Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
The Israeli army killed at least 45 Palestinians, including two entire families, on Thursday during intensified air, drone, and artillery strikes across the Gaza Strip, amid its ongoing genocide, according to Palestinian medical sources, civil defense teams, and witnesses.
The airstrikes targeted homes, tents, displacement shelters, and public gathering areas, resulting in dozens of casualties – most of them women and children.
NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals, and does not include victims that are under the rubble or elsewhere, where ambulance and civil defense crews can not reach them.
Israeli news outlet Ha’aretz reports that at least 58 people were killed and 126 injured in a US airstrike on Ras Issa port in the Salif district of Hodeidah Governorate.
Hamas again calls to release all captives in return for an end to war
Hamas’s Gaza chief has said the group is ready to negotiate to swap all captives with an agreed number of Palestinian prisoners within a deal that ends the war.
In a televised speech, Khalil al-Hayya, who leads the Hamas negotiating team for the indirect talks with Israel, said the group refuses an interim truce but is ready to hold talks on a deal whereby Israel ends the war and withdraws its troops from the enclave.
Al-Hayya said interim deals were “a cover” for Netanyahu’s “continued genocide” and claimed it was Hamas’s right to have weapons as long as Israel continued its occupation of Palestinian territory.
Acute malnutrition surges among Gaza’s children as Israeli blockade leads to severe food shortages
The UN’s humanitarian affairs agency’s (OCHA) update on the situation in Gaza paints a dire picture amid escalating attacks by Israeli forces and severe food shortages due to the Israeli military’s punitive blockade on all aid entering the war-torn territory.
“Food consumption in Gaza has sharply deteriorated due to the blockade on the entry of humanitarian aid and other critical supplies now in its seventh week,” OCHA said. “Consumption of key food groups – such as meat, poultry, dairy, vegetables, and fruits – remains critically low,” it added.
According to OCHA, in March, 3,696 Palestinian children were newly admitted for acute malnutrition, which marked a stark increase compared with the number in February, which was 2,027.
International Red Cross says Israeli army hit its Gaza premises for second time in 3 weeks
An Israeli tank shell directly struck an office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza, marking the second such attack in three weeks, the humanitarian organization said on Thursday.
“The ICRC is outraged that on 16 April an ICRC premises in Gaza was struck and damaged by an explosive,” the non-profit said in a statement.
It said a similar attack hit another ICRC premises in the area on March 24, also by a tank shell.
Both incidents occurred despite the buildings being clearly marked and regularly notified to all parties, the statement said.
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Gaza-based Photo Journalist Killed in Israeli Strike is Subject of Anticipated Cannes Documentary
Fatma Hassona, a 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist with a large online following, was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike with at least nine other members of her family.
Hassona is the subject of an upcoming documentary, “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,” which will screen at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Her death has sparked widespread condemnation and an outpouring of grief from Gaza and around the world.
Despite repeated evacuation orders, the worsening conditions, and the fact that 11 relatives of hers were killed in an Israeli attack last year, Fatma Hassona refused to leave northern Gaza, staying behind to document the war. Amid the devastation, she was also preparing for her wedding – a celebration set for late April.
Anas al-Shareef, an Al Jazeera reporter based in Gaza, posted on X, honoring Hassona as someone who “never left the field since the beginning.” He noted that she “documented massacres through her lens amid bombardment and gunfire, capturing the people’s pain and screams in her photographs.”
Al-Shareef stated that Hassona confronted death daily “without retreating” until the day the Israeli army “carried out its final massacre against her.” He added, “The occupation doesn’t just kill people; it silences voices, erases images, and buries the truth.”
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Israeli minister says time has come to implement Trump’s Gaza plan
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said Israel would not halt the war before accomplishing a “complete victory” in Gaza, which includes the destruction of Hamas and the return of all captives.
“The time has come to open the gates of hell on Hamas, to deepen the fighting until the complete occupation of the Strip, the elimination of Hamas, and the implementation of President Trump’s plan for the voluntary exit and rehabilitation of Gazans in another country,” he wrote on X. “Mr. Prime Minister, go ahead. Give the order.”
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IDF Probe Into Killing of Asylum Seekers Finds Severe Lapses in Troops’ Conduct
The Israeli military (IDF) probe into the killing of three civilians on the Jordanian border last month shows lapses in the troops’ conduct, including action without accurate assessment and only partial adherence to rules of engagement.
After the incident, the bodies of the Ethiopian and Eritrean nationals were taken to Shura military base in central Israel, where they are still being held.
The army has so far refused to allow asylum seekers in Israel to identify the bodies of the three victims, whom they believe to be relatives.
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Israel’s FM ‘cut short’ UK visit due to arrest warrant
Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) says Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar had cut short his visit to the UK, a day after rights groups formally submitted a request to apply for his arrest warrant.
“He is a suspect in a live investigation of serious crimes. If seen contact the London Met Police immediately,” the group said on X.
The UK-based GLAN as well as the Hind Rajab Foundation had reportedly submitted a request for an arrest warrant for Saar.
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IMEMC Daily Reports
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – APRIL 17, 2025:
- At least 51,937 Palestinians killed, 124,346 injured – including:
- at least 50,983 killed in Gaza (~15,600 children)
- at least 954 killed in the West Bank (~187 children)
- at least 116,274 injured in Gaza
- at least 8,072 injured in the West Bank
According to Palestinian authorities, during the ceasefire Jan. 19- March 18 2025, Israeli attacks killed at least 150 Gazans, and Israel committed at least 962 ceasefire violations.
Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 11,000 more are still buried under rubble.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – April 17, 2025: ~1,592 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 407 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.
NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
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