<article data-history-node-id="421014" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/new-israeli-strike-shujaiya-kills-least-five-people-report" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/new-israeli-strike-shujaiya-kills-least-five-people-report" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">New Israeli strike on Shujaiya kills at least five people: Report</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Another Israeli strike on a home in Gaza City's Shujaiya neighbourhood has killed at least five people, according to Al Jazeera's reporter.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="rtl" lang="ar">عاجل | مراسل <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#الجزيرة</a>: 5 شهداء في قصف إسرائيلي لمنزل بحي الشجاعية شرقي مدينة غزة</p> — الجزيرة - عاجل (@AJABreaking) <a href="https://twitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1909936151353495901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="421004" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israels-genocide-aims-revive-old-zionist-dream-gaza-without-palestinians" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israels-genocide-aims-revive-old-zionist-dream-gaza-without-palestinians" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel's genocide aims to revive the old Zionist dream of Gaza without Palestinians</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Amid intensifying&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-war-gaza" target="_blank">genocide</a>, forced displacement, and the normalisation of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-transfer-plan-banality-ethnic-cleansing" target="_blank">ethnic cleansing</a>&nbsp;targeting two million&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>, groups of powerful men in Washington DC, Jeddah, and Doha met calmly last month to discuss their fanciful plans for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/arab-states-present-gaza-reconstruction-plan-uss-witkoff" target="_blank">Gaza's future</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>The new colonial attitudes of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/trump" target="_blank">Trump</a>'s Washington dominate, continuing those of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">Britain</a>&nbsp;in the 20th century.</p> <p>Two Palestinian faces from 40 years ago illustrate these continuities: a grandmother in the Beqa'a refugee camp in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/jordan" target="_blank">Jordan</a>&nbsp;was walking through the mud with her small granddaughter to collect Unrwa medical supplies for her family. Her shoes sank in the mire, and she turned back empty-handed, cursing the British under her breath, to the child's surprise.</p> <p>She explained to the girl that it was Britain - a small, faraway country - whose politicians gave away her home and land to foreigners, with a piece of paper called the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/balfour-declaration-study-british-duplicity" target="_blank">Balfour Declaration</a>, written in 1917 during the First World War.</p> <p>That was the year the grandmother, Leigh, was born in the Palestinian village of Iraq al-Manshiyya, between Gaza and al-Khalil, more than 200km south of what would become her home for half a century - a refugee camp in Jordan - until her death in 1993.&nbsp;</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a data-qa="message_attachment_title_link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israels-genocide-aims-revive-old-zionist-dream-gaza-without-palestinians" navigationtraceid="T2E9SB5NW-to-Channel:C6H6B162E" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Israel's genocide aims to revive the old Zionist dream of Gaza without Palestinians</a></h3> <p><img alt src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/Palestinians%20mourn%20medics%2C%20who%20came%20under%20Israeli%20fire%20while%20on%20a%20rescue%20mission%2C%20after%20their%20bodies%20were%20recovered%2C%20according%20to%20the%20Red%20Crescent%2C%20in%20Khan%20Younis%20in%20the%20southern%20Gaza%20Strip%20March%2031%2C%202025-reuters_0.jpg.jpg?itok=3sCpwKjA"></p> </div> </div> </article>

Security officials tell local media that tunnel construction has been ongoing despite Israeli attempts to destroy the network

<article data-history-node-id="420718" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-forty-two-palestinians-killed-gaza-dawn" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-forty-two-palestinians-killed-gaza-dawn" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">At least forty-two Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn reached forty-two, according to Al Jazeera.&nbsp;</p> <p>Displaced people in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, were among those targeted by Israeli attacks.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="420715" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-carries-out-more-strikes-southern-lebanon" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-carries-out-more-strikes-southern-lebanon" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel carries out more strikes on southern Lebanon</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli military has carried out more attacks on the town of Naqoura in southern Lebanon, including a strike on a home in the town centre, and a second on the town’s outskirts, according to&nbsp;Lebanon’s National News Agency.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Six living captives, 4 bodies to be released from Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement, Hamas says.

A renowned American attorney says the Israeli military has killed at least 360,000 people in its 15-month-long genocidal war on Gaza.

As Hamas says it will delay the release of captives until violations cease, here is a look at documented breaches