Spain removes ambassador from Israel in protest to Iran war, Gaza genocide

The Spanish government has decided ⁠to withdraw its ⁠ambassador to Israel, according to ‌the official state gazette.

The move on Wednesday comes as Spain has been one of the European Union’s foremost critics of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the new war on Iran launched by the United States and Israel.

“At the proposal of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation, and following deliberation by the Council of Ministers at its meeting on 10 March 2026, I hereby order the termination of Ms Ana María Sálomon Pérez’s appointment as Ambassador of Spain to the State of Israel,” the gazette said.

Spain’s embassy in Tel ⁠Aviv will ⁠be led by a ⁠charge d’affaires, a ⁠source ⁠at the Foreign Ministry said, according to Reuters news agency.

The country’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is one of the few left-wing leaders in Europe to condemn the US-Israel attack on Iran as “unjustifiable” and said that Madrid’s position was “no to the war”.

Sanchez’s government has also been one of the few European nations to consistently condemn Israel’s action in Gaza. In October, Spain’s parliament approved the enshrinement in law of a total arms embargo on Israel, permanently banning the sale of weapons, dual-use technology and military equipment in response to the genocide.

Palestinians feel abandoned by Trump as Gaza talks paused

Talks to advance President Trump's plan to end the Gaza war have been on hold since last week when the US and Israel jointly attacked Iran, sparking a broader Middle East war.

Board of peace has all been forgotten by Trump, he's too busy waging war.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/10/iran-war-threatens-board-of-peace-00821415?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it

But no fear, Trump opened up his bank accounts for deposits

So far, the board has set up its accounts at the World Bank and JP Morgan Chase, a Trump administration official said Tuesday. “We are currently working with countries that made the pledges to get them the wiring info,” added the official, who was granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. Some two dozen member countries pledged more than $16 billion to the board in February, with the U.S. promising a $10 billion lion’s share.

But since then, the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran have brought about chaos that has reversed even the modest gains White House negotiating duo Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had been making.

Now, the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran appear to be getting in the way. Indonesia’s president threatened to quit if the board doesn’t benefit Palestinians, Reuters reported, and the country’s foreign minister said all talks about the board had been stopped due to the Iran war. That could put in jeopardy the 8,000 troops Indonesia committed to an international stabilization force.

Israel has also closed the Rafah border crossing citing the war with Iran. That has rolled back a milestone in the ceasefire plan and led to a drop in aid getting into the enclave. Asked about the border, the administration official referred POLITICO to the Israeli government.

Mounting rubbish in Gaza brings health risks to residents – video report

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/mar/11/mounting-rubbish-in-gaza-brings-health-risks-to-residents-palestinians-video-report

Palestinians across the Gaza Strip fear for their health as piles of rubbish mixed with dirt and debris accumulate in the streets. Areas once filled with bustling markets are now covered with litter and there are limited resources to clear the waste

‘Siren economy’: Why tactical wins fail to bring Israel strategic safety

Analyst refers to ‘security achievement gap’ of tactical assassinations that fail to bring Israel security.


_{Israelis lie on a road to take cover during a siren following a barrage of missiles from Iran, amid the United States-Israeli conflict with Iran, in central Israel, on March 9}

At exactly 12pm (10:00 GMT), the piercing wail of air raid sirens shatters the midday hum of Tel Aviv.

Across the city, tech workers abandon their desks and rush into reinforced concrete stairwells, scrolling anxiously through phones as the dull thuds of aerial interceptions echo overhead. This midday disruption is not a random anomaly; it is a meticulously scheduled routine in a suffocating new reality for millions of Israelis.

While the United States and Israel promote their war on Iran, which assassinated Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as a “strategic victory,” the operational reality on the ground reveals a crippling war of attrition.

Ehab Jabareen, a researcher specialising in Israeli affairs, describes this disconnect as the “security achievement gap”.

