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SvennoJ on 04 April 2025
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Main events on April 4th

  • Israeli military attacks killed at least 38 Palestinians in Gaza on Friday, 30 of whom were in the south of the enclave, as Israeli forces switched focus from its assault on the north.
  • The UN’s World Food Programme said its Gaza aid programmes “are gradually shutting down” after a month of Israel blocking all humanitarian supplies entering the Strip.
  • Israel has restricted Palestinians’ access to roughly two-thirds of Gaza either by declaring large areas as no-go zones or issuing forced displacement orders, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
  • A spokesperson for the military wing of Hamas said half of living captives held in Gaza are in areas under Israeli forced evacuation orders, placing them in “extreme danger”.
  • The UN said Israel’s assault on the occupied West Bank since January 21 has caused the largest displacement of Palestinians since the 1967 Six-Day War.
  • The Houthis in Yemen have claimed another attack on the USS Harry Truman, and promised to continue, after US fighter jets carried out more strikes on the country.

Rights groups call out EU’s ‘selectivity’ in ICC arrest warrants as Netanyahu visits Hungary

The Ramallah-based rights group Al-Haq has joined dozens of human rights organisations in calling on the European Union to defend the International Criminal Court (ICC) against attacks by the US administration of President Donald Trump and others.

The joint letter also calls on the EU to enforce ICC arrest warrants, noting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Budapest at the invitation of the Hungarian prime minister despite the Israeli leader being wanted by the ICC over suspected war crimes in Gaza.

“Regrettably, officials from the governments of several other European Union member states, including France, Poland, Italy, Romania, and Germany have recently explicitly said that they would not uphold their obligations or failed to commit to enforce the court’s warrant,” the rights groups said.

“Italy has also returned an ICC fugitive to Libya, apparently flouting its obligation to arrest and surrender him to the ICC,” they said.

“Ambivalent or even negative signals about the validity of ICC decisions erode EU law, practice, and commitment to international justice and display regrettable selectivity, sending the message that the rule of law is for some, but not all,” they add.




US military carries out more strikes on Yemen

As we have been reporting, the US military has been carrying out repeated attacks on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen over recent weeks. Now, Houthi-affiliated news outlet Al Masirah TV reports that US fighter jets have carried out two air strikes on the Kahlan area east of the city of Saada.


Israeli military launches attacks in north, south Gaza

The Israeli military is carrying out overnight attacks in Gaza, with an Al Jazeera correspondent in the south of the besieged enclave reporting that residential buildings in the city of Rafah have been hit by air strikes. The Quds News Network and the Palestinian Information Center also report that air attacks and shelling have taken place in the Shujayea and Zeitoun neighbourhoods of Gaza City in the north.