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SvennoJ on 16 March 2024
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Aid trucks arrive in northern Gaza

Palestinian photographer Hussam Azzam has posted a video on social media showing aid trucks arriving in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday night. The video verified by Al Jazeera shows trucks driving in the dark as electricity has been cut off in the Gaza Strip for months.

The trucks shown are reportedly among 13 trucks which reached Gaza City and Jabalia on Saturday night. Azzam wrote that the humanitarian aid convoy secured entry “through mukhtars [the head of local government of a town or village] and tribes after the Kuwait [roundabout] massacre”.

Israeli forces have repeatedly shot and killed Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza City, with the latest limited convoy reportedly the first to arrive without incident in months.


Young Palestinians rejoice as food aid arrives in northern Gaza

Palestinian photographer Mohammed al-Hindi has shared a video of young Palestinians celebrating the arrival of food aid in the northern Gaza Strip. The video, verified by Al Jazeera, shows the young men cheering and whistling as they gathered near piles of large bags of flour.

Al-Hindi said the delivery which arrived on Saturday night was delivered with the assistance of mukhtars and young volunteers.


12 killed in Israeli bombing in Deir el-Balah: Report

Twelve people have been killed in an Israeli bombing of a house in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting.

Wounded children taken to Deir el-Balah hospital after Israeli bombing

Several wounded people, including children, have been taken to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah after an Israeli attack, videos shared by the Palestinian photographer Omar Al-Dirawi show.

The videos posted on social media and verified by Al Jazeera show children, some of them bloodied and covered in grey dust, being carried into the hospital.



UN experts urge oil companies to cut supplies to Israeli army

Two UN human rights experts have called on BP, Chevron and Exxon to stop supplying oil to the Israeli military amid the ongoing war on Gaza.

Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, cited research from Oil Change International showing that the three companies were supplying oil to the Israeli military through the United States, Brazil, Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.

Fakhri said the companies “are likely complicit in genocide” and called for called for “economic sanctions”. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, supported Fakhri’s call and said “corporations should cease and desist or face potential liability tomorrow”.





Syrian soldier wounded in Israeli attack: State media

Israeli forces have launched an attack on Syria, wounding at least one Syrian soldier and causing “material damage”, according to the official SANA news agency. The air attacks, which came from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights, targeted southern Syria and took place shortly after midnight, SANA said.

UKMTO reports attack in Gulf of Aden

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency is reporting a new attack in the Gulf of Aden, some 85 nautical miles (157km) northeast of the Yemeni city of Aden. “Authorities are investigating,” the agency said in a post on X.

The UK military agency said a merchant ship travelling through the Gulf of Aden in the early hours of Sunday has reported an explosion in close proximity to the vessel. “No damage to the vessel has been reported and the crew are reported safe. The vessel is proceeding to its next port of call,” it added.

US destroys Houthi drones in Yemen

The US military’s Central Command says it destroyed five unmanned surface vessels and one aerial drone in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Saturday night. Centcom forces also intercepted two drones fired from Houthi controlled areas toward the Red Sea on Saturday morning, it said in a post on X. One of the drones was destroyed while the other “is presumed to have crashed into the Red Sea”.