“Israel can achieve massive intelligence breakthroughs, like assassinating a figure the size of the Iranian supreme leader, but it is simultaneously unable to translate this achievement into a daily sense of security,” Jabareen said.

He noted that the old Israeli security doctrine – which assumed the adversary’s body would collapse if the head was severed – has failed. Instead, assassinations merely trigger new rounds of retaliation, offering a “psychological victory without any strategic stability”.

The data of attrition, from shock to ‘programmed paralysis’

The scale of this attrition is captured in data from Tzofar, a voluntary alert tracking system that draws real-time information from the Israeli military’s Home Front Command servers. An analysis of Tzofar’s data between February 28 and March 8 documents thousands of security incidents, detailing a profound military shift.

• The initial shock: On February 28, as United States and Israeli jets struck Tehran, Israel faced an unprecedented retaliatory barrage. Tzofar data indicates an overwhelming initial spike, with alerts peaking dramatically on the first day to overwhelm layered air defences.
• The attrition phase: By early March, the strategy shifted. Daily alerts stabilised into a steady rhythm of attrition that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims it is prepared to sustain for at least six months.

A critical tactical turning point occurred on March 3. Tzofar’s breakdown by threat type shows that infiltrations by “hostile aircraft” – primarily “suicide” drones – surpassed traditional rocket alerts for the first time. This coincided with Lebanon’s Hezbollah entering the fray to target northern Israel.

Unlike ballistic missiles with predictable trajectories, these slow, highly manoeuvrable drones can hover over populated areas, forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis into shelters as a single drone triggers alarms across vast geographic areas.

Jabareen argues that the Iron Dome was historically more than just a defence array; it was a central pillar in the psychological contract between the state and society, creating an invisible shield that allowed Israelis to live and work normally despite regional wars.

Cheap, low-flying drones have radically altered this equation. “They do not need high precision or massive destructive power; their main job is to disrupt the economic rhythm of life,” Jabareen explained.

Targeting the economic heart

While border towns naturally record high total alerts, a closer look at the data reveals a targeted campaign against Israel’s economic centre.

Cities deep within the central Gush Dan and Shfela regions – such as Petah Tikva, Givat Shmuel, Kiryat Ono and East Ramat Gan – recorded nearly identical figures of about 70 to 75 alerts each in the system’s tracking. This symmetry indicates coordinated, dense barrages aimed directly at the greater Tel Aviv area, effectively undermining the country’s financial and demographic heart.

The timing of these strikes exposes a strategy focused on psychological and economic disruption. The Tzofar data reveals that attacks are not random; they peak sharply at exactly 12pm local time, with other waves at 7am, 2pm and 3pm. By targeting morning commutes and peak afternoon business hours, while leaving the early morning hours relatively quiet, the strikes are engineered to maximise economic paralysis.

This dynamic is giving rise to what is being debated in Israel as a “siren economy” – an environment where markets and businesses are forced to operate in fragmented bursts between air raid alerts. For a country that proudly brands itself as the “Startup Nation”, the inability to maintain a fast-paced, stable work environment poses an unprecedented dilemma.

A fractured social contract

This paralysis has severed Israel in some respects from the outside world. The unprecedented six-day closure of Israeli airspace has also stranded more than 100,000 citizens abroad. For a small state without determined land borders, Ben Gurion International Airport is the solitary lung connecting Israel to the global economy – vital for high-tech exports, tourism and foreign investment.

“This touches the Israeli social contract – the unwritten agreement between the citizen and the state based on a clear equation: military service and high taxes in exchange for security and economic stability,” Jabareen noted. As this equation wavers, it shifts the internal debate from security concerns to a deeper political question regarding the government’s exit strategy.

The human cost continues to mount. Sixteen Israelis have been killed since the escalation began, including nine in Beit Shemesh, five in the greater Tel Aviv area, and two soldiers on the Lebanese border. The Israeli Ministry of Health reported that the number of injured has risen to 2,142, with 142 hospitalised.

