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April 20, 2024 Blog, News
Israel continues to carry out massacres in Gaza. (Photo: via WAFA)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Israeli forces carried out at least four massacres in the last 24 hours, killing and wounding scores of Palestinians. 

 A huge explosion occurred at a military base used by the Popular Mobilization Forces south of Baghdad. The explosion was the result of an air strike of unknown origin. Tel Aviv denied responsibility.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said that Israel’s war on Gaza is “the most dangerous conflict for journalists since records began in 1992.”

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 34,049 Palestinians have been killed, and 76,901 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

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Sunday, April 21, 05:00 am (GMT+2)

ANADULO: Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas:

Washington’s position on the Rafah invasion is deceptive and we did not fall into the swapping roles between Americans and Israelis.

If the enemy decides to go to Rafah, our people will not raise the white flag and the Resistance is ready to defend itself.

Israel did not agree to a ceasefire and what it wants is to take back its prisoners and then resume the war, and this will not happen.

The administration of the Gaza Strip must be carried out by Palestinian will.

We welcome any Arab or Islamic forces if they come as liberator, and not to provide protection for the occupation.

First Time since October 7 – Hamas Leader Haniyeh Meets Turkish President in Istanbul

Sunday, April 21, 01:45 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Eight people were killed, including 5 children and two women, in Israeli raids on two houses in the city of Rafah.

GAZA CIVIL DEFESNE: We recovered the bodies of 50 people who were collectively buried by the Israeli occupation forces inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis.

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We attacked with drones a vital target in the occupied Golan region.

ISRAEL TODAY: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responding to reports of US sanctions against Israeli army soldiers, said that “sanctions should not be imposed on the Israeli army, and this is the height of absurdity and moral degradation.”

Saturday, April 20, 11:30 pm (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: An Israeli bombing targeted a house east of the city of Rafah, leaving two dead and one injured.

Saturday, April 20, 10:30 pm (GMT+2)

ISRAEL HAYOM: Commenting on US sanctions against Israeli soldiers, Netanyahu said that imposing sanctions on the army is “the height of absurdity and moral decline”.

HAMAS: The crimes of the settlers will not go unpunished.

KAN: Israeli Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassadors of France, Japan, South Korea, Malta, Slovenia and Ecuador – the countries that voted in favor of the decision to grant Palestine membership in the United Nations – to inform them of Tel Aviv’s protest against this position.

‘State of Palestine is Inevitable’ – US Veto of UN Bid Slammed

NETANYAHU: US aid to us “defends Western civilization”.

Saturday, April 20, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Two Palestinians were killed and 10 were injured in an Israeli occupation bombing that targeted tents housing displaced persons in the Al-Mawasi area, west of the city of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli occupation warships bombed the northwestern areas of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI FM: the US House of Representatives’ vote on the aid package for Israel sends a strong message to our enemies.

HANIYEH (to Anadolu news agency): Israel rejects Turkey and Russia as guarantors of the ceasefire.

TURKISH FM SPOKESMAN: Israeli officials should feel ashamed about their crimes in Gaza.

US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: A bipartisan majority in the US House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill to provide $26 billion in security aid to Israel.

‘Lifesaving Aid’ – Gaza Freedom Flotilla to Challenge Israeli Blockade

KAN: The Israeli Ministry of Finance is considering increasing taxes in the coming months to finance the war on the Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: The Palestinian resistance launched a batch of rockets from the center of the Gaza Strip towards Israeli towns and sites.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The families of Israeli prisoners are demanding a meeting with the War Council to inform them of its priorities after 6 months of war on the Gaza Strip.

Saturday, April 20, 8:00 pm (GMT+2)

AXIOS: Washington may impose sanctions on an Israeli army unit due to violations in the West Bank. The expected sanctions will prohibit the Netzah Yehuda Battalion from receiving any type of American aid.

‘Serious Rights Abuses’ – EU, US Sanction Extremist Jewish Settlers and Groups 

CHANNEL 13: Netanyahu’s office did not respond to the request by Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot to hold a war council.

