PALESTINIAN MEDIA:

An Israeli airstrike coincided with artillery shelling targeting the eastern area of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Artillery shelling concurrent with gunfire from occupation vehicles northwest of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

Israeli artillery shelled the southern areas of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

A number of Palestinians were injured in an Israeli bombing of a house in the Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Four bodies recovered from a house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike last night in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.

YEMENI MEDIA: 50 people were injured as a result of the American bombing that targeted a prison in Saada.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Channel 13 reported that the Israeli occupation army is facing a severe shortage of soldiers. It added that soldiers who were supposed to be discharged from regular service will directly continue serving in the reserves for four months.

MEDICAL SOURCES (Cited in Al-Jazeera): 70 people have been killed as a result of Israeli airstrikes on several areas in the Gaza Strip since Sunday dawn.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA:

The Government Media Office in Gaza stated that the Israeli occupation has killed 212 journalists in cold blood in repeated attempts to silence the voice of truth.

It added that the occupation has also killed more than 1,400 doctors and medical personnel, and 113 civil defense members.

Furthermore, it has annihilated more than 5,070 families.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Ten people were killed and others injured as Israeli bombing of a house belonging to the Abu Mahadi family, in the vicinity of Al-Tayeb Hall, west of the Jabaliya camp in northern Gaza.

Footage Captured by Israeli Soldier Exposes Raids, Abuse in Gaza’s Shejaiya

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: two Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: With warehouses emptied and crossings sealed, Gaza faces a devastating famine as UNRWA warns the humanitarian system itself is collapsing.

UNRWA Warns of Famine in Gaza as Aid Warehouses Run Dry

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Seven Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombing of a house in the Sudanese area, northwest of Gaza City.

GAZA GOVERNMENT MEDIA OFFICE:

More than 65% of those killed by the occupation are children, women, and the elderly.

The occupation has committed the crime of killing more than 18,000 children and over 12,400 women.

The occupation has annihilated more than 2,180 families in which the father, mother, and all family members were killed, and more than 5,070 families where only one individual survived.

The occupation has killed more than 1,400 doctors and medical personnel, and 113 civil defense members, and has cold-bloodedly murdered 212 journalists in repeated attempts to silence the voice of truth.

YEMENI MEDIA: Eight people, including children and women, were killed as a result of the American aggression on Thaqban in the Bani al-Harith Directorate of Sana’a.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Channel 14 reported that the targeting of the military jeep the Saturday before last in Gaza could have ended with the kidnapping of the female soldiers. The militants were running towards the military jeep that was hit by a shell and only withdrew after a tank arrived.

UN OCHA: The aid supposed to be directed to Gaza is being used as a weapon by preventing it, adding that what is happening in the Gaza Strip is not a humanitarian crisis but an assault on people’s dignity.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Yedioth Ahronoth quoted Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar responding to the Prime Minister by stating that all investigations showed that the Shabak alerted the security apparatus on the night of October 7. He added that senior leaders of the security agencies bear responsibility for the intelligence failure, and that Netanyahu’s factually incorrect statement aims to take things out of context and change reality.

YEMENI MEDIA: US airstrikes targeted the Thaqban area in the Bani al-Harith Directorate of Sana’a.

AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli drone raid on the town of Al-Majidiya in southern Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA (citing medical sources): The death toll resulting from Israeli raids on several areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn today, Sunday, has reached 51.

With warehouses emptied and crossings sealed, Gaza faces a devastating famine as UNRWA warns the humanitarian system itself is collapsing.

UNRWA Warns of Famine in Gaza as Aid Warehouses Run Dry

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NETANYAHU’S STATEMENT: Establishing a Palestinian state is a ridiculous idea, and we have seen what the Palestinian state has brought in Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were killed and injured in an Israeli raid on a house south of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, and injured in an Israeli bombing of a cafe in the Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

YEMENI MEDIA: The United States launched two raids on the Sufyan Directorate in the Amran Governorate.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: On Sunday, the Yemeni Ansarallah group announced it had carried out a successful strike on Israel’s Nevatim airbase, located in the Naqab region of southern Israel, using a hypersonic ballistic missile.

Yemen’s Ansarallah Targets Israeli Naqab Airbase in Latest Missile Strike

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: The death toll has risen to 25, with more than 1,100 injured, following a massive explosion that targeted the Shahid Rajaee Port in Bandar Abbas, southeastern Iran, the Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported on Sunday.

Death Toll Rises to 25 in Shahid Rajaee Port Explosion, over 1,100 Injured

AL-QUDS BRIGADES: The Al-Quds Brigades announced that its fighters targeted a military barracks in a house where a number of enemy soldiers were present, east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, with a guided missile.

