- At least 27 Palestinians have been killed, including many children and women, in overnight Israeli attacks on Rafah and Gaza City.
- Hamas officials are set to travel to Egypt’s capital on Monday for fresh round of ceasefire talks.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Riyadh as part of Middle East trip aimed at securing ceasefire and increasing humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli military’s chief of staff approves plans for the “continuation of war” as hardline ministers warn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his government will collapse if a truce is agreed.
- At least 34,454 Palestinians have been killed and 77,575 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
- UN agency estimates 37m tons of debris in GazaThe UN Mine Actions Agency estimates that 37 million tons of debris litter the streets of Gaza that will take more than a decade to clear up.The debris include up to 10,000 unexploded ammunition, according to Federico Dessi, Humanity and Inclusion’s Middle East director.Dessi said the NGO works on the assumption that there have been something between 50 and 100,000 bombs dropped on Gaza in the past six months.“From nine to 14 percent of these bombs did not go off – so potentially we are talking about up to 10,000 or a bit more of unexploded bombs, shells and mortars in Gaza,” Dessi told Al Jazeera.
- Israeli forces arrest Palestinians, destroy roads during raids on West BankIsraeli forces continued raids across the occupied West Bank overnight, arresting several young Palestinian men and destroying roads and farmland, according to the Wafa news agency.Those arrested included two young men taken from their homes in the town of Arraba, south of Jenin, five from the Old City of Hebron, and one from a military checkpoint east of the city of Tulkarem.In Jalbun village, northeast of Jenin, Israeli forces bulldozed agricultural land, electricity poles and parts of the main road, Wafa reported.
- Mapping Israel-Lebanon cross-border attacksAs Israel continues its war on Gaza into a seventh month, it has been fighting a parallel war along the border with Lebanon that threatens a wider regional conflict.Since October 8, after Lebanon’s Hezbollah group launched attacks on Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian people, Israeli forces have carried out nearly thousands of attacks along the two countries’ 120km (75-mile) border.According to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, Israel, Hezbollah and other armed groups in Lebanon exchanged at least 4,733 attacks across the border from October 7, 2023 to March 15, 2024.Israel conducted about 83 percent of these attacks, totalling 3,952 incidents, while Hezbollah and other armed groups were responsible for 781 attacks.
- Israeli army says it struck Hezbollah targetsThe Israeli army says it struck Hezbollah targets overnight on Sunday, including infrastructure and military buildings, in Jabal Blat and Marwahin in southern Lebanon.Israeli forces and the Iran-backed group have been trading fire on a near-daily basis since the start of the war in Gaza in October. While they have largely remained confined to the border areas, attacks have increased in scope and intensity. So far, more than 350 people have been killed in Lebanon and 22 in Israel in cross-border attacks.French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne was in southern Lebanon on Sunday to assess the situation and discuss a roadmap to ease tensions.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/28/israels-war-on-gaza-live-news-hamas-officials-to-visit-cairo-for-talks
