The Zionist aggression on Gaza proceeds for the day 103, amid more massacres and epic confrontations between resistance fighters and occupation forces. Meanwhile, Hamas resistance movement says it has imposed its conditions on the Zionist occupation regarding a Qatari-brokered deal to bring medicines and other aid into Gaza in exchange for the provision of medicine to Zionistcaptives held in the enclave.
Both Zionist and Arabic media reports said on Wednesday that two Qatari military aircraft containing medication for the hostages in Gaza arrives in el-Arish in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The consignment will then be transferred into the Gaza Strip. Qatar announced yesterday that it had successfully mediated an agreement between the Zionist entity and Hamas to deliver the medication.
For his part, senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk said that the Palestinian resistance group has imposed its conditions on the occupation entity, as he provided more details on the deal.
For each box of medicine provided to the captives, 1,000 boxes will be sent for use by Palestinian civilians, Abu Marzouk said in a post on X Platform.
“We’ve imposed several conditions:
- For each box of medicine provided to the captives, 1,000 boxes will be sent for use by our people
- Providing medicine will be through a country that we trust
- The Red Cross places medicine in four hospitals in areas across the Gaza Strip, including medicine for Israeli prisoners
- More aid and food to be brought into the strip
- The inspection of medicine shipments by the Israeli occupation army is not allowed.”
The Hamas official noted that Hamas insisted Qatar provide the medication and not France because of the European country’s support for the Zionist entity.
Abu Marzouk’s remarks were confirmed by Zionist media, as Ynet news site reported that fascist Zionist leader Benjamin Netanyahu gave his approval that the shipment of medicine for Gaza civilians and hostages could enter the Strip without first being examined by the occupation.
Continuous Massacres
On the other hand, the Zionist occupation, as every day, renewed its barbaric raids on various areas of the Gaza Strip, continuing massacres against civilians by launching dozens of air strikes and fire belts that targeted populated areas.
In Khan Younis, the occupation heavily bombed and shelled several areas across the city overnight, levelling dozens of homes and killing dozens of Palestinians civilians.
The occupation army damaged the Nasser and Al-Amal hospitals in Khan Younis, as its forces desecrated the city’s Namsawi (Austrian) Cemetery and stole corpses before withdrawing from the area.
Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza announced that at least 24,285 people have been martyred and over 61,154 have been wounded since the start of the aggression on the besieged enclave on October 7.
Heroic Confrontations
Meanwhile, the resistance fighters kept up their epic attacks against the occupation forces who have been for long weeks trying to advance and secure military achievements in Gaza.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that its fighters managed to damage a Merkava tank and bulldozer in Khan Younis, employing Yassin-105 shell.
The resistance group’s fighters engaged in fierce clashes with an infantry force in Khan Younis, employing anti-personnel projectile.
Elsewhere in Jabalia, in northern Gaza Strip, Al-Qassam fighters targeted an occupation troop carrier with Yassin-105 shell.
Al-Qassam Brigades issued a statement which announces that Al-Qassam fighters destroyed 6 Zionist tanks of the Merkava type and an armored personnel carrier.
Additionally, a joint mission with Al-Quds Brigades resulted in the destruction of a Zionist bulldozer using an anti-tank explosive, the statement added.
Our fighters also sniped 4 Zionist soldiers holed up in a house, targeted a special force of 7 soldiers with a TBG shell, and neutralized them at point-blank range, according to the statement.
The statement noted that Al-Qassam fighters detonated an anti-personnel “Ra’diya” explosive device against another group taking refuge inside a mosque and eliminated them.
Our fighters also bombarded enemy concentrations in invasion axes with a large number of heavy caliber mortar shells, the statement concluded.
Palestinian resistance fighters from the Al-Quds Brigades engaged in fierce confrontations with occupation forces that raided the town of Tulkarm in the northwestern occupied West Bank.
Zionist occupation forces also stormed the al-Salam Mosque in the Tulkarm refugee camp.
The Tulkarm Brigade – Al-Quds Brigades announced that its resistance fighters in the engineering unit successfully detonated the al-Mahmoud 7 explosive device against a Zionist military bulldozer in the Nour Shams refugee camp, resulting in casualties among the raiding occupation forces.
In Nablus, in the northern West Bank, occupation forces raided the town of Kafr Qallil and the al-Ma’jeen neighborhood. The Zionist forces also raided the towns of Deir al-Hatab and Salem, east of Nablus, in addition to the town of Zawata to its west.
In Ramallah, in the central West Bank, two Palestinian youths were injured by occupation forces’ gunfire during confrontations in the al-Amari refugee camp in al-Bireh city, after the occupation forces raided the camp.
In the western West Bank, particularly in Qalqilya, Palestinian youths confronted the occupation forces storming the city.
Meanwhile, the occupation forces raided the al-Arroub camp north of al-Khalil and stormed several homes there, while conducting arrest campaigns in the governorates of Tulkarm, Nablus, and Salfit.
