Iraq Body Count | In this first of a series of analytic articles we describe some remarkable findings revealed by an updated named victims list obtained directly from the Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH) in late March 2025 (with limitations placed on distribution, but not on analysis). This list contains greater detail than in any list made publicly available. We focus here on how the new detail in this list better allows us to document the progression and scale of the ongoing genocide. | A notable feature of Gaza’s official medical and medico-legal response to the Israeli attacks from October 7, 2023 onwards has been the periodic release of the names of its citizens killed and officially recorded up to that point in time, understanding that many would still be undiscovered or unrecorded. Gaza’s MoH has issued eight separate such lists, giving each victim’s name, age, sex, and ID number. Every list has been longer than the one before, in line with the escalating death toll.

■ Israel Attacks Kill Over 100 Gazans in 72 Hours (Antiwar.com)
✅ How Israel hunts and executes Palestinian medics (Eva Bartlett)
✅ The graver Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows (Jonathan Cook)

HERE WE ARE - 7 MONTHS INTO THIS GENOCIDE BY ISRAELI FORCES. BUT THEY COULDN’T DO IT ALONE

The wholesale killing of Palestinians in #Gaza marks a real turning point in western politics, and a dark turn for modern western civilisation. This festival of ethnic cleansing & genocide… pic.twitter.com/0E4107FCqr

— Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) April 30, 2024

Israel has attacked all areas of the Gaza Strip, while, for nearly seven consecutive weeks, it has closed all the crossings – banning the entry of food, fuel, medicines, construction vehicles and essential supplies – driving Palestinians into multiple crises of starvation, displacement and unmitigated trauma. | “Gaza has been turned into a mass grave of Palestinians and those coming to their assistance,” said Amande Bazerolle, the emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. “We are witnessing in real time the destruction and forced displacement of the entire population in Gaza.” ● Since Israel resumed its mass-scale attacks on 18 March, approximately 1,700 people have been killed and more than 4,400 have been injured, according to the Palestinian health ministry, as the last partially-functioning hospitals remain out of medications, supplies, fuel, clean water, and are routinely bombed and attacked by Israeli forces. Around 420,000 Palestinians have also been newly displaced over the last four weeks of attacks. ● Before dawn on Thursday, 17 April, Israeli airstrikes across Gaza targeted displaced families living in tents in three separate places – in al-Mawasi Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Deir al-Balah in the center and in Jabaliya in the north. Journalists and eyewitnesses reported that the tents were engulfed in flames and the victims, including many children, were burned alive, with bystanders desperately trying to put the fires out.

■ Burned in his wheelchair: Paralyzed child among 23 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza tents (Days of Palestine)
■ Live: Israeli forces kill 70 Palestinians in Gaza over 24 hours (MEE)

Colonel Macgregor says the quiet part out loud: @realDonaldTrump @potus is owned by the Israeli Lobby. So are his Cabinet picks. The White House is occupied territory…. pic.twitter.com/FQWjIjs2Uu

— Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) March 20, 2025

"Israel" is weighing a potential strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities despite US reluctance, as Netanyahu faces pushback from Trump's administration. | According to Reuters, the Israeli occupation has not ruled out a possible strike on Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months, despite former US President Trump telling Prime Minister Netanyahu that Washington is currently unwilling to support such action, according to Israeli and US sources. ● Israeli officials have continued to press for the complete dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program and have presented the US with various military options, including airstrikes and commando raids, some proposed for late spring or summer.

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Kit Klarenberg | Given these findings, the overwhelming majority of governments the world over now have a clear legal obligation to do anything and everything in their power to halt the Zionist entity’s obliteration of Gaza and its people. | On March 22nd, this journalist detailed the findings of a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on “Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023.” That investigation focused primarily on the hideous, industrial scale rape and sexual abuse of male and female Palestinian detainees in Zionist Occupation Force prisons, a phenomenon so pervasive it can only be dedicated, determined policy, signed off upon and directed by the highest levels of the Israeli government. ■ Reinforcing that horrifying conclusion, buried within the Commission’s report are bombshell passages unequivocally charging the Zionist entity with deliberately committing “genocidal acts” in Gaza, consciously and intentionally “calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians as a group.” The details provided are irresistibly persuasive, and point to Israel being in flagrant breach of both the Rome Statute, and Genocide Convention. In a truly just world, the mainstream media’s mass omertà on this landmark ruling would in itself be a criminal act.

