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SvennoJ on 24 April 2025

English Football’s Gary Lineker takes on BBC’s coverage of war on Gaza

Former England national football team captain Gary Lineker took on the BBC’s Amol Rajan over the British public broadcaster’s coverage of Israel’s war on genocide.

In a video clip widely shared on social media, Lineker takes issue with the BBC’s coverage and notes “the mass murder of thousands of children is probably something that we should have a little opinion on”.


‘Flesh of children’ collected from the street after Israel bombs family of five

In the early hours of this morning, the Israeli military carried out more deadly attacks, killing people inside their homes, the areas where they are sheltering or inside tents.

The attack on this father, mother and their four children in the Sheikh Radwan district – in the northwestern part of Gaza City – has left everyone in shock.

Witnesses, neighbours and those who are close to the family, as well as surviving family members and civil defence crews, had to collect the flesh of the children – their limbs that were blown into the streets and neighbouring residential buildings.

The parents and their four children were killed in the attacks.

Israel Is Doing WHAT To Children?




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SvennoJ on 24 April 2025

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.



SvennoJ on 25 April 2025

UN says Israeli settler violence, unlawful killings continue in West Bank

The UN human rights office has said “high levels of settler violence against Palestinians continue in the occupied West Bank, causing death, injuries and loss of property and undermining Palestinian lives and livelihoods in many areas”.

A statement by the office presented several recent incidents, documenting the ongoing violence in the illegally occupied territory. It added that the Israeli forces “continued the practice of unlawful killings and large-scale operations in northern West Bank”.

“Over the past week, Israeli security forces killed three Palestinians who were throwing stones, including two children,” the agency said. It added: “This raised 192 the number of children killed by Israeli security forces in the West Bank since 7 October 2023.”


Remains of Gaza’s critical life-saving infrastructure collapsing: UN

The UN human rights office says Israel’s attacks on Palestinians have accelerated since the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza in March and during the past week in particular.

A statement by the agency stressed that attacks killed countless civilians and further risked the complete destruction of what little infrastructure remains in the enclave.

It issued a reminder that Israel’s complete closure of Gaza, preventing lifesaving assistance from reaching civilians – including food and fuel – has entered its eighth week.

“Persistent Israeli military attacks on civilians and civilian objects have continued throughout Gaza in violation of the core principles of distinction, proportionality and precautions in attack required by international humanitarian law,” the agency stressed.

It added: “Extremely high civilian casualties over 18 months do not appear to have prompted any changes in Israeli targeting practices and policies, a pattern indicating at the very least a complete disregard for the lives of civilians in Gaza.”

Syria urges UN to press Israel on withdrawal from its territory

Syria’s foreign minister called on the UN Security Council to “pressure” Israel to withdraw from its territory following the toppling of Bashar al-Assad.

“We have repeatedly announced our commitment that Syria will not constitute any threat to any of the neighbouring countries or any country around the world, including to Israel,” Assaad al-Chaibani said in his first address at UN headquarters in New York.

Following al-Assad’s fall, Israel launched air strikes and ground incursions.

Since coming to power, President Ahmed al-Sharaa has maintained that he and his government do not want to fight Israel and that he will not allow Syria to be used by external parties as a launching pad for attacks.

He has condemned Israel’s attacks on Syria and its creeping expansion beyond the already occupied Golan Heights.



SvennoJ on 25 April 2025

‘On the rise’: Israel’s forced displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank – UN

Israel’s forcible displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank is rising, the UN warns, with 14 more families ordered to leave Tulkarem city while tens of thousands are being prevented by the military from returning to their homes in the Jenin and Tulkarem refugee camps.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also reports in its latest situation update that Israeli settler violence and home demolitions displaced seven families in Ramallah.

A Palestinian man suffered a fatal heart attack triggered by tear gas deployed by Israeli troops during an attack by settlers on a Palestinian village earlier this week that was aided by the Israeli soldiers.

In another settler attack, six Palestinians were injured include one who was shot and later had to have their leg amputated.

And, between April 15 and 21, six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, including one child, in the occupied West Bank. Over the same period, two Palestinians died in Israeli custody in what the UN called “unclear circumstances”.