According to Jabareen, the Israeli security establishment does not view the current conflict as leading to an imminent Iranian collapse, but rather as a phase of prolonged, mutual attrition, potentially aiming to “Lebanonise” Iran by dismantling its central state.

However, as the Israeli public is forced to accept disrupted air travel and daily rushes to bomb shelters, the fundamental question shifts from military capability to societal endurance. Pointing to fatigue that eventually forced Israel out of southern Lebanon after 15 years, Jabareen questions whether the “Startup Nation” can survive a similar era of “lean years” against a much larger foe.

As the midday sirens wail once again, the true test for Israel may no longer be about striking foreign capitals, but whether its economy and social fabric can outlast the paralysis.


It will get much worse. With Iran driving the US out of it's military basis and US/Israel inciting lesser (armed) Jihad by bombing the Ayatollah and his family, who knows what new terrorist groups will spring up and which ones are already taking advantage of the US running from their ME basis. 

In the mean time Israel will come knocking for more billions from the American tax payer...

Israeli government is undertaking a 'power grab under cover of war'

Twelve days after the start of the US-Israeli military campaign, Israelis are spending hours a day in bomb shelters as Iranian bombs pour on the country. But since the start of the conflict, neither the Prime minister nor the Defence minister have directly addressed the Israeli population. On top of that, the war is helping 'a de facto annexation of the West Bank', says FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky from Jerusalem.

Central Beirut targeted in new Israeli airstrikes

Israel is continuing to carry out airstrikes across Lebanon and the scope of those attacks is expanding beyond Hezbollah strongholds south of Beirut, including an apartment building in the centre of the city.

Israeli Strike Sets Gaza Displacement Tents Ablaze as West Bank Raids Intensify

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-strike-sets-gaza-displacement-tents-ablaze-as-west-bank-raids-intensify/

• An Israeli airstrike in western Gaza City triggered a fire that spread to tents sheltering displaced families.
• Around 1.9 million Palestinians remain displaced across Gaza amid dire humanitarian conditions.
• The death toll in Gaza has risen to 72,136 Palestinians killed since October 2023.
• Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in Duma village near Nablus in the West Bank.
• Israeli forces carried out multiple raids and arrests across West Bank towns and cities.

Israeli Strike Burns Displacement Tents in Gaza

An Israeli airstrike on a building in western Gaza City ignited a fire that spread to nearby tents sheltering displaced families on Wednesday evening.

According to the Anadolu news agency, Israeli warplanes carried out several strikes targeting a government building in the Ansar area after issuing an evacuation warning. The explosion sparked a fire that quickly spread to tents housing displaced Palestinians in the surrounding area. The tents were sheltering families who had fled their homes during Israel’s ongoing military campaign in the Gaza Strip.

Gaza’s Civil Defense said firefighters managed to bring the blaze under control after the fire spread to the displacement camp. There were no immediate reports of casualties, though dozens of families were left without shelter.

My people are burning alive.

Where is humanity? Where is your conscience, world?

again

Israel is committing crimes before your very eyes.

And the world remains complicit in silence and abandonment. 💔 pic.twitter.com/JuvYw9Kt43

— Abdullah Omar🇵🇸 (@Abdullah_Om3r03) March 11, 2026

Humanitarian Crisis Continues

The incident comes amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. According to Palestinian officials, around 1.9 million people out of Gaza’s population of 2.4 million are currently displaced, living in worn-out tents lacking basic necessities.

Despite the ceasefire agreement, living conditions have not significantly improved. Palestinian authorities say Israel has failed to fully implement commitments under the agreement to allow the entry of sufficient food, humanitarian aid, medical supplies and shelter materials, including tents and mobile housing units.

Israeli occupation forces have also continued what Palestinians describe as daily violations of the ceasefire, including shelling and gunfire. According to Palestinian data, 650 Palestinians have been killed and 1,732 injured since the ceasefire took effect.

