GAZA LIVE BLOG: Protests in Israel | 281 Attacks in August | US: Final Proposal | Destroying Jenin – Day 332
The general strike began in Israel in solidarity with families of prisoners held in Gaza and in rejection of Netanyahu’s obstruction of a deal. The strike includes schools, universities, Ben Gurion Airport, public transportation, and broad economic sectors.
The United States plans to submit a final agreement proposal to the parties in the coming weeks on the war in Gaza, according to the Washington Post.
At least four Palestinians were killed and others were injured in the Israeli bombing of a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 40,786 Palestinians have been killed, and 94,224 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Monday, September 2, 11:45 pm (GMT+2)
NBC: US President Joe Biden may present the final offer to Hamas and Israel as soon as this week.
LAPID: Israel withdrew from the Philadelphi corridor 19 years ago and Netanyahu supported that.
HAMAS: Netanyahu is looking for an imaginary victory that he failed to market.
ANSARALLAH: We carried out a qualitative operation against a ship in the Red Sea.
Monday, September 2, 10:30 pm (GMT+2)
AL-QASSAM: Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast a video recording of the Israeli captive, Idan Yerushalmi, who appealed to Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to work on concluding a deal to release her.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Thousands of demonstrators surround Likud Party headquarters.
KAN: Senior American officials expressed their frustration in closed talks with Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent steps.
Monday, September 2, 10:00 pm (GMT+2)
BIDEN: US President Joe Biden said that they are still continuing negotiations for a ceasefire and the release of prisoners, adding that the negotiations are taking place with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s team, not with Netanyahu himself.
ABU OBEIDA: Netanyahu and the occupation army alone bear full responsibility for the deaths of prisoners after they deliberately disrupted any deal. Netanyahu’s insistence on releasing the prisoners through military pressure instead of concluding a deal means they will return in coffins. The families of Israeli prisoners must choose between returning them dead or alive.
Monday, September 2, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)
NETANYAHU: The achievement of the four war objectives passes through the Philadelphia axis.
BRICK: We will bring ourselves down if we continue fighting in Gaza.
KAMALA HARRIS: It’s time for a ceasefire in Gaza.
GALLANT: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant expressed his “deep” disappointment over British measures regarding arms export licenses.
AL-JAZEERA: Thousands have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv to demand a prisoner swap deal, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused of obstructing the deal.
Monday, September 2, 8:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI FM: Britain’s decision to suspend some arms exports to Israel “sends an ambiguous message to Hamas and Iran.”
MAARIV: The Israeli Center for Security Studies confirmed that Hezbollah launched 281 attacks on northern Israel last August, killing 3 Israelis and wounding 30 others.
WHITE HOUSE: US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris discussed the next steps to secure the release of detainees in the Gaza Strip.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: The relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant has reached a dead end.
Monday, September 2, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted the town of Houla in southern Lebanon.
DAVID LAMMY: London will suspend 30 arms export licenses to Israel, including equipment used in the current war on the Gaza Strip.
IRANIAN FM: Iran is seeking to reduce tension, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to expand violence in all areas, including the West Bank.
HAARETZ (citing senior Israeli Air Force officer): It is impossible to continue the war without American support. The Israeli officer added that the army is working on a recommendation to increase local ammunition production to reduce dependence on foreign countries.
HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the settlements of Ein Yaakov, Ga’aton and Yehiam in northern Israel for the second time with Katyusha rockets.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Our fighters detonated an explosive device in an Israeli military bulldozer in the schools axis in Tulkarm camp in the occupied West Bank.
GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: Five Palestinians were killed as a result of Israeli shelling in front of Al-Fakhoura School, which houses displaced people in Jabaliya camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
Monday, September 2, 6:00 pm (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces blew up residential homes in the middle of Jenin camp, especially on Al-Damj Street in the occupied West Bank.
CHANNEL 12: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will not withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, neither after 42 days nor after 42 years.
ISRAELI MEDIA (citing political official): It is strange that US President Joe Biden is pressuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and not the head of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar.
AL-JAZEERA: Explosions were heard in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
Monday, September 2, 5:00 pm (GMT+2)
BIDEN: Netanyahu is not doing enough to reach a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, as he insists on staying in the Netzarim and Philadelphi axes.
AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians, including a child, were killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a group of citizens northwest of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
NETANYAHU: We will respond forcefully to the killing of the six detainees.
Monday, September 2, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAEL HAYOM: Israeli police arrested 7 demonstrators in Tel Aviv.
HEZBOLLAH: We bombarded the settlements of Ein Yaakov, Ga’aton and Yehiam with Katyusha rockets.
CHANNEL 14: Gunfire targeted an Israeli military site near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
CHANNEL 12: The strike in Israel is in support of Yahya Sinwar.
