The most prominent developments of the 18th day of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood News

On the 18th day of its comprehensive war on Gaza GazaThe Israeli occupation army continued to commit dozens of massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip, as its aircraft continued to bomb civilians relentlessly. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip documented during the past hours 47 massacres that left 704 martyrs, which raises the total toll in two weeks to about 5,800 martyrs, most of whom were civilians. Children and women, in addition to more than 15 thousand infected people.

With the frequency of massacres against civilians and the comprehensive destruction of residential neighborhoods in Gaza, the humanitarian situation is further deteriorating, as the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the complete collapse of the health system in hospitals, while the number of displaced people in the Strip has risen to about 1,400,000.

The following are the most prominent developments on the 18th day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip:

• Lions’ Den calls for a strike and comprehensive confrontations in the West Bank.
• Gaza Health Spokesman: We are hours away from stopping all medical services in the Gaza Strip’s hospitals.
• Bloomberg: Washington will send two Iron Dome batteries to Israel.
• Russia circulates a draft resolution in the Security Council calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
• US State Department: Blinken condemned, in a meeting with Arab foreign ministers, the attacks by the Islamic Resistance Movement agitation.
• Saudi Foreign Minister: The Kingdom condemned the targeting of civilians and called for bloodshed and the release of hostages.
• Israeli Channel 12: More than 10 infiltrators were killed by Israeli naval fire in Zikim.
• Interior Ministry in Gaza: 36 martyrs in Israeli raids on Khan Yunis.
• Islamic Jihad Movement: The Israeli Internal Security Service (Shin Bet) assassinated one of our cadres, the prisoner Yasser Hamdan, in Ofer Prison.
• Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry: We demand international protection for the defenseless Palestinian people and an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
• Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi: Bombing schools, mosques and churches on the heads of civilians is not self-defense.
• Health in Gaza: 50 Palestinians were killed during the last hour in Israeli raids on various areas of the Gaza Strip.
• The White House: US President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomed the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza in a phone call.
• Government Media Office in Gaza: The Israeli occupation bombed the Gaza Strip with more than 12 thousand tons of explosives.
• Medical source for Al Jazeera: 25 martyrs and more than 60 wounded in Israeli raids on Khan Yunis.
• A Pentagon spokesman: The deployment of THAAD and Patriot systems in the Middle East is to protect American forces in the region.
• The Palestinian factions in a joint statement: We stand united behind the resistance and express our pride in its valor and ability to manage the battle.
• Israeli military spokesman: The occupation army will not allow fuel to enter the Gaza Strip.
• Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is not qualified to lead the United Nations, and I call on him to resign immediately.
• The White House: A ceasefire at the present time will only benefit Hamas.
• Israeli media: Two rocket shells were detected fired from inside Syrian territory towards the occupied Golan.
• A Palestinian medical source told Al Jazeera: 374 were killed and 574 others were injured since Tuesday morning, due to Israeli raids.
• Al-Qassam Brigades: A force of our frogmen was able to infiltrate by sea to the beaches of Zikim, south of occupied Ashkelon, and engaged in clashes with the occupation forces.
• Israel launches an air strike on the vicinity of the town of Kfar Shuba, south of Lebanon.
• French President Emmanuel Macron: We want to form an alliance against terrorist groups, including Hamas.
• Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: We demand a complete ceasefire and the entry of aid and fuel into the Gaza Strip.
• Russian delegate Vasily Nebenzia during a UN Security Council session: The conflict in Gaza may engulf the region, and there are fears of its expansion.
• UNRWA: We will stop our operations in Gaza tomorrow if fuel is not provided.
• The government media office in the Gaza Strip: We noticed changes on the bodies of the martyrs due to internationally banned weapons.
• The foreign ministers of Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia warned in a press conference of the continuation of the war on Gaza and demanded the immediate entry of aid into the Strip.
• The Turkish presidency in a statement: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a phone call that the silence of Western countries leads to aggravation of the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
• Lebanese Hezbollah announces that it attacked, with rocket weapons and artillery shells, both the Israeli site of Khirbet al-Manara and the Baranit barracks, causing direct hits in both of them.
• US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken during a Security Council session: We do not want a confrontation with Iran, and the “hostages” in Gaza must be released immediately and without any conditions.
• Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira during a Security Council session: The “violence” in Gaza must end, and all civilian “hostages” must be released unconditionally.
• The Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announce the martyrdom of prisoner Arafat Yasser Hamdan in the Israeli Ofer Prison, on the third day of his detention.
• Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki during the Security Council session: How many casualties are enough for the Security Council to call for a ceasefire?
• Exchanged artillery shelling between Hezbollah and Israeli forces in the central sector of southern Lebanon.
• United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in the Palestinian Territories, Lynn Hastings: There is no safe area in the Gaza Strip, and 42% of all buildings in Gaza were completely or partially damaged.
• The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wensland, during a Security Council session: Israel’s raids on Gaza killed a huge number of civilians.
• Israeli Army Radio: 5 people were injured as a result of a missile attack on central Israel.
• Hamas leader Osama Hamdan calls on Arab and Islamic countries to sever their relations with Israel.
• United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a Security Council session: The attacks against Israel on October 7 do not justify the mass killing taking place in Gaza.
• The Israeli home front: Rockets landed on Nahal Oz in the Gaza Strip.
• Reuters, citing American officials: The US Army is taking new steps to protect its forces in the Middle East.
• 5 martyrs and 16 wounded were recovered following Israel’s bombing of the Zorob family home in Rafah.
• A missile targets an Israeli military site in the Al-Manara settlement, opposite the town of Mays Al-Jabal, southern Lebanon.
• Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip: The Israeli occupation committed a massacre in the Beach camp, which led to dozens of martyrs and wounded.
• Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy in a speech to his forces: We face a long war in which there will be losses.
• World Health Organization: About two-thirds of health facilities in Gaza have stopped working.
• Ministry of Interior in Gaza: 25 martyrs as a result of the bombing of homes in Nuseirat, Jabalia, and Beit Lahia.
• An Israeli army spokesman: We are not in a rush to start a ground operation in Gaza.
• The resistance bombs Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport, and Beersheba.
• 12 martyrs were recovered as a result of the occupation bombing of citizens’ homes in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip.
• Director of Hospitals in Gaza: Hospitals in the Gaza Strip have not received any medical supplies since October 7th.
• An Israeli plane targeted the vicinity of the town of Kfar Shuba in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon with 3 missiles.
• NATO Secretary General: Israel has the right to self-defense in accordance with international law.
• Israeli army: Anti-tank fire was fired from Lebanon at the Shtula area in northern Israel.
• Ministry of Health in Gaza: We call on Egypt to open the Rafah crossing and ensure the flow of medical aid and fuel.
• The New York Times, from the World Health Organization: Medical supplies did not reach hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip.
• British Foreign Minister: We support Israel’s right to defend itself, but we agreed to work to reduce the number of civilian casualties.
• Al-Qassam Brigades: We bombed enemy crowds near the Mafkaim settlement with a missile attack.
• Spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza: We announce the complete collapse of the health system in the hospitals of the Gaza Strip.
• Ministry of Health in Gaza: The occupation committed 47 massacres against Palestinian families in the past hours, leaving 704 martyrs dead.
• China calls for preventing escalation and avoiding a more serious humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
• Israeli bombing targets the vicinity of Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis.
• Media Advisor to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) To Al Jazeera: Aid is a drop in the ocean of Gaza’s needs.
• organized Human Rights Watch: Israel deliberately deepens the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
• Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warns of the repercussions of not delivering fuel to Gaza.
• Macron announces from occupied Jerusalem his solidarity with Israel and calls for the conflict not to expand.
• The occupation bombs Rafah again, causing martyrs and wounded.
• The Israeli Army: We have many weeks of operations ahead of us, and Hamas is still capable of launching rockets.
• Emir of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani: The war on Gaza has exceeded all limits and must be stopped.
• The Israeli occupation arrests 50 Palestinians in the West Bank.
• An Israeli soldier was injured during an incursion into the West Bank.
• The Israeli army claims to have bombed 400 military targets in Gaza.
• Occupation forces storm the town of Jaba, south of Jenin.
• Lebanese Hezbollah announced at dawn on Tuesday the martyrdom of two of its members in the town of Ainata, in the south of the country.
• New York Times: The Biden administration is concerned about Israel’s lack of achievable military goals in Gaza.
• Chinese state media say Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed China’s “strong sympathy for the Palestinians, especially the people of Gaza, due to their difficult situation.”
• Occupation forces storm Nablus Governorate in the West Bank.
• 53 martyrs, including children, in raids that targeted homes in Khan Yunis and Rafah.
• Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh: The West has fallen from the record of humanity with its positions in support of the genocidal war.
• The Indonesian Hospital in Gaza lost power and its vital facilities were disrupted due to running out of fuel.
• Ministry of Health in Gaza: We have less than 48 hours and all electricity generators will stop.
• Director of Al-Shifa Hospital: If fuel does not enter, we will be facing a major disaster.