Two wounded, one critically, in shooting in Israel

A shooting attack has injured two people, including one critically, near the Israeli city of Haifa, first responders say.

Police said the suspect opened fire on civilians and was “neutralised” by officers present at the scene.

“I saw an armed man running and shooting at civilians. Then, some border guards who happened to be passing by opened fire on him and killed him. He is still lying on the ground,” an unnamed witness told Israeli radio.

More on deadly attack in northern Israel

What has emerged in the past few minutes is that the attacker is an Israeli-Palestinian citizen. His name and age have not been revealed, nor have the motives.

According to Israeli police and witnesses, the attacker first rammed one person with a car, then got out and stabbed a bystander, before shooting at a vehicle coming from the opposite direction and killing a 70-year-old man.

One 21-year-old is in serious condition in a hospital on a ventilator. Police said the assailant was “neutralised”. An investigation is ongoing.

_{Israeli forces work at the scene of the attack near Yokneam Illit, northern Israel}


Suspect behind attack near Haifa is a Palestinian citizen of Israel

Israeli media are reporting the attacker behind the car ramming and shooting incident near Haifa was a Palestinian citizen of Israel from a town near Umm al-Fahm.

He was in his 20s but we don’t have information on his motivation or background. What we know is he rammed through pedestrians near a bus stop, got out of the car and shot an automatic gun at a vehicle coming from the opposite direction.

The driver was unharmed by the shooting but his father, 75, who was sitting next to him, was killed. A wounded 21-year-old is on a ventilator in a Haifa hospital as a result of “penetrating wounds”.

Foreign minister says Israel ‘fighting the war of the free world’

Gideon Saar, addressing a news conference in West Jerusalem alongside his EU counterpart Kaja Kallas, says it’s “only natural” for Israel to expect European support.

“We are now fighting the war of the free world,” he’s quoted by The Times of Israel as saying. “Iran, Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah attack us because we are nearby. But make no mistake, the war is against Western civilization – against its values and its ways of life.”

Saar also said the ramming and shooting attack that took place near Haifa is the result of “ongoing incitement” on the part of the Palestinian Authority.

The war of oppression you mean, you're fighting against the free world, destroying international law and human rights law.

At least 61 people killed in Gaza in one day

Gaza’s death toll since the start of Israel’s war has reached 50,082, with 113,408 others wounded, the Health Ministry says. At least 61 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, and four bodies recovered from the debris, according to the ministry.

There were 134 wounded victims admitted to Gaza hospitals over the last day. “A number of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, unable to be reached by ambulance and civil defence crews,” a ministry statement said.

Israeli forces open fire on ‘safe zone’ encampment in south Gaza

In the past hour, we’ve received reports that the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the southern part of the Gaza Strip has been bombed by Israeli artillery from Rafah city.

Witnesses say there’s been an advance by Israeli troops on the al-Mawasi camp on the coast, where Israel’s army ordered Rafah residents to flee to yesterday. They are opening fire and spreading fear and panic among the thousands of displaced Palestinians there.

Al-Mawasi has been designated “a safe humanitarian zone” for civilians by Israel’s military.

Attacks also continue unabated elsewhere, particularly in northern Gaza City. In the last hour, we received confirmation that a group of civilians was attacked and four people were killed in an Israeli air raid there.

730 Palestinians killed since Israel resumed Gaza attacks

At least 730 people have been killed and 1,367 others wounded since Israel broke the ceasefire and restarted the war last Tuesday, Gaza’s Health Ministry says.

The Israeli army launched a surprise air campaign on the Gaza Strip on March 18 with hundreds of strikes. It is now moving ground troops into the northern and southern parts of the war-battered Palestinian enclave.

Israel says it’s trying to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says the military is doing its best not to harm Palestinian civilians as it attacks Hamas in Gaza.

“Israel is not fighting the civilians in Gaza and is doing everything that international law requires to mitigate harm to civilians,” Katz said in a statement.

He went on to blame Hamas for civilian deaths, saying the group “fights in civilian dress, from civilian homes and from behind civilians”, putting them in danger.

Katz’s comments come nearly a week after Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas by launching a wave of air strikes that killed at least 730 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

Israel is targeting civilian Hamas members, going after anyone with political association with the Hamas civil government. They are not fighters. Katz is  complaining that your local council members are wearing civilian clothes and live in civilian homes...

Six Palestinian paramedics still missing as Israel attacks Rafah

Gaza’s Civil Defence Agency says it lost contact with six of its members who went on a rescue mission in the southern city of Rafah.

Its first responders and others from the Palestine Red Crescent Society went to Rafah on Sunday after receiving calls that Israeli troops entered the area of al-Hashaashin, in western Rafah, and there were casualties.

Since then, there’s been no word from the rescuers, the agency said in a statement.

Palestinian journalist killed in attack on Khan Younis

Palestinian journalist Mohammed Mansour has been killed in an Israeli air attack on a house in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

Mansour was a correspondent for the TV channel Palestine Today.

مراسل قناة فلسطين اليوم الصحفي محمد منصور الذي قتله الاحتلال باستهداف منزل جنوب مدينة خانيونس. pic.twitter.com/nQgueBhrrd

— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) March 24, 2025

Lebanon contacts US, France to avert Israeli attack on Beirut: Report

Lebanese leaders have been in intensive contact with Washington and Paris to prevent Israel from bombing Beirut, a news report says.

The AFP news agency, quoting unnamed Lebanese officials, said the calls come after heavy Israeli strikes on the country at the weekend.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam “made diplomatic contact with France and the United States … as well as with the UN to achieve de-escalation following Israeli threats to target Beirut”, one official said on condition of anonymity.

Red Cross says Gaza office damaged by ‘explosive projectile’

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says its office in Rafah in southern Gaza has been damaged by an explosive projectile, adding that no staff have been wounded.

“Today, an office of the ICRC in Rafah was damaged by an explosive projectile despite being clearly marked and notified to all parties,” it said in a statement.

“Fortunately, no staff were injured in this incident, but this has a direct impact on the ICRC’s ability to operate. The ICRC strongly decries the attack against its premises.”


Israeli army confirms attack on Red Cross building in Rafah

Israeli forces operating in the city in southern Gaza have fired at the building after identifying suspects and sensing a threat to their soldiers, according to a military statement.

“No injuries were reported, but the building was slightly damaged,” the statement said.

“After an investigation, it emerged that the identification was incorrect and that the building belonged to the Red Cross,” the army said, adding that the building’s affiliation was unknown at the time of the shooting.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said earlier that its office in Rafah was damaged by an explosive projectile, adding that no staff were wounded.

“The ICRC strongly decries the attack against its premises,” it said.

About 30 international UN staffers to leave Gaza over safety fears from Israeli attacks

The UN is saying that they are going to reduce the number of international staff in Gaza.

“The Secretary-General has taken the difficult decision to reduce the Organisation’s footprint in Gaza, even as humanitarian needs soar and our concern over the protection of civilians intensifies,” the statement said.

The UN has over 13,000 employees in Gaza, the vast majority of them are Palestinians who work as doctors, nurses, drivers and perform other very important humanitarian jobs in Gaza.

Over 250 have been killed in the past 15 months or so, but now the secretary-general is saying that the situation is so dangerous that of the 100 international staff in Gaza employed by the UN, he’s going to reduce that staffing by about one-third, or about 30 of those international staff, who are going to leave Gaza for their own safety.

Slain Al Jazeera journalist previously wounded in Israeli attack

What we know is that Mohammad Mansour, a Palestinian journalist who works for the Palestine Today channel, was targeted in his house in southern Khan Younis alongside his wife and son.

Just 30 minutes ago, we heard the horrific news coming from northern Gaza that Hossam Shabat, an Al Jazeera Mubasher reporter, was killed in an air strike on his car as he reported in northern Gaza.

Hossam, a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist, had been previously wounded in an Israeli attack, but he insisted on continuing news reporting in Gaza.

Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7, 2023

Targeting journalists is a ‘war crime’: CPJ

Jodie Ginsberg, the chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journalists, has condemned Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat in Gaza and called it “devastating” news.

Ginsberg told Al Jazeera that CPJ had spoken to Shabat for its own reports on Israel’s assault on northern Gaza, which were taking place in a “news void” as Israel sought to hide its ethnic cleansing there.

Shabat was one of six Al Jazeera journalists baselessly accused by the Israeli military of being “militants” she noted. “That’s a pattern that we have seen repeatedly both in the current war and in previous ones as well,” she said.

“And now he appears to have been deliberately targeted on a direct hit on his vehicle.”

“The deliberate and targeted killing of a journalist, of a civilian, is a war crime,” Ginsberg added, noting that CPJ has been investigating several cases in which Israel appears to have deliberately targeted media workers.

“That would amount to a war crime. Journalists and civilians must never be targeted.”

‘If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed’: Hossam Shabat

The colleagues of Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat, who was killed in an apparently targeted Israeli strike today, have shared his final words.

In a post on X, prewritten by Shabat, the Al Jazeera journalist wrote, “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed — most likely targeted — by the Israeli occupation forces.”

Shabat wrote that over the last 18 months of war, he has dedicated “every moment” to his people.

“I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.”

“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza,” Shabat added. “Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories — until Palestine is free.”

This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message :

“If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18… pic.twitter.com/80aNO6wtfO

— حسام شبات (@HossamShabat) March 24, 2025

Egypt rejects ‘liquidation of the Palestinian cause’

Egypt has denied media reports suggesting it will accept hundreds of thousands of ethnically cleansed Palestinians from Gaza in exchange for economic aid.

In a statement, the State Information Service said the forced displacement of Gaza people “represents a liquidation of the Palestinian cause and an imminent threat to Egyptian national security”.

It reiterated Egypt’s absolute rejection “of any attempt to forcibly or voluntarily displace Palestinians from Gaza to any location outside the enclave, particularly to Egypt”.

“Egyptian foreign policy has never been based on bargaining supreme Egyptian and Arab interests for anything, whatever its type,” the statement said.

On Friday, Egypt dismissed Israeli media reports alleging Cairo is preparing to temporarily relocate 500,000 Palestinians to a designated city in North Sinai as part of a plan to rebuild Gaza.

Israel yet to comment on Egyptian proposal but promises to keep fighting

There has not been an official confirmation from Israel on Egypt’s new proposal for a truce in Gaza.

However, anonymous officials speaking to the Israeli media are saying that they do not know anything about this proposal.

What they are trying to do is get Hamas to cave in and agree to the US bridging proposal that would essentially extend phase one of the ceasefire deal rather than moving to phase two.

Israeli officials also said that they are prepared to continue the fighting with the utmost intensity until Hamas folds.

Meanwhile, Hamas said that Egypt’s proposal is favourable to them and they received it positively.

EU ‘doesn’t see’ Hamas ruling Gaza in the future

On a visit to Israel, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas addressed the situation in Gaza, where Israel has restarted intense air strikes and ground assaults.

Kallas said the European Union welcomed the Arab plan for the reconstruction of Gaza but said more needs to be done on issues such as cost-sharing and the future of governance.

“We see no role for Hamas in the future governance of Gaza,” the diplomat said. “We definitely need to discuss how the governance of Gaza is foreseen, … and the European Union is ready to participate in those discussions.”

She said the fundamental next steps are restating the ceasefire, ensuring the release of all captives and resuming the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza with the goal of a permanent ceasefire.

“The European Union can help whether through restating our Rafah border-crossing mission or providing more humanitarian assistance.”


How about sanctions, recognizing Palestine, or at least a fucking arms embargo. The EU is so weak, pathetic.
And don't worry, Hamas doesn't want to rule Gaza anymore either, pay attention Europe.

Qassam Brigades posts video of captives

In the video released by the armed wing of Hamas, two captives say their life was better and they felt safer during the truce that Israel ended on March 18.

The captives in a tiny closed space sitting side by side said they were “Prisoner Number 21” and “Prisoner Number 22”.

“Until yesterday we had a name and an identity and I had hope, but today I am just a number,” one of them said.

“Before the ceasefire agreement came into effect, the crossings were closed, our living conditions were difficult, and we almost received no food and there was no safe place,” one of them said.

“When the deal began and the crossings were opened, Hamas fighters took care of us, and we began to feel better. We were relieved of hunger and began to breathe fresh air.”

The captive said Israel resuming the war on Gaza on March 18 was “a severe blow”.

Israeli captives in Hamas video identified as Bohbot and Ohana

Israeli media outlets have identified the two captives in a video released by Hamas today as Elkana Bohbot and Yosef Haim Ohana.

The two captives were abducted from the Nova Music Festival, according to media reports.

More on Seventeen-year-old Palestinian who died in Israeli custody

A 17-year-old Palestinian has died in Israeli custody at Megiddo Prison in northern Israel, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs has announced.

The teenager, Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad, is the first Palestinian minor to ever die inside Israeli prisons, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP). The Palestinian Liaison Office informed Ahmad’s family of his death but did not provide a cause of death.

Israeli authorities are withholding the teen's body.

Ahmad was detained from his house in the town of Silwad in the occupied West Bank in September, according to the DCIP. He was later transferred to Megiddo Prison, where he had limited communication with his lawyer and family. At the time of his death, he was in pre-trial detention.

“Walid is the first Palestinian child prisoner in history to die in Israeli custody,” Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability programme director at DCIP, said in a statement.

“It is impossible to understate the urgency with which the international community must finally hold Israeli authorities accountable before more Palestinian children imprisoned in Israel’s dungeons suffer Walid’s fate.”

No Other Land co-director attacked by settlers and arrested by the Israeli army

Hamdan Ballal, the co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank after he was beaten and injured by Israeli settlers, his fellow co-director Yuval Abraham said on X.

“A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our film No Other Land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding,” Abraham said in a post.

“Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.”

No Other Land, a collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, follows activist Basel Adra as he risks arrest and violence to document the destruction of his hometown, Masafer Yatta, by the Israeli military.

Hamdan Ballal is the second from the right.