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Updates April/March and earlier, 2025-'24 Earlier: April 3-1, 2025 Yet another Israeli war crime is buried and more 'grave' (sic) news April 1, 2025 Yet another Israeli war crime is buried in the sand  as the world looks away... and How did Israel kill the Red Crescent medics in Gaza?... & There Are No Universities Left in Gaza & How the ‘war on terror’ paved the way for student deportations... & Overview special reports

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Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel Updated: December 6, 2024: Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war   Click here for earlier stories/news

April 9 - 7, 2025 UN chief says Palestinians in Gaza in ‘death loop’, demands end to blockade... Food for thought: Although there is not even food thanks to the UN who withdrew their caretakers staff. Read the actual fact-finding news here April 9 - 7, 2025 Targeted, killed, burned alive: Paramedics, Journalists, People April 7 - 6, 2025 A million dollar question: Will anyone face justice? Well, we can only hope that the US will go bankrupt now they also started a trade-war. Read the actual fact-finding news here

April 6, 2025 I am not a number, I am a real story from Gaza. Remember it April 6 - 1, 2025 Neo-nazi zionists continue their warcrime acts with Western consent May the souls of those medics who only did their 'job' were killed rest in peace and may the political leaders of the Western world rest in shame. Opinion: "Israel kills, lies, and the Western media believe it" Read it here: https://www.aljazeera.com/ opinions/2025/4/6/ israel-kills-lies-and-the-western-media-believe-it

April 6 - 3, 2025 Food for thought: Neo-nazi zionists continue their warcrime acts with Western consent. Read the actual fact-finding news here April 3 - 1, 2025 Gaza faces ‘largest orphan crisis’ in modern history, report says... and more 'grave' (sic) news April 1 - March 29, 2025 Food for thought or better quoted At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks and more than 200 were taken captive. However, facts are that israel and its allies are guilty of genocide. Read all fact

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and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.



