Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
At least 35 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Wednesday, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
Among the dead were least 15 people, mostly women and children, killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, Gaza’s Civil Defense has said.
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 air strike kills Palestinian journalist alongside 10 family members in Gaza City
An Israeli air strike targeted the family home of Palestinian journalist Fatima Hassouneh in al-Tuffah neighborhood, Gaza City, killing her alongside 10 members of her family, Wafa news agency reports.
According to the International Federation of Journalists, Hassouneh was a freelance photojournalist and a member of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS).
A report by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs revealed that 232 journalists have been killed during Israel’s war on Gaza, as of early April.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on U.S. and international media to finally speak out against Israel’s intentional targeting of journalists in Gaza after a Palestinian journalist and 10 members of her family were slaughtered in an Israeli air strike.
Gaza, a ‘mass grave’ for Palestinians and those helping them: MSF
Palestinian lives are being systematically destroyed as Israel’s continued bombardment of the Gaza Strip shows a “blatant disregard” for the safety of humanitarian workers, Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, has warned.
“Gaza has been turned into a mass grave of Palestinians and those coming to their assistance. We are witnessing in real time the destruction and forced displacement of the entire population in Gaza,” said Amande Bazerolle, MSF’s emergency coordinator in the enclave.
Medical facilities are not exempt from attacks and evacuation orders by Israeli forces. MSF teams have had to leave many facilities, while others continue operating with staff and patients trapped inside, unable to leave safely for hours at a time, a statement from the charity reads.
No plans to allow any aid into Gaza, says Israeli minister
Israel has said it will keep blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, as it vowed to force Hamas into releasing the remaining hostages from the 7 October attacks.
Aid supplies including food, fuel, water and medicine have been blocked by Israel from entering Gaza since 2 March, more than two weeks before the collapse of the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group with a return to air and ground attacks on the territory.
The Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, said: “Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with the population.”
“No one is currently planning to allow any humanitarian aid into Gaza, and there are no preparations to enable such aid,” said Katz, who vowed to escalate the conflict with “tremendous force” if Hamas did not return the hostages.
Amnesty International is among the aid agencies that have described Israel’s blockade on all supplies going into Gaza as a crime against humanity and a violation of international humanitarian law. Israel has denied any violations.
Soon after Katz’s comments, Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar added his own:
The despicable murderers in Gaza deserve no humanitarian assistance from any civilian or military mechanism. Only hellfire should be poured on the makers of terrorism until the last hostage returns from Gaza.
NOTE: Everything about Katz’s and Zohar’s statements is problematic. The implication that everyone in Gaza is guilty and punishable (called collective punishment – a war crime). Suggesting that Palestinians are the “makers of terrorism,” when Israel has killed 51,000 (a large percentage of them women and children), starved, blocked medical aid and vaccines, etc., is preposterous. The hostages would have all been home by now, were it not for Netanyahu’s decisions to keep bombing.
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‘The last thread connecting people to services’: why vets are risking all to care for Gaza’s donkeys
Dr. Saif Alden is the team leader for a mobile clinic run by the charity Safe Havens for Donkeys.
It felt like an “earthquake from the sky” when an Israeli airstrike hit the clinic Dr. Alden had left just minutes earlier. Alden had been treating animals hurt and abandoned amid Gaza’s destruction. They survived but the equipment and medication the mobile clinic needed to function was destroyed.
“We’ve started again, from zero, because the animals are still here. They still need us. And we will never abandon them.”
Alden’s team operates a mobile clinic that has treated more than 7,000 donkeys and thousands of other animals since the outbreak of the current war in Gaza in October 2023. Donkeys are a lifeline for many Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel’s bombardment has decimated Gaza’s infrastructure, destroying roads and leaving few functioning vehicles, while its blockade of the Palestinian territory makes fuel for transport difficult to find.
Donkeys have filled the gap, used to transport goods and people – as they search daily for food, water and fuel, to get to hospitals and to transport them with their belongings each time Israeli forces order thousands to leave an area.
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West Bank: Israeli Army Executes Two Palestinians Near Jenin
Israeli soldiers executed two Palestinian men on Wednesday near Qabatia town, and abducted two others in Qabatia town, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
The General Authority of Civil Affairs informed the Palestinian Health Ministry of the deaths of the two young men, identified as Mohammad Omar Mohammad Zakarneh, 23, and Marouh Yasser Rateb Khazimiya, 19.
Media sources reported that on Wednesday morning, an Israeli force surrounded a cave in the quarry area between Qabatiya town and Misiliya village, besieging the two young men inside.
The Palestinian young men engaged in an intense gun battle with occupation forces before the army fired “Energa” anti-tank rounds at the cave, executing the two men.
It is important to mention that military bulldozers proceeded to destroy the site, desecrating, abusing, and seizing the bodies of the two slain men, as reinforcements arrived.
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❝Holocaust and genocide don’t fall out of the sky. They are the end result of a dehumanizing progression❞
🗣️ Stephen Kapos, a Holocaust survivor, was questioned by British police for his involvement in a pro-Palestine protest as part of a crackdown on pro-Palestine activists… pic.twitter.com/hPsAEkTT2R
— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) April 16, 2025
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – APRIL 16, 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 16, 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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