Israel has ‘no choice’ but to continue fighting in Gaza, says Netanyahu

PM vows not to end war before destroying Hamas, as Israeli strikes kill more than 90 people in 48 hours

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews via #TheGuardian
Sat 19 Apr 2025 17.14 EDT

"#BenjaminNetanyahu said again Saturday that #srael had “no choice” but to continue fighting in #Gaza and will not end the war before destroying #Hamas and freeing the hostages."

"#Netanyahu is under growing pressure at home, not only from families of hostages and their supporters but also from reservist and retired #Israeli soldiers who question the continuation of the war."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/19/israel-has-no-choice-but-to-continue-fighting-in-gaza-says-netanyahu?CMP=share_btn_url

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Despair in Gaza as #Israeli aid blockade creates crisis ‘unmatched in severity’

Palestinians pushed into new misery as supplies of food, fuel and medicine run out in seven-week siege

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem
Sat 19 Apr 2025 12.54 EDT

"...Israel appears confident that it can maintain the siege with little international pushback.

It is also moving ahead with large-scale seizures of #Palestinian land for security buffer zones, and plans to shift control of aid delivery to the army and private contractors, exacerbating fears in #Gaza that #Israel intends to maintain boots on the ground in the territory long-term and permanently displace its residents."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/19/gaza-palestinians-israeli-aid-blockade?CMP=share_btn_url

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#HussamAbuSafiya's 'inhumane conditions' in #Israeli detention worsening #Gaza hospital director's lawyer says

#Palestinian prisoners are forced to take part in acts that would be 'morally denounced worldwide'

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Mera Aladam
Published date: 18 April 2025 15:22 BST

""As rights advocates and lawyers, we are ashamed to even talk about the levels of torture happening," she said, citing stomping on faces, humiliation and forced consumption of sewage water as some of the lighter treatment Palestinians face.

"Their honour is stepped on every day, every minute. Their mistreatment is incredibly horrible.""

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hussam-abu-safiya-inhumane-conditions-israeli-detention

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Gaza mourns beloved photojournalist #FatimaHassouna killed by #Israel

The photographer was looking forward to her wedding when she was killed alongside five siblings in an attack on her family home in #Gaza City

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Ahmed Dremly in Gaza City, occupied Palestine and Mera Aladam
Published date: 18 April 2025 11:35 BST

[article contains much detail about #Hassouna's life, tragically cut short by #Israeli strike]

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-photojournalist-fatima-hassouna-killed-israeli-strike-mourns

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#Palestinian Photojournalist & Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In #Israeli Gaza Strike

#FatimaHoussana and 9 of her family members murdered 24 hours after film accepted in #Cannes festival

from #Deadline [USA]
By Melanie Goodfellow
Senior International Film Correspondent
April 17, 2025 5:11am

[heartbreaking story. Still hard to believe how murderous and cruel Israel is.]

https://deadline.com/2025/04/gaza-photojournalist-cannes-doc-killed-israeli-strike-1236370699/

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#Israeli airstrike hits hospital entrance in #Gaza, killing medic and wounding 9 other people

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
Updated 9:27 PM EDT, April 15, 2025

"The strike hit the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in the Muwasi area, where hundreds of thousands have sought shelter in sprawling tent camps. The wounded were all patients and medics, and two of the patients were in critical condition after the strike, said Saber Mohammed, a hospital spokesman. "

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-04-15-2025-24a021daf95ee5e90007cc7205506b7f?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

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Photos point to Israeli tank fire in deadly strike on U.N. guest house

Experts say images obtained by The Washington Post show blast patterns and shell fragments that are consistent with two #Israeli tank shells. The #IDF has denied responsibility for the strike, which killed a European aid worker.

from #WashingtonPost [gift article]
[Bias alert - #WaPo usually favors Israel]

Today at 5:00 a.m. EDT

https://wapo.st/4jv2uCI

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Israeli Airstrike in #Gaza City Leaves Many Dead, Health Officials There Say

The strike on a home left other bodies buried under the rubble, according to the Gazan authorities. The #Israeli military said it had been targeting a #Hamas operative.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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By Vivian Yee and Ameera Harouda
Photographs by Saher Alghorra

Vivian Yee reported from Cairo and Ameera Harouda from Doha, Qatar. Saher Alghorra photographed and reported from Gaza City.
Published April 9, 2025Updated April 10, 2025, 3:40 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-city-strike-hamas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k4.wsRf.x0Sk6BsWHb3-&smid=url-share

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Majority of Americans hold unfavourable view of Israel, Pew poll finds

Even among traditionally pro-Israel Republicans, there have been large shifts in negative sentiment amid Israel's war on #Gaza

From #MiddleEastEye
By #MEE staff
Published date: 9 April 2025 19:22 BST

"According to a Pew Research poll published on Tuesday, 53 percent of Americans now express an unfavourable opinion of #Israel, up from 42 percent in March 2022 - before the 7 October 2023 #Hamas-led attack on southern Israel and Israel’s decimation of the enclave."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-americans-hold-unfavourable-view-israel-pew-poll-finds

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Witness to media tent bombing [in Gaza]: 'We did everything to save Mansour'

MEE contributor Ahmed Aziz was next to the targeted tent. He recalls a scene of chaos and confusion as flames engulfed the journalists inside

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine
Published date: 8 April 2025 13:59 BST

