza, wounding two people in the capital. Hezbollah attacked from Lebanon with more than 135 projectiles and promised to continue fighting aggression of Israel, which he described as cancerous entity what should be removed. Furthermore, he accused Tel Aviv of using human shields to members of the United Nations Interim Force. The Houthis launched two missiles from Yemen against the city of Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, which Israel confirmed having intercepted.
On the Lebanon front, Israel launched more bombing raids on Beirut, where fighter jets They attacked the headquarters of Hezbollah Intelligenceaccording to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
In total, Tel Aviv targeted 70 Hezbollah positions in the last 24 hours, ammunition production sites, launch pads, command posts, weapons depots and other military buildings in southern Lebanon, where at least 10 rescuers were killed in an airstrike on a fire station.
On the border between both countries, Israel declared new closed military zones near the coast. For your safety, please refrain from being in the sea or on the beach from now until further notice.says the IDF statement.
Israeli infantry entered the Lebanese border village of Maroun Ras yesterday. Dozens of tanks gathered near the Lebanese border as they were covered by Israeli drones and fighter jetswitnesses narrated; the IDF confirmed specific, limited and localized operations in the area and the death of two soldiers, bringing the total to 11 since the start of the ground invasion a week ago.
Likewise, more than 400,000 people have left Lebanon for Syria since September 23, Beirut reported; At least 1,400 civilians, doctors and Hezbollah fighters have died, and 1.2 million have been expelled from their homes, the newspaper reported. Guardian. The IDF also bombs this border crossing and places serious risk displaced civilians and hamper humanitarian operations, Human Rights Watch reported, warning Israel’s allies that they will be complicit in illegal attacks if they keep giving him weapons.
