By Palestine Chronicle Staff
Tuesday 30th April, 04:30 (GMT 2)
CNN (quoting Columbia University’s chief student negotiator): The university’s leadership has used anti-Palestinian rhetoric for the past six months.
AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli raid targeted the north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Deadly Ambush: Two More Officials Killed in Gaza
CNN: The University of California has called on the local law enforcement government to help campus police engage the ongoing student protests in Gaza and condemnation of Israel’s war in the territory.
AXIOS:
Members of the U. S. Congress have warned the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials.
Members of Congress have warned that issuing arrest warrants against Israelis would lead to retaliation from the United States.
Members of Congress have indicated that a law is in the works if arrest warrants are issued against Israeli officials.
CNN: Hundreds of pro-Gaza academics have been arrested at more than 20 universities in at least 16 U. S. states since April 18.
AL-JAZEERA: Columbia University said it has begun deporting academics protesting in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, as part of its efforts to “keep the campus safe. “
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REUTERS: A Hamas delegation has left Cairo and will return with a written reaction to a proposed ceasefire in Gaza.
Tuesday 30th April, 00:45 (GMT 2)
NBC (quoting Israeli officials): The government is deeply involved in the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and other officials.
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AL-JAZEERA: Israeli professional jets raided two homes of the Abu Jazar family and the Ebad al-Rahman mosque in the Ma’an area, south of Khan Yunis.
MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN: The crown prince highlighted the Kingdom’s categorical rejection of calls for the forced displacement of the Palestinian people, and stressed that the Kingdom supports the Palestinian people in realizing their rights to a decent life and just peace.
Monday 29 April, 23:15 (GMT 2)
WASHINGTON POST: 50 journalism professors have asked the New York Times to withdraw its report on allegations made by fighters from the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, of sexual violence during the Oct. 7 attack.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli police used water cannons to disperse a protest at Likud headquarters and arrested two protesters.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli shelling targeted a space belonging to the Odeh family, east of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, leaving many martyrs and wounded.
EGYPTIAN PRESIDENCY: President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi won a phone call from his U. S. counterpart, Joe Biden, in which he warned of the danger of a military escalation in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Al-Jazeera: Israeli fighters launched a raid in the town of Kafr Kila in southern Lebanon.
WHITE HOUSE: Americans have the right to protest peacefully, we reject hate and violent speech.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Israel has used U. S. weapons against civilians.
Monday 29th April, 22:00 (GMT 2)
COLUMBIA COLLEGE STUDENTS: The measures announced through the university’s leadership are illegal.
AXIOS: Netanyahu has asked for Biden’s help in preventing the issuance of foreign arrest warrants.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli professional army announced late on Monday that two officers with the rank of principal were killed and a third was seriously wounded in fighting in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
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Monday 29th April, 21:00 (GMT 2)
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli professional aircraft carried out two sorties in the town of Jabalia al-Balad in the northern Gaza Strip.
LAPID: We deserve a government without extremists.
ISRAELI ARMY: We bombed Hezbollah army buildings near the town of Balat.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We bombarded Sderot and the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip with a barrage of missiles.
U. S. STATE DEPARTMENT: Washington has concluded that five Israeli army units in the West Bank have committed serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH: Possibly secret arrest warrants would have been issued against Israeli officials and they would only face them when they were traveling.
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Monday 29 April, 20:00 (GMT 2)
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Three Palestinians were martyred in an Israeli bombardment that targeted Abu Tayur’s family home in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
AL-JAZEERA: Thousands of families of Israeli prisoners held in the Gaza Strip have demonstrated at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv to call for the early conclusion of an exchange agreement with Hamas.
HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters attacked buildings where IDF infantrymen are stationed in the town of Metulla, near the border with Lebanon, and the party said it had hit those targets directly.
AL-QUDS BRIGADES: We shot down an Israeli quadcopter plane while carrying out intelligence missions east of the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Al-Jazeera: Israeli fighters invaded the town of Tayr Harfa in southern Lebanon.
Monday 29 April, 18:40 (GMT 2)
AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli professional army carried out three sorties in the Barghaz Valley in southern Lebanon.
FAMILIES OF ISRAELI CAPTIVES: The way to return our young men is to make an exchange agreement.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The Israeli professional army launched an airstrike on the community of Sheikh Radwan north of Gaza City.
The U. S. State Department is divided over Israel’s compliance with the accords. Law – Report
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We shelled the professional forces in the Netzarim axis with mortar shells.
Norwegian FM: We are on the verge of detecting the State of Palestine.
SAUDI FM: We are working with our partners to prevent the war in Gaza.
‘The situation remains dire’: WCK to resume operations in Gaza
Monday 29th April, 18:00 (GMT 2)
AL-JAZEERA: 34 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israeli attacks on homes in Gaza since today.
