It has now been 921 days since Israel began its 2023 genocide on the Palestinian people. Below is a roundup of news from Tuesday, April 14, 2026.
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
ISRAEL-US WAR/CEASEFIRE ON IRAN – NEWS & HEADLINES:
It can not be overemphasized that Israel has been the impetus behind US policies and actions vis-a-vis Iran for years. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing the US to attack Iran for decades, using lies and deception. Under President Trump, he got his wish.
The American people have made clear that they do not want to go to war with Iran, but Israel partisans and the Israel lobby use their massive political clout to bring about whatever is beneficial to Israel – including putting the US military in harm’s way. For more background on Israel’s role in American wars, watch IAK’s short film, “The Israeli Hit List.”
US vice president says Trump seeking ‘grand bargain’ with Iran: “He said that ‘if you’re willing to act like a normal country, we are willing to treat you economically like a normal country.’ He doesn’t want a small deal,” he added. “The reason why the deal is not yet done is because the president, he really wants a deal where Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon,” he said.
U.S sending thousands more troops to Middle East: While diplomatic efforts are underway to extend the ceasefire, the United States is sending thousands of additional troops into the Middle East in the coming days. The forces include 6,000 troops aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and several warships escorting it, and 4,200 others with the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and its embarked Marine Corps task force that are expected to arrive near the end of the month.
Iran demands compensation from Arab states over ‘direct involvement’ in US-Israeli war: Tehran’s UN envoy said Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Jordan allowed their territories to be used for attacks on the Islamic Republic. Iranian officials say the Israeli-US bombing campaign has caused about $270 billion in losses.
How much has the Israel-US war on Iran cost American taxpayers so far? The US has not published a full official account of what the war cost Washington since the Pentagon reported that the first six days alone cost the US $11.3 billion. The Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates that battle damage alone has reached at least $3.5 billion over five weeks. Public policy experts at the Harvard Kennedy School, put the war’s cost to Washington at around $2 billion per day.
Israel’s defense ministry: war against Iran cost $13 billion
Sanctioned tanker crosses Hormuz despite US blockade: International maritime tracking data on Monday evening showed that an Iranian “shadow fleet” oil tanker had successfully crossed the Strait of Hormuz, despite the start of a US-imposed naval blockade on Iranian exports.
Trump Rejects Reports That US Proposed Iran Suspend Uranium Enrichment for 20 Years: “I’ve been saying they can’t have nuclear weapons, so I don’t like the 20 years,” the president said. When asked whether a 20-year moratorium could work as a deal, since it could allow Iran to sell it as a win, Trump said, “I don’t want them to feel like they have a win.”
Israel calls for zero enriched uranium in Iran
Trump accuses ally Meloni of lacking courage for not joining attacks on Iran: “I’m shocked at her. I thought she had courage, but I was wrong,”Trump said. His remarks come as the Italian PM suspends defense agreement with Israel amid growing domestic pressure over the conflict.
US gasoline, diesel prices at highest in years as Iran war drives fuel costs
DEATH TOLL – WAR ON IRAN (tentative):
- United States: 13 (this number is believed by some to be an undercount)
- Iran: at least 3,375 (2,875 men, 496 women, no details on the remaining four people; other sources have higher numbers)
- Israel: 30 (including 11 Israeli soldiers, and 1 friendly fire – including both Iran and Lebanon-related deaths; another count shows 20 Israeli civilian deaths)
- Arab states (including Palestine, excluding Lebanon), at least 154
ISRAEL’S WAR ON LEBANON – NEWS & HEADLINES:
Although Israel signed a ceasefire agreement with Lebanon in November 2024, Israel has attacked Lebanon almost every day since, committing over 10,000 air and ground violations – the most violated ceasefire deal in recorded history – and killing at least 397. Additionally, Israel continues to occupy five Lebanese hilltops seized during the latest war, and other Lebanese areas it has held for decades. (Read about UNIFIL, the UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, here.)
Lebanon, Israel begin first direct talks in more than 30 years on Tuesday under US mediation: ‘All of the complexities of this matter are not going to be resolved in the next six hours, but we can begin to move forward to create a framework,’ says Marco Rubio. First meeting topic: decision to begin negotiations.
RELATED: Israel-Lebanon Talks Begin; Sources: Netanyahu Using Talks to Buy Time Against Hezbollah
Israeli airstrikes hit southern Lebanon as ceasefire talks underway in Washington
FOR MORE INFO: Israel-Lebanon direct talks in the US: All you need to know: Israel and Lebanon hold first direct talks since 1993, but Hezbollah’s rejection threatens the US-brokered effort.
Ceasefire between Israel, Lebanon to be announced tonight – report: The ceasefire will reportedly last for one week and end at the same time as the ongoing temporary ceasefire between the US and Iran. The US will serve as a sponsor and partner of Israel during the ceasefire and will be responsible for monitoring Israeli actions for the duration.
Support for Settlement of Lebanon Goes Mainstream in Israel: What was once a fringe curiosity is now an organized movement with broad governmental and public support.
