Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
20 August 2024 - Israel Special Weapons News
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- The Nagel Commission on Evaluating the Security Budget and Force Building Requests Proposals from the Public Israel - Prime Minister 20 Aug 2024 -- The Nagel Commission chaired by Prof. Jacob Nagel, which was established on the directive of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approximately two weeks ago, is formulating recommendations on the force building needs and the security budget in the coming decade.
- Statement by PM Netanyahu Israel - Prime Minister 20 Aug 2024 -- "Overnight our forces returned the bodies of six of our hostages that had been held by the murderous Hamas terrorist organization:"
- Israel Wants to Build Wall Between Egypt, Gaza to Hinder Hamas Tunnels-Digging - Reports Sputnik 20 Aug 2024 -- Israel insists on building a wall near the Philadelphia Corridor on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt to prevent Palestinian movement Hamas from building tunnels, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing Arab mediators in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
- Israeli war minister concerned about Iran, Hezbollah retaliation IRNA 20 Aug 2024 -- Israel's Minister of War, Yoav Gallant has expressed fear that the probability of retaliatory by Iran and Hezbollah against the regime's target will increase in case of the failure to a Gaza ceasefire agreement.
- Lapid demands deal on Israeli captives 'before they all die' in Gaza Press TV 20 Aug 2024 -- Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has renewed his call for an agreement for a Gaza truce and the release of captives in the besieged Palestinian territory.
- PM call with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel: 20 August 2024 Gov.UK 20 Aug 2024
- Aug 19: 'Axis of Resistance' operations against Israeli occupation Press TV 20 Aug 2024
- Fresh Israeli attack leaves at least 14 martyrs, 16 injured in Gaza IRNA 20 Aug 2024 -- Media have reported that at least 14 Palestinian citizens were martyred and 16 others were injured in the Zionist regime's army attack on the center and south of the Gaza Strip.
- Gaza death toll of journalists from Israeli onslaught hits 172 IRNA 20 Aug 2024 -- The death toll of journalists from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza Strip reached 172 since the outbreak of war on October 7, 2023, local Palestinian media reported.
- 9 Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on market in central Gaza Press TV 20 Aug 2024 -- At least nine Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a crowded marketplace in Deir al-Balah.
- At least 12 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City school Press TV 20 Aug 2024 -- At least 12 Palestinians have been killed and dozens of others injured as the Israeli military attacked a Gaza City school, the eleventh deadly strike against schools in the war-wracked territory in August alone.
- Targeting civilians against rules of wars: UN official IRNA 20 Aug 2024 -- As Israel presses ahead with its genocidal war on Gaza and attacks on civilian areas in southern Lebanon, a senior UN official has criticized the regime's killing of innocent people, saying "even wars have rules and that civilians should not be targeted".
- UN: Israel's evacuation orders deteriorating situation in Gaza Press TV 20 Aug 2024 -- The United Nations humanitarian office has warned that Israel's frequent evacuation orders are deteriorating the catastrophic humanitarian situation that already plagues the Gaza Strip.
- Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder Holds a Press Briefing DoD 20 Aug 2024
- Blinken visits Egypt, Qatar for Gaza cease-fire talks but end to fighting still elusive VOA 20 Aug 2024 -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited with mediators Egypt and Qatar on Tuesday in search of a cease-fire deal to halt the war in Gaza.
- Blinken in Egypt: President Sisi warns of regional war, urging Gaza ceasefire Press TV 20 Aug 2024 -- President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt warns US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that a catastrophic war could break out in the region unless Israel ends its atrocities against the Palestinians in Gaza.
- US Supports Israel's Refusal to Completely Leave Gaza's Border With Egypt Sputnik 20 Aug 2024 -- The US agrees with Israel's approach, according to which it cannot completely withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, media reported, citing an Israeli official familiar with the details of the meeting between Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
- Israel's Netanyahu supports new bridging proposal for Gaza truce: Blinken People's Daily 20 Aug 2024 -- Israel has accepted a new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Iran pursuing Haniyeh's assassination through legal channels: Judiciary IRNA 20 Aug 2024 -- Iran's Judiciary spokesman says the Islamic Republic is pursuing the Israeli assassination of Hamas's political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran through international legal channels.
- IRGC: Iran will choose timing of its response, keeping Israel in limbo Press TV 20 Aug 2024 -- The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran will decide the timing of its response to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, keeping the Israelis in limbo.
- Palestinians launch major attacks on Israeli positions in Gaza IRNA 20 Aug 2024 -- Palestinian resistance groups have launched several major attacks on the Zionist regime's positions in the Gaza Strip, inflicting more losses upon the Israeli occupation forces.
- US, Zionist regime seeking to prolong Gaza war: Hamas IRNA 20 Aug 2024 -- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the new US proposal for a Gaza ceasefire is nothing but to fulfill Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conditions, which aims to thwart the efforts of mediators and prolong the war.
- Hamas decries Israel's attack on Gaza school, holds US accountable Press TV 20 Aug 2024 -- Hamas says Israel's strike on another school housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City demonstrates the regime's criminal approach toward the people of the besieged territory.
- Biden's 'misleading' claim about ceasefire status 'green light' for Israel to continue war: Hamas Press TV 20 Aug 2024 -- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced as "misleading" US President Joe Biden's claim that the group is backing away from a Gaza ceasefire deal, calling his remarks a "green light" for Israel to continue the genocidal war on the besieged enclave.
- Lebanon: Crisis deepens amid escalating conflict and funding shortfalls UN News 20 Aug 2024 -- The urgency of deescalating tensions along the frontier that separates Lebanese and Israeli armed forces, "cannot be overstated", a senior UN humanitarian official said on Tuesday.
- Hezbollah conducts fresh drone, missile attacks on occupied Galilee, Golan IRNA 20 Aug 2024 -- Heavy drone and rocket attacks were launched by the Lebanese Hezbollah on the positions of the Zionist regime's army and Zionist settlements in the north of occupied Palestine, media sources reported.
- Hezbollah launches fresh attacks on headquarters of Zionist regime IRNA 20 Aug 2024 -- Lebanon's Islamic resistance announced that it carried out several new attacks against the positions of the Zionist military in the north of the occupied territories.
- Hezbollah pounds Israeli positions with 60 missiles IRNA 20 Aug 2024 -- Various news sources reported on Tuesday that the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, fired 60 missiles from southern Lebanon towards the north of the occupied territories and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
- Zionist regime's warplanes pound southern Lebanon again IRNA 20 Aug 2024 -- Israeli warplanes have bombed several areas of southern Lebanon as the Zionist regime intensifies its attacks on civilian targets in the Arab country.
- Hezbollah hammers Israeli targets after eight wounded in regime's attacks on Bekaa Press TV 20 Aug 2024 -- Tensions between the Israeli regime and Hezbollah have escalated as the Lebanese resistance group targeted Israeli military positions in response to the regime's overnight strikes on Lebanon's Bekaa region.
- Iraqi resistance Targets Ain Al-Assad IRNA 20 Aug 2024 -- A member of the political office of the Iraqi 'Al-Nujba' movement said that a few days ago its fighters targeted the "Ain al-Asad" base, where American soldiers are stationed.
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