Israeli drone attack targets house in Khan Younis

Several people have been injured after an Israeli drone targeted a house in central Khan Younis, southern Gaza, our correspondent on the ground reported.

As we reported earlier, at least nine people were killed during an overnight Israeli attack on Khan Younis, as Israel ramps up its attacks on the enclave since breaking the January ceasefire.


Attack on Khan Younis ‘nothing short of pure brutality’

In Khan Younis, Israeli air attacks have killed 19 people this morning as bombardments increase in the enclave.

Mohamed Abou Ouda, a Khan Younis resident, told Al Jazeera that he woke up to his neighbour’s house having collapsed onto his.

“We did not hear the sound of a missile. We only saw smoke and a huge explosion that shook the whole neighbourhood. My neighbours were brought into my house torn to pieces,” Ouda said, adding that their home was now a pile of “twisted metal and burning memories”.

Abu Khaleel al-Madhoon, another resident of Khan Younis, said he was “devastated” by the attack.

“They were kind, peaceful people, never involved in anything. The explosion shook the entire area like an earthquake. The family was asleep, unaware, and in an instant … everything was gone. Children, women, all killed in cold blood. This is nothing short of pure brutality."


_{Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli attack on a house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 6}

Survivor of Khan Younis attack describes women, children ‘blown to pieces’

Jamal al-Mdhoun, a resident of Khan Younis, tells Al Jazeera how he survived the early morning bombing of a home that killed at least nine people.

“We were peacefully sleeping, … and all of a sudden, homes were levelled, roofs brought down on innocent women’s and children’s heads. Missiles heavy enough to reduce mountains to ashes are fired on children,” he said.

“We pulled out eight dead bodies, all of them women and children – not a single man,” he added.

“They are raising false claims [that they are targeting fighters]. All are lies. Their goal is to kill any human being with a Muslim identity. Those innocent women and children were all blown to pieces.”

_{People carry the body of a Palestinian from the site of an attack in Khan Younis}

Israeli army says about 10 projectiles fired from Gaza

The Israeli army says about “10 projectiles were identified crossing into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip” and “most of them were successfully intercepted.” It added that the details are currently under review.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz said fragments from the projectiles reportedly fell in Ashkelon and Gan Yavne, damaging vehicles and lightly injuring three people.

Intensive Israeli raids north of Deir el-Balah

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that Israeli warplanes are carrying out intensive raids north of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. This comes after the Israeli army and Hamas’s armed wing said rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza.

At least 43 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since this morning across the Gaza Strip.

Israeli army says five out of 10 projectiles intercepted

The Israeli army has now issued an update in which it says that of the approximately 10 “projectiles” that crossed into Israel, five were “successfully intercepted”.

It said “falls were identified in several areas” and that soldiers had been dispatched to the scenes and were operating in cooperation with Israeli security forces.

_{Emergency personnel work following a hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Ashkelon}

Netanyahu says ‘strong response’ to rocket fire from Gaza

The Israeli PM has ordered “a strong response” and approved the continuation of the “intensified” Israeli military operations in Gaza after around 10 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip, his office said in a statement.

It also stated that PM Benjamin Netanyahu had spoken with Defence Minister Israel Katz from his plane as he travelled to the US.

Israel issues forced displacement orders for Deir el-Balah

Avichay Adraee, an Israeli army spokesperson, says forced displacement orders have been issued to residents of the Deir el-Balah area.

He said this is a “final advance warning before the attack” and that the army “will attack with great force every area” from which rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip.

He said Palestinians must move “immediately south” to shelters in al-Mawasi, a so-called “safe zone” that Israel has repeatedly attacked during its war on Gaza.

US attack on Yemen capital killed four: Health Ministry

Two people killed in Israeli attack on Lebanon

A reminder that an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon today killed at least two people, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. The initial toll in the attack on Zibqin was one person but one wounded person later died, the ministry said.

The latest attack comes a week after Israel targeted Beirut for the first time since a fragile truce was announced in November.


Lebanon’s army dismantles explosives planted by Israeli forces

The Lebanese army says it has removed “explosive engineering obstacles” placed by Israeli forces in Alma ash-Shaab and Labbouneh.

“As part of its ongoing efforts to address repeated Israeli violations, a unit from the Lebanese Army worked in the areas of Alma [ash-Shaab] and Labbouneh, in the Tyre district, to dismantle obstacles placed by the Israeli military to block a road inside Lebanese territory,” a military statement said.

The unit also defused two explosive devices used to booby-trap the barriers, it added.

The statement noted that “army command continues efforts to address hostile violations in close coordination with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), while the Israeli enemy persists in its attacks on various Lebanese regions and violations of Lebanese security”.

Israel has continued to carry out raids in Lebanon since the November 27 ceasefire, striking what it says are Hezbollah military targets that violated the agreement. But most of the victims have been civilians.

