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22 February 2024 - Israel Special Weapons News
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- 24h Operational Update: IAF and Israeli Navy troops Continue to Eliminate Terrorist Infrastructure Throughout Gaza Israel Defense Forces 22 Feb 2024
- Israel: New Attempts Under Way to Reach Gaza Cease-Fire Deal With Hamas VOA 22 Feb 2024 -- Israel says new attempts are underway to reach a cease-fire with Hamas to temporarily halt fighting in Gaza and secure the release of the 100 or so hostages still being held by the militants.
- Netanyahu Vows to Restore Security of Israel's Northern Border by All Means Necessary Sputnik 22 Feb 2024 -- Israel will restore security on its northern border, shared with Lebanon be it through the use of force or with political measures, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.
- Israel asks Hamas to "soften stance" amid deadlocked talks for Gaza ceasefire People's Daily 22 Feb 2024 -- Israel will send a delegation for Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo only after it receives more indications that Hamas is willing to "soften its stance," an Israeli government official told Xinhua on Wednesday.
- Feb. 21: 'Axis of Resistance' operations against Israeli occupation Press TV 22 Feb 2024
- Israel kills 99 Palestinians in fresh airstrikes on Rafah, elsewhere in Gaza Press TV 22 Feb 2024 -- The Israeli military has conducted fresh aerial assaults on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 99 people in the besieged Palestinian territory.
- 'Shocking, unsustainable and desperate' conditions across Gaza, Security Council hears UN News 22 Feb 2024 -- The Security Council met on Thursday at UN Headquarters in New York on the situation in the Gaza Strip, wracked by months of unrelenting war and tensions spilling into the wider Middle East region, with no solutions on the horizon to stop the fighting.
- UNRWA at 'breaking point' warns agency chief UN News 22 Feb 2024 -- The UN agency serving Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has reached breaking point due to Israeli calls for its abolition and the associated funding freeze, just when it is needed most, said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.
- Independent review group on UNRWA may request Gaza visit UN News 22 Feb 2024 -- Researchers have been deployed to the Middle East and requests issued to meet with Israel officials, said the head of an independent team reviewing the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, briefing reporters at UN Headquarters on Thursday.
- Gaza has turned into death zone: WHO IRNA 22 Feb 2024 -- The head of the World Health Organization says the Gaza Strip has become a death zone as relentless Israeli airstrikes and shelling keep taking innocent lives and turning the territory into the rubble.
- UN staff: Israeli siege renders Gaza's Nasser Hospital a 'place of death' Press TV 22 Feb 2024 -- UN staff members who helped evacuate critically wounded patients from Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip have described "appalling" conditions in the territory's second-largest medical facility, saying it has turned into a "place of death."
- UNRWA Chief Says Israeli Pressure, Funding Freeze Threaten Agency VOA 22 Feb 2024 -- The head of the embattled U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees warned Thursday that it is at a "breaking point," and its ability to assist millions of Palestinians is "seriously threatened."
- Humanitarians Call for Urgent Cease-Fire in Gaza as Situation Becomes More 'Desperate' VOA 22 Feb 2024 -- The United Nations' top Middle East envoy told the U.N. Security Council after a visit to the Gaza Strip this week that what he saw was "shocking and unsustainable," and that the humanitarian situation is "desperate."
- US tells UN's top court Israel should not be ordered to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territories Press TV 22 Feb 2024 -- The United States has told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) not to order Israel to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories until security guarantees are obtained.
- Readout of Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's Call With Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant DoD 22 Feb 2024
- 'Israel keeps denying inalienable rights of Palestinian nation' IRNA 22 Feb 2024 -- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has lambasted Israel for deliberately denying the rights of the Palestinians, including their right to self-determination and the formation of an independent Palestinian state.
- Iran at ICJ seeks immediate end to crimes of Israel against Palestinians Press TV 22 Feb 2024 -- Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Reza Najafi says the crimes of Israel against the Palestinians must stop immediately.
- Ayatollah Khamenei criticizes Muslim states for failing to cut ties with Israel Press TV 22 Feb 2024 -- Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei slams Muslim heads of state for failing to cut their relations with the Israeli occupation regime.
- Iran condemns U.S. for vetoing UNSC resolution on Gaza truce People's Daily 22 Feb 2024 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Wednesday condemned the United States for repeatedly vetoing UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
- Israel/Palestine: Statement by The Foreign Ministers of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden Government Offices of Sweden 22 Feb 2024 -- "We are very concerned about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the suffering of the hostages as well as the Israeli government's plans for a possible ground operation in Rafah, where well over a million Palestinians are currently sheltering from the fighting."
- Arab states condemn U.S. for vetoing UNSC resolution on Gaza ceasefire People's Daily 22 Feb 2024 -- Arab states have condemned the United States for vetoing another UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as looming Israeli attacks on the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah raise concerns that the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave may deepen.
- France under pressure to suspend military sales to Israel amid its genocidal war in Gaza Press TV 22 Feb 2024 -- Opposition parties and activists have called on France's government to reconsider arms sales to Israel in the wake of its genocidal war in the besieged Gaza Strip.
- Palestinian civilians are facing a devastating and growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza: UK statement at the UN Security Council UK FCDO 22 Feb 2024 -- Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on Gaza.
- U.S. veto pushes situation in Gaza into more dangerous one: spokesperson People's Daily 22 Feb 2024 -- Various parties, including China, expressed strong disappointment by and dissatisfaction with the United States once again vetoing a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) draft resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday.
- Syria condemns U.S. veto of UN resolution demanding ceasefire in Gaza People's Daily 22 Feb 2024 -- The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday strongly criticized the United States for using its veto power in the United Nations Security Council to block a draft resolution demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
- Palestinian presidency, Hamas condemn U.S. veto of Gaza ceasefire resolution People's Daily 22 Feb 2024 -- The Palestinian presidency and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Wednesday condemned the United States veto of a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
- US always hand in glove with occupiers of Palestine: Hamas IRNA 22 Feb 2024 -- The United States has never played the role of an impartial mediator, but it has always been a culprit in the occupation of Palestine, says a senior official with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
- Al-Aqsa Storm stopped US plan in region, marked end of Netanyahu's dream: Hamas official Press TV 22 Feb 2024 -- A senior Hamas official says the Operation al-Aqsa Storm launched by Gaza-based resistance groups against Israel has stopped the US plan to shape the region and its future.
- Hezbollah conducts fresh attacks on Israeli-occupied territories IRNA 22 Feb 2024 -- The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has carried out drone and missile attacks on the Isba al-Jalil region and Qiryat Shemona in the northern Israeli-occupied territories.
- Hezbollah targets Israeli base with missiles IRNA 22 Feb 2024 -- The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has announced targeting Israel's Hadab Yarin base again with two missiles.
- Two killed as fresh Israeli strike targets position in southwestern Damascus Press TV 21 Feb 2024 -- At least two people have been killed when Israeli military aircraft carried out an airstrike against a residential building in the southwestern sector of the Syrian capital city of Damascus.
- Syria Says Israeli Airstrike Hit Damascus VOA 21 Feb 2024 -- Syria said Wednesday that Israeli airstrikes hit a residential building in Damascus, killing at least two people.
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