April 19, 2024
-Iranian Ground Forces Commander, General Kayuarth
Heydary, said that small drones attacked Iranian airspace in the city of
Isfahan, but air defenses were activated and successfully responded.
-As China and other countries urge an immediate
deescalation, far-right Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that the response
to Iran was a ‘mockery’.
-Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continued, especially in
Gaza City and in the Jabaliya refugee camp.
-According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 34,012
Palestinians have been killed, and 76,833 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide
in Gaza starting on October 7.
Killed | Wounded | Missing |
34012 | 76833 | 7000 |
Qassam Muaddi
Israel targets
Iranian bases in Isfahan with drones, while Iranian sources say air defenses
intercepted the attack. Meanwhile, Gaza’s health ministry says the northern
Gaza Strip is left without any health services.
Casualties
·
34,012
+ killed* and at least 76,833 wounded in the Gaza Strip.*
·
468+
Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.**
·
Israel
revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,139.
·
604
Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, and at least 6,800
injured.***
*Gaza’s Ministry
of Health confirmed this figure on its Telegram channel on April 19, 2024. Some
rights groups estimate the death toll to be much higher when accounting for
those presumed dead.
** The death
toll in the West Bank and Jerusalem is not updated regularly. According to the
PA’s Ministry of Health on April 5, this is the latest figure.
*** This figure
is released by the Israeli military, showing the soldiers whose names “were
allowed to be published.” The number of Israeli soldiers wounded is according
to Israeli media reports.
Key Developments
Israel kills 42
Palestinians, wounds 63 in the past 24 hours across Gaza, raising the death
toll since October 7 to 34,012 and the number of wounded to 76,833, according
to the Gaza health ministry.
Gaza’s health
ministry says that Israel intentionally destroyed the health system in the
northern Gaza Strip.
Gaza’s health
ministry: more than 600,000 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are left
without medical or health services.
Iranian Faris
news agency: Explosions were heard in the Isfahan airport and an Iranian army
military base.
Israeli public
broadcasting says Israel is behind attacks on Iran.
Reuters, quoting
U.S. official sources, confirms Israeli attack on Iran.
CNN quoting U.S.
officials: Israel told the U.S. that it won’t attack Iranian nuclear
facilities.
Iranian
television says that Iran’s air defenses intercepted several small drones in
Iran’s airspace.
Iranian Tasnim
news agency: Isfahan province is completely safe.
Iranian
television says that Iranian nuclear facilities were not exposed to danger.
NBC, quoting
from U.S. sources, says that the U.S. did not take part in Israel’s attack on
Iran.
Reuters quoting
Iranian officials: There was not a missile attack on Iran.
Russia’s embassy
in Tehran: We notice calm in Tehran after a drone attack on Isfahan at night.
Israel’s Channel
12: Israel’s attack on Iran is over
Israel’s
security minister Ben-Gvir calls Israeli strike on Iran “a joke”.
Israel kills 42
Palestinians in the past 24 hours
The Gaza-based
Palestinian health ministry announced that 42 Palestinians have been killed in
Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours, while 63 others were wounded.
Meanwhile, in
the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli forces renewed airstrikes on different parts
of the northern area. In the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, Israeli
strikes killed four Palestinians and wounded several others. Another
Palestinian was killed in an Israeli strike on a provisions center in the same
refugee camp.
Other strikes
targeted the southern part of Gaza City and the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in
the city, where five Palestinians were killed. Israeli artillery also shelled
Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia. Three Palestinians were also killed in Jabalia by
Israeli troops’ gunfire, local sources reported.
In the central
Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical teams recovered nine dead bodies in the
Nuseirat refugee camp, a day after Israel’s withdrawal from the camp. In the
Mighraqa village, Israeli strikes wounded a number of Palestinians, and one
Palestinian was killed by Israeli sniper fire in the center of Deir al-Balah.
In the southern
Gaza Strip, the number of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on a
family’s shelter in Rafah on Thursday rose to 11, including the two parents,
five children, and the grandmother. In Khan Younis, Palestinian medical teams
recovered four dead bodies from across the city 11 days after Israel’s
withdrawal from the area.
Gaza’s health
ministry says that Israel intentionally destroyed Gaza’s health system
More than
600,000 Palestinians in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip are left without
health services after Israel “intentionally destroyed” the health system in the
north, the Gaza-based Palestinian health ministry said on Friday.
In a statement,
the ministry said that Israeli forces committed direct killings of medical
personnel and patients in al-Shifa hospital and other hospitals in the northern
Gaza Strip.
According to the
ministry, among those killed by Israeli forces were specialized medics who
“represented the backbone of medical services,” including specialists in tumor
samples testing and kidney transplants.
The ministry
made a call to provide northern Gaza with field hospitals with a 200-bed
capacity, equipped for surgical interventions and specialized medical teams.
In late March,
the Israeli army withdrew from al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in all
Palestinian territories, after a two-week raid. Israeli forces destroyed all
sections of al-Shifa, including setting entire floors on fire and destroying
equipment. The World Health Organization described the destruction as “al-Shifa
not functioning as a hospital after today.”
Currently, only
four hospitals are partially functional in the Gaza Strip out of a total of 30
hospitals that used to operate in the besieged enclave before October 7. These
hospitals served the two million people in the Gaza Strip.
Israel strikes
Iran with drones
Iranian media
sources reported early on Friday that several explosions were heard in the
Isfahan province in Iran. The Israeli public broadcasting corporation later
said that Israel conducted an air attack on Iran.
Sources
indicated that the attack targeted a military base at an airport in Isfahan,
while Iranian sources said that Iran’s nuclear facilities were not attacked and
are completely safe.
U.S. media
quoted U.S. officials saying that Israel had informed Washington two days ago
that it would attack Iran. The officials were quoted to affirm that the U.S.
did not take part in the attack.
Meanwhile, Iran
suspended air flights in the country during the morning before announcing the
release of restrictions. Iranian television said that the country’s air
defenses intercepted three “small drones” in the airspace of Isfahan. The
Iranian army also said that the explosions were heard as a result of air
defense activity.
Friday’s attack
comes a week after Iran launched a drone and missile attack on Israel, which
targeted military bases and airports. Iran said that the attack was a response
to Israel’s bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1, which
killed seven Iranian officials.
Iran’s attack in
early April and Israel’s attack on Friday are the first-ever direct attacks
between the two states on each others’ territory.
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