Exact details of the shipment are unclear, but Ynet reports it includes 3,000 munitions for Israel's Air Force | The Israeli military is set to receive a “major new weapons shipment” from the US in the coming weeks to help prepare it for continued operations in Gaza and a potential attack on Iran, the Israeli news site Ynet reported on Monday. ● The details of the arms shipment are unclear, but Ynet said it would include 3,000 munitions for Israel’s Air Force. The report said the bomb shipment was recently approved by the Trump administration. ● The Pentagon’s Defense Cooperation Agency said on Monday that the State Department approved a $180 million arms deal for Eitan Powerpack Engines that will go to Israel, but it did not announce any new bomb shipments.

■ Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 38 Palestinians Over 24 Hours (Antiwar.com)
✅ Media Find Ways to Minimize Israel’s Murder of Paramedics (Belén Fernández)

The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, which manages the hospital, strongly condemned the attack | Early Sunday morning, the Israeli military bombed the al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, putting the medical facility out of service. ● According to Middle East Eye, Gaza’s Civil Defense said the bombing caused “the destruction of the surgery building and the oxygen generation station for the intensive care units.” The strike damaged other buildings, including the adjoining St. Phillip’s Church. ● The Civil Defense said the strike hit the hospital “minutes” after the Israeli military ordered the hospital to be evacuated. Eyewitnesses told MEE that they only had 18 minutes to leave the hospital.

■ Israel bombs Gaza City's last fully-functioning hospital (MEE)
■ Palestinian family of 10 erased in overnight Israeli strike on Khan Younis (MEE)

Israel hates America. pic.twitter.com/4rLK3WNYT2

— Seima kapur (@SeemaJai3) February 2, 2023

People of Rafah ordered to move to al-Mawasi – now occupation is killing them there too, not for the first time, and again targeting mainly children | Last week, Israel ordered hundreds of thousands of people living in Rafah, southern Gaza, to move to the tiny supposed ‘safe zone’ of al-Mawasi, a wasteland filled with the tents of refugees. Following its pattern throughout the more than five hundred days of its genocide, it then started bombing them there – including the use of US-made ‘mother of all bombs’ heavy munitions. And tonight it is bombing them again – and again it has killed and wounded mainly children.

✅ Israel is About to Empty Gaza (Chris Hedges)

Freedom from ‘secretive, unscrupulous’ party and its treacherous leadership is ‘liberating’, says exonerated ex-member | A Jewish former Labour party member has won his appeal against the party’s decision to expel him for supposed ‘antisemitism’ – but has found his freedom from the ‘secretive, unscrupulous’ organisation so liberating that he is not going back. ● The man, who is not being named, has been exonerated by Labour’s ‘Independent Complaints Board’ (ICB) in a damning finding that concludes the party is still ignoring the 2020 findings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which criticised Labour’s lack of transparency, shoddy processes and disregard for evidence. ● The result is even more damning in light of the fact that Keir Starmer gave pro-Israel groups a veto over who can sit on the ‘independent’ ICB and left-wing Jewish groups have been excluded.

A recent analysis conducted by the United Nations has revealed that at least 36 Israeli strikes on Gaza between March 18 and April 9 have only resulted in the killing of Palestinian women and children. | The UN on Friday reported that “a large percentage of fatalities are children and women,” and hundreds of strikes have hit residential buildings and tents since Israel broke the 2-month ceasefire with Hamas on March 18.

💬 “Between March 18 and April 9, 2025, there were some 224 incidents of Israeli strikes on residential buildings and tents for internally displaced people,” UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva. ● “In some 36 strikes about which the UN Human Rights Office corroborated information, the fatalities recorded so far were only women and children,” she said. ● “Overall, a large percentage of fatalities are children and women, according to information recorded by our Office,” she added.

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 50,912 Palestinians were killed, and 115,981 were wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza, which began in October 2023. The Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.

Is the Zionist narrative collapsing? Historian Ilan Pappé breaks down the ideological contradictions at the heart of Israel’s settler-colonial project—and why October 7 exposed the impossibility of being both a Zionist and a democrat. From Gaza’s destruction to the West’s complicity, Pappé unpacks the Nakba al-mustamirra (ongoing Nakba), Israeli genocide, and the urgent need for global solidarity to challenge apartheid and safeguard human rights. What does this mean for the future of Palestine—and the world?