Settlers Burn Mosque in West Bank

Meanwhile, illegal Israeli Jewish settlers carried out an attack on a mosque in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. According to Palestinian sources cited by Anadolu, settlers set fire to the entrance of the mosque and spray-painted Hebrew slogans on its walls.

Anti-settlement activist Suleiman Dawabsheh said a group of settlers entered the village before dawn and ignited the fire. Residents and Palestinian Civil Defense crews managed to extinguish the flames before they spread further inside the building.

The fire damaged the mosque’s entrance and caused smoke damage inside the prayer hall. The Palestinian Awqaf and Religious Affairs Ministry condemned the attack, describing it as “an attempt to desecrate Islamic holy sites during Ramadan.”

Settlers have obstructed traffic and closed routes in Wadi Sa’ir, located north of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank. pic.twitter.com/Sc9CI3ly2f

— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) March 11, 2026

Israeli Raids, Arrests Continue

Israeli occupation forces also carried out a series of raids and arrest campaigns across the occupied West Bank.  According to Quds News Network, Israeli troops stormed several towns and neighborhoods overnight.

In the northern West Bank, forces raided homes in Shuweika suburb north of Tulkarm during an ongoing incursion. In Azzun, east of Qalqilya, Israeli forces searched homes and arrested two young men, Ziad Allama and Sanad Hussein.

Israeli occupation forces also carried out raids in Beita and Awrif near Nablus, while arrest campaigns were reported in Dura and Hebron in the southern West Bank. During the raid in Hebron (Al-Khalil), Israeli occupation forces reportedly arrested Fajr Mansour Al-Natsha, a 14-year-old child. Meanwhile, Israeli troops continued search operations in Bir al-Basha village near Jenin.

Israel Strikes Gaza Marketplace and Tent Camp, Killing and Wounding Palestinians

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/12/headlines/israel_strikes_gaza_marketplace_and_tent_camp_killing_and_wounding_palestinians

In Gaza, Israeli forces have continued deadly attacks on Palestinians over the past 24 hours — in the latest violations of the U.S.-brokered October 10 ceasefire agreement. Palestinian reporters say two women were killed and seven others were injured, including three children, after Israeli forces targeted tents sheltering displaced families in the Nuseirat refugee camp. In western Gaza City, health officials say one Palestinian was killed and others were wounded when an Israeli drone fired a missile on a market. This is a Palestinian survivor of the attack.

"Gaza is not an isolated tragedy. It is the epicentre of global politics."

https://progressive.international/wire/2026-03-12-gaza-is-not-an-isolated-tragedy-it-is-the-epicentre-of-global-politics/en/

In her speech at the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, Yara Hawari examines the brutal reality of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, where US-supplied thermobaric weapons have literally evaporated thousands of Palestinians. Drawing parallels to US aggression in Venezuela, sanctions on Cuba, and the war on Iran, Hawari argues that Gaza functions as a laboratory for weapons, surveillance technology, and occupation tactics that are already being deployed against populations worldwide.

Last month, I read a headline that didn’t sound real. It said that thousands of Palestinians in Gaza had been evaporated. Not displaced. Not injured. Not killed. Evaporated.

It turns out that the Israeli regime used US supplied thermobaric weapons that don’t just explode. They inhale. They suck the oxygen out of a space and then they ignite it. This produces a fireball which reaches up to 3000 degrees celsius. In that kind of heat, concrete cracks, steel bends. And human bodies inevitably, horrifyingly, evaporate.

This is not science fiction. This is real and it is now and it is Gaza.


For the last two and a half years, Gaza has been subjected to a brutal and ongoing genocide. It has endured roughly six times the explosive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, concentrated on an area less than half the size of Hiroshima. The devastation has been all encompassing. 

