Among them, there are also children and former prisoners, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society NGO. This comes amid near daily raids and mass arrests by the Israeli army across the occupied West Bank since the start of the war on Gaza.

The arrests took place during multiple raids in Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin and Jerusalem, according to the Wafa news agency.

In Tulkarem, Israeli soldiers arrested a young man after they beat him and ransacked his family house, the report said.

_{Israeli soldiers operate during a raid, at Nour Shams camp, in Tulkarm, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank}

Among the more than 8,000 Palestinians arrested, about 3,660 have been placed under the so-called administrative detention, a procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely “on secret information”, which is not accessible to the detainee nor their lawyer, and without charging them or allowing them to stand trial.

So far, across the West Bank, there have been four raids on cities and seven on villages and towns. And just in the last 30 minutes, we’ve heard that west of Ramallah, a village is now being raided by Israeli forces.

The raid on Tulkarem ended three or four hours ago. We know that Israeli forces went in and took security cameras off the street in front of Palestinian homes that residents use to monitor the raids.

What we assume is that the Israeli military was looking for a commander of the Palestinian resistance fighters’ battalion in Tulkarem. It was widely reported that Israeli forces killed this commander a few weeks ago during a three-day raid on the camp, but when the dust settled from that raid, it turned out that he was still alive, remaining a thorn no doubt in the side of the Israeli forces.

In a raid on Jenin, young Palestinians were killed. What we know is that they were left to bleed out for about an hour before ambulances were allowed to arrive and attend to them.

This is a violation of international law. Israeli soldiers are obligated by international law to give life-saving aid, even in an instance such as this.

Police wearing riot gear arrested dozens of antiwar protesters at a university protest in Denver, Colorado, on Friday, Colorado Newsline reported.

A statement from the Auraria Gaza Solidarity Encampment called on the University of Colorado to divest from companies operating in Israel and to issue a “statement condemning the genocidal actions of Israel”.

Campus security and Denver police reported that approximately 40 people were arrested at Auraria Campus, the combined site of three colleges.

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As tens of thousands of people are expected to march in central London in support of Palestinians, Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)’s director Ben Jamal says the movement wants to deliver two main messages.

“One is for the Palestinian people, a message of solidarity,” Jamal told Al Jazeera. “We see you, we hear you, we stand with you.”

The second message, Jamal said, is addressed to the British political establishment “to end their complicity with Israel’s genocide against Palestinian people”.

The PSC’s chief dismissed critics saying that protests have been anti-Semitic. “This tactic of conflating anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the State of Israel is a very familiar one, and is used globally by Israel to silence those who are advocating for Palestinian rights,” he said.

Dozens of people are marching through the streets of the Swedish city to express support for Palestinians and call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, according to a live feed of the rally posted by the European Palestinian Media Centre.

The protesters can be seen with Palestinian flags and keffiyehs, holding up banners stating slogans such as “Free Palestine”, “Boycott Israel”, and “Ceasefire now”.

Weekly marches in solidarity with the Palestinians have been taking place in cities worldwide since the start of the war, while pro-Palestine demonstrations that started in US universities in recent weeks have expanded globally.

Lebanon has moved towards accepting the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction to prosecute violations on its territory since October, in what Human Rights Watch said was a “landmark step” towards justice for war crimes.

Lebanon has accused Israel of repeatedly violating its sovereignty and committing breaches of international law over the last six months, during which the Israeli military and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah have traded fire across Lebanon’s southern border in parallel with the war in Gaza.

That cross-border shelling has killed at least 70 civilians, including children, rescue workers and journalists, among them Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah.

Lebanon’s caretaker cabinet voted to instruct the Foreign Ministry to file a declaration with the ICC accepting the court’s jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute crimes committed on Lebanese territory since October 7.

Hundreds of Palestinians inside Israel have demonstrated in the western city of Baqa to demand that Israeli authorities release the body of the prisoner Walid Daqqa, who died in an Israeli hospital.

Daqqa, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, had been imprisoned since 1986. He had terminal cancer, but Israeli authorities refused to release him on humanitarian grounds. When he died on April 7, authorities also refused to release his body to his family for burial.

Protesters demonstrated against the Israeli policy of withholding the bodies of Palestinian prisoners. Israeli authorities are holding the bodies of 26 Palestinian prisoners who died in their prisons, including 16 since October 7.

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A flotilla aiming to deliver aid to Gaza has been blocked in Turkey after the West African country of Guinea-Bissau withdrew its flagged vessels.