Eva Bartlett | The recent case of 15 uniformed first responders killed on their way to work is but the latest in a long, long line of similar crimes | The Israeli army has executed 15 Palestinian medics in Gaza, buried them and lied about them being “terrorists.” For those paying attention, this barbarism is not new, only the latest war crime committed by Israel in a litany of war crimes over the decades. ■ The combination of the medics being tied up, executed and buried in a mass grave was so horrific that even usually indifferent global media reported on it, albeit without the outrage that would have accompanied such reports were the perpetrator an enemy of the West. (Warning: disturbing video.)

■ IDF "admits" "mistaking" paramedics for Hamas (04/06/25)

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revisited threats of deployment of military force against Iran’s nuclear facilities, demanding physical destruction of the nuclear sites, a few days before the Islamic Republic and the United States are slated to engage in indirect talks. | The Israeli official made the call in a video address on Tuesday, alleging that the prospect of using military force was the only means of ensuring, what he called, Tehran’s non-pursuance of “nuclear weapons.” He asserted that any agreement between the United States and Iran could only succeed if Iran’s nuclear facilities were "blown up" and "dismantled" under American supervision. “We agree that Iran will not have nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said, referring to his discussions with US President Donald Trump. However, he dismissed the prospect of a purely diplomatic path, saying things would only work if the United States took direct military action to eliminate Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

■ Trump threatens Iran with military force (RT)
■ World growing tired of endless threats against Iran: Russia (Press TV)

✅ USrael against Iran, again (Lorenzo Maria Pacini)
✅ Trump has threatened Iran over an ultimatum that likely cannot be met (Alastair Crooke)

More than 500 children have been killed by US-backed Israeli strikes on Gaza since March 18 | Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that US-backed Israeli attacks killed at least 58 Palestinians and wounded 213 over the previous 24-hour period as Israeli strikes continued to pound targets across the besieged territory. ● The Health Ministry’s numbers account for dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals and morgues. “There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry wrote on Telegram. ● Israeli attacks included a strike on a home in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, which killed at least 11 Palestinians, including five children. Another strike on a separate home in Deir al-Balah killed four people. Another Israeli attack in the northern city of Beit Lahia flattened a home and killed a family of seven. ● The Health Ministry said that since Israel restarted its genocidal war on March 18, at least 1,149 Palestinians have been killed, and 3,647 have been wounded.

Jonathan Cook | Once again the UK state broadcaster goes missing in action – this time at the discovery of a mass grave of emergency workers executed by Israel | The BBC’s news verification service, Verify, digitally reconstructed a residential tower block in Mandalay earlier this week to show how it had collapsed in a huge earthquake on March 28 in Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia largely cut off from the outside world. The broadcaster painstakingly pieced together damage to other parts of the city using a combination of phone videos, satellite imagery and Nasa heat detection images.

■ Global Day of Action: Pro-Palestine rallies sweep cities worldwide (Al Mayadeen)
■ Dhaka Reporters Unity Condemns Israeli Atrocities in Gaza and Rafah, Calls for Global Action (pressenza)
✅ UN Exposes Systematic Israeli Rape of Palestinians (Kit Klarenberg)

■ US bypassing law to fund 'Israel' despite rights abuses, lawsuit says (Al Mayadeen)
⚡ WELCOME TO HELL: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps (B'Tselem)
■ Horrendous photos from Megiddo Concentration Camp (10/14/24)
■ 1,200 Palestinians endure systematic torture in Israeli prisons (09/26/24)
■ 'Everyone was naked and bleeding': Israeli torture of Palestinians exposed (08/07/24)
■ 'Israel' used waterboarding, unleashed dogs on Gaza detainees: UN (08/02/24 )
■ Israeli lawmaker defends anal rape of Palestinian captives (08/01/24)
■ Mohammad Al-Sabbar 8th Palestinian Detainee Martyred behind ‘Israeli’ Bars since Oct.7 (02/09/24)

'With every arrest and threat, our movement shows up stronger,' says one protestor | Thousands of people from across the United States gathered in Washington, DC, on Saturday to demand an end to Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza and the Trump administration’s intensifying crackdown on pro-Palestinian students and activists. ● The rally dew support from more than 300 organizations and saw demonstrators convene at the intersection of 3rd Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Participants then marched to key sites, including the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), calling for the release of detained pro-Palestinian students and academics such as Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil and Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk. ● The protest was co-sponsored by several advocacy groups, including the Palestinian Youth Movement, The People’s Forum, Jewish Voice for Peace and the ANSWER Coalition.

Take a look at these Palestinian children: They are
dead now. Killed by israel. Did IOF "mistake"
them for Hamas too? 5,100,000 Palestinians have
been killed since 1948. Will israel "admit" to
killing them as well? We wouldn’t bet on it. – Ed.

Israeli soldiers ambushed and killed 15 emergency rescue workers in Gaza last month | The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have admitted that their account of the killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers in Gaza was incorrect, multiple media outlets reported on Saturday, citing the preliminary findings of a probe into the incident. ■ On March 23, a group of soldiers near Rafah fired at a convoy of Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulances, a UN car, and a fire truck from Gaza’s Civil Defense. The IDF claimed at the time that the convoy was traveling in the darkness with their lights off. ■ On Saturday, the New York Times released a cellphone video proving that the ambulances were clearly marked and had their headlights turned on, and that the paramedics wore reflective gear when they were fired upon in Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood. ■ According to the NYT, an IDF official said in a briefing to journalists later that day that the soldiers had “mistakenly” identified the rescuers as Hamas fighters. The official added that the incident “will be examined thoroughly and in depth.” ■ The Times of Israel cited the preliminary findings as saying that the IDF had set up an ambush on the road at around 4am local time. About half an hour later, a Hamas police vehicle drove by and exchanged fire with the soldiers, who killed one militant and captured two others ■ At around 6am, the Israeli troops spotted the ambulance convoy and opened fire. A surveillance drone operator had earlier told them that the convoy was moving in a “suspicious manner,” the IDF said. The IDF also said that at least six of the slain paramedics were posthumously identified by intelligence officials as Hamas operatives. ■ Last month, Israel resumed airstrikes and ground operations against Hamas in Gaza after the sides failed to agree on the implementation of the second phase of the ceasefire brokered by the US, Egypt, and Qatar in January.

The senior official explained that Tel Aviv was “very serious” about implementing President Donald Trump’s plan to cleanse Gaza. | An Israeli official made it clear that Tel Aviv plans to expel the Palestinians from Gaza after the hostages are freed and Hamas is eliminated. Throughout the conflict, the Israeli Prime Minister publicly claimed the goals of military operations in Gaza were returning Israeli captives and removing Hamas from power. ● According to Haaretz, a senior Israeli official who is traveling with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained, “What we would like to see is that we rescue the hostages, eliminate Hamas, and that there is a large-scale opportunity for voluntary migration.” ● Israeli officials have used the phrase “voluntary migration” to describe Tel Aviv’s process of removing all Palestinians from Gaza. After President Donald Trump returned to office, he declared that all Palestinians should be removed from Gaza and resettled in other countries.

■ UN condemns killing of 1,000 people in Gaza since ceasefire collapse (United Nations)

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Joe Gill | The cold-blooded killing of 15 Red Crescent and civil defence first responders has elicited no condemnation from major powers. This is the age of lawlessness | It is difficult to be shocked after 18 months of Israel's genocidal onslaught on Gaza. ■ Brazen crimes against humanity have become the norm. World powers do nothing in response. At best, they put out weak statements of concern. Now, the US does not even bother with that. It is fully on board with the war crimes of starvation and depopulation being inflicted on two million Palestinians. ■ Israel and the US are planning the violent ethnic cleansing of Gaza, knowing full well that no one will stop them. ■ The International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) are sitting on their hands, despite what appeared to be significant rulings last year on Israeli war crimes by the ICC and on the "plausible risk" of genocide by the ICJ.

■ Israeli Army Kills Dozens In Gaza (IMEMC News)
■ IOF Continues Savage Bombardment: Gaza Update 05 April 2025 (IMEMC News)
■ ‘Devastating’ Israeli strikes kill at least 30 across Gaza since dawn (Al Jazeera)

Yemeni Armed Forces Conduct Operation in Jaffa Area | Yemeni Houthis from the Ansar Allah rebel movement carried out a drone strike on an "Israeli military target" near the city of Tel Aviv, the movement’s military spokesman Yahya Saria said. ● "The Yemeni armed forces carried out an operation to destroy an Israeli military target in the occupied area of Jaffa (Tel Aviv - TASS) using a drone," the representative of the movement said on the air of the Houthi-owned Al Masirah TV channel. ● Earlier the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported intercepting a drone approaching the country's airspace from the east. According to The Times of Israel, the Israeli military shot down the UAV over the Arava Desert in southern Israel.

