The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organisation reports that a merchant vessel has been hit by a missile about 76 nautical miles (140km) west of the city of Hodeidah in Yemen.

It said the vessel “sustained some damage”, but the crew are reported safe and are proceeding to their next port of call.

The British maritime security firm Ambrey says a tanker has been targeted in a missile strike 88 nautical miles (163km) northwest of the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen. Ambrey said there was damage but no injuries to the crew were reported.

Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry has submitted an official response to the French proposal made last month to end hostilities along the Lebanese-Israeli border, according to local media.

The reports said the Lebanese response included a general framework in which Lebanon expressed its readiness to immediately implement UN Resolution 1701 “on the condition that Israel commits to implementing its provisions”. The resolution calls for a complete end to hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel.

The reports also said Lebanon expressed its readiness to resume the meetings with the UN and Israel in the southern Lebanese city of Naqoura.

However, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said last month that his group’s cross-border shelling into Israel would only end when Israel’s “aggression” on the Gaza Strip stops, saying diplomatic efforts to bring a halt to hostilities along Lebanon’s border have so far seemed to benefit only Israel.

Israeli jets target house in southern Lebanon: Report

Israeli raid targets residential home in southern Lebanon’s Kfarkela

غارة للطيران الحربي الإسرائيلي استهدفت كفركلا pic.twitter.com/R1rFECxKxW

— bintjbeil.org (@bintjbeilnews) March 15, 2024

Hezbollah claims hitting Israel’s radar site in occupied Shebaa Farms

The Spanish aid ship Open Arms, which had left the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Tuesday carrying 200 tonnes of food, is approaching the besieged Gaza Strip, according to Al Jazeera reporters. The incoming aid is to be offloaded and distributed by local teams from the charity World Central Kitchen.

Why from Cyprus anyway (390 km to Gaza City Port), Al-Arish and Port Said are much closer

https://sczone.eg/services/al-arish-port/   70 km to Gaza City port
https://sczone.eg/services/east-portsaid-port/  200 km to Gaza City Port



It's 50 km by road, 52 minutes from Rafah crossing to Al-Arish port if you actually had intentions to circumvent Israel's border blockade by using ships.
Then a 4-5 hour journey by small ship to go from Al-Arish to Gaza City, instead of a 26 hour journey from Cyprus, after getting the aid to Cyprus.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says the Israeli army has “a responsibility to facilitate the movement of humanitarian aid into and across Gaza safely, regularly and at the scale required”.

“There is no alternative to the large-scale delivery of aid by land,” it said on X, adding that airdrops are “expensive, have a limited capacity, and can harm civilians”. The UN and other humanitarian agencies have repeatedly called on Israel to open more crossings into Gaza to facilitate the delivery of aid via land.

A report by Refugees International recently detailed how obstacles put in place by Israel were generating “famine-like conditions” in Gaza. Nonetheless, Israel has repeatedly insisted it is not blocking the passage of aid, blaming organisations including the UN for failing to deliver adequate assistance.

On the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, US President Joe Biden says his administration recognises “the violence and hate that Muslims worldwide too often face because of their religious beliefs – and the ugly resurgence of Islamophobia in the wake of the devastating war in Gaza”.

“Islamophobia has no place in our nation. Yet Muslims in the United States frequently endure baseless fearmongering, blatant discrimination, harassment, and violence in the course of their everyday lives,” he said in a statement released by the White House.

Rights groups have compared the resurgence of Islamophobia since October 7 to the stigma faced by Muslims after the attacks in the US on September 11, 2001. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it received 3,578 complaints during the last three months of 2023 during what it called “an ongoing wave of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian hate”.

The figure was a 178-percent rise in complaints from the same period a year earlier.

The fucking stop treating Palestinians like disposable fodder. You're the president, you set the example. You're the biggest Islamophobe of all.

The Open Arms vessel is offloading aid after approaching the coast of Gaza earlier today. Footage posted by Al Jazeera Arabic shows a smaller vessel approaching the ship to collect about 200 tonnes of desperately needed food.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are on the brink of famine as Israeli forces bombard the enclave and restrict shipments of humanitarian relief.

