Israel issues displacement orders in Gaza after Hamas rocket attacks

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington on Sunday after taking a longer flight path to bypass countries that might enforce the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him.

According to Haaretz, the flight path was extended by approximately 400 kilometres to avoid flying over nations such as Ireland, Iceland, and the Netherlands, which could have acted on the warrant in the event of an emergency landing.

The concern was raised by Israeli officials, fearing that these countries might enforce the ICC’s arrest order related to Netanyahu's alleged involvement in war crimes.

The University of Haifa has cancelled a planned screening of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, according to Israeli media outlet Haaretz.

The film, produced between 2019 and 2023, follows activist Basel Adra as he documents the destruction of his hometown, Masafer Yatta, in the southern occupied West Bank.

Israeli soldiers are demolishing the area to use it for military training.

Haaretz reports that the university stated the screening was called off because the Israel Film and Theater Review Board had not approved the film.

However, the board’s revised guidelines, issued last month in response to similar controversies, clarify that approval is only necessary for commercial screenings, with educational events being exempt from such requirements.

France's President Emmanuel Macron started talks dominated by the Gaza war on Sunday with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after arriving in Cairo.

On Monday, Macron, Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II will hold a summit as Israel renews its offensive against Hamas in Gaza.

On Tuesday, the French leader will head to the Egyptian port of El-Arish, near Gaza, to highlight the territory's humanitarian plight.

Macron and Sisi held a dinner in a Cairo souk just after the French president arrived for the 48-hour visit.

Macron also took time for a private visit to the new Grand Egyptian Museum, to be officially inaugurated on July 3, that will show off 100,000 historic artefacts.

The two presidents will hold a more formal meeting on Monday morning before the summit with King Abdullah.

"The situation in Gaza will be widely discussed," the French presidency said of the meetings stressing the importance of Egypt and Jordan in ending the war.

A Palestinian official told  news agency AFP that Israeli forces shot dead a teenager holding US citizenship in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, while the Israeli military said it had killed a "terrorist".

Omar Muhammad Saadeh Rabee, a 14-year-old boy "who was killed in Turmus Ayya, held US citizenship", the town's mayor, Adeeb Lafi Shalabi, told AFP.

In a statement, the Israeli army said it had killed "one terrorist" in the Turmus Ayya area during a counter-terrorism operation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a "strong response" after around 10 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to his office.

"The prime minister instructed to deliver a strong response and approved the continuation of the intensified [Israeli] operations in Gaza against Hamas," his office said in a statement, adding that Netanyahu spoke to Defence Minister Israel Katz from his aeroplane as he travelled to Washington.

Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee announced that evacuation orders have been issued to the residents of Deir el-Balah.

He referred to this as a "final advance warning" before an imminent attack, emphasising that the military would "strike with significant force" any areas from which rockets were fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Adraee instructed Palestinians to relocate “immediately south” to shelters in al-Mawasi, a zone Israel has labelled as "safe," despite it being repeatedly targeted during the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

US envoy Morgan Ortagus said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that Hezbollah and other armed groups should be disarmed "as soon as possible" and that Lebanese troops were expected to do the job.

Ortagus spoke to Lebanese broadcaster LBCI at the end of a three-day visit to Beirut, where she met with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri and other officials and political representatives.

"It's clear that Hezbollah has to be disarmed and it's clear that Israel is not going to accept terrorists shooting at them, into their country, and that's a position we understand," Ortagus said.

"We continue to press on this government to fully fulfill the cessation of hostilities and that includes disarming Hezbollah and all militias," she said.

Asked whether the U.S. had set a timeline for the disarmament to take place, Ortagus said, "As soon as possible."

"There's not necessarily a timetable so to speak, but we know that the sooner that the LAF (Lebanese Armed Forces) is able to meet these goals and disarm all militias in the state, the sooner the Lebanese people can be free," she said.

 The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, met his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Saar, in Abu Dhabi on Sunday to discuss efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza and secure the release of hostages, the UAE state news agency said.

