The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they unfold.
13 reportedly killed in overnight IDF strikes throughout Gaza
Thirteen people were killed overnight in Israeli strikes throughout Gaza, according to the Kan public broadcaster, which cites unspecified reports from the Strip.
The IDF hasn’t immediately commented on the strikes.
דיווחים בעזה: 13 הרוגים בתקיפות חיל האוויר ברצועה לפנות בוקר@migansh5 pic.twitter.com/j808VAq1yr
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) April 24, 2025
Former South Korea president Moon Jae-in indicted for corruption
South Korea’s prosecutors say they have indicted former president Moon Jae-in on corruption charges related to the employment of his son-in-law at an airline.
Moon was “indicted for corruption for receiving 217 million won (USD 150,000) in connection with facilitating the employment of his son-in-law at an airline”, the Jeonju District Prosecutors’ Office says in a statement.
The case adds to the political drama gripping South Korea, which is facing elections on June 3 after Yoon Suk Yeol was stripped of his presidency for imposing martial law briefly.
Moon, who served as president from 2017 to 2022, was known for pursuing engagement with North Korea, including brokering talks between Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump during his first term.
According to prosecutors, Moon’s son-in-law was appointed managing director by low-cost airline Thai Eastar Jet, “despite lacking any relevant experience or qualifications in the airline industry.”
The airline, which was effectively controlled by a former MP from Moon’s party, had given Moon’s son-in-law the job in a bid to win favours from the then president, prosecutors say.
With Moon’s indictment, two former presidents of South Korea are concurrently in the cross-hairs of justice.
Disgraced ex-president Yoon is currently facing trial on insurrection charges over his December 3 martial law decree, which lasted only around six hours as it was voted down by opposition MPs.
At least two killed, 54 wounded in Kyiv missile attack — mayor
At least two people were killed and more than 50 wounded in a missile attack in Kyiv early Thursday, the city mayor says, revising an earlier casualty toll.
“Two people were killed in the capital,” Vitali Klitschko says on Telegram. “54 people were injured. 38 of them, including 6 children, were hospitalized.
Settlers reportedly torch Palestinian home and adjacent agricultural lands in Jordan Valley
Palestinian media reports that Israeli settlers in the Jordan Valley of the West Bank torched a home and adjacent agricultural lands in the Palestinian village of Bardala.
Locals say ambulances and firetrucks trying to reach the scene have been blocked by Israeli authorities.
مستوطنون يحرقون أراضي ومنازل في قرية بردلا بالأغوار الشمالية بالضفة الغربية pic.twitter.com/gUmjJLSnv1
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) April 23, 2025
Trump: ‘I think we have a deal with Russia,’ but Zelensky the hold out
US President Donald Trump says he thinks Russia has agreed to a deal to end the conflict in Ukraine, with President Volodymyr Zelensky now the holdout.
“I think we have a deal with Russia. We have to get a deal with Zelensky,” Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office. “I thought it might be easier to deal with Zelensky. So far it’s been harder.”
PM accuses Shin Bet of ‘persecuting right-wing activists’ in post ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day
Amid his continued push to oust Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses the domestic security agency of “persecuting right-wing activists.”
In a post on X right before the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu shares a recording of a conversation between the head of the Shin Bet’s Jewish Division and a senior police officer in the West Bank, during which the former discusses wanting to use a controversial practice to detain a suspect without charge.
The conversation ends with the police officer, Cdr. Avishai Muallem, telling the Shin Bet agent that “you have nothing on [the suspect].”
The recording comes several weeks after the release of an earlier tape of the Shin Bet official and Muallem — who is suspected of ignoring Jewish nationalist attacks to curry favor with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir — generated outcry over the agent’s description of radical settler youths as “shmucks,” leading him to suspend himself.