A Joint Statement by UN humanitarian agencies reads: “We are witnessing incidents of war in Gaza that demonstrate a total disregard for human life. As the blockade of Gaza enters its second month, we call on world leaders to take decisive action to ensure respect for international law. No commercial or humanitarian supplies have reached the Gaza Strip for more than a month. More than 2.1 million people are once again trapped, bombed and starving in the Gaza Strip. Food, medicine, fuel, shelter and vital equipment are blocked and piling up at Gaza’s border crossings. In the first week since the ceasefire collapsed in Gaza, more than a thousand children have been killed or injured.”
According to former head of Israel’s National Security Council Giora Eiland: “Israel has failed to achieve its war goals in the Gaza Strip. It has failed to destroy the Hamas government, to create conditions so that Gaza does not pose a threat, and to return homes to residents.” On Walla Giora Eiland: “The only goal partially achieved during the year and a half of war in Gaza was the return of some kidnapped soldiers.”
On April 8, the mayor of Jerusalem, together with the Israeli Minister of Construction and several rabbis, inaugurated a settlement project in West Jerusalem currently inhabited by Gazans.
On April 7, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with White House Special Envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, ahead of a scheduled meeting with US President Donald Trump. They discussed the situation in the Gaza Strip and negotiations on the ongoing conflict in the region.
US President Donald Trump said: “I am the best president Israel could ever ask for.” “Netanyahu: We talked about the hostages and the war in Gaza. They want to free all the hostages from Gaza.” Trump believes that American peacekeepers would be useful for the Gaza Strip.
Islamic Jihad said: “We condemn the statements made yesterday during the joint press conference between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, including the procrastination of a ceasefire in Gaza under false pretexts and the resumption of the issue of the displacement of residents of the Gaza Strip.”
Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arab spokesperson, visited the southern regions of Syria where Israeli forces are positioned. The visit was aimed at assessing potential threats and strengthening readiness. Adraee stressed that while Israel has no intention of interfering in Syria’s internal affairs, it will not tolerate any threat to its security, and its presence in the area strengthens its ability to respond quickly to any scenario.
The Israeli military has announced plans to organize recreational trips for settlers in newly occupied areas in Syria during Passover next week. Similar trips are planned for Lebanon. Tours that the IDF opened for foreign tourists across the border fence with Syria on the slopes of Rokad, between an ancient fortress and on a circular route, sold out in a matter of hours. New ones have opened. Others have opened and are quickly selling out: The Misgav-Am observation point on the ruins of Kila and El-Adaisa in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military is calling them “ruins of cities” after they demolished them in recent months.
The Iranian General Staff informed the Iraqi General Staff that it had detected heavy flights of Israeli aircraft in Iraqi airspace and sent a warning to Iraq that it would attack American bases in Iraq if Israeli aircraft attacked targets in the Islamic Republic using Iraqi airspace.
The Trump administration informed the World Food Programme to terminate contracts in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. Al Jadeed wrote that: “The understanding between Aoun and Hezbollah is based on three principles: that the resistance is not a militia (which means that 1559 is not applicable), that it is committed to a ceasefire and that the use of weapons should be considered within a national strategy after Israel’s withdrawal (from all occupied lands), the return of prisoners and the cessation of aggression. President Aoun stated that: “Israel’s violation of resolution 1701 and the provisions of the agreement reached last November 9th threatens stability in the south”. In Lebanon Sit-in in Sidon, in Al-Quds Square, in solidarity with the people in Gaza.
And now a look at the military scenarios updated at 16:30 on April 8. Two heavy military transport planes C-5M Super Galaxy of the US Air Force arrived on the 8th in Diego Garcia, coming from Hill Air Base in Utah. Hill Air Base hosts numerous munitions used by the six strategic bombers B-2 Spirit currently deployed in Diego Garcia. In the afternoon recorded American attack targeted the governorate of Amran, Al-Asha, north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Killed by American attack, the head of Houthi intelligence Abd al-Nasser al-Kamali. And as Al-Arabiya reports, the Houthis have arrested the deputy commander of the secret services on suspicion of having leaked information to the Americans.