At an Istanbul news conference, about 280 volunteers – activists, lawyers and doctors – who had hoped to join the ships shouted slogans including “Flag the flotilla”, “We will sail” and “Free Palestine”. “Sadly, Guinea-Bissau has allowed itself to become complicit in Israel’s deliberate starvation, illegal siege and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza,” said the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

“The Guinea-Bissau International Ships Registry (GBISR), in a blatantly political move, informed the Freedom Flotilla Coalition that it had withdrawn the Guinea Bissau flag from two of the Freedom Flotilla’s ships, one of which is our cargo ship, already loaded with over 5,000 tons of life-saving aid,” the coalition said.

The group said the Guinea-Bissau authorities made several “extraordinary” requests for information including destinations, potential additional port calls, cargo manifest, and estimated arrival dates and times.

Three of the flotilla’s ships have been docked for a week at the port of Tuzla, south of Istanbul. They had planned to set sail Friday.

Royal Navy support ship Cardigan Bay will assist the international effort to construct the temporary floating pier, which is set to be completed early next month, the US Department of Defense has said.

The pier will initially facilitate the delivery of 90 truckloads of international aid a day into Gaza, rising to up to 150 truckloads once fully operational, according to US estimates.

The aid will be prescreened in Cyprus and delivered directly to Gaza via the pier off the coast or via the Port of Ashdod, which Israel has said it will open to aid vessels.

“It is critical we establish more routes for vital humanitarian aid to reach the people of Gaza and the UK continues to take a leading role in the delivery of support,” UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said.

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Police in riot gear cleared an encampment on the campus of the Boston-based university, The Associated Press news agency reports. Several dozen students shouted and booed at police from a distance, but the scene was otherwise not confrontational.

The school said in a statement that the demonstration, which began two days ago, had become “infiltrated by professional organisers”.

The University of Pennsylvania took similar action Friday when interim President J Larry Jameson called for an encampment of protesters on the west Philadelphia campus to be disbanded, saying it violates the university’s facilities policies.

Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian farmers in residential areas in the occupied West Bank.

“The settler attacks occurred in the Jordan Valley [north], Hebron, and Bethlehem [south],” the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) and the Wafa news agency reported.

In a statement, the commission said Israelis from illegal settlements had “raided the homes and tents of citizens in the Jordan Valley area and destroyed their belongings, and attacked shepherds in the area”.

It added that the attack affected “the residence of citizen Fuad Draghmeh in the Ein al-Hilweh community in the northern Jordan Valley, and the tent of citizen Mohammed Abu Mta’awe in Al-Sakout area.

A witness also told the Anadolu news agency that armed settlers had attacked several Palestinian farmers inside their fields in the town of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, to force them to leave.

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The Israeli military has released footage from construction work for a floating pier on the coast of the central Gaza Strip, part of a US-led project to bring aid into the besieged coastal enclave.

It said the process was kickstarted with a joint workshop with the US.

“The area of the project covers about 67 acres [27 hectares], which are allocated for the operation and the passage of large amounts of goods to the field,” the military said on its official Telegram channel.

“In addition, a remote-controlled hydraulic gate system is being built, allowing for operational and logistical flexibility. Extensive electrical work is being done to support the facility and to accommodate the arrival of aid, both by land and by sea,” it said.

The military also said that the Israeli Navy will secure the floating pier until the end of the project.





For now it's just an effective way to cut Gaza in half, no more walking along the beach back to Northern gaza. It's at the end of the new 2 mile wide corridor Israel made in central Gaza splitting the territory in half.



But for some reason they can't use the Netzarim corridor to bring aid in from Israel....

Some senior US officials have advised Secretary of State Antony Blinken that they do not find “credible or reliable” Israel’s assurances that it is using US-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law, according to an internal State Department memo reviewed by Reuters.

Under a National Security Memorandum (NSM) issued by President Joe Biden in February, Blinken must report to Congress by May 8 whether he finds credible Israel’s assurances that its use of US weapons does not violate US or international law.

By March 24, at least seven State Department bureaus had sent their contributions to an initial “options memo” to Blinken. “Some components in the department favoured accepting Israel’s assurances, some favoured rejecting them, and some took no position,” an unnamed US official quoted by Reuters said.

A joint submission from four bureaus raised “serious concern over non-compliance” with international humanitarian law during Israel’s prosecution of the war on Gaza. The assessment from the four bureaus said Israel’s assurances were “neither credible nor reliable.” It cited eight examples of Israeli military actions that the officials said raise “serious questions” about potential violations of international humanitarian law.

These included repeatedly striking protected sites and civilian infrastructure; “unconscionably high levels of civilian harm to military advantage”; taking little action to investigate violations or to hold to account those responsible for significant civilian harm and “killing humanitarian workers and journalists at an unprecedented rate”.


_{Palestinians search for bodies and survivors amidst the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli air raid in Nuseirat refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, April 27}

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