Main events on March 26th
- Israeli forces launch attacks on central Gaza, including on an aid kitchen in Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least 13 people.
- The UN says Israel’s renewed offensive in Gaza has displaced 142,000 Palestinians in one week and raises alarm over “dangerously low” supplies of medical stocks, cooking gas and fuel.
- Israeli forces continue raiding the occupied West Bank, shooting and killing a Palestinian near the town of Huwara in the latest attack.
- Israel’s military says in the past week alone, it struck 430 targets in Gaza, 40 in Lebanon and 18 in Syria. It also says it intercepted six missiles from Yemen, five rockets from Gaza and three from Lebanon.
- Israeli rights groups say the military has transferred hundreds of Palestinian detainees from the notorious Sde Teiman detention camp to other prisons, where conditions are no better, amid pressure from the country’s top court.
- Legislators and rights groups in the United States denounce the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University who has criticised Israel’s war on Gaza.
Israeli attacks killed 26 people in Gaza on Wednesday
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that at least 26 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. That includes at least 13 killed in several strikes on central Gaza, including a charity kitchen that provided free hot meals in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
The death toll is expected to rise as people with serious injuries have been taken to nearby hospitals.
Hamas says Israel ‘turned on’ ceasefire agreement
The Palestinian group says in a statement that it dealt with proposals during the last phase of indirect negotiations with Israel “positively and responsibly to achieve our goals by completely stopping the aggression against our people in Gaza”.
It said Israel “turned on the agreement it signed with us … refused to move to the second phase of it, and resumed its aggression again against our people”.
This statement comes as the US continues to place the blame for attacks on Gaza at the feet of Hamas, and small but notable protests against the group are taking place in north Gaza.