When the October 2025 ceasefire was declared, I think there was a collective feeling of relief. But what soon became very clear was that the ceasefire in Gaza, as so many ceasefires with Israel have been, was a diplomatic sham- a tool to make sure Gaza slips out of the headlines and for the genocide to continue under the guise of diplomacy. And indeed, the Israeli regime has violated the ceasefire every single day, killing Palestinians every single day and limiting aid every single day. Since the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran, the Israeli regime has closed all the border crossings and stopped completely that trickle of aid.

Meanwhile, Trump’s disgustingly named Board of Peace has come up with dystopic plans for concentration camps in Gaza, where communities will be constantly surveilled, their biometric data collected, calories counted, healthcare and education controlled. All under the watchful eye of colonial overlords. The contracts for building these concentration camps will be sold to the highest bidders. This is what the Trump administration has laid out for the future of Gaza. And while they draft this dystopian future, they are erasing the past two years.

There is no talk of justice. No pursuit of accountability. No investigations into the thousands of massacres. Instead, there is an effort to bury it all. To push the rubble into the sea, along with the thousands of martyrs still trapped beneath it and to demand that we forget what was done in Gaza.

....


Because that is what we must understand. The architecture being tested on Palestinians does not stay in Palestine. It travels. It is exported. It becomes precedent. 

This is a system functioning as designed. But this system didn’t build itself- it comes after decades of complicity by states, corporations and individuals. 

I am certain that the genocide in Gaza will define our generation and the generations that follow. We are living through a historical rupture. The question is not whether this moment will shape the future. The question is how. And the answer to that question depends on what we do.

Solidarity is important but in today’s world, we need more. The task at hand is radical transformation. To convert moral outrage into political power. To convert mass mobilisation into structural change. To build the institutions, the alliances, and the political will that make genocide impossible- not just unpopular- now and forever. 

Now more than ever it is clear that freeing Palestine means freeing the world. There is no more waiting. Because we cannot live in a world where regimes are permitted to evaporate human beings. Not ever again.

IDF drops charges of Israeli soldiers caught on video raping Palestinian

Victim suffered ruptured intestine, severe injury to anus & lungs & broken ribs. Israelis then rioted for right to rape & government ministers defended soldiers & one rapist became a TV celebrity.

Here's some background on the Shaw regime Trump wants to re-install, previously installed by CIA/MI6 in 1953 overthrowing Iran's democracy at the time.

Dungeons of the Zionist Shah: Where Imam Khamenei Was Tortured

Laith Marouf tours the infamous Ebrat Prison, operated by the Zionist Shah’s intelligence agency the SAVAK, and where thousands of Iranians were tortured, including the now martyred Imam Khamenei, for their activities and opinions opposing Iran’s servitude to Zionism & Imperialism.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was arrested multiple times and subjected to torture during the 1960s and 1970s while opposing the regime of Shah Reza Pahlav. Khamenei was arrested six times for his revolutionary activities. His most difficult imprisonment, lasting several months between 1974 and 1975, took place in Tehran's "Police-SAVAK Joint Prison," now known as the Ebrat Museum.

What’s happened in Gaza and the West Bank since the start of the Iran war?


_{Palestinians displaced during the Gaza war live in tents exposed to rain, heat, cold and wind in Khan Younis in southern Gaza}

With the eyes of the world on the United States and Israel’s war in Iran, Israeli strikes and raids in Gaza and settler attacks and military operations in the occupied West Bank have continued unabated.