ISRAELI MEDIA: A statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed that the Israeli army attacked infrastructure in Beirut where Hezbollah stores precision missiles, adding that the southern suburb of Beirut will not be a haven for Hezbollah and the Lebanese government bears responsibility for preventing threats. They concluded that Israel will not allow Hezbollah to strengthen its forces or threaten it anywhere inside Lebanon.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The Israeli Army Radio, citing military sources, reported that the Hezbollah weapons targeted in the southern suburb of Beirut are precision missiles and that Israel informed the United States before the attack on the southern suburb of Beirut.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Newly obtained images shed light on the destruction of homes and the mistreatment of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in Gaza’s Shejaiya neighborhood.

Footage Captured by Israeli Soldier Exposes Raids, Abuse in Gaza’s Shejaiya

AL-JAZEERA: A fire and heavy smoke followed an Israeli raid on a warehouse in the Al-Hadath area in the southern suburb of Beirut.

AL-JAZEERA: Eight Palestinians in an Israeli drone raid on the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

AL-JAZEERA: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar’s claims are false, as he did not warn of the outbreak of war, and Netanyahu never asked to postpone his trial.

AL-JAZEERA: Three people were injured after an Israeli drone shelled a group of Palestinians in the Al-Satar Al-Sharqi area of Khan Yunis.

AL-JAZEERA (citing medical sources): 34 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids on several areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn today.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE:

Israeli drones fired three missiles at a building in Beirut’s southern suburb, following a warning from the Israeli occupation army instructing residents to evacuate the targeted building, located in the Hadath neighborhood.

About an hour earlier, Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee had posted on social media: “Urgent warning to those in the southern suburbs of Beirut, especially the Hadath neighborhood.”

He added, “To everyone in the building marked in red, as shown in the attached map, and the adjacent buildings: you are near Hezbollah facilities.”

Israeli Army Threatens Civilians, Bombs Southern Beirut Neighborhood

PALESTINE CHRONICLE:

The Israeli military has released the results of its investigation into the events that unfolded at the Zikim military base during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, shedding light on the severe challenges faced by the Israeli army on that day.

“No explanation was found” for the fact that “a force from the Golani Brigade that was at the base left the area on its own initiative and without reporting it”. The soldiers reportedly fled to a nearby beach to avoid fighting with Palestinian fighters.

Israeli Military’s Zikim Base Investigation Exposes Command Failures on Oct. 7

AL-QASSAM BRIGADES:

We targeted an Israeli Merkava 4 tank with a Yassin 105 shell east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.

Our fighters inflicted casualties among occupation soldiers by detonating an anti-personnel device east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak affirmed that the genocidal war in Gaza does not pressure the Hamas movement but rather condemns the captives held in the Strip to death. He accused the current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of continuing it in order to remain in power and maintain his government coalition.

YEDIOTH AHRONOTH:

Large fires broke out in the Wadi Qelt area, east of the West Bank.

Israeli authorities mobilized aircraft and firefighting crews and are trying to evacuate hundreds, with fears of trapped individuals.

A fire broke out in a zoo in Ramat Gan, central Israel, and authorities are trying to evacuate visitors.

AL-JAZEERA: Al-Jazeera obtained exclusive footage from an Israeli soldier’s camera found in Al-Sheja’iyya showing the occupation’s abuse of Palestinians. The Israeli soldier’s camera that took the photos was lost after clashes in the Al-Sheja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza.

AL-JAZEERA: Seven Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli bombing of a tent sheltering displaced persons northwest of Khan Yunis city, southern Gaza Strip.

GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced an increase in the number of victims of the Israeli aggression to 52,243 dead and 117,639 injured since October 7, 2023.

AL-JAZEERA: The World Food Programme stated that two million people in Gaza are completely dependent on food aid and the situation is on the brink of collapse. They emphasized the need for immediate food access to the Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that the Shabak (Shin Bet) spied on ministers, Knesset members, police commissioners, and the Prison Service.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Former Israeli Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot stated that it is necessary to head to elections as soon as possible to restore confidence in the government, adding that those who were in the top leadership of the Israeli army during the October 7th attack cannot remain in their positions.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israeli airstrikes and naval attacks in Gaza have killed multiple Palestinians, including a child, while the ongoing blockade and waste accumulation are intensifying the region’s humanitarian crisis.

