Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
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.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that Israeli attacks killed 50 Palestinians and wounded 113 over the previous 24-hour period as US-backed strikes continue to pound the Strip amid a total Israeli blockade.
The Gaza Government Media Office said that Israel’s ongoing genocide and blockade have led to widespread acute malnutrition, with more than 65,000 children hospitalized out of 1.1 million facing daily hunger.
In the West Bank, Israeli forces shot and killed a woman in the city of Tira. Her name was Suzan Abdel Qader Bishara.
Euro-Med Monitor has warned that 94 per cent of Palestinians killed between 20-26 April were civilians.
Int’l Court of Justice hearings against Israel continue
The Hague is hearing another case against Israel, in what could be a test of Israeli defiance of international law.
More than 40 nations will argue that the ban on the UN Palestinian rights agency is a breach of the UN Charter. But Israel has shown in the past that it has no issue ignoring international law.
Below are a few highlights from Tuesday’s testimonies.
South Africa’s representative Jaymion Hendricks said on day two of public hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel is using starvation as a weapon against Palestinians in the occupied territories, breaching its international obligations. He said, “International law prohibits Israel from the use of starvation as a method of warfare, including under siege or blockade, Israel may not collectively punish the protected Palestinian population, which it holds under unlawful occupation.”
Claire Nicolet, MSF [Doctors Without Borders] head of emergencies, said, “Waiting for any kind of legal recourse to end Israel’s intentional choking of aid, food and medicine into Gaza will condemn yet more Palestinians to avoidable death, while the world watches on impassively, doing nothing to avoid this indiscriminate and abhorrent cruelty,” adding, “States need to do more to pressure Israeli authorities into lifting the siege and letting aid enter the war-torn enclave at scale to prevent more suffering and death.”
Bolivia’s ambassador to the UK, Roberto Calzadilla, declared, “Israel’s presence, found by the Court to be illegal, is rooted in the violation of the most fundamental norms of international law ⎯ the prohibition on the acquisition of territory by force and the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.”
Bolivia’s Dr. Niccolò Ridi, a senior lecturer in Public International Law at King’s College London, goes on to point out, “Israel is, as a Member of the United Nations, bound by Article 2, paragraph 2, of the United Nations Charter to fulfill its Charter obligations in good faith. It is bound by Article 2, paragraph 5 of the United Nations Charter to give the United Nations “every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with” the Charter.”
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UNRWA says Israel has abused detained staff and used some as human shields
The embattled UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has accused Israel of abusing dozens of its staff in military detention and using some as human shields.
The head of the agency, Philippe Lazzarini, said that more than 50 staff members, including teachers, doctors and social workers, had been detained and abused since the start of the 18-month-long war in Gaza.
“They have been treated in the most shocking & inhumane way. They reported being beaten + used as human shields,” Lazzarini wrote on X.
Those detained had been subjected to “sleep deprivation, humiliation, threats of harm to them & their families + attacks by dogs … [and] forced confessions”.
UN officials said the reported abuse had taken place both in Gaza and in military detention sites in Israel.
The Israeli military has not responded directly to Lazzarini’s accusation, but has previously denied allegations of widespread abuse in its detention facilities and by its troops.
It has, however, launched investigations into abuse by individual soldiers during the war, and into the use of detainees as human shields, bringing charges against service personnel in some cases.
In a statement, the Israeli military said it acted in accordance with Israeli law and international law, and protects the rights of individuals held in detention facilities under its responsibility.
NOTE: 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.
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Gaza Civil Defense says most vehicles halted in southern Gaza due to fuel shortage
The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip has announced that most of its vehicles designated for firefighting, rescue, and ambulance services in the southern governorates of the strip have ceased operating due to the depletion of the fuel necessary to run them, as a result of the ongoing severe Israeli blockade on the territory.
In a statement on Telegram on Monday, the Civil Defense said: “Humanitarian response and emergency calls will now be limited to only 4 vehicles, which threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens and displaced people in shelter centers.”
The Civil Defense held Israel “fully responsible for the worsening suffering of our people in the Gaza Strip due to the ongoing war and the tightened blockade.”
Israel prison authorities deliberately move sick detainees around to spread diseases in prisons, rights group says
Israeli prison authorities are deliberately transferring sick prisoners between prisons and detention centers, with the aim of spreading diseases and epidemics among prisoners, according to prisoner testimonies, the Palestinian Prisoners Club has said.