The UAE became the most prominent Arab state in 30 years to establish formal ties with Israel under a U.S.-brokered agreement in 2020, dubbed the Abraham Accords.

It has maintained the relationship throughout Israel's war in Gaza.

A source close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that all Israeli captives in Gaza are being held in tunnels.

Speaking to the Israeli daily Haaretz, the source asserted that Israeli forces have now taken control of 40 percent of Gaza's territory and are making significant strides in their military operations.

The source also suggested that US President Donald Trump would not press Netanyahu to end the ongoing conflict, indicating that Israel's military campaign is unlikely to slow down.

In addition, the source expressed concerns over Turkey’s growing influence in Syria, particularly regarding the establishment of Turkish military bases with air defence systems.

Israel is keen to prevent such developments, although the source stopped short of suggesting any military response, as no such bases currently exist.

Regarding Lebanon, the source revealed plans for three working groups to address key issues: Israel’s refusal to withdraw from five disputed points, Lebanese prisoners held in Israel and the 13 contested points along the Blue Line, which demarcates the border between Israel and Lebanon.

Hamas has issued a statement condemning the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza, placing blame on the Trump administration for enabling what it describes as a "war of extermination" against Palestinians.

The group accused Israeli forces of committing massacres in Rafah, Khan Younis, Deir el-Balah, and the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza.

It claimed that the US government under Donald Trump provided Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration with the political and military support necessary to sustain its offensive.

"The administration of US President Donald Trump bears direct responsibility for the horrific massacres committed by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu," Hamas stated.

Additionally, Hamas called on Unicef to intervene to stop the killing of Palestinian children and urged Arab, Islamic, and global leaders to take strong action to halt what it described as an ongoing campaign of extermination.

Israeli warplanes have launched intense airstrikes north of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera English.

This follows reports from both the Israeli army and Hamas’s armed wing, which stated that rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza.

Hamas's armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, has claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on the Israeli coastal city of Ashdod.

The group stated that the strike was in retaliation for Israeli attacks that have targeted civilians in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army had earlier reported that several projectiles had been fired from Gaza.

The Israeli military said that "approximately 10 projectiles" fired from the Gaza Strip within a few minutes on Sunday crossed into Israeli territory, with most of them intercepted.

"Following the sirens that sounded at 21:01-21:02 (1801-1802 GMT) in the Lakhish area, approximately 10 projectiles were identified crossing into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Most of them were successfully intercepted," a military statement said.

Israel's opposition leader, Benny Gantz, has criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of putting personal disputes ahead of national security and the well-being of Israeli captives in Gaza.

"Fifty-nine kidnapped men and women are languishing in Hamas tunnels, rockets and cruise missiles are being launched at Israel from all fronts, and the Prime Minister of the State of Israel is waging a personal war in the General Security Service [Shin Bet]," Gantz posted on X.

"The citizens of Israel deserve a Prime Minister who will focus on the country’s security — not on his personal affairs."

Gaza's civil defence agency said that Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory on Sunday killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens more.

"The death toll as a result of Israeli air strikes since dawn today is at least 44, including 21 in Khan Yunis," the Gaza Strip's main southern city, agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told news agency AFP.

The Government Media Office in Gaza has accused the Israeli military of committing a "shocking crime of genocide against childhood" over the past 20 days, with reports indicating that 490 children have lost their lives in what it describes as a series of "brutal attacks."

"We are facing a bitter reality in which entire families are being wiped out, childhood is buried under the rubble of homes, and a new dark history is being written in the record of crimes that will not be forgotten," the statement reads.

"The numbers alone are sufficient to confirm the existence of a systematic and deliberate policy of killing Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the Israeli occupation army."

The statement further claims that the total death toll from Israeli air strikes during this period has reached 1,350.

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Morocco's capital on Sunday against the conflict in the Gaza Strip where Israel has resumed its anti-Hamas offensive after a two-month ceasefire.

