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Main events on March 7th

  • Yemen’s Houthis gave Israel four days to resume aid deliveries to Gaza, threatening to resume its campaign of naval attacks on vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden if they do not comply.
  • Aid groups warned of worsening conditions due to Israel’s blockade on aid entering Gaza, while medical personnel said there are critical shortages of fuel needed to keep hospitals running.
  • The Israeli military continued to violate the fragile ceasefire with Hamas, including a drone attack on a group of people in Gaza City, which killed two people.
  • Democrat senators introduced legislation seeking to restore US funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), saying it is the “only organisation” able to help Palestinians recover from the devastation.
  • Hamas released a statement by captive Matan Angrest, in which the Israeli soldier pleads with US President Donald Trump to agree on an exchange deal to free all captives in Gaza.
  • Palestinian authorities condemned the Israeli military’s “brutal” assault on the al-Nasr Mosque after soldiers set fire to the religious building in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

Aid groups warn conditions in Gaza worsening as Israel blocks vital supplies

For almost a week, Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, triggering dire consequences.

Food and fuel supplies are depleting, and the rainy weather is making living conditions unbearable for families sheltering in makeshift camps.

Aid groups, including CARE, report that trucks carrying food, medical supplies, and shelter materials were scheduled to reach Gaza, but have been halted by Israeli authorities.

People in Gaza ‘need an immediate and massive scale-up of humanitarian supplies’

A humanitarian worker with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), who recently returned from Gaza, has denounced Israel’s blockade on the Strip, saying the move worsens the already dire humanitarian situation there.

Sarah Vulstyeke was among MSF staff who set up mobile health clinics in Jabalia in northern Gaza following the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

“The devastation we found in Jabalia is hard to describe; there was nothing left, only rubble. We tried to assess the conditions of health centres. But we visited the first one, and it was flattened. Then the second, the third… Everything was in ruins and reduced to piles of rubble. It’s breathtaking and heartbreaking,” she said.

It took a week for the team to clear up enough rubble just to set up a temporary structure for health consultations, she said.

Vulstyeke said Palestinians in Gaza are determined to try to rebuild what they lost, despite the “unbearable difficulties” they face every day.

“The situation is still very precarious, and we are really worried about the consequences that a blockade of humanitarian aid into Gaza could have,” she said.

“People in Gaza still need an immediate and massive scale-up of humanitarian supplies, and it is unacceptable that an entire population is now once again being prevented from receiving humanitarian aid.”