| SvennoJ said: Some background on why Saudi Arabia are dragging their feet to help out. They want a deal with the US for nuclear technology in trade of normalization with Israel and backing a 2 state solution. |
Nighttime raid causes ‘massive destruction’ in Tulkarem
We know of at least five overnight raids in the occupied West Bank. The most consequential of those was in Nur Shams near Tulkarem in the north of the territory. The Israeli military used five of its enormous bulldozers in that raid.
Those bulldozers are specifically designed and used to cause massive destruction, dragging up streets and drains and destroying houses. It’s often a sort of collective punishment the Israelis inflict on these refugee camps where some armed groups are operating.
The Israeli military is also still looking for a gunman or gunmen who opened fire near an illegal outpost that the Israelis call Homesh. All settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law, but there are some that even Israelis consider illegal themselves.
This particular settlement had been evacuated by the Israelis, but settlers went back there. It seems Palestinian gunmen opened fire around the settlement last night. As Israeli soldiers looked for the gunmen, seven of the soldiers were injured by an improved explosive device. There is still a manhunt going on for those involved.
More provocations
Israeli settlers desecrate tombstones at Islamic cemetery
Israeli settlers have smashed and defaced tombstones at an historic Islamic cemetery along the eastern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Media Center, which documented the vandalism.
The cemetery, Bab al-Rahma, hosts the graves of notable companions of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
Upcoming UN report finds ‘drastic acceleration’ in settlements
Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN’s human rights office in the occupied Palestinian territories, says the agency is publishing a report detailing the “drastic acceleration in settlement building alongside oppression, violence and discrimination against Palestinians”.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) interviewed Palestinian victims as well as a range of sources to “identify the pattern of violations” and draft recommendations, the organisation said.
“Israel’s human rights violations against the Palestinian population must cease immediately,” OHCHR wrote on X.
In exclusive video, Israeli officer brags about killing unarmed civilian in Gaza City
Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive bodycam video, showing an Israeli army officer bragging to his comrades about shooting an unarmed elderly Palestinian man in Gaza City. “We got in and we opened fire,” the soldier said in the video dated November 6, last year. “He came towards me and he did this to me,” the officer said, waving his hands.
Asked whether the man was armed, the officer replied, “I don’t know, he hid under the bed.” “And you took him down, great,” another officer replied. “Four bullets, 14 degrees, brothers,” he said.
“It was fantastic,” the officer concluded.
Israeli air strikes target overcrowded Rafah and central Gaza
Overnight, Israeli attacks on Rafah city and central areas in Gaza caused further civilian casualties. They have been rushed to the remaining health facilities either in Rafah City or the central areas. They are under the threat of losing their life in the central areas, where Al-Aqsa Hospital is overwhelmed with no medical supplies sufficient to treat people properly.
In overcrowded Rafah, overnight strikes on a residential complex not only caused a large number of injuries but also further internal displacement. Wounded people who arrived at the Najjar Hospital in Rafah are under the threat of not receiving the necessary treatment, given the shortage of medical supplies and staff. The medical staff has been exhausted, working 24 hours and seven days a week for the last five months. It is a very serious situation at the medical level.
In the northern part of Gaza, we are seeing children dying in this enforced starvation and dehydration due to the famine spreading. Three more children died at al-Shifa Hospital, as a result of starvation and dehydration, increasing the number of such deaths to 23.
A view of damage after Israel targeted Burj al-Masri building in Rafah, on Sunday
Israeli strikes kill 82 people in Gaza over past day: Ministry
Eighty-two people have been killed in 10 Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the last 24 hours, raising the total number of deaths in Gaza since October 7 to 30,960, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. A statement by the ministry on Telegram said that 122 people had been injured by the Israeli army over the past day, increasing the total number wounded to 72,524.
It added that a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as the occupation prevents ambulance and civil defence crews from reaching them.
Palestinians salvage belongings from bombed residential building in Rafah
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in an Israeli strike in Rafah, Saturday
Israel has destroyed most water wells in Jabalia: Mayor
The mayor of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, says three in four wells have been destroyed by the Israeli army, despite looming starvation amid a severe lack of water and food. Mazen al-Najjar told Al Jazeera the prices of food items have skyrocketed and remain unaffordable past their expiry date.
The mayor added that airdropped aid is insufficient to meet the needs of the population of northern Gaza and called for the opening of border crossings to let urgently needed supplies in.
Video footage shows aftermath of Burj al-Masri strike in Rafah
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have published a video on X, showing the aftermath of Israel’s air strike on the Burj al-Masri building in Rafah, southern Gaza. Several people have been injured, according to preliminary reports, and have been taken to the Najjar Hospital in Rafah.