DEATH TOLL – WAR ON LEBANON (tentative):
- In Lebanon, at least 2,089 people have been killed (166 children, 252 women)
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM GAZA:
For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For more critical context, skim this, this, and this. To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here.
Israel’s military killed at least 11 Palestinians, including a three-year-old and a 14-year-old, in separate attacks across the war-torn Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Four of the dead were killed when Israeli forces targeted a police vehicle.
No diapers, no relief: Gaza’s infants face growing hygiene crisis because of Israeli restrictions: Away from the headlines, mothers are struggling to secure the most basic hygiene items for their babies. Diapers—once an ordinary necessity—have become scarce, unaffordable, and, for many, entirely out of reach, exposing the depth of the humanitarian collapse gripping the enclave.
OCHA Warns of Escalating Disease Risks in Overcrowded Camps: OCHA, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reports a sharp rise in skin diseases across hundreds of displacement sites, alongside a widespread infestation of rodents and other pests. Humanitarian teams are reportedly working to combat pest infestations and improve sanitation but face severe operational challenges, including limited supplies, restricted access to many affected areas, and the ongoing collapse of basic services.
ISRAELI MEDIA: ‘Diseases Are Everywhere’: Gaza’s ‘Catastrophic’ Healthcare Crisis Is Worsening: Alongside a surge in diseases caused by insects, rodents and contaminated water, health officials and aid groups report that Israel’s restrictions have resulted in dire shortages of medicine and medical supplies. An estimated 1.2 million Gazans live in crowded tent camps.
When Israel destroyed Gaza’s courts, legal protections for women vanished: The decimation of Gaza’s judicial system has left hundreds of thousands of women unable to claim inheritance, get a divorce, or retain custody of their children. “That is the reality of women in Gaza. We are abandoned,” says Maysoun, a mother of two.
DEATH TOLL – GAZA GENOCIDE (tentative):
- At least 760 since ceasefire began Oct. 11, 2025
- 72,336 killed (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls) since October 2023
- More statistics below
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM:
Every day, Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem endure dozens of incidents like the ones below, at the hands of Israeli soldiers and/or settlers. For background on the West Bank, read this and this. For information on the significance of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, read this and this.)
ISRAELI MEDIA: Newly Approved West Bank Settlements* to Be Built on Private Palestinian Land, Map Shows: Five of the settlements are planned for the northern West Bank, an area with no prior Israeli presence. Their location amid Palestinian villages is expected to require a significant military presence, which the IDF chief warned would stretch manpower.
*NOTE: More than 700,000 settlers live illegally on Palestinian land in over 500 settlements and settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Some settler groups have a history of violence against Palestinians, often with the assistance of Israeli military forces. Learn more about Israeli settler violence here and here.
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. Israeli settlers are sometimes referred to as “colonizers.”
Israeli Forces Abduct Dozens in West Bank Invasions
Chief Islamic Justice of Palestine Condemns Israel’s Abduction of Former Waqf Minister
Tuesday: Israeli Soldiers and Paramilitary Forces Continue West Bank Assault
Israeli Colonizers Bulldoze Road in Duma, Cut Water Line
DEATH TOLL – WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM (tentative):
NEWS & HEADLINES FROM ISRAEL:
Israel is a tiny country, about the size of New Jersey, with a population smaller than the US state of Georgia – about 10 million (of which about 20 percent are Palestinians), yet it is in the news constantly. As has been demonstrated again and again, however, mainstream media rarely covers Israel news accurately. IAK gets the facts – sometimes from Israeli media sites, where we can get a glimpse inside this country that is rife with turmoil and contradictions, and that receives $63 million a day from America.
Israeli jailers assaulted Marwan Barghouti three times in a month, lawyer says: A campaign calling for Barghouti’s release on Tuesday described the incidents as “brutal attacks”. It said they took place while he was in solitary confinement in Israel. Barghouti was tortured “using various tools of repression and beatings, causing multiple injuries and bleeding across his body without medical treatment,” the campaign said, part of a “systematic series” of attacks that have continued since the start of Israel’s genocide on Gaza.
Israel is fighting Christian presence in Palestine, and Christian Zionists* must repent: Rev. Munther Isaac, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Beit Sahour, stresses that what Christians are experiencing cannot be separated from the broader reality of the Palestinian people amid checkpoints, restrictions on access to Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and repeated attacks without accountability.
*NOTE: Christian Zionism is antithetical to the teachings of Jesus. Much has been written in opposition to Christian Zionism – for example, read this and this and this. For a deep dive into the topic, go here.
Israel’s Top Court Hears Petitions to Remove Ben-Gvir From Post: According to the attorney general, there’s an urgent need to halt Ben-Gvir’s harm ‘to individual liberties and the structure of the democratic regime,’ caused by improper political interference in the police. ‘The time has come for a constitutional crisis,’ one Netanyahu minister called outside the court as Ben-Gvir lashed: ‘I was elected to govern.’
