Israel pounds Gaza, killing 26; Hamas to release US-Israeli captive
- Hamas says it will release US-Israeli captive Edan Alexander and confirms having direct talks with the United States.
- Israel kills 26 Palestinians in Gaza as its total blockade on the Gaza Strip enters its 71st day.
- Israeli forces also launch attacks on Yemen’s Hodeidah after warning residents of three ports under Houthi control – Ras Isa, Hodeidah and Salif – to flee.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 52,829 Palestinians and wounded 119,554, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
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CPJ renews call for accountability in Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says it honours the legacy of the Palestinian American journalist, who was killed by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank three years ago, on May 11, 2022.
“For 25 years as an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent, Abu Akleh was a trailblazer for women in journalism and a trusted voice for millions of viewers in the region,” the group wrote.
“We continue to call on the U.S. to investigate her killing by Israel and to hold those responsible to account.”
As we reported earlier, a new investigative documentary released by the Washington, DC-based media company Zeteo, identified a 20-year old Israeli soldier as the person who shot Abu Akleh.
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Photos: Palestinians queue for food at Gaza City kitchen
Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity in Gaza City on Sunday [Mahmoud İssa/Anadolu] 
Aid organisations in Gaza say they have exhausted their supplies after Israel blocked all food from reaching Gaza for 10 weeks [Mahmoud İssa/Anadolu] 
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Norway wealth fund divests from Israeli company over West Bank activities
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund has sold all of its shares in Israel’s Paz Retail and Energy, because the company “is contributing to the violation of international law” by helping to supply fuel to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the government’s pension fund, said in a statement that Paz operates infrastructure that supplies fuel to Israeli settlements and that there is an “unacceptable risk that the company contributes to serious violations of the rights of individuals in war or conflict”.
The decision is based on a recommendation the fund’s ethics watchdog, the Council on Ethics, made in December last year.
The fund also previously divested from Shapir Engineering and Industry Ltd and Mivne Real Estate KD Ltd, over their activities associated with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, in 2021.
Last year, Norway’s largest private pension fund also announced it was divesting from Caterpillar “over concerns about its role in human rights abuses in occupied Palestine”.
A view of new buildings around the Israeli settlement Shiloh near the Palestinian town of Turmus Aya near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on November 9, 2024 [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters] - 46m ago(01:26 GMT)
Israeli attack on Gaza school-turned-shelter kills 15
Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that the Israeli attack on the Fatima Bint Asad School in the Jabalia refugee camp has killed at least 15 people, including children.
Terrorists posing as Journalists? They carry GoPros, Bodycams and semi-auto rifles. On Oct 7 they posted live feeds, as they rampaged, pillaged and killed, boasting all they did for the world to see.
ReplyDeleteThose killed are counted as terrorist statistic by IDF but counted as civilian Press by Hamas. So who to believe?
Hamas says journalist killed in Gaza strike, Israel claims targeted militant
Agence France-Presse
Apr 7, 2025
Hamas and rescuers said an Israeli strike on southern Gaza killed one journalist and wounded nine others on Monday, while the Israeli military reported it targeted a militant posing as a reporter.
The journalist is one of at least 12 people killed in Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory on Monday, according to Gaza's civil defence agency, as the war entered its 19th month.
An air strike hit a tent used by journalists in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis, killing two people, said civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal.
Nine journalists were wounded in the strike, Bassal added.
The Hamas government media office said journalist Hilmi al-Faqaawi, who worked for a local news agency, was killed in the attack.
The Ramallah-based Palestinian foreign ministry called Faqaawi's killing "part of a growing series of crimes targeting journalists directly, in a systematic attempt to silence the Palestinian voice and erase the truth".
The Palestinian Journalists Protection Center (PJPC) also condemned the attack, saying "the deliberate targeting of journalists constitutes a war crime".
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said it "strongly condemns" the strike on the tent sheltering the journalists.
"The endless massacre of journalism in Gaza must stop!" it said in a statement.
The Israeli military meanwhile said its forces had "struck the Hamas terrorist Hassan Abdel Fattah Mohammed Aslih in the Khan Yunis area" overnight, without specifying whether he had been killed.
The military claimed Aslih operated "under the guise of a journalist and owns a press company."
It said Aslih had "infiltrated Israeli territory and participated in the murderous massacre carried out by the Hamas terrorist organisation on October 7th".
"During the massacre, he documented and uploaded footage of looting, arson, and murder to social media."
Terrorists posing as Journalists? They carry GoPros, Bodycams and semi-auto rifles. On Oct 7 they posted live feeds, as they rampaged, pillaged and killed, boasting all they did for the world to see.
ReplyDeleteThose killed are counted as terrorist statistic by IDF but counted as civilian Press by Hamas. So who to believe?
Hamas says journalist killed in Gaza strike, Israel claims targeted militant
Agence France-Presse
Apr 7, 2025
Hamas and rescuers said an Israeli strike on southern Gaza killed one journalist and wounded nine others on Monday, while the Israeli military reported it targeted a militant posing as a reporter.
The journalist is one of at least 12 people killed in Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory on Monday, according to Gaza's civil defence agency, as the war entered its 19th month.
An air strike hit a tent used by journalists in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis, killing two people, said civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal.
Nine journalists were wounded in the strike, Bassal added.
The Hamas government media office said journalist Hilmi al-Faqaawi, who worked for a local news agency, was killed in the attack.
The Ramallah-based Palestinian foreign ministry called Faqaawi's killing "part of a growing series of crimes targeting journalists directly, in a systematic attempt to silence the Palestinian voice and erase the truth".
The Palestinian Journalists Protection Center (PJPC) also condemned the attack, saying "the deliberate targeting of journalists constitutes a war crime".
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said it "strongly condemns" the strike on the tent sheltering the journalists.
"The endless massacre of journalism in Gaza must stop!" it said in a statement.
The Israeli military meanwhile said its forces had "struck the Hamas terrorist Hassan Abdel Fattah Mohammed Aslih in the Khan Yunis area" overnight, without specifying whether he had been killed.
The military claimed Aslih operated "under the guise of a journalist and owns a press company."
It said Aslih had "infiltrated Israeli territory and participated in the murderous massacre carried out by the Hamas terrorist organisation on October 7th".
"During the massacre, he documented and uploaded footage of looting, arson, and murder to social media."
So, mfer, who keeps to yr selective zionist side of fart?
ReplyDeleteWhy not allow an independent agent to double check?
So far all yr farts r critical of the Hamas despite all those atrocities done by the zionist state & verified by a UN/ 3rd parties.
Oooop… any news that's no good for the zionist state r terrorist propagandas, biased media !
Armed "journalists". ...wakakaka
ReplyDeletewakakakaka… As claimed by the killing zionists!
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