We’re getting confirmed reports from Gaza City that during a routine aid airdrop, aid packages fell directly on crowds of people who had gathered at the drop site. The packages came down so fast that they hit some of the people. There are reports of multiple injured people being taken to al-Shifa Hospital.
This is the second time there have been casualties from airdrops. Yesterday, five people were killed in northern Gaza when parachutes on some airdropped aid packages malfunctioned and the packages fell into a crowd.
At least 10 killed in Nuseirat camp after Israeli air strike hits residential block
Search and rescue operation is under way after the destruction of an entire residential block belonging to the al-Nuwairi family in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. A surviving resident told Al Jazeera that there were “children and girls” in the house.
“There is no safety zone, they told us here is the safety of Ajina here,” the survivor said. A member of the civil defence told Al Jazeera that “among those targeted is a month-old baby girl and efforts to search for her are still ongoing”.
Israel targets mosque in Gaza’s Khan Younis
Israeli forces have bombarded a neighbourhood in Khan Younis close to the border with Israel, hitting al-Riad mosque, which was heavily damaged by the attack, according to the footage obtained by Al Jazeera. Rescue teams have yet to determine if there were any casualties.
Terrifying air strike on Deir el-Balah
A huge, terrifying attack has hit al-Mashala neighbourhood in the city of Deir el-Balah, central Gaza. At least six ambulances have rushed to the scene and we are hearing reports of many casualties and wounded. Israeli tanks also continue to hit the eastern outskirts of Deir el-Balah.
Hezbollah fires rocket towards northern Israeli army base
Hezbollah says it struck an Israeli army base with a Burkan rocket earlier today. The Israeli military, however, says the projectile “fell in an open area” near Yiftah, a kibbutz in northern Israel. Israeli forces responded with a retaliatory strike towards the launch site in Lebanon, an Israeli military statement added.
The cross-border attacks follow Hezbollah strikes on five Israeli positions yesterday, including in Kfar Chouba on the eastern side of the border and Jal al-Alam on the western side.
Isareli raid destroys house in Lebanon’s Majdal Zoun
An Israeli air raid has destroyed a house in Lebanon’s southern town of Majdal Zoun, according to Lebanon’s NNA state news agency. It added that ambulances were sent to the scene. The number of victims has not been confirmed.
NNA and local media said the first missile did not explode, while the second one destroyed a building. Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group have been trading fire across the border since the beginning of the war in Gaza. Israeli raids have killed more than 200 Hezbollah members, according to local media reports.
Israel strikes home in Lebanon’s Kafra
Israeli warplanes have hit a house in Lebanon’s southern town of Kafra, in the Nabatieh governorate, according to the NNA state news agency. Ambulances and civil defence vehicles rushed to the scene, the Lebanese news outlet said. There was no immediate information about the casualties.
The attack comes after rocket warning sirens sounded in northern Israel and a residential home was hit the Lebanese town of Majdal Zoun.
Hezbollah claims hitting Israeli military barracks in occupied Shebaa Farms
Lebanon’s Hezbollah armed group has said in a statement on Telegram that it launched a “direct hit” at the Zibdin barracks of the Israeli military in the occupied Shebaa Farms. The group said the attack was “in support of the Palestinian people and their honourable resistance”.
There was no immediate information about the casualties.
Turkey’s Erdogan likens Netanyahu to infamous dictators
Erdogan has compared Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders with “Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin”, saying their “crimes in Gaza” have turned them into “Nazis”, reports Turkey’s Anadolu news agency. Giving a speech in Istanbul, Erdogan also took aim at Muslim nations he believes have failed the Palestinians’ cause, saying the “Islamic world of two billion people has not fulfilled its duty”.
Turkey, for its part, he said, “firmly backs” Palestinian group Hamas and would do everything possible to hold Israel to account under international law for its “massacres”. Erdogan has been one of Israel’s harshest critics during the war in Gaza, pushing the countries’ once warming ties to a low point.
Five months into war, 80 percent of Gaza homes ‘uninhabitable’
Palestinians in Gaza increasingly have no shelter or food, said Salameh Maarouf, head of the enclave’s media office. Five months into the war, 80 percent of the homes in Gaza have been rendered “uninhabitable” said Maarouf, while 120,000 families are suffering from famine.
A displaced Palestinian woman carries her belongings through a street amid the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis, Gaza, on March 6
Destruction caused by Israel amounts to $30bn: Gaza government
Gaza’s Government Media Office has said the destruction caused by Israel in the enclave since October 7 amounts to more than $30bn due to the damage to homes, facilities, and other infrastructure, including road, electricity, water, and sewage networks.
Indonesians rally in support of Palestinians
Protesters display mock bodies draped in Palestinian flags and photos depicting children in Gaza during a rally in support of Palestinians
Protesters display posters as they pray during a rally in support of Palestinians in Gaza
Thousands march in London for Gaza ceasefire
Several thousand protesters have gathered in the centre of the British capital, demanding ceasefire in the besieged coastal enclave as the Israeli war enters its 154th day. Protesters were expected to march from Hyde Park to the US Embassy on the southern bank of the River Thames.
