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Main events on April 27th

  • Israeli forces have killed at least 50 people in Gaza, including several people sheltering in tents in the so-called “safe zone” of al-Mawasi.
  • Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun calls for international pressure to stop Israel’s attacks after the Israeli military bombed what it called a Hezbollah missile storage facility in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
  • Ibrahim Mousawi, a legislator in Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, has dismissed the Israeli claim, saying the attack and warning that preceded it are aimed at “terrorising” the Lebanese people.
  • Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again dismissed the idea of establishing a Palestinian state to reach peace, calling the proposal “a folly”.
  • Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani says there has been “a bit of progress” in talks aimed at securing a new truce in Gaza.
  • US forces continue bombing Yemen, killing at least eight people in air raids on three homes in the capital, Sanaa.

‘Unimaginable horror’ in Gaza as Israeli attacks continue

The Israeli military has carried out more deadly attacks. Civilians and more children, unfortunately, are among the casualties.

We’ve seen some heartbreaking footage, of the body of a brother and that of his sister being hugged by their surviving family members on the floor of the morgue of Al-Aqsa Hospital.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces are continuing to attack tents in the central area, including Deir el-Balah city and the refugee camps, as well as here in Gaza City. The eastern part of the city, the Tuffah neighbourhood, has been under relentless Israeli attack for the past three weeks, and the Shujayea and Zeitoun neighbourhoods, too.

We’re also keeping an eye on this evolving story of a residential home that was bombed and destroyed completely. Four people were initially reported killed, and then within half an hour, four more were recovered from under the rubble.

The Palestinian Civil Defense is saying there are more people still buried and missing underneath the huge pile of rubble. But the rescue effort had to stop because of nightfall and Israeli drones filling the skies of the eastern part of the Gaza Strip.

That’s unfortunately the scenario of every attack at night time – rescue efforts and missions have to come to an end, given the risk involved in continuing this work.

The death toll is not just numbers. We are talking about fathers, mothers, infants – innocent people lost in moments of unimaginable horror as the attacks continue.