Despite Tough Resistance, Israel Continues to Pursue War, Hundreds More Killed – DAY 27

November 2, 2023

Gaza reel under new massacres carried out by the Israeli army. (Photo: via Social media)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff

International uproar against Israeli crimes against Palestinian civilians continues though Washington remains committed to Israel and its war against Gaza.

Meanwhile,  Gaza’s hospitals are collapsing amid an unprecedented health crisis and mounting casualties.

On the battlefront, Israel continues to suffer great losses as a result of stiff Palestinian resistance. 

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Friday, November 3, 03:48 am (GMT+3)

FOREIGN POLICY: Former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer said Benjamin Netanyahu’s days as Israel’s prime minister are numbered.

REUTERS: Two US security sources said that an armed drone was shot down on Thursday over the Harir military base, which hosts US troops in northern Iraq.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces continue to storm Jenin refugee camp and bulldoze roads in its vicinity. Earlier on Thursday, two Palestinians were killed in Jenin refugee camp after clashes broke out with the occupying forces as they stormed Jenin city and camp.

Friday, November 3, 00:39 am (GMT+3)

PALESTINIAN HEALTH MINISTRY: Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in Jenin.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians, including children, were killed and wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Ashqoula area in central Gaza .

US SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY: It does not seem that the Israelis will achieve the goal of ending the threat posed by Hamas.

PENTAGON: The US Secretary of Defense held telephone discussions with his Kuwaiti counterpart to consult on preventing escalation of the conflict.

REUTERS: Al-Harir Air Base, which hosts American forces in northern Iraq, and defense systems intercepted it.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: The Israeli government agreed to transfer tax funds to the Palestinian Authority, with the exception of funds allocated to the Gaza Strip.

BLINKEN: We continue to work with regional leaders to protect civilians and prevent the expansion of the conflict.

AUSTRALIAN FM: The international community will not accept continued civilian casualties in Gaza.

Thursday, November 2, 10:50 pm (GMT+3)

AL-MAYADEEN: Israeli Channel 12 said that an Israeli military officer was killed and three were seriously wounded in fighting at the outskirts of the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern occupied West Bank.

NBC (QUOTING WESTERN OFFICIALS): The prolonged period of Israel’s attack increases the risk of escalation in the region and antagonizing Arab governments.

IRANIAN FM: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that he discussed by telephone with the leader of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, the latest developments in Gaza and the West Bank.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The government may agree to stop attacks for a few hours. Israel will allow fuel to enter Gaza hospitals if it runs out, but under supervision.

PENTAGON: We focus on deterring others to prevent the expansion of the conflict

Thursday, November 2, 9:00 pm (GMT+3)

KIRBY: We are seeking to reach more than a humanitarian truce in Gaza.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: 335 officers and soldiers killed since the beginning of the war.

ABU OBEIDA: We destroyed an Israeli tank battalion, and the number of enemy deaths is much higher.

CNN (QUOTING US OFFICIAL): Iran and its proxies are seeking to avoid a broader war.

Thursday, November 2, 8:00 pm (GMT+3)

BLINKEN: We are determined to prevent escalation in any direction.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: 25 thousand tons of explosives have been dropped on Gaza so far.

ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli occupation army announced the killing of two soldiers from its ground forces penetrating into Gaza, bringing the death toll among its ranks to 20.

Thursday, November 2, 6:45 pm (GMT+3)

RESISTANCE NEWS NETWORK: Israeli authorities have asked Jewish settlers in Kiryat Shmona to go to shelters, due to fears of resistance drone infiltration from Lebanon.

UN EXPERTS: The Palestinian people face the threat of genocide.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades announced the “destruction of two Zionist tanks” in the northwestern Gaza axis with two “Al-Yassin 105” missiles.

GANTZ: The images coming from the battle are painful, and our tears fall when we see our soldiers falling.

ISRAELI ARMY: Another soldier was killed on Thursday in the Gaza battles, raising the total number of Israeli deaths since the start of the ground operation to 19.

Thursday, November 2, 6:00 pm (GMT+3)

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12: Dozens of rockets were fired from Lebanon into the Kiryat Shmona settlement.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted 19 military bases in a single strike along the Lebanese border.

Thursday, November 2, 6:00 pm (GMT+3)

ISRAELI FINANCE MINISTER: We are facing unprecedented financial losses.

Thursday, November 2, 5:30 pm (GMT+3)

NETANYAHU: There are losses among our forces, but we are determined to achieve the goals of the war.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES IN LEBANON: We bombed the Kiryat Shmona settlement and its surroundings with 12 missiles.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sound in 20 towns and cities in central Israel and the greater Tel Aviv area.

AL-JAZEERA: Families of Israeli detainees in Gaza demonstrated this evening in Tel Aviv to demand that the Israeli government work to release them.

AL-JAZEERA: A march took place in the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City, in rejection of the occupation’s request to leave the camp and the threat to bomb it.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted an Israeli infantry force that was holed up inside a building north of Beit Hanoun

ISRAELI CHIEF OF STAFF: Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said that the occupation army is waging a war in Gaza with a cruel enemy that carries a painful and heavy price.

WHO: Forced evacuation of hospitals in Gaza puts hundreds of patients at risk.

