On Friday evening, Manhattan Tribune cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa was martyred and its correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh was injured while covering an Israeli bombing that targeted a school in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – confirmed that they had targeted More than 100 Israeli military vehicles within 5 days, while Israel continues to commit massacres in its aggression against the Gaza Strip, in conjunction with launching raids and arrest campaigns throughout the West Bank.
On Friday evening, our colleague Samer Abu Daqqa, Manhattan Tribune cameraman in Gaza, was martyred and his colleague Wael Al-Dahdouh was injured while covering a bombing that targeted Farhana School on Friday morning in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The martyr Abu Daqqa remained lying on the ground and besieged in the vicinity of Farhana School for about 6 hours after his injury, as the ambulance was unable to reach him, while Al-Dahdouh – who was injured in the arm – was transferred to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis to receive treatment.
Three Civil Defense men were also martyred as a result of the Israeli bombing, which led to the death of our colleague Abu Daqqa.
Israeli massacres
Israel had targeted the Al-Katiba area in Khan Yunis, resulting in a number of martyrs and wounded.
A requesting source told Manhattan Tribune on Friday that the bodies of 33 martyrs arrived at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis during the previous 24 hours.
On Friday morning, 12 Palestinians were martyred and dozens injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a school housing displaced people in Khan Yunis. The Israeli raids on Khan Yunis were renewed since Friday morning.
Three people were also killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing of a house in Khan Yunis.
Meanwhile, Israel continued its bombing and massacres on the besieged Gaza Strip, targeting Jabalia camp (north) with continuous artillery shelling.
Earlier, Israeli bombing forced medical staff, patients and journalists to evacuate the Jabalia Martyrs Medical Center.
Dozens were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. Explosions also sounded in Deir al-Balah (central), and Israeli artillery bombed the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood and the Ashqoula area and its surroundings, east of Gaza City.
For the fifth time since the start of the war, the Israeli occupation has completely cut off communications networks in the Gaza Strip.
In a speech on Friday evening, the Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman said that in the past five days they had targeted more than 100 Israeli military vehicles.
Abu Ubaida said that their mujahideen used anti-fortified shells and demolished houses on top of the Israeli soldiers, noting that the occupation uses mercenaries during its military operation.
Al-Qassam spokesman confirmed that the numbers of deaths and injuries officially announced by the occupation army are unreal.
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced on Friday morning that an engineer soldier in the Golani Brigade had been killed in the battles taking place in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Quds Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement – announced that it had targeted 3 military vehicles with “Tandum” missiles, confirming that it had “killed” two Israeli soldiers holed up in a house east of Gaza.
It also said that it targeted two Israeli tanks with “tandom” shells in the axis of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, west of Gaza City, and bombed “enemy military crowds northwest of Gaza City with a barrage of mortar shells.”
In turn, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters had targeted, with a TPG shell, a building in Juhr al-Dik where Israeli soldiers were holed up, leaving them dead and wounded.
Violent confrontations took place in the early hours of Friday morning between Palestinian resistance factions and the occupation army, which is trying to penetrate the Shujaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza.
Other clashes also took place between the occupation forces and militants east of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said that rehabilitation centers for the disabled are not prepared to deal with the large numbers of wounded in the Israeli army.
For its part, the Israeli army announced that it had recovered the bodies of two soldiers who had been detained in Gaza since the seventh of last October. The army had previously stated that it had recovered the body of an Israeli with French citizenship who had been detained in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation forces continued to storm and raid several towns in the West Bank, including the village of Urif in Nablus, the city of Yatta, south of Hebron, and the town of Jayyus, east of Qalqilya, and launched raids and arrests among Palestinians.
Israeli forces also stormed the village of Urif, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, demolished the family home of prisoner Ziad Safadi, and blew up the home of prisoner Hamid Al-Sabah before withdrawing on Friday morning. They also bombed with a drone a site on Market Street in Balata camp, east of Nablus.
In Ramallah, the occupation forces confiscated 10 vehicles at dawn on Friday before withdrawing from the village of Al-Mughayir, northeast of Ramallah.
Armed clashes also broke out between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation forces at dawn on Friday on the outskirts of the city of Tubas in the northern West Bank.
The people of the city and Jenin camp in the West Bank mourned the bodies of 12 martyrs killed by Israel over the course of 3 days.
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced the bombing of the occupied city of Jerusalem with a missile barrage “in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians.”
For the tenth Friday since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip, the restrictions imposed by the occupation have prevented tens of thousands of Palestinians from performing Friday prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that he discussed with the Israeli Prime Minister the idea of shifting to a less intense military operation in the Gaza Strip, and focusing on targeting the Hamas leadership.
Sullivan said that Washington agrees with Tel Aviv that the fighting will take months, but according to different stages, stressing that the Israeli government indicated that it has no long-term plans to occupy Gaza.
The Wall Street Journal quoted American officials as saying that Sullivan warned the Israelis that prolonging the conflict would further inflame the region.
On the other hand, the American CBS network reported that Israel informed Washington that the intensive raids and extensive ground operation on the Gaza Strip will be completed within two or three weeks.
In turn, Politico newspaper reported – citing American sources – that Washington has collected intelligence information that may allow it to assess whether Israel is adhering to the laws of war in the Gaza Strip.
For his part, Israeli Minister of the Emergency Government Benny Gantz said that Israel will maintain its full security control over the Gaza Strip after the end of the war, no matter how long it takes.
Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu also called for the complete occupation of the Gaza Strip.
As the Houthis continue to target ships heading to Israel, the German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd announced that it has decided to postpone the sailing of all its ships through the Red Sea in the next three days.
Also on Friday, a US military official announced that the ship “Platium 3” was hit by a missile launched from areas controlled by the Houthis in Yemen.
A US defense official said, “A ballistic missile launched from Houthi-controlled areas hit a second ship flying the Liberian flag in Bab al-Mandab.”
The British Maritime Trade Authority announced that a fire had been extinguished in a ship flying the Liberian flag, 30 miles southwest of Mokha, Yemen, after it was attacked by a projectile, saying that one of the ship’s containers fell into the sea because of the projectile.
In this regard, the Axios news website quoted American officials as saying that the arrival of ships to the Israeli port of Eilat has stopped almost completely due to the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab.
Lebanese Hezbollah announced on Friday evening that it had targeted the Al-Jardah site in the Western Galilee with “Burkan” missiles and that it had achieved a “direct hit.”
The Israeli Channel 12 reported that several missiles fired from Lebanese territory fell in “open areas” in the Western Galilee.
On the other hand, the Israeli army bombed the vicinity of towns in southern Lebanon with drones and artillery, and dropped leaflets warning residents against cooperating with Hezbollah.