*NOTE: Read more about Ben Gvir here.
MORE NEWS & HEADLINES:
Why are Democratic leaders still ignoring voters on Israel? Last summer, a Quinnipiac Poll found that 77% of Democrats agreed that “Israel is committing genocide”. Last month, an NBC poll found that 67% of Democrats felt more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis, compared with 17% who felt more sympathetic to Israelis. But the DNC continues to operate as if fully sealed off from the party’s voters on such matters.
Mass Action Targets Schumer and Gillibrand Ahead of Senate Vote on Israel Aid: The Senate is poised to vote on resolutions that would block over $650 million in weapons sales to Israel.
Voters Think Candidates Who Won’t Stand Up To AIPAC Won’t Fight On Other Issues, Either: New Poll: A new poll from Drop Site and Zeteo finds Democratic Senate voters in Michigan care more about limiting AIPAC’s influence than Hasan Piker’s.
Reform movement warns anti-AIPAC rhetoric among Democrats risks crossing into Jew-hatred*: To “disproportionately demonize AIPAC as a distinctively harmful dark-money entity crosses the line into antisemitic tropes about sinister Jewish political influence,” the URJ stated.
*NOTE: Actual antisemitism (i.e.”Jew-hatred”) is not as prevalent as Israel partisans – like the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) – would like us to think. A large portion of what they call antisemitism is simply criticism of Israel, the self-proclaimed “Jewish State,” in other words, opposition to Zionism.
Zionism is not a benign philosophy, but a supremacist ideology – the ideology under which Israel dispossessed 750,000 Palestinian people and exiled them to Gaza and other locations. The so-called “demonization” of Israel is in most cases a legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies of occupation, apartheid, and genocide, and other illegal practices.
Rome prosecutors investigate alleged torture of Global Sumud Flotilla activists: Italian investigators examine claims of abuse after interception of Gaza-bound aid boats.
RELATED: History of flotilla campaigns to end Israel’s siege of Gaza
Petition to suspend EU-Israel Association Agreement reaches 1M signatures: ‘EU must stand for international law and stop its complicity with Israel’s genocide,’ organizers say.
Washington-Vatican feud deepens as JD Vance says pope should ‘stick to matters of morality’: “I certainly think that in some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what’s going on in the Catholic Church and let the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy,” Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, told Fox News.
RELATED: Trump’s mocking of the Pope reveals a clash of moral universes
ICYMI, A SELECTION OF YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES:
As US Blockades Strait of Hormuz, Iran Military Warns of Weapons ‘Enemy Has No Idea About’
Second Contractor Steps Forward to Blow the Whistle on Israeli Attacks at Gaza Aid Site
Over 200 occupiers led by rabbi storm Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque under Israeli police protection
Netanyahu says Europe has ‘much to learn’ from Israel on ‘good and evil’
(Read yesterday’s daily update here.)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – APRIL 14, 2026*:
- At least 73,485 Palestinians killed, 183,913 injured – including:
- Gaza: at least 72,336 killed (~22,000 children, 33,000 women and girls), 172,213 injured
- West Bank/East Jerusalem: at least 1,149 killed (~232 children), 11,700 injured
*NOTE: Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 8,000 more are still buried under rubble (some sources put the number of missing as high as 14,000); 3,000 more are reportedly missing. Only the dead who are brought to hospitals are included in the official fatality count. Additionally, the numbers of injured are very conservative estimates.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – April 14, 2026: ~1,661 – including ~1,139** on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 472 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, about 52 military and civilians (by one count, there have been 59 victims) in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel (these numbers do not include deaths from the conflicts with Lebanon or Iran).
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 282 Palestinian journalists and media workers (most recent March 9, 2026; other groups have tallied between 215 and 356 Palestinian journalists killed – depending on the criteria used). Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (all on October 7, 2023).
**NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
- Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated)
- ‘Not Acceptable’: President of Iran Condemns Trump For His ‘Desecration of Jesus, the Prophet of Peace’
- We Are the Barbarians
- Netanyahu Says the Trump Administration Gives Him Reports on Iran Talks Every Day
- Second Contractor Steps Forward to Blow the Whistle on Israeli Attacks at Gaza Aid Site
- Emergency waivers move arms for Israel, UAE to speed lane
- Caitlin Johnstone: Nobody’s “Obsessed” With Israel — It’s Just A Uniquely Horrible Country
- Israel’s Ben Gvir says he feels like the ‘owner’ of Al-Aqsa Mosque
- History of flotilla campaigns to end Israel’s siege of Gaza
- Humanitarian Scorecard: Six Months In, Gaza Ceasefire is Failing
- Mark Levin Seems Upset We Haven’t Nuked Iran
- Israeli prison authorities are blocking hundreds of solidarity postcards being sent to female Palestinian prisoners
- ‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organized state policy’
- Israeli army shoots, kills 9-year-old girl in her Gaza classroom
- Israel is attacking Lebanon to sabotage the Iran ceasefire, but the media is hiding its true motivation