The Israeli military says it presided over the delivery of 115 tonnes of food and water delivered by ship to the coast of Gaza. Its military spokesman for Arab media, Avichay Adraee, says the army transferred the shipments to 12 trucks belonging to World Central Kitchen (WCK) to be distributed in northern Gaza.

“The ship and the goods it carried were subjected to a careful security inspection,” he said.

Israel has restricted deliveries of food, medical supplies and other aid vital items through two land crossings – Rafah with Egypt and Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom). Critics say the slow trickle of humanitarian relief is far from enough needed to prevent famine faced by hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

Also how did those 12 trucks get there and why couldn't those bring aid in from the border? I guess smaller trucks that only carry 10 tonnes each.
115 tonnes of food and water is enough to sustain 29,000 people for one day.
(unless it's US tons, which are 0.907 metric tonnes. Since they use tonnes I assume it's metric tons)

Avg nr of trucks entered for the past week (8-14 March) was 164 per day, same avg as the week before. A lot better than Februari yet still far short of the 500+ needed daily just to sustain the population.

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZTVkYmEwNmMtZWYxNy00ODhlLWI2ZjctNjIzMzQ5OGQxNzY5IiwidCI6IjI2MmY2YTQxLTIwZTktNDE0MC04ZDNlLWZkZjVlZWNiNDE1NyIsImMiOjl9&pageName=ReportSection3306863add46319dc574



US wasting more tax payer money

US military confirms new airdrop of aid over northern Gaza

35 thousand meals a day for 580 thousand starving people. 3 planes, that's about a 100 thousand dollar delivery right there, plus other costs.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/air-supplies-gaza-commendable-political-theater-no-long-term-solution

Providing a cost estimate for an entire relief operation is difficult, but it is possible to calculate the cost of the transportation alone. Trucking costs are about $2.25 per mile, and the round trip from Cairo to Rafah is 430 miles. Therefore, one truck trip costs about $970, or $0.06 per meal.

C-130s cost about $8,000 per flight hour, and the round trip takes about four hours. Thus, one and a half C-130s delivering the same number of supplies as one truck costs $48,000, or $2.50 per meal—42 times as much as by truck.

A senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Ophir Falk, says “mounting international pressure to end the war” on Gaza will not stop Israel from its stated goal of “destroying Hamas”. “Detractors dismiss total victory as implausible, but the facts on the ground indicate otherwise,” he wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.

Israel claims it has “dismantled” 18 of the 24 battalions operated by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, killed more than 21,500 fighters, and destroyed many tunnels. To put the number into perspective, Falk said it took the US military nine months to kill 5,000 ISIL (ISIS) members in Iraq’s Mosul.

“High-intensity combat will wind down after Rafah, humanitarian aid will no longer be hijacked by Hamas, and safety for civilians can be realised. Total victory is within reach. Israel will finish the job.”

Now it's 21,500 fighters??? Last week it was 13,000 which was still more than the total number of men killed, including the missing. Bunch of lies.
Also to put it into perspective, "only" 9,000 civilians were killed in Mosul. In Gaza 13,000 children alone have been blown up already in 5 months.


Blinken says he's trying to deter Israel's 'victory'

US working to ‘bridge gaps’ on Gaza ceasefire deal: Blinken

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) says that early next month, it will publicly hear Nicaragua’s case against Germany, which accuses Berlin of “facilitating the commission of genocide” in Gaza.

It said in a press release it will hear Nicaragua’s arguments on April 8, followed by Germany’s response on April 9.

Nicaragua asked for interim rulings, such as the ones the ICJ issued for Israel in late January to stop “genocidal acts” in the Gaza Strip, saying its case is “a matter of extreme urgency”.


Extreme urgency, it's March 15th today.... The ICJ is just sitting on their hands.
Here's the new case https://www.icj-cij.org/case/193


https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/193/193-20240301-app-01-00-en.pdf

3. In this Application, Nicaragua requests the Court to adjudge and declare that Germany by its conduct with respect to the serious violations of peremptory norms of international law taking place in the OPT

( a ) has not only failed to fulfil its obligation to prevent the genocide committed and being committed against the Palestinian people – including those in its component part in the Gaza Strip – but has contributed to the commission of genocide in violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (hereinafter “Genocide Convention”);

( b ) has failed to comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law, derived both from the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and its Protocols of 1977 and from the intransgressible principles of international humanitarian law, by not respecting its obligations to ensure respect for these fundamental norms in all circumstances; and

( c ) has failed to comply with other peremptory norms of general international law in particular by rendering aid or assistance in maintaining the illegal situation of the continued military occupation of Palestine including its ongoing, unlawful attack in Gaza, and

( d ) has failed to comply with other peremptory norms of general international law in particular by rendering aid or assistance and not preventing the illegal regime of apartheid and the negation of the right of self-determination of the Palestinian people.

