Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
At least 33 Palestinians were killed on Sunday as Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip targeted residential homes and tents sheltering displaced families, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses.
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.
A Palestinian man, 24-year-old Suleiman Fawwaz Manasrah, has been shot and killed by Israeli forces south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Over 950 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank since October 2023.
Another Palestinian died in Israeli custody Sunday: Nasser Khalil Radaydeh, age 49, was from al-Ubeidiya, in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. He was transferred to Hadasa hospital on Saturday from Israel’s Ofer Prison. Radaydeh was a married father of seven.
The total number of Palestinians to die in Israeli custody since the war on Gaza began has now risen to 65. At least 40 of these detainees are from Gaza.
Israel escalated its attacks on Lebanon on Sunday, carrying out a series of airstrikes and assassinations in the south, and killing at least two people.
US strikes on Yemen killed at least 12 people in the country’s capital Sanaa on Sunday night, Houthi-affiliated media outlets have reported.
US cargo planes supplied heavy weapons to Israel amid Gaza offensive
Dozens of heavy military cargo flights have arrived in Israel since the end of January, with the US operating cargo flights regularly since the resumption of the war last month, flight data analyzed by Al Jazeera’s Sanad Agency shows.
Data from Flight Radar shows movement of 47 military planes, including 30 cargo aircraft, during the period from January 25, following the Gaza ceasefire implementation, until April 18, about a month after Israel renewed the offensive.
Some of the flights arrived from seven European countries.
Among these flights, 16 were carried out after the resumption of the war on March 18, unilaterally breaking the January ceasefire.
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority has described the recent movement as an “unprecedented airlift” for military supplies.
Israeli attacks against Christians, clergy on the rise in West Bank: Pastor
Israeli restrictions this year have been perhaps the toughest, says Mitri Raheb, Palestinian pastor and theologian, and founder and president of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem.
“I myself, as a pastor, don’t have a permit to go for the holy week, which is the most important week for Christians throughout the year because Jesus was crucified and risen in Jerusalem,” he told Al Jazeera.
“The Palestinian-Christian community that has been there for 2,000 years cannot go there to celebrate and mark this where it all happened.”
On the other hand, Raheb said, incitement against Palestinian Christians, especially clergy members, has been on the rise, with Israeli settlers attacking Christians and spitting at clergy even inside Jerusalem. This year alone, 43 such incidents took place, the pastor said.
“One of the first things you read about in church about Jesus is that he was like a lamb led to the slaughter. But when you hear this today as Palestinian Christians, you think it’s our whole people being led to slaughter, considering what is happening in Gaza.”
Palestine condemns Israeli police assaults on Christians in occupied East Jerusalem
Palestine condemned on Sunday Israeli police assaults on Christians during the Holy Saturday celebrations as “racist” and “a blatant violation of the freedom of worship and access to holy sites.”
On Saturday, Israeli police clashed with Palestinian Christians during the Holy Saturday observances at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem.
“We decry the arbitrary actions, assaults, and restrictions imposed by Israeli soldiers and illegal settlers throughout the Easter holiday on Christians, preventing their participation in this global human celebration,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry also denounced footage showing Israeli soldiers assaulting visitors to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
It rejected Israeli moves to prevent the Vatican’s ambassador from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and obstructing Palestinian Christians from the occupied West Bank from participating in the celebrations in occupied Jerusalem.
“The Israeli practices against Christians are racist and discriminatory, part of a broader agenda to target Jerusalem and its Christian and Islamic sanctities, and represent a blatant violation of the freedom of worship and access to holy sites amid an ongoing genocide and displacement crimes against our people.”
Israeli military admits ‘professional failures’ over Gaza paramedic killings
Israel’s military has admitted to several “professional failures” and a breach of orders in the killing of 15 rescue workers in Gaza last month, and said that it was dismissing a deputy commander responsible.
The deadly shooting of eight Red Crescent paramedics, six civil defense workers and a UN staffer by Israeli troops, as they carried out a rescue mission in southern Gaza at dawn on 23 March, had prompted international outcry and calls for a war crimes investigation.
On Sunday, the military said an investigation had “identified several professional failures, breaches of orders, and a failure to fully report the incident”.