Thousands of settlers storm town of Kifl Haris under military protection

Thousands of Israeli settlers stormed the town of Kifl Haris, north of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank last night. Local sources told the Wafa news agency that Israeli forces had broken into the town, blocking the movement of residents in preparation for the settler incursion.

Shortly after, large groups of settlers poured into the town to perform Talmudic rituals at Islamic shrines. Witnesses added that the settlers had roamed the streets hanging racist slogans on the walls of homes and private properties.

The town of Kifl Haris has been subjected to repeated attacks by settlers who routinely desecrate Islamic shrines located there.


Israeli forces raid Nablus in early morning operation

Israeli forces have carried out an early morning raid in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus. Local sources told the Wafa news agency that the forces stormed the city at dawn, targeting Fatayer and at-Taawon streets.

Several homes were raided and searched during the operation, but no detentions have been reported so far.


Teenager killed in Israeli raid in Nablus

One person has been killed by Israeli gunfire during a military raid on the town of Salem, east of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. Medical sources told the Wafa news agency that 17-year-old Abdul Khaleq Jbour was shot in the chest by Israeli forces.



SvennoJ on 25 April 2025

Palestinian officials vote to create a vice presidency under Mahmoud Abbas

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has announced the creation of a vice presidency under 89-year-old leader Mahmoud Abbas, who has not specified a successor.

After a two-day meeting in the occupied West Bank, the PLO’s central council voted on Thursday to create the role of vice chairman of the PLO Executive Committee. This position would also be referred to as the vice president of the State of Palestine, which the Palestinians hope will one day receive full international recognition.

The expectation is that whoever holds that role would be the frontrunner to succeed Abbas, though it’s unclear when or exactly how it would be filled. Abbas is to choose his vice president from among the other 15 members of the PLO’s executive committee.

Read more here.

Why the Palestinian Authority’s Abbas is under pressure to pick a successor?

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), under pressure to appoint a second-in-command to its ageing leader, Mahmoud Abbas, created a vice president position after meeting with senior officials on April 24.

Abbas, who is also president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), promised during an emergency Arab summit in early March that the position would be created. Yet it remains unclear who will eventually fill the post.

The aim is to prevent a power struggle after Abbas vacates his post – a scenario that Israel could exploit to cause the collapse of the PA, fully annex the occupied West Bank and ethnically cleanse Gaza, experts told Al Jazeera.

Yet Diana Buttu, a former legal adviser to the PLO, believes creating a vice president post in the PA will not avert a power struggle once Abbas is gone – rather, it could exacerbate conflict.



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SvennoJ on 25 April 2025

Spain’s Albares calls for end to war in Gaza and two-state solution

Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares has also urged “immediate” entry of humanitarian aid into the enclave.

“Israel’s military operations continue to cause death in Gaza and the West Bank,” he wrote on X, adding that among the victims are “thousands of civilians, women, children, and humanitarian workers”.

The top diplomat concluded: “We do not resign ourselves to violence. Peace is possible. A permanent ceasefire and the release of the hostages cannot be delayed.”

Last year, Spain recognised the State of Palestine in a joint move with Ireland and Norway.


Spain halts controversial $7.5m deal to buy ammunition from Israeli company

Spain’s government halted a controversial $7.5m deal to buy ammunition from Israel on Thursday, following criticism from far-left allies within the governing minority coalition.

The country’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, intervened to cancel the deal after Sumar, a group of left-wing parties, threatened to pull out of the governing coalition.

“After exhausting all routes for negotiation, the prime minister, deputy prime minister and ministries involved have decided to rescind this contract with the Israeli company IMI Systems,” a government source, who did not want to be named according to Spanish government practice, told Al Jazeera on Thursday.

To read more on this move and how it fits in with Spain’s criticism of Israel during its war on Gaza, click here.


Norway establishes formal diplomatic relations with Palestine, appoints ambassador

Posting on X, Norway’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik announced that Marie Antoinette Sedin has been appointed as the country’s ambassador to Palestine. Kravik was sworn in by Norway’s King Harald at a ceremony on Thursday.

In May last year, Norway – alongside Ireland and Spain – announced its decision to formally recognise Palestinian statehood based on the pre-1967 borders.

Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said Norway’s decision was an investment in the “only solution” that can bring lasting peace in the Middle East – “two states living side by side in peace and security”.


