By Palestine Chronicle Staff 
Israeli officials are furious over Washington’s decision to postpone an arms shipment while Yair Lapid accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of mishandling the situation.
An Israeli drone targeted a car in Lebanon, killing at least four people, whose identity has not been revealed yet.
Meanwhile, 60 Palestinians were killed, and 110 others were injured as Israeli strikes in Rafah intensified.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 34,904 Palestinians have been killed, and 78,514 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
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Wednesday, May 8, 1:00 pm (GMT +2)
ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER: We must establish a large city east of the Ariel settlement in the northern West Bank.
AL-JAZEERA: Three Palestinians were killed and others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation army’s bombing of a mosque in the Brazil neighborhood, south of the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
Wednesday, May 8, 12:30 pm (GMT +2)
RUSSIAN DEPUTY FM: Washington’s approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as always being “one-sided and irresponsible.”
AL-JAZEERA: One Palestinian was killed and two injured when occupation aircraft bombed a house for the Abu Sharia family in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
HERZOG (to Ben-Gvir): Irresponsible statements should be avoided.
Wednesday, May 8, 11:00 am (GMT +2)
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We targeted with mortar shells the occupation forces penetrating east of the city of Rafah
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 34,904 Palestinians have been killed, and 78,514 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Wednesday, May 8, 10:00 am (GMT +2)
UNRWA: 80,000 people have been displaced from Rafah since the intensification of the Israeli operation.
LEBANESE MEDICAL SOURCE: Four Lebanese were killed when an Israeli drone targeted a car in the town of Baflih, southern Lebanon. Their identities are not yet clear.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed with heavy-caliber mortar shells Israeli army military concentrations east of the Al-Shoka neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, where the resistance is engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation forces.
Wednesday, May 8, 09:00 am (GMT +2)
LAPID (to Maariv): Netanyahu was offered a safety net, but he did not make the deal because he is a prisoner of the insane Ben Gvir and Smotrich. Biden’s threat to prevent the supply of weapons comes as a result of the failed management of the Netanyahu government.
AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli drone targeted a car in the town of Baflih, southern Lebanon, while local media reported injuries, without identifying its owners.
AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted a house on Al-Madhaa Street in the Al-Geneina neighborhood, east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, where the occupation is intensifying its bombing of homes.