Know their names
Al Jazeera - April 9, 2025 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<The Gaza Red Crescent paramedics Israel attacked
Refaat Radwan recorded his last mission and his own final breaths. He was filming from the third ambulance in a convoy, which included a fire truck, that had gone out to find a Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance that had lost contact with its base. All the vehicles in the convoy were clearly marked, with emergency lights flashing. Israeli soldiers kill health workers: Video emerges of attack on Palestinian medical staf. In the video, the crew members see the missing ambulance by the side of the road and approach, muttering prayers for their colleagues’ safety. Then a voice says: “They’re scattered on the ground! Look, look!” and Refaat runs out of his ambulance with other medics to check on the fallen aid workers. Then the sound of bullets rings out as Israeli soldiers shoot at uniformed medics who were running to assist the medics they had already killed. Refaat was hit.In his final moments, he prayed and called repeatedly to his mother to forgive him - for choosing the path of a paramedic, putting himself in harm’s way. Israeli soldiers killed eight PRCS workers that night, as well as six workers from the Palestinian Civil Defence who had gone out on the same mission.
A ninth paramedic, Assaad al-Nassasra, was captured.
Here are the Red Crescent medics Israel ambushed that day, through the eyes of the people who loved them:
The quiet one: Ashraf Abu Labda
With his glasses and serious face, Ashraf was always a reassuring presence for his colleagues. The 32-year-old medic had started volunteering with the PRCS in 2021. He quickly integrated into the PRCS community, making sure that all his colleagues had a meal for iftar during Ramadan. He would either cook it himself at the Red Crescent centre or bring some of his family’s food from home to share. In September 2023, he got married, and one month later, Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza. When he was killed, he left behind his wife and their two-month-old baby girl, Wiam.
The family man: Ezzeddin Shaath
Ezzeddin was 51 when Israeli soldiers killed him, and a father to six children. The dedicated family man had a great sense of humour, but the war on Gaza stripped that away from him as he gradually stopped laughing. He joined the PRCS in 2000, and four years later, he married Nivine, with whom he had four boys and two girls. At work, he remained a sort of caregiver, making sure his colleagues got at least a little rest every night and something to eat. His motto about rescue work was: “If it is written, we’ll make it back [from a mission], and if we don’t make it back, that’s our destiny,” his colleague Ibrahim Abu al-Kass told Al Jazeera.
The miracle worker: Mohamed Bahloul
A seven-year veteran of the Red Crescent, 36-year-old Mohamed loved his work, as any of his colleagues would tell you. During crises, he would stay at the Red Crescent centre, only going home to see his wife and six children once a week. His children ranged in age from three months to 11 years old at the time Israel killed Mohamed. Bereaved and confused, the children are clinging to the thought that their father died on a humanitarian mission, making him a “martyr”. His colleagues remember him for just figuring things out, Abu al-Kass said. If ever Mohamed heard of a family that was being displaced and needed help, he would make it happen. Since he himself couldn’t use ambulances to move people’s belongings, he would sweet-talk his family and friends until he found transport and shelter for those who were displaced.
The rescuers: Mustafa Khafaga and Mohamed al-Heila
Mustafa was 50 with a 15-year-old son, and Mohamed was 23 and single, but when they got together, their antics were legendary. “One rainy day, those two were walking along when they saw an elderly woman trying to cross the road, but it was too wet and slippery,” Abu al-Kass said. “So they looked at each other. One said: ‘So, are we partners or what? No matter what the mission is?’ and the other said: ‘Of course we are!’. They went and got a chair and brought it up to the woman, asked her to sit down, and then lifted the chair and walked her carefully across the road, beaming the entire time. “They were carrying her like she was a bride,” Abu al-Kass continued. The elated woman was laughing and cheering, he added, and sent loving prayers after her two rescuers.
The photographer: Raed el-Sharif
Raed, 25, loved taking pictures. Silly ones, serious ones, casual ones, posed ones. And he hoped that one day the world would see his images and he would be able to convey the suffering of his people through his work. He began volunteering with the PRCS in 2018, when he was 18, during the Great March of Return protests. Israel killed 214 protesters, including 46 children, during these demonstrations, and injured 36,100, including nearly 8,800 children. The youngest out of five siblings, Raed wasn’t married yet, although his family had been hoping he could get married after the war. But that didn’t happen. Raed’s father recounts a harrowing nine-day wait to find out what happened to his youngest child, fighting to hold back the certainty that he had been executed along with his colleagues.
The good grandson: Refaat Radwan
Twenty-four-year-old Refaat was a gentle soul, Abu al-Kass told Al Jazeera. “He especially made sure to help any elderly woman he came across. If he saw such a woman standing in line to collect her medicine from the hospital pharmacy, he would ask her to sit down and go fetch the medicines for her. “It was like he sought out the prayers these gentle women would say for him when he helped them. He would bring them what they needed, then would bid them farewell so tenderly that anyone watching would think she was his grandmother.”
The daring one: Saleh Muammar
Saleh, 42, liked to help. On that, everyone agrees. His brother Hussein told Al Jazeera that Saleh also loved his work, rushing back as soon as he recovered from surgery in 2024. Last February, Hussein explained, Saleh had been on a mission to help wounded people when Israeli forces had opened fire on the medics, despite having been informed that they would be there. Saleh was badly injured in the shoulder and chest, and ended up having to spend time in hospital for surgery and recovery, after which he went straight back to work. That was his bravery, Abu al-Kass commented. “He was dedicated to helping, and used to say that wherever people were crying out for help, that’s where we should be, to respond to them.”
MISSING - The child whisperer: Assaad al-Nassasra
Assaad always showed endless patience for negotiating with kids, Abu al-Kass said. Whenever he saw children playing in the street, he would get to wheeling and dealing, offering them candy to get off the road and go play somewhere safe. The kids quickly figured him out, though, and would be playing in the street again the next time, giggling and saying: “We tricked you!” But Assaad never minded, and simply kept handing over sweets.
His body wasn’t among those found when an international mission went to search for the missing emergency workers. He was captured, bound and taken away, according to the one surviving witness, Munther Abed. The 47-year-old father of six last spoke to his family the evening he disappeared, telling them he was on his way to PRCS headquarters to have iftar with his colleagues, according to his son Mohamed. When they tried to call him around suhoor time, he didn’t respond, and they found out from headquarters that nobody could reach him or the other emergency workers. He had always warned his family that whenever he headed out on a mission, he may not make it back, his son said. But as Assaad continued his rescue work for PRCS, they had always tried to avoid thinking about that.>>
Source: Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2025/4/9/know-their-names-the-gaza-red-crescent-paramedics-israel-attacked