Israeli Airstrike in Khan Yunis Kills Three Palestinians, Including Child

AL-JAZEERA: The bodies of 3 Palestinians were recovered following an Israeli bombing of a house in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

The moment an Israeli occupation helicopter struck the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/NIXhrYn3CV

— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) April 27, 2025

LEBANESE HEALTH MINISTRY: One person was killed in a raid by an Israeli drone on the town of Halta in southern Lebanon.

AL-JAZEERA: Three Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli bombing of Al-Sikka Street in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The Israeli Broadcasting Authority quoted former Prime Minister Ehud Barak as saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is evading discussing the day after in the Gaza Strip. Barak added that Netanyahu is deceiving US President Donald Trump and saying that Israel must submit to Hamas or abandon the abductees.

ISRAELI ARMY: Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the Israeli army is making an adjustment that obliges soldiers to remain after the end of their regular service due to a shortage of numbers. The military order imposes an additional 4 months of service in the army on regular soldiers, and the army has a shortage of about 10,000 soldiers due to the continuation of the war and the ineffectiveness of efforts to recruit Haredim.

ISRAELI MEDIA:

The Israeli army published the results of its investigations into the events of October 7 at a military training base in Zikim. The army’s investigation reveals the killing of five unit commanders and a soldier at the Zikim base during the October 7, 2023, attack.

Reinforcements did not reach the Zikim base on October 7 until hours after it was stormed.

Palestinian fighters used a Golani Brigade vehicle in Zikim after soldiers fled from it.

Golani Brigade soldiers in Zikim were in difficult and complex psychological conditions during the October 7 attack.

The commander of the Zikim base did not reach it during the October 7 attack and remained in a fortified shelter at his home with his family members.

The Israeli army’s investigation concluded that the commander of the Zikim base should have gone to it during the battles despite the danger.

ANSARALLAH: The military spokesman for the Ansarallah group, Yahya Saree, announced that they carried out an operation targeting the Nevatim Air Base in the Naqab, southern occupied Palestine. He added that the operation in the Naqab was carried out with a hypersonic ballistic missile and successfully achieved its target.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid stated that the government is working to burden reserve soldiers with increasing loads instead of recruiting Haredim. He added that they will put an end to this, and whoever does not volunteer will not receive a single shekel from the stat

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel Hayom newspaper quoted a senior Israeli source as saying that the army will expand the scope of fighting if no progress is made in the negotiations within two weeks. Expanding the scope of fighting will include a wide mobilization of reserve forces.

AL-JAZEERA: A child succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli bombing of a tent sheltering displaced persons in Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis.

A mother mourns her son, killed in an Israeli airstrike east of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/vMlzuGRy4b

— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) April 27, 2025

PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Heavy gunfire from occupation vehicles east of the Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

ISRAELI MEDIA: The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the shortage of fighters due to the ongoing war in Gaza prompted the army to extend the reserve service period.

PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israeli forces suffered significant casualties in Friday’s battle with Hamas fighters in Sheja’iyya, Gaza, after a two-hour rescue operation.

Israeli Media Reveals Details of Qassam Ambush in Sheja’iyya, Resulting in Casualties

ISRAELI MEDIA: The Israeli army said today, Sunday, that it intercepted a rocket launched from Yemen towards the Dead Sea and Wadi Araba areas, without damage or casualties.

KAN: The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported that orders were issued to citizens in towns in the Dead Sea and Wadi Araba areas to stay in shelters for 10 minutes.

PALESTINIAN MEDIA:  Israeli forces detained the child Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar Jaradat from the town of Sa’ir, north of Hebron.

ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Channel 14 reported that former Shin Bet chief, Ami Ayalon, is calling for civil disobedience against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the dismissal of Shin Bet chief, Ronen Bar.

OXFAM (Humanitarian Coordinator, cited in Al Jazeera):

Israel is using the worst forms of collective punishment against the population in Gaza.

Israel is preventing the entry of aid into Gaza, and we call for a ceasefire.

We have quantities of fuel and food stuck at the borders, and we are unable to bring them in.

Britain continues to sell weapons to Israel despite knowing how they are being used.

The current situation in Gaza cannot continue, otherwise we will witness a major catastrophe.

The mother of Ali Faraj recounts surviving an Israeli airstrike east of Khan Younis — an explosion that destroyed their home, killed her son, and took the lives of 22 family members. pic.twitter.com/7N9LWzbkaR

— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) April 27, 2025

WFP: Gaza Food Supplies Exhausted amid Unrelenting Israeli Siege

YEMENI MEDIA: Three US airstrikes targeted the Israeli ship Galaxy Leader, which is being held in the port of Hodeidah