August 4, 2024
- “Tragic” scenes reported in Gaza City, where Israeli air attacks targeted two schools, killing at least 30 people and wounding many others.
- France joins the US and UK in urging citizens to leave Lebanon. More than a dozen countries have issued travel advisories amid the threat of regional war.
- Hamas says it has initiated a broad consultation process to select a new leader following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
- At least 39,583 people killed and 91,398 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 were taken captive.
Killed | Wounded | Missing |
39,550 | 91,280 | 11,000 |
Israeli drones dropped bombs on tents in the yard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Hospital in Deir Al-Balah. (Photo: Sales Aljafarawi, via QNN Tw page)
- An Israeli shelling targeted a tent housing displaced people in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, leaving five dead and a number of wounded.
- Two Israelis were killed and two were seriously injured in a stabbing operation in the city of Holon, south of Tel Aviv.
- The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that at least 10,000 Israeli soldiers were killed or wounded during the genocidal war on Gaza.
- According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 39,550 Palestinians have been killed, and 91,280 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Sunday,
August 4, 6:30 pm (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA:
Two Palestinians were killed in the Israeli bombing of a house in the center of
Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip.
JOHN
KIRBY: We continue to send additional forces to the region. We must ensure that
we are prepared and have sufficient capabilities to assist Israel and defend
our people and our interests.
KIRYAT
SHMONA MAYOR: We have lost the deterrent capability we built with our blood
over many years.
GALLANT:
We are prepared for a wide deployment in defense and attack, and the enemy will
pay a heavy price if it dares to attack us.
HAMAS:
The occupation is persisting in the Nazi war of extermination.
JORDANIAN
OFFICIAL SOURCE: No messages in Safadi’s visit to Iran from or to Israel. This
comes in response to an Iranian source who said that Safadi arrived in Tehran
carrying three messages from the King of Jordan and the leaders of the United
States and Israel, and that “Tehran will deliver two messages to Safadi, one to
the Jordanian leadership and the other to America and Israel,” noting that
Israel sent mediators to contain the situation.
MEDICAL
SOURCE: The death toll from the bombing of two schools in Gaza City has risen
to 30.
GAZA
GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: 172 centers for sheltering displaced people were
targeted by the occupation army.
Sunday,
August 4, 5:00 pm (GMT+2)
GAZA
CIVIL DEFENSE: The occupation commits a massacre in every sense of the word in
Al-Nasr and Hassan Salama schools in Gaza Cityn. 80% of the dead and wounded
are children, and the scene is difficult and tragic in Gaza City.
AL-JAZEERA:
25 Palestinians were killed in the bombing of Al-Nasr and Hassan Salama schools
in Gaza City.
WALLA:
The Shin Bet is preparing an underground command bunker for Netanyahu to
fortify himself in.
WHITE
HOUSE: The United States is moving an aircraft carrier to the Middle East for
purely defensive reasons.
HEZBOLLAH:
We shelled the Al-Malikiyah site with artillery shells, confirming a “direct
hit.”
Sunday,
August 4, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)
ANSARALLAH:
We shot down an American MQ-9 drone with a surface-to-air missile in the
airspace of Saada Governorate.
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in a raid on Hassan Salama
School west of Gaza City.
AL-JAZEERA:
An Israeli airstrike targeted the town of Beit Lif in southern Lebanon.
ISRAELI
ARMY: The Kfir Brigade was completing military maneuvers on the northern front
that included training for what it called combat on “enemy” territory.
BEN-GVIR:
Israel’s control of the Philadelphi Corridor is “critical to achieving its goal
of victory.”
SAUDI
ARABIA: The Saudi Embassy in Lebanon renewed its call for its citizens to leave
Lebanese territory immediately.
REUTERS:
The Ansarallah shot down an American MQ-9 drone over Saada, northern Yemen.
Sunday,
August 4, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN
HEALTH MINISTRY: Gaza is on the brink of an epidemic disaster, in addition to
the environmental and humanitarian catastrophe in the Strip, due to the
accumulation of waste, water pollution, and lack of medicines.
AL-QASSAM
BRIGADES: We launched a barrage of rockets towards Gan Yavneh and Ashdod in
northern Israel, in an initial response to the massacres against the
Palestinian people and resistance leaders.
CHANNEL
12: A factory in Kiryat Shmona in the Upper Galilee was directly hit by a
missile fired from southern Lebanon.
JORDAN:
Jordan’s King calls for intensified international efforts to avoid chaos in the
region.
ITALY:
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani called on Italians not to go to
Lebanon, in light of the security tensions witnessed in the region.
KAN:
The army is working in Salfit in the West Bank to map the house of the
perpetrator of the stabbing operation in Holon in the West Bank in preparation
for its demolition.
AL-JAZEERA:
Israeli forces stormed the home of the perpetrator of the stabbing operation in
Holon, south of Tel Aviv, after he stormed the city of Salfit in the West Bank
and deployed his forces at its entrances.
Sunday,
August 4, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)
GAZA
HEALTH MINISTRY: 39,583 Palestinians have been killed, and 91,398 wounded in
Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
IRANIAN
OFFICIAL (to Al-Jazeera):
Tehran will deliver two messages to
Safadi, one to the Jordanian leadership and the other to America and Israel.
Tehran will not accept a non-response
or a symbolic response, and any response will be harsh and painful.
ISRAELI
MEDIA: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to hold a security
assessment on Sunday evening regarding the expected responses from Iran and
Hezbollah.
ISRAELI
OFFICIAL (cited in WSJ): Israel is not prepared for a long war in Gaza. We
thought there would be an air strike followed by a ground force maneuver.
NETANYAHU:
I am prepared to go a very long way to release all the detainees while
maintaining Israel’s security. He insisted on continuing to pressure Hamas to
release all detainees later.
Sunday,
August 4, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI
ARMY: Five rockets were launched from the southern Gaza Strip towards the
Ashdod area in southern Israel.
AL-QUDS
BRIGADES: We sniped an Israeli soldier in Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood.
NETANYAHU:
We will hold accountable those who collaborated with the Tel Aviv attacker.
AL-JAZEERA:
Israeli artillery targeted various areas north of Rafah city, south of the Gaza
Strip.
IRANIAN
PARLIAMENT SPEAKER: We will teach the occupation and the United States a
historical lesson.
GAZA
MUNICIPALITY: Waste accumulation increases the spread of diseases.
Sunday,
August 4, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA;
Three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting citizens in
the Al-Shaaf neighborhood east of Gaza City, amid the occupation’s
intensification of bombing of the city’s neighborhoods since the morning.
HAMAS:
The stabbing operation in the Holon area in central Tel Aviv, was a natural
response to the occupation’s ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people. We
mourn the martyr Ammar Rizq Odeh.
YEDIOTH
AHRONOTH (citing Israeli security official): The deal is difficult but the best
for now.
REGEV:
Palestinian workers and illegal residents should be banned from entering
Israel, after Israeli police announced that a young man from the West Bank
carried out a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv.
Sunday,
August 4, 11:00 am (GMT+2)
IRANIAN
NEWS AGENCY: Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi will visit Iran today for
talks with his Iranian counterpart, at a time of heightened tensions in the
region.
MEDICAL
SOURCES: 16 people were killed as a result of Israeli raids on various areas in
the Gaza Strip since dawn today.
LEBANESE
NEWS AGENCY: Two people were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the town
of Deir Siryan in southern Lebanon on Saturday evening.
ISRAELI
OFFICIAL (cited in Yedioth Ahronoth): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
is stalling and obstructing the exchange deal, even though he was the one who
put forward the latest proposal.
LAPID:
Ben Gvir is the reason for the increase in attacks and the deterioration of
security.
Sunday,
August 4, 10:00 am (GMT+2)
BEN-GVIR:
From the site of the operation in Holon, National Security Minister Itamar
Ben-Gvir called on Israelis to take up arms, noting that the government had
distributed thousands of weapons to citizens.
ISRAELI
AMBULANCE SERVICE: The death toll in the stabbing attack in the city of Holon,
south of Tel Aviv, has risen to two, in addition to two serious injuries.
AXIOS:
We expect Iran to attack Israel early Monday. We do not know whether Iran and
Hezbollah will launch a coordinated attack or separately.
YEDIOTH
AHRONOTH: at least 10,000 Israeli soldiers were killed or wounded during the
war in the Gaza Strip.
HIGHER
GALILEE COUNCIL: Damage occurred in an agricultural area between the Manara and
Yiftach regions as a result of a rocket launched from southern Lebanon.
HEZBOLLAH:
We targeted the espionage equipment at the Israeli Ramya site, confirming its
destruction.
Sunday,
August 4, 09:00 am (GMT+2)
GADI
EISENKOT (to ISRAELI ARMY RADIO): The Holon stabbing operation is a failure of
a different kind. There are tens of thousands of illegal residents roaming the
country unchecked.
CHANNEL
13: An Israeli was killed and three others were injured in a stabbing and
shooting attack in Holon, Tel Aviv.
Sunday,
August 4, 08:00 am (GMT+2)
ISRAELI
MEDIA: Four Israelis were injured, one of them seriously, in a stabbing attack
in the city of Holon, south of Tel Aviv.
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: Israeli artillery fired southeast of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza
Strip, and also targeted the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in the south of Gaza City.
Sunday,
August 4, 07:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA:
Artillery shelling and gunfire from Israeli military vehicles targeted the town
of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI
ARMY SPOKESMAN: A soldier was seriously injured yesterday, Saturday, in battles
in the southern Gaza Strip.
Sunday,
August 4, 06:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-AQSA
TV: The Israeli occupation artillery shelled the eastern neighborhoods of
Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
MEDICAL
SOURCES: An Israeli airstrike on a house in the Al-Fakhoura area in the
Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip left four martyrs and a number of
wounded.
CANADA:
The Canadian government has issued a warning to its citizens not to travel to
Israel due to “ongoing regional military conflict and unpredictable security
situation.”
Sunday,
August 4, 03:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA:
Israeli shelling targeted a tent housing displaced people in Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, leaving 5 dead and a number of
wounded.
AL-JAZEERA:
Israeli warplanes launched two raids a short while ago on the outskirts of the
town of Blat in southern Lebanon.
Sunday,
August 4, 02:00 am (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: forces launched several raids on the eastern neighborhoods of Gaza City
and the western neighborhoods of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI
MEDIA: The Israeli army’s Home Front Command called on residents of border
towns with Lebanon to stay near shelters.
HEZBOLLAH:
We bombed the Beit Hillel settlement for the first time with dozens of rockets.
IRAN:
The assistant to the head of the Iranian judiciary confirmed that the public
prosecutor ordered the identification and arrest of any spies or negligent
persons in the case of the assassination of the head of the political bureau of
Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh
Sunday,
August 4, 01:00 am (GMT+2)
CHANNEL
15: About 50 rockets fired from Lebanon towards the Galilee.
(The
Palestine Chronicle)
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