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Al Jazeera - April 8, 2025 - By Nour Elassy - Poet and writer based in Gaza
<<Opinions
Fear is not a word that can describe what we feel in Gaza
The past three weeks since the ceasefire ended have been an endless horror story. Last week, during another violent night, my almost four-year-old niece asked me a question I’ll never forget. “If we die while sleeping… will it still hurt?” I didn’t know what to say. How do you tell a child — who has seen more death than daylight — that dying in your sleep is a mercy? So I told her: “No. I don’t think so. That’s why we should fall asleep now.” She nodded quietly, and turned her face to the wall. She believed me. She closed her eyes. I sat in the dark, listening to the bombs, wondering how many children were being buried alive just down the street. I have 12 nieces and nephews. All are under the age of nine. They have been my solace and joy in these dark times. But I, like their parents, struggle to help them make sense of what is going on around us. We have had to lie to them so many times. They would often believe us, but sometimes they would feel in our voices or our stares that something terrifying was happening. They would feel the horror in the air. No child should ever have to endure such brutality. No parent should have to cower in despair, knowing they cannot protect their children. Last month, the ceasefire ended, and with it, the illusion of a pause. What followed wasn’t just a resumption of war — it was a shift to something more brutal and relentless. In the span of three weeks, Gaza has become a field of fire, where no one is safe. More than 1,400 men, women and children have been slaughtered.
Daily massacres have shattered what remained of our ability to hope. Some of them have hit home.
Not just emotionally. Physically. Just yesterday, the air was filled with dust and the smell of blood from just a few streets away. The Israeli army targeted al-Nakheel Street in Gaza City, killing 11 people, including five children. A few days earlier, at Dar al-Arqam School, a place that had sheltered displaced families, an Israeli air strike turned classrooms into ash. At least 30 people were killed in seconds—mostly women and children. They had come there seeking safety, believing the blue United Nations flag would protect them. It didn’t. The school is less than 10 minutes away from my home. The same day, the nearby Fahd School was also bombarded; three people were killed. A day earlier, there was news of a horror scene in Jabalia. An Israeli strike targeted a clinic run by the UNRWA, where civilians were sheltering. Eyewitnesses described body parts strewn across the clinic. Children burned alive. An infant decapitated. The smell of burning flesh suffocating the survivors. It was a massacre in a place meant for healing. Amid all this, parts of Gaza City received evacuation orders. Evacuate. Now. But to where? Gaza has no safe zones. The north is levelled. The south is bombed.
The sea is a prison. The roads are death traps.
We stayed.
It is not because we are brave. It is because we have nowhere else to go. Fear is not the right word to describe what we feel in Gaza. Fear is manageable. Fear can be named. What we feel is a choking, silent terror that sits inside your chest and never leaves. It is the moment between a missile’s whistle and the impact, when you wonder if your heart has stopped. It is the sound of children crying from under the rubble. The smell of blood spreading with the wind. It is the question my niece asked. Foreign governments and politicians call it a “conflict”. A “complex situation”. A “tragedy”. But what we are living through is not complex. It is a plain massacre. What we are living through is not a tragedy. It is a war crime. I am a writer. A journalist. I’ve spent months writing, documenting, calling out to the world through my words. I have sent dispatches. I have told stories no one else could. And yet — so often — I feel like I am screaming into a void. Still, I keep writing. Because even if the world looks away, I will not let our truth remain unspoken. Because I believe someone is listening. Somewhere. I write because I believe in humanity, even when governments have turned their backs on it. I write so that when history is written, no one can say they didn’t know.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.>>
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/4/8/fear-is-not-a-word-that-can-describe-what-we-feel-in-gaza

