36 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza
By Abdul Adil
(AA, AL Jazeera, Wafa,The Muslim News):
GAZA
At least 36 Palestinians were killed and 41 others were injured in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombing in the region, according to Gaza Health Ministry on Wednesday.
They said that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 2023 has risen to 50,846 documented fatalities, with an additional 115,729 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.
According to the same sources, emergency services are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn enclave, as Israeli occupation forces continue to target ambulance and civil defense crews.
Israeli army renewed a deadly assault on Gaza on March 18 and has since killed nearly 1,500 victims, injured 3,700 others, and shattered a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement in the enclave that was signed in January.
The UN reported Wednesday that Israeli authorities have denied at least 68% of its attempts to coordinate humanitarian access into the Gaza Strip since March 18.
Citing the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric described humanitarian operations in Gaza as “severely constrained.”
“That is due to the expansion of military operations, as well as the ongoing blockade of humanitarian aid and commercial goods, which has lasted for more than five weeks,” he said at a news conference.
He said there have been “deadly attacks on aid workers and humanitarian facilities.”
“Meanwhile, just since Tuesday, the Israeli authorities denied eight of 14 attempts by UN aid workers to coordinate access to people in need of urgent assistance,” Dujarric said.
He stressed that “since the intensification of hostilities on 18 March, the Israeli authorities have denied 68% of the UN’s 170 attempts to coordinate access to reach people across the Gaza Strip and assist with humanitarian assistance.”
WEST BANK
A Palestinian child and two journalists were injured Wednesday when Israeli forces targeted them in a predawn raid on the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its crews transported a 14-year-old boy from the camp to a hospital after he was struck in the face by a gas canister.
Two journalists suffered suffocation from inhaling tear gas fired by soldiers at them while covering the incursion, an Anadolu correspondent reported, citing witnesses.
At dawn, a large Israeli force with soldiers and armored vehicles stormed the camp in eastern Nablus, searching homes and converting some into military outposts, witnesses told Anadolu.
Witnesses added that soldiers forced families to flee their homes and leave the camp under duress
At least 14 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli army gunfire and dozens suffocated from tear gas during a raid since Wednesday morning on the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced in a statement that medical teams at the Rafidia Government Hospital in Nablus have been treating “14 gunshot injuries from the occupation, including two in critical condition and seven in moderate condition.”
Before the ministry’s statement, the Palestine Red Crescent Society announced that its teams had transferred six people with gunshot wounds to the hospital and provided field treatment to 50 cases of suffocation and five cases of beating.
Among the gunshot victims were four children aged between 15 and 16, with two suffering from live ammunition wounds to the lower back and foot and two others injured by rubber bullets in the hand and foot, the statement said.
Earlier, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said its crews transported a 14-year-old boy from the camp to a hospital after he was struck in the face by a tear gas canister.
YEMEN
The Yemeni Houthi group claimed on Wednesday to have shot down a US drone in northeastern Yemen and attacked Israeli and American targets amid an exchange of attacks with Washington.
Military spokesman Yahya Saree said that a US MQ-9 drone was intercepted “while carrying out hostile missions” over Al-Jawf province in northeastern Yemen.
He said the drone was brought down by “a domestically made surface-to-air missile.”
Saree said the drone was the third to have been downed in 10 days and the 18th since the group started its military operations in support of Gaza following Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian enclave in October 2023.
He said Houthi forces also targeted with a drone an Israeli military site in Tel Aviv in central Israel, without giving details.
Drones also targeted “hostile warships” in the Red Sea, including the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, he added.
There was no immediate comment from Israel or the US on the claim.
The Houthi spokesman said that US airstrikes continued in several areas across Yemen in the past few hours, causing civilian casualties.
The Houthi-run Health Ministry said on Wednesday that twelve people, including six women and four children, were killed in US airstrikes in Al-Hawak district in the coastal Al-Hudaydah province a day earlier.
The Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV also reported US strikes targeting telecommunications networks in the provinces of Ibb and Amran in northern Yemen.
A missile from Yemen toward Israel landed in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, according to Israeli media.
“A missile was launched from Yemen towards Israel and fell in Saudi Arabia,” said Israel’s official broadcasting authority KAN, offering no further details.
Neither Saudi officials nor the Yemeni Houthi group have commented on the report.
LEBANON
The Israeli army said Wednesday evening that one of its drones crashed in Lebanese territory due to a “technical malfunction.”
In a brief statement on X, the army said the drone went down earlier that day, attributing the incident to the glitch.
“There is no concern about a security incident and there is no concern about a leak of information,” the statement added, saying that an investigation into the circumstances of the crash is underway.
[Photo: A Palestinian child carries a container of water through the rubble-filled streets as Palestinians, deprived of basic necessities such as shelter, food, and clean water, continue their daily lives amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Er-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on April 9, 2025. Despite the harsh living conditions, many struggle to survive, facing a deepening humanitarian crisis exacerbated by Israeli airstrikes and the ongoing blockade. Photojournalist: Mahmoud Abu Hamda/AA]
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