Thursday, November 2, 5:00 pm (GMT+3)

WHITE HOUSE: Biden convinced Netanyahu to temporarily stop bombing an area in Gaza to allow the transfer of two American hostages.

AL-JAZEERA: Violent bombing targets the towers surrounding Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We destroyed an Israeli tank in the northwestern Gaza axis and killed 3 soldiers near it.

HAMAS OFFICIAL OSAMA HAMDAN: The US administration and everyone who supports the enemy are partners in its massacres.

Thursday, November 2, 4:00 pm (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sound in 4 regions in the Upper Galilee and the Western Galilee on the border with Lebanon.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted two Zionist vehicles and a bulldozer in the southern Gaza axis with two “Al-Yassin 105” shells.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians have been killed and wounded in an Israeli raid that targeted the vicinity of a UNRWA school in the Shati (Beach) camp, west of Gaza.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We hit the vehicles penetrating northwest Gaza with mortar shells

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli army carried out a new raid near the Bureij camp in the Gaza Strip after a bombing that led to the death of 15 people and the loss of others.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We are engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation forces penetrating the Abu Absal area in Khan Yunis.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: Our crews are forced to walk on foot to reach the dead and wounded.

Thursday, November 2, 3:00 pm (GMT+3)

BRITISH PM: The British Prime Minister said that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak agreed with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the importance of urgently increasing the delivery of relief aid to the Gaza Strip.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: Blinken stressed during his meeting with the Saudi Defense Minister the importance of enhancing regional stability, including Yemen.

BAHRAIN: The Bahraini Parliament confirms the recall of the Manama ambassador from Israel and the severing of economic relations.

Thursday, November 2, 2:00 pm (GMT+3)

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We targeted the military concentrations in the vicinity of the shipbuilding in the northwest of the Gaza Strip with mortar shells.

RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: The situation in Gaza is developing according to a “very negative” scenario and its consequences will last a long time.

UNRWA: 70 of our employees in the Gaza Strip have been killed since last October.

BAHRAIN PARLIAMENT: Bahrain said on Thursday it expelled the Israeli ambassador to Manama and recalled its envoy from Tel Aviv, citing the Israeli war on Gaza.

Thursday, November 2, 1:00 pm (GMT+3)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7 has risen to 9,061, with over 32,000 wounded. Israel committed 15 massacres in the last 24 hours, killing 256 Palestinians.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed or injured after the occupation aircraft bombed a house in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: An Israeli senior officer was killed in the ongoing battles in the northern Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sound in the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Hezbollah targeted the Israeli site Al-Abad in southern Lebanon with a guided missile.

AL-JAZEERA: Dozens of displaced Palestinians have been killed in a bombing that targeted the northern Gaza Strip.

GERMANY: German Interior Minister Nancy Weiser announced Thursday that her country has banned the activities of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) as well as the Samidoun prisoner defense network that supports the Palestinians.

Thursday, November 2, 11:15 am (GMT+3)

ISRAELI ARMY: The number of soldiers and officers killed since October 7 has risen to 332.

ISRAELI CHANNEL 14: A Jewish settler was killed following a shooting in the town of Beit Lid in the West Bank.

PALESTINIAN HEALTH MINISTRY: 340 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the beginning of the year, including 132 since October 7.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Our elite forces clashed with an Israeli infantry force east of Khan Yunis.

AL-QASSAM: We targeted a group of enemy soldiers with an anti-personnel RPG shell.

Thursday, November 2, 10:00 am (GMT+3)

ISRAELI ARMY: “We are fighting fierce battles in the Gaza Strip and have killed dozens of militants”.

PALESTINIAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH: A Palestinian man was killed by Israeli occupation bullets in Qalqilya, in the northern West Bank, and two others were seriously injured.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelling targeted the vicinity of the towns of Aita al-Shaab and Ramia in the central sector of southern Lebanon.

TURKISH HEALTH MINISTER: Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital operating in Gaza stopped its work completely yesterday as a result of running out of fuel.

Thursday, November 2, 9:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli bombardment targeted the fishermen’s port west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, with a number of missiles.

AL-JAZEERA: 5 Palestinians were killed a others wounded in an Israeli bombing with white phosphorous bombs that targeted the vicinity of an UNRWA school in the Beach camp, west of Gaza.

Thursday, November 2, 8:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-QASSAM: We targeted an Israeli tank surrounded by a number of soldiers in the Juhr al-Dik area with an “Al-Yassin 105” missile.

AL-JAZEERA: 3 Palestinians were and others were killed and others injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation aircraft launched a raid on the Al-Faluga area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip.

Thursday, November 2, 7:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Martyrs and wounded as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes renewed their raids on the Tal al-Hawa area in the Gaza Strip for the second time within hours.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes renew their raids on the Tal al-Hawa area in Gaza.

Thursday, November 2, 6:00 am (GMT+3)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sound around the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI ARMY: A soldier from the 7007 Battalion was killed during the ongoing battles in the northern Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces stormed several areas in the West Bank.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted two Zionist tanks and bulldozers in the northwestern Gaza axis with two “Al-Yassin 105” shells.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli occupation army launched intensive raids on areas in the Gaza Strip.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: Antony Blinken will discuss in Tel Aviv efforts to protect Americans in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, and the release of “hostages.”

(The Palestine Chronicle)