More than 80 families displaced amid Israeli raids near Nablus: Report

More than 80 Palestinian families have been displaced from the al-Ein refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

The families have been forcibly expelled from their homes amid an ongoing Israeli military escalation in the area, Ibrahim Shattawi, deputy head of the al-Ein Camp Services Committee, told the agency.

According to Shattawi, Israeli forces stormed the homes and forced residents to leave at gunpoint before turning the buildings into military barracks. Several camp residents were detained, while those forced out of their homes sought refuge with relatives and in local mosques.

Two young Palestinians wounded during Israeli raids in occupied West Bank

Two young Palestinians sustained injuries from Israeli army gunfire in the village of Madama and the town of Beit Furik, near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, Wafa reports, citing local sources.

Sources said that Israeli forces ransacked several houses in Madama, and interrogated villagers while firing at them.

They also simultaneously stormed Beit Furik while firing live ammunition.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that its medics provided first aid treatment to a 19-year-old youth and a 16-year-old teenager.

Israeli raids in the Ein Beit el-Ma refugee camp near Nablus

Israeli forces detained Palestinians and forced residents to flee in the Ein Beit el-Ma refugee camp near Nablus, as part of an ongoing military escalation in the occupied West Bank.

Main events on March 19th

• At least 70 more people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza that have killed hundreds of Palestinians in the two days since Israel shattered the ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
• Israeli attacks targeted a funeral home in Beit Lahiya, killing at least 24 Palestinians, and a UN site in Deir el-Balah, killing a UN staff member and injuring others.
• Israeli ground troops have returned to Gaza, including the Netzarim Corridor, which divides the Palestinian territory in two, preventing free movement of residents, weeks after they withdrew under a ceasefire agreement.
• The US State Department says the opportunity for Hamas to accept “a bridge proposal”, which Hamas says departs from ceasefire terms already agreed to in January, is “closing fast”.
• US President Donald Trump says the Houthis “will be completely annihilated” as US air strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen continue for a fifth day.
• Speaking to Israeli police in the occupied West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “While we are waging a fierce war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, we are aware of the possibility of a larger and stronger front emerging here.”

Palestine urges UN Security Council to ‘stop Israeli war machine’

Palestine’s mission to the United Nations called on the “international community to act with urgency” to put an end to Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza, which has killed at least 436 Palestinians since Tuesday, including 183 children.

“This ruthless, unlawful use of force against a defenceless civilian population must be halted immediately,” it said in a statement.

It added that “failure to act” against Israel’s “blatant war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide will further undermine any shred of credibility the Security Council might still have”.

US military carries out more strikes on Yemen: Report

Houthi-run news channel Al Masirah TV reports that the US military has carried out five raids in the province of Hodeidah, striking a cotton processing plant in Zabid.

It’s the fifth night in a row the US military has carried out strikes on Yemen, after resuming its attacks against the Houthis over the weekend in response to the Iran-backed group’s operations targeting Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

The US strikes have killed dozens of people so far, as fears grow of a new cycle of violence in the conflict-torn country.

The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Wednesday it was continuing “24/7 operations” against the Houthis in a post on X but did not confirm its latest attacks.

US military carries out more strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen

Yemen’s Ministry of Health has now said that US fighter jets also bombed a wedding hall that was under construction in the capital Sanaa, injuring nine people, including women and children.

Israel’s military says Houthi missile intercepted

The missile launched from Yemen was destroyed by the Israeli Air Force before entering the country’s territorial space, the military said in a post on social media.

Air attack alerts sounded in several parts of the country as the missile approached Israel’s borders, the military said, adding that the attempted strike is “being examined”.

The Associated Press news agency reports that explosion were heard during the operation to intercept the missile.

Macron says France, Saudi Arabia to co-chair conference on two-state solution

The French president says he spoke with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and that they agreed to co-chair a conference on the two-state solution “to help revive a political perspective for both Israelis and Palestinians”.

