Dec. 1, 2023
Gaza truce has reportedly ended, as Israel returned to bombing residential areas across the Gaza Strip. Fierce fighting reported in various parts of northern Gaza.
Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza: Death Toll: Over 15,000 Palestinians, including over 6,150 children. Wounded: 36,000.
Government Media Office in Gaza: The Israeli attacks left 88 mosques fully destroyed, and 174 others partially damaged. Three churches were targeted. Nearly 50 percent of all residential homes in Gaza were destroyed.
Human Rights Watch: At least 300 schools have been damaged and 183 teachers killed.
World Health Organization: “At least 553 people have been killed in 178 attacks on medical facilities in Gaza between October 7 and November 21, and the majority of hospitals in Gaza are no longer functional.”
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Friday, December 1, 1:30 pm (GMT+3)
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: Medical teams are dealing with large numbers of wounded.
ISLAMIC JIHAD: We will not retreat, we will not surrender, and we will fight no matter the sacrifices.
AL-JAZEERA: 11 Palestinians were killed in Rafah. This brings the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 65 since the end of the humanitarian truce and the resumption of the Israeli aggression against Gaza on Friday morning.
UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VOLKER TURK: The resumption of hostilities in Gaza is disastrous.
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN: We are committed to the goals of the war, which are the release of hostages and the elimination of Hamas.
HAMAS TOP OFFICIAL KHALIL AL-HAYYA: The occupation seeks to push a part of the Palestinian people towards Egypt.
AL-JAZEERA: 15 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids on homes in the Shujaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza, bringing the death in the Gaza Strip to 54 since the resumption of the Israeli aggression on Friday morning.
HAMAS TOP OFFICIAL KHALIL AL-HAYYA: We were ready to deal with three proposals regarding exchange, but the occupation rejected them.
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL GUTERRES: Guterres said that he “deeply regrets” the resumption of military operations in the Gaza Strip.
Friday, December 1, 12:00 pm (GMT+3)
UNRWA: The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, warned of the repercussions of any Israeli attack on southern Gaza.
UNICEF: The United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) denounced those who decided to “resume the killing of children” in the Gaza war, and stressed the necessity of “implementing a permanent ceasefire.”
ISRAELI MEDIA: Four Israeli soldiers were wounded in battles in the northern Gaza Strip.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed Asqalan (Ashkelon), Sderot and Beersheba with rocket salvoes.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The situation of hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip is “painful and disastrous,” while hospitals in the south are exhausted due to the Israeli aggression.
AL-JAZEERA: 37 Palestinians have been killed since the resumption of the Israeli aggression on Gaza on Friday morning.
ISRAELI MINISTER BEN-GVIR: Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir called for “crushing Gaza with all force and destroying Hamas,” hours after the Israeli aggression against Gaza resumed following the end of the humanitarian truce.
Friday, December 1, 11:05 am (GMT+3)
AL-QUDS BRIGADE: We bombed a gathering of Israeli army soldiers and vehicles that were stationed in the Netzarim axis with mortar shells.
ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: Agricultural work has been banned in the areas adjacent to the fence separating the Gaza Strip due to the resumption of fighting.
ISRAELI CHANNEL 12 (CITING MILITARY SOURCE): The war will continue in the coming days and there is no intention of stopping it.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed occupied cities and towns in response to the crimes of the occupation.
Friday, December 1, 10:30 am (GMT+3)
HAMAS: The occupation refused to negotiate because it had already decided to resume its criminal aggression against the Gaza Strip. We offered to exchange more captives and hand over the bodies of those killed as a result of the Israeli bombing, but the occupation refused.
Friday, December 1, 9:55 am (GMT+3)
HAMAS TOP OFFICIAL OSAMA HAMDAN: The Israeli occupation and the American administration bear responsibility for stopping the temporary truce.
GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: Photojournalist Abdullah Darwish was killed in an Israeli occupation bombing.
AL-JAZEERA: 21 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured as a result of renewed Israeli raids on several areas in the Gaza Strip.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: Israel is committing new massacres.
AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a residential apartment west of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Friday, December 1, 8:45 am (GMT+3)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Fierce fighting reported in Tel Al-Hawa and other axes in Gaza City.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Government calls on Israelis in the southern regions to stay close to shelters.
Friday, December 1, 8:30 am (GMT+3)
GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE (GAZA): Israeli occupation forces shell homes and safe areas.
AL-JAZEERA:
– Israeli shelling targets a residential home in Hamad city west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
– Two Palestinians killed, and several wounded in Israeli shelling targeting Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
– Four killed and others injured in an Israeli raid targeting a house in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
– Israel Targets a mosque in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.
– Six killed and scores injured in an Israeli raid on various parts of the Gaza Strip.
(The Palestine Chronicle)