Gaza

• Border closed: On March 1, Israel closed Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt. The Israeli military’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said the move was a part of “several necessary security adjustments” that have been implemented in the region due to the war with Iran. The Rafah crossing is considered vital for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the evacuation of critically ill patients from Gaza.
• Panic buying: The war and the closure of the Rafah crossing have caused panic buying in Gaza, where residents who have already endured nearly two and a half years of war fear food shortages. Ali al-Hayek, a member of the Palestinian Businessmen Association in Gaza, told Al Jazeera that closing the crossings could halt aid distribution to struggling families and operations at charity kitchens.
• Call to reopen crossing: On Tuesday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for Israel to reopen Gaza’s border crossings. On March 2, Israeli authorities said they would reopen the Karem Abu Salem crossing, known as Kerem Shalom to Israelis, to allow for the “gradual entry of humanitarian aid” into the territory.
• Father and daughter killed: On Saturday, an Israeli drone attack killed a father and his daughter in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. In a separate attack later that day in Khan Younis, another person was killed and a girl wounded, according to Al Jazeera correspondents on the ground.
• Gas shortage: A prolonged shortage in cooking gas and fuel since the beginning of the war has affected many in Gaza. Supplies of gas coming in, even since a ceasefire was declared, are well below the population’s actual needs, according to official sources in Gaza and United Nations agencies.
• Amnesty report about women: Global rights group Amnesty International released a report saying Palestinian women in Gaza have been “denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely” by Israel. The report says pregnant women, as well as those suffering from terminal illness, lack adequate health services in the territory.

West Bank

• Al-Aqsa Mosque closed to worshippers: Israeli forces have continued the closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and also cancelled Friday prayers. The Israeli Civil Administration chief, Hisham Ibrahim, told media that the decision was taken in light of Iran launching retaliatory strikes at “Israel and the entire region”.
• Raid on Askar refugee camp: On Tuesday, Israeli forces raided the Askar refugee camp east of Nablus, closing its entrances and searching several homes.
• Israeli settler attacks: Israeli settlers have continued terrorising Palestinians in small hamlets and villages across rural areas of the West Bank.
• Restrictions on movement: Over the past 10 days, Israeli authorities have distributed leaflets to rural communities with orders banning movement between West Bank governorates, proclaiming “terrorism and terrorists bring only death, destruction and devastation.”
• Two brothers killed: Two Palestinian brothers were killed on March 2 by settlers in Qaryut, 4km (2.5 miles) west of Duma, where they were videotaped shooting live fire at Palestinian homes.
• Settlers kill Palestinian: On Saturday, Palestinian Amir Muhammad Shanaran was killed by Israeli settlers during an attack in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
• Three Palestinians killed: On Sunday, at least three Palestinians were killed by Israeli settlers in attacks across the West Bank, Wafa reported. Israeli settlers shot two of the Palestinians – Fare Jawdat Hamayel and Thaer Farouq Hamayel – in the head in an overnight attack in the village of Khirbet Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, Wafa reported, citing a statement from the Palestinian Health Ministry. The third resident, named Muhammad Hassan Murrah, died later that day after inhaling fumes from a tear gas canister fired by Israeli soldiers who accompanied the settlers, Wafa reported.
• Missile debris hits a house: Shrapnel or debris from a missile damaged a house in the town of Biddya, in the northern occupied West Bank, according to news reports on Thursday.
• Israel closes multiple town entrances: Israeli forces closed entrances to several towns in the provinces of Ramallah and Nablus on Friday morning. They also tightened military restrictions around the city of Nablus, Wafa reported.
• Israeli settlers set fire to poultry farm: Wafa also reported that Israeli settlers set fire to a poultry farm in Bethlehem on Friday.

In Gaza, Palestinians feel forgotten as Iran war captures attention and ceasefire progress slows

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/gaza-palestinians-iran-war-trump-ceasefire-israel-hamas-rcna262959

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Now, a wider war consumes the region after the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran last month, triggering retaliatory attacks from Tehran and its proxies. Palestinians in the battered enclave fear they have been forgotten, with progress on advancing the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas largely sidelined by the latest hostilities. Key obstacles include the future disarmament of Hamas and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from areas that are still occupied.

"The war involving Iran has had a major impact on Gaza," Doaa Basam, a 26-year-old pharmacist displaced from Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza to Khan Younis, told NBC News on Wednesday. Basam noted a continued "shortage of many essential supplies," including adequate food and medicine.

