Dec. 7, 2023
Israel continued its bombardment of Palestinian residential homes in Gaza, killing many, including several children, in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.
Meanwhile, stiff Palestinian resistance seems to be growing stronger in all areas of Gaza, including the northern regions, resulting in the killing and wounding of more Israeli soldiers.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, as of December 7, 16,250 Palestinians were killed, and 43,616 were wounded, the majority of whom are women and children.
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Thursday, December 7, 1:00 pm (GMT+3)
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces surrounded a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Beit Lahia.
PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: Ambulance operations in northern Gaza have stopped.
AL-JAZEERA: Casualties were reported in an occupation raid on an inhabited house in the Al-Hakar neighborhood in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
AL-JAZEERA: 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a home for the Houby family in the Shaboura camp in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced the killing of an officer today in the Gaza Strip, bringing the number of soldiers and officers killed since the beginning of the ground war to 90.
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN: Israel confirmed their categorical rejection of any call for a ceasefire, because this is in the interest of the Hamas movement.
Thursday, December 7, 12:00 pm (GMT+3)
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted the Israeli occupation command rooms in the southern axis of Gaza City with a short-range “Rajum” missile system.
HEZBOLLAH: Lebanese Resistance group Hezbollah said that it targeted the Israeli site Ma’yan Baruch, hitting it directly.
PPC: Israel arrested 30 Palestinians in the West Bank.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Fierce clashes are taking place with enemy soldiers in the Shujaiya axis, and that 3 military vehicles were targeted with tandem shells.
Thursday, December 7, 11:00 am (GMT+3)
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: Hospitals in northern Gaza are out of service and we are facing difficulties in operating part of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex. Al-Shifa Hospital does not have electricity and has been filled with thousands of displaced people.
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE: an Israeli tank shell killed a journalist and wounded others on October 13, in southern Lebanon. The French news agency quoted Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as saying that Israel’s bombing of journalists in southern Lebanon requires an investigation into a war crime.
Thursday, December 7, 10:00 am (GMT+3)
WSJ: Washington asked Israel to let the US military respond to Yemen’s Ansarallah rather than risk expanding the conflict.
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Sderot, Niram, and Efim in the Gaza Strip.
AL-JAZEERA: Dozens were killed as a result of an Israeli bombing on a home for the Turk family near Al-Nour Stadium in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, southeast of Gaza.
AL-JAZEERA: There were casualties in an Israeli bombing on the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
HEZBOLLAH: Hezbollah said that it targeted the Israeli sites of Al-Marj and Haraj Ramim with appropriate weapons, and that it achieved direct casualties as a result.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli forces launched raids on the Yarmouk and Al-Daraj neighborhoods in Gaza City.
G7: G7 leaders announced that more urgent action is needed to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and reduce civilian casualties.
Thursday, December 7, 08:30 am (GMT+3)
ICC PROSECUTOR: Deliberately obstructing the relief of civilians may constitute a war crime.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli military said it had detected six rocket and rocket launches from Lebanon on Thursday morning, adding that their sources had been answered.
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Kiryat Shmona and Margaliot in the Upper Galilee, adjacent to the border with Lebanon.
AL-JAZEERA: Nine Palestinians, including three children, were killed in Israeli raids on homes in the Al-Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip, and the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
WALL STREET JOURNAL: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israel’s War Council that Washington believed the conflict should end within weeks, not months.
ISRAELI ARMY: An officer and a soldier were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip.
(The Palestine Chronicle)