Israeli forces killed 26 Palestinians, injuring 70 in Gaza, killing 5 people in Lebanon breaking ceasefire agreements
By Abdul Adil
(AA, Al Jazeera, Wafa, NNA, Muslim News):
GAZA
At least 26 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll since October 2023 to 50,277, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.
A ministry statement said that the toll included one body retrieved from the rubble in the last 24 hours.
The ministry said 70 more injured people were taken to hospitals, bringing the number of injuries from the Israeli onslaught to 114,095.
“Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads, with rescuers unable to reach them,” the ministry said.
At least 921 Palestinians have been killed and 2,054 others injured in a surprise aerial campaign by Israel on Gaza since March 18, shattering a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in January.)
Israeli airstrikes across various areas of Gaza on Saturday killed seven Palestinians, including a child, and left several others injured.
A week after 14 first-responders disappeared, witnesses tell Al Jazeera Israeli troops killed and buried their bodies along with ambulances in southern Rafah city.
Israel’s army has acknowledged it attacked ambulances and firetrucks in the southern Gaza Strip after identifying them as “suspicious vehicles”.
Israeli forces “opened fire toward Hamas vehicles and eliminated several Hamas terrorists”, the military said in a statement.
Six Palestinians, including three women, were killed on Saturday evening in Israeli airstrikes targeting several areas across the northern Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that Israeli warplanes hit a tent sheltering displaced families within the Social Security and Pension Authority compound, located west of Gaza City. The strike resulted in the murder of three women and left others injured.
In the North Gaza district, two Palestinians were killed when Israeli forces targeted a group of civilians in the Sheikh Zayed City area.
Another airstrike targeted a home in Beit Lahiya, located in the northern part of the Strip, leading to the killing of one individual and leaving several others wounded.
According to a medical source, a Palestinian child was killed in an Israeli bombing that hit the Al-Shaboura refugee camp in the southern city of Rafah.
In another attack, four Palestinians were killed when Israeli airstrikes targeted a donkey-drawn cart transporting several people in the Qizan an-Najjar area, east of Khan Younis, also in the southern part of Gaza.
The Civil Defense announced that two Palestinians were killed and others wounded in a separate Israeli airstrike targeting a group of civilians on Mishtaha Street in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
In the northern Gaza Strip, several Palestinians were injured when Israeli artillery struck a stationary vehicle on Al-Manshiya Street in the town of Beit Lahia.
Witnesses reported intermittent Israeli artillery shelling on various locations across Gaza, including Beit Lahia, the western parts of Rafah, central Gaza, and east of Gaza City.
Meanwhile, authorities in the Gaza Strip on Friday said Israel has destroyed dozens of food kitchens and aid distribution centers in a continuation of its systematic starvation policy in the course of its genocidal war on the enclave.
The Gaza Media Office said the Israeli army since October 2023 has directly targeted 26 food-kitchens and 37 aid distribution centers across Gaza.
“These food-kitchens were providing meals to displaced and starving civilians,” said a statement.
It added that the attacks reaffirm “to the world that it (Israel) deliberately pursues a systematic starvation policy as a tool of war and genocide against over 2.4 million Palestinians trapped under siege in Gaza.”
Israel shut down Gaza’s border crossings to humanitarian and food supplies on March 2, exacerbating a severe humanitarian crisis in the enclave.
LEBANON
Five Lebanese were killed and 18 others injured on Friday in a series of Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
The strikes were part of a series of Israeli attacks that targeted multiple areas in southern Lebanon under the pretext of striking “Hezbollah-linked targets.”
A drone strike targeted the town of Yohmor al-Shaqif in Nabatieh district, killing two people, the Lebanese state news agency NNA reported.
Earlier, an Israeli airstrike on the town of Kfar Tibnit killed three people and injured 18 others including eight women and six children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.
Israeli warplanes struck the Sharafeddine Villa near Kfar Tibnit’s municipal building, reducing it to rubble, according to an Anadolu correspondent.