Netanyahu is not going to be happy, of course elections in the current climate in Israel have no guarantees of a less extremist government coming into power.

Biden backs Schumer speech calling for elections in Israel

US President Joe Biden doesn’t seek to interfere with the will of the Israeli people on holding elections, the White House says. The comments come after a controversial speech by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer who suggested Israel’s “extremist” government should call a vote after its brutal war on Gaza.

“That’s going to be up to the Israeli people to decide,” White House spokesman John Kirby told a press briefing when asked about the president’s backing of Schumer’s speech. He is the highest-ranking Jewish American in the US political hierarchy.

“I think he expressed serious concern shared not only by him but by many Americans,” Biden said.


Eu also happy with a 'new' puppet government

EU welcomes appointment of new Palestinian Authority PM

Dominic Allen, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative for Palestine, says the true depth of the crisis and unfolding “nightmare” in northern Gaza cannot be captured with pictures.

He told reporters via video conference how he saw a five-year-old Palestinian boy, with his slightly older sister, holding up a white flag as they walked toward a military checkpoint operated by the Israeli military. “These stories, these images, perhaps don’t do enough of a good job in helping to paint a picture of the tragedy and catastrophe that is happening right now in Gaza,” he said.

“I think what I took away was the looks in the eyes of the people, which the emotion is truly indescribable. Everyone we passed, everyone we spoke to was frail, was hungry,” Al Jazeera Arabic’s Biesan Abu-Kwaik quoted Allen as saying.


_{Palestinians gather to collect food in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip}

Doctor says level of malnutrition for pregnant women ‘truly horrific’

UNICEF: ‘Staggering escalation’ in infant deaths in northern Gaza

#تغطية_مباشرة - عشرات المفقودين في قصف إسرائيلي لبناية من 7 طوابق تؤوي نازحين في حي الرمال بمدينة غزة، وحماس تقدم مقترحا بشأن صفقة تبادل إلى الوسطاء
يمكنكم متابعة تطورات #حرب_غزة عبر قناة الجزيرة على واتساب:https://t.co/oV6GNzGUoU https://t.co/QE17a8DqgK

— قناة الجزيرة (@AJArabic) March 15, 2024

Translation: Dozens of missing people in an Israeli bombing of a seven-story building housing the displaced in the Remal neighbourhood in Gaza City, as Hamas presents a proposal on a captive-exchange deal to mediators.

Survivors say at least seven displaced families were living in the tower block, and many are thought to be trapped beneath the rubble. Rescuers are using their bare hands to search through the debris. Reports are coming in that at least 36 Palestinians have been killed.

The Elders, a group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela, says President Biden should stop arming Israel in an effort to stop the war on Gaza, instead of focusing on sending limited amounts of aid to the besieged enclave.

“The United States can influence Israel by not continuing to provide arms. It has provided a lot of the arms, bombs and other arms that have been used on the Palestinian people, and [Biden] is continuing to do that. He’s also providing money,” said Mary Robinson, chairwoman of the organisation.

“This government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on the wrong side of history completely.”

Elders’ Chair Mary Robinson says President Biden should not continue to provide arms to Israel.

“The United States can influence Israel by not continuing to provide arms… The Government of Prime Minister Netanyahu is on the wrong side of history, completely. It’s making the… pic.twitter.com/fN3ptMjktz

— The Elders (@TheElders) March 15, 2024

Rights advocates condemn ‘systemic abuse’ in Israeli prisons

According to the law of the jungle perhaps. Most Palestinians never get to see a lawyer and either get administrative detention (no legal recourse) or put in front of military courts with 95% conviction rates.

https://www.militarycourtwatch.org/page.php?id=a6r85VcpyUa4755A52Y2mp3c4v



Is this a watershed moment for Jewish solidarity with Palestinians?