The rights group explained in a statement issued yesterday that these practices “contributed to the escalation of the health catastrophe facing thousands of prisoners due to the spread of scabies, which has been a major cause of the deaths of prisoners in recent months.”
The statement cited prisoner testimonies, stating that “the occupation deliberately transferred prisoners suffering from an infectious disease without a clear diagnosis from Megiddo Prison to Negev Prison, which led to prisoners in Negev Prison contracting the disease.”
Israel claims no evidence of humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Israel rejected international reports Tuesday of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, defending his country’s genocide on the enclave.
“Our assessments indicate there is currently no evidence of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” deputy envoy Brett Jonathan Miller forcefully told the UN Security Council.
Since March 2, Israel has kept Gaza’s crossings closed to food, medical and humanitarian aid, deepening the humanitarian crisis, according to government, human rights and international reports.
Israeli official says war will not end ‘until hundreds of thousands of Gazans leave’
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Tuesday that Israel will not end the war in the Gaza Strip until hundreds of thousands of Palestinians leave the enclave.
“We will end this campaign when Syria is dismantled, Hezbollah is severely beaten, Iran is stripped of its nuclear threat, Gaza is cleansed of Hamas and hundreds of thousands of Gazans are on their way out of it to other countries, our hostages are returned, some to their homes and some to the graves of Israel,” said Smotrich during his speech in the Eli settlement in the central West Bank.
He claimed that these are not only the goals of the government but rather a consensus of the Israeli people and soldiers.
Israeli warplanes bomb mosque in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, leaving many injured
The Israeli military is preparing to expand its ground operation in the Gaza Strip, citing stalled negotiations with the Palestinian group Hamas, Israel’s state-owned broadcaster KAN reported Monday.
KAN said the Israeli army is planning a broad mobilization of reserve forces, who are already facing severe exhaustion. The report said preparations are underway to intensify operations based on demands from ministers in the Security Cabinet.
The military has also begun setting up a new “humanitarian zone” in southern Gaza located between the Morag Corridor and Rafah “to relocate Palestinians after security inspections,” the broadcaster said.
The report added that humanitarian aid in the new area would be distributed by American civilian companies under the protection and supervision of the Israeli army.
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Ben-Gvir returns to Israel after a violent trip to the U.S. But what was he actually doing here?
The Israeli far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has wrapped up his weeklong visit to the United States.
The settler leader’s trip drew protests and generated violence, but these developments didn’t stop Ben-Gvir from meeting with Republican lawmakers at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and the U.S. Capitol.
Ben-Gvir has previously been convicted of supporting terrorism and inciting anti-Arab racism. Before running for office, he kept a picture of Baruch Goldstein, the Israeli religious extremist who murdered 29 Palestinian people in a Mosque, hanging in his living room.
In 2023, Ben-Gvir told a reporter that, “My right, and my wife’s and my children’s right, to get around on the roads in Judea and Samaria is more important than the right to movement for Arabs,” referring to the Israeli term for the occupied West Bank. He has consistently bragged about helping to impede a ceasefire in Gaza (continue reading here).
Dems Push for “Educational Gag Order” Over Palestine Lessons in California
For years, California Democrats have defended their landmark program to put ethnic studies classes in high schools across the state.
In the face of national right-wing media attacks and local critics, the state’s governing supermajority passed a law in 2021 making ethnic studies a graduation requirement, which supports school boards to develop their own curricula for the courses.
But one particular area of study threatens to unravel the Democratic consensus: Palestine.
In the past year, state lawmakers have teamed up with community groups and the lobbying coalition Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California, or JPAC, in a push to regulate the ethnic studies program. They’re aiming to pass a law that curbs local school board control over ethnic studies curricula in response to classwork focusing on the history of Israel and Palestine that they say has promoted unprecedented bigotry against Jewish students. (continue reading here).
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IMEMC Daily Reports
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – APRIL 29, 2025:
- At least 53,280 Palestinians killed, 126,185 injured – including:
- at least 52,314 killed in Gaza (~15,600 children)
- at least 966 killed in the West Bank (~187 children)
- at least 117,792 injured in Gaza
- at least 8,393 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 14,000 more are still buried under rubble.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – April 29, 2025: ~1,595 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 410 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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