In a summary of his call with the crown prince, Macron said, “We condemn the resumption of Israeli strikes on Gaza,” adding that “a return to the ceasefire is essential for the release of all hostages and the protection of civilians”.

Macron also welcomed the work of Saudi Arabia and “its Arab partners on a credible framework for the day after in Gaza, which must serve as the basis for discussions”.

Israeli police fire water cannon at protest outside Netanyahu’s home


_{Israeli police fired a water cannon at Israelis protesting outside Netanyahu’s residence in west Jerusalem on Wednesday}

The protesters called for Netanyahu’s government to release Israeli captives in Gaza through a ceasefire deal.

Protesters also called for Netanyahu’s resignation as the Israeli Prime Minister this week postponed appearing at a corruption trial after resuming Israel’s war on Gaza.

Israeli military shells Khan Younis, killing at least 10

The Israeli military has shelled homes in the town of al-Fakhari, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing at least 10 people, according to our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues.

Israeli fighter jets have carried out strikes in other locations in the north and south of the Strip, including:

Taxi driver accused of ramming car into Israeli peace protest

A taxi driver ran into a protest against Israel’s war on Gaza in Jerusalem, injuring Israeli peace activist Oded Rotem, 27, according to Israeli media and Jewish-Palestinian activist group Standing Together.

“Tonight while demonstrating against this horrific war a taxi driver purposefully drove into Oded, one of the Standing Together activists and leadership members,” the group said in a post on X.

“Oded lost consciousness and was injured in his leg, and is currently recovering in hospital,” the group added.

Israeli protests against Netanyahu, Gaza war are ‘fully against’ Israel: Ben-Gvir

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s newly reappointed far-right national security minister, has accused Israelis who protest against Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Gaza war of being against Israel.

“The ‘protest’ activists have long since ceased to be just against the government and the Prime Minister. They have become fully against the State of Israel,” Ben-Gvir said in a post on social media.

The ultranationalist minister was commenting about a demonstration outside Netanyahu’s residence in West Jerusalem on Wednesday, where one protest leader was heard comparing Netanyahu with Germany’s wartime Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Ben-Gvir also said the protesters’ “blood of refusal” would “never be washed off their hands”, in what appeared to be a reference to refusing to support Israel’s war on Gaza.

_{Israeli police use water cannon against hundreds of protesters gathered outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence and calling for his resignation, in West Jerusalem, on March 19}

Families of captives ‘furious’ after Israeli security cabinet meeting postponed

The families of the Israeli captives held in Gaza have said they were “furious” at the decision by Netanyahu’s government to postpone a security cabinet meeting scheduled for today that was expected to discuss the fate of their relatives.

“There is nothing more important and urgent than returning all 59 captives home,” the Bring Them Home Now campaign said in a statement.

They added that multiple requests to arrange a meeting with Netanyahu and his cabinet over the past weeks had gone unanswered.

Israel’s ex-defence minister urges protesters to end ‘greatest crisis in Israel’s history’

Israel’s former Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon has questioned the need to restart the war in Gaza and urged mass protests to oust the government of PM Netanyahu.

Renewing attacks in Gaza, Ya’alon said, “won’t bring the hostages back”. “We’ve been at war for a year and a half. We should have focused on freeing the hostages to save them,” he told Israel’s Maariv newspaper.

The ex-minister, who also previously served as the army chief of staff, called for the public to join antigovernment demonstrations to “save the country”.

“First of all, this government needs to be replaced, and I believe the protests are what can drive that change,” Ya’alon said. “The key is figuring out how to end the greatest crisis in Israel’s history, which is pushing us to the brink.”

Israel to conduct military drills in occupied Golan Heights

The Israeli military announced it would mobilise more forces and vehicles to the occupied area for military exercises.

“Explosions are expected to be heard,” the military said in a post on X. “There is no security threat.”