US Defense Secretary Hegseth said at his meeting with Netanyahu: “It has been a bad three weeks for the Houthis and it will get worse…” For the second time in three days, a Yemeni drone headed to Israel was intercepted outside the country’s borders.
Syrian sources reported: “Israeli forces are advancing with numerous military vehicles, accompanied by drones, towards Tal al-Sayfar, in the Quneitra countryside.”
Israeli drone strikes continue in southern Lebanon: attack on a Hezbollah facility in Beit Lif; Israeli strike targeted a car and a motorcycle in Khiyam, killing two Syrian civilians and wounding a Lebanese. Drones over Nabatieh province in southern Lebanon. Israeli drone strike in the city of Taybeh. On the afternoon of April 8, Israeli drones are active again, flying low over Tyre.
The IDF has not yet claimed responsibility for the attacks on April 7, including the wave of attacks in Naqoura and Aita al-Shaab. The two attacks in Beit leaf, including a car. And the other attacks on cars in Khiyam and elsewhere. On the 8th, fishermen in Naqoura were bombed; an attack in Mays al-Jabal while inspecting the damage to their homes to obtain compensation. Drones fly over the Iqlim Al-Tuffah region, the city of Tyre and its surroundings. Saudi Al-Hadath TV has called for attacks on Lebanese facilities such as the port.
Israeli Army Spokesman: “A military maneuver is planned during the night hours in the Bir Ora area and at Ramon airport. As part of the exercise, military vehicles and security personnel will be actively moved and no security incidents are feared.”
According to Palestinian sources: 23 injured during the assault of the occupation forces on the Al-Quds University in the city of Abu Dis, in Jerusalem. Also according to Palestinian sources: 42 dead following the raids of Israeli air forces on the Gaza Strip since dawn today. Raid in Gaza: north, center and south. Three members of the Salman family killed in an attack that targeted their home in Deir al-Balah. An Israeli quadcopter drone launched its missiles east of the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces destroyed several homes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. An air strike hit a house in the Al-Salam neighborhood, in conjunction with several raids in areas south of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. The Muammar family was hit. One dead and two injured.
Israeli forces storm the home of detainee Mahmoud Al-Banna in the Khallet Al-Amoud neighborhood, east of Nablus. Clashes erupted between youths and Israeli forces during a raid in the Khallet al-Amoud neighborhood, east of Nablus. Special forces stormed the city of Nablus, northern West Bank.
A youth was shot during clashes with occupation forces in the town of Beit Liqya, west of Ramallah. The Israeli army carries out shelling in Jenin camp.
The Media Committee in Tulkarem reported: “Israeli forces continue their aggression on the city of Tulkarem and its camp for the 72nd consecutive day, and on the Nour Shams camp for the 59th day, including repeated incursions and systematic attacks targeting the city’s neighborhoods and its surroundings.”
“The raids extended to the Dhnaba suburb, east of the city, where the IDF raided and searched the Al-Zubaidi family home and subjected residents to questioning, but no arrests were recorded.” The city streets were patrolled at night, including the fruit and vegetable market and Muqata’a Street, amid a massive deployment of occupation forces in the eastern neighborhood, where they fired stun grenades before retreating to the camp. The raids also extended to the towns of Qaffin, Baqa al-Sharqiya, al-Nazlat and Zeita, in the north of the city, where the occupation forces carried out combing operations and deployed in their streets and neighborhoods.
The ongoing aggression has resulted in the deaths of 13 people. Dozens of people have been injured and arrested, and more than 4,000 families have been displaced from the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps, in addition to dozens of families from the northern neighborhoods after their homes were confiscated.
Antonio Albanese e Graziella Giangiulio
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