Parisians march calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Hundreds protest in Israel’s Umm al-Fahem city against Gaza war
Aid ship prepares to set to sail from Cyprus to Gaza through new corridor
A US charity says it is loading aid for Gaza onto a boat in Cyprus, preparing for the first shipment to the war-ravaged territory along the new maritime corridor the EU hopes will open this weekend. The Spanish-flagged vessel Open Arms docked three weeks ago in the port of Larnaca in Cyprus, the closest EU member state to the enclave.
“World Central Kitchen teams are in Cyprus loading pallets of humanitarian aid onto a boat headed to northern Gaza,” the charity said. “We have been preparing for weeks alongside our trusted NGO partner Open Arms for the opening of a maritime aid corridor that would allow us to scale our efforts in the region,” it added
“The endeavor to establish a humanitarian maritime corridor in Gaza is making progress, and our tugboat stands prepared to embark at a moment’s notice, laden with tonnes of food, water, and vital supplies for Palestinian civilians,” Open Arms said on social media platform X.
The ship belonging to the Open Arms aid group is seen docked as it prepares to ferry some 200 tonnes of rice and flour directly to Gaza, at Larnaca harbor, Cyprus, on Friday
The Spanish-flagged vessel Open Arms will depart from the port of Larnaca, Cyprus, within the next day to deliver 200 tonnes of aid to the besieged Gaza Strip. Veronica Alfonsi, president of the aid organisation Open Arms Italy, told Al Jazeera the ship contains rice, wheat and canned tuna, but no water or medicine.
Alfonsi said the humanitarian relief contained on the vessel has already been cleared by Israel but did not provide additional details. The NGO declined to disclose the maritime route and the delivery method citing security reasons.
200 tons is about 7 to 10 trucks worth of delivery (or 11 planes) and could feed 133 thousand people for one single day, about 25% of the starving population in Northern Gaza.
It's a 15 hour trip from Cyprus, so will be tomorrow to see how they will offload that aid as Gaza City Port is just a shallow port for small fishing boats.
The BBC makes a big deal it of it anyway
Esther Camps, Open Arms coordinator, says the NGO ship docked in Larnaca, Cyprus, will deliver a small quantity of food aid to Gaza that will open the way for more to come in. “We are a pilot project to open this [maritime] corridor to allow bigger vessels and other actors with more capacity to do the same,” Camps told Al Jazeera from aboard the Open Arms, which is expected to leave for Gaza in the next day.
The ship will reach a barge near a “tiny port”, the coordinator said, without providing further details. The organisation World Central Kitchen will then unload the cargo using cranes and load it onto trucks for distribution across the Strip.
Asked whether Israel has given any security guarantees, Camps said the ship would be monitored at all times. “We go under our own responsibility but we know they are going to be around and always keep an eye on us,” she said.
“We are excited and a little nervous because we are going to do a big thing, all the world will be looking at us and we want to do it well.”
So weeks to prepare a ship to ferry 8 trucks worth of aid to Gaza, that then has to be unloaded onto trucks... Bless them for doing something, but it only emphasizes how ridiculous this now hailed maritime corridor is while aid trucks are piled up at Rafah which could easily use the military roads in the buffer zone along the fence to travel to Northern Gaza.
This is at Gaza city and there is a double road going all along the 1950 Armistice agreement line
Gaza detainees are subject to forced disappearance: Rights group
According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Israeli authorities are refusing to disclose any information related to their arrest.
“The longer it takes to not know about their fate, the more our concern grows. This is especially in light of the testimonies that are surfacing about torture and executions carried out against Gaza detainees since the ground invasion began,” it said.
“We are not surprised by media reports that 27 Gaza detainees have died in detention, but rather constituted additional evidence of the level of horrific crimes carried out by the occupation.”
Israeli military confirms high-ranking commando killed in Gaza
The Israeli military confirmed Major Amishar Ben David has been killed during fighting in southern Gaza. It identified the 43-year-old as the head of the Commando Brigade’s forward command team. He was from the illegal settlement of Eli in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Ben David is the 248th soldier killed since Israel’s ground invasion of the besieged enclave was launched in October.
Hamas identifies 7 captives killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks
The military wing of Hamas released a short video that divulges the names and images of all seven captives it said last week were killed by Israeli bombardment. Hamas identified four previously unidentified captives as Itzik Jarat, Alex Densig, Ronin Tommy Angel, and Eliyahu Margalit. It earlier said Chaim Gershon Peri, 79, Yoram Itak Metzger, 80, and Amiram Israel Cooper, 85, had been killed in Israeli attacks.
