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22-04-2025
GAZA STRIP: The Israeli military has killed at least 29 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn on Monday, with many fatalities in attacks on tent camps for displaced people.
The Palestinian Civil Defence and the Palestine Red Crescent Society call for an independent investigation into the deaths of 14 Palestinian emergency workers and a United Nations employee, rejecting an Israeli investigation into last month’s brutal killings.
Yemen’s Houthis claim to have attacked US aircraft carriers after United States forces bombed a popular market in Yemen, killing at least 12 people.
At least 51,240 Palestinians have been confirmed killed and 116,931 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since it began 18 months ago.
The Gaza 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.
US President Donald Trump is expected to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today about a possible Gaza ceasefire and ongoing nuclear talks with Iran, according to Axios.
Citing two people familiar with the matter, Axios reported that the phone call is expected to take place amid a stalemate in negotiations to secure a captive deal and a ceasefire after a bridging proposal by the US and Egypt failed last week.
According to the report, Washington is keen to try to bring about a breakthrough this week as the Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, who mediated the previous ceasefire agreement, is expected to arrive in the US on Tuesday for talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House envoy Steve Witkoff but Monday’s meeting comes amid reports of indirect Iran-US talks progressing after Trump told Netanyahu two weeks ago that he opposed an Israeli attack on Iran at this time.
In the past few hours, we’ve been absolutely overwhelmed with intensified Israeli attacks.
We’ve seen in the city of Deir el-Balah an air strike that targeted a group of civilians just a few metres away from our location.
They have been brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital with the help of volunteers and local civilians and ambulances that turned up at the site of the strike, where two civilians were confirmed killed in the attack.
Elsewhere, we can see a growing escalation in the momentum of these strikes.
One of the latest has been seen in the Zeitoun neighborhood of eastern Gaza City, where we have received confirmed reports of the killing of two civilians in an air strike that targeted a Palestinian gathering.
Israeli settlers have disrupted traffic and tried to attack Palestinian vehicles at a junction near the town of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank.
Local sources told the Wafa news agency that settlers gathered at the junction under the protection of Israeli soldiers, who had closed the Iron Gate leading to the nearby village of Rafat, obstructing civilian movement and hindering travel between the two towns.
Palestinian Christians in Gaza are mourning the death of Pope Francis, who had maintained close and consistent video contact with the small Christian community in the territory throughout the ongoing war.
Francis had regularly called Gaza’s Christians, often several times a week, offering prayers, encouragement, and solidarity. (Int’l News Desk)
