The most prominent developments on the 195th day of the Israeli war on Gaza

Gaza – On the 195th day, Israel continued its aggression once morest the Gaza Strip, and the Ministry of Health said that more than 730,000 people in Gaza and its north are without real health services, accusing the occupation of deliberately destroying the health system in the Strip.

About 30 martyrs were also found in two cemeteries in the courtyard of the Shifa Complex, including the bodies of women and the elderly, while the fate of a thousand people who were in the complex remains unknown.

On the ground, the Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the faction movement – announced that its fighters detonated a minefield in Israeli vehicles penetrating the Al-Mughraqa area, destroying a number of them, and leaving Israeli soldiers dead and wounded.

While the Israeli occupation army announced that it had expanded operational control over the military corridor, which separates the northern Gaza Strip from its center and south, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said that Israel has the freedom to act and do whatever it wants.

In the Gaza Strip, the central region is witnessing fierce confrontations between Palestinian resistance factions and the Israeli occupation forces, amid attempts by the occupation forces to penetrate its camps and areas.

After the Nuseirat operation and the attempt to storm Deir al-Balah, the Israeli forces invading Al-Mughraqa, south of the Gaza Strip, were ambushed.

The movement’s factions announced that they ambushed a group of occupation forces during their incursion into the central region north of the Nuseirat camp.

The movement said that its fighters blew up two tunnel holes in the Israeli engineering forces in the Al-Mughraqa area, leaving them dead and wounded.

Also according to the movement, the invading forces fell into a minefield, which led to the destruction of vehicles and the death and injury of their crews.

On the other hand, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that 18 people were martyred, half of them children, in Israeli occupation raids targeting displaced people in the city of Rafah during the past two days.

The open session was held before the scheduled vote late yesterday evening

Security Council session

Internationally, in an open session of the UN Security Council held yesterday, Thursday, before the scheduled vote late this evening on Palestine’s request for full membership in the United Nations, Russia renewed its criticism of Israel and called for a vote in favor of accepting the Palestinian request, while an American official revealed that his country would vote once morest it.

During his speech, Russia’s representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, called on members of the Security Council to vote in favor of granting “full membership” in the United Nations to Palestine, which obtained the status of a “non-member observer state” in the United Nations following a resolution adopted by the General Assembly by a large majority on November 29. November 2012.

In Israel, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, Amit Halevy, said that all 24 Al-Qassam Brigades are active in Gaza, contrary to what the army and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say.

Halevy added – in an interview with the Knesset Channel – that he had information in his capacity as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, denying what the channel’s broadcaster reported from the military spokesman, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense in Israel, that the majority of Hamas brigades had been eliminated, and only 4 brigades remained in the Rafah area, Pointing out that this is not true

Israeli medical staff train in an underground emergency hospital in a parking garage in Haifa (French)

Also in Israel, an opinion poll in Israel whose results were published yesterday, Thursday, revealed that most Israelis believe that their physical and mental health “has become worse” than it was before the Al-Aqsa Flood operation carried out by the Palestinian resistance movement on the Israeli settlements and military bases surrounding the Gaza Strip.

According to the Times of Israel website, the survey was conducted by Maccabi, the second largest healthcare company in Israel, on a sample of more than a thousand Israelis between the ages of 20 and 75 in various regions, last March.

The website said that the results of the survey “showed that most Israelis view their physical and mental health as worse now than it was before the war.”

In the West Bank, the number of Palestinian prisoners in the occupied West Bank has risen to 8,310 since October 7, 2023, following the Israeli occupation army arrested 40 Palestinians on Wednesday evening and Thursday dawn, while dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the city of Jerusalem, under police guard. Occupation.

The Israeli occupation forces arrested 40 Palestinians – including two girls, children and former prisoners – last night and this morning in various parts of the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem. The Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club reported in a joint statement that with these arrests, the number of detainees has increased since October 7. The first last to 8 thousand and 310.

The occupation forces also stormed Palestinian towns and cities, raided homes, severely beat detainees and their families, and transferred the detainees to detention centers for investigation.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah announced today, Thursday, the targeting of 9 Israeli military sites on the southern Lebanese border, at a time when the border has witnessed, since Monday morning, an unprecedented escalation in terms of the pace and type of attacks exchanged between the party and Israel.

The party said that it bombed 3 buildings used by soldiers in the settlements of Yaroun and Al-Manara, and also bombed with missiles gatherings of Israeli soldiers in the sites of Al-Marj, Horsh Hanita, Al-Malikiyah, and in the vicinity of the Hanita settlement.

Hezbollah announced the killing of 3 of its members in confrontations with Israel in southern Lebanon, bringing the total to 279 since last October 8, while the Civil Defense in southern Lebanon announced the killing of 4 people – including party members – in Israeli raids targeting the towns of Khiam and Kafr Kila. And dull.

In Yemen, the leader of the Ansar Allah Houthi group confirmed yesterday, Thursday, the continuation of support for the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to continuous Israeli aggression for more than 6 months, and provided figures on the operations carried out by the group in the Red Sea once morest ships linked to Israel, and at the same time sent reassurances to the global shipping movement. .

Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi said, “Our operations continue and others have no choice but to stop the aggression once morest the Gaza Strip and end the siege.”

He added that Israel’s losses are great due to preventing its ships and related ships from navigating in the Red Sea.

He addressed Israel’s allies, saying, “We assure Washington, London, and others that no one will succeed in stopping the support operations launched from our front.”

He explained that the group “targeted 98 ships linked to the Israeli enemy.” The support operations reached 14 operations during two weeks, stressing that any action once morest the Israeli enemy is beneficial to the Palestinian cause.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies