Israeli forces kill Hamas spokesman

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Mubasher are reporting that Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua was killed in an Israeli attack on his tent in Jabalia al-Balad in northern Gaza.

The Quds News Network also reported on the killing, publishing a picture of al-Qaoua’s dead body lying shrouded on the ground.

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Translation: Urgent | Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent – Hamas spokesman Abdel Latif al-Qanoua was martyred as a result of the occupation’s bombing of his tent in Jabalia al-Balad, north of Gaza.

Death toll from Israel’s predawn attacks on Gaza rises to 9

Israeli forces have carried out a series of air strikes on different areas of the Gaza Strip in recent hours.

They’ve targeted two tents. One of them was in Jabalia in the north, killing Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua and wounding several others, including children.

The other tent was in Khan Younis, where more children were wounded.

And in the north, in Gaza City, in the as-Saftawi area, an entire family of six was killed when Israeli forces bombed an apartment belonging to the al-Gharbawi family.

The explosions have been endless. We can hear the sirens of ambulances and the sound of artillery shelling from different areas of the Gaza Strip, especially in Nuseirat and az-Zawayda in the centre.

In the past hours alone, some nine Palestinians have been killed and dozens more wounded. We know that hospitals in Gaza are overwhelmed because of the high number of casualties and the lack of medical supplies, resulting from Israel’s more than three-week-long total blockade.

Gaza City families told to flee as residential buildings, tent camps under fire

So far, there are no direct confrontations between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces. It is all an aerial campaign that continues to bring more devastation and grief to thousands of families on the ground.

Israel’s bombardment [has hit numerous] residential areas and makeshift tents. The focus has pretty much been on targeting Hamas’s senior and mid-ranking officials, including those working in the political and security councils.

Civilians caught in the middle have also been suffering amid the absolute devastation.

We understand that many families in the past hours have received new evacuation orders for new Gaza City neighbourhoods, ordering them to move south. Many families rejected these orders, saying they have nowhere to turn and that the south has also been actively bombarded.

Israel is killing some 103 Palestinians in Gaza on a daily basis

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based human rights group, says Israel has killed 830 Palestinians and wounded 1,787 since resuming its war on Gaza on March 18.

That comes up to 103 killed and 223 wounded on a daily basis.

“Without any military justification, the Israeli occupation army has committed the crime of targeting homes – or what is left of them – every day, including targeting tents where civilians have sought safety following almost 18 months of genocide. This is a clear component of a systematic Israeli policy that aims to kill Palestinians, ruin their lives, and impose a horrific reality that makes it impossible to survive,” it said in a statement.

Israeli attacks killed two education officials in Gaza

Euro-Med has more on the victims of Israel’s assault in the past week.

The rights group said Israeli attacks killed two government officials working in the education sector.

They are Jihad al-Agha, the head of the supervision department at the East Khan Younis Education Directorate, who was killed in a raid targeting his home on March 23 along with his wife, child, and three daughters, and Manar Abu Khater, the director of education in East Khan Younis, who was killed along with two of his sons in an Israeli air strike on Khan Younis on March 24.

“An individual does not lose their civilian status or become a legitimate target for attack simply because they hold an administrative or civilian position within a governmental or organisational structure, unless they are actively and consistently engaged in hostilities, which was not the case in the situation of al-Agha or Abu Khater,” the group said.

Gaza’s Government Media Office has previously said Israel killed four more senior officials on Tuesday, March 18.

They are Issam al-Dalis, the head of government public works; Ahmed al-Hatta, undersecretary of the Justice Ministry; Mahmoud Abu Watfa, undersecretary of the Interior Ministry; and Bahjat Abu Sultan, director general of the internal security service.

Breaking | Professor Manar Abu Khater, Head of Education in East Khan Younis, was killed along with several family members after an Israeli airstrike targeted his home in the Ma’an area of Khan Younis. pic.twitter.com/V37D0QXvIm

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) March 24, 2025

Gaza protests reflect people’s tiredness after months of war

The protests that have taken place in Gaza in the past days reflect people’s “tiredness” after having been displaced multiple times, as well as their discontent with Hamas’s efforts to end the conflict, Luciano Zaccara, professor at the Qatar University Gulf Studies Center, told Al Jazeera.

“Protesters are saying: ‘We cannot stop Israel from bombing us, but we can ask Hamas to do something other than what they have done, because the situation is unsustainable,” Zaccara said.

Hamas has shown a willingness to go back to negotiations and even leave power, but that hasn’t been enough to bring the conflict to an end, the analyst added.

Meanwhile, protests are also taking place in Israel against Netanyahu’s government, but the coalition appears strong after far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir was reappointed national security minister as the war resumed.

Despite the popular unrest, “I see no danger to the coalition’s survival”, Zaccara said.