Earlier on Wednesday, four Palestinian youths were martyred during confrontations with occupation forces in Tulkarm, while five others were martyred in a zionist drone strike that targeted a vehicle near the Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
With the escalation of confrontations between the Palestinian Resistance and occupation forces in the occupied West Bank, the Zionist newspaper Haaretz reported growing concern that a “security deterioration” would open another front in the war, which poses a danger that must be prevented.
The newspaper warned of a real danger of an “imminent fire” in the West Bank, surpassing anything witnessed since the beginning of the war on Gaza on October 7.
Escalation Continues On Lebanese Border
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah targeted several Zionist military targets in occupied territories, on Wednesday, according to multiple statements released by the Resistance’s Military Media.
Initially, the group launched an attack on a grouping of occupation soldiers, positioned in the vicinity of al-Raheb military site, located in the western district of operations.
In the easternmost area of operations, the group fired its high caliber rockets, which carry payloads of 100-500 kg individually, at the vicinity of the Zionist Roueisat al-Alam site, built on usurped Lebanese territories in the occupied Shebaa Farms. In this attack, Hezbollah fighters intended to target occupation forces positioned in the area. Hezbollah confirmed in a statement that rockets directly hit their intended targets.
Just a few minutes later, resistance fighters targeted another grouping of soldiers in the Tel Shaar military site, located between the “Netu’a” and “Shtula” settlements near the Palestinian-Lebanese border. Concurrently the group targeted enemy soldiers in the vicinity of al-Aabad military site in al-Jalil Panhandle, near the Zionist-occupied Lebanese town of Honin.
Following the announcements, sirens went off in the “Metula” settlement, opposite the border Lebanese town of Kfar Kila, at around 4:15 pm. A few moments later, a rocket attack was launched at Zionist settlements located near the northern coast of occupied Palestine, to the south of the Lebanese town of al-Naqoura.
Sirens went off in several settlements, as Zionist media outlets said that 20 rockets were spotted traveling toward the settlements. Later, Hamas’ military wing, al-Qassam Brigades, announced its responsibility for the rocket attack, saying that it targeted the “Liman” military base. The Resistance faction said that the operation came in response to Zionist massacres against Palestinian civilians and is the context of a wider response to the “Israel’s” assassination of leader and martyr Saleh al-Aorouri and his comrades, in the Southern Suburb of Beirut.
Hezbollah’s attacks impose a security belt
Earlier, Zionist media outlets, once again underlined that the unfolding events at the Lebanese border area with occupied Palestine are “extremely difficult”, stressing that it would grow tougher with time.
Hezbollah, Zionist media reports reveal, has “established a security belt several kilometers inside “Israel” using its military capabilities and through its operations against the ‘Israeli’ occupation.”
Haaretz military affairs analyst, Amos Harel, pointed out that two weeks after the assassination of Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut, Hezbollah has shown strategic restraint when it came to its response, which included a rocket and missile attack on the Zionist Mount “Meron” Air Traffic Control Base, as well as detonating a suicide drone at the Northern Command headquarters in Safad, in a bid to avoid war.
“What is happening is enough to create an unbearable situation,” Harel added, explaining that Hezbollah was effectively imposing a security belt with a range that extends several kilometers into occupied territories. In contrast, the Zionist regime has responded to Hezbollah’s attacks with “empty words”.
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon has launched a series of daily operations against occupation military targets in northern occupied territories, the deepest of which targeted the occupation’s northern command headquarters in occupied Safad. The resistance has done so, since October 8, to support the Palestinian people, who have been subjected to a 100-plus day genocidal war.
The Zionist media outlets predicted that the majority of the settlers displaced from the northern settlements have started a new life in other occupied cities for fear of Hezbollah’s destructive missiles.
The dwellers of the 47 northern Zionist settlements have started to rehearse after every missile fire from Hezbollah, “North is breaking down.”
The Zionist media outlets reflected the case of frustration plaguing the settlers who turned hopeless about returning to the northern settlements and started renting houses and searching for new jobs elsewhere.
Head of Margaliot settlement Eitan Davidi said that, after the Zionist withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, the Zionist officials promised the settlers in the North of occupied Palestine to experience nice days, adding that Zionists nowadays cannot return to the north amid the confusion of the government.
“’Israeli’ displaced from the North are searching for new jobs and renting new houses elsewhere. The North is breaking down,” Davidi added.
‘Israeli’ Channel 13 indicated that it is unsure whether the settlers will return to the North immediately after ceasefire because they do not want to see fighters on the borders anymore, adding that some Zionist minister do not know much about the consequences of the war with respect to ‘Israel’.
Hezbollah’s anti-armor missiles represent the nightmare that terrifies the Zionists who do not know how to deal with the massive destruction inflicted upon their houses in the North amid the lack of the clear governmental perspective to secure them in light of the fear of the recurrence of Al-Aqsa Flood Operation.
Zionist papers pointed out that the regime knows the displaced will not return to the North before next Summer, adding that only 25% of them are still in the hotels and shelter centers.
