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SvennoJ on 28 March 2025
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Main events on March 28th

  • The Israeli military continued its renewed assault on Gaza for a 12th day, killing at least 24 people in attacks across the Strip on Friday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
  • The search continues for nine Palestinian Red Crescent Society staffers who went missing on Sunday after being confronted by Israeli forces in southern Gaza, with the humanitarian group denying their bodies have been found.
  • UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) chief Philippe Lazzarini has warned no aid has entered Gaza for more than three weeks – the longest period since the war began – as Israeli forces continue to block vital border crossings.
  • The Israeli military has again launched strikes on Lebanon, this time targeting the capital Beirut for the first time since its ceasefire with Hezbollah came into effect in November.
  • US forces have bombed more than 40 locations across Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen – including the capital Sanaa – killing at least one person, according to local media.


Over 200 groups urge South Africa to return to ICJ

Over 200 South African and Palestinian human rights organisations have urged South Africa to return to the International Court of Justice to ensure the implementation of the provisional measures previously issued by the court against Israel.

In a statement, the groups thanked South Africa for being a “staunch supporter and protector of the fundamental rights and interests of Palestinians”. But they indicated that Israel’s resumed attacks on Gaza, as well as its ongoing military escalation in the occupied West Bank, amounted to a “change in situation” that could trigger the court’s prerogative to issue new or modify the existing measures.

In January 2024, the ICJ ordered Israel to refrain from any acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention and to ensure its troops commit no genocidal acts against Palestinians in Gaza. In March 2024, it ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies arrive without delay to the Palestinian population in Gaza.

And, in May 2024, the court ordered Israel to halt its offensive in Rafah and withdraw from the enclave.

Since then, “Palestinians in Gaza have been subjected to a further seven months of unrelenting bombardment, forced displacement, starvation and erasure before the brief ceasefire that was violated by Israel hundreds of times in its 42-day existence”, the organisations wrote.


UN relief chief says ‘food is rotting’ at Gaza border due to Israel’s blockade

Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said “all entry points to Gaza are closed”.

“At the border, food is rotting. Medicine is expiring. Vital medical equipment is stuck,” he wrote in a post on X. “If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act to uphold them,” he said.

As we previously reported, UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) chief Philippe Lazzarini warned on Friday that no aid has entered Gaza for more than three weeks, in what he said is the longest blockade since the war began.