At least 15,000 children killed in Gaza since October 7 attacks in 2023

A Save the Children official tells Al Jazeera that at least 15,000 children have been killed in the Gaza war by Israeli attacks, adding that:

‘Appallingly little’ outrage over Israel’s actions in Gaza: Former UN official

Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths tells Al Jazeera that “it’s a startling reality that world powers have not stood up to their responsibilities under the law as well as their conscience” when it comes to Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza.

“France, Jordan, Indonesia and some other governments are mobilising a process”, but this ultimately gets “stuck in the [UN] Security Council”, he said.

“Whatever outrage there is, and there is appallingly little, hasn’t led to action, and I think this terrible stain on our conscience,” he said.

“It’s not just Israel which is doing these deplorable and illegal things, but it’s also states responsible for the international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions, to speak out because they should and because they’re legally obligated to do so.”

‘We have to speak up’ against US support for Israel’s war on Gaza

Firas El Echi, a journalist and host of the Here’s Why podcast, tells Al Jazeera that the US likes to position itself as the leader of the free world but its actions in Gaza suggest otherwise.

He said the fact that the US Congress is passing laws that allow 900kg (2,000lb) bombs to be sent to Israel and for the US to provide Israel with AI assistance to target civilians shows that it is not living up to the democratic principles it preaches to the rest of the world.

“I did not think that in 2025 we could sit by and watch the crimes, but at least for our part as journalists, we have to speak up. Students have to speak up. Everyone around the world has to speak up,” he said.

Voicing criticism of US support for Israel’s actions will show “future generations that, yes, this happened, but we were there to say no”.

Main events on April 6th

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.

‘All of those martyred were children’: Survivor recounts Israeli attack on Khan Younis

We’ve been covering an Israeli attack that killed eight people in the city of Khan Younis. Mohammad Al Naffar, who survived the attack, said it happened without any warning at about 10pm local time on Sunday (22:00 GMT).

“We heard explosions, and rubble was flying all around. So we went down to see what was going on and realised that they [the Israelis] targeted my uncle’s house, Abu Mussad Al Naffar,” he said from an ambulance.

“We tried to help as best we can – the injured… to see who is still alive. And were shocked to see that all of those martyred were children. Very few survived with injuries. All of those targeted were children. Here is my cousin. May God bless her soul. She is a child. All the ones they’re targeting are children. They have nothing to do with the resistance or the fighting. There was no warning.”

Death toll from Israeli attack on Gaza journalists rises


_{Palestinians inspect the damage to a tent housing journalists in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, after it was hit by an Israeli attack}

Palestinian media are reporting that one more person has been killed in the Israeli attack on a tent for journalists near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. The Palestinian Information Center and the Quds News Network identified the victim as Yusuf Al-Khazandar, a young man who was in the area as the strike took place.

Israeli forces detain 5 people, including girl, in West Bank

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces arrested a former prisoner and a girl from the Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Another former prisoner was also taken from his home in the city of Hebron. Two young men were detained in a separate raid in the city of Qalandiya, north of occupied East Jerusalem.

Israel says it killed ‘terrorist’ throwing stones in West Bank

We’ve been covering an Israeli attack that killed a 14-year-old Palestinian-American boy and wounded two others near the town of Turmus Aya in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military has confirmed the attack. It said its forces shot “terrorists” hurling rocks in the area.

“During a counterterrorism activity in the area of Turmus Aya, [Israeli] soldiers identified three terrorists who hurled rocks towards the highway, thus endangering civilians driving,” the statement from the military read.

“The soldiers opened fire towards the terrorists who were endangering civilians, eliminating one terrorist and hitting two additional terrorists.”

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry also issued a statement on the attack. It said the “execution” of the child was a “direct result of Israel’s continued impunity”.

Israeli settlers begin placing mobile homes in Masafer Yatta

Israeli settlers have begun placing mobile homes in the village of Khirbet Umm al-Khair in the Masafer Yatta area, at the southern edge of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights told local media that mobile homes were set up metres from Palestinian houses.

Photos posted online by local media outlets showed crane trucks transporting the containers to the area. Masafer Yatta and the plight of its residents facing Israeli expulsion was the object of the Oscar-winning Palestinian-Israeli documentary No Other Land.

Translation: Al-Baidar Organization: Settlers have begun placing caravans just metres away from the homes of residents in Khirbet Umm al-Khair in the Masafer Yatta area, southeast of Hebron.

Nine Palestinians arrested in Qalqilya, Hebron: Report

Israeli forces have conducted a series of overnight raids and arrests across the occupied West Bank.

They rounded up seven Palestinians, including two brothers, in the city of Qalqilya, as well as two people, including a minor, in Hebron and the nearby town of Beit Ula, according to the Wafa news agency.

Palestinians in West Bank stage general strike in support of Gaza

Several cities in the occupied West Bank are staging a general strike in protest over the ongoing massacre in Gaza, where at least 50,695 Palestinians have been killed. Al Jazeera Arabic reported that the walkout included the closure of businesses in Ramallah, el-Bireh, Nablus and Tulkarem, as well as in occupied East Jerusalem.

