- Israeli attacks continue across Gaza with seven killed in the Nuseirat refugee camp after a day of bombings that killed 24 people in southern Rafah city – including 16 children and six women.
- Civil defence workers have recovered 210 bodies so far from a mass grave found after Israeli forces withdrew from the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
- A baby girl delivered from the womb of a woman killed in the Rafah attacks is in stable condition, doctors say.
- At least 34,097 Palestinians have been killed and 76,980 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139, with dozens still held captive in Gaza.
- Relative of dead children asks: ‘What did they do?’Reaction continues after an Israeli air strike on a family home killed 24 people, including 16 children and six women, in southern Rafah.“These children were sleeping. What did they do? What was their fault?” asked one relative Umm Kareem.Mohammed al-Beheiri said his daughter, Rasha, and her six children, the youngest 18-months old, were among the dead. A woman and three children were still under the rubble, he said.Resident Umm Hassan Kloub, 35, said her children screamed when they “woke up to a nightmare of an explosion”.“Every second we live in terror, even the sound of Israeli aircraft doesn’t stop,” she said.Israel’s attack on Gaza has killed more than 14,500 children. The war has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians – at least two-thirds of them children and women – since last October.
- A Palestinian waits for news of his daughter as rescue workers search for survivors in Rafah [Mohammed Abed/AFP]
- Update on Jerusalem vehicle attackThe Israeli police have given an update on the car-ramming attack in West Jerusalem.The number of slightly injured has risen to three, the police said, after two suspects drove a car into pedestrians. They then left the vehicle and tried to shoot “without success”.The police added the assailants threw away “improvised weapons” as they fled.
- Israeli army arrests Palestinian accused of killing settlerIsraeli forces detained Ahmed Dawabsheh, 21, in the town of Duma in the occupied West Bank after he was accused of killing a young Israeli settler, Benjamin Achimer, earlier this month.The 14-year-old was found dead a day after he went missing. As they searched for Achimer, dozens of Israeli settlers stormed the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, killing one Palestinian and wounding at least 25 others. More villages were attacked in the following days as mobs set fire to homes and vehicles.Since the start of the war on Gaza, settler attacks in the occupied Palestinian territory have surged to unprecedented levels. In the first 10 months of 2023, the UN recorded at least 1,038 incidents of setter violence – an average of three attacks per day – nearly triple the figure since October 7, 2023.
- Israeli minister condemns ‘wave of anti-Semitism’ at Columbia UniversityIsrael’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz says he’s “appalled by the vile wave of anti-Semitism” amid ongoing demonstrations at Columbia University in New York against the war in Gaza. The diplomat urged officials to take action.US President Joe Biden earlier issued a statement condemning an “alarming surge of anti-Semitism – in our schools, communities, and online”.Reports emerged in recent days of harassment and threats against Jewish students at Columbia University. As we reported earlier, the group of student activists representing the protesters have distanced themselves from “inflammatory individuals” and said they reject “any form of hate or bigotry”.Click here to share on social media
- Two civilians wounded in ramming attack in West JerusalemThe Israeli police say two civilians were injured in a vehicle ramming attack in West Jerusalem.In a statement posted on X, it said the two “terrorists” fled the scene and a rifle was found on their escape route. Security forces were deployed to hunt down the suspects.
- Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/22/israels-war-on-gaza-live-baby-born-after-mother-killed-in-strike-stable
Israel’s war on Gaza live: Deaths, injuries as attacks continue
