April 2025: Israel's Aggression Against Occupied Palestine

During April, the occupation authorities continued their genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, executing airstrikes and fire attacks against civilians and their property across various areas of the Gaza Strip. A statement by the UN Human Rights office for the Occupied Palestinian Territory recorded 229 attacks on residential buildings and 91 attacks on tents of forcibly displaced people in Gaza, most resulting in fatalities, including many children and women. The statement adds that “Extremely high civilian casualties over 18 months do not appear to have prompted any changes in Israeli targeting practices and policies, a pattern indicating at the very least a complete disregard for the lives of civilians in Gaza. Matched with Israel’s policy of deliberately blocking life-saving assistance from entering the Gaza Strip, these policies appear to be aimed at punishing the civilian population of Gaza and inflicting on them conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence as a group in Gaza.”

Euro-Med Monitor documented repeated instances of entire families being wiped out, as well as the deliberate targeting of specific families in a pattern suggesting a clear intent to annihilate them. This coincides with Netanyahu’s continued false statements denying the targeting of civilians, which is a blatant attempt to mislead international public opinion and cover up Israeli crimes on the ground. Between 20 and 26 April, Israel killed 345 Palestinians and injured 770 others, according to field data indicating that at least 94% of the victims were civilians. Children (51%), women (16%), and the elderly (8%) together accounted for 75% of those killed.

In April 2025, at least 2,037 Palestinians were killed and more than 3,698 Palestinians were injured in occupied Palestine. In Gaza alone, at least 2,019 Palestinians were killed and 3,508 injured due to Israel’s genocidal war, while 18 Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank.[1]