The largest pro-Palestinian protest in the capital Rabat for several months was called by the the Justice and Development party.

Protesters were accompanied by chanting and the beating of drums as they marched down the city's Mohammed V Avenue near parliament.

Children carried white shrouds stained in red to symbolise the thousands of young victims killed in the Palestinian territory during a year and a half of war.

On Sunday, demonstrators chanted slogans including "The people want the liberation of Palestine!", called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a criminal, and demanded an end to the siege of Gaza and for aid to be allowed in.

There were also calls for Morocco's relations with Israel, re-established in 2020 under the US-brokered Abraham Accords, to be scrapped, with protesters calling such ties "treason".

Rabat has officially called for an immediate and lasting cessation of the war in Gaza, without mention to the country's ties with Israel.

Al Jazeera is reporting that Israeli forces have now killed 43 people in Gaza today.

Medical sources had earlier put the figure at 39.

The latest number includes three killed in an Israeli raid in Jabalia refugee camp and one in an attack on az-Zawayda in central Gaza.

At least 39 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn today, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

At least 26 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza so far today, the local health ministry said earlier.

Some 113 others have been injured, it said.

More than 1,300 people have been killed across the strip since Israel collapsed the ceasefire on 18 March.

Belgium will not arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits the country, ignoring the International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, the country's prime minister has said.

Bart De Wever’s remarks, made in an interview with Belgium’s VRT News, directly contradict Belgium’s legal obligations as a signatory to the Rome Statute, which requires member states to arrest and surrender individuals indicted by the ICC.

"There is such a thing as realpolitik," De Wever said. "Within the framework of realpolitik, practical considerations prevail over ethical considerations. I don't think there is a single European country that would arrest Netanyahu if he went there. France, for example, wouldn’t — and I don't think we would either."

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The US has sent a second THAAD anti-missile defense battery to Israel, according to Saudi broadcaster Al-Hadath.

The system reportedly arrived in Israel on Saturday as Iran and the US traded barbs about Tehran's nuclear program.

The US deployed the first battery to Israel last year to shore up its air defences against an Iranian ballistic missile attack. 

An Israeli raid on a house in Deir al-Balah has killed four Palestinians and injured several others, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

The health and humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached "catastrophic" levels, Gaza Health Minister Yousef Abu al-Rish has said.

Almost two-thirds of essential medical supplies have now run out, the minister said.

Israel has enforced a total blockade on all goods entering the strip for more than a month.

Some 13,000 patients need to travel outside of Gaza to receive specialist medical care, Abu al-Rish said.

The Palestinian National and Islamic Forces have called a general strike across occupied Palestine on Monday in protest at Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA.

Two British MPs who were detained in Israel and subsequently deported after arriving in the country yesterday have said they are "astounded" at their treatment by Israeli authorities.

"We're astounded at the unprecedented step taken by the Israeli authorities," MPs Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang wrote in a joint statement this morning.

"It is vital that parliamentarians are able to witness firsthand the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory."

A joint statement from @YuanfenYang and me on the Israeli authorities' refusal to admit us entry to the occupied West Bank: pic.twitter.com/i9Ild0RDAv

— Abtisam Mohamed (@Abtisam_Mohamed) April 6, 2025

Jordan’s King Abdullah II will travel to Cairo on Monday to take part in a tripartite meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and French President Emmanuel Macron, according to Jordan’s Petra news agency.

The talks, initiated by el-Sisi, will focus on the ongoing situation in the Gaza Strip. The leaders are expected to discuss recent developments, efforts to end hostilities, and the worsening humanitarian crisis.

Lebanon’s health ministry has confirmed that two people were killed in an Israeli air raid on the town of Zibqin in the country’s south.

Initially, one fatality was reported, but a second victim succumbed to injuries shortly after, the ministry said.

The Israeli military stated it had targeted what it described as "Hezbollah operatives" in the Zibqin area, claiming they were "attempting to rebuild Hezbollah terror infrastructure sites".