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/chaos-and-confusion-gaza-journalists-recall-inferno-after-israeli-strike

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#Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, #RedCrescent says

PRCS calls for international investigation after postmortem results add to evidence contradicting Israel’s account

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Peter Beaumont
Mon 7 Apr 2025 13.01 EDT

"The results of the postmortems join a growing body of evidence that sharply contradicts #Israel’s account of the incident, including video footage that shows the vehicles were travelling with headlights and flashing red lights that identified them, with personnel wearing hi-vis vests, at the time they were fired on."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/07/gaza-paramedics-shot-in-upper-body-with-intent-to-kill-red-crescent-says?CMP=share_btn_url

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Eyewitnesses Recount Deadly Israeli Attack on Medics in #Gaza

The New York Times interviewed two people who described being detained by #Israeli soldiers and looking on as they opened fire on ambulances and a fire truck, killing 15.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors #Israel]

By Vivian Yee and Bilal Shbair
Vivian Yee reported from Cairo, and Bilal Shbair from al-Mawasi, Gaza, where he interviewed both witnesses.
April 6, 2025 Updated 8:59 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/world/middleeast/gaza-medics-killed-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.904.uDa9.dDkT46yoKe8s&smid=em-share

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‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over #IDF killing of #Gaza paramedics

Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove #RedCrescent workers

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Julian Borger
Sat 5 Apr 2025 02.00 EDT

“I raised my children to love goodness and to do good deeds,” Sobhi said. “We had a principle in our home: do good without expecting thanks or praise. Mohammad [Bahloul] lived by this principle.

“We never expected this to happen – not even in our worst nightmares,” Sobhi added. “They went to save lives, only to become victims themselves.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/05/families-tell-of-shock-over-idf-killing-of-gaza-paramedics?CMP=share_btn_url

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What We Know About the Case of #Gaza Aid Workers Killed by #Israeli Gunfire

The Israeli military, confronted with video evidence contradicting its initial account, now says it was “mistaken.”

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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by Isabel Kershner
Reporting from Jerusalem
April 6, 2025, 1:29 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/world/middleeast/gaza-aid-workers-killed-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k4.qnB9.tbg-5wIwG0vn&smid=url-share

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#Palestinian paramedic says he saw #Israeli troops firing on emergency vehicles

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi
April 5, 202510:43 AM EDT Updated 3 hours ago [14:30 EDT]

Summary
*#RedCrescent and UN accuse Israeli forces of killing aid workers
*Paramedic's account corresponds with assertions by Red Crescent and #UN officials
*#Israeli military investigating deadly incident
*Video shows marked ambulances under fire near #Rafah

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-paramedic-says-he-saw-israeli-troops-firing-emergency-vehicles-2025-04-05/

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‘I Want to Be Martyred,’ a #Palestinian Boy Declares

By Nicholas Kristof
April 5, 2025

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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"Without attracting much notice or protest, Israel increasingly is using the tools of war familiar in #Gaza — tanks, airstrikes and massive destruction and displacement — here in the #WestBank. Human rights groups like B’Tselem call this the “Gazafication” of the West Bank."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/opinion/palestinian-west-bank-refugee-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U4.FcIp.2mDD7H6bNr47&smid=url-share

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Red Crescent Worker Who Survived Israeli Massacre Recounts Horror

In one of the deadliest attacks on emergency workers in the world in years, #Israeli troops killed 15 #Palestinian first responders and buried them in a mass grave.

from #DropSiteNews
Kavitha Chekuru
Apr 04, 2025

"Amid what the United Nations has described as a “concerted policy to destroy #Gaza’s healthcare system,” the #RedCross and #RedCrescent said it was the single deadliest attack on their workers anywhere in the world since 2017. Gaza’s Civil Defense, likewise, called it “one of the most heinous massacres” they have witnessed. "

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/red-crescent-massacre-gaza-israel?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline

On 23 March contact was lost with a team of #Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern #Gaza. A week later their bodies were recovered from a mass grave

from #TheGuardian #Guardian

By Lorenzo Tondo and Malak A Tantesh in Jerusalem, and Julian Borger. Videos and graphics by Bryony Moore and Tural Ahmedzade
Thu 3 Apr 2025 07.32 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/the-gaza-paramedic-killings-a-visual-timeline?CMP=share_btn_url

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#Netanyahu Promises the “Final Stage” of Gaza Genocide Will Lead to Implementation of “#Trump’s Plan"

Soon after #Hamas announced it had accepted a ceasefire proposal, #Israel responded by heavily bombing #Gaza, killing children dressed for the Eid holiday, and preparing further ground invasions.

[article contains some details on recent negotiations]

from #DropSiteNews
Jeremy Scahill
Mar 31, 2025

"Hamas’s chief negotiator, Dr. Khalil al-Hayya, announced that Hamas had accepted a deal on Saturday put forward by Qatar and Egypt, the two main regional mediators. "

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/netanyahu-trump-final-stage-gaza-genocide?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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How Israel Ceased Negotiations and Resumed Firing on #Gaza

There are indications #Israel may return to the negotiating table, but #Netanyahu is still operating from his well-worn sabotage playbook to maintain his war of annihilation

from #DropSiteNews
Jeremy Scahill
Mar 28, 2025

[article contains quotes and viewpoints of #Hamas, #Qatar, and #Egypt.]

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-ceasefire-negotiations-witkoff-gaza-hamas?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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