Dec. 29, 2023
A most deadly Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip continues for the 84th day, but without achieving any of its military or strategic objectives.
Israeli bombardment and subsequent massacres serve as a daily reminder of the ongoing genocide, but fierce resistance through the small and isolated region hinders Israel’s attempt to achieve any kind of control.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 21,320 Palestinians have been killed, and 55,603 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7. Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
LATEST UPDATES:
Friday, December 29, 8:00 pm
AL-JAZEERA: South Africa has filed a claim against Israel to the International Court of Justice for violating the Genocide Convention.
FORMER CHIEF OF RESERVE OFFICERS IN ISRAEL: What is happening now is putting great pressure on the reserves that we have not seen in decades.
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL: There is a continuing risk of a broader regional conflict the longer the conflict in Gaza continues.
AL-MONITOR: Washington is slowing down the supply of weapons and ammunition to Israel.
AL-JAZEERA: There were casualties as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Friday, December 29, 6:40 pm
ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER: The Israeli army is currently focusing its operations in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
UN OFFICIAL: The UN Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East Affairs said during a Security Council session that he humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is getting worse.
ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: The American Kharab al-Jir base in the Hasakah countryside, northeastern Syria, was targeted with a missile strike.
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Zikim, northwest of the Gaza Strip.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the locations of the Israeli forces’ deployment between the Zarit barracks and Birkat Risha, a gathering of soldiers at the Ramiya site, and we bombed the Ruwaisat al-Qarn site in the occupied Shebaa Farms, confirming direct casualties.
Friday, December 29, 5:30 pm
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters are engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation forces in the Al-Shaaf and Jabal Al-Rayes areas, east of Gaza City. detonated an anti-personnel device in a foot force and targeted another force holed up in a building with a TPG shell, causing a large number of deaths and injuries among their ranks.
AL-JAZEERA: A Palestinian was killed as a result of the occupation aircraft’s bombing on Al-Tineh Street in the Mirage area, south of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted 20 Israeli military vehicles during the past 48 hours in the Al-Daraj and Al-Tuffah areas in Gaza City.
AL-JAZEERA: A young man was killed and 5 Palestinians were injured in an Israeli raid on a house near the Jordanian field hospital west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army said that it carried out a large-scale attack on Hezbollah targets inside Lebanese territory.
AL-JAZEERA: Fierce clashes broke out between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces in the Khuza’a area, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, and columns of smoke rose as a result of Israeli bombing.
Friday, December 29, 3:50 pm
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli forces carried out severe artillery shelling north of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters bombed with mortar shells a gathering of occupation vehicles and soldiers east of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
DIRECTOR OF GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: We believe that more than 7,000 people are still under the rubble. 800,000 citizens in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip cannot reach hospitals.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters destroyed two Israeli Merkava tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Friday, December 29, 2:50 pm
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY:
187 Palestinians were killed and 312 injured in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours.
21,507 Palestinians have been killed, and 55,915 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Our fighters destroyed enemy crowds with a barrage of mortar shells in the Abasan area, east of Khan Yunis.
Friday, December 29, 1:30 pm
AL-JAZEERA: 34 dead Palestinians have arrived since Friday morning at the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City. 11 others died of their wounds.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We shot down a Skylark-2 reconnaissance plane that was on an intelligence mission for the occupation army in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI ARMY: 21 soldiers were injured in the battles in the Gaza Strip during the last 24 hours.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We detonated a minefield in an infantry force of the occupation army and military vehicles north of the Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
Friday, December 29, 12:30 pm
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted Israeli military equipment at Dove Farms.
Friday, December 29, 11:00 am
ISRAELI ARMY: An officer and a soldier were seriously injured during battles in the northern Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI ARMY: Sirens sounded in the Galilee region following the suspected infiltration of a drone from southern Lebanon.
AL-JAZEERA: Four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing targeting the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, confirming the continuation of battles throughout the Strip, coinciding with missile barrages from the northern Strip on the Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI FINANCE MINISTER SMOTRICH: Not a single shekel will go to the terrorists in Gaza as long as I remain in office.
Friday, December 29, 10:00 am
ISRAELI ARMY: A reserve officer with the rank of captain from the 7008th Battalion was killed in a battle in the northern Gaza Strip.
CUBAN PRESIDENT: “It is time for the barbarism practiced by Israel against the Palestinian people to end.”
Friday, December 29, 09:00 am
UNRWA: Israeli soldiers opened fire on an aid convoy as it was returning from the northern Gaza Strip, on a route designated by the Israeli army.
AL-JAZEERA: 35 Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli bombing on homes in the Maghazi and Nuseirat camps in the central Gaza Strip since dawn today.
Israeli raids were renewed on several areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries in the center of the Gaza Strip.
Friday, December 29, 08:00 am
AFP (Citing Hamas Official): A Hamas delegation will travel to Cairo on Friday to provide observations on Egypt’s ceasefire initiative in the Gaza Strip.
RED CRESCENT: There are plans to establish a refugee camp in the city of Khan Yunis, which is witnessing fierce battles between Resistance fighters and invading Israeli forces.
(The Palestine Chronicle)