Israeli forces killed 39 Palestinians in Gaza, one in W Bank and 3 civilians in Lebanon violating ceasefire
By Abdul Adil
(AA, Al Jazeera, Wafa, NNA, The Muslim News):
GAZA
At least 39 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, pushing up the death toll since October 2023 to 50,183, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
A ministry statement said that 124 more injured people were also transferred to hospitals, taking the number of injuries to 113,828 in the Israeli onslaught.
“Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
Israel kills a child in Gaza every 45 minutes. That is an average of 30 children killed every day over the past 535 days.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children, including 15,600 who have been identified. Many more remain buried under the rubble, most presumed dead.
Many of the surviving children have endured the trauma of multiple wars, and all of them have spent their lives under the oppressive shadow of an Israeli blockade, affecting every aspect of their existence from birth.
The Israeli army launched a surprise aerial campaign on the Gaza Strip on March 18, killing 830 people and injuring nearly 1,800 others despite a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in January.
The UN’s humanitarian agency, OCHA, has said 142,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced since Israel resumed its war on Gaza on March 18.
At least 18 more Palestinians, including six children, were killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday, targeting homes and groups of civilians across the war-devastated Gaza Strip, as Israel’s genocide continues unabated.
In the Northern Gaza governorate, eight Palestinians, including six children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home, according to a medical source.
Two more Palestinians, a father and his son, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in the Bureij refugee camp, the central Gaza Strip, a medical source also told Anadolu.
Rescue operations continue in the area in search of other missing people, according to witnesses.
Two people were killed and several others injured in an airstrike near a mosque in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, a medical source said.
Another strike was reported on a charitable soup kitchen in the same camp amid reports of casualties.
In the southern Gaza Strip, a medical source told Anadolu that two Palestinians were killed, including a woman, in an Israeli strike against a group of civilians in Khan Younis city.
A medical source said that two more Palestinians were killed when an Israeli drone attacked a group of civilians in central Khan Younis.
In Rafah in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, two Palestinians, including a woman, lost their lives in two separate Israeli attacks in the Shakoush area.
The Israeli military has launched a series of air strikes on the central areas of the Gaza Strip – in particular in or around Nuseirat refugee camp. We’ve just seen two separate attacks in the densely populated town.
One of the air strikes targeted a community kitchen where Palestinians have lined up since the early hours to get a meal. We understand that five civilians were killed there.
In a separate attack, six Palestinians were killed when an Israeli drone targeted a group of civilians elsewhere in Nuseirat.
But also, in az-Zawayda town, which is only 3km [1.9 miles] from Nuseirat, a group of civilians and a makeshift tent have been targeted. Two women were killed in the strike, and at least four others were wounded and are now receiving treatment in the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.
They have been critically injured and, according to medical testimonies, are in desperate need of advanced surgery that cannot be performed there.
In the Northern Gaza governorate, eight Palestinians, including six children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home, according to a medical source.
Meanwhile, Israel has rejected most attempts by humanitarian organizations to deliver essential supplies into the blockaded Gaza Strip, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Wednesday.
“The situation in Gaza is deteriorating as intense hostilities continue for a second week,” UNRWA said in a statement.
“Basic supplies are running out, and some will only last for a few more days unless aid shipments are allowed in,” it added.
Most “attempts by humanitarian organizations to coordinate access with the Israeli authorities were rejected,” the UN agency said.
On March 2, Israel shut down Gaza’s border crossings to humanitarian and food supplies, exacerbating a severe humanitarian crisis in the enclave.
Wednesday’s assault came as Israel continued to close Gaza’s crossings to humanitarian aid since early March, causing a severe shortage of food supplies in the war-ravaged territory.
WEST BANK
A Palestinian young man was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces near the town of Hawara, south of Nablus, on Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health.
The Palestinian Civil Affairs said that Ismail Samer Sharafa, 18, from the town of Beita, shot and killed near Hawara town by Israeli army gunfire.
Following the attack, the occupation forces further withheld Sharafa’s body.