_{Palestinians protest demanding an end to the war, in Beit Lahiya, the northern Gaza Strip, on March 25}

Israel targeting journalists using drones in Gaza: Report

The international network of journalists Forbidden Stories has published a new investigation into Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza.

“Some journalists, especially those using drones, are being targeted due sometimes to the lack of clear engagement rules from the Israeli army,” the consortium found.

“The portrayal of Palestinians as terrorists is also taking a toll on organizations advocating for accountability,” it added.

The consortium spoke with three former Israeli soldiers who were deployed in Gaza or its immediate surroundings last year.

“All three stated that the Israeli army does not precisely distinguish between civilians and militants – a situation that they said also affects journalists,” the investigation found.

Knesset passes new judicial reform law, opposition appeals to Supreme Court

Israel’s Knesset has voted through a new law that bolsters elected officials’ control over deciding judges, according to media reports.

The new law, which will take effect in the next parliament, alters the makeup of the judicial selection committee to give elected officials more influence and decrease that of current judges, The Times of Israel reported.

Opposition lawmakers, many of whom boycotted the final vote, say the law politicises the judiciary and gives Israel’s governing coalition too much power.

“The Israeli government has just approved a law with one clear purpose – to ensure that judges become subject to the will of politicians,” opposition party heads said in a joint statement, shared by opposition leader Yair Lapid.

Lapid’s Yesh Atid party said it had appealed against the new law, which it warned could “lead to the collapse of one of the last checks on democracy in Israel”.

The dispute comes just a year after the Supreme Court struck down a broader judicial reform effort, which included a measure that would have allowed the governing coalition to override High Court rulings, sparking mass street protests.

Israeli rights group denounces torture of Gaza medical workers in Israeli jails

Three doctors and one paramedic have died while in Israeli detention, Physicians for Human Rights says in a new report, adding that nearly 150 medical workers from Gaza remain behind bars while subjected to torture and other degrading treatments.

“They are detained because they are Palestinians, because they are from Gaza, but also and importantly because they are healthcare workers,” the Israel-based group said. “Detainees endure physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, as well as starvation and medical neglect amounting to torture.”

Medical workers “were plainly informed that they were held simply for the purpose of gathering information without being charged with any offence”, it added.

The organisation interviewed 24 medical workers arrested by Israel who all reported “experiencing extreme violence, humiliation, and being stripped of their clothing, including on hospital grounds”. Twenty of them were arrested while on duty.

The group said medical personnel are protected under international humanitarian law and their arrests constitute violations of its provisions.

Since October 2023, there have been hundreds of documented attacks on Palestinian medical personnel: at least 500 were killed and over 200 arrested. These attacks reflect a systematic Israeli policy targeting healthcare workers, with more than 200 still in Israeli detention.

— Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) (@PHRIsrael) March 27, 2025

Four teens wounded in Israeli raids on West Bank

The Wafa news agency says the four teenagers were wounded in two different raids in the occupied West Bank.

In the town of Beit Ummar, near the city of Hebron, Israeli forces shot and injured two of them in their thighs and one in his leg. All of them, aged 16 years, were transferred to hospitals nearby for treatment. In the same town, the soldiers also arrested an 18-year-old and her father and opened fire on worshippers at a mosque there, the agency reported.

In a separate raid on the Balata refugee camp, near the city of Nablus, Israeli forces shot a 15-year-old in the foot. He was also taken to hospital.

Israeli soldiers also fired stun grenades and tear gas during raids in the Nablus area, the agency added.

At least 12 arrested near West Bank’s Ramallah, Tulkarem in violent raids: Report

Israeli forces have carried out a wave of violent raids across the occupied West Bank, rounding up at least a dozen Palestinians, vandalising a shop and carrying out field interrogations, according to the Wafa news agency.

The report said the soldiers arrested:

New US air strikes targeting Yemen’s Houthis more intense than before: Report

The new and sustained United States air strikes against Yemen’s Houthis appear “more intense and more extensive”, an Associated Press review of the operation shows.

The Trump administration has moved from solely targeting launch sites to bombarding city neighbourhoods as well as firing at ranking figures, the news agency says. Dozens have been killed in the US attacks on Yemen, including civilians and children.

The pattern signals a departure from the Biden administration, which limited its attacks as Arab allies tried to reach a separate peace with the Houthis and comes after the Iran-aligned Houthis said they would resume attacking Israeli targets over Israel’s punishing blockade of aid into the Gaza Strip.

The Houthi attacks and the US response have drawn new scrutiny in Washington after senior security officials in Trump’s administration shared plans for the first round of strikes on the Houthis on March 15 in a group chat that included a journalist from The Atlantic.


