GAZA LIVE BLOG: Hezbollah Strikes Israel | Lapid: Stop the War | Mass Rallies in Israel | Massacres in Southern Gaza – Day 204

April 27, 2024 Blog, News
Massive destruction in Gaza. (Photo: Abdallah Aljamal, The Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

The Israeli occupation forces bombed 25 targets in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, killing scores of Palestinian civilians, including children. 

Israeli media reported that Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi’s resignation could be imminent and that discussion is taking place regarding his successor. 

The Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas confirmed it received an official response from the Israeli occupation to its proposal, which was presented to Egyptian and Qatari mediators on April 13.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 34,388 Palestinians have been killed, and 77,437 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Sunday, April 28, 02:00 am (GMT+2)

REUTERS: US State Department officials told Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an internal memo that they had found credible evidence that Israel is not using US weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law.

HEZBOLLAH: We shelled the settlement of Meron and surrounding settlements in the Upper Galilee with dozens of Katyusha rockets in response to enemy attacks.

Sunday, April 28, 01:00 am (GMT+2)

MAARIV:

Netanyahu is scared and nervous about the possibility of an ICC arrest warrant.

Netanyahu has made intensive private contacts with Washington to prevent an ICC arrest warrant.

The issuance of the arrest warrant is believed to be only a matter of time and could include with Netanyahu the defense minister and chief of staff.

Sunday, April 28, 12:30 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: 30 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards the Upper Galilee.

Saturday, April 27, 11:30 pm (GMT+2)

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: About 10,000 people demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Defense.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli police arrested two demonstrators who participated in the Tel Aviv demonstrations to demand a prisoner exchange deal with the resistance in the Gaza Strip.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH (citing Israeli source): the opposition of Defense Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is pushing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to abort an attempt to reach a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.

Saturday, April 27, 10:00 pm (GMT+2)

KAN: Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir are threatening to withdraw from the government if Rafah is not invaded.

CHANNEL 14: Tel Aviv proposed that Hamas release 33 prisoners held by the resistance in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners.

WALLA: Israel offers new concessions regarding the exchange deal, including an “implicit willingness” to discuss ending the war, the full return of the displaced to their homes, and the army’s withdrawal from the Netzarim Corridor.

‘He Puts Obstacles’ – Israeli Official Says Netanyahu Hinders Reaching Deal on Gaza

Saturday, April 27, 9:40 pm (GMT+2)

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: Arizona State University announced that 69 people were arrested for trespassing after setting up tents without a permit. Students at American universities stand in solidarity with the Palestinian cause, demanding an end to the war on Gaza.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Thousands of people marched towards the home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Caesarea to demand that he conclude an exchange deal.

Saturday, April 27, 8:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Two Israeli raids occurred around the town of Hula in southern Lebanon.

KATZ: If we reach an exchange deal, we will stop the Rafah operation.

AL-JAZEERA: Thousands of Israelis demonstrate to demand a prisoner exchange deal.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: 27 Palestinians, including 10 children, were killed since dawn today in Israeli raids on homes in the central and southern Gaza Strip.

LAPID: “If the choice is between stopping the fighting in Gaza or concluding a deal, we have to reach a deal”.

Saturday, April 27, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: WE targeted with missiles the Al-Samaqa site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shuba hills, confirming that it had achieved a direct hit.

FAMILIES OF ISRAELI PRISONERS: Israel must choose either Rafah or the exchange deal

Saturday, April 27, 6:30 pm (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 12: two anti-tank missiles were fired at the Al-Manara area in the Upper Galilee, noting that a “suspicious object” had been intercepted overhead.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli artillery shelling targeted the vicinity of the towns of Hula, Mays al-Jabal, and the Wadi Saluki area in southern Lebanon.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Seven Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, northeast of Rafah.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Kiryat Shmona and the towns surrounding the Galilee region.

Saturday, April 27, 5:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured following an Israeli raid that targeted a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, northeast of the city of Rafah.

ISRAELI ARMY OFFICIAL: The way out of the Lebanese Hezbollah trap is escalation for the sake of calm.

AL-JAZEERA: an Israeli raid targeted the center of the town of Khuza’a, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

JOE BIDEN (on Twitter): I will not rest until every hostage (…) ripped from their families and held by Hamas is back in the arms of their loved ones.

Saturday, April 27, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: We notified the demonstrators to disperse the sit-in.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY OFFICIAL: Several diseases have spread among the residents of the Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: A Palestinian was killed and others were injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Saturday, April 27, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

UN OFFICIAL: The Israeli war on Gaza left 37 million tons of rubble. A large portion of unexploded bombs in the Gaza Strip may take 14 years.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: All residents of the Strip drink unsafe water.

Saturday, April 27, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a group of citizens near Wadi Gaza, north of the Nuseirat camp.

PRCS (to Al-Jazeera): The occupation deliberately targets rescue and ambulance teams.

NTY (quoting senior US official): Israel believed that Hamas leaders were in Khan Yunis and destroyed the city searching for them but did not find them.

Saturday, April 27, 12:30 pm (GMT+2)

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 34,388 Palestinians have been killed, and 77,437 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

Saturday, April 27, 11:30 am (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY: Israeli forces bombed with aircraft a Hezbollah military facility in Al-Rayhan and a military building in Kafr Kila, southern Lebanon.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: 15 Palestinians, including eight children, were killed in Israeli raids on two homes in Rafah and the Nuseirat camp.

AL-JAZEERA: Photojournalist Ibrahim Al-Gharbawi was martyred in an Israeli bombing on Hamad Town in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, Friday.

HEZBOLLAH: Our forces targeted with missiles new positions of Israeli occupation soldiers west of the Shomera settlement in the Western Galilee, and achieved direct hits.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli raids targeted the north and east of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Saturday, April 27, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY: During the last 24 hours, Israeli forces bombed 25 targets in the Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The number of martyrs of the Israeli bombing of a house west of Rafah had risen to six, including four children.

Saturday, April 27, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 12: The resignation of Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy is expected and a discussion is taking place regarding his successor.

CYPRUS: aid shipments resumed from Cyprus to Gaza late on Friday evening, with a ship carrying food supplies sailing to the besieged Palestinian Strip after the aid stopped following the killing of 7 aid workers in an Israeli raid.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Shumira in the Western Galilee, northern Israel.

MAYOR OF BEIT LAHIA: the Israeli army has destroyed 70% of the water wells feeding the Palestinian residents of the city.

Saturday, April 27, 04:00 am (GMT+2)

US CENTRAL COMMAND: The Ansarallah fired 3 anti-ship ballistic missiles at two ships in the Red Sea.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip.

Saturday, April 27, 03:10 am (GMT+2)

HAMAS: We received an official response from the Israeli occupation to the movement’s position on truce, which was presented to Egyptian and Qatari mediators on April 13.

AL-JAZEERA: Renewed Israeli raids on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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