Ansarallah Naval Blockade Persists Through US Imperialist Aggression
The Yemeni Armed Forces carried out an attack against the American-owned Genco Picardy as it sailed through the Gulf of Aden, the spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced on Wednesday night.
The top official said that the attack came “In support of the plight of the Palestinian people and in solidarity with our brethren in the Gaza Strip, and within the framework of responding to the American-British aggression on our country.”
Firing several anti-ship missiles, the Yemeni Armed Forces dealt “precise and direct hits” to the Genco Picardy.
The spokesperson reiterated that the YAF will not hesitate to target “all sources of threat in the Arabian and Red Sea, within the legitimate right of defending [Yemen] and supporting the oppressed Palestinian people.”
Moreover, Saree warned the United States and the United Kingdom of an inevitable response to their attacks on Yemen, adding that any renewed aggression “will not go without retaliation and punishment.”
Earlier today the UKMTO had reported that a vessel was hit on the port side of the Gulf of Aden, 60 nautical miles to the southeast of Aden. The UKMTO said that a distress call had detailed the events of a supposed drone attack on the vessel, which led to a fire on board, that was allegedly put out.
The operations come in the context of continuous American violations of Yemen’s sovereignty after the latter launched air and missile strikes on the country on multiple occasions.
US designates Ansarallah as a global terror group
Earlier today, the United States officially designated the Ansarallah Movement in Yemen, as a global terrorist group, citing attacks on naval vessels in the Red Sea, as a driver of the decision.
The decision will take effect on February 16 this year, in which Ansarallah will become a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, Jake Sullivan, the Biden Administration’s national security Advisor announced on Wednesday.
It’s an odd moment when the main regime aiding and participating in an internationally recognized genocide attempts to condemn a party that is combating said genocide.
In response to the designation, the head of the movement’s Negotiating Envoy and top official, Mohammad Abdul-Salam said that the US has used the designation for “political purposes.”
He slammed the decision, emphasizing that it “will not deter [Yemen] from our steadfast support for the Palestinian people.”
The official underlined that the decision will have minimal to “no effectiveness on the ground,” adding that it will only “strengthen [Ansarallah’s] commitment to supporting” Palestine.
The Sanaa-based Yemeni news agency SABA reported that the United States and Britain renewed their aggression on Yemen early Thursday, targeting the provinces of Hodeidah, Taiz, Dhamar, al-Bayda, and Saada.
The US-UK aggression began with airstrikes on the provinces of Hodeidah and Dhamar and later extended to include the provinces of Saada, Taiz, and Al-Bayda. The aggression was accompanied by the presence of surveillance aircraft flying over the western part of Yemen.
The joint aggression targeted Mount Sam’a, west of Saada city, and the Takhia area in the Majz district in Saada, northern Yemen.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed that its forces carried out strikes on 14 missiles that were loaded to be fired by the Yemeni forces.
A Yemeni official said that the US-British aggression has targeted five Yemeni provinces so far, noting that the US and UK forces bombed the same targets during their previous aggressions.
A US official said that the United States has launched another round of strikes on targets in Yemen, which marks the fourth aggression launched by the United States against Yemen in less than a week.
This attack comes after the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out an attack against the American-owned Genco Picardy as it sailed through the Gulf of Aden. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed that Yemeni forces hit the US-owned and operated commercial vessel.”
Following the repeated US-British aggression on Yemen, the Yemeni Supreme Political Council of the Sanaa government declared that now “all American and British interests have become legitimate targets for the Yemeni Armed Forces.”
The Yemeni Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called on maritime shipping companies to pursue their operations in the Red Sea “as long as they are not heading to the Zionist enemy.”
The ministry said in a statement that operations targeting ships in the Red Sea are solely “limited to ships owned by the ‘Israeli’ enemy or those heading to the ports of occupied Palestine.”
Shortly after the United States decided to enlist the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement as a “terrorist group”, the Secretary-General of the Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah, Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi, sent on Wednesday a letter of solidarity to the Yemeni movement’s leader, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.
Al-Hamidawi pointed out that the US decision is the “natural price for the honorable positions” taken by the movement regarding the causes of the nation and the oppressed, especially the Palestinian and al-Quds causes.
The Iraqi leader Al-Hamidawi affirmed in his letter that any attack on Yemen from any country or entity will be treated as a direct attack on the Iraqi Resistance group, adding that challenges, regardless of their nature or size, will not deter them, no matter where they come from.
In the same context, the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas condemned Washington’s “politicized” decision, deeming it a bias in favor of the occupation.
In response to Wednesday’s decision, the head of the movement’s Negotiating Envoy and top official, Mohammad Abdul-Salam said that the US has used the designation for “political purposes.”
Abdul-Salam slammed the decision, emphasizing that it “will not deter [Yemen] from our steadfast support for the Palestinian people.”
The official underlined that the decision will have minimal to “no effectiveness on the ground,” stressing that it will only “strengthen [Ansar Allah’s] commitment to supporting” Palestine.