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April 28, 2024 Blog, News
Massive destruction in Gaza. (Photo: Abdallah Aljamal, The Palestine Chronicle)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

An Israeli soldier was injured in an Hezbollah rocket barrage on the Meron area, as the northern heats up. 

US President Joe Biden reportedly used the back entrance to the White House in an effort to avoid the anti-war protesters. 

Lapid said that, if he was Israeli prime minister, he would reject the Rafah invasion in order to return the captives. 

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 34,454 Palestinians have been killed, and 77,575 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Monday, April 29, 08:15 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Number of people killed as a result of the Israeli raids on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip rose to 20, including 5 children.

SAUDI MEDIA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Monday in Saudi Arabia, the first leg of a tour of the region, to boost the chances of a truce between Israel and Hamas.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA:

The Israeli occupation targeted several areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation forces targeted with artillery shelling north of Al-Nuseirat and Al-Bureij camps in the central Gaza Strip, and also targeted the eastern area of Deir Al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip.

Monday, April 29, 02:30 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA (Citing Israeli media): Three Israeli soldiers killed and 11 wounded in a Palestinian Resistance attack in Gaza. Earlier, Al-Qassam Brigades said that it shelled with heavy-caliber mortar shells the headquarters of the occupation command in the Netzarim axis, south of Gaza City.

Monday, April 29, 02:15 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA:

The number of Palestinians killed in the continuous Israeli raids on areas in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip has risen to 15.

Two Palestinians killed in an Israeli shelling that targeted a house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.

Four people were killed and a number of wounded when Israeli warplanes bombed a house belonging to the Tartori family, west of Gaza City.

NEW YORK TIMES (Citing Israeli officials): We believe that the ICC is preparing to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials. We believe Netanyahu is among those who may be mentioned in the arrest warrant.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed, in conjunction with the Abu Ali Mustafa Martyr Brigades, a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers in the Netzarim axis, south of Gaza City.

WASHINGTON POST: at least 900 protesters have been arrested at U.S. college protests in the past 10 days.

Secrets by the Sea – Gaza Survivors Seek Respite from Israeli Bombs, Heat and Tents

Sunday, April 28, 11:30 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli shelling targeted a house east of Rafah, in southern Gaza.

CHANNEL 12: A building was damaged after an anti-tank missile from Lebanon fell on the town of Shtula in Upper Galilee.

ISRAELI ARMY: Israeli aircraft launched a raid on an area between Ramieh and Al-Salhani in southern Lebanon.

CENTRAL WORLD KITCHEN: The international charity “Central World Kitchen” announced on Sunday that it had resumed its operations in the Gaza Strip despite “sadness” over the recent killing of 7 of its employees in an Israeli attack.

Sunday, April 28, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a building used by Israeli occupation soldiers in the settlement of Shtula and we achieved direct hits.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We shelled with heavy-caliber mortar shells the headquarters of the occupation command in the Netzarim axis, south of Gaza City.

CHANNEL 12: Netanyahu is concerned that the ICC may issue arrest warrants for political and security officials.

‘Unnaturally Afraid’ – Netanyahu Worried ICC Could Issue Arrest Warrants

Sunday, April 28, 8:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-MAYADEEN (citing Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi): The global student movement for Gaza is a significant event and cannot be suppressed through the arrest and silencing of the students.

REUTERS: Biden schedules telephone meeting with Netanyahu today.

AL-MAYADEEN (citing Israeli media): Sheeba Farms are experiencing unprecedented Hezbollah attack.

CNN: Opinion poll shows that 71 percent of all Americans are dissatisfied with the way Biden is handling the Gaza war.

Sunday, April 28, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the Israeli Ruwaisat Al-Alam site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shuba hills with missile weapons.

AL-JAZEERA: Four missiles were fired towards the Israeli Ruwaisat Al-Alam site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shuba hills.

Delays, Pressures, Israeli Government Split – What We Know about Israel’s Planned Rafah Invasion

GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: The Civil Defense recovered the bodies of 13 martyrs from the Al Amal neighborhood, west of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

CHANNEL 12: 30 reserve soldiers refuse to prepare for the invasion of Rafah “because of their inability to continue fighting.”

Sunday, April 28, 5:30 pm (GMT+2)

REUTERS (quoting White House): “Israel reassured us that it would not enter Rafah so that we could present our vision and concerns.”

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed the Israeli site Al-Samaqa in the occupied hills of Kafr Shuba.

Sunday, April 28, 4:00 pm (GMT+2)

SAUDI FM: Any expansion of military operations in Gaza will lead to dire consequences.

LE MONDE: France reduced its defense exports to Israel to a minimum.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: a Palestinian was killed in an Israeli bombing targeting the new camp in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Four missiles were fired at the Israeli site of Al-Samaqa in the occupied hills of Kafr Shuba.

SMOTRICH: If Netanyahu cancels the invasion of Rafah, the government will not be able to continue.

Sunday, April 28, 3:00 pm (GMT+2)

UNRWA: We received reports of the death of at least two children due to the heat wave in the Gaza Strip.

ISRAEL HAYOM: Israel is ready to comply with all Hamas demands except ending the war.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: The elderly Israeli prisoner who appeared yesterday holds American citizenship.

Sunday, April 28, 1:15 pm (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: We bombed Al-Baghdadi’s position in the Upper Galilee with artillery shells, and that it achieved a direct hit as a result of that bombing.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 34,454 Palestinians have been killed, and 77,575 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombed the Fajjah military site, east of Gaza, with a missile salvo.

Sunday, April 28, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation forces carried out a raid on the town of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.

CHANNEL 12: A rocket fired from northern Gaza exploded in an open area on Kibbutz Olumim.

Sunday, April 28, 11:30 am (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 12: A rocket was fired from northern Gaza exploded in an open area on Kibbutz Olumim.

FRENCH FM: We seek to prevent war between Hezbollah and Israel.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: An Israeli soldier was injured in an attack on Meron in northern Israel.

Sunday, April 28, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

CHANNEL 12: Arrest warrants from The Hague are hypocrisy.

ISLAMIC WAQF: More than 600 settlers and extremists stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque since the morning on the sixth day of the Jewish Passover.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: There was an Israeli artillery shelling on the eastern areas of the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

LAPID (to Israeli radio): “If I were prime minister, I would reject an operation in Rafah in exchange for the return of the kidnapped people.”

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in the Upper Galilee, near the border with Lebanon.

Sunday, April 28, 07:00 am (GMT+2)

US MEDIA: US police arrested dozens of protesters who rejected the war on Gaza after they attempted to hold a sit-in on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Sunday, April 28, 03:00 am (GMT+2)

US MEDIA: Activists rejecting the Israeli war on Gaza demonstrated in front of the hotel that hosts the annual White House correspondents’ party in Washington, chanting slogans denouncing genocide and American support for the war.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli warplanes launched two raids on the towns of Al-Zawaida and Al-Mughraqa in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli warplanes launched 6 raids on the towns of Maroun al-Ras and Tayr Harfa in southern Lebanon.

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.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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