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Israel will continue its complete blockade of Gaza, with the army expecting a “significant crisis” to unfold in the Palestinian enclave in two weeks.
According to a report on Israeli news site Walla, the Israeli military is not concerned about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, which has been without any humanitarian aid for the last 51 days after Israel declared its total blockade.
Sources in Israel’s Southern Command, who spoke to Walla, estimated that “in two weeks, a significant crisis will begin in the Gaza Strip regarding food, medical equipment and medicines”.
According to these sources, Palestinians in Gaza “will adapt to the situation over the coming months, as long as they have flour, water and reasonable shelter”.
Read more: Army unit concerned that Hamas will use the acute humanitarian crisis to 'force Israel to deliver food and medicine'
The Trump administration will respond in court to Harvard University's lawsuit seeking to block a federal funding freeze imposed after the institution rejected a list of White House demands that it said would undermine its independence, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday.
Leavitt said the elite research institution put itself in the position to lose federal funding.
- Reporting by Reuters
The Israeli military is now razing farmland just outside the Palestinian city of Tulkarm in the West Bank, Tulkarm city officials said on Tuesday.
"The occupation army has reinforced its military presence around the Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps, and expanded its bulldozing operations to include agricultural lands adjacent to the gate of the Netzanei Oz settlement, west of the city," the statement said.
"The occupation army continues its widespread aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 86th day, and on the Nour Shams camp for the 73rd consecutive day," the statement added.
There are now at least 25,000 displaced Palestinians from both camps after the Israeli military seized their homes and converted a number of them into military barracks, officials said.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the phone, and that the two leaders are "on the same side of every issue."
The call involved "numerous subjects including Trade, Iran, etc," Trump wrote on his TruthSocial account. "The call went very well."
Qatar's Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Tuesday that Israel has been an obstacle in talks to reach a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
Speaking to Aljazeera outside the US Department of State where he met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, al-Thani said Doha, alongside Washington, remains committed to securing a deal for the release of all captives held in Gaza and an end to the war.
The prime minister also said Rubio appeared open to sanctions relief in Syria, in order for the country to draw in investments and start to rebuild after the fall of its longtime president Bashar al-Assad in December.
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it has sanctioned Iranian national and liquified petroleum gas (LPG) magnate Seyed Asadoollah Emamjomeh and his corporations, which are "collectively responsible for shipping hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Iranian LPG and crude oil to foreign markets," the Department of the Treasury said.
Emamjomeh and his son, the UAE-based British and Iranian national Meisam Emamjomeh, "have owned and operated an LPG sales, transportation, and delivery network using multiple Iran and UAE-based companies," the statement continued.
"In addition to crude oil, LPG continues to be a major source of revenue for the Iranian regime, the proceeds of which fund Iran’s nuclear and advanced conventional weapons programs, as well as regional proxy groups and partners such as Hizballah, the Houthis, and Hamas," the US said.
US Senator Peter Welch, who represents the state of Vermont where Columbia University protester Mohsen Madawi is currently being held in detention, was able to visit with him on Monday.
Madawi is a green card holder originally from the West Bank. He was lured to his US citizenship test and then taken away by immigration agents in handcuffs for his pro-Palestine activism at Columbia.
In a video shared by Welch, Madawi tells his supporters not to worry about him and to continue their fight for Gaza and Palestinian rights.
I met with Mohsen Mahdawi today.
— Senator Peter Welch (@SenPeterWelch) April 21, 2025
Listen to his message. pic.twitter.com/MU280oAQ9T
Israel’s Ofer Military Court renewed – for the third time – the administrative detention order for 14 year-old Palestinian child, Ammar Sobhi Muhammad Abdul Karim, according to a Telegram statement by the Samidoun Prisoner Solidarity Network.
Karim was first arrested by Israeli forces in August 2024, during a raid on his family home in Abwein village near Ramallah, and has been held in administrative detention since.
The administrative detention process allows for Palestinians to be held in Israeli prisons without trial. According to Addameer, a Palestinian prisoner support group and human rights organisation, there are approximately 3,500 Palestinians being held in administrative detention at the moment.