This latest strike comes just a week after Israel launched an attack on Beirut -  the first since a fragile truce was declared in November.

The Lebanese government has accused Israel of violating the ceasefire, which came into effect last November, over 1,500 times.

The number of Palestinians killed by Israel since 7 October 2023 reached 50,695 on Sunday, the Gaza-based health ministry said today.

It said that 115,338 others have been injured in the violence.

Labour MP and chair of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee Emily Thornberry has slammed Israel's arrest of two British MPs trying to enter the country [see update at 10:28].

"It's an insult to Britain and an insult to parliament," Thornberry said in a televised interview on Sunday morning.

"They will the rue the day that they did this to British parliamentarians."

Lebanon's health ministry said at least one person was killed Sunday in an Israeli strike on the country's south, as Israel said it targeted two Hezbollah operatives.

"The strike launched by the Israeli enemy in the town of Zibqin today led to a preliminary toll of one dead," the health ministry said in a statement.

The Israeli military said it targeted two people who were "attempting to rebuild Hezbollah terror infrastructure sites".

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Israeli shelling in Jabalia refugee camp killed two Palestinians and injured several others on Sunday afternoon, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA.

Israel has detained and deported two British MPs visiting the country as part of a parliamentary delegation.

Israel's immigration ministry said Labour MPs Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed were prevented from entering the country because they were suspected of planning to "document the activities of security forces and spread anti-Israel hatred".

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy called Israel's actions "unacceptable, counterproductive, and deeply concerning" in a statement Saturday.

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Unicef has been forced to close 21 malnutrition treatment centres due to Israeli bombardment and displacement orders, the charity said Saturday.

The closure of the centres - representing 15 per cent of total outpatient facilities - poses a "serious risk" to malnourished children, it said. 

Israel has blocked all goods from entering Gaza for more than a month, leaving 1 million children without access to aid.

At least 11 Palestinians have been killed in in Israeli strikes in Gaza since dawn on Sunday, medical sources tell Al Jazeera Arabic.

Almost 50,700 people have died in Israel's 18-month assault, according to Saturday's tally by the Gaza health ministry.

A video recovered from the cellphone of an aid worker killed in Gaza alongside other rescuers shows their final moments, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, with clearly marked ambulances and emergency lights flashing as heavy gunfire erupts.

The aid worker was among 15 humanitarian personnel killed on 23 March in an attack by Israeli forces, according to the United Nations and the Palestinian Red Crescent.

"This video unequivocally refutes the occupation's claims that Israeli forces did not randomly target ambulances, and that some vehicles had approached suspiciously without lights or emergency markings," it said in a statement on Saturday.

Five people died and more than 20 others were injured last night when Israeli warplanes bombed tents sheltering displaced people in the supposed humanitarian zone of Al-Mawasi, near Khan Younis, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA.

We'll bring you more as we get it.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed reports that he will travel to Washington on Monday for talks with US President Donald Trump.

"The two will discuss the tariff issue, the efforts to return our hostages, Israel-Turkey relations, the Iranian threat and the battle against the International Criminal Court," Netanyahu's office said in a statement.

US media reports earlier this week said Netanyahu would use the visit to try and persuade Trump to drop the 17% tariff slapped on Israeli goods.

Trump reportedly called the Israeli leader and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban this week after Hungary said it would withdraw from the International Criminal Court over its decision to charge Netanyahu and his former defence minister with war crimes.

This will be Netanyahu's second trip to Washington since Trump's inauguration in January.

Dozens of Palestinians have been killed by fresh Israeli strikes in Gaza as international outrage over Israel's killing of 15 medics grows.

The Israeli military has killed at least 46 Palestinians over the past 24 hours, according to a correspondent for Al Jazeera.

As of Saturday, the death toll since Israel collapsed the ceasefire on 18 March was 1,309, according to the Gaza health ministry.