Gaza solidarity movements had called for a global strike to take place on Monday, when Netanyahu is expected to visit the White House and the UN marks World Health Day.

Palestinian Bedouins say Israeli settlers terrorising them off their land

When Israel began bombing Gaza on October 7, 2023, Fayez Atil sensed his community in the occupied West Bank would soon come under attack too.

Atil is from the Palestinian village of Zanuta, a traditional herding community in the Jordan Valley. Settlers from illegal Israeli settlements had harassed and attacked his village for years. Still, the violence escalated sharply after Israel launched what many describe as a “genocidal” war on Gaza.

“It suddenly felt like a war,” he told Al Jazeera by phone. “Every day and every night, the illegal settlers would try to steal our sheep or vandalise our village by destroying our property and cars.”

Israeli forces seal off entrances to West Bank city of Nablus

The Israeli army has sealed off all entrances to the city of Nablus as a general strike continues across cities in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reports.

Local sources told the network that gates and military checkpoints were set up to prevent movement to and from the city.

US continues bombing Yemen as toll rises: Report

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting that US forces have bombed northern Yemen hours after carrying out a raid that killed at least four people in the capital, Sanaa.

According to Al Masirah, US forces launched three raids on Al Ammar in the Al Safraa district of the northern Saada province and three more on the Bani Hassan area in the Abs district of the nearby Hajjah province.

The attacks came as the Yemeni Ministry of Health reported that two women were among the four people killed in Sanaa. It also said the number of people wounded in Sanaa has risen to at least 25, including 11 women and a child.

Israel attacks southern Lebanese town of Taybeh

An Israeli drone has struck the Lebanese southern town of Taybeh, Al Jazeera Arabic correspondents have reported, amid a new wave of attacks threatening the ceasefire Israel agreed upon with Hezbollah four months ago.

Lebanon’s National News Agency said one person was critically injured when a Israeli drone attack hit a bicycle repair shop in Taybeh. Palestinian media, meanwhile, said a drone hit a vehicle and posted images showing plumes of smoke rising from the town.

The air raid comes days after Israel’s military twice bombed the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Attacks in southern Lebanon continued even after a ceasefire agreement was signed on November 27.

One killed in Israeli strike on Taybeh: Ministry

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health has said one person was killed in an Israeli strike on the town of Taybeh, in the south of the country.

Israeli drone targets southern Lebanon

One person has been wounded in an Israeli drone attack on a car in Beit Lif, in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon, the National News Agency reports.

This comes hours after a similar attack in the southern city of Taybeh, which killed one person. The Israeli military has claimed that the victim was a Hezbollah member.

British citizens fighting for Israeli army face Gaza war crimes claims: Report

British citizens fighting for Israeli army face Gaza war crimes claims: Report

A team of lawyers in the UK plans to file a war crimes complaint today against 10 British citizens who took part in Israel’s war in Gaza, reports The Guardian.

The complaint accuses the Britons of involvement in “indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas” and “coordinated attacks on protected sites including historic monuments and religious sites”, among other crimes, according to the daily.

Prominent barrister Michael Mansfield, who is among the lawyers engaged in the case, said, “British nationals are under a legal obligation not to collude with crimes committed in Palestine. No one is above the law.”

“​If one of our nationals is committing ​an offence, we ought to be doing something about it​,” The Guardian reported, quoting Mansfield. “Even if we can’t stop the government of foreign countries behaving badly, we can at least stop our nationals from behaving badly.”

Israeli army dismisses reports it will let aid into Gaza

The Israeli military has dismissed media reports saying the army would allow aid deliveries into the besieged Gaza Strip in response to international pressure and to avoid facing legal consequences.

Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the army was working on a pilot project to distribute aid to the population while not delivering any to Hamas. Israel’s Finance Minister Smotrich dismissed the report, saying, “Not a single grain of wheat will enter the territory.”

Denying the media reports, the army said on X: “Following this morning’s announcement about humanitarian aid, the [Israeli army] is acting in accordance with the directives of the political echelon … Israel is not and will not transfer any aid to Hamas.”

The UN has warned hunger is spreading in Gaza. The International Court of Justice last year ruled that Israel must allow the unhindered entry of aid into the Palestinian territory.

Netanyahu in US to discuss Gaza, Iran and tariffs with Trump

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington, DC, to meet the US president, whom he will likely ask for a reprieve from US tariffs while seeking further backing on Iran and Gaza.

Netanyahu becomes the first foreign leader to meet Trump in the US capital since his “Liberation Day” tariffs announcement sent global markets crashing.

“I believe this reflects the special personal relationship and the unique bond between the United States and Israel, which is so vital at this time,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

The Israeli leader’s visit is “a way for Netanyahu to play the game and show Trump that Israel is going along with him”, Yannay Spitzer, a professor of economics at Hebrew University, told the AFP news agency.

“I would not be surprised if there is an announcement of some [tariffs] concession for Israel, … and this will be an example for other countries.”