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April 23, 2024 Blog, News
The majority of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza are women and children. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Israeli airstrikes continued to target central and northern Gaza, killing and wounding scores of Palestinians as the genocidal war entered its 200th day.

Hezbollah targeted several Israeli sites Metulla and the Kiryat Shmona while sirens sounded in Sderot, in the northern Gaza envelope. 

Iran slammed the European Union sanctions reiterating that Tehran acted in self-defense and that sanctions should be imposed on Israel. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 34,183 Palestinians have been killed, and 77,143 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Wednesday, April 24, 06:45 am (GMT+2)

SOCIAL MEDIA: Dozens of students demonstrated at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in support of Gaza and to demand a ceasefire in the Strip, expressing their rejection of the US police’s crackdown on student demonstrations in support of Palestine.

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Wednesday, April 24, 05:45 am (GMT+2)

BREAKING: The US Senate has overwhelmingly passed an aid bill for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, paving the way for President Joe Biden’s signature into law. The legislation gives Israel more than $26 billion, including about $17 billion in military aid.

Wednesday, April 24, 04:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israel artillery shelling continues on Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and eastern Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.

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Wednesday, April 24, 03:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli airstrike targeted agricultural land in the town of Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip.

Wednesday, April 24, 02:20 am (GMT+2)

SAUDI FOREIGN MINISTRY: Saudi Arabia expresses the Kingdom’s condemnation of the Israeli occupation forces’ continued “undeterred commission of heinous war crimes in the Gaza Strip,” the latest of which was the discovery of mass graves at the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis.

Wednesday, April 24, 02:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Four were killed in an Israeli shelling that targeted a gathering near Abu Arban School in Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Wednesday, April 24, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 12: Messages have reached Israel indicating an increasing possibility that the International Criminal Court would issue arrest warrants for senior officials, noting that there were concerns about the issuance of arrest warrants for officials, including Benjamin Netanyahu, that were raised in a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office.

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WHITE HOUSE: Harris and Herzog discussed increasing the flow of aid to Gaza.

Wednesday, April 24, 12:00 am (GMT+2)

EURO-MEDITERRANEAN MONITOR: Israel carried out the largest forced displacement operation in modern history.

Tuesday, April 23, 10:30 pm (GMT+2)

EURO-MEDITERRANEAN MONITOR: Israel carried out the largest forced displacement operation in modern history.

Tuesday, April 23, 10:30 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: The Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it had targeted the Israeli colony of Margaliot with dozens of Katyusha rockets and confirmed that it had targeted a building where Israeli occupation soldiers were stationed in the Al-Manara colony, achieving a direct hit.

‘Nothing Left of Zionist Regime’ – Raisi Warns Israel against Future Attacks

Tuesday, April 23, 9:30 pm (GMT+2)

KAN: The Israeli army is preparing to enter Rafah very soon.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: Reports about mass graves in Gaza are disturbing.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes bombed the center of Gaza City, adding that another raid targeted the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

ISRAELI FM: Guterres has turned the United Nations into an anti-Semitic organization.

KIRBY: Washington wants to “see actual progress” within UNRWA before deciding to resume its funding.

YAIR LAPID: What is happening in American universities is anti-Semitism and support for terrorism and Hamas.

ISRAELI ARMY: An Israeli officer was killed during battles in Gaza.

Tuesday, April 23, 7:30 pm (GMT+2)

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed the headquarters of the 162nd Division in the occupation army in the vicinity of the Turkish Hospital in the Netzarim Taqadim axis, south of Gaza.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Senior officers in the Israeli army intend to resign due to the failure on October 7.

PHILIPPE LAZZARINI: The attack on UNRWA aims to deprive the Palestinians of refugee status.

EU BORRELL: Gaza was subjected to greater destruction than the cities of Germany during World War II.

LEBANESE MEDICAL SOURCE: two people were killed and 4 others were injured in a preliminary toll of the Israeli raid on the town of Hanin in southern Lebanon.

ISRAELI ARMY: There are orders for new evacuations in the northern Gaza Strip.

AFP: 133 protesters against the Gaza war were arrested on the Columbia University campus, according to the US police.

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Tuesday, April 23, 6:30 pm (GMT+2)

WSJ (quoting former Israeli commanders): The biggest challenge is not controlling northern Gaza, but rather maintaining control.

UNRWA: More than a million people lost their homes in Gaza and 75% of the population were displaced.

ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: Israel ordered new evacuations in the Beit Lahia area in the northern Gaza Strip, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone”.

Tuesday, April 23, 5:30 pm (GMT+2)

ABU OBEIDA:

We call on the masses of our nation to escalate their movement in support of the resistance.

The criminal enemy is trying to restore its image 200 days after the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood.

Tuesday, April 23, 4:30 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Al Jazeera will shortly broadcast a video speech it obtained from Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obaida.

REUTERS: Reuters quoting Dutch intelligence as saying that the war in Gaza has increased the threat of further attacks in Europe.

EBRAHIM RAISI: Any Israeli attack on Iranian territory means that “circumstances will change completely and nothing will remain of the Zionist entity.”

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: The bodies of four Palestinians were recovered following an Israeli bombing yesterday that targeted a house north of the Nuseirat camp, which was subjected to violent raids.

Tuesday, April 23, 3:30 pm (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The occupation launched an air strike on the Juhr al-Dik area, south of Gaza City, amid continued bombing in the center and north of the Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli fighters launched two raids on the town of Hula and another on the town of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, after the attack launched by Hezbollah on northern Israel in response to the occupation’s assassination of one of its members this morning.

Tuesday, April 23, 2:30 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: A rocket shell landed near the Alomim settlement in the Gaza Strip without sirens sounding.

CHANNEL 12: The Israeli army bombarded sites in southern Lebanon with artillery after drones infiltrated the Western Galilee.

Tuesday, April 23, 1:40 pm (GMT+2)

QATARI FM: The expected Israeli attack on Rafah must be stopped.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A number of people were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted citizens waiting for aid at the Beit Lahia beach in the northern Gaza Strip.

ERDOGAN: Israel must not be allowed to reoccupy Gaza, and steps must be taken in this regard. Netanyahu is like Hitler and Israel’s allies will not escape justice.

UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS:

We are horrified by reports of mass graves in Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis.

Most of the victims of the Israeli bombing of Gaza in the past few days are women and children.

We warn against a large-scale incursion into the city of Rafah because it may lead to more heinous crimes.

Tuesday, April 23, 12:30 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA:

Israeli artillery shelling targets south of Gaza City.

Israeli air strikes targeting Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip.

An air strike targeting Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

SPANISH EXPORTERS AND INVESTORS CLUB: Spanish exports to Israel declined by 35.6% last February compared to the previous year.

Tuesday, April 23, 11:30 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: The number of bodies of martyrs in the mass grave in Khan Yunis has risen to 310.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: Our fighters bombarded Sderot, Niram, and the Gaza Strip settlements in response to the crimes of the Zionist enemy.

PRCS: A large number of elderly people and children died from hunger.

IRANIAN CHIEF OF STAFF: The conditions of the region changed after we bombed sensitive Israeli military sites.

AL-JAZEERA: An airstrike targeting the Al-Mughraqa area in the central Gaza Strip. Israeli bombing targets homes north of the Bureij and Nuseirat camps in the central Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, April 23, 10:30 am (GMT+2)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 34,183 Palestinians have been killed, and 77,143 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

AL-JAZEERA: A series of Israeli raids targeted Street 10 in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Four missiles were intercepted in the sky of the city of Sderot in the northern Gaza envelope.

Tuesday, April 23, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

IRANIAN FM:

The European sanctions are unfortunate because Iran acted in self-defense.

The European Union must act responsibly and impose sanctions on Israel.

AL-JAZEERA: Heavy Israeli raids targeted several areas in the central Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, April 23, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

US MEDIA: The police arrested a number of students and acvists at New York University during a sit-in solidarity with Gaza.

MEDICAL SOURCE (to Al-Jazeera): One person was killed by an Israeli drone bombing a car in southern Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli bombing targeted the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, Jabaliya, and Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, April 23, 07:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli air strike targeted the area surrounding Wadi Gaza, north of the Nuseirat camp, in the center of the besieged Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, April 23, 06:00 am (GMT+2)

WASHINGTON POST: Google fired 20 employees after they protested a deal with Israel, bringing their number since last week to 50.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli gunboats were targeting the beaches in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation artillery is targeting areas south of Gaza City.

Tuesday, April 23, 04:00 am (GMT+2)

BERNIE SANDERS: The United States cannot continue to fund this horrific war.

AL-JAZEERA: an Israeli artillery shelling targeted the eastern areas of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the town of Metulla and the Kiryat Shmona region in northern Israel due to suspected rocket shells falling.

Tuesday, April 23, 03:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: The Gulf Cooperation Council foreign ministers discussed with a European delegation ways to reduce the escalation in the region and developments in the situation in the Gaza Strip.

Tuesday, April 23, 02:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli raids targeted the town of Yaroun, and another on the Jabour Hills in southern Lebanon.

Tuesday, April 23, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

EU BORRELL: The dire situation in Gaza cannot be forgotten and we immediately need to release all hostages, cease fire and mitigate the humanitarian catastrophe.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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