The most prominent developments on the 198th day of the Israeli war on Gaza

Gaza – On the 198th day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, the occupation forces continued their raids on various areas of the Strip, and committed a number of massacres that claimed the lives of dozens of martyrs.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that the Israeli occupation committed 5 massacres in the Strip, killing 48 martyrs and 79 injured within 24 hours.

It confirmed that the number of victims of the Israeli aggression had risen to 34,97 martyrs and 76,980 injured since last October 7.

Raids on Gaza, Nuseirat, and Rafah

The Israeli army continued its raids on the Gaza Strip, and pictures obtained by Al Jazeera showed an Israeli raid on the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.

In Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, 7 Palestinians were martyred and others sustained various injuries, as a result of the Israeli occupation aircraft bombing a house belonging to the Al-Nuwairi family in the Al-Hasayna area, west of the camp. The violent bombing led to the complete destruction of the house, and also caused damage to neighboring houses.

In Rafah in the south, an Al Jazeera correspondent reported that 19 people, including 14 children, were killed in a bombing that targeted two houses in the city.

Israeli occupation army fighters also launched a raid targeting a house and agricultural land near the Palestinian-Egyptian border south of the city of Rafah. The raid caused significant material damage to the targeted place, in addition to tents that were housing displaced people in the area.

It is noteworthy that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatens a military operation in the city of Rafah, where more than half of the population of the Strip is currently crowded, most of whom are displaced people who fled the battles taking place in other parts of it.

Cemeteries in Nasser Medical Complex

The number of martyrs’ bodies recovered from the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, rose to 210.

The Civil Defense said that the bodies belonged to Palestinians of different groups and ages, and that the occupation forces killed them during their storming of the complex and buried them en masse inside it. The Civil Defense Forces confirmed the continuation of search operations and the recovery of the rest of the martyrs, as a large number of them are still in the complex, according to the statement.

The Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza, Ismail Al-Thawabta, told Al Jazeera that they expect the bodies of 700 martyrs to be found in mass graves who were executed by the occupation inside the Nasser Medical Complex, noting that they have so far discovered two mass graves in the Nasser Medical Complex, and they expect there to be more.

He said that the occupation executed dozens of displaced, wounded, sick and medical staff, and that the fate of dozens of those who were in the Nasser Medical Complex is still unknown following the occupation’s withdrawal, calling for the opening of an international investigation to find out the reasons for the evaporation and decomposition of the bodies of some martyrs in the Nasser Medical Complex.

Nour Shams camp

Thousands of Palestinians in Tulkarm Governorate mourned the bodies of their martyrs, who were shot dead by the Israeli occupation army during the recent military operation in Nour Shams camp.

The occupation army’s attack on the Nour Shams camp in the northern West Bank left extensive damage to infrastructure, homes, and property, making the camp “unfit for living,” according to some residents who were astonished by the extent of the damage.

The occupation forces withdrew from the camp located east of the city of Tulkarm, yesterday evening, Saturday, following a raid and siege that lasted nearly 3 days, during which 14 Palestinians were martyred, while the occupation army announced that 9 of its soldiers were wounded.

The general strike paralyzed the cities and villages of the West Bank, in mourning for the martyrdom of a number of Palestinians as the occupation forces stormed the “Nour Shams” camp, in Tulkarm.

The strike came at the call of the Palestinian national and Islamic forces, which described what the occupation did in Nour Shams camp as a massacre.

In response to the occupation operations in Nour Shams camp, the “Jenin Brigade of the Al-Quds Brigades” announced that it was able to carry out a number of shooting operations and achieved direct hits.

The “Jenin Brigade” explained that its fighters targeted the Salem military camp, the Dotan military checkpoint, in addition to the “Merav,” “Mavo Dotan,” and “Shaked” settlements.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said that the Israeli occupation arrested 50 citizens, including wounded, from Nour Shams camp, during its three-day aggression.

The Al-Mansheya neighborhood witnessed the most violent clashes that destroyed buildings completely and others partially, while traces of bullets and explosions appeared in every corner.

Incursions into the West Bank

The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported that a woman was killed as a result of being shot by the occupation forces at the Hamra military checkpoint in the Jordan Valley. It also reported that two Palestinians were killed by the occupation forces’ gunfire at the “Beit Ainun” junction, northeast of Hebron.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces fired heavy live bullets at two young men at the Beit Aynoun intersection, which led to their direct injury, while preventing ambulance crews from reaching them.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that the occupation forces stormed the town of Sa’ir, north of Hebron, and raided the homes of two young men who were martyred this morning at the Beit Ainun Junction, northeast of Hebron in the West Bank.

The Israeli occupation forces carried out a number of raids and incursions into cities and towns in the West Bank.

The United Nations Coordinator for Middle East Peace, Tor Wensland, expressed his deep concern regarding the increasing violence in the West Bank.

Winsland called for avoiding further escalation in the West Bank, stopping attacks on Palestinians, and confronting settler violence.

Lebanese Front

Hezbollah announced that it attacked 5 Israeli sites off the southern border of Lebanon, noting that its fighters bombed a deployment of Israeli soldiers south of the Jal al-Alam site, and targeted a building used by soldiers in the Shomera settlement with appropriate weapons.

