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SvennoJ on 27 March 2025

Satellite image shows Israeli army detaining Red Crescent, Civil Defence vehicles in Rafah

Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking unit has obtained exclusive satellite images, taken on March 23, showing the Israeli army detaining and surrounding at least five vehicles belonging to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and Civil Defence in the western area of Rafah city in southern Gaza.

PRCS has lost all contact with these ambulance crews five days ago.

These vehicles were transporting 15 members of the ambulance and rescue crews of the two organisations. The images, analysed by Sanad based on data and information from the PRCS and Civil Defence, show at least five ambulances parked on the side of the Liberation Road.

The Israeli military surrounded the area and closed the road with dirt barriers. Clear traces of bulldozing operations are visible in the area.


Satellite image shows Israeli Army detaining Red Crescent and Civil Defence vehicles in Rafah


Israeli army continues siege of Rafah neighbourhood

The Israeli army is continuing its military operations in the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood in the city of Rafah, Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee has said. Adraee claimed the army uncovered a 25-barrels rocket launcher and found several artillery shells inside a Hamas facility.

Israeli ground forces encircled the area earlier this week, which Adraee said took “just four hours”.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has repeatedly denounced the disappearance of nine of its rescue workers who were sent to the area to retrieve casualties and accused Israel of failing to coordinate the safe passage of ambulances.


At least 32 killed in Israeli attacks today

Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that at least 32 people have been killed since dawn in relentless Israeli raids across Gaza. The attacks targeted multiple areas with 19 people killed in the northern part of Gaza, alone.


No humanitarian aid has entered Gaza for more than three weeks: UNRWA chief

No humanitarian aid has entered Gaza for more than three weeks, the head of UNRWA, the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, has said.

In a post on X, the agency’s commissioner, Philippe Lazzarini, noted that “this is longest that Gaza has been without any supplies since the war began.” During the ceasefire, he added, up to 600 trucks entered the territory on a daily basis. “Now, nothing,” he wrote.

“Parents cannot find food for their children. The sick are without medicine. Prices are soaring. Hunger is increasing while the risk of diseases spreading is looming,” Lazzarini wrote. “Meanwhile, bombardment from the Israeli Forces continues”.

Lazzarini added that eight UNRWA staff were killed just in the past week.



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SvennoJ on 27 March 2025

Footage emerges from Israeli strike on a marketplace in Gaza City

Videos shared on social media and verified by Al Jazeera show the shocking immediate aftermath of an Israeli strike on a market in Gaza City.

In one video, a disoriented man covered in blood is seen trying to lift himself from the ground before people rush to his aid, and a blood-stained street is seen covered in fruit and vegetables that have been knocked from stands by the attack.

People lie on the street amid chaotic scenes, some visibly injured, others lifeless. In other videos, the injured are brought to the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in a motorcycle trailer and on the back of a food truck. The injured are carried or helped from the vehicles while others help carry bodies, some contorted and showing no signs of life, towards the hospital.

Due to the graphic and distressing nature of these videos, we have decided not to share them on this live page.


Seven Palestinians killed in Israeli strike on Gaza Market

We have been reporting on an Israeli strike on a busy market in central Gaza. Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are now reporting that seven Palestinians have been killed in that attack.

Also, today’s death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen, bringing the total to at least 38 people killed.


World Central Kitchen says Israeli strikes kill another of its personnell

The international food aid NGO reports via a statement on X that one of its volunteers in Gaza, named Jalal, was killed when the Israeli army bombed near one of its aid facilities.

It added that six others were wounded in the strike.

Last year, several World Central Kitchen employees were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, marking the first time foreign aid workers were killed during Israel’s war.



SvennoJ on 27 March 2025

Activists in Bristol protest trial of pro-Palestine group

Pro-Palestine activists in Bristol, UK, have staged a protest in support of 18 people currently facing trial over an earlier action against the Israeli defence company Elbit Systems.

Video verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit shows the protesters chanting slogans calling for the charges against them to be dropped.

The trial stems from a protest last August after which seven people were charged with criminal damage, violent disorder and aggravated burglary. Palestine Action, the group behind that protest, had rejected allegations of violence against police and security staff and said the authorities had launched a “smear campaign” to prejudice the outcome of the trial and “lay the groundwork for the police unjust use of authoritarian powers”.

“We refuse to be intimidated into allowing a genocide to happen,” the group said at the time.

On its website, Palestine Action describes itself as aimed at “dismantling British complicity with Israeli apartheid”.

 

Israeli police crack down on antigovernment protests in Tel Aviv

Video verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit shows mounted police running down protesters during a march in Tel Aviv.

Israelis are demonstrating en masse tonight, demanding that Netanyahu’s government strike a deal with Hamas to return the remaining captives held in Gaza.



Five people arrested in anti-government protests in Israel: Report

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that the arrests were made as Israeli protesters headed towards the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

The newspaper said mounted police attempted to block the march, knocking some protesters to the ground.

Some demonstrators managed to make it onto Tel Aviv’s main highway, where police arrested two people, as well as another three protesters who were in the march.

Haaretz reported that Einav Zangauker, the mother of a captive, said that police on horseback whipped her daughter and other protesters around them.


Anti-government demonstrators raise flags and placards as they protest against moves by the Israeli government to dismiss Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and the head of the internal security agency, Ronen Bar, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, on March 27



SvennoJ on 27 March 2025

Main events on March 27th:

  • The charity World Central Kitchen says another of its personnel has been killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
  • Seven Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli strike on a busy market in central Gaza.
  • Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua has been killed in northern Gaza’s Jabalia city, the group says.
  • At least six people have been killed in Israeli strikes in the south of Lebanon, according to the Ministry of Health.
  • The UN’s World Food Programme warns that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are again at risk of severe hunger and malnutrition.
  • The Israeli army is continuing its military operations in the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood of southern Gaza’s Rafah city.

 

Thousands of antigovernment protesters gather in Tel Aviv


Antigovernment demonstrators raise flags as they protest against moves by the Israeli government to dismiss Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and the head of the internal security agency, Ronen Bar, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, on March 27

 

I am a Holocaust survivor. UK police interviewed me for protesting genocide

I was seven years old when Germany invaded and occupied their unreliable ally, Hungary, in March 1944. This makes me 87 years old now.

But my memories of hiding as a hunted Jew on false papers, and the utter devastation of the climactic fighting around us, between a trapped German army and the Red Army, are still a crystal clear memory. I see the burnt-out cars, tanks, dead horses and human bodies, ammunition and helmets thrown about, burnt-out buildings, mountains of rubble and broken glass everywhere – just like tragically destroyed Gaza is looking today.

For over a year now, it’s been clear that Israel’s plan is to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza in order to force as many people as possible to leave. This policy has many differences from Nazi Germany’s plan to destroy Jewish society in Europe – but it also has many similarities. That is why, as a Holocaust survivor, I’ve felt compelled to join various pro-Palestine protests in London.


These protests have been numerous and often huge. So it’s no surprise that the authorities have imposed increasing restrictions on them in order to dissuade people from attending. But I was still surprised when the Metropolitan Police called me in for an interview.

We don’t know quite how far those in power intend to go with their restrictions on the right to protest. But we do know they want to portray London’s pro-Palestine demos as tainted with anti-Semitism. This is despite the fact that these protests have included thousands of Jews and that many Jews, including myself, have addressed the protesters from the stage.


A year ago, in April 2024, I gave my first speech on a stage in Hyde Park where I told the huge crowd about Adolf Eichmann coming to Hungary to organise the deportation of 400,000 Jews to Auschwitz. I also spoke about the 15 members of my own family who perished there and about my father who was taken to Belsen and Theresienstadt concentration camps – although eventually he did return. I ended the speech like this: We Jews who survived all this pain, killings, humiliation and destruction are against the use of the memory of the Holocaust by the Government of Israel as cover and justification for the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank.

