GAZA LIVE BLOG: Death toll rises in Gaza City | Israeli government ‘disappeared’ | Hezbollah attacks military site – Day 261

From the Palestine Chronicle editorial board

The death toll from Israeli bombings of Gaza City rose to 56 in less than 24 hours.

Israel’s Energy Minister Eli Cohen said that in the event of a large-scale war with Hezbollah, energy facilities would be threatened because the Lebanese group attacked the headquarters of the Sahel Battalion with an attack drone.

The Metulla Council spokesman said the government had disappeared from northern Israel.

According to the Gaza Strip Ministry of Health, 37,551 Palestinians were killed and 85,911 injured in Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7.

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LAST UPDATE

Sunday, June 23, 11:00 (GMT+2)

UNRWA: 69% of school buildings housing displaced persons in the Gaza Strip were bombed or directly damaged.

No place in the Gaza Strip is safe and this blatant disregard for international humanitarian law must end immediately.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The death toll from Israeli bombings of Gaza City has risen to 56 in less than 24 hours.

AL-JAZEERA: Eight Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bomb attack on a house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood south of Gaza City.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: One Palestinian was killed and others injured in an Israeli attack on a group of civilians north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Sunday, June 23, 10:00 (GMT+2)

KNESSET MEMBER TO MAARIV: The opposition of Knesset members to the coalition is growing and could lead to its dissolution. Our problem in the north is that we are stuck in Gaza and are stumbling there. We cannot wage a large-scale war against Hezbollah until we end the war in Gaza.

Sunday, June 23, 09:00 (GMT+2)

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We bombed an important target in Eilat.

MAARIV: The Maariv newspaper quoted Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen as saying that energy facilities would be threatened in the event of a large-scale war with Hezbollah, and suggested that the government was working to protect them.

EHUD BARAK: The only way to release the prisoners is to end the war.

ISRAELI CHANNEL 12 (citing Israeli officials): Talks on the exchange have reached an impasse. We have no choice but to continue the military pressure.

Hezbollah: We attacked the headquarters of the Sahel Battalion with an attack drone.

GALLANT: I ​​will discuss with American officials the transition to phase three.

Sunday, June 23, 08:00 (GMT+2)

SMOTRICH: I will fight the threat of the establishment of a Palestinian state with all my strength.

UKMTO: A merchant vessel was reported attacked west of Hodeidah, Yemen, causing damage.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: A drone launched from Lebanon exploded near Beit Hillel in the Upper Galilee.

CHANNEL 12: At dawn, an explosion rocked Haifa.

METULLA COUNCIL SPEAKER: For us, the government has disappeared.

Sunday, June 23, 07:00 (GMT+2)

US ARMY: No serious damage from Houthi attack in the Gulf of Aden.

US CENTRAL COMMAND: Ansarallah has fired three anti-ship ballistic missiles toward the Gulf of Aden.

Sunday, June 23, 06:00 (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli helicopters and tanks fire on the center of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Sunday, June 23, 05:20 (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli warplanes have carried out two attacks on a house north of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND: In the last 24 hours, we have destroyed three Houthi (Ansarallah) drones in the Red Sea.

(The Palestine Chronicle)