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Al Jazeera - April 7, 2025
<<Red Crescent demands international probe into Israel killing of Gaza medics
Palestine Red Crescent says Israel’s attack constitutes a ‘full-fledged war crime’, calls for commission to investigate. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has called for an independent international inquiry into the “deliberate killing” of 15 medical and humanitarian workers in an attack by Israeli forces in Gaza. In a statement on Monday, the group said the March 23 attack in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah “constitutes a full-fledged war crime, and it reflects a dangerous pattern of repeated violation of international humanitarian law”. PRCS President Younis al-Khatib said an independent commission is needed “to establish the facts and hold those responsible accountable”. Israeli forces opened fire at the medics, who were driving in ambulances to assist wounded people at the site of an earlier Israeli attack. A video recently recovered from the mobile phone of one of the medics showed their final moments. The medics were wearing highly reflective uniforms and were inside clearly identifiable rescue vehicles before they were shot by Israeli forces in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood. According to the PRCS, the convoy came under heavy gunfire for about five minutes. It said communication between the team and the central dispatch centre “confirms that the gunfire continued for no less than two hours” with continuous shooting heard until contact was completely lost with one of the medics. This has also been confirmed by one survivor, who said the ambulances came under direct fire with no warning, according to al-Khatib. The survivor also said he was used by Israeli officers as a “human shield” before being able to escape. “It is no longer sufficient to speak of respecting the international law and Geneva Convention,” al-Khatib told reporters from el-Bireh in the occupied West Bank. “It is now required from the international community and the UN Security Council to implement the necessary punishment against all who are responsible.”
‘Who is telling the truth?’
Al-Khatib also called on the international community to safeguard aid workers and prevent the targeting of hospitals, medical centres and ambulances. He also requested that Israel disclose the whereabouts of the PRCS staff who are still missing. The PRCS lost eight of its workers in the attack. Six members of the Palestinian Civil Defence agency and an employee of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, were also killed. The Israeli military had claimed its soldiers “did not randomly attack” any ambulances, insisting they fired on “terrorists” approaching them in “suspicious vehicles”. “Several uncoordinated vehicles were identified advancing suspiciously toward [Israeli army] troops without headlights or emergency signals,” it said. But al-Khatib refuted this claim, saying the ambulances had emergency lights on. “We at PRCS have been accustomed to Israel’s false allegations and fabricated stories with regards to what goes on in the Gaza Strip,” al-Khatib said. “We believe that the whole world, including media representatives, has now come to realise who is telling the truth,” he added. In its statement, the PRCS said the area was not classified as a “red zone” at the time of the emergency response, which means no prior coordination was required to access the site. It said for several days after that, Israeli forces prevented rescue teams from accessing the area under the pretext that it was a “red zone”. Then only limited access was granted, during which PRCS teams recovered the body of a Civil Defence member before Israeli forces forced the rescue team to withdraw, it said. On March 30, the bodies of 14 others were discovered in a “mass grave in a brutal and degrading manner that violates human dignity”, the PRCS added. The attack was decried by the Civil Defence, Gaza’s Government Media Office, Hamas and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, who said the incident raises concern over possible “war crimes” by the Israeli military. Meanwhile, Tom Fletcher, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that since Israel broke the ceasefire in Gaza on March 18 and resumed its war on the enclave, Israeli air attacks have hit “densely populated areas” with “patients killed in their hospital beds, ambulances shot at, first responders killed”.
According to UNRWA, at least 408 aid workers, including more than 280 UNRWA staff members, have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since the war began on October 7, 2023. Gaza’s Ministry of Health said that since March 18, at least 921 people have been killed in the territory, adding to the more than 50,000 killed since the war began – most of them children and women. The violence pushed the heads of six UN agencies to call on Monday for an immediate renewal of the ceasefire that Israel unilaterally broke and the re-entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.>>
Source: Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/7/red-crescent-demands-international-probe-into-israel-killing-of-gaza-medics