The Kerem Shalom crossing is currently the only functioning route in and out of Gaza. Israel closed the Rafah crossing with Egypt "until further notice" as the Iran conflict broke out, citing security fears, just weeks after it was reopened under the ceasefire deal.

Between Feb. 27 and March 5, just more than 3,400 pallets of aid administered by the U.N. and partners were offloaded at Gaza's crossings, according to an update published March 6 by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. That works out to around 485 pallets per day, with around 70% of them containing food supplies, according to OCHA.

The figures are a significant decrease from the average over the period since the ceasefire came into effect, with an average of 2,240 pallets a day delivered across the period between Oct. 10 and March 5. Those figures only pertain to aid administered by the U.N. and its partners, however.

OCHA warned a week ago that, even before the crossing closures and challenges posed by the Iran conflict, additional food supplies were "urgently needed to ensure that partners have sufficient stocks to maintain distributions," with its partners' operations covering "only 50 percent of minimum caloric needs" for 1.2 million of Gaza's 2 million residents.

OCHA also noted that medical evacuations out of Gaza were also on hold amid the Iran war, while only “a limited number of commercial supplies have been permitted to enter,” with delays causing fuel shortages, driving up prices and increasing reliance on humanitarian aid.

Meanwhile, deadly Israeli airstrikes have continued with more than 650 people killed in Gaza since the ceasefire began, according to the Health Ministry in the enclave, while most of the population is still internally displaced and living in makeshift shelters.

Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Will Not Stop Wars & Occupation Until U.S. Pulls Support

Inside Israel, "there is no room for any question marks or doubts about this war," says journalist Gideon Levy, a columnist for Haaretz and a member of the newspaper's editorial board. He says war fever has taken over the country, with polls showing 93% support for the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, Lebanon and beyond — at least among the Jewish public. "Israel is doing as much as it can," he says. "As long as the American support is so massive, so blind and so automatic, this will go on."

Levy also criticizes Israel's military censorship system that strictly limits publishing information about war damage and other material deemed to be counter to national security. He says much of it is driven by self-censorship by a press that sees itself as "an agency of the government and of the military establishment, and this is very worrying."

Palestine solidarity marches in Iran: Large crowds turn out despite US-Israeli strikes

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians - including the president and other top officials - have been rallying across the country for Al Quds Day. That's despite airstrikes by the US and Israel.

Israel says it launched 7,600 strikes in Iran, 1,100 in Lebanon

The Israeli military has announced that it launched about 7,600 air attacks against Iran and 1,100 in Lebanon. The figures highlight the destruction Israel is unleashing on both countries, especially on Lebanon, a country more than 150 times smaller than Iran.

773 people killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March 2: Health Ministry

At least 773 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon since March 2, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported. The ministry added that 1,933 people have been wounded, including 103 children.

Israeli air strikes flatten building in southern Lebanon

Israeli air strikes have destroyed a house in Aabbasiyyeh, near Tyre, southern Lebanon, an Al Jazeera team on the ground and the National News Agency are reporting. The air strikes targeted the building about an hour after the Israeli military issued a threat to residents to leave.

Israeli strikes target multiple locations in southern Lebanon: Report

Israeli warplanes are carrying out air strikes in several areas in southern Lebanon, the National News Agency is reporting. Air strikes have targeted a house in Aytit in the Tyre district and a building in Ghaziyeh, south of Sidon. Attacks also hit the town of Kfar Dounine in Nabatieh governorate, the agency reported.

Imam from southern Lebanese town killed in Israeli strike: Report

The imam from the southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa has died from injuries sustained in an Israeli strike, the National News Agency reported. The agency reported that Sheikh Hassan Ghandour succumbed to injuries after Thursday’s strike on his home.

