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16 February 2024 - Israel Special Weapons News
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- 24h Operational Update: IDF Troops Strike Hamas Terrorist Infrastructure in Joint Ground and Aerial Operations Israel Defense Forces 16 Feb 2024
- Israel Planning Offensive on Gaza's Rafah Despite International Outcry VOA 16 Feb 2024 -- Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Friday that Israel was "thoroughly planning" a military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, despite growing international concerns about the safety of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians seeking refuge there.
- Feb. 15: 'Axis of Resistance' operations against Israeli occupation Press TV 16 Feb 2024
- Death toll of Gaza war mounts to 28,663 IRNA 16 Feb 2024 -- 133 days past the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, the death toll in the occupied Palestinian territory has mounted to 28,663, according to local media.
- Gaza Health Officials Say 5 Die After Israeli Forces Raid Hospital VOA 16 Feb 2024 -- Israeli forces searched the grounds of southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital hospital Friday, a day after raiding the complex. The hospital's generators stopped working after the raid, the Hamas-controlled Gazan health ministry said, and five patients in intensive care died when their oxygen was cut off.
- Israel kills Hamas, Hezbollah commanders, vows to expand attacks People's Daily 16 Feb 2024 -- Israel announced on Thursday that its forces killed two commanders from Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, while vowing to expand the attacks in Gaza and Lebanon.
- Situation Around Rafah Does Not Require Additional Measures Against Israel - ICJ Sputnik 16 Feb 2024 -- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Friday that the situation around Rafah does not require the introduction of any additional measures against Israel that are being demanded by South Africa.
- Lifesaving medical care collapsing under assault in Gaza: WHO UN News 16 Feb 2024 -- The largest remaining hospital in southern Gaza is "barely functional", the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday amid reports of intense attacks by Israeli forces.
- UNRWA Situation Report #78 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (All information from 13-14 February 2024, is valid as of 14 February 2024 at 22:30 (local time)) UNRWA 16 Feb 2024
- Readout of Vice President Harris's Meeting with President Herzog of Israel The White House 16 Feb 2024
- Iranian, Saudi foreign ministers discuss developments in Gaza, Rafah Press TV 16 Feb 2024 -- The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia have discussed regional and international issues, most notably the recent developments in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza and the humanitarian situation in the strip amid Israel's savage attacks.
- Arab countries 'increasingly restricting' US action against Iran amid Gaza war: Report Press TV 16 Feb 2024 -- A number of Arab countries are reportedly "increasingly restricting" the United States and its allies from conducting attacks from their soil against Iran and resistant groups in the West Asia region amid the Israeli onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip.
- Ireland pledges funding for UNRWA after US-led withdrawal of support Press TV 16 Feb 2024 -- Ireland has pledged €20 million ($16.7 million) funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees after the US and its allies suspended their assistance for the agency based on unsubstantiated Israeli allegations.
- Brazil: No explanation for Israel's behavior in Gaza Press TV 16 Feb 2024 -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said Israel's behavior in the Gaza Strip, which is enduring a genocidal war by the occupying regime, is beyond explanation.
- Egypt Building Wall Near Gaza Strip's City of Rafah - Reports Sputnik 16 Feb 2024 -- A wall commissioned by the Egyptian army is being constructed on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip near the latter's city of Rafah, which is the target of a planned Israeli ground offensive, the New York Times reported on Friday, having analyzed satellite images and videos and citing construction workers.
- "Our goal is to establish immediate ceasefire and ensure uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza" Presidency of The Republic of Turkey 16 Feb 2024 -- Addressing citizens in Giresun, President Erdoğan said: "Israel's massacres in Gaza have been escalating. Israel, which cannot break the Gazan people's resistance and determination through bombs, is starving them into surrender. Our goal is to establish immediate ceasefire and ensure uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza as much as needed."
- Lebanon lodges complaint at UN against Israel over deadly strikes Press TV 16 Feb 2024 -- Lebanon's permanent mission to the United Nations has filed a formal complaint before the UN Security Council following the death of at least 10 civilians in two Israeli airstrikes in the south of the country.
- Six members of Hezbollah, Amal killed in south Lebanon Press TV 16 Feb 2024 -- Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance group and Amal movement have announced that six of their members were killed in Israeli strikes in the country's south.
- Israel to 'pay with blood' price of killing Lebanese civilians: Nasrallah Press TV 16 Feb 2024 -- The secretary general of Lebanon's Hezbollah says the Israeli regime will "pay with blood" the price for the recent killing of civilians in the country's south, stressing that the massacre will not force the resistance movement to back down from supporting Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
- Two Israeli settlers killed in Kiryat Malakhi retaliatory shooting Press TV 16 Feb 2024 -- Kiryat Malakhi in the southern part of the 1948-occupied Palestinian territories.
- US Reinstates Sanctions on Yemen's Houthi Rebels, Effective Friday VOA 16 Feb 2024 -- The United States has reinstated sanctions on Yemen's Houthi rebels effective Friday, following their continued attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, endangering maritime security.
- 'Pillaging': Firms warned of legal action over Israeli gas exploration off Gaza Press TV 16 Feb 2024 -- Palestinian rights groups have warned that the energy companies awarded licenses by the Israeli occupation regime to explore for gas off the besieged Gaza Strip's coast could face legal action for the violation of Palestinian maritime sovereignty.
- Malawi Parliament Allows Labor Export to Israel VOA 16 Feb 2024 -- Malawi's parliament has allowed the government to proceed with its program to send 10,000 laborers to work on farms and industries in Israel. The parliament approved the program Feb. 15, 2024, after a government fact-finding mission to Israel to evaluate the living conditions of some 700 Malawians already employed there.
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