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Main events on March 24th
- At least 65 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.
- Two Palestinian journalists were killed in Israeli air strikes, including Hossam Shabat, a reporter with Al Jazeera.
- The Israeli military issued new forced evacuation orders in northern Gaza. UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, says at least 124,000 Palestinians have been internally displaced in Gaza in recent days.
- The Israeli army confirmed it attacked a Red Cross building in Rafah, saying that the building’s affiliation was unknown at the time of the shooting.
- The UN announced that it would reduce the number of international staff in Gaza after staff were killed in recent strikes.
- Senior Trump administration officials accidentally added a reporter to a text chain in which they shared plans to strike Yemen – an unprecedented security breach.
- A Palestinian co-director of No Other Land was attacked by settlers and arrested by the Israeli army in the Susya area of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank.
- A 17-year-old Palestinian child has died while in Israeli custody – the first Palestinian minor to die in an Israeli prison.
US deflects questions on Israeli killings of journalists in Gaza, blames Hamas
The US State Department spokesperson has deflected questions about the killings of two journalists in Israeli attacks on Gaza – Al Jazeera’s Hossam Shabat and Palestine Today’s Mohammad Mansour – instead, placing the blame on Hamas.
“I would say that every single thing that’s happening is a result of Hamas and its choices to drag that region down into a level of suffering that has been excruciating and has caused innumerable deaths,” Tammy Bruce told reporters during a news briefing.
Bruce further reiterated US support for Israel, stating that Washington stands by Israel’s “needs as it defends itself”.
Pressed on whether the killing of the journalists could be considered a war crime, Bruce declined to provide a direct answer.
“I’m not going to stand here and declare what’s a war crime and what isn’t,” she said.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the killing of Shabat and Mansour and called for an independent investigation into whether they were deliberately targeted.
“The deliberate and targeted killing of a journalist, of a civilian, is a war crime,” Jodie Ginsberg, the CPJ’s chief executive, said.
No Other Land filmmaker recounts latest brutal assault by Israeli settlers and soldiers
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/middleeast/ballal-oscar-palestinian-beaten-israeli-settlers-intl-latam/index.html
Hamdan Ballal, the co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was one of three Palestinians attacked by settlers and then detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank village of Susiya on Monday, according to lawyer Leah Tsemmel.
Police told her they are being held at a military base for medical treatment and she told The Associated Press she has not been able to speak with them.
Basel Adra, another co-director of the film, witnessed the detention and said about two dozen settlers – some masked, some carrying guns – attacked the village. Soldiers who arrived pointed their guns at the Palestinians, while settlers continued throwing stones.
“We came back from the Oscars and every day since, there is an attack on us,” Adra told the AP. “This might be their revenge on us for making the movie. It feels like a punishment.”
No Other Land, which won the Oscar this year for best documentary, chronicles the struggle by residents of the Masafer Yatta area to stop the Israeli military from demolishing their villages.
Adra said that settlers entered the village on Monday evening shortly after residents broke the daily fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. A settler – who according to Adra frequently attacks the village – walked over to Ballal’s home with the military, and soldiers shot in the air.
Ballal’s wife heard her husband being beaten outside and heard him scream, “I’m dying”, according to Adra.
Adra then saw the soldiers lead Ballal, handcuffed and blindfolded, from his home into a military vehicle. Speaking to the AP by phone, he said Ballal’s blood was still splattered on the ground outside his own front door.
A group of 10-20 masked settlers with stones and sticks also assaulted activists with the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, smashing their car windows and slashing tyres to make them flee the area, one of the activists at the scene, Josh Kimelman, told the AP.