What was most striking about the speech was not what I said but that the huge crowd listened in such respectful silence and then applauded with such enthusiasm. To suggest that such a crowd was anti-Semitic – let alone potentially violent – is absurd. Yet that is exactly what several newspapers did when they published evidence-free articles the next day falsely claiming that the crowd had threatened to vandalise Hyde Park’s Holocaust memorial.


Since then, pro-Israel politicians and journalists have continued to claim that our protests are “hate marches” or “no-go zones for Jews”. Recent claims that our marches are a threat to London’s synagogues are a further development of this relentless – but baseless – campaign. Anyone who has witnessed the overwhelming warmth and support that our group of Holocaust survivor descendants – as well as the wider Jewish bloc – experience regularly on the marches, will understand quite how baseless.

Most importantly, this whole campaign is an intentional distraction from the main issue, which is to stop the Gaza genocide now. As Israel resumes its indiscriminate bombing – murdering hundreds more civilians in Gaza – it’s vital for all of us in Britain to speak out now against our own government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide.



SvennoJ on 28 March 2025

Vehicles damaged as Israeli army raids occupied West Bank town

The Israeli army has smashed the windows of several vehicles after clashes erupted during an overnight raid on the village of Osarin, south of Nablus, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reports.

A Palestinian resident of the town of Burqin, west of Jenin, was arrested during a separate military raid.

The army also used heavy gunfire and tear gas to force worshippers to leave a mosque in the village of Burin and stormed the town of Deir Samet, west of Hebron.

Palestinians queue at Israeli checkpoints on last Friday of Ramadan



Israeli authorities have blocked thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank from reaching the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem for prayers.

Israel is allowing only men over age 55 and women over 50 to enter from the occupied territory.


Israeli raids across the occupied West Bank on last Friday of Ramadan

As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces have been carrying out raids across the occupied West Bank. Jewish settlers have also been carrying out attacks on Palestinians. It is the last Friday of Ramadan before Eid al-Fitr.

Here are the main developments:

  • Israeli forces stormed a residential building during a raid on Rafidia neighbourhood, west of Nablus, and raided the city of Nablus through the Surra checkpoint.
  • Israeli soldiers obstructed an ambulance from reaching an injured person in the town of Meithalun, southeast of Jenin.
  • Local sources reported an Israeli raid on the town of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah.
  • There were injuries due to a Jewish settler attack on shepherds in Khirbet Janba in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron.
  • Settlers also attacked and deployed between the towns of Qabalan and Jurish, south of Nablus, under the protection of the Israeli army.



Translation: Settlers storm and deploy between the towns of Qabalan and Jurish, south of Nablus, under the protection of the occupation army.


Israeli settlers storm West Bank town near Nablus: Report

Settlers have stormed the Ras al-Ain area in the occupied West Bank town of Qusra, south of Nablus, the Quds Press Agency reports.


Israeli settlers injure five Palestinians in attack on Masafer Yatta

Five Palestinians have been injured by Israeli settlers who attacked the town of Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, which recently rose to global prominence in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.

The Wafa news agency reported that a group of sheep herders was attacked and severely beaten by Israeli settlers. Footage circulated on social media showed two badly injured people lying on the ground after the attack.

No Other Land’s co-director Hamdan Ballal was attacked earlier this week by Israeli settlers and detained by Israeli forces afterwards before being released.



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SvennoJ on 28 March 2025

UK, France call for UN Security Council meeting on Gaza

The United Kingdom and France have called for the UN Security Council to convene on Friday to discuss the “humanitarian situation in Gaza and protection of aid workers”.

“Humanitarians are increasingly unable to operate in Gaza and last week a UN compound was hit. This is unacceptable,” the UK’s Mission to the UN wrote in a post on X.

The call comes a day after another aid worker from the humanitarian group World Central Kitchen was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Thursday.


Israeli army blowing up homes in northern Gaza

Civil defence teams are trying to rescue Palestinians trapped in the debris of fallen buildings after Israeli attacks this morning on northern Gaza City.

The situation also continues to escalate in Beit Lahiya where the Israeli military is blowing up houses. What is left there is very little, but the army is still bombing the area.

In the central area of Gaza, aircraft attacked agricultural land in Maghazi.

Gaza’s hospitals are overwhelmed after dozens of wounded people arrived overnight. They’re running out of medical supplies and blood units, and health facilities are urging Palestinians to donate.


Israeli fighter jets have bombed a residential home in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, killing at least three people and injuring dozens more in a predawn attack. The al-Ahli Hospital began to receive the dead and injured, which included many children


Israeli army continues its deadly attacks on aid workers

Earlier, we reported on an Israeli air raid that killed a worker and wounded six others with the World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid organisation in Gaza.

It’s not the first time the group has sustained deaths and injuries from Israeli military attacks. In November 2024, the army killed three WCK workers and wounded at least two others in an air strike on a vehicle in Khan Younis. A series of Israeli air attacks hit a WCK convoy in April 2024, killing seven of its aid workers. Another staff member was killed in an Israeli attack that July.


Israeli actions in Gaza resemble ‘atrocity crimes’: UN

Israeli actions in Gaza, including strikes on populated areas in which civilians have been killed, “bear the hallmarks” of atrocities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says.

“There is a callous disregard for human life and dignity. The acts of war that we see bear the hallmarks of atrocity crimes,” OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke said in Geneva.

Laerke described a worsening toll on civilians, saying: “Hospitals are once again battlegrounds – patients killed in their beds, ambulances shot at and first responders killed. Hundreds of children and other civilians have been killed in Israeli air strikes.”

Humanitarian aid access has been cut off entirely by Israel, he noted.

“We are back to where we were before – just this time it’s worse because of the complete shutdown of entry of supplies. Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. International law is clear, … yet the alerts that we issue in report after report reveal an utter lack of respect for the most basic principles of humanity.”

Ministry of Health in Gaza gives update on deaths

At least 43 people have been killed (including two recovered bodies from previous Israeli strikes) and 115 injured were admitted to Gaza hospitals in the past 24 hours, according to Health Ministry in Gaza.

The death toll and injuries since March 18, 2025, have reached 896 killed and 1,984 injured, the ministry said.

The overall toll from Israel’s war has risen to 50,251 killed and 114,025 injured since October 7, 2023.



SvennoJ on 28 March 2025

US military carries out 17 strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen

The US military has bombed Tahrir and Qiyada districts in the centre of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, resulting in damage to homes, according to Houthi-affiliated media outlet al-Masirah.

The outlet said the targeted areas are where many of the Iran-backed group’s leadership reside.

There have also been reports of US fighter jets carrying out attacks in the following areas:

  • Two air strikes targeting Sanaa international airport
  • Five air strikes on the Asayed area in Kitaf district in Saada governorate
  • Two air strikes on Salem district in Saada governorate
  • Three air strikes on Luhayyah district in Hodeidah governorate
  • Three air strikes on Humaydat district in al-Jawf governorate

No casualties have been reported so far.


More US military strikes reported in Yemen

As we reported earlier, the US military has carried out strikes on several Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen over recent hours. In total, 37 separate strikes have now been reported, including eight targeting the Black Mountain area of Harf Sufyan District in Amran governorate.


Further US strikes conducted in Yemen, at least 7 people injured

Houthi-affiliated media outlet Al Masirah TV now reports that four more strikes have taken place in the Majzar district in Ma’rib governorate. Five US strikes have also struck communications networks in al-Jabal al-Aswad, Harf Sufyan District, Amran governorate.

At least seven people have been injured across the country in tonight’s attacks, according to Al Masirah.



Translation: From the damage caused to shops as a result of the American aggression on the al-Qiyadah area in the centre of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.


US hits dozens of Houthi targets in Yemen

US air attacks pounded more than 40 locations across Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen, including in the capital Sanaa.

