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SvennoJ on 02 April 2025
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Main events on April 2nd

  • Israeli attacks killed at least 77 Palestinians across Gaza on Wednesday, including 22 people in a strike on a clinic run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Jabalia.
  • Israel’s army has also expanded its ground assault on the Strip, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he wants to create a new corridor separating Rafah and Khan Younis in the south.
  • Netanyahu set off for Hungary late on Wednesday, despite calls for the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban to adhere to an International Criminal Court warrant and arrest the Israeli leader.
  • Israeli warplanes have bombed several military sites and a research facility in Syria, in what Damascus has decried as “unjustifiable escalation” aiming to threaten stability.
  • The US military launched new air strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Wednesday, reportedly killing at least five people.
  • An Iranian commander reiterated Tehran will move towards a nuclear bomb if attacked, as Israel held talks with France amid a rare defence cabinet meeting convened by French President Emmanuel Macron.

 

Syria urges international community to pressure Israel to end ‘aggression’

The Syrian Foreign Ministry calls the wave of Israeli attacks an “unjustifiable escalation” that aims to threaten stability in Syria and prolong the suffering of its people.

“The Syrian Arab Republic calls an international community to take a firm position and pressure Israel to end its aggression and adhere to international law,” the ministry said in a statement.


Palestinian Presidency condemns Israeli plan to further divide Gaza

The presidency of the Palestinian Authority has rejected Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that Israel will create a second Philadelphi Corridor to separate Rafah from Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

It said in a statement that this further indicates Israel’s intentions to “perpetuate its occupation of the Gaza Strip and divide it” in violation of international law, according to the official Wafa news agency.

The PA called on the international community, especially the UN Security Council, to urgently intervene and halt Israeli aggression.

The presidency called on Hamas to “stop its dependence on foreign agendas, prioritise the supreme interests of our people, and respond to the demands of our people in Gaza to lift Hamas’s grip on the Strip”.