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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

November 28 - 24 and earler stories, 2024 Is Netanyahu immune from ICC arrest warrant-NO!   TRIBUTES TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN

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 12 - 9, 2025 UN raises alarm as Israel keeps killing mostly women, children in Gaza Food for thought: Well, we knew that since long but... keep saying: 'Wir haben es nicht gewuest' or? Read and decide for yourself April 10 - 7, 2025 The sanctity of life? Don't ask israelis the meaning of that. In any case, here are stories of some who literally know.

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 3 - 1, 2025 Gaza faces ‘largest orphan crisis’ in modern history, report says... and more 'grave' (sic) news

When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
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.


Videoscreen shot footage - attacks kill only women, children
Al Jazeera - April 12, 2025 - By Alastair McCready
<<Live: Dozens of Israeli attacks kill only women, children in Gaza – UN
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities. Analysis by the United Nations reveals only Palestinian women and children were killed in at least 36 Israeli strikes on Gaza between March 18 and April 9.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at Israel’s killing of civilians in Gaza, saying, “If this is not barbarism, I ask you, what is it?”
Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 20 people since dawn on Friday as the territory’s Health Ministry says 1,542 were killed since Israel shattered the ceasefire on March 18. Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,912 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 115,981 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/12/live-dozens-of-israeli-attacks-kill-only-women-children-in-gaza-un

Al Jazeera - April 11, 2025
<<UN raises alarm as Israel keeps killing mostly women, children in Gaza
UN recorded 36 Israeli air attacks between March 18 and April 9 in Gaza that killed only women and children. The United Nations has warned that the cumulative effect of Israel’s actions in Gaza is threatening “the future viability of Palestinians as a group”, as the most recent predawn strike killed at least 10 people, including seven children. Ravina Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, highlighted on Friday “the death, the destruction, the displacement, the denial of access to basic necessities within Gaza and the repeated suggestion that Gazans should leave the territory entirely”. Shamdasani pointed in particular to the dire effect of Israel’s ongoing air attacks on civilians, lamenting that “a large percentage of fatalities are children and women.” She told reporters that Israel had launched about 224 raids on residential buildings and tents housing displaced people between March 18 and April 9. “In some 36 strikes about which the UN Human Rights Office corroborated information, the fatalities recorded so far were only women and children,” she said. Shamdasani cited an April 6 strike on a residential building in Deir el-Balah belonging to the Abu Issa family, which reportedly killed one girl, four women and a four-year-old boy. Palestinians transport the bodies people killed when an Israeli strike hit a building in Gaza City's eastern neighbourhood of Shujaiya, in the yard of the Al-Ahli Arab hospital in the northern Gaza Strip on April 10, 2025. In an update on April 10, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said at least 1,522 Palestinians have been killed in
the renewed Israeli offensive, taking the overall death toll since the start of the war to 50,886. In the most recent Israeli air attack on Gaza, early dawn on Friday in Khan Younis, at least 10 people in one family were killed, including seven children. At least three other people were killed on Friday in other parts of Gaza. Many people have been trapped under the rubble across Gaza, according to Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah. “We have heard very horrific testimonies from civil defence crews saying that while they were rescuing Palestinians trapped under their destroyed homes, they were hearing the sounds of babies and the sound of children crying for help and shouting for any sort of rescue,” he said. Israel had resumed intense attacks on the Gaza Strip on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas.
Since then, more than 1,500 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-run territory to which Israel cut off aid more than a month ago.
‘Nowhere safe’
Even the areas where Palestinians were being instructed to go by the expanding number of Israeli forced displacement orders were subjected to attacks, the rights office spokeswoman said. The raids across Gaza were “leaving nowhere safe”, she said. As an example, Shamdasani took the Israeli army’s order for civilians to move to the al-Mawasi area of the southern city of Khan Younis. Despite this “strikes continued on tents in that area housing displaced people, with at least 23 such incidents recorded by the office since 18 March,” she said.>>
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/11/un-says-israel-threatening-viability-of-palestinians-in-gaza-amid-attacks

Al Jazeera - April 11, 2025 - By Federica Marsi and Usaid Siddiqui
<<Israel war on Gaza live: Deadly attacks ongoing as strikes intensify
The Red Cross describes the humanitarian situation in Gaza as “hell on earth” and warns its field hospital will run out of supplies within two weeks.
A UN analysis of 36 Israeli air strikes in Gaza shows only women and children were killed, no Palestinian fighters.
At least 15 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since dawn as Israel issues more forced evacuation orders in the north.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,912 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 115,891 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/11/israel-war-on-gaza-live-deadly-attacks-ongoing-as-strikes-intensify


