Israeli army targets village in northern Gaza with ‘heavy gunfire’
Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that Israeli army vehicles are targeting the Bedouin village of Umm al-Nasr in northern Gaza with heavy gunfire.
Israeli drone kills Palestinian woman near Rafah
A Palestinian woman has been killed by an Israeli drone in the town of ash-Shawka, east of Rafah city.
Gaza’s death toll rises
The Health Ministry in Gaza has just released its latest report on the number of people killed and wounded by Israel’s war on the territory.
In a statement, it said a total of 36 killed – four newly killed, 32 bodies recovered – were recorded and 14 wounded people arrived in hospitals during the past 24 hours.
This brought the confirmed number of people killed in Israeli attacks since October 7 to at least 48,503, with 111,927 others wounded, the ministry added.
Many victims remain under the rubble, while the Government Media Office in Gaza has put the death toll at more than 61,000, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are now presumed dead.
Five killed near Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor
An Israeli air attack has killed five people near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, according to medical sources cited by our colleagues on the ground.
The attack comes after an earlier drone strike killed a woman near Rafah city.
Northern Gaza field hospital overwhelmed
With no aid entering Gaza, Palestinians in the north of the enclave are lining up for hours at one of the few functioning field hospitals set up on the ruins of Kamal Adwan Hospital.
“We stood waiting in a very long queue,” said Fathi Alhelu, who went to the facility to get his child treated. “We can’t even find transportation to bring us here from Beit Lahiya. Our suffering is massive. We want to live and we deserve to stay alive.”
PA’s prime minister calls on EU to pressure Israel to end ‘aggression’
Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mohammad Mustafa has called on the international community, particularly the EU, to place pressure on Israel to open Gaza borders, which have been sealed shut for nine days.
Israel must reopen Gaza’s borders and “allow the unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid, temporary shelter supplies and reconstruction materials”, Mustafa said during a meeting with Luxembourg’s deputy premier and foreign minister, Xavier Bettel.
Israel must also end its “aggression against Palestinian people”, Mustafa said, including the Israeli military’s incursions into the north of the occupied West Bank, where troops have destroyed civilian infrastructure, including homes, and forced the displacement of thousands of local people.
Having recovered the bodies of 11 relatives killed in Israeli attacks, Sohail Al Majdalavi, centre, hopes to find the remains of six other family members who are still missing under the rubble of his destroyed home, in Jabalia, Gaza, on March 9, 2025. Israeli attacks killed 17 members of the Al Majdalavi family.
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