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At leasr three people were injured after Israeli forces stormed Al-Bireh, an occupied West Bank town, Wafa news agency reported.

The Palestinians were wounded after an attack by Israeli troops in the Sateh Marhaba neighbourhood,

According to the news report, Israeli soldiers forced their way into several homes and severely beat three people. The victims sustained various injuries and bruises as a result of the attack.

At least 29 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, with the majority in Gaza City, where Israel continues its heavy bombardment since it violated the ceasefire on 18 March.

Israel has bombed one of Gaza’s only operational water desalination plants that was supplying clean drinking water to the Strip, according to Al Jazeera on Thursday.

Many Palestinians now fear dying of thirst amid an ongoing six-week blockade of food and humanitarian aid. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Canada's Liberal leader Mark Carney on X after he agreed with a heckler at a rally that "genocide" was occurring in Gaza. 

Carney was at a rally in Calgary on Tuesday when someone in the crowd shouted that there was a genocide occurring in Palestine. Carney said he was aware of this and said that was why they had an arms embargo in place. 

Carney said on Wednesday that he had not heard the word "genocide". However, despite this, Netanyahu demanded Carney to "backtrack" a statement he labelled "irresponsible".

"Canada has always sided with civilisation. So should Mr Carney. But instead of supporting Israel, a democracy that is fighting a just war with just means against the barbarians of Hamas, he attacks the one and only Jewish state."

The director of communications at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, said on Thursday that food supplies are running out in Gaza, following Israel’s block on food and humanitarian aid entering the besieged strip, reported Reuters.
“All basic supplies are running out," said Juliette Touma. “The prices of commodities have exponentially... It means babies, children are going to bed hungry. Every day without these basic supplies, Gaza inches closer towards very, very deep hunger.”
It has been nearly six weeks since Israel’s blockade came into effect, and the vast majority of the strip’s 2.1 million residents do not have enough to eat.
The World Food Programme used to provide bread from 25 bakeries across Gaza, but all of them are now closed.
Dwindling supplies are being sold at exorbitant prices, with a 25-kilo sack of flour retailing for $60 instead of $6, and a litre of cooking oil retailing for $10 instead of $1.50.
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders says it is encountering children and pregnant women with severe malnutrition. Lactating mothers are too hungry to be able to breastfeed.

Israel's energy minister, Eli Cohen, defended his decision to cut Gaza's electricity.

“The decision I led to cut off electricity from Gaza is the right one from a security and moral perspective," Cohen said in a post on X on Thursday. "I am glad that the petition to force me to restore the electricity was rejected out of hand.”

He added that "continued pressure" on Hamas would secure the release of hostages and "ensure" Hamas would not be in Gaza afterwards.

Cohen ordered a halt to the electricity supply to Gaza in early March, primarily to impact the operation of desalination plants, which are crucial for providing clean drinking water.

Human rights organisation Amnesty International criticised the move as “further evidence of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip”.

Israel's Supreme Court has rejected a petition against Israel's decision to cut electricity to the Gaza Strip, Haaretz reported on Thursday. 

A petition - which outlined that ceasing to provide electricity to Gaza could potentially affect hostages being held in Hamas captivity and violating international humanitarian law - was submitted before the collapse of the ceasefire and the resumption of military operations on 18 March.

Supreme Court Justices have ruled that decisions of this nature are the responsibility of the executive branch and not for the courts to adjudicate on. 

The justices said the decision to halt energy transfers to Gaza was made after consulting all the necessary officials and consequently it had to reject the petition.

At least 21 people in the Gaza Strip were killed on Thursday in Israeli raids, Al Jazeera reported. 

At least 13 of them were from Gaza City. 

Malak Yahya was reading a book at home when the massive Israeli bombing of Gaza City's Shujaiya neighbourhood took place on Wednesday.

“The sound was frightening, the entire house shook, and the window fell on me,” she told Middle East Eye.

