Main events on April 24th
- Israeli military attacks have killed more than 60 people and injured dozens across Gaza over the past day, including 12 people from the same family when fighter jets bombed their home in Jabalia.
- Six members of another family, a couple and their four children, were also killed when an Israeli air strike levelled their home in Gaza City.
- Speaking in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, Israeli military chief of staff Eyal Zamir threatened to expand Israel’s offensive to an “intense” level if the captives are not released.
- In the occupied West Bank town of al-Yamoun, Palestinians held a funeral procession for a 12-year-old boy shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on Wednesday.
- Itamar Ben-Gvir’s planned appearance at a synagogue in Long Island has been cancelled, a day after Israel’s far-right national security minister faced intense protests in New Haven, where he gave a speech to Jewish Yale University students.
- The US military dropped dozens of bombs on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, continuing its daily attacks that have killed more than 200 people since mid-March.
Apocalyptic day’ as Israel targets residential homes in packed areas of Gaza
It’s another bloody and apocalyptic day that has been marked with relentless Israeli bombardments that we have seen over the course of the past 12 hours.
The Israeli military has focused pretty much on targeting residential homes in densely populated areas of Gaza. We can understand from these air strikes that they have left behind a number of Palestinians who have been killed and injured.
Palestinian Civil Defence members have reported on the unsurmountable challenges that they have been facing during the recovery and rescue operations being conducted in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
There has also been more escalation in military activities by Israeli drones and fighter jets that we continue to hear on the ground.
‘Many around us seek our elimination’: Israeli FM claims as Palestinian deaths surge
As the Israeli military continues to bomb the besieged Gaza Strip to devastating effect, Israel’s foreign minister said once again that his country is merely defending itself.
“We know, and the whole world knows (even if it does not draw necessary conclusions), that many around us today seek our elimination,” Gideon Saar told foreign diplomats in Tel Aviv at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony.
“It is not that they are only dreaming of it. They are planning it. They are taking action to execute it,” he claimed.
According to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, at least 51,305 Palestinians have been confirmed killed and 117,096 wounded in Israel’s war on the Strip since it began 18 months ago.
