Israel Atrocities
Live Reporting
Australian government responds to reports Australian aid worker killed in Gaza
As we reported earlier, an Australian aid worker is reportedly among five humanitarians killed in an attack in Deir el-Balah.
In response to a request from Al Jazeera, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has said that it is “urgently seeking to confirm reports that an Australian aid worker has died in Gaza”.
“These reports are very distressing,” the statement said, adding that due to “privacy obligations we are unable to provide further comment”.
DFAT also said: “We have been clear on the need for civilian lives to be protected in this conflict” and “we expect humanitarian workers in Gaza to have safe and unimpeded access to do their lifesaving work”.
White House's Sullivan traveling to Saudi Arabia for talks with MBS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan plans to travel to Saudi Arabia this week for talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman amid a US push for progress toward normalising relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Talks on normalisation had been put on ice in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian Hamas fighters on southern Israel and Israel's subsequent assault on Hamas-ruled Gaza, but conversations have resumed in recent months.
Death and ruins at Gaza's shattered Al-Shifa hospital
GAZA CITY (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Hundreds of people stared at the smoke-blackened ruins of Gaza's biggest hospital on Monday, horrified by the damage and death left behind by a fierce two-week battle between militants and Israeli troops.
The crowd stood amid debris and large mounds of dirt at the foot of a shell-pocked five-story building in the sprawling Al-Shifa complex that was once a shelter for both patients and displaced Gazans.
Israel destroys an Iranian consular annex in Syria killing all inside
DAMASCUS, Syria (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes destroyed the Iranian embassy's consular annex in Syria on Monday (Apr 1), killing and wounding everyone inside, including a Revolutionary Guards commander according to Iran state TV.
Britain-based war monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said eight people, including several Guards members, were killed when "Israeli missiles ... destroyed the building of an annex to the Iranian embassy".