BLOOMBERG: Washington is concerned that the International Criminal Court is issuing arrest warrants for Israeli officials.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelled the vicinity of the city of Shebaa in southern Lebanon.
MIT: The president of MIT has ordered academics to end their sit-in in the Gaza Strip and it is not easy to end the university’s investments in Israel.
– Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (@ColumbiaSJP) April 29, 2024
COLUMBIA STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE: The university administration distributed an evacuation notice from the sit-in until 2 p. m. local time on Monday.
Al-Jazeera: Sirens sounded in the Arab town of Al-Aramsha in the western Galilee, near the border with Lebanon.
AXIOS (quoting U. S. officials): The war in Gaza is an impediment for Biden in the region.
Monday 29th April, 17:00 (GMT 2)
REUTERS (quoting a Pentagon official): The construction of a U. S. naval jetty off the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid to the Strip is estimated at $320 million.
Living in a tent, however, equates to security like many airstrikes and. . . pic. twitter. com/5TWtGMeBKO
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DAVID CAMERON: There is a generous offer of a 40-day ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of Israeli captives.
AL-JAZEERA: French police broke up a sit-in in Gaza at the Sorbonne University.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: One Palestinian was killed and two others were injured as a result of a march by the Israeli professional army that bombed a space in the Al-Mashhara community of the Al-Tuffah community in the central Gaza Strip.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: We will withdraw Israeli investments.
The university administration suspends categories and warns them evacuar. pic. twitter. com/dAQqMSJarH
– Quds Information Network (@QudsNen) April 29, 2024
Monday 29 April, 15:30 (GMT 2)
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Negotiations with academics to end their sit-in fail.
REUTERS (quoting EU foreign leader Josep Borrell): Several European countries will soon recognize Palestinian statehood.
AL-JAZEERA: Three missiles were fired at Israel’s Ruwaisat Al-Alam in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kfar Shuba.
CNN (quoting a US State Department official): There is a department within the ministry related to Israel’s use of weapons that were provided to it pursuant to foreign law.
The U. S. State Department is divided over Israel’s compliance with the accords. Law – Report
Monday 29 April, 14:30 (GMT 2)
Egyptian FM: Foreign channel rejects army in Rafah.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Israeli shelling targeted a space in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, leaving martyrs and wounded.
Jordanian Foreign Minister: Netanyahu must not be allowed to destroy the region.
Saudi Minister: We want a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The number of Palestinians killed in the Rafah attack rises to 25, bringing the total to 10 and five children.
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Monday 29 April, 13:30 (GMT 2)
BLINKEN: We haven’t noticed any plans for civilian coverage in Rafah.
LAPID: The most urgent task is the prisoner exchange agreement.
GAZA MINISTRY OF HEALTH: 34,488 Palestinians have been killed and 77,643 injured in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza since October 7.
Monday 29 April, 12:30 (GMT 2)
GAZA MINISTRY OF HEALTH:
Drug refrigerators in Gaza and the north are on the verge of closing due to the depletion of diesel fuel.
We call on foreign establishments to temporarily introduce diesel fuel for the operation of refrigerators and ambulances.
Iranian Foreign Minister: Security and stability will be achieved in our region without the end of the profession in the Palestinian territories.
FM JORDAN: Jordan demands a transparent external position to prevent any attack on Rafah.
CHANNEL 12: Netanyahu pushes for the appointment of Maj. Gen. Eliezer Toledano as army intelligence chief.
Monday 29 April, 11:00 (GMT 2)
AL-QASSAM BRIGADES: We bombed the headquarters of Israel’s 769th Eastern Brigade.
Ambush and bombardment – Al-Qassam Brigades announce resistance operations in Gaza
CHINOIS FM: What is in Gaza is unacceptable to the human conscience.
French Foreign Minister: Ceasefire talks in Gaza are cautious but progressing.
Monday 29 April, 10:00 (GMT 2)
ISRAELI ARMY: Sirens sounded in northern Israel, while Al Jazeera’s correspondent said sirens sounded in Kiryat Shmona and its surroundings in the Galilee region.
Monday 29th April, 09:00 (GMT 2)
ISRAELI ARMY: The professional Israeli army said its forces shelled Lebanese Hezbollah targets last night, adding operational infrastructure and military buildings in the Jabal Balat and Marwahin areas of southern Lebanon.
Monday 29 April, 08:15 (GMT 2)
AL-JAZEERA: The number of other people killed as a result of Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah has risen to 20, in addition to five children.
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SAUDI MEDIA: U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the first trip to the region, to reinforce the truce between Israel and Hamas.
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Ambush and bombardment – Al-Qassam Brigades announce resistance operations in Gaza
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