Tel Aviv, 28 April 2024 – Israel goes back to bombing Gazawhile the fate of Rafah is hanging by the thread of the proposal made by Tel Aviv ad Hamas, who has not yet given an answer. If there is no agreement, the army will enter the southernmost city of the Strip by land. According to Abu Mazen it will happen “in the next few days”. Yesterday the terrorists released a new video with two hostages who ask Netanyahu an immediate agreement for their release. According to the Israeli media, the prime minister risks arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which the US – together with Netanyahu himself – is “desperately” trying to prevent. Also in the ICC’s sights are Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the head of the IDF Herzi Halevi.
Opposition to Netanyahu is growing within Israel (Ansa)
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11.50am
Blinken will visit Kibbutz Beeri in Israel
It is possible that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his next trip to Israel – where he will arrive on Tuesday – will visit the Beeri kibbutz, one of the most hit by Hamas in the October 7 attack, and the Kerem Shalom crossing from where they enter aid for Gaza. Ynet reported it. This – according to the source – is the first time that a high-ranking representative of the American administration has visited the posts. To accompany
Blinken will be Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Foreign Minister Israel Katz.
11.49am
Israeli Minister Ben Gvir discharged from hospital after the accident
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has been discharged from Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The leader of the Israeli radical right had been hospitalized for injuries sustained in a road accident when – as the media recalled – his car, which had failed to respect the red light, overturned after hitting another. Ben Gvir suffered 3 broken ribs in the accident.
11.16am
Hamas delegation in Cairo tomorrow for negotiations
A Hamas delegation will be in Cairo from tomorrow for ceasefire talks. A source from the Islamic faction made it known, quoted by the international media and quoted by Haaretz, according to which the counter-proposal made by Israel to the Egyptian and Qatari mediators for a truce and the release of the hostages should be discussed.
09:32
Abu Mazen: “Israel will enter Rafah in the next few days”
“Israel will enter Rafah in the next few days.” President Abu Mazen said this, quoted by the Israeli media, at the World Economic Forum (WEF) underway in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Abu Mazen then reiterated the need “for an end to the fighting and the provision of aid to the Strip”. As part of the Forum, the Palestinian president will meet US Secretary of States Antony Blinken
09:25
Abu Mazen: “Only the US can stop the attack on Rafah”
Palestinian President Abu Mazen declared that only the United States at this point can stop the Israeli attack on Rafah, which would constitute “the greatest disaster in the history of the Palestinian people”. “We appeal to the United States of America to ask Israel to stop the operation in Rafah, because America is the only country capable of preventing Israel from committing this crime”, continued Abu Mazen, who is in Riyadh, Arabia.
08:38
UNRWA: 13 thousand children died in Gaza, more than in the whole world in 4 years
The number of children who have died in Gaza is “unprecedented and disconcerting”: Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) told TASS in an exclusive interview. “More than 30,000 people died in six months”, a number that Lazzarini considers plausible, perhaps even underestimated. “I’m not sure if this number covers all those who are still under the rubble. It could be even higher or disproportionately higher.” And then he continued: “We know that among the dead there are 13 thousand children. We know that a
More children have died in Gaza in six months than in all the world’s conflicts in the last four years. So a toll that is unprecedented and disconcerting, both in terms of dimensions and in terms of the level of destruction.”
07:49
Netanyahu risks an international arrest warrant, with relentless pressure from Israel and the USA
There is relentless pressure, by Israeli diplomacy but also by the US, to prevent the International Criminal Court from issuing an arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and various other members of the Israeli government for how they are conducting the war in Gaza. Various Israeli newspapers write this. According to the Walla news site, the prime minister makes non-stop phone calls because he wants to avoid an arrest warrant from the UN tribunal in The Hague, which would represent a further deterioration of the international image of the leadership of the Jewish state. Haaretz adds that the Israeli government is virtually certain that ICC prosecutor Karim Khan may issue arrest warrants this week against Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.
05:48
UNRWA: Israel prepares large-scale operation in Rafah
“Israel is preparing a large-scale military operation in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.” Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), told TASS in an exclusive interview. “My fear right now is what the Israeli army intends to do, regardless of military assistance to
Israel by the United States. It appears that there is preparation for a possible large-scale military intervention in Rafah,” she said.
04:15
Israeli raid in the center of the Gaza Strip
The Israeli Air Force is carrying out strikes over the central part of the Gaza Strip, Qatar’s Al Jazeera reported. “Our colleagues report the resumption of Israeli air strikes on the settlements of Az-Zawayda and Al-Muharraqa in the central part of the Gaza Strip,” the TV channel said