Videoscreen shot footage - post-apocalyptic killing zone
Al Jazeera - April 11, 2025
<<Why is evidence of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza disappearing?
Israel’s siege and tech censorship are erasing evidence of Gaza’s war crimes faster than they can be saved.
Many of the images that have been seen from Israel’s war in Gaza have already been seen for the last time. With Gaza under siege from the Israeli military and tech companies censoring and taking down material, the responsibility falls on the people of Gaza to document and archive their own evidence of war crimes and genocide. How will it survive?>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-take-2/2025/4/11/aje-onl-pal_gazaarchives_av_v2-110425


Mahmoud Khalil
Al Jazeera - April 11, 2025
US judge rules pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported
Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to deport Khalil over his participation in pro-Palestine university protests.
A United States immigration judge has ruled that the deportation case against Mahmoud Khalil can proceed, a month after the Columbia University graduate student was detained over his involvement in pro-Palestine protests. Judge Jamee Comans made the determination on Friday at the end of a nearly two-hour hearing.
Khalil can appeal the ruling.
The case has drawn widespread scrutiny as rights advocates accuse President Donald Trump’s administration of cracking down on free speech and pro-Palestine activism under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism.>>
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/11/us-judge-rules-pro-palestine-activist-mahmoud-khalil-can-be-deported

Al Jazeera - April 11, 2025 - By Nils Adler and Virginia Pietromarchi
<<Updates: Israel kills 10 in south Gaza attack, ‘nonstop’ bombs rock north
Palestinians carry an injured man at the site of an Israeli strike on a house.
Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that at least 13 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, and there are reports of new attacks and casualties. Residents of Beit Lahiya, north Gaza, report “nonstop explosions” as Israel works to demolish buildings and expand its so-called “buffer zone”. World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned of more disease and deaths due to Israel’s blockade of aid entering Gaza, where more than 10,000 people need medical evacuation abroad. Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,886 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 115,875 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.>>
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/11/live-israel-kills-almost-30-more-in-gaza-as-10000-need-medical-evacuation


Seven children among 10 members of same family killed
Jinha - Womens News Agency - April 11, 2025
<<Seven children among 10 members of same family killed in Israeli strike in Gaza
10 members of the same family, including seven children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Friday.
News Center- Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip has killed and injured thousands of civilians and destroyed many cities since October 7, 2023. An Israeli airstrike on a civilian residential building in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, has killed 10 members of the same family, including seven children, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Friday. More than 1,500 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since the Israeli army resumed its attacks on March 18, 2025. At least 50,886 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, according to the Gaza’s health ministry.>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/seven-children-among-10-members-of-same-family-killed-in-israeli-strike-in-gaza-36856?page=1

Al Jazeera - April 11, 2025 - By Nils Adler and Virginia Pietromarchi
<<LIVE: Israel kills 10 in south Gaza attack, ‘nonstop explosions’ rock north
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that at least 13 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, and there are reports of new attacks and casualties. Residents of Beit Lahiya, north Gaza, report “nonstop explosions” as Israel works to demolish buildings and expand its so-called “buffer zone”. World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned of more disease and deaths due to Israel’s blockade of aid entering Gaza, where more than 10,000 people need medical evacuation abroad. Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,886 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 115,875 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/11/live-israel-kills-almost-30-more-in-gaza-as-10000-need-medical-evacuation


Videoscreen shot footage - 10,000 need medical evacuation
Al Jazeera - April 11, 2025 - By Alastair McCready
<<LIVE: Israel kills at least 30 in Gaza as 10,000 need medical evacuation
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that at least 29 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn on Thursday, and there are reports of new attacks and casualties. World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned of more disease and deaths due to Israel’s blockade of aid entering Gaza where more than 10,000 people need medical evacuation abroad.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,886 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 115,875 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700 saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/11/live-israel-kills-almost-30-more-in-gaza-as-10000-need-medical-evacuation