Israeli army to send reinforcements to northern sector bordering Lebanon

The Israeli army says its military chief has ordered “a broad reinforcement” to the Northern Command sector bordering Lebanon. In a statement, it said it was undertaking the move “as part of enhancing readiness for various attack and defence scenarios”, and would draw on additional regular forces.

Hezbollah claims attack on drone base in northern Israel

Lebanese group says it struck the Giva Drone Control Base in Safed in northern Israel with a rocket salvo. This launch was part of the “al-Quds Day” operations”, Hezbollah said in a statement.

UN’s chief launches $325m humanitarian appeal to support Lebanon

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has launched a flash appeal for $325m to help Lebanon grapple with the humanitarian fallout of a war that has seen more than a seventh of its population flee their homes. “Solidarity in words must be matched by solidarity in action,” said Guterres, who announced the campaign from Beirut.

Lebanese army warns Beirut residents not to scan QR code on Israeli leaflets

Lebanon’s military has warned Beirut residents not to scan a QR code on leaflets dropped by an Israeli aircraft over the capital, the National News Agency reports.

In a statement, the military said the code contained a link to WhatsApp and Facebook groups directing them to an Israeli military intelligence unit responsible for recruiting assets. It said scanning the code and clicking the links carried legal and security risks and could lead to their devices being hacked.

Israeli displacement threats extend across 14 percent of Lebanon: Aid group

Israel has now issued forced displacement threats covering more than 14 percent of Lebanon, says the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

Before carrying out attacks in Lebanon, which it has ramped up since March 2, Israel sometimes issues threats demanding that residents flee entire neighbourhoods or areas. Such threats now cover about 1,470 square kilometres (568sq miles) of territory – or 14 percent of all of Lebanon, NRC said.

The organisation’s country director, Maureen Philipon, said the Israeli threats have “expanded to broad geographic directives, often demanding immediate movement, creating panic and fear across communities that strikes are imminent – even when they are not.”

Earlier today, as we reported, Israel repeated a displacement threat for numerous neighbourhoods in Beirut’s southern suburbs – Haret Hreik, Ghobeiry, Laylaki, Hadath, Burj al-Barajneh, Tahwitat al-Ghadir and Chiyah.

Israeli army raids, settler attacks continue in occupied West Bank

As it continues its attack on Iraq and Lebanon, the Israeli army is targeting Palestinian homes and carrying out arrests in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli settlers have also continued to carry out attacks on Palestinian property and expand settlements. Israeli forces carried out a raid in the city of Qalqilya, and closed the entrances to several towns, including Sinjil, north of Ramallah. Wafa news agency reported. Israeli forces also arrested a man from Deir Istiya as he was trying to repair a water meter broken by Israeli settlers last week.

Israeli settlers set fire to a poultry farm belonging to a Palestinian in a village east of Bethlehem, while another group worked to expand settlement activity by paving a road in the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah.

Residents of Palestinian villages in Israel questioning whether ‘defence systems designed to protect them’

One recent missile attack has been making the news because Israel’s defence systems failed to intercept it. The missile hit the Zarzir village in northern Israel, which has already been subject to Israeli demolition orders and building restrictions.

According to sources, the missile fell in a residential area, causing major damage. At least 80 people were transferred to hospitals. Cars were also burned and 300 homes damaged. That’s a huge number compared with what we’ve normally seen during the war.

People in the village are raising questions about whether Israel’s defence systems are actually designed to protect them. We are either talking about a situation where defence systems have been overwhelmed by the continuous strikes from Hezbollah and Iran, or where not all Palestinian villages inside Israel are being protected.

At least 2,975 people in Israel injured in attacks

Israel’s Health Ministry says at least 2,975 people have been injured in attacks since the US-Israeli war on Iran started on February 28.

Almost 20,000 civilian units damaged by US-Israeli attacks on Iran: Red Crescent

Iran’s IRNA is reporting, quoting the head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, that “24,531 civilian units have been damaged in various sectors of which 19,775 units are residential”.

The report added that: