Day: August 4, 2024

The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed responsibility on Saturday for the shooting attack that killed Israeli settler Amnon Mukhtar last June.

This came in a statement by Al-Qassam, in which it mourned a group of its fighters who were martyred on Saturday when Israeli aircraft targeted their vehicle in Tulkarm.

The statement said: “With the highest verses of pride, dignity and confidence in God’s imminent victory, the Al-Qassam Brigades announce to the sons of our great people and the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation a group of its honorable knights, Commander Haitham Nour al-Din Balidi (from Tulkarm camp), Martyr Jamal Ibrahim Abu Haniya (from Qalqilya), Martyr Ali Khalil Abu Bakr (from Qalqilya), and Martyr Ahmed Ibrahim Muhajna (from Nour Shams camp).”

The statement added: “They were martyred today, Saturday, August 3, 2024, as a result of a cowardly assassination operation carried out by treacherous aircraft on a vehicle they were riding in between the villages of Attil and Zeita
in Tulkarm Governorate, accompanied by their martyred brother, the leader of the Al-Quds Brigades, Abdul Jabbar Fahd Sabbagh.”

Al-Qassam continued in its statement: ‘As we mourn a new group of our resistance martyrs in the occupied West Bank, we announce our responsibility for the shooting and liquidation operation of the Zionist Amnon Mukhtar, a resident of the occupied city of Petah Tikva, which was carried out by the two Qassam martyrs Jamal Abu Haniyeh and Ali Abu Bakr in the city of Qalqilya on June 22, 2024.’

The Al-Qassam Brigades stressed that “the escape of the occupation army soldiers from the fields of direct confrontation, and the resort of the cowardly army leadership to intensify the aerial bombardment and assassinations of the resistance fighters in the West Bank will have disastrous results for the treacherous occupier, and our resistance and our fighters will only increase their determination and resolve to carry out more resistance actions in all the cities, villages and camps of the occup
ied West Bank; the strikes of our resistance fighters will intensify, their numbers will double, and neither warplanes nor drones will stop their flood, God willing.”

On June 22, the Israeli army announced the killing of an Israeli by gunfire in Qalqilya, in the northern West Bank, noting that the army and police forces were investigating the circumstances of the incident

Source: Maan News Agency

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said, “The Israeli occupation’s closure of the Rafah crossing, targeting aid convoys and killing relief workers, is considered a crime against humanity and the beginning of the genocide it is carrying out in Gaza,” according to the “Wafa” agency.

This came in a post on the “X” platform, today, Sunday, after he had an inspection visit to the Egyptian port of Al-Arish and the border crossing from the Egyptian side.

Fidan said: “The occupation closure of the border gate and the targeting of relief convoys, the killing of relief workers, the prevention of the evacuation of patients and civilians, and causing the rotting of thousands of trucks carrying humanitarian supplies, are crimes against humanity and the first stage of the genocide that they carry out on the other side of the border.”

He added: “The goal of our presence here is to draw the attention of world public opinion to the genocide in Gaza,” stressing that the world should give up its silence about what is happe
ning and make more efforts to ensure the arrival of aid to Gaza without obstacle or interruption.

He stressed that Turkey, in its country, citizens, and its non -non-governmental organizations, will stand by the Palestinian people until the end, and will continue to carry out its moral and humanitarian duty.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon

Two people were reported dead and one went missing after a boat accident off the coast of Italy’s southern island of Sicily, the coast guard reported today.

Emergency services had approached a boat in distress with migrants on board. According to the coast guard, 34 people were immediately taken on board and brought to the port of Syracuse, in eastern Sicily.

Of the rescued migrants, one died shortly after arriving at the port, and another person died later in a hospital. The search for the missing person at sea continues.

Source: Oman News Agency

Iranian Foreign Ministry Supervisor Ali Bagheri received Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on Sunday.

Tasnim International News Agency reported that Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, who arrived in Tehran to meet with Iranian officials, met with Iranian Foreign Ministry Supervisor Ali Bagheri on Sunday, during which the latest developments in bilateral relations and regional and international issues were discussed.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon

Gaza: The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation committed two massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 33 martyrs and 118 injuries arriving at hospitals during the past 24 hours.

The Ministry of Health indicated that the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 39,583 martyrs and 91,398 injuries since October 7.

Israeli aircraft continued their bombing of various areas of the Gaza Strip on the 303rd day of the war, leaving a large number of martyrs and wounded

Source: Maan News Agency

National News Agency correspondent in Hasbaya reported that the enemy’s artillery is targeting the vicinity of “Birket al-Naqqar” south of the town of Shebaa with phosphorous shells at this moment.

NNA’s correspondent in Tyre also reported that the Israeli drone strike on the town of Beit Lif resulted in several injured persons who were transferred to nearby hospitals for medical attention.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon

Gaza: Israeli aircraft continued their bombardment of various areas in the Gaza Strip on the 303rd day of the war, leaving a large number of martyrs and wounded.

The Israeli occupation committed three massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, of which 31 martyrs and 62 wounded arrived at hospitals during the past 24 hours.

The death toll from the Israeli aggression rose to 39,550 martyrs and 9,1280 wounded since October 7.

The occupation forces continued targeting displacement centers in Gaza City.

The Ministry of Health reported that 18 citizens were killed and 60 others were wounded in targeting the Hamama School, which houses displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.

The occupation forces later destroyed the school and a neighboring school.

The occupation forces bombed the Zeitoun neighborhood, which led to the martyrdom of two citizens, while they are still carrying out operations to destroy homes in the vicinity of the university college in the Tel al-Hawa neighbor
hood, west of Gaza City.

Eight citizens were killed and a number of wounded as a result of targeting a house belonging to the al-Amoudi family in al-Fakhoura in the Jabalia camp, north of the Strip.

South Gaza Strip:

Six citizens were killed in a bombing that targeted the Abu Hasna family home north of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.

The occupation army continued to destroy homes in the center of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip.

A female citizen was killed and

others were injured in targeting citizens in Qaa al-Qurain south of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Paramedics recovered two martyrs near the Amir Chalet in the town of al-Qarara east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Central Gaza Strip :

Five martyrs, including two women, were killed in targeting the tents of the displaced inside the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Fires broke out in the tents inside the hospital walls, which has been bombed for the third time since the beginning
of the war on the Strip.

Three citizens were killed and others were injured when the occupation aircraft bombed the home of the al-Hasanat family in the Deir al-Balah camp in the central

Gaza Strip. Artillery violently shelled the vicinity of the electricity company and the Malaysian school north of the al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip

Source: Maan News Agency

Gaza: The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced on Saturday that it had targeted Israeli soldiers and military vehicles in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

The brigades said in one of its statements that its fighters “were able to snipe a Zionist soldier with a Qassam Ghoul rifle near the eastern cemetery east of Rafah city.”

Al-Qassam fighters targeted two “Nimr” armored personnel carriers, two “D9” military bulldozers, and an Israeli “Merkava” tank with “Al-Yassin 105” shells in the “Zalata” area east of Rafah city

Source: Maan News Agency