Gaza reels under new massacres carried out by the Israeli army. (Photo: Waleed Musleh, via Social Media)
Four Premature Babies Die in Al-Shifa
New Israeli Massacres Kill Dozens of Palestinians
Nov. 19, 2023
At least 31 Palestinians were killed when Israel targeted Palestinian homes in the central Gaza Strip overnight. Two others were killed in Khan Yunis and four premature babies were also declared dead in the Al-Shifa Hospital.
Meanwhile, the number of Palestinian casualties has increased to over 12,300 since the start of the Israeli military operation in Gaza on October 7.
In Beit Hanoun, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad declared that it had fought fierce battles against Israeli soldiers, causing many losses among Israeli troops.
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Sunday, November 19, 8:30 pm (GMT+3)
UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER VOLKER TURK: I am horrified by the horrific events in Gaza.
CHANNEL 12: The date of the Israeli war cabinet meeting has been advanced after optimistic reports about the prisoner exchange deal.
UNRWA: The war in Gaza has reached the point of no return.
POLITICO: An internal US administration document showed that President Joe Biden directed the preparation of sanctions, including a visa ban, against Jewish settlers.
ISLAMIC JIHAD MOVEMENT: The heroic action in Yemen is a true translation of the positions and not just speeches and statements,” expressing its praise for “the forms of support and assistance carried out by the Yemeni armed forces,” in reference to the group’s forces.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli tanks are retreating in some areas of Gaza and its north, as a result of violent clashes with the Al-Qassam Brigades.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters caused deaths and injuries in an attack on two troop carriers, a tank, and an Israeli infantry force barricaded in a school near the Rantisi Hospital for Children in central Gaza City.
US OFFICIALS: The Houthis seized the ship by landing from a helicopter.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters were able to destroy 29 Israeli tanks and military vehicles on Sunday in the Al-Tawam, Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Al-Zaytoun areas.
AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed and many others wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a residential area in the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The death toll of the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has risen to more than 13,000 Palestinians killed, including more than 5,500 children and 3,500 women.
ISRAELI ARMY: Israel admits that 7 officers and soldiers were killed and 4 were wounded in today’s battles.
GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: We demand the opening of the Rafah crossing to enter fuel.
IRANIAN LEADER KHAMENEI: “The Zionist regime failed to destroy Hamas and the Resistance after more than 40 days of war.”
Sunday, November 19, 6:40 pm (GMT+3)
YEMENI ARMED FORCES: We affirm our continuation of military operations against the Zionist enemy until the aggression against Gaza stops. All ships belonging to the Israeli enemy are legitimate targets.
AL-QASSAM: We bombed the Taslem military base with a missile attack.
HEAD OF BURNS UNIT AT AL-SHIFA MEDICAL COMPLEX: The situation in the hospital is tragic and getting worse. We are 15 of the medical team and we have 260 patients still in the hospital.
AL-JAZEERA:
The occupation forces searched all the hospital buildings and destroyed its contents.
Israeli forces are detaining 700 wounded Palestinians, their relatives and medical staff in tragic conditions
Israeli forces arrested three wounded people
Two wounded people died in the hospital in the last few hours due to the lack of medicine.
Sunday, November 19, 5:50 pm (GMT+3)
ISRAELI HOME FRONT: Sirens sound around the Gaza Strip.
AL-JAZEERA: The number of Palestinian journalists killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has risen to 60.
YEMEN’S ANSAR ALLAH TOP OFFICIAL TO AL-JAZEERA: Preliminary investigations indicate that Israelis of other nationalities were on board the ship that they took to the shores of Yemen.
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES: The number of civilian deaths in Gaza is shocking and unacceptable.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, announced that they had bombed with mortar shells “crowds of the Zionist enemy in Biyara Murtaja in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, and we hit them directly.”
ISRAELI ARMY: The Search and Rescue Brigade unit joined the occupation forces in Gaza.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: fighters were able to target a house in the Juhr al-Dik area in which a large number of occupation soldiers were present, with two anti-fortification and anti-personnel TBG shells. They then stormed the house and killed and wounded those remaining.
YEMEN’S ANSAR ALLAH TOP OFFICIAL TO AL-JAZEERA: We notified ships heading to Israel to change their course.
AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians were killed and others wounded in Israeli raids that targeted homes in the Bureij and Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted gatherings of Israeli soldiers and caused casualties.
NETANYAHU’S OFFICE: The hijacking of the ship will create international repercussions.
YEMEN’S ANSAR ALLAH TOP OFFICIAL TO AL-JAZEERA: “We took the ship to support our oppressed people in Gaza.”
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelling targets towns in southern Lebanon.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Houthi hijacking of a ship is a very dangerous global event.
Sunday, November 19, 3:30 pm (GMT+3)
AXIOS (QUOTING ISRAELI SOURCE): The Houthis took control of a ship owned by an Israeli company.
AL-JAZEERA: 11 Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the town of Jabaliya.
