GAZA LIVE BLOG: US, EU Push for ‘Peacekeeping Force’ in Gaza – DAY 42 -- Palestine Chronicle

Gaza reels under new massacres carried out by the Israeli army. (Photo: Waleed Musleh, via Social Media)Gaza reels under new massacres carried out by the Israeli army. (Photo: Waleed Musleh, via Social Media)

Israel Carries Out New Massacres

Resistance Destroys Dozens of Israeli Military Vehicles

By Palestine Chronicle Staff 

Nov. 17, 2023

LIVE BLOG

Now that the Israeli war on Gaza seems to have failed to achieve any of its initial objectives, the US and its European allies are pushing for the deployment of a peacekeeping force in the Gaza Strip, according to Bloomberg.

The head of Hamas’ Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh said in a speech that no prisoners or hostages will be freed without the freeing of Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons.

Meanwhile, fierce fighting throughout Gaza continued, with new massacres reported in various parts of the Strip.

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Friday, November 17, 3:45 pm (GMT+3)

KAN (ISRAELI BROADCASTING AUTHORITY): Far-right Israeli Minister Smotrich calls on Netanyahu to change the composition of the war cabinet.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelling on border areas in southern Lebanon.

EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JOSEP BORRELL: The European Union calls for an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza.

FINANCIAL TIMES (QUOTING UN OFFICIAL): We warned the United States of a second Nakba in Gaza.

AXIOS: Democratic members of the US House of Representatives called on the administration of President Joe Biden to pressure Israel to allow fuel shipments to enter the Gaza Strip.

HEAD OF AL-SHIFA ORTHOPEDIC DEPARTMENT: Everyone in the hospital is threatened with death.

Friday, November 17, 2:45 pm (GMT+3)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation artillery launched heavy bombardment on the Bir al-Naja area in the northern Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sound in Sderot, Ibim and Nir Am.

AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL DIRECTOR: We are being subjected to annihilation, and people continue to be killed in the hospital every minute.

Friday, November 17, 1:45 pm (GMT+3)

DOCTOR AT AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL: Israeli forces stole a number of bodies from inside the medical complex.

HRW: Human Rights Watch called on German Chancellor Olaf Schulz to condemn Israel’s cutting of food, water, fuel, and electricity to civilians in Gaza.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: Israeli warplanes bombed several targets belonging to the Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah.

PALESTINIAN PRISONER RIGHTS GROUP: Israeli occupation forces arrested 47 Palestinians in the West Bank last night.

AL-JAZEERA: Four Palestinians were killed in a bombing of a house in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Friday, November 17, 12:10 pm (GMT+3)

WHO: The World Health Organization said on Friday that it is deeply concerned about the spread of diseases in the Gaza Strip, where the weeks-long Israeli bombing has caused residents to crowd into shelters with severe shortages of food and clean water.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed and many others wounded as a result of the Israeli occupation army’s bombing of a school housing thousands of displaced people in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

QASSAM BRIGADES: The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades announced that they bombed Kibbutz Nirim with a number of mortar shells.

PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: Israeli occupation forces arrested ambulance crew members at Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin at dawn today after searching them.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelling targeted the towns of Al-Dhahira, Mays Al-Jabal, Rab Thilaine, Bani Hayyan, Hula, and the surroundings of the town of Markaba in southern Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians were killed in the city of Hebron.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers and achieved direct hits.

Friday, November 17, 10:55 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted the Labouneh area in the western sector of southern Lebanon.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An intense exchange of fire was reported in the Ras Al-Jura area in the city of Hebron.

Friday, November 17, 10:00 am (GMT+3)

ISRAELI ARMY: We arrested more than 1,750 wanted persons in the West Bank since the beginning of the war.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We targeted three Zionist military vehicles west of Gaza.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced on Friday that it had found in Gaza the body of a soldier who had been detained by the Al-Qassam Brigades, and whose death had been announced a few days earlier.

Friday, November 17, 9:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery targeted Palestine Square and Omar Al-Mukhtar Street in central Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli forces withdrew from the Jenin refugee camp.

Friday, November 17, 8:00 am (GMT+3)

MAARIV OPINION POLL: If elections were held today, Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party would only obtain 17 seats in the Knesset, while Benny Gantz’s party would reach 42 seats.

AL-JAZEERA: 18 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed and other wounded in the Israeli bombing of a house in the Nuseirat camp.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli bombing targeted the customs control area east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Friday, November 17, 7:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA (CITING MEDICAL SOURCES): The death toll of the Israeli bombing of the Jenin refugee camp has risen to three.

AL-JAZEERA: Injuries were reported as a result of Israeli raids on two homes in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip.

Friday, November 17, 6:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: sraeli artillery shelling targeted the Al-Tuffah and Al-Shujaiya neighborhoods and Jaffa Street in Gaza City.

Friday, November 17, 5:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA (CITING MEDICAL SOURCES) Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the Jenin camp in the West Bank.

Friday, November 17, 4:00 am (GMT+3)

PALESTINIAN CENTRAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS: About 400,000 people have been displaced to the central and southern governorates of the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli aggression.

BLINKEN: We are working to release American and Israeli detainees.

(The Palestine Chronicle)