The party added that its fighters bombed spy equipment in the vicinity of the Doviev barracks, and in the Al-Malikiyah and Misgav Am sites.

On the other hand, Israeli Channel 12 said that a number of shells were monitored from Lebanon, noting that they fell in open areas in the Western Galilee without causing any casualties.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that the Israeli occupation forces launched an air strike on the Jabour Hills area in southern Lebanon.

Israel had previously launched a raid on the towns of Aita al-Shaab and Naqoura in the south of the country.

The Israeli army said that its forces bombed Lebanese faction targets with aircraft, including an observation point in Al-Adissa and two facilities in Khiam.

Al-Qassam bombing from Lebanon

Also on the Lebanese front, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement, announced that it had bombed the Israeli Shumira military barracks in the western sector of the Upper Galilee with 20 Grad missiles from southern Lebanon.

The Israeli army also announced, on Sunday, the death of a reserve officer as a result of his injury last week as a result of the Lebanese Hezbollah bombing, which targeted the border town of Arab Al-Aramsha.

Last Wednesday, Hezbollah’s targeting of an occupation forces center in Arab Al-Aramsha – adjacent to the Lebanese border, and located opposite the towns of Yarin and Al-Dhahira in the western sector – resulted in the injury of 19 Israelis, most of them soldiers, before the officer’s death was announced today.

In solidarity with the Gaza Strip, which since October 7 has been subjected to a devastating Israeli war with American support, Hezbollah and Lebanese and Palestinian factions exchange intermittent daily bombardment at the border with the Israeli army, resulting in deaths and injuries on both sides, most of them in Lebanon.

A war council meeting and approval of the plans

The Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported that the War Council will be held for the first time today in 12 days, to discuss the issue of detainees in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the faction movement categorically rejected all offers from the Israeli government to release the Israeli hostages.

Netanyahu added, in a video statement on the eve of the Jewish Passover, that Israel will deliver additional and painful strikes, and in the coming days will increase military and political pressure on Hamas, because this is the only way to free the hostages, as he put it.

In turn, Minister of the Israeli War Council Benny Gantz said that Israel is committed to finding an alternative entity to the Hamas authority in the Gaza Strip, and added that returning the kidnapped people and eliminating Hamas’ capabilities will also be part of the strategy of the regional alliance with the United States in the Middle East, which has proven its effectiveness once morest Iran.

Meanwhile, Chief of Staff of the Israeli occupation army, Herzi Halevy, approved plans to continue the war.

The Israeli army spokesman confirmed that Halevy conducted an assessment of the situation at the headquarters of the Southern Front Command with Commander Yaron Finkelman and others, and agreed on plans to continue the war.

On the other hand, the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian faction movement, Ismail Haniyeh, said in a television interview following his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that the occupation army must withdraw all its forces from Gaza, and that the movement and the Palestinian resistance factions are adhering to their demands, which are a permanent ceasefire on the Gaza Strip. A comprehensive withdrawal from all areas of the Gaza Strip, the complete return of the displaced to their areas of residence, and reconstruction, as well as lifting the siege, and reaching an honorable exchange deal.

US sanctions on Israeli soldiers

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday, Sunday, that he will confront any sanctions imposed on any Israeli military unit, following media reported that Washington intends to take such a decision once morest a unit due to human rights violations once morest the Palestinians.

Media reported that Washington is planning to impose sanctions on the Israeli Netzah Yehuda unit, which operates in the occupied West Bank, due to human rights violations.

Netanyahu said in a statement, “If anyone believes that he can impose sanctions on any unit of the IDF, I will confront them with all my might.” In another statement, he said, “It is not permissible to impose sanctions on the Israeli army, and this is the height of absurdity and moral degradation.”

In turn, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said that the American sanctions on the “Netzah Yehuda” battalion are a mistake, and we must work to cancel them.

As for the Minister in the Israeli War Council, Benny Gantz, he called on the United States to reconsider imposing sanctions on the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, considering, during telephone conversations with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, that imposing sanctions on the battalion is a mistake and will harm Israel’s legitimacy in times of war. According to him.

Internal Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir considered that Washington’s sanctions on Netzah Yehuda were aimed at “pressuring us for political reasons.”

Minister in the War Council, Gadi Eisenkot, also said, “Imposing sanctions on the Netzah Yehuda Battalion is fundamentally wrong, and we will work to prevent the decision.”

On the other hand, the head of the Israeli Labor Party, Merav Michaeli, said, “The Netzah Yehuda Brigade, which has been known for its violent and corrupt behavior for years, must be dismantled.”

Jordanian aid

The Jordanian army said that today, Sunday, it carried out 8 airdrops of humanitarian and relief aid, with the participation of several countries, targeting a number of sites in the northern Gaza Strip.

According to the Jordanian News Agency (Petra), a Royal Jordanian Air Force plane, four United States planes, an Egyptian plane, a German plane, and a British plane participated in the landing operation.

According to the agency, the number of airdrops carried out by the Jordanian Armed Forces since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip rose to 86 Jordanian airdrops, and 203 airdrops were carried out in cooperation with Arab and foreign countries.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies