Updates: Israel bombs Lebanon’s Beirut, kills 50 in Gaza

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• Israeli attacks killed at least 50 people in Gaza, with intense bombardment reported across the territory.
• The Israeli military carried out an air strike in Beirut, saying that it targeted a Hezbollah missile storage facility, a claim dismissed by a legislator from the group.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again dismissed the idea of establishing a Palestinian state to reach peace, calling the proposal “folly”.
• Mediator Qatar said there has been “a bit of progress” in talks aimed at securing a new Gaza truce.
• United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said Israel and the countries supplying it with weapons “must be stopped”.

The US president says talks with Iran are going “very well”.

“I think a deal is going to be made there – that’s going to happen, pretty sure it’s going to happen,” Donald Trump told reporters. “We’ll have something without having to start dropping bombs all over the place.”

Earlier, Netanyahu said he warned Washington against any agreement with Tehran that does not include completely dismantling the Iranian nuclear programme.

The Gaza Government Media Office says providing weapons and political cover for Israel to carry out its atrocities against Palestinians is “explicit partnership in committing crimes” that requires accountability in international courts.

“We call on the international community, including the UN and international tribunals, to move immediately to condemn these crimes and have Israeli leaders face global justice for their crimes against civilians,” the office said in a statement.

It added that humanity calls for accountability for the victims of Gaza.

Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud says intensifying Israeli bombardment is targeting areas across the Gaza Strip.

Mahmoud added that the eastern part of Gaza City has been “under relentless, ongoing and constant attacks”.

He described a scene of the bodies of a boy and a girl being hugged by their surviving parents at a morgue in central Gaza.

“The death toll is not just the numbers,” Mahmoud said. “We’re looking at fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, infants and innocent people lost in moments of unimaginable horror across the Strip as the attacks continue to happen.”

US Central Command (CENTCOM) says the strikes have “killed hundreds of Houthi fighters and numerous Houthi leaders, including senior Houthi missile and UAV [unarmed aerial vehicle] officials”.

CENTCOM also claimed that US attacks have depleted Houthi attacking capabilities, saying that ballistic missile launches had dropped by 69 percent, while attacks from drones had decreased by 55 percent.

The post added that the targeting of Ras Isa had stopped the Houthis from importing fuel through the Red Sea port, “which will begin to impact Houthi ability to not only conduct operations, but also to generate millions of dollars in revenue”. The April 17 attack killed at least 80 Yemenis, according to the Houthis.

Shelling targeted al-Sikkah Street in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, eastern Gaza City, according to medical sources.

Shelling was also reported in Qizan Abu Rashwan, in southern Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

There are no reports of casualties at the moment.

Al Jazeera Arabic reports that an Israeli attack on displaced people’s tents in the al-Mawasi area has killed two Palestinians and injured several others.

Ibrahim Mousawi, a legislator in Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, dismisses the Israeli claim that the strike in Beirut targeted a facility storing precision missiles.

“Where are the missiles that they claim were stored in the targeted area?” Mousawi was quoted as saying by Lebanon’s National News Agency. “And how could anyone store missiles – and precision missiles, as they say – in residential areas?”

The parliament member added that the Israeli attack and warning that preceded it are a “crime of terrorising” the population and part of Israel’s psychological warfare against Lebanon.

The Gaza Government Media Office accuses Israel of systemically targeting civilians in Gaza as part of its “war of extermination” against Palestinians.

The office provided details about the numbers of people killed by Israel:

• 18,000 children
• 12,400 women
• 1,400 medics
• 212 journalists
•  750 security officers who guarded aid convoys

The Palestinian politician has slammed Netanyahu for saying that the idea of establishing a Palestinian state is “folly”, urging Palestinian unity and an end to the “illusion” of compromise with the Israeli government.

“Netanyahu has clearly revealed that the aim of normalisation with the Arab world is to liquidate the Palestinian cause,” Barghouti said in a social media post.

He added that Netanyahu is acting like a “hubristic imperialist ruler of the entire region”.

The Israeli prime minister says establishing a Palestinian state will not lead to peace.

“The idea is folly, nothing more than folly,” he said.

Netanyahu added that Israel has decided to “go around the Palestinians” and their demands for a state and negotiate directly with Arab countries to forge formal ties with them.

The 2002 Arab Peace Initiative conditions recognising Israel on the establishment of a Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem as its capital.

But the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco signed diplomatic agreements with Israel in 2020 despite the continuing occupation. Sudan also agreed to join the normalisation accords, but it has not established official relations with Israel.

Jonathan Whittall, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territories, offers a grim description of the situation in Gaza, where malnutrition is on the rise due to the Israeli siege.

“There is an assault on people’s dignity in Gaza today,” Whittall said in a voice message shared on social media. “People in Gaza are telling me that they feel like it’s the deliberate dismantling of Palestinian life in plain sight. What we see around us is endless suffering under a total and complete blockade.”

“Aid is being weaponized through its denial.” – @_jwhittall to journalists in #Gaza City.

Israel has imposed a nearly 2 month long blockade.

Nothing has entered. People are desperate and hungry.

It’s not only a humanitarian crisis, “there is an assault on people’s dignity”. pic.twitter.com/htk0mdeeGx

— UN Humanitarian (@UNOCHA) April 27, 2025

The Israeli prime minister says he warned Washington that any deal with Tehran should lead to the end of the Iranian nuclear programme, not just capping uranium enrichment.

“You have to dismantle their nuclear infrastructure, and that means not that they will not enrich uranium, but that they will not have the capacity to enrich uranium,” Netanyahu said.

Iranian and American officials have been meeting for nuclear talks over the past three weeks.

US President Donald Trump has vowed to never allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, and he regularly threatens military strikes against the country.

Iran denies seeking nuclear arms, while Israel is widely believed to have an undeclared nuclear arsenal.

Netanyahu said Israel appreciates the support it receives from the US.

“But we have to make sure that Iran does not get nuclear weapons,” he added. “A bad deal is worse than no deal. We need a good deal, and the only good deal that works is a deal like the one that was made with Libya that removed all the infrastructure.”

Netanyahu often cites the Libyan model of disarmament for Iran – which could be a deliberately ominous reference.

Less than a decade after agreeing to dismantle Libya’s major weapons programmes, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed by armed opposition groups.