“We tried to keep them alive, but Netanyahu insisted on killing them,” said the Hamas video in Arabic, Hebrew and English.
Israeli military says plans approved for ‘continuation of war’
The Israeli military says high-level officials have “approved plans for the continuation of the war” in a meeting. It released a short clip and pictures that showed military chief of staff Herzi Halevi, Shin Bet internal security chief Ronen Bar, and Israeli Southern Command chief Yaron Finkelman meeting to discuss battle plans.
This comes after the armed wing of Hamas said on Friday it will only agree to a deal if Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip and there is a lasting ceasefire.
Shortly after the Israeli military’s Southern Command convened to discuss plans for continuing the war in Gaza, a similar message is being sent on fighting to the north with Hezbollah.
General Ori Gordin, chief of the Northern Command, held a meeting with security coordinators of regional councils in northern Israel. “A discussion was held in which he presented the main points of the situational assessment and the processes of increasing readiness for the continuation and deepening of operations in the north,” the military said.
Gordin said he wants to bring back the tens of thousands of Israelis forced to flee the area because of fighting with Hezbollah.
UN patrol comes under Israeli fire in Lebanon; no casualties
A joint patrol of the Lebanese army and the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, UNIFIL, came under attack west of the town of Aita al-Shab. The Lebanese news agency NNA said shots were fired from the Israeli settlement of Shtola, near the border, this morning.
Andrea Tenenti, spokesperson for UNIFIL said in a statement, “a Lebanese army vehicle was hit during the patrol. Fortunately, no injuries were reported.”
Egypt’s president: Rebuilding Gaza could cost $90bn
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said during a speech marking Martyrs’ and Veterans’ Day in Egypt that rebuilding Gaza after the end of the war could cost more than $90bn. Much of the besieged enclave has been reduced to rubble as a result of five months of non-stop Israeli attacks, and Gaza’s government says 80 percent of homes are now rendered uninhabitable.
During his speech, el-Sisi also emphasised Egypt’s position that it would not allow Palestinians to be forcibly displaced into Egyptian territory by Israel. “We will not assist the separation of Palestinians from their land,” he said, adding Cairo is ready to keep the Rafah crossing open to get aid in.
Infant and 20-year-old Gaza woman die of starvation
The deaths of an infant girl and a young woman in Gaza have increased the number of known starvation deaths to 25.
The health ministry said a two-month-old died of malnutrition and dehydration at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. Starvation and dehydration also killed the young woman at al-Shifa Hospital, where three more young people died of the same cause on Friday.
“The increase in deaths from malnutrition and dehydration is extremely worrying and confirms that famine in northern Gaza has reached deadly levels,” the ministry said.
The death toll only reflects cases brought to hospitals, and many more are believed to have died of starvation. As Israel continues to block aid deliveries, an estimated 300,000 people in besieged northern Gaza face famine.
13 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks; death toll likely to rise
There has been a wide scale of destruction in the past few hours because of unrelenting bombardment carried out by the Israeli military.
In the Nuseirat refugee camp, at least 13 Palestinians were killed after a home was destroyed with civil defence crews now working to recover all the victims from under the rubble. The death toll and number of wounded is expected to rise.
Nuseirat, in Deir el-Balah, has previously been attacked by Israeli artillery stationed on the outskirts of the city.
In Gaza’s south in Khan Younis, the bombardment continues and Israeli forces have targeted a number of residential towers in the Hamad neighourhood. Initial reports say two Palestinians have been killed in an attack on another refugee camp and seven others injured.
At least 82 people have been killed in the past 24 hours.
Hezbollah claims more attacks on Israeli army positions
Hezbollah claimed more attacks on Israeli positions including “targeting a Zionist military force” in Upper Galilee’s Mount Adir. In the area of Karantina, the armed Lebanese group said it targeted a unit of Israeli soldiers. Hezbollah carried out at least nine attacks on Israeli positions on Saturday.
It largely uses rockets, antitank guided missiles, and heavy artillery to target Israeli positions. The armed group didn’t specify what weaponry was fired this time. Sirens sounded in Uper Galilee over the past few hours with reports in Israeli media indicating a suspected drone intrusion from southern Lebanon.
Israeli air strike kills 5, including pregnant mother, in Lebanon
At least five people have been killed and nine injured after the latest Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon hit a home. “The attack against a house in the Khirbet Selm area killed a family of four”, including a couple and their two children as well as another person, Lebanon’s official National News Agency said, adding that the mother was pregnant.
The strike demolished the house, wounding at least nine others who lived nearby, it said. Border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has gradually escalated since October with dozens of civilians killed in Lebanon.
Smoke billows following an Israeli air raid in the southern Lebanese city town of Ghaziyeh
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