The deadly attacks followed a wave of air raids on the outskirts of Kfar Houneh in the Jezzine district, as well as on the Rihan Heights, Aaramta, and Sejoud in southern Lebanon.
The strikes came after the Israeli army claimed that two rockets had been launched from Lebanon into Israeli territory, an incident that Hezbollah denied any involvement in, reaffirming its commitment to the ceasefire agreement signed in November 2024.
Israeli fighter jets also bombed and destroyed a building in the Hadath neighborhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday, marking the first Israeli strike on the area since the signing of the ceasefire agreement.
According to NNA, the Israeli army committed 45 violations of the ceasefire agreement in a day.
Türkiye on Saturday condemned Israel’s airstrikes on Lebanon, attacks in violation of a ceasefire deal.
“We condemn Israel’s airstrikes against Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire agreement,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“We stand firmly by the people of Lebanon,” the ministry said, denouncing the attacks as evidence of Israel’s “flagrant disregard for international law and its ongoing threat to the region’s security and stability.”
The ministry urged the international community to take a united stance against what it described as Israel’s efforts to create “a perpetual state of conflict in the region.”
Meanwhile, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Friday the army has dismantled several Palestinian camps affiliated with Hezbollah or Iran, in addition to conducting more than 250 weapons confiscation operations on arms caches in tunnels south of the Litani River in southern Lebanon.
Aoun’s remarks came in an interview with the French newspaper, Le Figaro, during his visit to Paris where he met French President Emmanuel Macron, according to a statement by the Lebanese presidency.
“The Lebanese army has indeed dismantled several Palestinian camps loyal to Hezbollah or Iran; one near Beirut, two north toward Tripoli, and three in the Bekaa Valley,” Aoun said in response to a question on whether the disarmament of Hezbollah had truly begun.
He noted that the army “has so far carried out more than 250 weapons seizures or operations against arms depots in tunnels south of the Litani River.”
“Part of the confiscated arsenal is being destroyed, but if the seized weapons are serviceable, they are handed over to the army,” he said.
Anon reaffirmed Lebanon’s “full commitment to implementing UN Security Council resolution 1701,” which calls for a complete cessation of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel.
Resolution 1701, passed in 2006, calls for a complete halt to hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel and the establishment of a weapons-free zone between the Blue Line, a de facto border, and the Litani River in southern Lebanon, with exceptions for the Lebanese army and the UN peacekeeping mission (UNIFIL).
Despite Israeli violations of an Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, Aoun told the French newspaper that his country will continue to work on the diplomatic level with France, the US and the international community to address Israel’s violations.
On another topic, Aoun replied to a question on flights between Beirut and Tehran by saying that “flights won’t be resumed at the current time but maybe one day.”
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 more than 1,250 Israeli violations of the ceasefire, including at least 100 fatalities and more than 330 injuries.
YEMEN
The Yemeni Houthi [Ansar Allah] group said the US carried out 69 raids Friday across Yemen — the highest in a single day since Washington initiated attacks on Houthi-controlled areas since mid-March.
Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV said warplanes conducted 26 raids by the afternoon on the capital, Sana’a, and the Al-Jawf and Saada provinces.
It added that raids in Saada province left one civilian killed and three injured.
Earlier, the broadcaster reported 43 strikes across Yemeni provinces, including 19 on Amran, eight in Sana’a, seven on Saada, four on Marib, three on Al-Hudaydah and two on Al-Jawf.
The Houthi-run Health Ministry said seven civilians were injured in airstrikes on the Al-Tahreer District in central Sanaa.
The group claimed that civilian properties were damaged in the attack.
US President Donald Trump said March 15 that he had ordered a “major offensive” against the Houthis and later threatened to “whip them out completely.”
The Houthi group has been attacking Israeli-linked ships passing through the Red and Arabian seas.
[Photo: Palestinians, including children gather around a water tanker to collect clean water amid ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza and the continued closure of border crossings, which have severely limited access to basic necessities in Khan Yunis, Gaza on March 29, 2025. Photojournalist: Abed Rahim Khatib/AA]
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