Iain Overton | Exclusive: New study reveals the scale of British intelligence gathering above Gaza, raising fears of complicity in Israeli war crimes. Flights have continued even after Israel broke the ceasefire | The Royal Air Force (RAF) has conducted at least 518 surveillance flights around Gaza since December 2023, an investigation by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) for Declassified UK has found. ■ The flights, carried out by 14 Squadron’s Shadow R1 aircraft from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, have been shrouded in secrecy, raising concerns about whether British intelligence has played a role in Israeli military operations that have resulted in mass civilian casualties in Gaza. ■ These revelations come as Israel faces allegations of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and war crimes at the International Criminal Court (ICC), with warrants issued for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant. ■ The UK government insists that the flights are purely for hostage recovery, but the lack of transparency has done little to allay suspicions that the intelligence gathered may be facilitating Israeli attacks. ■ Surveillance sorties continued during and after the ceasefire, despite Israel’s renewed bombing of Gaza killing hundreds of children. ■ AOAV’s analysis of flight-tracking data shows that between 3 December 2023 and 27 March 2025, the RAF carried out at least 518 Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) flights over or close to Gaza’s airspace.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right Israeli government is moving to dispense with all constraints on its powers and get rid of its political opponents within the state apparatus—including the head of the Shin Bet domestic spy agency Ronen Bar and Attorney-General Galia Beharav-Miara. This is part of its preparations for a broader crackdown on all opposition to its policies at home and abroad. | Last week, in an unprecedented move aimed at eliminating judicial oversight of government, the cabinet unanimously backed a no confidence motion against Baharav-Miara, who as Israel’s Attorney-General is the country’s most senior legal official and one of the few nominal checks on the power of the executive, while also heading the public prosecution. Her position is a fixed-term independent, not a political, appointment. The vote is the first step in a lengthy process to secure her dismissal that will likely go all the way up to the Supreme Court, which some ministers have already said they will ignore if the decision goes against them.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in the Gaza Strip reported that more than 40 Palestinians have lost their lives in a series of Israeli airstrikes on the region since the early hours of Wednesday morning | The Gaza Strip hospitals received the bodies of 24 martyrs and 55 injuries in 24 hours, Gaza's Health Ministry reported. ● Since "Israel" renewed its aggression on the Strip on March 18, 2025, the toll has climbed to 1,066 martyrs and 2,597 injuries. The cumulative toll of the genocide since October 7, 2023, has now climbed to 50,423 martyrs and 114,638 injuries, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s Health Ministry. ● Several victims remain under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulances and civil defense teams.

On the first day of Eid al-Fitr, Israeli airstrikes across Gaza resulted in the deaths of dozens of Palestinians, including ten children, and left several others injured. | Witnesses told Anadolu that Israeli airstrikes targeted homes, a tent shelter, and civilian vehicles in Gaza City, Jabalia in the north, and Khan Younis in the south. ● Seventeen people, including eight children, were killed when Israeli strikes hit several areas, including a family's house in the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, and a tent sheltering displaced families in Qizan Raswan, south of the city, according to medical sources. Israeli tanks and artillery also pounded the eastern areas of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, with gunfire striking residential homes, they added. ● In Gaza City, one Palestinian was killed and others were wounded when Israeli warplanes targeted three civilian vehicles in the Tuffah neighborhood, medics said. In northern Gaza, two young girls were killed and several others injured after Israeli fighter jets bombed the Maqbel family home in the Jurn area of Jabalia, they added.

Alan MacLeod | Betar has regularly attempted to intimidate or shut down movements or gatherings protesting Israeli crimes. | A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States. Betar U.S. is known to have had several meetings with senior government officials and has claimed credit for the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the nationwide anti-genocide student demonstrations that began at Columbia University last year. ■ Ross Glick, the group’s executive director until last month, noted that he met with a diverse set of influential lawmakers, including Democratic senator John Fetterman and aides to the Republican senators Ted Cruz and James Lankford, and that all supported Betar U.S.’ campaign to rid the country of thousands of “terror supporters.” ■ Shortly after Glick’s trip to Washington, D.C., Trump signed an executive order titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism” that promises “the removal of resident aliens who violate our laws,” to “quell pro-Hamas vandalism and intimidation,” and to “investigate and punish anti-Jewish racism in leftist, anti-American colleges and universities.”