Epal European Palestinian Media Center Bulletin, Issue No. 2420, Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2026

1. Health: two martyrs arrived at Gaza hospitals within 24 hours

The Ministry of Health in Gaza stated that the total number of people who arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours is two martyrs and 22 injured. According to the ministry’s report, a number of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, as ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them up to this moment.

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2. **Settlers carry out terrorist attacks in various areas of the West Bank**

Various areas of the occupied West Bank witnessed a series of attacks carried out by settlers targeting Palestinian property and grazing lands. Settlers attacked a number of citizens and their homes in towns and villages south of Nablus and set up tents on land in the village of Jalud. In Salfit governorate, groups of settlers, under the protection of occupation forces, stormed the town of Kifl Haris north of the city, throwing stones at Palestinian homes and assaulting property, which led to the breaking of several windows and caused panic among residents.

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3. **Occupation demolishes a house and issues demolition notices for others in Hebron**

Israeli occupation forces demolished a house in the town of Tarqumiya, northwest of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, as part of an ongoing policy targeting Palestinian homes in the area. Local sources reported that occupation forces stormed the Shaab al-Bir area accompanied by heavy machinery and demolished a two-story house after emptying its contents. The house sheltered 10 people and belonged to citizen Amir Bassam al-Jaafra.

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4. **Warnings over calls by “Temple groups” to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque**

The Jerusalem Governorate warned of escalating incitement calls spread by platforms linked to extremist Temple groups to mobilize their supporters to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque and raise the occupation’s flag inside it next Wednesday, under the pretext of what they call “Independence Day.” The move was described as provocative and dangerous, constituting a direct violation of the sanctity of the mosque and an attempt to impose a Judaization reality by force. The governorate explained that these calls are part of an organized plan led by Israeli occupation authorities with the participation of settlers, aimed at imposing full control over Al-Aqsa Mosque through intensifying incursions and violations and imposing a fait accompli, in clear violation of international laws and conventions.

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5. **Occupation forces storm Beitunia west of Ramallah and Umm al-Sharayet neighborhood in Al-Bireh**

Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Beitunia west of Ramallah and the Umm al-Sharayet neighborhood in the city of Al-Bireh. Local sources reported that the forces deployed across different areas of both locations, with no arrests reported.

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6. **Occupation issues demolition notices to shops and uproots dozens of trees south of Jenin**

Israeli occupation forces distributed demolition notices to several shops in the vicinity of the “Tarsala” settlement, built on citizens’ land south of Jenin. Local sources stated that demolition and eviction notices targeted shops in the area from the Jaba fuel station to the Jaba roundabout. This coincided with occupation forces uprooting more than 70 olive trees around the “Tarsala” settlement, which was reopened the previous day, Sunday, in the presence of Israeli officials and ministers from Netanyahu’s government.

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7. **“We urinated on them and emptied bullets into their heads”: confessions of Israeli soldiers in Gaza**

The Hebrew newspaper “Haaretz” published a report refuting a phrase frequently repeated by Israeli authorities claiming that their army is “the most moral army in the world.” Soldiers who served in the Gaza Strip during a two-year offensive revealed severe human rights violations, to the extent that they compared them to what they called the “Nazi Holocaust.” One soldier said: “They put a Gaza civilian in a cage, stripped him of his clothes, and a soldier urinated on him while others laughed.” Another said he emptied his weapon into the head of an elderly man with three children. When the commander arrived at the scene, he spat on the bodies and insulted them, calling them “sons of prostitutes.”

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8. **Video: a settler harasses pro-Palestine activists in the West Bank**

Watch… He bothered one of them with his words and pushed her with his body… a settler harasses foreign activists in solidarity in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.

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9. **Video: occupation forces force a teenager to surrender in the West Bank**

Watch… They forced him to raise his hands and surrender… occupation forces arrest the teenager Reda Jamal Muqbil (16 years old) from the town of Beit Ummar in the southern West Bank before assaulting him.

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**European**

10. **Video: Sánchez calls on Europe to end partnership with Israel**

Watch… “Stop Netanyahu”… Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez calls on the European Union to end the partnership agreement with Israel due to its violation of international law and the principles and values of the Union.

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11. **UN experts call for immediate suspension of the EU-Israel partnership agreement**

United Nations experts stated that the European Union should immediately suspend the partnership agreement with Israel, which has granted Tel Aviv broad access privileges to European markets since 2000, amid what they described as escalating documented human rights violations reaching the level of serious crimes, including genocide. The experts explained that the EU faces a decisive moral test during the meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg on April 21 to consider the possibility of suspending the agreement fully or partially, amid growing public pressure within Europe for accountability.

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12. **Video: protests in Australia supporting Palestinian prisoners**

Watch… Thousands of protesters demonstrate in Melbourne on the occasion of “Palestinian Prisoner Day” to denounce an Israeli law imposing the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners and demand an end to inhumane practices in occupation prisons.

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13. **Arrest of 20 pro-Palestine protesters in Australia**

Queensland police arrested 20 people during a mass protest on Roma Street in Brisbane, in the first practical application of new “hate speech” laws approved last March. Police attacked the protest, which included around 300 participants, after chants of “from the river to the sea,” one of two slogans recently classified by the Australian parliament as “prohibited expressions,” along with the slogan “globalize the intifada.” Those arrested faced 21 charges related to “displaying and repeating prohibited expressions” under the new legislation, which imposes strict penalties under the pretext of protecting public order, while activists view it as a repressive tool aimed at silencing solidarity with Gaza and preventing exposure of genocide.

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14. **Belgian authorities seize British weapons shipment destined for the occupation**

Belgian authorities seized a shipment of British military components at Liège Airport that was heading to the occupation and opened a criminal investigation on charges of circumventing arms export restrictions by manipulating shipment classifications. Investigations launched last March based on a report from an international human rights coalition revealed the involvement of the US-British company Moog in attempting to smuggle fire-control systems and spare parts for M-346 aircraft used to train occupation pilots by classifying them as civilian parts.

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15. **Boycott movement calls for action against Marks & Spencer supporting the occupation**

Boycott movement activists organized a protest in Glasgow, Scotland, in front of a Marks & Spencer store in the city center, renewing calls to boycott the company due to its deep Zionist roots and continued commercial ties with the occupation system. Activists raised slogans condemning the company’s refusal to end its dealings with the occupation despite the ongoing war of genocide in Gaza, stressing that continued support for this brand constitutes indirect funding of the aggression. This action is part of a series of field movements in the United Kingdom aimed at raising awareness about the complicity of major British supermarket chains in supporting the apartheid system and calling on the public to immediately join global boycott campaigns.

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16. **Spanish court cancels search warrants against Sidenor over ties to the occupation**

Spain’s National Court canceled search warrants issued against the offices of the Basque company Sidenor, in a move described by human rights circles as an attempt to obstruct holding the company accountable for supplying tons of steel to the Israeli company IMI Systems for weapons manufacturing. Documents seized during the searches revealed that Sidenor had prior knowledge that its products would be used in manufacturing military howitzers, undermining its claims of ignorance regarding the end use.

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17. **Disruption of recruitment event for arms companies complicit in the UK**

Students from the Open University in the UK carried out a series of coordinated digital protests targeting recruitment events organized by companies implicated in genocide, notably BAE Systems and Cisco. Activists from the group “Friends of Palestine at the Open University” succeeded in infiltrating the events during February and March to send awareness messages to more than 170 participants about the role of these companies in supplying weapons and infrastructure necessary for ongoing settler colonialism.

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**International**

18. **Billie Eilish calls for solidarity with victims of genocide in Gaza**

American singer Billie Eilish used her Grammy award moment to highlight the suffering of civilians in the Gaza Strip and the violations faced by migrants in the United States. In her speech, she stressed that silence in the face of human suffering and injustice is unacceptable, affirming the responsibility of artists and public figures to use their platforms to expose policies of genocide and forced displacement and defend the dignity of communities facing war and oppression.

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19. **Maryland students withdraw from university board meeting over academic involvement in funding genocide**

Dozens of students withdrew from a University System of Maryland Board of Regents meeting held at a university hotel, protesting the institution’s involvement in funding arms manufacturing companies supplying the occupation. Protesters chanted for divestment before university police forced them to leave the building, in an escalatory move aimed at pressuring the administration to cut ties with companies complicit in the war of genocide in Gaza.

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20. **Protest outside Google in Chicago demanding expulsion of Israel**

Activists from an anti-war committee in the US city of Chicago protested outside Google headquarters, objecting to the use of tax funds to support military technology deals serving the occupation system and immigration enforcement agencies. Protesters demanded the cancellation of the “Project Nimbus” contract, through which Google provides artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies to the Israeli occupation army.

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21. **Chants against Haley Stevens in Michigan over support for the occupation**

US Representative Haley Stevens faced widespread boos during her speech at a Democratic Party conference in Detroit, in protest of her record of supporting the Israeli occupation and funding the war of genocide. This public rejection of the 2026 Senate candidate occurred in the heart of Michigan, where delegates and the Arab community oppose her stance supporting continued unconditional military aid.

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22. **Rape threats target daughter of Francesca Albanese in Tunisia over “genocide” report**

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese revealed that she and her family have been subjected to a “brutal” campaign of threats, including rape threats against her daughter in Tunisia and death threats against herself, following her report accusing the occupation of committing “genocide” in Gaza. She stated that unknown individuals targeted her daughter with explicit rape threats, even mentioning the name of her school in the Tunisian capital, prompting her to request security protection.

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23. **Israeli minister: we are effectively implementing annexation in the West Bank despite international rejection**

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen stated that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is proceeding with what he described as sovereignty on the ground in the occupied West Bank, in a stance reflecting a clear challenge to international opposition to annexation policies. Cohen, a member of the security cabinet, said in a post on the X platform that the ongoing measures represent a practical implementation of sovereignty, a term used by the occupation government to refer to annexation.