As a result, the deputy commander of the IDF’s Golani Brigade “will be dismissed from his position due to his responsibilities as the field commander … and for providing an incomplete and inaccurate report during the debrief”.
Another commander, whose unit was in operation in the southern city of Rafah, where the killings took place, would be censured for “his overall responsibility for the incident”, the military said.
“We’re saying it was a mistake, we don’t think it’s a daily mistake,” Major General Yoav Har-Even told journalists on Sunday. The military also confirmed that it had detained one medic since the incident on 23 March.
The probe also said it had found “no evidence to support claims of execution.”
“Such claims are blood libel and false accusations against [Israeli] soldiers,” the army said in a statement.
Despite admitting mistakes, the report does not recommend any criminal action to be taken against the military units responsible for the incident and found no violation of the IDF’s code of ethics. The findings of the report will now be passed along to the military advocate general.
Israel’s extreme-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, called the army chief’s decision to dismiss the responsible deputy commander “a grave mistake” (continue reading here).
NOTE: In its use of clinical phrases like “professional failures,” and accusations like “providing an incomplete and inaccurate report,” the Israeli military report ignores the murders of innocent civilian human beings. The light penalties imposed demonstrate Israel’s failure to take the incident seriously.
The declaration of “no evidence to support claims of execution” simply ignores facts that are already public knowledge.
The admission that the incident did not involve any violation of the military’s code of ethics shines a bright light on the de facto ethics of this army: at the very least, it tolerates cold-blooded mass murder.
The fact is that the willingness to commit genocide, one Palestinian at a time, starts at the top and is rampant.
Israel’s self-investigations – on the rare occasions when they do take place – consistently whitewash its crimes and fail to appropriately punish the perpetrators.
Israel has a long track record of lying.
Armed Israeli settlers storm West Bank, destroy Palestinian villages
Armed Israeli settlers stormed the Bedouin village of Ras Ein al-Auja, near Jericho in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, damaging property and threatening Palestinians.
Hassan Mleihat, coordinator of the al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, said groups of settlers entered the village with herds of sheep, grazing them near Palestinian homes. They also damaged private property and tried to block villagers from accessing their land.
“Settler attacks on Bedouin communities have sharply escalated and now target every aspect of Bedouin life,” Mleihat told local media.
The assault on Ras Ein al-Auja comes as part of a broader wave of settler aggression across the West Bank, targeting the northern Jordan Valley, where settlers also looted water pumps and destroyed farmland in the Palestinian village of Khirbet al-Deir.
Since Israel’s war on Gaza, settler violence has reached unprecedented levels, with the establishment of 60 new illegal outposts across the West Bank and 51 of them since the start of 2024.
The fresh wave of attacks has displaced at least 2,000 Palestinians, according to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission. Thousands of Palestinian families have been forced to flee, with 29 villages abandoned in the wake of settler and army raids.
Recent footage released by Israeli rights group Yesh Din showed Israeli forces protecting illegal settlers as they erected a new illegal outpost near the Palestinian village of Turmusaya. Soldiers guarded construction crews and equipment while settlers moved mobile homes into the area.
“In an operation that appears to have been planned in advance, the army is once again collaborating with settlers to establish illegal farm outposts, which are used to violently expel Palestinians under the auspices of the state,” Yesh Din said in a statement.
NOTE: Israel has illegally built around 280 settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are home to more than 700,000 illegal settlers. Israeli settlements and settlers on Palestinian land are a violation of international law, and considered by many Palestinians to be the main barrier to any lasting peace agreement.
According to the Israel Policy Forum, the Israeli government’s initial priority in establishing settlements was security. Israeli leaders established Jewish “communities” illegally in the Palestinian West Bank in order control territory over which Israel does not exercise sovereignty. and to provide for the country’s perceived security needs. A civilian settler population could also act as the first line of defense against an invasion.
Some analysts have described this placement of Israeli civilians on what may be considered hostile territory (i.e. non-Israeli land) amounts to making settlers human shields.
Some settler groups have a history of violence against Palestinians, often with the assistance of Israeli military forces.
In a landmark advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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IMEMC Daily Reports
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – APRIL 20, 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 20, 2025: ~1,592 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 408 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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