Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 more Palestinians in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
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.
At least 1,400 medical personnel have been killed during Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Gaza Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.
Newborns in Gaza face death due to famine caused by Israeli blockade
Newborn babies in Gaza are at risk of death due to lack of food, medicine and medical supplies caused by the Israeli blockade.
Palestinian doctors said the lives of newborn babies are in danger, especially due to the lack of baby food and medicine.
Pediatricians working at the Nasser Medical Complex emphasised that newborn babies, if they are weak or born with a disease, need additional food, medicine and medical care.
They said however, even these basic and essential needs cannot be provided due to the Israeli blockade.
Since the beginning of March, the occupation forces have been preventing the entry of any medical, food or other essential supplies, exacerbating the already dire health crisis in the Gaza Strip.
Un experts and rights groups have warned that this is part of Israel’s genocidal policy and efforts to clear out Gaza of Palestinians in order to annex the enclave.
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NBC News: Children in Gaza struggle to survive amid bombs and aid blockade
With sunken cheeks, knobbly knees on stick-thin legs and ribs jutting out of his chest, 6-year-old Osama Al-Raqab hardly resembles a photo that showed the young boy smiling into the camera.
“He used to be happy and full of life,” Osama’s aunt, Nour Sameer Al-Raqab, told NBC News’ crew in southern Gaza‘s Bani Suheila on Sunday as she held up the image from a few months before the war began next to the boy’s face. “Now, he looks like a skeleton.”
Osama’s grandmother Um Ahmad Al-Raqab called on Israeli authorities to allow her grandson to be evacuated out of Gaza for treatment for cystic fibrosis.
He is among many struggling to survive in the besieged Palestinian enclave as it endures a month-and-a-half-long blockade that has halted the flow of aid and goods — the longest suspension of aid since the war began.
“We are witnessing acts of war in Gaza that show an utter disregard for human life,” humanitarian and health bodies, including United Nations agencies, the World Health Organization and the World Food Program, warned in a statement this month.
In its latest humanitarian situation update, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that with no aid entering since March, when Israel launched its blockade, malnutrition and other preventable conditions were expected to rise, increasing the risk of child deaths. It added that medicines were rapidly running out.
Israel has maintained amid mounting criticism over its aid blockade that there is “no shortage of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip” after it allowed the entry of thousands of trucks into the enclave during the ceasefire. Asked to comment on the matter, COGAT, Israel’s military liaison with the Palestinians, referred NBC News to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. A spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In Khan Younis, video shot by NBC News’ crew showed children holding empty pots and pans as they crowded around a soup kitchen.
“If I don’t get food, we won’t eat,” one little girl, Bara’a Abu Mousa, told NBC News’ crew after finding herself pushed out from the clamoring crowd. “We have nothing at home.”
After waiting four hours, Bara’a was given a small portion of rice to be shared with her family (continue reading here).
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Gaza’s shrinking humanitarian space
Between 18 March and 14 April, the Israeli military issued at least 20 displacement orders, placing about 142.7 square kilometers, or 39 per cent of the Gaza Strip, under active displacement orders.
In addition to areas placed under displacement orders, the Israeli authorities have requested the UN to coordinate and notify movements to the “no-go” zone along Gaza’s perimeter and along Wadi Gaza where Israeli forces have re-deployed since 20 March, which makes up about 50 per cent of the Gaza Strip.
In total, about 69 per cent of the Gaza Strip is under active displacement orders, within the “no-go” zone or both.
“The increasing issuance by Israeli Forces of ‘evacuation orders’ – which are, in effect, displacement orders – have resulted in the forcible transfer of Palestinian [sic] in Gaza into ever shrinking spaces where they have little or no access to lifesaving services, including water, food and shelter, and where they continue to be subject to attacks,” stated Ravina Shamdasani, the spokesperson for the UN Human Rights office (OHCHR).
According to OHCHR, “the nature and scope of the evacuation [displacement] orders raise serious concerns that Israel intends permanently to remove the civilian population from these areas in order to create a ‘buffer zone’.”
Since 18 March, OHCHR recorded at least 23 incidents of strikes on IDP tents in Al Mawasi area of Khan Younis, where Israeli military orders instructed civilians to relocate, and a large percentage of overall fatalities recorded by the Office were children and women.
Israel targets UNRWA flour center in Khan Yunis
Israeli air strikes targeted an UNRWA flour distribution center surrounded by tents housing forcibly displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
The UN facility played a crucial role in providing food aid, which is under severe strain in the enclave as a result of Israel’s continued siege and closure of all crossings into the Strip.
Israeli air strikes targeted an UNRWA flour distribution centre surrounded by tents housing forcibly displaced Palestinians in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza. The UN facility played a crucial role in providing food aid, which is under severe strain in the enclave as a result of… pic.twitter.com/ehewaEkkk9
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Israel strikes Gaza’s Kuwaiti Field Hospital, kills a medic, wounds several
An Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing a medic and wounding nine other people — all patients and medics — according to a spokesman for the hospital in the Muwasi area, where hundreds of thousands have sought shelter in sprawling tent camps.
This came after Sunday’s strike that targeted the last major hospital providing critical care in northern Gaza after ordering an evacuation.
Israel has struck hospitals on several occasions during its 18-month war on Gaza, claiming that Hamas is hiding out in them or using them for military purposes, without providing evidence. Hospital staff have denied the allegations and accused Israel of recklessly endangering civilians.
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Hamas says it lost contact with fighters holding Israeli soldier
Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida has revealed that it has lost contact with the fighters holding Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, following what he said was a direct Israeli air strike on their position.
“We lost contact with the group capturing soldier Edan Alexander after a direct bombardment targeted their location,” Abu Obeida said in a statement.