Since the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime in December, Israel’s military has taken control of more Syrian territory, moving into a UN-patrolled buffer zone that has separated the two countries since 1974.

UN aid chief ‘demands answers’ after UN staffer killed in Gaza

The UN’s humanitarian aid chief Tom Fletcher has described the killing of a UN staff member and the wounding of five others in an attack in Gaza as “infuriating”.

Fletcher said the strikes targeted a “clearly designated” UN compound in Gaza, and the UN demands “answers” while “we grieve with the family of our colleague”.

“International law is clear. Civilians – including UN staff and humanitarian workers – must not be targeted. The international community must join us in insisting on a genuine investigation and accountability,” Fletcher said in a statement, without attributing blame for the killing.

Earlier, Hamas said the Israeli military is guilty of a “heinous crime” for targeting UN staff for attack in order to “terrorise” aid workers still operating in Gaza.

Houthis say they carried out missile attack targeting Ben Gurion airport

Earlier, we reported that Israel’s air force destroyed a missile launched from Yemen before it entered the country’s territorial space.

Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree has now confirmed that attack, saying, “The Yemeni armed forces carried out a qualitative military operation targeting Ben Gurion airport in the occupied Jaffa region with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile.”

Saree said the operation “successfully achieved its objective”, without elaborating.

No casualties have been reported so far. We will bring you more information when we have it.

Egyptian, Qatari foreign ministers speak about Gaza situation

Egypt’s Badr Abdelatty and Qatar’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani have spoken over the phone, according to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.

The top diplomats, whose countries are key mediators in negotiations between Israel and Hamas, discussed efforts to revive the Gaza ceasefire agreement and implement its three outlined phases, the ministry statement said. They also explored ways to advance the Arab-led Gaza reconstruction plan, it added.

“The two ministers agreed on the importance of continuing joint coordination between the two countries to contain rising tensions in the region and to work together toward launching a political settlement that ensures long-term regional stability through the establishment of a Palestinian state as a final resolution to the conflict,” it added.

Newborn baby, children, women among at least 37 killed in predawn attacks

Since dawn today there has been a staggering surge of air strikes on the southern part of the Gaza Strip where the Israeli Air Force has targeted at least 10 residential buildings that were packed with civilians in the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah.

In the north, we have confirmation that another residential building has been destroyed completely, bringing the entire death toll of predawn attacks to at least 37 Palestinians, both in the north and the south of the Strip.

Among those victims who have been killed today were a newborn baby alongside children and women.

There has been a clear strategic approach that Israel has been using, which does not pass any sort of warning to civilians before striking the buildings that they are taking refuge in.

_{A man carries the body of a Palestinian child killed in an Israeli strike on a residential building in Gaza City on March 19}

Death toll in predawn attacks jumps ‘sharply’ to 71

The Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have intensified, especially at dawn, when at least 11 residential buildings were flattened by the Israeli forces, particularly in the cities of Khan Younis, Rafah and Beit Lahiya.

We understand that the death toll has sharply increased to 71 Palestinians, including newborn babies, children, women and men who had been sleeping.

Family homes under fire in latest Israeli attacks on Gaza: Report

Many of the targets of the Israeli strikes were family homes, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reports.

The homes attacked included:

Baby girl rescued from under rubble following deadly attack near Khan Younis

Al Jazeera Arabic reports that civil defence crews have rescued a baby girl from under the rubble of her family home in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, following an Israeli air attack.

The parents of the infant, named as Ella Osama Abu Daqqa, were among 16 people killed in the attack, according to the Palestinian Information Center.

Israeli tanks are also firing on the towns of Khirbet Khuza’a and Abasan al-Kabira, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report, citing Palestinian media.

It’s currently unclear if the two incidents are linked. We will bring you more information when we have it.

Israeli military, PA security forces carry out West Bank raids, arrests

The Israeli military has carried out raids and arrests in locations across the occupied West Bank over recent hours, including: