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April 17, 2024 Blog, News
Israel continued to bomb Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Israeli forces carried out new massacres in the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding scores of Palestinians, including children. 

The Lebanese Resistance movement Hezbollah targeted several Israeli sites and gathering of soldiers as the situation in the northern front escalated. 

As Israel said it has not yet taken a decision to respond to Iran, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron called on the G7 to impose new sanctions on Tehran. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 33,899 Palestinians have been killed, and 76,664 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Thursday, April 18, 07:30 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: The southern areas of Gaza City are under continuous Israeli artillery shelling.

CHINA: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on “all parties to the conflict in Gaza to exercise restraint” and said his country expected the United Nations to play its role in the Gaza Strip.

UNICEF: Around 14 thousand children killed in the Israeli war on Gaza.

Thursday, April 18, 03:00 am (GMT+2)

ALGERIA: Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf announced that his country will provide an exceptional financial contribution of $15 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: We recovered the bodies of 11 people from different areas in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

AL-MAYADEEN: Rocket barrages fired towards the occupied territories without activating sirens.

INTERCEPT (Citing diplomatic cables): Washington is pressing in the Security Council to reject Palestine’s application for full UN membership, without publicly vetoing it.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted an Israel military force as it tried to withdraw a military vehicle at the Metulla site. The attack caused confirmed injuries among the Israeli force.

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: After the withdrawal of the occupation forces from the north of Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, our teams were able to recover a number of bodies.

AL-MAYADEEN: A demonstration in the capital of Uruguay in front of the Israeli embassy demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and the release of 9,000 Palestinian prisoners.

UNSC Expected to Vote on Palestine’s Bid for Full Membership – US Likely to Veto It

Wednesday, April 17, 11:30 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA:

Seven Palestinians, including children, were killed in an Israeli shelling targeting displaced people east of Rafah.

Israeli raid targeted the town of Khiam in southern Lebanon.

UNRWA: Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said there is a malign campaign to end the agency’s operations, noting that this will have serious implications for international peace and security.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Former Israeli national security adviser Giora Eiland said that military pressure on Hamas did not succeed because it had built an effective war machine.

AL-MAYADEEN (Citing Israeli media): Israel decided not to carry out an attack against Iran for ‘operational reasons.’

Will ‘Arab Al-Aramsheh’ Operation Change Everything? – Resistance Roundup – Day 194

Wednesday, April 17, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)

SENIOR RABBIS (to Kan): Aryeh Deri, an observer member of the War Council and leader of the Shas movement, expressed his firm opposition to attacking Iran.

ISRAELI ARMY: “We bombed infrastructure used by Hezbollah’s air defense system in northern Baalbek.”

BIDEN: Aid to Ukraine and Israel should be approved.

KAN: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Israel Katz asked the foreign ministers of Germany and Britain to pressure the Hamas movement to complete an exchange deal.

KAN: International pressure on Israel not to take escalatory steps.

AXIOS: Israel considered launching a strike against Iran on Monday evening, but postponed it.

Wednesday, April 17, 8:00 pm (GMT+2)

BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY: I visited Israel to show solidarity in the wake of the horrific attack by Iran.

BIDEN: I will continue to urge Israel to increase aid shipments.

INTERCEPT: 20 Democratic representatives doubted that Israel did not violate American and international law.

BEN-GVIR: The War Council must be dissolved and the policy of containment and limited response changed.

US STATE DEPARTMENT: We continue to work to respond diplomatically to the Iranian attack.

TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER: Netanyahu is trying to drag the region into war.

Wednesday, April 17, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)

SMOTRICH: I look forward to strengthening the settlements and supporting the settlers.

AL-JAZEERA: There were three Israeli raids on the Iaat Plain in the Bekaa, eastern Lebanon.

BLOOMBERG: The G7 is considering imposing sanctions on the Iranian airline.

US DEFENSE SECRETARY: We will do what is necessary to help defend Israel.

ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: Israeli warplanes bombed the Bekaa Valley, deep in Lebanon, in response to Hezbollah’s targeting of Arab Al-Aramsha.

Wednesday, April 17, 6:00 pm (GMT+2)

CNN (quoting US Navy): A fire broke out on board one of our ships that was on its way to establish an aid dock in Gaza.

MACRON: The scope of sanctions on Iran must be expanded.

HAMAS: The head of the movement’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh , met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and they discussed the war on Gaza, relief efforts, and a ceasefire.

Wednesday, April 17, 5:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: There were dead and wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a school belonging to UNRWA west of Gaza City.

BIDEN: Israel is our strongest partner in the region, and we will not stand idly by.

Wednesday, April 17, 4:15 pm (GMT+2)

NETANYAHU’S OFFICE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected what he described as “allegations” of famine in Gaza during his meeting with the foreign ministers of Britain and Germany.

ISRAELI ARMY: We Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected what he described as “allegations” of famine in Gaza during his meeting with the foreign ministers of Britain and Germany.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The number of Israeli injured as a result of rockets falling in the town of Arab Al-Aramsha in Galilee has risen to 18.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation aircraft destroyed residential towers in the New Camp area in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.

Wednesday, April 17, 3:15 pm (GMT+2)

HEBREW UNIVERSITY POLL: 74 percent of Israelis oppose an attack on Iran if it would undermine the American security alliance.

GERMAN FM: Annalena Baerbock said that she made clear in talks in Israel that any escalation in the region would raise the spiral of violence to unprecedented levels.

NETANYAHU: We appreciate the advice of our friends, but we will make our own decision.

Wednesday, April 17, 2:20 pm (GMT+2)

ISRAELI MEDIA: The number of Israelis injured as a result of the bombing on Arab Al-Aramsha rose to 13, including 4 in serious condition.

AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli army carried out two raids on the vicinity of the towns of Yarin and Naqoura in southern Lebanon.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: the Israeli occupation forces blew up a residential square north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

HEZBOLLAH: We carried out an attack with missiles and drones on the headquarters of the new military reconnaissance company in Arab Al-Aramsha, Western Galilee.

Wednesday, April 17, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)

ISRAELI AMBULANCE SERVICE: Five people were injured due to a missile falling on a building in the town of Arab Al-Aramsha in the Western Galilee.

CHANNEL 13: 5 people were injured due to a missile falling on a building in the town of Arab Al-Aramsha in the Western Galilee.

LIKUD MK: Likud MK Tali Gottlieb called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reject President Joe Biden’s request not to attack Iran.

THE GUARDIAN: The Israeli government accelerated settlement construction in Jerusalem.

Wednesday, April 17, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The Israeli occupation has arrested more than 5,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip since October 7.

TOP HAMAS OFFICIAL:

We presented a vision for the deal based on the mediators’ paper, including Washington, based on the second Paris Paper.

With the occupation’s rejection of this paper, Washington backed down and presented a paper that fully adopted the Israeli position.

Wednesday, April 17, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 33,899 Palestinians have been killed, and 76,664 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

WALLA: Israel records 60 disabled people every day due to the war.

BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY: We want to see coordinated sanctions against Iran and the G7 must send a clear and unambiguous message to Tehran.

HAMAS: Israel is committing the most heinous crimes against our prisoners.

Wednesday, April 17, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation army vehicles withdrew from Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip after an incursion that lasted more than 36 hours, during which they besieged refugee shelters, arrested a number of them, and abused the residents.

COMMANDER OF IRANIAN ARMY: We are ready for confrontation with Israel at all levels.

IRANIAN ARMY COMMANDER: The destroyer Jamaran accompanies our commercial ships in the Red Sea in the light of current tensions.

AL-JAZEERA: Six Palestinians were killed as a result of the occupation bombing of a gathering of Palestinians in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.

Wednesday, April 17, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters targeted a new deployment of Israeli occupation army soldiers south of the Pranit barracks with rocket weapons and artillery shells.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Seven Palestinians, including children, were killed as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ bombing of a home for the Abu al-Hinud family in the Yabna camp in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

SHAS LEADER, ARYEH DERI (to Jerusalem Post): No Haredi Israelis will be recruited into the ranks of the Israeli army.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli aircraft launched an air strike targeting a pharmaceutical factory east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

IRANIAN PRESIDENT EBRAHIM RAISI: We will respond strongly and decisively to any Israeli move against us.

Wednesday, April 17, 08:20 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens are sounding in several towns in Israel’s western Galilee.

HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters targeted a new deployment of Israeli occupation army soldiers south of the Barranit barracks with rockets and artillery shells.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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