UK, France call for UN Security Council meeting on Gaza
The United Kingdom and France have called for the UN Security Council to convene on Friday to discuss the “humanitarian situation in Gaza and protection of aid workers”.
“Humanitarians are increasingly unable to operate in Gaza and last week a UN compound was hit. This is unacceptable,” the UK’s Mission to the UN wrote in a post on X.
The call comes a day after another aid worker from the humanitarian group World Central Kitchen was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Thursday.
Israeli army blowing up homes in northern Gaza
Civil defence teams are trying to rescue Palestinians trapped in the debris of fallen buildings after Israeli attacks this morning on northern Gaza City.
The situation also continues to escalate in Beit Lahiya where the Israeli military is blowing up houses. What is left there is very little, but the army is still bombing the area.
In the central area of Gaza, aircraft attacked agricultural land in Maghazi.
Gaza’s hospitals are overwhelmed after dozens of wounded people arrived overnight. They’re running out of medical supplies and blood units, and health facilities are urging Palestinians to donate.
Israeli fighter jets have bombed a residential home in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, killing at least three people and injuring dozens more in a predawn attack. The al-Ahli Hospital began to receive the dead and injured, which included many children
Israeli army continues its deadly attacks on aid workers
Earlier, we reported on an Israeli air raid that killed a worker and wounded six others with the World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid organisation in Gaza.
It’s not the first time the group has sustained deaths and injuries from Israeli military attacks. In November 2024, the army killed three WCK workers and wounded at least two others in an air strike on a vehicle in Khan Younis. A series of Israeli air attacks hit a WCK convoy in April 2024, killing seven of its aid workers. Another staff member was killed in an Israeli attack that July.
Our hearts are heavy today as we mourn the loss of one of our volunteers in Gaza. Israeli strikes hit near one of our WCK-supported community kitchens just as meals were being distributed. Jalal was tragically killed and six other people were injured. We will continue to support…
— World Central Kitchen (@WCKitchen) March 27, 2025
Israeli actions in Gaza resemble ‘atrocity crimes’: UN
Israeli actions in Gaza, including strikes on populated areas in which civilians have been killed, “bear the hallmarks” of atrocities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says.
“There is a callous disregard for human life and dignity. The acts of war that we see bear the hallmarks of atrocity crimes,” OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke said in Geneva.
Laerke described a worsening toll on civilians, saying: “Hospitals are once again battlegrounds – patients killed in their beds, ambulances shot at and first responders killed. Hundreds of children and other civilians have been killed in Israeli air strikes.”
Humanitarian aid access has been cut off entirely by Israel, he noted.
“We are back to where we were before – just this time it’s worse because of the complete shutdown of entry of supplies. Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. International law is clear, … yet the alerts that we issue in report after report reveal an utter lack of respect for the most basic principles of humanity.”
Ministry of Health in Gaza gives update on deaths
At least 43 people have been killed (including two recovered bodies from previous Israeli strikes) and 115 injured were admitted to Gaza hospitals in the past 24 hours, according to Health Ministry in Gaza.
The death toll and injuries since March 18, 2025, have reached 896 killed and 1,984 injured, the ministry said.
The overall toll from Israel’s war has risen to 50,251 killed and 114,025 injured since October 7, 2023.