Monday, September 2, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI MEDIA: The Labor Court issued an order to end the Histadrut workers’ union strike at 2:30 pm local time.
AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli police suppressed protesters against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s torpedoing of the deal in the Ayalon axis in Tel Aviv and arrested some of them.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Our fighters continue to target enemy forces on the battlefronts in Jenin camp.
AL-JAZEERA: Demonstrators demanding a prisoner swap are closing the Ayalon axis, which connects Tel Aviv’s major cities to each other.
CHANNEL 14: Israeli soldiers injured in the Gaza Strip battles did not receive treatment at Sheba Hospital due to the strike.
ISRAEL HAYOM: The newspaper quoted the Minister of Settlement Orit Struck as saying: I went to the military secretary and the security cabinet to declare a state of war in the West Bank.
Monday, September 2, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)
GAZA MUNICIPALITY: The car targeted by Israel belonged to the municipality. One employee was killed.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 40,786 Palestinians have been killed, and 94,224 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
ISRAEL HAYOM: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant summoned members of his party in the Knesset to his office to explain his positions, and informed them that he does not intend to resign.
LAZZARINI: More than 70% of our schools in Gaza were destroyed.
ISRAELI ARMY RADIO (Citing Labor Court Judge): We accept the Histadrut’s proposal regarding the strike, and we will not issue any arrest warrants.
BEN-GVIR: We have the authority, and we are exerting great pressure to oppose the deal, and I hope that the prime minister will not feel confused and that no one will back down.
Monday, September 2, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: The Israeli Federation of Trade Unions informed the Labor Court that the strike will end tonight but Channel 12 reported that workers at Ben Gurion Airport and Israeli Airlines decided to continue the strike and cause chaos at the airport.
LAPID (in a letter to government members): You are complicit in the greatest disaster in the country’s history and bear responsibility for all decisions. The kidnapped are dying one by one and the army is in its deepest crisis.
CNN (citing Israeli officials): We are outraged by the killing of the six hostages, and the government owes their families an apology.
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The Al-Qassam Brigades claimed full responsibility for the Gush Etzion and Karmei Tzur operations near the city of Hebron last Friday.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced that one of its drones fell a short while ago in Ashkelon without causing any injuries, noting that the incident is being investigated.
Monday, September 2, 11:00 am (GMT+2)
KAN: Demonstrators are staging a sit-in in front of the house of Arnon Bar-David, head of the labor unions, in support of him.
CHANNEL 12: 5 shells were detected fired from Lebanon towards the settlement of Matat in the Upper Galilee.
LEBANESE HEALTH MINISTRY: Two people were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a car in the town of Naqoura, south of Lebanon.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army said it bombed Hezbollah military buildings in the areas of Yaroun, Aita al-Shaab, Hanin, Tyre Harfa and Bayda in southern Lebanon.
WALLA: We are considering extending the general strike until tomorrow and expanding it to include larger sectors.
KAN: Dozens of Haredim are demonstrating near the recruitment office in Tel Hashomer, refusing to be recruited.
Monday, September 2, 09:30 am (GMT+2)
WAFA:
At least four Palestinians were killed and others were injured in the Israeli bombing of a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes launched a raid on Nuseirat camp, coinciding with heavy and random gunfire from the occupation’s vehicles north of the camp.
ISRAELI MEDIA: A car bomb was defused at the entrance to the Atarit settlement, northwest of Ramallah in the West Bank.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a civilian car in the vicinity of Al-Rimal Clinic, west of Gaza City.
CHANNEL 12: The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations is calling on the Security Council to hold an emergency session to discuss the situation of prisoners in Gaza.
WALLA: A house in the town of Avivim in the Upper Galilee was directly hit by an anti-tank missile launched from Lebanon.
Monday, September 2, 08:00 am (GMT+2)
PRCS: We received from the occupation forces an unidentified prisoner martyr at the Salem checkpoint west of the city of Jenin.
AL-JAZEERA: General strike begins in Israel in solidarity with families of prisoners held in Gaza and in rejection of Netanyahu’s obstruction of a deal. The strike includes schools, universities, Ben Gurion Airport, public transportation and broad economic sectors.
LAPID: Netanyahu invented the Philadelphi Corridor obstacle to thwart a deal.
UKMTO: A merchant ship captain reports that his ship was hit by two unknown projectiles 70 nautical miles northwest of Al-Salif in Yemen.
Monday, September 2, 06:30 am (GMT+2)
THE WHITE HOUSE: President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet Monday with the U.S. negotiating team following the killing of the American prisoner held in Gaza.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli warplanes targeted a house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
WASHINGTON POST (Citing US officials): The US plans to submit a final agreement proposal to the parties in the coming weeks on the war in Gaza.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a building used by Israeli soldiers in the Avivim settlement, directly hitting it.
AL-JAZEERA: Occupation forces stormed the new Askar camp in Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