Karim is “considered the youngest administrative detainee in the occupation’s prisons,” according to Samidoun.
Manchester-based Dean Group, a metals manufacturing company, has told Palestine Action that it will no longer be working with Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems.
Palestine Action, which uses direct action approaches to disrupt companies that are involved in the supply of arms for Israel’s war in Gaza, has been targeting Dean Group for its relationship with Elbit since the summer of 2024, when activists damaged key machinery.
“Direct action works,” Palestine Action posted in a social media statement.
A Palestinian man has been wounded after being assaulted by Israeli forces in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
Wafa news agency reported that Israeli forces raided the al-Jawayathat area in Masafer Yatta, near Hebron, where they assaulted a man, causing bruises to his face. He was later taken to hospital for treatment.
Syrian authorities have arrested two senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leaders in what appears to be a move to meet US demands for sanctions relief.
In a statement published on Tuesday, PIJ said that Khaled Khaled, head of the Syrian chapter of the group, and Abu Ali Yasser, head of its executive committee in Syria, were detained five days ago.
The group said the arrests occurred “without any explanation” and in “a manner we would not have hoped to see from our brothers, whose land has always been a haven for loyal and free people”.
“We have been fighting the Zionist enemy continuously for more than a year and a half in the Gaza Strip without surrender,” it said. “We hope to extend a helping hand and appreciation from our Arab brothers, not the other way around.”
There was no immediate comment from Syrian authorities.
Read more: Syria arrests senior PIJ officials after US sets demands for sanctions relief
Another Israeli drone attack in southern Lebanon has killed at least one person, the country's health ministry has reported.
The attack targeted a car in Haniyeh town in the Tyre district, according to the ministry.
Earlier we reported that Hussein Atwi, the leader of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya was killed in a separate Israeli attack in the Chouf district of Mount Lebanon.
Four Palestinians have been killed and others injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza City and Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, Wafa news agency is reporting citing medical sources.
According to the report, three people, including two girls were killed when Israeli fighter jets targeted a group of civilians north of Nuseirat camp.
A separate strike on a house in Wadi al-Aris, in Gaza City's Shujaiya neighborhood, killed one person, while another was seriously injuried in an attack on the Zeitoun neighbourhood.
Wafa also reported that an Israeli strike targeted the city's Tuffah neighbourhood.
An Israeli strike on a car in Lebanon has killed the leader of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, the group has confirmed.
Hussein Atwi was killed as he was travelling from his home to his office in Beirut near the town of Baaouerta in the Chouf district of Mount Lebanon.
In a statement the group said it condemned "the assassination of leader Hussein Atwi" and that it "held the Zionist enemy responsible".
Atwi was a leading commander of the armed branch of the group, the Fajr Forces, which were involved in rocket launches across Lebanon's southern border to Israel.
The Israeli military confirmed the attack, claiming that Atwi "was involved in planning and advancing terrorist activity from Lebanon into Israeli territory, in order to attack [Israeli] soldiers on the northern border".
"Over the years, he carried out rocket attacks, coordinated terrorist infrastructure on the northern front, and advanced attempts to infiltrate into Israeli territory," the statement added.
Health officials issued a new warning that at least 600,00o children are at risk of "permanent paralysis" in Gaza due to the blockade on all aid supplies, including vaccines, as the Israeli military launched one of the biggest waves of strikes in Gaza for weeks on Tuesday.
The Palestinian health ministry announced that a UN-backed polio vaccination campaign for children had been suspended, putting the enclave at risk of the revival of a crippling disease that had once been all but eradicated.
Officials said in a statement quoted by Al Jazeera that the health consequences could be catastrophic, leaving 602,000 children vulnerable to "permanent paralysis and chronic disabilities".
"Children in Gaza are at risk of serious and unprecedented health complications due to the lack of adequate nutrition and drinking water," the ministry added. Israel has imposed a total blockade on all supplies to Gaza since the start of March and relaunched its war on 18 March.