Al Jazeera - April 10, 2025
<<Palestinian Ahmad Manasra released from Israeli prison after nine years
Ahmad Manasra, 23, has been released after completing nine-and-a-half-year sentence, lawyer says.
A Palestinian who was arrested at age 13 for allegedly taking part in a stabbing attack has been released after spending more than nine years in prison, where he developed severe mental health issues but was repeatedly denied requests for early release. Ahmad Manasra, now 23, was released on Thursday after completing his nine-and-a-half-year sentence, his lawyer Khaled Zabarqa said. Manasra, from occupied East Jerusalem, was sentenced for being present with his cousin Hassan Manasra, who stabbed two Israelis near the illegal settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev in East Jerusalem in 2015. Hassan, who was 15 at the time, was shot dead by an Israeli man, while Ahmad was severely beaten by a group of Israelis and run over by an Israeli driver, suffering fractures to his skull and internal bleeding. A graphic video of Ahmad lying in the street, bleeding from the head while Israelis taunted him, garnered millions of views at the time. Ahmad was charged with attempted murder even though he did not stab anyone – something that the courts had acknowledged. Authorities first moved Manasra to isolation in November 2021, following a scuffle with another detainee. In interviews the following year, his family and lawyers said he was locked in a small cell for 23 hours a day and suffered from paranoia and delusions that kept him from sleeping. His lawyer said Manasra had tried to harm himself. His family said he was transferred to the psychiatric wing of another prison every few months, where doctors gave him injections to stabilise him. In December 2021, an external doctor was allowed to visit Ahmad for the first time since his imprisonment. The doctor from Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) issued a medical report stating that Ahmad suffers from schizophrenia. He warned at the time that continued imprisonment could lead to permanent damage to his mental health.
‘Huge relief’
Ahmad’s release comes after numerous local and international bodies, including the European Union and the United Nations, repeatedly called for his immediate release. Appeals to Israel’s Supreme Court for his early release were repeatedly denied. The courts ruled that he was ineligible, regardless of age or mental condition, because he was convicted of “terrorism”. Between Ahmad’s conviction and sentencing, Israeli law was amended to allow civilian courts to convict children as young as 12 for so-called “terrorist offences”. Zabarqa said that Israeli prison authorities freed Ahmad “away from the Nafha Prison [facility] to prevent his family from receiving him, leaving him alone in an empty area”. A passer-by found Ahmad in the Beersheba area in the southern Negev region and contacted his family, who reunited with him later, Zabarqa said. He confirmed Ahmad has been reunited with his parents. “We know in jail he’s been very ill. We’re waiting to know more about his health situation now,” Zabarqa said.
Amnesty International’s regional director Heba Morayef hailed his release, saying it is a “huge relief for him and his family”. “Nothing can undo the years of injustice, abuse, trauma and ill-treatment he endured behind bars,” Morayef said in a statement on Thursday.>>
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/10/palestinian-ahmad-manasra-released-from-israeli-prison-after-nine-years


Videoscreen shot footage - Gaza residents share fears of thirst
Al Jazeera - April 10, 2025
<<Gaza residents share fears of thirst after Israel destroys water resources
Israel has bombed one of Gaza’s only operational water desalination plants that was supplying clean drinking water to the strip. Many Palestinians now fear dying of thirst before being killed in the ongoing bombardment.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/4/10/gaza-residents-share-fears-of-thirst-after-israel-destroys-water-resources

Al Jazeera - April 10, 2025
<<Activists turn US embassy pond blood red in London
Greenpeace activists in London have turned the US embassy’s pond blood red in protest of arms sales to Israel. UK police arrested five people over the incident.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/4/10/activists-turn-us-embassy-pond-blood-red-in-london

Al Jazeera - April 10, 2025
<<Netanyahu backs dismissal of Israeli reservists calling for end to Gaza war
About 1,000 current and retired Israeli Air Force pilots sign letter, saying Gaza war only serves ‘political interests’.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced about 1,000 current and retired Israeli Air Force reservists, who signed a letter calling for an end to the war in Gaza, referring to them as “marginal and extremist”, while expressing support for the serving pilots’ dismissal. In a statement posted on X on Thursday, Netanyahu’s office said the prime minister “backs the decision” of the defence minister and the Israeli military chief of staff “to dismiss those who signed the letter”. The document, which ignited a political uproar in Israel, urged all Israeli citizens to demand an end to the war, warning that the bombardment of Gaza puts Israeli captives held in the enclave at risk. “As has been proven in the past, only a [ceasefire] deal can bring back the hostages safely, while military pressure mainly leads to the killing of the hostages and the endangerment of our soldiers,” the soldiers said. “Currently, the war serves mainly political and personal interests, not security interests,” the document added.
Netanyahu said “expressions that weaken” the military “and strengthen our enemies in wartime are unforgiveable”. “This is a marginal and extremist group that is again trying to break Israeli society from within,” he added, accusing them of trying to topple the government. “They already tried to do this before October 7 and Hamas interpreted the call to refuse to serve as weakness.” According to Israeli media, the letter does not call for a general refusal to serve but rather urges Israeli officials to prioritise the release of captives rather than pursuing the deadly war. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said the signatories include many active reservists, including senior officers and pilots, as well as others who are no longer in active reserve duty. The report added that after the document was leaked, military officials called the signatories and urged them to retract, on orders from Israeli Air Force commander Tomer Bar. Bar also threatened the reservist pilots who signed the letter would be barred from serving, according to Israel’s public broadcaster Kan. Haaretz said only 25 retracted their signatures while eight more signed in protest. The newspaper later reported that Israel’s Military Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and the Air Force’s Bar have decided to dismiss the reservists. It is unclear when the dismissal would take effect. Critics have accused Netanyahu of prolonging the war in a bid to keep his cabinet intact and stay as prime minister. Families of Israeli captives and their supporters have also been urging Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire with Hamas and pave the way for the captives’ release.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,846 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 115,729 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The enclave’s Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.>>
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/10/netanyahu-slams-reservists-urging-end-to-gaza-war-as-army-warns-dismissal


Videoscreen shot footage - Prisoners released with signs of torture
Al Jazeera - April 10, 2025
<<Prisoners released by Israel arrive at hospital with signs of torture
Footage shows 10 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel arriving at Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza. One man was unable to move and showed visible signs of torture.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/4/10/prisoners-released-by-israel-arrive-at-hospital-with-signs-of-torture

Al Jazeera - April 10, 2025
<<Centre Stage
Ralph Wilde on the ICJ & why Israeli occupation must end
International lawyer Ralph Wilde joins Centre Stage to talk about the 2024 landmark ruling by the International Court of Justice that deems Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories illegal — and why it must cease immediately. Wilde provides detailed analysis, which he presented to the court, and tells Al Jazeera principal presenter Cyril Vanier what Israel and the international community must do to comply with the ICJ ruling and the UN resolution that endorsed the court’s decision>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/centre-stage/2025/4/10/cs-ralph-wilde-100425

Al Jazeera - April 10, 2025
<<Gallery
Bombed-out Gaza university becomes shelter for displaced Palestinians
Gaza’s Islamic University turns into a shelter for hundreds of displaced families amid destruction and war.
One of the Strip’s largest universities, the Islamic University of Gaza in Gaza City had about 17,000 students before the war, studying everything from medicine and chemistry to literature and commerce. More than 60 percent of the students were women. But now, any sense that the place was once a university is gone. After 18 months of Israeli bombardment that killed more than 50,000 people in the enclave, the main auditorium is a gutted, burned-out wreck. Giant holes have been blasted through its blackened walls. The banks of seats are mangled and twisted. The campus has become a refuge for hundreds of families in northern Gaza since Israel broke a ceasefire on March 18 and relaunched the war. Families have set up tents in lecture halls and classrooms. They take books from the library and burn them in cooking fires because they have no fuel. Children run around in gardens reduced to fields of debris and mounds of earth. A makeshift market has been set up under the archway of the main gate. Their struggle to survive has worsened because Israel has cut off the entry of food, fuel, medicine and all other goods into Gaza for more than a month, straining the limited supplies of aid agencies on which nearly the entire population relies.>>
View photos: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/4/10/a-bombed-out-gaza-university-becomes-a-shelter-for-displaced-palestinians 

Al Jazeera - April 10, 2025 - Al Jazeera Live - By Alastair McCready
<<LIVE: Israel kills 35 as Gaza City neighbourhood block bombed to rubble
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
Multiple Israeli strikes on residential buildings in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood kill at least 35 Palestinians and wound a further 55 while 80 people remain missing under the rubble. Shujayea attack witnesses say Israeli bombing was “a massacre with the full meaning of the word” as an overwhelmed hospital appeals for blood donations to treat dozens of badly injured survivors. Israeli forces have carried out a major raid on the Balata refugee camp and nearby Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,846 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 115,729 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/4/10/live-israel-kills-35-as-gaza-city-neighbourhood-block-bombed-to-rubble

Al Jazeera - April 9, 2025
<<At least 35 killed in Israeli attack on Gaza residential block
Medical sources tell Al Jazeera at least 35 killed and dozens of others wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza City.
At least 35 people have been killed and dozens of others were wounded in an Israeli attack on a residential block in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, medical sources told Al Jazeera. The Gaza Health Ministry said it expected the death toll from Wednesday’s attack in northern Gaza to rise, as civil defence teams and residents dug frantically to locate dozens of missing residents believed to be trapped under the rubble.
The Israeli military said the raid targeted a senior Hamas fighter, but did not give his name, claiming that it had taken several steps to reduce harm to civilians. Ayub Salim, 26, a resident of Shujayea, told Al Jazeera that some victims were “torn to pieces” by the attack with “multiple missiles” that sent shrapnel flying. “Dust and massive destruction filled the entire place. We couldn’t see anything, just [heard] the screams and panic of the people,” he said. Reporting from Shujayea, Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim Al Khalili said civil defence forces and local residents had come together to pull trapped civilians from under the rubble. Most of the victims had come to live in the block after being “forcibly displaced”, he said. Mahmoud Basal, a civil defence spokesperson, said that it was very difficult to reach the “dozens of people” trapped under the rubble as rescuers lacked the appropriate equipment as a result of Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian territory, adding that more than 60 people were wounded. Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said a doctor at Gaza City’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital had told her that medics lacked the medication to treat “burned” victims. The hospital is in urgent need of blood supplies. Paramedics, already struggling with a lack of fuel and medical supplies, had been unable to reach people in Shujayea because of the scale of destruction, with rubble on the roads preventing them from reaching those in need.>>
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/9/desperate-rescue-effort-after-major-israeli-strike-on-gaza-apartment-block

Al Jazeera - April 9, 2025
<<Macron says France could recognise Palestinian state
‘We must move towards recognition, and we will do so in the coming months,’ French president says.
President Emmanuel Macron says France could recognise a Palestinian state “in the coming months”. Macron told France 5 television on Wednesday that he aimed to finalise the move at a United Nations conference on the Israel-Palestine conflict, which his country will co-chair with Saudi Arabia in June. “We must move towards recognition, and we will do so in the coming months,” Macron said. “I’m not doing it to please anyone. I’ll do it because at some point it will be right,” he said. Palestine’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, told the news agency AFP that France’s recognition would be “a step in the right direction in line with safeguarding the rights of the Palestinian people and the two-state solution”. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said any “unilateral recognition” of a Palestinian state would be a “boost for Hamas”. “A ‘unilateral recognition’ of a fictional Palestinian state, by any country, in the reality that we all know, will be a prize for terror and a boost for Hamas,” he wrote on X. “These kind of actions will not bring peace, security and stability in our region closer – but the opposite: they only push them further away,” he said. Palestine has been recognised as a sovereign state by 147 out of 193 UN members so far, with Armenia, Slovenia, Ireland, Norway, Spain, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados joining their ranks last year.>>
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/9/macron-says-france-could-recognise-palestinian-state-in-june

Al Jazeera - April 10, 2025 - By AJLabs
<<Mapping which countries recognise Palestine in 2025
The State of Palestine is recognised as a sovereign nation by 147 countries, representing 75 percent of UN members.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that France plans to recognise a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a United Nations conference in New York in June aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He added that, in turn, some Middle Eastern countries could formally recognise the State of Israel. The Palestinian Authority welcomed the announcement as “a step in the right direction”.
Amid Israel’s continuing war on Gaza, 10 countries – Mexico, Armenia, Slovenia, Ireland, Norway, Spain, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados – formally recognised the State of Palestine, reflecting growing international support. Recognising Palestine strengthens its global standing, improves its capacity to hold Israeli authorities accountable for the occupation, and pressures Western powers to act on the two-state solution.
Which countries recognise Palestine?
Currently, the State of Palestine is recognised as a sovereign nation by 147 of the 193 UN member states, representing 75 percent of the international community. It is also recognised by the Holy See, the governing body of the Catholic Church and Vatican City, which holds UN observer status.
These countries are listed in the map and table below:
A brief history of Palestinian recognition
View and read more here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/10/mapping-which-countries-recognise-palestine-in-2025


Videoscreen shot footage - Family of American-Palestinian teen killed
Al Jazeera - April 9, 2025
<<Family of American-Palestinian teen killed by Israel demands justice
The family of 14-year-old American-Palestinian Amer Mohammad Rabea is demanding justice after he was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/4/9/family-of-american-palestinian-teen-killed-by-israel-demands-justice
Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,695 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 115,338 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.
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