A minimum of 20 individuals have been killed in Israeli assaults on properties in Rafah, Maghazi and Gaza Metropolis since Tuesday.
Right here’s how issues stand on Wednesday, April 17, 2024:
Combating and humanitarian disaster
- A minimum of 20 individuals have been killed in Israeli assaults on properties in Rafah, Maghazi and Gaza Metropolis since Tuesday afternoon.
- Individually, no less than seven legislation enforcement officers tasked with defending assist and two bystanders have been killed in an Israeli military assault in Gaza Metropolis, Gaza’s Ministry of Inside stated on Tuesday.
- Fighters in Gaza proceed to launch rockets into southern Israel. Two missiles fired from the Palestinian territory on Tuesday precipitated no injury or casualties after touchdown in open areas, warfare screens reported.
- A minimum of 33,843 Palestinians have been killed and 76,575 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 and dozens of persons are nonetheless being held captive in Gaza.
Diplomacy and geopolitical tensions
- Iran has warned Israel it’ll face a “painful response” if it takes the “slightest motion” to retaliate towards Tehran’s missile and drone assaults which had been a response to Israel bombing the Iranian embassy in Syria. Israel’s army chief stated on Monday that his nation will reply to Iran’s assault, however he didn’t elaborate on when and the way as world leaders urged towards additional retaliation, fearing a wider battle within the Center East.
- Israel’s Protection Minister Yoav Gallant thanked Italy for “standing boldly with Israel following the Iranian assault”, in a name with Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto on Tuesday.
- Google staff staging protests towards the Mission Nimbus surveillance and AI contract with the Israeli military had been arrested on the firm’s California and New York workplaces on Tuesday.
- The United Nations Safety Council is predicted to vote on the State of Palestine’s software for full UN membership on Thursday, diplomatic sources say. Hamas is “not ready to make calls for”, the US ambassador to the UN has stated in response to a journalist’s query on releasing extra Palestinian prisoners.
- 4 months after a contentious congressional listening to led to the resignations of two Ivy League presidents, Columbia College’s president is ready to seem earlier than the identical committee on Wednesday over questions of anti-Semitism and the varsity’s response to conflicts on campus over Israel’s warfare on Gaza.
Violence within the occupied West Financial institution
- Palestinian rights teams have warned that Israeli army and settler assaults within the occupied West Financial institution have “elevated in depth and scale”.
- Violence by Israeli settlers towards Palestinian residents within the occupied West Financial institution is a symptom of the a lot bigger drawback of Israel’s “territorial expansionism” since 1967, stated Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of Jadaliyya journal.
- An Israeli army bulldozer was caught in a big explosion in Tubas amid persevering with Israeli raids within the occupied West Financial institution on Tuesday.