Meanwhile, Israel has refused to open all hallways of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron for prayer on Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Destiny), the Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs said on Wednesday.
Laylat al-Qadr is the holiest night in Islam, when the Holy Quran was first revealed. It falls on one of the odd nights in the last 10 days of Ramadan.
“This is an arbitrary and dangerous precedent in this holy place, a brazen provocation of Muslim sentiments, and a lack of respect for the sanctity of the holy month of Ramadan and the Ibrahimi Mosque complex,” Awqaf Minister Mohamed Najm said in a statement.
Over 3,250 housing units in the Jenin refugee camp have become uninhabitable due to Israel’s ongoing military offensive in the northern West Bank, the Jenin municipal chief said on Wednesday.
“The situation in Jenin camp is entirely catastrophic,” Mohammed Jarrar told Anadolu. “Israeli forces continue to demolish, bomb, and burn Palestinian homes.”
Jarrar revealed that Israel rejected a Palestinian appeal against plans to raze 93 additional residential buildings, containing about 300 housing units.
At least 20 more Palestinians were rounded up in fresh Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, according to prisoners’ affairs groups.
Former prisoners were among the detainees in the raids that targeted several towns in the West Bank, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement.
The raids came as the Israeli army has continued a deadly military offensive in the northern West Bank since January, killing over 70 Palestinians, displacing thousands, and turning many homes into military outposts.
Wednesday’s arrests brought the number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli army in the West Bank since October 2023 to over 15,700, including those who were released after being arrested, according to Palestinian figures.
The figure does not include those arrested from the Gaza Strip, whose numbers are estimated to be in the thousands.
Israeli forces have torn down 24 Palestinian greenhouses in the occupied West Bank’s Tulkarem governorate, saying they pose a threat to a nearby Israeli town, Israel’s Channel 14 reports.
The greenhouses, which Israel called illegal, were located near the Israeli town of Bat Hefer, close to the boundary with the West Bank.
Their demolition brings the total number of recently destroyed Palestinian greenhouses in the area to 50, according to Channel 14.
Israel routinely issues demolition orders for Palestinian homes and structures, saying they were built without authorisation.
LEBANON
Three Lebanese civilians Thursday were killed when an Israeli drone struck a vehicle in the Nabatieh Governorate, southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) is now reporting that an Israeli drone attacked a car the al-Dabash neighbourhood of Yohmor al-Shaqif town in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate., coinciding with artillery shelling.
Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen broadcaster said at least three people were killed in the attack.
The Lebanese people reject any normalization of relations with Israel, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Wednesday.
“No one in Lebanon wants to normalize ties with Israel,” Salam said during a meeting with a press delegation in Beirut as cited by a government statement.
“Normalization with Israel is rejected by all the Lebanese people,” he added.
Local media reports have emerged about US pressure on Lebanon to reach “an agreement that is less than normalization and more than an armistice” with Israel.
Salam said international and Arab pressure on Israel to stop its assaults in southern Lebanon “has not yet been exhausted.”
“There are still means for political and diplomatic pressure,” he added, without elaborating.
The Lebanese premier said that the five border outposts occupied by Israel in southern Lebanon “have no military or security value, but Israel holds them to keep pressure on Lebanon.”
A fragile ceasefire had been in place in Lebanon since November, ending months of cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah, which escalated into a full-scale conflict in September.
Lebanese authorities reported over 1,250 Israeli violations of the ceasefire, including the deaths of 100 people and injuries to more than 330.
Under the ceasefire deal, Israel was supposed to fully withdraw from southern Lebanon by Jan. 26, but the deadline was extended to Feb. 18 after it refused to comply. It still maintains a military presence at five border outposts.
[Photo: Relatives of Palestinians, who lost their lives following the Israeli indiscriminate bombings on a house in the Fedus area, mourn as bodies are brought to Indonesian Hospital for funeral procedures in Beit Lahia, Gaza on March 27, 2025. Photojournalist: Abd Khaled/AA]
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