August 18, 2024
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s 10th visit to Israel since the war began aims to ramp up political pressure towards a Gaza ceasefire and captive-prisoner exchange deal.
- At least nine Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded after more Israeli air attacks targeting the central part of the Gaza Strip, according to medical workers.
- The Israeli bombardment of Gaza over the past 24 hours killed at least 25 Palestinians, including eight members of the same family in Deir el-Balah, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
- Hamas official Osama Hamdan told Al Jazeera that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains the main obstacle to a ceasefire and captive exchange deal as Israeli negotiators expressed “cautious optimism” after two days of truce talks in Qatar.
- At least 40,099 people have been killed and 92,609 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 |
40,099 | 92,609 | 10,000 |
- The Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, Herzi Halevi, ordered during the past two days to intensify military operations in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will begin on Sunday his ninth visit to Israel since the start of the war on Gaza.
- The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that a reconnaissance drone launched by the Lebanese group Hezbollah flew over the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea, and photographed the surrounding area.
- According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 40,099 Palestinians have been killed, and 92,609 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Sunday, August 18,
7:00 pm (GMT+2)
HEZBOLLAH:
Our fighters shelled the Zabadani and Ruwaysat al-Qarn positions in the
occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms and achieved a direct hit.
ISRAELI
MEDIA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel, where he
will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday.
ISRAELI
ARMY: A soldier from the paratrooper unit was seriously injured during the
fighting in the southern Gaza Strip.
Sunday, August 18,
6:00 pm (GMT+2)
HEZBOLLAH:
Our fighters shelled the Israeli Jal al-Alam site with artillery.
AL-QASSAM
BRIGADES: Dead and wounded among the occupation forces north of Khan Yunis.
AL-JAZEERA:
Air raid sirens are sounding in the Nir Oz area in the Gaza Strip.
Sunday, August 18,
5:00 pm (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: An Israeli airstrike targeted Hamad residential city, northwest of Khan
Yunis.
HEZBOLLAH:
Our fighters targeted the Israeli Al-Malikiyah site with artillery and achieved
a direct hit.
CHANNEL
14: An Israeli was seriously injured after being attacked by a Palestinian near
the Kedumim settlement in the northern West Bank.
NETANYAHU:
Israel is engaged in very complex negotiations.
AL-JAZEERA:
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stormed the village of Al-Malha in
the town of Za’tara, east of Bethlehem.
Sunday, August 18,
4:00 pm (GMT+2)
HEZBOLLAH:
About 20 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Upper Galilee in the recent
bombing by the Lebanese Hezbollah.
AL-QASSAM
BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli infantry force of ten soldiers with a shell
near the university college in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza.
AL-QUDS
BRIGADES: We bombed the Mars military site with a barrage of rockets. We bombed
with a barrage of 60mm mortar shells a gathering of enemy vehicles and soldiers
north of Hamad City, west of Khan Yunis.
AL-JAZEERA:
Israeli interceptor missiles exploded in the skies of border villages in the
eastern sector of southern Lebanon after missiles were fired towards the
Galilee Finger.
PALESTINIAN
RED CRESCENT: The shortage of fuel supplies in the Gaza and North Gaza
governorates threatens to stop ambulance and health relief services.
Sunday, August 18,
3:00 pm (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA:
Israeli shelling targeted the Al-Shakoush area northwest of Rafah city, leaving
two martyrs and a number of wounded.
HERZOG:
Tel Aviv will continue to work with all its might and by all possible means to
return the hostages to their families.
ISRAELI
MEDIA: American Airlines has extended its suspension of flights to and from Tel
Aviv until April 2025.
UNIFIL:
Three of our soldiers were injured in an explosion in southern Lebanon.
Sunday, August 18,
1:30 pm (GMT+2)
WALLA:
The Israeli cabinet has instructed the military to intensify fighting in Khan
Younis and Rafah in the Gaza Strip to improve Israel’s negotiating position in
ceasefire talks.
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: Israeli forces blow up residential buildings east of Deir al-Balah.
GAZA
HEALTH MINISTRY: 40,099 Palestinians have been killed, and 92,609 wounded in
Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
ISRAELI
MINISTER COHEN: We will not leave Gaza until the last of the kidnapped is
released.
AL-JAZEERA:
Israeli raid targets the town of Dahra while a UNIFIL patrol is passing.
ISRAELI
FIRE AUTHORITY: A violent explosion was heard in the Western Galilee, without
activating the sirens.
Sunday, August 18,
11:00 am (GMT+2)
GAZA
CIVIL DEFENSE: The occupation forces do not allow our crews to respond to
distress calls. 82 of our cadres were killed by Israeli occupation fire.
AL-JAZEERA:
An Israeli air strike targeted a house in the town of Aita al-Shaab in southern
Lebanon.
CHANNEL
13: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding discussions before the
Israeli delegation leaves for Cairo to participate in the next round of
negotiations.
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: Israeli helicopters were firing near the tents of the displaced people
in the vicinity of Hamad residential city, north of Khan Yunis, in the southern
Gaza Strip.
HEZBOLLAH:
We bombed the Israeli military site in Al-Marj with rockets.
ISRAELI
ARMY: Our forces continue fighting in Rafah, Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah.
AL-JAZEERA:
An Israeli drone launched a raid on the vicinity of the town of Shebaa in
southern Lebanon.
MEDICAL
SOURCES: 21 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli raids on
various areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday.
ISRAELI
ARMY SPOKESMAN: The suspicion that a reconnaissance drone belonging to the
Lebanese Hezbollah was flying near the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in Caesarea is most likely a false alarm.
ISRAEL
HAYOM: A reconnaissance drone launched by the Lebanese Hezbollah flew over the
home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea, and photographed
the surrounding area.
US
MEDIA: More than 250 organizations have announced their intention to
participate in demonstrations and rallies in the American city of Chicago,
coinciding with the Democratic National Convention, which will be held between
August 18 and 22, to demand an end to the genocide in the Gaza Strip and an end
to support for the Israeli aggression.
Sunday, August 18,
10:00 am (GMT+2)
WALLA:
The Chief of Staff of the occupation army, Herzi Halevi, directed during the
past two days to intensify military operations in Rafah, south of the Gaza
Strip.
PALESITNIAN
MEDIA: Israeli occupation forces are carrying out fire belts around the Taiba
Mosque in the Tel Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza
Strip.
Sunday, August 18,
09:00 am (GMT+2)
CHANNEL
12: Three rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward the Margaliot
settlement in Upper Galilee, without any injuries.
AL-JAZEERA:
Air raid sirens are sounding in the Israeli town of Margaliot in the Galilee
Finger on the border with Lebanon.
KAN:
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will begin his ninth visit to Israel
today, Sunday, since the start of the war on Gaza.
PIC:
Israeli occupation forces carried out bombing operations against residential
buildings in Rafah and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Sunday, August 18,
08:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA:
Seven people, including 6 children, were killed when the occupation bombed a
house on Al Mazraa Street in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
KAN:
The differences over the Philadelphi route can be resolved, and there is
support for the American proposal.
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: Israeli artillery shelling targeted the southwestern areas of Gaza City.
Sunday, August 18,
06:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA:
A Palestinian woman was killed and a number of people were wounded in an
Israeli bombardment of a house in the Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
Sunday, August 18,
02:00 am (GMT+2) (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA:
Four people were killed and 6 others were injured in an Israeli bombardment
that targeted a house in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in
the southern Gaza Strip.
Sunday, August 18,
01:00 am (GMT+2)
PALESTINIAN
MEDIA: Israeli aircraft bombed a residential apartment on Al-Houja Street in
Jabaliya camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
Sunday, August 18,
12:00 am (GMT+2)
LAPID:
Another opportunity to reach a deal on the detainees could not be missed.
(The Palestine
Chronicle)
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