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Hilmi al-Faqaawi was burned to death in an Israeli strike - Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera - April 7, 2025 - By Justin Salhani and Maram Humaid
<<Targeted, killed, burned alive: Journalists in Gaza attacked by Israel
In the latest attack on reporters in Gaza, a journalist is burned alive and others wounded in a targeted strike on a media tent outside a hospital.
Abed Shaat drifted off to sleep on Sunday night, exhausted after covering Israeli air strikes all day. The 33-year-old freelance photographer had returned to a tent in front of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza where he’d been based along with other journalists since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza. Then, they were jolted awake. “I woke up to the sound of a huge explosion nearby,” Shaat said. “My colleagues and I immediately rushed out of the tent. [I had] my mobile phone to film. “The strike had directly hit the journalists’ tent across from us. I was horrified – to target journalists like this!”
Burned to death
The tent belonged to the TV station Palestine Today.
“I started taking pictures from a distance, but as I got closer to the burning tent, I saw one of my colleagues on fire,” Shaat said. “I couldn’t continue filming. I don’t even know how I summoned the courage to approach the flames and try to pull the burning person out. “The fire was intense. There was a gas canister that had exploded, and another one that was burning. I tried to pull him out by his leg, but his pants tore off in my hand. I tried from another angle, but I couldn’t. “The fire grew so strong, I fell back, I couldn’t bear it any longer. Then some of the men came with water to put the fire out. “I suddenly felt really weak … and lost consciousness.” Israel’s attack burned Palestine Today reporter Hilmi al-Faqaawi to death along with another man named Yousef al-Khazindar. Journalists Hassan Eslaih, Ahmed al-Agha, Muhammad Fayek, Abdallah Al-Attar, Ihab al-Bardini and Mahmoud Awad were also injured. The Israeli army said on X it had launched the attack to capture Hassan Abdel Fattah Muhammad Islayh (Eslaih), alleging he was a member of Hamas posing as a journalist. Eslaih, a journalist with a large social media following, was badly wounded in the strike. He had been threatened multiple times by Israeli authorities for covering an attack on an Israeli kibbutz during the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. The Israeli army also said it took steps “to reduce the chance of harming civilians” but did not explain why it chose to bomb a tent full of sleeping journalists to capture one of them.
‘Nothing new in … crimes against journalists’
More than 200 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, making it the deadliest ever conflict for journalists. The tent targeted on Monday was outside one of the largest hospitals in southern Gaza.
Journalists have been gathering in hospitals from the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, seeking relatively steady internet service, electricity and safety in numbers. Locals said journalists have been stationed and reporting from Nasser Hospital throughout the conflict. “We live, sleep and work there. We see each other more than we see our own families,” Shaat said. “What connects us … is more than just work.” Experts told Al Jazeera in September that Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza shows a clear pattern of targeting journalists. “There’s nothing new in the Israeli occupation’s crimes against journalists,” Jad Shahrour, spokesperson for the Samir Kassir Foundation, a Beirut-based media freedom watchdog, told Al Jazeera.
“This isn’t the first time during this war, from October 7 to today, whether in Lebanon or Gaza, the Israeli army has directly targeted journalists’ centres.
“This, of course, according to international law, is a war crime, and nothing justifies it.”
Other journalists killed in Gaza since the start of the war include Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist Hossam Shabat and Al Jazeera reporter Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh. Both journalists were killed in targeted attacks on their cars, and Israel justified its actions by saying they were part of armed groups but did not provide evidence for the allegations. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 50,700 people in Gaza, most of whom are children or women and, therefore, not considered members of “terrorist groups” in Israel’s classification. Many civilian men – a protected group under international law – have also been killed. Reporters Without Borders told Al Jazeera it was investigating Monday’s attack.
Whose turn is it next?
Journalists in Gaza are walking with targets on their backs, media rights organisations said. “Israel deliberately bombs journalists because it doesn’t want anyone to report the situation,” Shahrour said. The idea, the groups said, is to discourage reporting of possible war crimes Israel is committing to allow Israel to avoid any accountability. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate gave a news conference on Monday, calling for international accountability for Israel’s crimes against journalists in Gaza. Speaking to Al Jazeera just after returning from al-Faqaawi’s funeral, Shaat spoke of the deep psychological scars the experience has left on him. “Even now, I don’t feel I can move past what I saw. I never imagined in my life that I would be pulling someone while they were on fire.” He sustained minor burns on both hands during the rescue attempt and now cannot hold a camera.
“I feel completely paralysed. … Who are we even doing this for? Does anyone care? Is there anything more horrific than this scene to move people?”
“This isn’t the first time someone has burned to death, and it’s not the first time journalists have been directly targeted,” Shaat said.
“We still don’t know whose turn it will be next.”>>
Source: Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/4/7/targeted-killed-burned-alive-journalists-in-gaza-attacked-by-israel

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