Palestinians in the West Bank seeing ‘strategic erosion’ of rights under Israeli occupation: UK MP

Shockat Adam, an independent member of the British parliament, recently returned from a fact-finding mission to the occupied West Bank and described it as “another Gaza”. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Adam described the “apartheid conditions” that Palestinians are forced to endure under Israel’s decades-long military occupation of their land.

“What we witnessed was a strategic erosion of every faculty of the Palestinian people. The erosion of their social rights, cultural rights, emotional rights, religious rights, and even historical rights,” Adam told Al Jazeera. “It was absolutely alarming for me to see at which rate it has been increased, expedited since October 7 … It’s absolutely dehumanising the people of Palestine,” he said.

Adam said that under the increasing pressure of the Israeli occupation, people in Palestine, who have been a symbol of resilience to the world, are “almost losing the will”. “And this has been happening systematically throughout the whole country, and it is affecting every facet of Palestinian life,” he said.



SvennoJ on 25 April 2025

Three new F-35I fighter jets land in Israel: Army

The Lockheed Martin aircraft landed at the Nevatim Air Force Base last night, according to a statement by the military. They will join the 140th Squadron, the statement added.

The Times of Israel said the jets are part of Israel’s initial order of 50 warplanes from the US company. Another 25 were ordered last year, according to the news outlet.

Israel is using high-powered bombs to maximise deaths in Gaza, experts say

Israel’s latest war on Gaza is killing civilians at four times the rate of previous conflicts it has waged in the Palestinian enclave.

Experts say this is likely not an accident, suggesting that Israeli forces are choosing to use the most powerful weapons available to deliberately maximise death and destruction.


Powerful blasts reported in Gaza’s southern Rafah as Israeli aircraft pound Gaza City in the north

Local Palestinian media report that Israeli forces have launched numerous attacks on Gaza in the early hours of this morning, including:

  • There are reports of people across Gaza feeling the force of detonations in southern Gaza’s Rafah city, where the Israeli army is deployed and reportedly using explosives to destroy residential structures.
  • Israeli military aircraft bombed a medical clinic in the east of Gaza City earlier this morning, and warplanes have more recently targeted other areas in the city.
  • Air strikes and artillery shelling have hit Khan Younis in the south of the territory after an earlier attack on tents sheltering forcibly displaced people killed at least five in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis. Victims from the attack were reported to be a family of five: Ibrahim Khalil Abu Taima, his wife Hanadi, and their three children, ages four, six and eight.
  • Israeli artillery has shelled the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.


SvennoJ on 25 April 2025

Death toll in Gaza rises

The Health Ministry in the enclave says 84 people killed and 168 injured were reported to Gaza’s hospitals in the last 24 hours. The toll includes the bodies of six people killed in the previous days but whose bodies were recovered today.

The death toll from Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023 has risen to 51,439, with 117,416 injured, a statement on Telegram said, adding that the number of people killed in Gaza since Israel resumed hostilities last month has passed 2,000.

WFP says food stocks depleted in Gaza due to blockade

The World Food Programme (WFP) says food stocks have been depleted in Gaza due to the ongoing closure of crossings into the enclave.

“No humanitarian or commercial supplies have entered Gaza for more than seven weeks as all main border crossing points remain closed. This is the longest closure the Gaza Strip has ever faced, exacerbating already fragile markets and food systems,” the WFP said in a statement to journalists.

Since the beginning of March, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu banned aid deliveries into Gaza in a move he said was to pressure Hamas into accepting an extension of the first stage of the ceasefire deal, which Israel broke.

  • The World Food Programme says it delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot-meal kitchens in Gaza, which “are expected to fully run out of food in the coming days”.
  • Food prices in Gaza have skyrocketed as much as 1,400 percent compared with prices during the brief ceasefire that Israel broke in March.
  • “More than 116,000 metric tonnes of food assistance – enough to feed one million people for up to four months – is positioned at aid corridors and is ready to be brought into Gaza” by WFP and its partners, but is being prevented due to the Israeli blockade.
  • “You are having hunger again in the Gaza Strip. You don’t find dairy products, you don’t find meat, you don’t find fish. There’s practically no availability related even to fruits. Different stocks that are still out there in some of the shops, you see that they are running short.”

