Israeli forces killed 57 Palestinians in Gaza, 3 in Lebanon in violations of ceasefire agreements
By Abdul Adil
(AA, Al Jazeera, Wafa, NNA, The Muslim News):
GAZA
At least 57 more Palestinians were killed in latest Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, pushing up the overall death toll from Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023 to 50,752, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
A ministry statement said another 137 injured were also transferred to hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the number of injuries to 115,475.
Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them, the ministry added.
Journalists killed
Meanwhile, a medical source said fighter jets struck a tent for journalists near the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, killing a journalist and a civilian, and injuring nine other journalists, including some in critical condition.
A journalist victim was identified as Helmi Al-Faqawi, a reporter for Palestine Today news agency, according to local sources.
Seven people were also killed, including three children, and many people were injured when Israeli forces bombed a food delivery spot in the same city, the source added
Another Palestinian journalist died Tuesday of severe burns he sustained in an Israeli strike on a tent for journalists in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis a day earlier, local media said.
Footage showed Ahmed Mansour, a reporter for Palestine Today news agency, burning alive after the strike on the journalists’ tent near Nasser Hospital in the city on Monday.
According to the official news agency Wafa, Mansour breathed his last early Tuesday.
His death brought to two journalists killed in the attack, while eight other journalists were injured.
The Israeli army confirmed the attack on Monday, claiming that the strike targeted journalist Hassan Elslayeh, who Tel Aviv claims is a Hamas member. The military said that Elslayeh was injured in the attack.
At least 211 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, according to local authorities.
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Two other Palestinians were killed by Israeli shelling in Khan Younis, while another Palestinian lost his life in the Abasan al-Kabira in the city’s eastern part.
Israeli warplanes hit several homes in Deir Al-Balah city in central Gaza, killing three people and injuring several others.
Three Palestinians were also killed in the shelling of a group of civilians in northwestern Gaza City, another medical source said.
Five more people were killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting a group of people in the Zeitoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
It added that another drone strike in the Al-Juron area in northern Gaza City left one Palestinian killed.
Two more people were killed and several others injured in an Israeli strike on Jabalia town in the northern Gaza Strip, Wafa said.
A doctor and civilian were also killed in another Israeli attack in central Gaza City on Monday evening, medics said.
The Israeli army renewed a deadly assault on Gaza on March 18 and has since killed nearly 1,400 people, injured over 3,400 others, and shattered a January ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement in the enclave.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to escalate attacks on Gaza amid efforts to implement US President Donald Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians from the enclave.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society’s president has called for an independent international inquiry into the “deliberate killing” of 15 humanitarian personnel last month in an attack by Israeli forces in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Israel’s ambassador to Ethiopia Avraham Neguise was expelled on Monday from a conference on Rwandan genocide organized by the African Union in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
A Foreign Ministry statement said that Neguise was thrown out after member states refused to participate alongside him in the conference.
WEST BANK
Four Palestinians were injured by illegal Israeli settlers’ assault on a village in the city of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, medics said.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its teams transferred four wounded Palestinians to a hospital after they were assaulted by Israeli settlers in the village of Umm al-Khair, Masafer Yatta, southern Hebron.
Witnesses said that the settlers used sticks and batons to attack the Palestinians.
According to the non-governmental Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, the assaults took place before Israeli army forces, as “they provided protection for the settlers and prevented the (Palestinian) residents from defending themselves.”
Tensions have been running high across the occupied West Bank, where at least 945 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 7,000 others injured in attacks by the Israeli army and illegal settlers since the start of the Gaza war on Oct. 7, 2023, according to the Health Ministry.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces decided Monday to bar Sheikh Moataz Abu Sneineh, the director of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, from the site for 15 days, said a Palestinian official.
The order came hours after the military sealed off parts of mosque from the local waqf directorate, escalating tensions over the holy site.
“The mosque staff discovered that Israeli authorities had placed locks and chains on all internal room doors in the occupied section, including the call-to-prayer room and Waqf office,” Jamal Abu Aram, director of the Hebron Waqf department, told Anadolu.
“Later, one employee was banned from the mosque for 14 days,” he said. “Sheikh Moataz Abu Sneineh and another staff member were detained for over five hours before being handed 15-day expulsion orders.”
Abu Aram labeled the actions as a continuation of Israel’s strategy “to dominate the mosque and strip the waqf of authority over its sections.”
The Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs said in a statement that the locking of the rooms set “a dangerous precedent” aimed at undermining its sovereignty.
Quoting Abu Sneineh, the ministry asserted that all mosque shrines and corridors belong to the Islamic waqf, which holds legal custody of their keys. He condemned the locks as “a blatant and serious assault on the sanctity of these inviolable places.”
Israel has not commented on the matter.
LEBANON
Three people were killed, including two Syrian nationals, and several others injured Monday in Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon, in the latest violation of a November ceasefire agreement.
A Lebanese civilian was killed in an Israeli drone strike, the Health Ministry said.
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said the strike targeted a motorcycle repair shop in the town of Taybeh.
The Israeli army confirmed the attack, saying it targeted Hezbollah commander Muhammad Adnan Mansour.
The army claimed that Mansour was responsible for multiple rocket attacks on Israel’s Upper Galilee region during a recent conflict between the two sides.
There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah on the Israeli claim.
Separately, two Syrian nationals were killed and a Lebanese citizen wounded after an Israeli strike targeted a motorcycle on Dardara Road in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh province, according to NNA.
Earlier in the day, the Lebanese Health Ministry said an Israeli drone strike also injured a Lebanese citizen in the town of Beit Lif in Bint Jbeil district of the same province.
Monday’s attacks came one day after two civilians were killed in an airstrike on a bulldozer near Zibqin, a town in Tyre district of southern Lebanon.
A fragile ceasefire had been in place in Lebanon since November, ending months of cross-border warfare between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah, which escalated into a full-scale conflict last September.
Lebanese authorities reported nearly 1,400 Israeli violations of the ceasefire, including at least 120 fatalities and more than 366 injuries.
YEMEN
Yemen’s Houthi [Ansar Allah] group said late Monday that it launched a drone attack on a military target in Tel Aviv, Israel and struck two US destroyers in the Red Sea with missiles and drones.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree declared in a televised statement that the group’s air force “conducted an operation targeting a military site of the Israeli enemy in the occupied Yafa area using a Yafa-type drone.”
He provided no further details on the target.
Saree added that a separate operation “targeted two American destroyers in the Red Sea with several winged missiles and drones.”
The US has not yet commented on the Houthi reports. However, the Israeli military said that its air force intercepted a drone approaching from the east earlier in the day before it crossed into Israeli territory.
No alarms were activated in accordance with protocol, the military noted in a statement. Israel’s Army Radio confirmed that the drone originated from Yemen.
Last month, US President Donald Trump said that he had ordered “decisive and powerful military action” against the Houthis and later threatened to “completely annihilate them.”
At least 76 civilians have been killed and 182 others injured in US airstrikes across Yemen since March 15, according to the Houthi-run Health Ministry.
US warplanes launched six fresh airstrikes in Yemen on Monday, the Houthi group said.
The Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV said three strikes targeted the Al-Ammar area in the northern Saada province and three others in the Bani Hassan area in Hajjah province in northwestern Yemen.
No information was yet available about injuries or damage.
[Photo: Palestinians try to continue their daily lives in makeshift tents amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, Gaza despite ongoing Israeli attacks on April 07, 2025. Deprived of the most basic needs such as shelter, food and clean water, Palestinians also struggle to survive their daily lives in difficult living conditions. Photojournalist: Mahmoud İssa/ AA]
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