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SvennoJ on 06 April 2025
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Main events on April 6th

  • Israeli forces continue attacks across Gaza, bombing makeshift shelters and killing at least 43 Palestinians since the early hours of Sunday, according to medics.
  • Israel’s military orders Palestinians in five neighbourhoods of Deir el-Balah to flee, after intercepting five of 10 rockets fired towards the cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon.
  • Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, has claimed the rocket attack, saying the strike was in retaliation for Israel’s mass killings in Gaza.
  • An Israeli settler has shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian-American boy near the town of Turmus Aya, in the occupied West Bank.
  • US forces continue bombarding Yemen, killing at least four people in the capital, Sanaa, according to the Houthi rebels.
  • Israeli forces bomb southern Lebanon, a week after raiding the capital, Beirut, killing at least two people in the town of Zibqin.

The UN is paralysed by ‘toxic division in morality and vision’: Former official

Former United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator Martin Griffiths told Al Jazeera that in his five decades of involvement in humanitarian work, he has not seen a situation like Gaza “where aid is completely blocked, obviously a war crime, and is not addressed as a criminal act”.

He said he does not trust the United States and Israel to change “their minds voluntarily”.

He maintained that “people haven’t lost humanity”, and urged “mass mobilisation and establishment of the international conscience”, which could lead other states to pressure the US and Israel to stop their actions in Gaza.

He said the UN is “paralysed by this toxic division in morality and vision”.


One killed in Israeli attack on journalists near Gaza’s Nasser Hospital

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have shelled a tent housing journalists near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

At least one person has been killed and several others wounded. Those injured include Al Jazeera photojournalist Mahmoud Awad.

Israeli forces have killed more than 200 Palestinian journalists in Gaza since launching the war on the enclave in October 2023.



Translation: Urgent – Martyrs and wounded as Israeli warplanes target a journalist’s tent at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.