“We were serving as the WFP maybe 400,000 people with these hot meals. And all together, with all the different NGOs that are on the ground, we are serving practically one million people – so a bit less than half the population in the Gaza Strip,” Antoine Renard, WFP’s Palestine representative, told Al Jazeera, adding that: “We are all running short, we are being depleted.”


Palestinians wait to receive food at a charity kitchen in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza on April 24


Palestinians face ‘catastrophic’ situation as supplies run out

Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGO network, has warned that community kitchens still operating in Gaza only have enough food to last them a few days.

“For 54 days, the borders were closed totally. Nothing entered,” Shawa told Al Jazeera from Gaza City. “Now, we are in a collapse of the humanitarian system. Our capacity to respond to these huge needs became more limited day by day. We have no food – no milk, no eggs, no meat,” he explained.

Shawa called on the international community to take action “to pressure Israel to stop its war and at the same time, to open these crossings” to allow humanitarian supplies into the enclave.



SvennoJ on 25 April 2025
Palestinian families in Gaza on the verge of famine

Hundreds of thousands of families have been relying on the daily meals received from the WFP and community kitchens across Gaza. It’s hard to imagine how this large number of people – already displaced and traumatised with scars of war – are going to get by in the coming days.

People are hungry. They’re already rationing supplies. It’s not just the organisations, it’s also families running out of supplies. They don’t have any necessities.

Close to 450,000 newly displaced people are on the verge of famine due to the lack of food. Fifty-three days now – that’s how long the Israeli blockade has been going on, with zero entry of food, medicine, water or fuel to keep bakeries and other vital facilities running.

Dozens of recent deaths in Gaza attributed to hunger

Gaza’s Government Media Office suggests that 52 people who have died over the past few weeks was due to hunger and malnutrition. That is a clear outcome of this ongoing closure of Gaza’s borders.

Many families have been lining up at the gates of community kitchens for very long hours, every single morning, and many of them return with nothing.

‘My children are eating one meal a day’

Tahreer Abu Ajawa, a displaced Palestinian mother of seven, has spoken to Al Jazeera about the dire conditions in Gaza.

“I am a mother of seven. I am also taking care of my mum, who is disabled. Our situation has been very difficult for the past 50 days. I have a few items stored, but they ran out. As a mother with seven, I suffer from starvation. The children are here and they want to eat.

“My children are eating one meal a day. This is affecting their health. They will get sick. My son was in bed yesterday, and I could not do anything. No food, no water, and no medicine.

“A bag of flour is about $100 to $150. Where am I supposed to get that from?”


UNRWA says nearly 3,000 aid trucks ready to enter Gaza but blocked

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says “the situation is desperate” in Gaza as a result of Israel’s blockade. “Humanitarian aid is being used as a bargaining chip and a weapon of war,” UNRWA said.



SvennoJ on 25 April 2025

Trump says Saudi Arabia normalising ties with Israel ‘will happen’

President Trump has told Time magazine he is confident Saudi Arabia will normalise ties with Israel.

“Saudi Arabia will go into the Abraham accords,” Trump said, referencing the historic agreement struck at the end of his first term in 2020, which saw Muslim-majority United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco normalise relations with Israel.

“That will happen,” he added.

Trump is set to visit Saudi Arabia next month on a Middle East tour that was expected to be his first overseas trip since retaking the White House, though he will now be travelling to Italy first for Pope Francis’s funeral.

He forged close relations with Riyadh in his first term and is expected to push Saudi Arabia towards normalising ties with Israel as a major foreign policy objective.

However, the war in Gaza has complicated those efforts and Saudi leaders have ruled out normalising ties with Israel without the recognition of a Palestinian state, something Netanyahu opposes.


Saudi and French foreign ministers discuss Gaza, efforts for a two-state solution

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud hosted his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot, holding discussions focused on several issues including the situation in Gaza.

“Regional and international issues of common interest were discussed, most notably the current situation in the Gaza Strip and the efforts being made for the conference to resolve the Palestinian issue and implement the two-state solution, scheduled to be held next June under the joint chairmanship of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the French Republic,” the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a post on X.

Earlier this month, President Macron said France could recognise a Palestinian state “in the coming months”.