Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
19 December 2023 - Israel Special Weapons News
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- Press Briefing by IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari December 19th, 20:05 Israel Defense Forces 19 Dec 2023
- PM Netanyahu Speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Israel - Prime Minister 19 Dec 2023
- IDF and ISA Eliminate Subhi Ferwana, Prominent Hamas Financier Involved in Transferring Tens of Millions to the Hamas' Military Wing Israel Defense Forces 19 Dec 2023
- 40 killed in Israeli strikes on Rafah, Jabalia as Gaza death toll nears 20,000 Press TV 19 Dec 2023 -- At least 40 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip in fresh Israeli air raids on residential buildings across the besieged territory.
- At Least 100 People Killed in Gaza From Israeli Strikes on Tuesday - Gaza Health Ministry Sputnik 19 Dec 2023 -- At least 100 people were killed in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli strikes on Tuesday, a spokesman for the enclave's Health Ministry said.
- UN Security Council Delays Vote on Call for Broad Humanitarian Access to Gaza VOA 19 Dec 2023 -- Israel carried out fresh airstrikes Tuesday along with its ground campaign against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, while the United States mobilized allies to protect shipping lanes in the Red Sea from Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
- UN: Gaza is World's Most Dangerous Place for Children VOA 19 Dec 2023 -- A top U.N. agency says the Gaza Strip is "the most dangerous place in the world to be a child" as Israel's military bombardment of the territory kills and injures thousands of children and thousands more suffer from infectious disease and a lack of food, water and medicine in overcrowded, unsanitary hospitals and shelters.
- UNICEF Geneva Palais briefing note - Gaza: The world's most dangerous place to be a child UNICEF 19 Dec 2023 -- "The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. And day after day, that brutal reality is reinforced.
- 'Ten weeks of hell' for children in Gaza: UNICEF UN News 19 Dec 2023 -- Gaza is by far the most dangerous place in the world to be a child and deaths of youngsters from disease will likely surpass those from bombardment in the absence of a ceasefire, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.
- Security Council continues negotiations on Gaza resolution calling for 'urgent suspension of hostilities' UN News 19 Dec 2023 -- Tuesday marked another intense day of diplomacy in the Security Council in New York, where negotiations continued to try and reach consensus on further unified action in response to the crisis in Gaza, more than ten weeks after terror attacks by Hamas plunged the Israel-Palestine conflict into an unprecedented phase of violence and devastation. Ambassadors have delayed the vote again, until Wednesday.
- UNRWA Situation Report #54 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (All information is valid as of 17-19 December 2023 at 22:30) UNRWA 19 Dec 2023
- Disease could kill more children in Gaza than Israeli bombings: UN official Press TV 19 Dec 2023 -- A senior United Nations official has warned that more children in Gaza could die from diseases than from the Israeli bombings in the besieged Palestinian territory.
- Displaced inside prison: UNRWA says 1.9m Gazans forced out of homes by war Press TV 19 Dec 2023 -- The UN Palestinian refugee agency says since the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza in early October almost 1.9 million have been internally displaced.
- US Plan to Empower Palestinian Authority in Gaza Faces Israeli Opposition VOA 19 Dec 2023 -- The United States is working on a postwar road map that envisions a "revamped and revitalized" Palestinian Authority ultimately taking over the Gaza Strip and becoming a credible partner for Israel for negotiation of a two-state solution.
- U.S. defense secretary visits Israel, urging more aid to reach Gaza People's Daily 19 Dec 2023 -- United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said during his visit to Israel on Monday that more aid needs to reach the Gaza Strip, where relentless Israeli bombardments and siege have caused a humanitarian crisis.
- Israel committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza: Iran's deputy FM IRNA 19 Dec 2023 -- Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, saying that the forced displacement by the Israeli regime of Palestinians in the besieged territory is a clear example of "ethnic cleansing."
- Al-Qassam Brigades launches missile attacks on Tel Aviv IRNA 19 Dec 2023 -- The Palestinian resistance forces attacked the central areas of the occupied territories, including the city of Tel Aviv, in response to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime against civilians in the Gaza Strip.
- Hamas determination to fight occupation outweighs group's missiles: Senior official Press TV 19 Dec 2023 -- A senior official of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the group's will and determination to fight the Israeli occupation outweighs its tunnels and missiles.
- Hezbollah strikes occupied territories, warns Israel against targeting civilians in Lebanon Press TV 19 Dec 2023 -- Hezbollah resistance movement says it has struck an Israeli settlement situated near the Lebanese border with the occupied territories in response to the regime's earlier attack on civilians attending a funeral procession in southern Lebanon.
- Joint Statement on Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea US Dept. of State 19 Dec 2023 -- The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, High Representative Josep Borrell on behalf of the European Union, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on behalf of NATO, and a group representing 44 Allies and partner nations.
- HMS Diamond joins new international task force to protect shipping in the Red Sea UK MOD 19 Dec 2023 -- Royal Navy Destroyer HMS Diamond joins Operation Prosperity Guardian, a new international task force to protect merchant shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
- Canada to participate in United States-led Operation PROSPERITY GUARDIAN Canada 19 Dec 2023 -- Today, the Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, announced that Canada will participate in Combined Maritime Forces' (CMF) Op PROSPERITY GUARDIAN, a United States-led operation announced by the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J. Austin III.
- Transit costs in Red Sea up 400% due to Yemeni attacks: Report IRNA 19 Dec 2023 -- Yemeni Armed Forces' warnings to target ships bound to the Israeli-occupied territories have drastically driven up costs of shipping through the Bab el Mandeb Strait, a strategic sea checkpoint connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
- Yemen will confront US-led coalition in Red Sea: Official IRNA 19 Dec 2023 -- A member of the political bureau of Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement says the Arab country's armed forces will confront any US-led coalition in the Red Sea.
- Yemen acting independently regarding anti-Israel operations: Iran Press TV 19 Dec 2023 -- Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ali Bagheri Kani says Yemen is an independent country and its operations against Israel come in response to Israel's genocidal war in the Gaza Strip.
- Yemen says will turn Red Sea into 'graveyard' after US announces maritime coalition Press TV 19 Dec 2023 -- Yemen's defense minister has denounced the formation of a US-led maritime task force in the Red Sea to protect the passage of merchant vessels bound for the Israeli-occupied territories, cautioning the Western alliance that any assault on Yemeni soil will have dire consequences.
- Red Cross chief says humanitarian situation in Israeli-bobmarded Gaza 'untenable' Press TV 19 Dec 2023 -- Mirjana Spoljaric, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), says she saw "a lack of everything" in the Gaza Strip during a recent trip to the Israeli-bombarded Palestinian territory.
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