Reactivation of telephone lines in Gaza
After an approximately 24-hour outage, telephone lines in the Gaza Strip were reactivated. This was reported by local sources saying that the situation has gradually returned to normal since yesterday evening
This development is attributed to the importation of a certain amount of fuel into the Strip, approved yesterday by the Israeli government following repeated requests from the United States. However, the two largest telephone companies in the Gaza Strip have warned their customers that if these deliveries are interrupted, telephone communications could come to a standstill again. (
Iran: “It is wrong for Hamas to use Al-Shifa Hospital as a military base”
Israel’s accusation that Hamas is using the Al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip for military purposes is false, according to Iran. “After Israeli leaders failed to prove their false accusations, the regime’s (Israeli) army resumed its attacks on other hospitals in Gaza,” Tehran Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said.
“Attacks on hospitals constitute a violation of all civil rights standards and further reveal the criminal nature of the Israeli regime,” Kanani added on his X-Twitter account.
The duel between Hezbollah and Israel continues on the border with Lebanon
Israeli artillery hit targets in southern Lebanon following a series of Hezbollah attacks in the Upper Galilee this morning. The military spokesman updates it.
Warning sirens had previously sounded in several Israeli border towns, including Sasa and Shtulà. A total of 25 explosions were recorded, which did not cause any fatalities. In the attacks carried out by Hezbollah in the same area yesterday, four people were injured, one of whom is in serious condition.
According to the Lebanese government agency NNA, Israeli air force and artillery have repeatedly bombed civilian-inhabited areas in southern Lebanon near the front line between Hezbollah and Israel in recent hours. The locations hit by enemy fire range from the Mediterranean coast to the Hula Plain in the hinterland: Naqura, Ramie, Ayta Shaab, Aytarun, Rmeish, Qawzah, Jabal Blat, Yarin, Debel and Hula.
For its part, Hezbollah announced that it had responded to Israeli air and artillery attacks in southern Lebanon by attacking Israeli army positions near the demarcation line between the two countries. According to Hezbollah press releases, Israeli positions in the areas of Shtula, Nahal Betzet, Jordeikh, Wadi Sasa, Khallet Warde and Raheb were attacked.
The Islamist group also said it shot down an Israeli Hermes 450 drone “with a surface-to-air missile fired at 1:45 a.m. Saturday.” We learn this from a press release that states that “the remains of the drone were seen crashing in the Galilee.” The Hermes 450 drone developed by the Israeli company Elbit Systems is used for reconnaissance and surveillance missions at medium and high altitudes.
Israel never called for the evacuation of Al-Shifa Hospital
The Israeli army “at no time ordered the evacuation of patients or doctors” from Shifa Hospital. The military spokesman said this, explaining that the army instead had “a request from the director of Shifa to give other Gaza residents who were in the hospital and who wish to evacuate the opportunity to do so through a safe route.” “Medical staff will remain at the hospital,” he added, “to assist patients who cannot be evacuated.”
In fact, the spokesman emphasized that “he has proposed that any request for medical evacuation be facilitated by the army.” He then added: “Overnight he provided the hospital with additional food, water and humanitarian aid.”
The Israeli army operates around three hospitals in Gaza
Today there are reports of intense activity by Israeli forces near three hospitals in Gaza. In the Shifa Hospital area, army authorities continue to conduct and expand inspections inside and underneath the buildings. According to local sources, in parallel, the army besieged al-Ahli (Ma’amadani) hospital and bombed an area near the Indonesian hospital to the north
of the strip.
According to sources, in the last few hours there have been heavy bombings in the north of the Gaza Strip (in Beit Hanun and Jabalya) and in Nusseirat in the center. There were reports of dozens of victims at this location.
Alarm sirens in northern Israel on the border with Lebanon
In northern Israel, especially in Kibbutz Sasa on the border with Lebanon, warning sirens are wailing about the arrival of rockets. The army made it known.
The Israeli army confirms that five Palestinians were killed in an operation in Balata
Five Palestinians were killed and seven others injured during an Israeli army operation in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus
West Bank. The number of deaths was given by the Wafa agency, according to which “an Israeli drone attacked the Fatah headquarters with a missile” in the camp.
According to the army, “a hideout of terrorists involved in the preparation of an imminent terrorist attack on Israeli civilians and soldiers was hit.” According to the same source, among those killed is “Muhammad Zahed, a known terrorist from Nablus.”
Zahed – added the army, which carried out the operation together with the internal security forces – “was involved in shootings in the Nablus area and was planning further attacks”. Zahed – he added – “had founded a terrorist cell made up of young people from the camp, whom he armed with explosives and weapons”. During the operation, “an explosives production facility in the area with numerous operational devices was dismantled.” In addition, he concluded, “explosives were found hidden under and on the roadsides with the aim of causing damage to the Israeli forces.”
AFP, Israel orders evacuation of al-Shifa ‘within an hour’
According to AFP, the Israeli army ordered the evacuation of Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip “within an hour.”
Israeli soldiers, besieging the hospital for the fourth day in a row, ordered the evacuation “within an hour” over a loudspeaker this morning, an AFP journalist at the scene said.
There are currently 2,300 patients, health workers and displaced people at the health facility, according to the United Nations.
10 relief trucks from Rafah to the Strip
Two Egyptian sources at the Rafah border crossing revealed that ten trucks carrying aid supplies were brought into the Gaza Strip yesterday.
One of these carried around 17,000 liters of diesel.
Red Crescent, 5 dead in an attack on the Balata refugee camp
The Red Crescent reports five deaths in an attack on the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank. Haaretz also reports that at least five Palestinians were killed and two others injured in the Israeli attack on a building in the refugee camp north of Nablus.
Gaza, attack on three civilian buildings in Khan Yunis, 26 dead
The director of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, central Gaza, announced that 26 people were killed in an airstrike on three residential buildings in the city, located in the Hamad district. There were also 23 seriously injured, he told AFP.
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