He accused the Israeli military of using these attacks to deflect attention from sensitive ceasefire negotiations, suggesting it was part of a broader strategy: “We estimate that the occupation army is deliberately trying to relieve the pressure of the dual-citizen prisoners’ file in order to continue its war of extermination.”
On Saturday last week Hamas released a video showing signs of life from Edan Alexander, a US-Israeli held captive in Gaza.
Alexander, a 21-year-old, was serving as a lone soldier near the Gaza frontier when the war erupted on 7 October 2023.
US sends more bombs and weapons to Israel
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority reports that dozens of flights with military transport planes loaded with ammunition have landed in recent days at the Nevatim Airbase in Israel.
Monday, six planes loaded with MK-84 bombs, cluster munitions, and other combat supplies for Gaza landed in Israel.
The ammunition that arrived in Israel comes as part of the preparations for more attacks on Gaza, as well as for potential attacks on Iran if negotiations fail, Israeli media reported.
This comes shortly after the US Department of State approved the sale of engines used on military vehicles to Israel in a deal worth $180m.
The administration of US President Donald Trump has accelerated weapons transfers to Israel despite the mounting toll in Gaza, including a limited number of offensive arms exports halted by Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden.
Washington prepares new shipment of bombs for Israel ahead of ‘vigorous expansion’ of Gaza assault
The US has approved a new shipment of thousands of bombs for the Israeli Air Force, Hebrew media outlets reported – coming as Tel Aviv is planning to expand its brutal assault on the Gaza Strip.
“The IDF is set to receive a major arms shipment from the United States in the coming weeks, including more than 3,000 munitions for the Israeli Air Force, as part of its preparations for continued operations in the Gaza Strip and a potential strike on Iran,” Ynet said, citing Israeli officials.
The shipment aims to “boost readiness” for a large-scale offensive by the Israeli army’s Southern Command.
Israel is also expected to receive over 10,000 more bombs in the coming months to refill its stocks.
This new arms deal aims to complement a shipment of US MK84 bombs from early this year, when US President Donald Trump unfroze a delivery that had been placed on hold by the former administration in Washington.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced earlier this week that the army is soon going to “vigorously” widen its offensive in Gaza.
NYT: Autopsies of Gaza Medics Killed by Israeli Troops Show Some Were Shot in the Head
The paramedics and rescue workers killed in an Israeli shooting in Gaza last month died mainly from gunshots to the head or chest, while others had shrapnel injuries or other wounds, according to autopsy reports obtained by The New York Times.
Israeli troops had fired on ambulances and a fire truck sent by the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the Civil Defense, according to witness accounts, video and audio of the March 23 attack.
Israel acknowledged carrying out the attack, which killed 15 men: 14 rescue workers and a United Nations employee who drove by after the others were shot. Israeli soldiers buried most of the bodies in a mass grave, crushed the ambulances, fire truck and a U.N. vehicle, and buried those as well.
The Israeli military has offered shifting explanations for why its troops fired on the emergency vehicles and said, without providing evidence, that some of the dead men had been Hamas operatives. Israel’s military said it was investigating the killing.
The autopsy reports said 11 of the men had gunshot wounds, including at least six who were shot in their chests or backs and four who were shot in the head. Most had been shot multiple times.
Several of the bodies were missing limbs or other body parts, the reports said. One man’s body was severed from the pelvis down, his autopsy report said (continue reading here).
Rubio Says Detained Palestinian Stoked Antisemitism. Mahdawi’s Israeli Colleague Says the Opposite.
The Trump administration is seeking to deport a Columbia student because his activities could “potentially undermine” the Middle East peace process, according to a memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that was reviewed by The New York Times.
The memo asserted, without elaboration, that protests of the type Mr. Mahdawi had led could undermine the Middle East peace process by reinforcing antisemitic sentiment in the region and around the world and ultimately threatening a U.S. foreign policy goal of resolving the Gaza conflict “peacefully.”
It also said, without elaborating, that Mr. Mahdawi had “engaged in threatening rhetoric and intimidation of pro-Israeli bystanders” and that his actions had undermined efforts to protect Jewish students from violence.
A lawyer for Mr. Mahdawi, Luna Droubi, asked to comment on the assertions in the memo, said that they were “baseless claims made with no evidence.”
“Mohsen in fact took the lead on bringing Palestinian and Israeli students together in pursuit of a just peace on campus and in the Middle East,” she said. “Mohsen, like every other person in this country, is entitled to due process and protections under the First Amendment.”
Mr. Rubio’s memo asserts that it is an American foreign policy goal to peacefully resolve the Gaza conflict, and President Trump’s administration has pushed for a deal to end Israel’s war in Gaza.
But at the same time, the president has also given Israel freedom to renew its war in the territory. Since negotiations between Israel and Hamas collapsed last month, Israel has undertaken a major bombing campaign (continue reading here).
An Israeli associate of Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University student detained Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said his targeting is a clear sign that no kind of activism in support of Palestine — even efforts to build peace with Israelis — is the right kind of activism for the Israeli and American right.
Mahdawi’s green card was revoked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio under an obscure provision of immigration law that allows the deportation of people deemed to be a threat to U.S. foreign policy. In Mahdawi’s case, according to the New York Times, Rubio said without any evidence that the student’s activism stoked antisemitism that undermined the peace process to end Israel’s war in Gaza.
Mahdawi was vocally opposed to both terrorism and antisemitism, said his associate, an Israeli former Columbia student named Mikey Baratz.
“The irony of him, of all people, being someone they target is so funny to me — this person who has denounced violence,” Baratz said. “This is a person who had a split from the protest movement because he felt like they were not self-policing. This is a person who has had many, many disagreements with the pro-Palestine movement for feeling that they are refusing to moderate” (continue reading here).
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IMEMC Daily Reports
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – APRIL 15, 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 15, 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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