By Palestine Chronicle Staff 
UNRWA: About 3,000 of the agency’s trucks loaded with life-saving supplies are waiting outside Gaza, but the blockade prevents their entry. It added that one million children depend on aid, and without it, their lives are at risk, emphasizing the need to reopen the crossings and lift the blockade.
AL-JAZEERA: Illegal Israeli Jewish settlers set fire to a house and vehicles in the Jordan Valley area, east of the West Bank.
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, told Al Jazeera that Israel is using the lives of Palestinian children as a bargaining chip. He added that they have used everything available to describe the horror of what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip, asserting that Israel is committing genocide, starvation, and war crimes, and is systematically using food as a weapon.
AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli occupation army acknowledged that one of its soldiers was seriously injured in the explosion of an IED in the village of Beita, north of the West Bank, on Tuesday, and announced that it had closed the village of Beita and is searching for the perpetrator.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Maariv newspaper reported that the costs of reconstruction after the fires may reach tens of millions of shekels.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that the forest fires west of Jerusalem have consumed 12,000 dunams so far.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The Prisoners’ Media Office stated that the leading prisoner Hassan Salama has been subjected to systematic torture inside isolation in Megiddo prison for months.
HAMAS STATEMENT: Hamas called on the masses of their Arab and Islamic nation to continue the mobilizations next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in solidarity with Gaza.
AL-JAZEERA: The military spokesman for Ansar Allah, Yahya Saree, announced that they targeted the American aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its warships in the Arabian Sea with a number of drones.
PALESTINE CHRONICLE: A Palestinian paramedic who was the sole survivor of an Israeli attack in Rafah last month that killed eight of his colleagues was released by Israel on Tuesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said.
In footage shared by the PRCS, an emotional Asaad al-Nasasrah is seen being welcomed by fellow medics “after 37 days in detention by the occupation forces.”
Israel Releases Gaza Medic who Survived Rafah Attack on Emergency Workers
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Internal Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said he ordered the deployment of police forces and 14,000 National Guard personnel to prevent arson.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel Hayom newspaper reported that the Fire and Rescue Commissioner sustained burns to his body after his clothes caught fire during an evacuation operation near occupied Jerusalem.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli i24NEWS reported that the Palestinian Authority is on standby and ready for the moment coordination with Israel takes place to participate in extinguishing the fires, adding that there are movements in Ramallah to mobilize Palestinian firefighting crews to help put out the fires, noting that the PA participated in a similar matter in 2012 and Israel thanked it for that.
‼️‼️‼️📣 #BREAKING #Israel
Extensive fires in 29 locations in Israel demonstrate that God has greater power than humans and their weapons. When He decides to destroy something, He will do it. When Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Smotrich allowed Gaza, including children in tents, to… pic.twitter.com/Iv0G9seGs7
— THE MIRROR OF TRUTH (@yes_true8) April 30, 2025
HAARETZ (citing security sources): Illegal Israeli Jewish settlers set fire to agricultural lands belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank in conjunction with the fires in Israel.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel Hayom newspaper reported that Greece announced it would not send firefighting aircraft to Israel.
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ISRAELI MEDIA: Fires extend to the “Petah Tikva” settlement, east of Tel Aviv city in central Israel.
ISRAELI MEDIA: The Commissioner-General of Fire and Rescue in Israel stated that this is one of the most difficult events he recalls, adding that firefighting aircraft cannot operate due to weather conditions and urging people not to approach Street 1, Street 3, or the Jerusalem area, as the fire will continue until the night hours.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel Hayom newspaper reported that an improvised explosive device detonated against a force of the occupation army near the village of Huwara in the northern West Bank, and reinforcements were sent to the area.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Channel 12 evacuated its headquarters near the city of Jerusalem due to the fires and moved its broadcast to Herzliya.
ISRAELI MEDIA: 6,000 Israelis have been evacuated as a result of the fires raging in the mountains west of Jerusalem city.
AL-JAZEERA: Occupation forces deployed at the entrance to Beita town, south of Nablus, after news websites reported the injury of two soldiers by the explosion of a homemade bomb during an armed clash inside the town.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Firefighters were surrounded by raging fires west of Jerusalem city due to strong winds.
PALESTINE CHRONICLE: At The Hague, Washington stood nearly alone in defending Israel’s restrictions on UNRWA amid rising global condemnation of the Gaza blockade.
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AL-JAZEERA: An Israeli soldier was injured during an armed clash with resistance fighters, during which a grenade was thrown, in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
ISRAELI MEDIA: The Israeli Prime Minister’s office announced that an agreement has been reached for the arrival of 3 aircraft from Italy and Croatia to participate in extinguishing the fires.
PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israel declared a national emergency amid fast-spreading wildfires and has requested help from several countries.
Fires Rage Near Occupied Jerusalem, Israel Seeks Foreign Assistance
AL-QUDS BRIGADES – JENIN BATTALION: Our fighters in the Al-Yamoun Company detonated a pre-prepared Sajeel-type guided explosive device against an Israeli occupation military vehicle, adding that they are confronting “the enemy forces storming the town on several axes according to the requirements and conditions of the field.”
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli “Kan” channel revealed that the Palestinian Authority offered the Israeli government assistance in extinguishing the fires approaching settlements in Jerusalem, but the Israeli government did not respond to the proposal.
ISRAEL’S CHANNEL 12:
Instructions to evacuate the “Mishmar Ayalon” settlement between Latrun and Ramla due to intensifying fires. Seven injured transferred to hospital, one in moderate condition and the rest with minor injuries.
State response is not fast enough and international firefighting aircraft are delayed.
Spokesman for the Israeli Army: The Chief of Staff instructed the Home Front Command, the Air Force, and all units of the Israeli army to provide full support to the police and firefighting and rescue crews to help extinguish the fires.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH:
Firefighters are working to extinguish other fires that broke out near Afula, in the town of Al-Na’oura, Beit She’an, Tamra, and Givat Oz.
Power outages in several settlements in the Jerusalem area coinciding with the widening of the fires.
ISRAEL’S CHANNEL 14:
Outbreak of 3 fires in the Ashdod area and another fire in the Gaza envelope coinciding with the massive fire in the Jerusalem mountains.
Vehicles caught fire due to the large fire in the occupied Jerusalem mountains. Senior official in the Fire and Rescue Services: “A bad and difficult event, we are at the beginning of it, and the worst is still ahead of us.”
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Channel 12 reported that Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the Chief of Staff to make efforts to support firefighting teams in dealing with the fires in the Jerusalem mountains, adding that they are living in a national emergency.
Fires in between tel aviv and Jerusalem praying for everyone there pic.twitter.com/hfK8ph3s17
— Georgia 🇮🇱 🇺🇦🎗️ #bringthemhome (@gjmlondon) April 30, 2025
ISRAELI MEDIA: Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported 12 cases of suffocation due to the fires raging in Jerusalem, adding that the Israeli ambulance service has raised its alert level.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Yedioth Ahronoth and the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported that the Israeli Fire Department raised the alert level to the maximum degree due to the continued outbreak of fires in Jerusalem. Israel has approached Cyprus, Greece, Croatia, and Italy with a request for firefighting aircraft.
PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israel declared a national emergency amid fast-spreading wildfires and has requested help from several countries.
Fires Rage Near Occupied Jerusalem, Israel Seeks Foreign Assistance
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Army Radio reported that the families of the “abductees” are boycotting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, demanding that he return their sons and calling on him to resign immediately.
AL-JAZEERA: A Palestinian was killed by Israeli drone fire in the Qizan Rashwan area, south of Khan Younis city.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel Hayom quoted the Israeli Foreign Ministry as claiming that an armed man tried to storm the Israeli embassy in London to carry out an attack and was arrested without causing damage.
GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY: The total number of martyrs of the Israeli aggression has risen to 52,400 and the injured to 118,014 since October 7, 2023.
PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Held for over two decades, Abdullah Barghouti is now reportedly being tortured to the brink of death. In January, he appeared on track for release in a potential prisoner exchange.
Systematic Torture: Barghouti Faces ‘Slow Assassination’ in Israeli Prison
PALESTINE CHRONICLE: Israeli forces detained scores of Palestinians in overnight raids across the West Bank on Wednesday, as settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque under police protection.
Israeli Forces Raid West Bank Towns, Settlers Storm Al-Aqsa under Police Guard
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office said that Israeli occupation authorities issued administrative detention orders today against 29 Palestinian detainees.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Channel 12 reported that a mobilization of firefighting crews has been announced, and additional aircraft have been deployed to extinguish fires in the Jerusalem mountains.
AL-JAZEERA (citing medical sources): At least 23 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on several areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn today.
The site where a Palestinian family was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a home in Jabaliya, northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/9H64IOrwGs
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) April 30, 2025
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that together they will achieve a decisive victory over their enemies, adding that Israel’s survival is a series of sacrifices, which their fighters are now making, and that their army is fighting from Rafah – which is being dismantled – to Mount Hermon.
AL-JAZEERA: The spokeswoman for the World Food Programme told Al-Jazeera that the situation in the Gaza Strip is extremely difficult and their stock has run out.
She added that 700,000 people in the Gaza Strip used to benefit from meals daily and that they have aid trucks stuck at the borders waiting to enter Gaza, concluding that they may witness deaths due to malnutrition with the continued closure of crossings, noting that during the truce they brought in between 30,000 and 40,000 tons of aid.
AL-JAZEERA (citing medical sources): 21 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, Wednesday.
Israeli airstrike targets area near tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis. pic.twitter.com/liryjL797D
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) April 30, 2025
AL-JAZEERA (citing sources): Illegal Israeli Jewish settlers are storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israeli occupation police.
AL-JAZEERA: Israeli artillery shelling coinciding with gunfire on the city of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
UNRWA: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) quoted families in Gaza confirming that they are eating anything they find, even if it is unsafe, due to the lack of food supplies.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stated that their goal is to achieve victory in the war without any concessions.
He added that the lesson from October 7 is that the army must stand between the enemies and their towns in Lebanon, Syria, the northern West Bank, and around Gaza, asserting that their soldiers are working to return the “abductees” from Gaza, and this is Israel’s supreme mission.
AL-JAZEERA: The body of a killed person with a disability was retrieved following an Israeli bombing of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israel’s Channel 7 quoted Israeli President Isaac Herzog as saying that he understands the painful price of a prisoner exchange deal and that the issue of returning the abductees is the most important thing, adding that internal conflicts weaken the security situation in Israel and they must reach understandings.
AL-JAZEERA: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called on the international community to stop the “humanitarian catastrophe” in the Gaza Strip, with Israel continuing to prevent the entry of aid.
AL-JAZEERA (citing medical sources): At least 16 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn on Wednesday.
AL-JAZEERA: Since dawn, Israel has launched a number of raids on various areas in the Strip, bombing a number of homes and displaced persons’ tents, killing at least 12 people in central Gaza.
AL-JAZEERA:
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stated that Israel has prevented the entry of food, fuel, medicine, and commercial supplies into the Gaza Strip for nearly two months.
He added that Israel’s prevention of the entry of food, fuel, and medicine into Gaza deprives more than two million people of life-saving relief, asserting that aid is non-negotiable, and Israel must protect civilians, approve relief programs, and facilitate their implementation.
AL-JAZEERA: The British Ministry of Defense announced that its forces participated in a joint operation with US forces in Yemen.
⚡️🇬🇧🇾🇪BREAKING:
The UK admits for the first time to conducting airstrikes in Yemen. pic.twitter.com/y8z4nwE3QF
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) April 30, 2025
YEMENI MEDIA: The Al-Hazm Directorate in Al-Jawf Governorate (northern Yemen) was subjected to new American raids.
AL-JAZEERA: Several Palestinians were injured in an Israeli helicopter bombing of a house in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Three people were killed, including a child, and others were injured in Israeli shelling that targeted a house south of the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Several people were injured when Israeli helicopters shelled a house in the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.
YEMENI MEDIA: Al-Hazm Directorate in Al-Jawf Governorate, northern Yemen, was subjected to new American airstrikes.
(The British Ministry of Defense announced that its forces participated in a joint operation with US forces against an Ansarallah military target in Yemen.)
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Israelis running scared of fires sounds like revenge. ” God ” is pissed!
i don’t believe in God, but the Israeli posers who kill babies in his name deserve a good bloody nose. But i hope no innocent Israelis get hurt. They’re not all savages who murder children.
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