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SvennoJ on 16 April 2025
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Main events on April 16th

  • Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 35 people over the past day, including 15 people – mostly women and children – in a strike on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi in the south.
  • Palestinian journalist Fatima Hassouneh and 10 members of her family were also killed by an Israeli air strike targeting their home in Gaza City in the north.
  • US military attacks on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen have continued, with one person killed in an air raid targeting a residential neighbourhood in the capital Sanaa, according to local media.
  • The Israeli military has shot and killed two Palestinians, including a 19-year-old,  southeast of Jenin in the occupied West Bank and is withholding their bodies.
  • Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said Israel will continue to block any humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, in a tactic rights groups have described as a war crime.
  • Katz also said Israeli troops will remain in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, as the military tightens its grip on several occupied territories.


Palestinians at the site of an Israeli air strike on tents sheltering displaced people, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 16


Israeli military ‘unleashed huge series of air strikes’ on tent shelters in Gaza

There has been a clear surge of military activity since the early hours of this morning until now. The sound of drones is quite unmistakable.

The Israeli military has unleashed a huge series of air strikes that targeted makeshift tents in the city of Khan Younis and civilian gatherings in Deir el-Balah, and more distressing reports coming from the northern parts of Gaza.

Constant bombardment could be overheard in the eastern areas of the Strip, which also witnessed the shooting of illumination flares in order to give clear visibility for Israeli ground forces there in the eastern areas of Gaza City.


Palestinian emergency workers try to extinguish the flames after an Israeli air strike on tents sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, late on Wednesday night