AL-JAZEERA: Five Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
AL-JAZEERA: 31 premature babies in Al-Shifa Hospital arrived at the Emirati Hospital in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Sunday, November 19, 2:30 pm (GMT+3)
WASHINGTON POST (CITING US OFFICIALS): Clearly, strikes on Iranian proxies have failed to achieve deterrence. There is frustration with the incoherent strategy to confront Iran’s proxies in the region.
UNRWA SPOKESMAN: We believed that our headquarters were being targeted by mistake, but what is happening on the ground indicates otherwise, and it is not acceptable.
Sunday, November 19, 1:50 pm (GMT+3)
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a gathering of enemy personnel and vehicles near the Metulla site with appropriate weapons and caused direct casualties.
ISRAELI MILITARY SPOKESMAN: We respond to the sources of fire inside Lebanese territory
PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: The number of displaced people from northern Gaza is approximately 1.5 million.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelling targets the towns of Kafr Kila, Naqoura, and Alma al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS: 31 premature babies were evacuated from Al-Shifa Hospital.
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sound in the settlements of Shlomi and Kissufim.
BRITISH MINISTER OF STATE LORD AHMED: We are focusing on achieving a permanent cessation of fighting.
IRANIAN LEADER ALI KHAMENEI: The events in Gaza revealed the truth about the leaders of Western countries’ support for racism.
PPC: Israel has arrested 31 journalists since the start of the war.
KING OF JORDAN: We stress the necessity of moving to a ceasefire in Gaza and protecting civilians.
ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: About 75% of the residents of the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip have not been displaced to the south, considering that this matter “complicates the progress of the military operation.”
EU COMMISSION PRESIDENT URSULA VON DER LEYEN: The two-state solution is the only way to achieve peace.
Sunday, November 19, 12:15 pm (GMT+3)
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the Israeli site, Al-Marj, and hit it directly.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Suspicion of infiltration of two drones from Lebanon.
NORWEGIAN PM: Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Sture once again called for an immediate ceasefire, stressing that the crossings must be opened in order to bring aid into Gaza.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said that it bombed with mortar shells a group of Israeli occupation army soldiers in the Al-Taqadum axis, west of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
Sunday, November 19, 10:20 am (GMT+3)
HEZBOLLAH: Hezbollah said that its fighters targeted 3 Israeli sites in Al-Dahaira, Jal Al-Alam, and Al-Jardah, achieving “confirmed hits.”
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli aircraft destroyed 4 mosques in the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF GAZA HOSPITALS: Four out of 36 premature babies in Al-Shifa Medical Complex have died. A WHO team will go to Al-Shifa to take the others.
TURKISH FM: Türkiye condemns the bombing of Al-Fakhoura School and demands that Israel be held accountable.
Sunday, November 19, 9:00 am (GMT+3)
GAZA MEDIA GOVERNMENT: Heavy gunfire occurred in the vicinity of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, indicating that the Israeli occupation forces were deliberately bombing crowded areas to displace residents.
AL-QUDS: Our fighters “clashed last night with a group of enemy soldiers in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip, inflicting heavy losses on them.”
AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sound in two Israeli areas on the Lebanese border.
Sunday, November 19, 8:00 am (GMT+3)
AL-JAZEERA: 31 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids that targeted homes in the central Gaza Strip last night.
AL-JAZEERA: Two women were killed and several Palestinians were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Sunday, November 19, 7:00 am (GMT+3)
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced the killing of a soldier and an officer in the battles taking place north of Gaza.
Sunday, November 19, 6:00 am (GMT+3)
PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: 2 Palestinians were killed by occupation forces in the West Bank.
Sunday, November 19, 5:00 am (GMT+3)
PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: Israeli forces invaded several areas in the West Bank.
WASHINGTON POST (CITING INFORMED SOURCES) Israel, the US, and Hamas are close to reaching an agreement to release dozens of women and children detained in Gaza in exchange for a 5-day ceasefire. The White House denied it.
PALESTINIAN RED CRESCENT: A Palestinian man was killed by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets at the entrance to Jenin camp in the West Bank.
AL-JAZEERA: A convoy of Doctors Without Borders employees was targeted while it was being evacuated from the Shifa complex.
Sunday, November 19, 4:00 am (GMT+3)
PALESTINIAN SOURCES: An intense exchange of fire was taking place between Palestinian youths and the Israeli occupation forces that stormed the Qalandia camp.
RUSSIA: More than 550 citizens, including 230 children, evacuated from Gaza.
AMERICAN MEDIA: Thousands of people demonstrated in the American city of Chicago, raising flags and slogans in support of Palestine and demanding an end to the war on Gaza.
Sunday, November 19, 3:00 am (GMT+3)
US BERNIE SANDERS: Any aid to Israel must be linked to stopping its operation in Gaza for a long period in order to deliver humanitarian aid.
DETAINEES AND EX-DETAINEES AFFAIRS AUTHORITY: Palestinian prisoner Thaer Samih Abu Assab (38 years old), who had been detained since 2005 and sentenced to 25 years in prison, died in the Naqab Desert Prison.
Sunday, November 19, 2:00 am (GMT+3)
WHO: Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza is a “death zone”.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces storm the city of Jenin from several fronts.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
