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Watchdog demands answers from Israel on disappeared Palestinian journalist
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has demanded that the Israeli army shed light on the whereabouts of Gaza journalist Bayan Abusultan. RSF says Abusultan was last seen on March 19, “among those sequestered in the raid on al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.”
Abusultan has been offline since reporting witnessing her own brother being shot by Israeli forces.
Israeli forces just murdered my only brother in front of my eyes.
أخويا شهيد.
— Bayan 𓂆 (@BayanPalestine) March 19, 2024
Footage shows Israeli forces targeting Palestinians
Al Jazeera Arabic aired video showing Israeli soldiers shooting dead two Palestinians while they walked in an open area along the coast, apparently trying to return to northern Gaza.
One of the men repeatedly waves what looks to be a white towel. The footage also shows Israeli soldiers burying the two with a bulldozer after they were killed.
The footage is graphic and may not be advisable for some viewers.
Yeah that's sickening, especially how casually the IDF buries the two men with a bulldozer. How many bodies are buried around Gaza like that.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports that the men were attempting to return to northern Gaza, travelling along al-Rashid Street. Near the Nablusi roundabout southwest of Gaza City, the men, waving white flags, are met by a deployment of Israeli forces and killed, before their bodies are buried among rubbish and rubble by Israeli army bulldozers.
In a statement, Hamas condemns the killings, saying the events captured in the footage are “further evidence of the scale of fascism and criminality that governs Zionist behaviour, in the context of the brutal war of extermination against our people in the Gaza Strip”.
The statement called on the International Criminal Court to take “necessary measures” to hold Israel accountable for “the crimes they commit against children and defenceless civilians”.
Several killed, wounded in Israeli bombing of aid workers
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report several people were killed and injured in an Israeli attack that targeted the tribal committees responsible for securing aid south of Gaza City.
Earlier this month, Israeli air strikes targeted tribal aid distribution workers in Gaza City’s Kuwait roundabout, killing at least 23 people.
Death toll climbs in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon.
At least nine people were killed on Wednesday night in two separate Israeli strikes in the south of Lebanon, the country’s state-run National News Agency says. Among those killed were four paramedics who work for a local civil defence organisation affiliated with Hezbollah.
Hezbollah has also this evening announced the deaths of three of its fighters via its Telegram channel, without saying, as per usual, how or where the men died.
Earlier, we reported that the Israeli army bombed the southern Lebanese villages of Naqoura and Tayr Harfa, which the Israeli army said were in retaliation for a Hezbollah rocket barrage directed at the Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona. The attack on Kiryat Shmona, Hezbollah said, was in retaliation for an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon that killed seven paramedics.
These deaths make today the deadliest for Lebanon since Hezbollah began exchanging fire with the Israeli army on October 8.
Palestinian girls held at Israeli checkpoint in occupied West Bank
Israeli forces apprehended the two children at a military checkpoint in central Hebron, Wafa news agency reports.
Activist Yasser Abu Markhiya told the Palestinian news agency that Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint, near the Jabal al-Rahma Mosque in Tal Rumeida, held his daughters Zainab and Jana, aged 8 and 10, respectively.
It was unclear from the report when or if the girls had been released.