UNRWA: Every 10 minutes, a child is killed in Gaza. According to UNICEF, the number of children killed in the besieged Gaza Strip since October 7 has surpassed 14,000.

Saturday, April 20, 7:00 pm (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: French authorities summoned social media activist Siham Al-Sabbagh over a post about Palestine.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Hundreds of Israelis demonstrated in the city of Rehovot in central Israel to demand early elections and the release of Israeli detainees in the Gaza Strip.

CHANNEL 12: The occupation army conducts training for a possible raid on the Freedom Flotilla.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted “two buildings used by enemy soldiers in the Metulla colony.”

Saturday, April 20, 5:30 pm (GMT+2)

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The occupation’s narrative about the improvement in the number of aid trucks and the United States’ adoption of it is a complete lie and a distortion of reality.

The total amount of aid trucks that enter each day on average ranges between 130-150 trucks only.

ISRAELI FM: Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz attacked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan because of his reception of Ismail Haniyeh.

AL-JAZEERA: German police assault participants in a demonstration to stop the war in Gaza.

Saturday, April 20, 4:30 pm (GMT+2)

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE: The occupation is deliberately exacerbating the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: Our fighters targeted a D-9 military bulldozer with a missile at Al-Yassin 105, east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Saturday, April 20, 3:30 pm (GMT+2)

LEBANESE CIVIL DEFENSE: Three people were killed and two wounded in an Israeli raid on the town of Al-Jabayn in southern Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received the head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas Ismail Haniyeh and his accompanying delegation at Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a gathering of Israeli occupation soldiers east of the Evin Menachem settlement with missile weapons.

Saturday, April 20, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A violent artillery shelling targeted the town of Al-Mughraqa, north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in Evin Menachem in the Western Galilee, after rockets were launched from southern Lebanon towards an Israeli position in the region

Saturday, April 20, 1:00 pm (GMT+2)

ISRAELI ARMY: The occupation army is waging face-to-face battles in central Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sound in northern Israel after warning of drone infiltration from Lebanon.

Saturday, April 20, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)

EGYPTIAN FM: We are making a strenuous effort to deliver aid to Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: sirens sounded a short while ago in Kiryat Shmona and towns in the Galilee region.

TURKISH FM: We warn of the repercussions of the tension between Israel and Iran.

Saturday, April 20, 11:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens are sounding in the village of Ghajar and the towns of Al-Dan and Bury in the Galilee region.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: 34,049 Palestinians have been killed, and 76,901 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a deployment of Israeli occupation soldiers in Jabal Adathar with missile weapons.

Saturday, April 20, 10:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens sounded in several towns in the Galilee region, noting that an Israeli raid targeted the town of Kafr Kila in southern Lebanon.

REUTERS: An Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces member was killed and 8 wounded in an attack on a command center at the Kalsu military base in Babylon.

COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: Israel’s war on Gaza is “the most dangerous conflict for journalists since records began in 1992.”

CHANNEL 12: Two rockets fired from Lebanon landed in an open area in Upper Galilee.

Saturday, April 20, 09:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN FM: We welcome Barbados’ decision to recognize the State of Palestine.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli gunboats bombed the coast of the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Saturday, April 20, 08:00 am (GMT+2)

HEZBOLLAH: We targeted the Hadab Yarin site in the Western Galilee with what it called appropriate weapons, noting that it had achieved “confirmed casualties.

ISRAELI OFFICIAL (to CNN): Tel Aviv has nothing to do with the explosion in Iraq.

Saturday, April 20, 07:00 am (GMT+2)

AL-JAZEERA: Sirens are sounding in several towns in Upper Galilee following a suspected drone infiltration.

ISRAELI RADIO: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant discussed, in a call with his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, “de-escalation, the introduction of aid into Gaza, and the Rafah issue.”

Saturday, April 20, 06:00 am (GMT+2)

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli occupation targeted, with an air strike, both east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and Deir al-Balah in the center of the Strip.

Saturday, April 20, 05:30 am (GMT+2)

ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ: We targeted with drones a vital target in Eilat, southern Israel.

(The Palestine Chronicle)

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