She quickly went down to pick up her two younger brothers, who were outside when the strikes hit, as she was worried the Israeli army would attack again.

“We feel tired, sad and scared because we might be the occupation’s next target, because no one knows what will happen in the next minute as long as the war is raging,” she said. “Our lives are wasted meaninglessly during the war, and in addition to that, we lose our dearest people, friends and neighbours.”

The bombing of Shujaiya was described as a belt of fire by all witnesses. It was followed by a second, smaller attack near a school shelter in the area.

Read more: 'Our lives are wasted': Palestinians recall horrors of Israel's Shujaiya strikes

A young Palestinian man has been injured by Israeli fire during an military raid on the Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing medical sources.

Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its emergency teams transferred the victim to hospital after he was shot in the thigh by Israeli forces.

Witnesses reported that Israeli solidiers fired live ammunition and gas canisters as they stormed the camp.

An Israeli military official said on Thursday that the some 900 reserve and retired pilots who signed a petition calling for securing the return of captives from Gaza  at the cost of ending the war, would be dismissed from the air force.

"With the full backing of the chief of the General Staff, the commander of the IAF (Israeli airforce) has decided that any active reservist who signed the letter will not be able to continue serving in the IDF (military)," the official told AFP in response to a letter signed by around 1,000 reserve and retired pilots that appeared in the media.

Reporting by AFP

Only 52 intensive care beds remain in Gaza, the enclave's health ministry director has warned.

Dr Muneer Alboursh said that in Gaza City and the north, just five ICU beds remain- for a population of 1.2m people.

Amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza, only 52 intensive care beds remain for over 2.4 million Palestinians. In Gaza City and the north, where more than 1.2 million people live, just five ICU beds are left. Five beds for critical care in an area being wiped off the map by bombardment… pic.twitter.com/KJo5iPip0P

— Dr.Muneer Alboursh د.منيرالبرش (@Dr_Muneer1) April 10, 2025

An elderly Palestinian man died of a heart attack after being assaulted by Israeli soldiers during a home demolition on Tuesday near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

Ghazi Bader Manasra, 71, was reportedly "brutally" treated by Israeli forces during the demolition in the village of Wadi Fukin, according to his family, who hold the Israeli military responsible for his death.

The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli soldiers used batons and rifles to assault residents during the demolition. Six people were wounded with bruises and scratches. Among them was Manasra, who suffered a stroke and was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

A video clip circulating online shows Israeli soldiers beating a group of Palestinians as they attempted to prevent the demolition.

Hamam Manasra, Ghazi’s son, told Middle East Eye that he was on his way to work around 7am (5am GMT) when his brother called to inform him that Israeli military vehicles were surrounding the home of their relative, Muhammad Manasra, in preparation for its demolition. 

Read more: Elderly Palestinian dies after Israeli soldiers assault him during home demolition

At least 19 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing medical sources.

Of that figure, 11 were killed in attacks on Gaza City, according to the report.

The Israeli authorities have release Palestinian detainee Ahmad Manasra after a decade in prison.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club reported that Manasra had endured physical and psychological torture at the hands of the prison authorities since his arrest at the age of 13,spending prolonged periods in solitary confinement.

Manasra was expected to be released at Nafha prison, where his family were waiting to greet him, but he was released in the city of Bir as-Sabi, far from the prison.

Manasra was handed a 12 year sentence, subsequently reduced to nine years, for accompanying his cousin Hassan Manasra who allegedly stabbed to Israeli settlers  near the illegal settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev in occupied East Jerusalem in 2015.

Manasra was charged with murder despite not having participated in the attack- a fact which the court acknowledged.

Hassan, who was 15 at the time was shot dead by an Israeli civilian, while Manasra sustained skull fractures and internal bleeding after he was beaten by an Israeli mob and run over by an Israeli driver.

Videos of Manasra lying bleeding on the ground as Israelis jeered at him elicited global condemnation.