_{Smoke rises from an explosion after a US military strike hits buildings at an undisclosed location in Yemen [US Central Command/Handout/Reuters]}

Israeli columnist calls for ‘strategic rethinking’ amid Gaza protests

As we’ve reported, large groups of Palestinians have taken to the streets of Gaza in recent days, calling for Israel devastating war to end with some criticising Hamas.

The rare display of public anger towards Hamas should cause Israelis to reflect on their perception of Gaza and their post-war vision, argues Israeli columnist Nadav Eyal.

“What will those who claimed there are no innocents in Gaza — that everyone is Hamas, that the entire Strip bears responsibility for October 7 — say now, as they rush to share videos of Palestinians demonstrating against Hamas rule?” wrote Eyal in an op-ed for the Israeli Ynet News site.

“Despite the rumours, [Palestinians in Gaza] will remain Israel’s neighbors,” Eyal added. “Israel must chart a vision for a different reality, for an alternative governance structure, for a future of some kind.”

“We must remember, military action may sometimes be necessary, but it is not an end in itself,” he said. “Those who offer no vision for the day after are offering only endless war. And endless war is, in its own way, a form of defeat.”

_{Palestinians protest to demand an end to war, chanting anti-Hamas slogans, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, March 26}

‘No obtainable military objectives for Israel in Gaza’

Former Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas has told Al Jazeera he sees “no obtainable military objectives in Gaza”, where the war is being perpetuated “for Netanyahu’s political needs and necessities”.

The prime minister restarted the war in Gaza to “resume the constitutional coup he instigated in 2023,” Pinkas said.

On the military level, “if Netanyahu wants to eradicate Hamas, then Israel needs to occupy the Gaza Strip entirely,” he continued. “That comes with great cost and great responsibility.”

“I don’t see any particular well-defined military objective, unless the idea is to gradually incrementally take over the entire Gaza,” Pinkas added.

Egyptian negotiating team heads to Doha for Gaza talks

A security delegation from Egypt, one of the key mediators along with Qatar in Gaza ceasefire negotiations, is heading to Doha for talks, state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV said.

Getting aid being blocked by Israel into the besieged enclave, securing the release of the remaining Israeli captives, and moving towards a second phase of a ceasefire will top the agenda.

Israel shattered the ceasefire as the first phase ended, reigniting the war, with massive strikes killing hundreds of Palestinians last week.

Israel hosts European far-right politicians at anti-Semitism meeting

Facing isolation in parts of the globe and looking to build bridges with what would have once been unlikely allies, Israel has welcomed politicians from Europe’s far right for a conference on fighting anti-Semitism.

Among those invited to the symposium are a member of Hungary’s Fidesz party and France’s National Rally (RN), whose cofounder was known for his anti-Semitic comments.

Netanyahu is later due to speak, as well as the current RN president, Jordan Bardella, capping an unprecedented trip to Israel by a leader of his party.

This has caused some fissures within the international Jewish community.

Some guests cancelled their appearances in protest of the far-right politicians’ presence, including Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levi and Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, according to Israeli media.

Rights groups say US strikes on Yemen illegal

DAWN, Action Corps and Just Foreign Policy have released a joint statement arguing that the attacks violate both the US Constitution and the United Nations Charter.

“Congress should stop strikes on Yemen and uphold its sole authority to declare war under Article I of the Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Resolution (WPR),” they said.

“The strikes also violate Chapters I and VII of the United Nations Charter, which prohibit states from launching a war unless in self-defense or authorized by the UN Security Council.”

The US strikes have killed dozens of people across Yemen, including women and children.

Trump has promised that the Houthis will be “completely annihilated” over their attacks on Israel and shipping lanes in the Red Sea in support of Palestinians in Gaza.

U.S. Strikes on Yemen are Unconstitutional and Violate U.N. Charter

(Washington D.C., March 27, 2025) – U.S. airstrikes across Yemen since March 15 are unconstitutional acts of war that lack congressional authorization, said the organizations DAWN, @theactioncorps and @justfp… pic.twitter.com/lfvReoUuO2

— DAWN MENA (@DAWNmenaorg) March 27, 2025

Six killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon: officials

Two more people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon, bringing today’s total to six, according to the country’s Ministry of Health.

The latest victims were killed in an air strike on the southern town of Baraachit.

Earlier today, Israeli strikes killed four people in the country’s south, according to Lebanese authorities, with Israel claiming that it had struck Hezbollah operatives. Three people were killed by a drone targeting a vehicle in the Yohmor area, while one other was killed when a different drone targeted a vehicle near the village of Maaroub.

Today’s strikes were the latest in a series of deadly attacks in south Lebanon, despite a November ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah after more than a year of hostilities, including two months of open war. Israel has continued to carry out raids in Lebanon since the November 27 ceasefire, striking what it says are Hezbollah military targets that violated the agreement. But most of the victims have been civilians.