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Iran launched a whole lot of drones and missiles at Israel over the weekend in response to a suspected Israeli assault on Iran’s Syria consulate on April 1.
Right here’s how issues stand on Monday, April 15, 2024:
Preventing and humanitarian disaster
- 5 folks have been wounded in an Israeli air raid close to the European Hospital south of the town of Khan Younis, the Wafa information company reported on Sunday, quoting medical sources.
- Displaced Palestinians making an attempt to return to their properties in northern Gaza recounted being shot at by the Israeli military in a video verified by Al Jazeera on Sunday.
- A minimum of 33,729 Palestinians have been killed and 76,371 wounded in Israeli assaults on Gaza since October 7. The loss of life toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 assaults stands at 1,139, with dozens of individuals nonetheless held captive.
Diplomacy and geopolitical tensions
- Early on Sunday, booms and air raid sirens sounded throughout Israel after Iran launched a whole lot of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles in an unprecedented revenge mission that pushed the Center East nearer to a region-wide battle.
- In Washington, DC, President Joe Biden mentioned US forces helped Israel down “almost all” the drones and missiles and pledged to convene allies to develop a unified response. The US president is about to host Iraq’s chief this week for talks.
- On Sunday, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres known as for de-escalation at a UN Safety Council assembly to debate Iran’s strikes on Israel.
- Iran’s ambassador to the UN advised the assembly his nation was left with no alternative however to behave after the worldwide neighborhood didn’t denounce Israel’s assault on its embassy in Syria on April 1. The Israeli ambassador known as for “all doable sanctions” in opposition to Iran, and mentioned Tehran had crossed a “purple line”.
- A senior US official has confirmed that Biden advised the Israeli prime minister Washington wouldn’t provide navy assist for any retaliation in opposition to Iran’s assault, in response to a report by the AFP information company on Sunday.
- Individually, the US president urged congressional leaders on Sunday to move a spending invoice that features $14bn in help for Israel.
- Within the area, on Sunday, the US navy mentioned its Central Command forces efficiently engaged and destroyed greater than 80 “one-way assault” drones and no less than six ballistic missiles supposed to strike Israel from Iran and Yemen.
- India additionally known as on Iran to launch 17 Indian crew members on board a container ship seized by Iran on Saturday.
Violence within the occupied West Financial institution
- Israeli forces arrested eight folks in early morning raids throughout the occupied West Financial institution, in response to Wafa. Six folks have been arrested in raids close to the town of Tulkarem, whereas two have been arrested from Kafr Nima, west of the town of Ramallah, Wafa reported on Monday.
- Israeli settlers uprooted 30 olive timber and several other almond timber within the city of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit, within the occupied West Financial institution on Sunday, Wafa reported.