A barrage of rockets was fired from Lebanon towards Israel’s Safed City as the Jewish community sat for the Passover Seder Meal on April 22, 2024. Later the Hezbollah confirmed the rocket attack claiming to have launched dozens of Katyusha rockets towards the country.
The Israel Hamas war has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials at least two third of them being children and women. It has devastated the Gaza’s two large cites and left a swath of destruction. Around eighty percent of the territory’s population have fled to other parts of the besieged coastal enclave.
The Hezbollah on April 22, 2024, attacked Israel with a barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon targeting the northern community of Ein Zeitim near Safed. The attacks came as Israelis sat down for Passover Seder meal. Later, in a statement, the Hezbollah claimed the responsibility for the attack and it fired rockets at an army headquarters in northern Israel in response to the raids targeting villages in southern Lebanon.
The IDF said there were no injuries in the attack. Later the Israeli military also struck a Hezbollah position in southern Lebanon after hitting two more buildings where Hezbollah operatives were gathered earlier. The same day, Israeli strikes on the southern city of Rafah in Gaza killed 22 people including 18 children, an international media agency reported quoting health officials.
The attack came as the United States of America was on track to approve the billions of dollars of additional military aid to Israel which is its closets ally. The head of the Mossad, Major General Aharon Haliva resigned on April 22 because of Hamas October 7 attack, becoming the first senior figure to step down his role in the stunning failure to anticipate or quickly respond to the deadliest assault in the history of the Jewish nation.
The US is announcing blocking of military aid to an Israeli army unit over gross human rights abuse in the Israeli occupied West Bank, an international media agency reported. It comes as the Israel-US relationship in undergoing strain and over civilian deaths and suffering in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has rejected suggestions that Washington might have a double standard when applying US law to allegations of abuses by the IDF in Gaza and said that examinations of such charges are ongoing.
“Do we have a double standard? The answer is no. In general, as we are looking at human rights around the world, we apply the same standard to everyone That doesn’t change whether the country is an adversary, competitor, a friend or an ally,” Blinken told a news conference.
In its annual report, the US State Department has said that the war between Hamas and Israel which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and resulted in a series of humanitarian crisis had a significant negative impact on the human rights situation in the country. The report added that the Israeli government has taken some credible steps to identify and punish the officials involved in human rights abuse.
Palestinian terror group Hamas has moved past the goal and changed its demands in the hostage negotiations with Israel mediated by Egypt and Qatar. The State Department spokesperson Mathew Miler has said. Speaking at a daily press briefing, Mathew Miller said the US will continue to push for an agreement that will see hostages taken on October 7 attack and a pause in fighting in Gaza.
Clashes erupted in New York City, after police officers have obstructed demonstrators and the police have moved to clear out an anti-Israeli zone set up by pro-Palestinian protestors. On April 21, 2024, at least nine people including children were killed following an airstrike on a house in Gaza’s Rafah city. The Jewish nation has insisted for months that it plans a ground offensive into Rafah where it says many terrorists are holed up.