Multiple residential homes and shops were damaged in the US attacks before dawn on Friday in the provinces of Saada, Marib, al-Jawf and Hodeidah, reported the Houthi-linked Al Masirah TV.

Other targets included the Sanaa International Airport, which is used for both civilian and military traffic.



SvennoJ on 28 March 2025

Lebanon and Syria sign agreement on border demarcation

Lebanon and Syria have signed an agreement on border demarcation and security, Saudi Arabia’s state media report.

The deal – signed by Lebanese and Syrian defence ministers in Saudi Arabia on Thursday – came after clashes in border areas earlier this month killed several people and wounded dozens on both sides.

The plan for border demarcation also comes after the removal in early December of the 54-year al-Assad family rule in Syria.

Over the past few weeks, authorities on both sides of the nearly 400km (250-mile) border have been closing smuggling routes along the unmarked frontier.




Israeli army reservists refusing call for duty over Netanyahu’s policies: Report

Tens of thousands of Israeli army reservists are refusing to serve in the military after the government resumed its war on Gaza, a war many in Israel see as endangering the lives of the remaining captives.

The Haaretz newspaper reports that reservists informed their commanders they would not report for duty if called up again, citing among the reasons Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to remove Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and change the composition of the Judicial Selection Committee.



SvennoJ on 28 March 2025

Alerts in Israel as projectiles launched from southern Lebanon: Israeli military

Israel’s military said it detected two launches from southern Lebanon, with one projectile intercepted by air defences and a second falling inside Lebanese territory.


Israeli military shells near two towns in southern Lebanon

As we have been reporting, Israel’s military said it detected two rocket launches from southern Lebanon towards northern Israel over the past hour.

Our Al Jazeera colleagues now report that Israeli forces have fired artillery shells towards the outskirts of the towns of Yahmar al-Shaqif and Kfar Sir in southern Lebanon.

No casualties have been reported so far.


Israeli military carries out more attacks in southern Lebanon

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues now report that Israeli forces have fired incendiary bombs at the town of Khiam in Nabatieh governorate, southern Lebanon. The Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar news outlet also reports that Israeli forces have bombed the outskirts of Qaaqaait al-Jisr in Nabatieh governorate.


Hezbollah denies involvement in rocket fire at Israel, remains committed to truce

Hezbollah says it remains committed to a November 27 ceasefire agreement and denies any involvement in rocket launches that reportedly targeted northern Israel earlier this morning.

The Lebanese group added in a statement these incidents are dubious pretexts for the continuation of Israel’s “aggression against Lebanon”.

According to investigations by media organisations and think tanks, Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement hundreds of times.



SvennoJ on 28 March 2025

Israeli army says it is striking Hezbollah targets

The military is currently attacking targets of the Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon, a brief statement says.

It added further details are to follow.

Earlier, Hezbollah said it remained committed to a November 27 ceasefire agreement and denied any involvement in rocket launches that reportedly targeted northern Israel.


Israeli artillery shelling sparks fires in southern Lebanon

Footage posted by local Lebanese platforms and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad unit shows smoke rising from multiple locations in the city of Khiam, southern Lebanon, after what they described as Israeli artillery shelling.

The Lebanese National News Agency reported a fire broke out at a school in Harat al-Baraka, in Khiam, following attacks.

The news agency also said white phosphorus munitions were fired, the use of which is restricted under international humanitarian law.



Translation: The al-Baraka school now… Khiam. 


More on Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon

Al Jazeera’s correspondents have reported Israeli air raids on the town of Yahmor and the area of Mount Rihan, in southern Lebanon. Artillery shelling also hit Zawtar, Kafr Sir, Taybeh, Hula, and Markaba.

One killed in Israeli attack on town in southern Lebanon

The Ministry of Public Health’s Public Health Emergency Operations Centre has now said an Israeli air strike on the town of Kfar Tibnit killed one person and injured eight, including three children.

Translation: Israeli airstrike targets the town of Kfar Tibnit in southern Lebanon.