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18-04-2025
GAZA STRIP: Medical sources told media that at least 35 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since early on Wednesday, and more devastating strikes have been reported in recent hours.
The United Nations said an estimated 500,000 people have been “newly displaced or uprooted once more” in Gaza since Israel broke the ceasefire with Hamas on March 18.
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz said his country’s “policy is clear” and preventing all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza is a “tool” to pressure Hamas.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 51,025 Palestinians have been confirmed dead and 116,432 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.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that the atrocities being committed daily in Gaza cannot become “normalized” as they unfold while the “world is watching”.
Listing the events in another “week of horror” in Gaza, OCHA offers a summary including that four attacks on humanitarian aid convoys by looters took place over three days; a UN-run fuel station was destroyed in an attack; how Israel forces gave just a 20-minute deadline for the forced evacuation of an entire hospital, which led to the death of a child.
OCHA said that “day after day” civilians are killed, hospitals attacked, no aid has entered the war-torn territory in weeks, and families are “shattered”.
“This must stop. This must not be normalized,” OCHA said.
US military carries out more air strikes on Yemen
Houthi-affiliated media outlet Al Masirah TV reports that US fighter jets have carried out more attacks across Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, bombing al-Munira district in Hodeidah province twice over recent hours.
No casualties have been reported so far. We will bring you more information when we have it.
Local journalists have already been reported that the Israeli military is still operating in southern Rafah and expanding the so-called “buffer zone”.
Witnesses, living close to the area where the Israeli military is operating in, report on the constant bombardment that could be heard due to the demolition process and operations that are taking place.
The Israeli military is saying that they are controlling 30 percent of the Gaza Strip … a sign of the unprecedented escalation and the significant deterioration that is taking place here in Gaza.
All of this is taking place in light of the ongoing, suffocating Israeli siege on Gaza, where no food, no water, no medicine is getting into the Strip and these things are now luxuries instead of being basic necessities.
Israeli strike on tent camp
The Israeli army has escalated its attacks across central and southern Gaza, killing at least 35 Palestinians in its latest air strikes.
An attack on a tent camp for forcibly displaced people in southern Khan Younis has killed several people and left others injured.
There has been a clear surge of military activity since the early hours of this morning until now. The sound of drones is quite unmistakable. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
