<article data-history-node-id="433146" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-systematically-targets-families-palestinian-journalists-report" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-systematically-targets-families-palestinian-journalists-report" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel systematically targets families of Palestinian journalists: Report</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="405" data-start="136">The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said on Saturday that Israeli attacks on Palestinian journalists have expanded beyond killings, injuries, arrests and restrictions on coverage to include the systematic targeting of their families.</p> <p data-end="675" data-start="407">In a report released, the union said Israeli forces have increasingly targeted the relatives of journalists in what it described as a deliberate effort to turn journalism into an existential threat, forcing families to pay the price for a loved one’s work.</p> <p data-end="1097" data-start="677">The findings, based on documentation by the syndicate’s Freedoms Committee, show that attacks on journalists’ families have become a repeated and organised pattern across 2023, 2024 and 2025. The committee recorded the deaths of about 706 relatives of journalists in the Gaza Strip during that period, stressing that the scale and consistency of the attacks indicate they are not the result of random wartime conditions.</p> <p data-end="1344" data-start="1099">According to the committee, Israeli attacks killed about 436 relatives of journalists in 2023, followed by roughly 203 in 2024 and at least 67 more in 2025, even as many families were forcibly displaced and living in tents or makeshift shelters.</p> <p data-end="1611" data-start="1346">The report said the most recent case came just days ago, when recovery teams found the bodies of journalist Hiba Al-Abadla, her mother and around 15 members of the Al-Astal family. Israeli aircraft had bombed their home west of Khan Younis nearly two years earlier.</p> <p data-end="1848" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1613">The syndicate said the figures show that hundreds of children, women and elderly people were killed solely because of a family member’s work in journalism, calling it a grave violation of international humanitarian and legal standards.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Campaigners say the British public 'are not being fooled' despite efforts to justify Israel's actions against Palestinians

<article data-history-node-id="424368" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/amnesty-international-warns-people-not-be-diverted-ongoing-genocide" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/amnesty-international-warns-people-not-be-diverted-ongoing-genocide" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Amnesty International warns people not be diverted from 'ongoing genocide of Palestinians' </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Amnesty International said on Wednesday that the world must not allow Israel's war on Iran to deflect from the suffering of people in Gaza.&nbsp;</p> <p>In a statement, Secretary General of Amnesty International Agnès&nbsp;Callamard, said: “The world must not allow Israel to use this military escalation to divert attention away from its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, its illegal occupation of the whole Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and its system of apartheid against Palestinians."</p> </div> </div> </article>

The Madleen is nearing Gaza's territorial waters.

Johnnie Moore, also an adviser to Trump, named chair as group tries to recover from resignations

Irish Government demands accountability as representative in Palestine Feilim McLaughlin and deputy Sorcha Lowry among those under attack in Jenin

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<article data-history-node-id="421776" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-says-aid-being-weaponised-through-its-denial-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-says-aid-being-weaponised-through-its-denial-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UN says “aid is being weaponised through its denial” in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Jonathan Whittall, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territories, said&nbsp;“aid is being weaponised through its denial” amid Israel's nearly 2-month-long blockade in Gaza.</p> <p>“There is an assault on people’s dignity in Gaza today,"&nbsp;Whittall said in a voice message OCHA shared on social media.</p> <p>“People in Gaza are telling me that they feel like it’s the deliberate dismantling of Palestinian life in plain sight. What we see around us is endless suffering under a total and complete blockade.”</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">“Aid is being weaponized through its denial.” – <a href="https://twitter.com/_jwhittall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@_jwhittall</a> to journalists in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> City.<br> <br> Israel has imposed a nearly 2 month long blockade.<br> <br> Nothing has entered. People are desperate and hungry.<br> <br> It’s not only a humanitarian crisis, “there is an assault on people’s dignity”. <a href="https://t.co/htk0mdeeGx">pic.twitter.com/htk0mdeeGx</a></p> — UN Humanitarian (@UNOCHA) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNOCHA/status/1916546945180369371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>