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SvennoJ on 11 March 2024
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Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on southern Gaza

Our correspondent in Gaza reports that at least one person is dead and others wounded after the Israeli army targeted a house in the town of al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Younis.

Israeli air strike in southern Gaza kills family of human rights worker

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) says the family of Yasser Abdel Ghafour, deputy head of its fieldwork unit, has been killed in Israeli shelling of al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces fired several artillery shells at displaced families in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, designated by Israel as a safe evacuation zone.

“As a result, 14 civilians from the displaced families were killed, including four children and three women, while eight others were injured. Among the casualties were 10 civilians from Yasser Abdel Ghafour’s family.”

“Since October 7, many houses belonging to colleague Yasser’s family had been repeatedly bombed in Khan Younis, killing tens of them while many are still trapped under the rubble of their destroyed houses,” the organisation said. Among the victims were Yasser’s sisters, brothers and uncles who were killed with their sons and daughters. Those who survived fled from Khan Younis to seek refuge in the al-Mawasi area, where they were bombed again, the rights group said.

Israel continues raids on Hamad neighbourhood in southern Gaza

The Israeli military has released new footage of ongoing raids on residential buildings in Gaza’s Qatar-funded Hamad City. It said the close-combat commandos from its Egoz unit engaged in a fire fight with armed Palestinians and showed footage of an Israeli soldier firing a Matador missile at a unit in the residential building.

It said three Palestinian fighters were killed and a woman and two children who were inside the building were transferred to receive medical care. The Hamad neighbourhood, located in the southern city of Khan Younis, where an Israeli ground invasion has been advancing for weeks, has been heavily bombed since the start of the war on Gaza.

Sara Netanyahu appeals to mother of Qatar’s emir on Gaza captives

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli prime minister, has written to the mother of the emir of Qatar to appeal for the release of captives held in Gaza. “I urge you, in the spirit of Ramadan, to leverage your significant influence to work towards the release of the Israeli hostages,” she wrote to Sheikha Moza bint Nasser al-Missned in a letter published by the office of the Israeli prime minister.

Sara Netanyahu pointed out “woman to woman” that 19 women are among the captives. “We cannot remain silent or stand back when the dignity and safety of women are at stake,” she wrote.

The overwhelming majority of more than 31,000 Palestinians killed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip since October 7 have been women and children. Sheikha Moza, 64, is a high-profile figure in Qatar who leads the country’s massive state-owned nonprofit organisation, the Qatar Foundation.



Yes the hostages need to be released. However how tone deaf are you to appeal to Qatar while raiding and killing more people in the Qatar-funded Hamad City. Not quite in the spirit of Ramadan... A ceasefire would be and will also allow the exchange of hostages.

Israeli rights groups slam lack of humanitarian access in Gaza: Report

Twelve of Israel’s most prominent human rights organisations have signed an open letter accusing the country of failing to comply with the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ’s) provisional ruling that it should facilitate access of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the UK newspaper The Guardian reports.

Signatories include veteran whistleblower group Breaking the Silence and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.

“As members of Israel-based civil society committed to human rights and the rule of law, we condemn the fact that Israel has so far failed to change its behaviour based on the measures imposed by the ICJ, as well as the fact that humanitarian aid to Gaza dropped by 50% in the month following the ruling,” the letter reads.

UNRWA: Aid truck turned back because of medical scissors

Phillippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, says a truck loaded with humanitarian aid for Gaza was turned back by Israel because medical scissors were onboard.

“Medical scissors are now added to a long list of banned items the Israeli Authorities classify as ‘for dual use’. The list includes basic and lifesaving items: from anesthetics, solar lights, oxygen cylinders and ventilators, to water cleaning tablets, cancer medicines and maternity kits.”

He said in an X post: “An entire population depends on humanitarian assistance for survival” as conditions grow worse in the Gaza Strip.