Israel killed 61 Palestinians in last 24 hours
Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 50,000
Egypt floats new truce proposal
Houthis accuse US of attacking airport
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March 24, 2025
Israel kills dozens of Palestinians in last 24 hours
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March 24, 2025
Trapped Palestinians in Rafah face Israeli genocidePalestinian civilians trapped in the Tel al-Sultan neighbourhood in western Rafah are facing genocide amid an Israeli onslaught in southern Gaza, municipal authorities warned.
“Tel al-Sultan is subjected to genocide as thousands of civilians, including children, women, and elderly people, remain trapped under heavy Israeli bombardment with no means of escape,” the Rafah Municipality said in a statement.
“Palestinian families are trapped among the rubble, without water, food, or medicine, amid a complete collapse of health services."
March 24, 2025
Israel's bloodbath in Gaza continuesThe death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has reached 50,082, with 113,408 wounded, the Health Ministry says.
At least 61 people have been killed in the past 24 hours, and four bodies recovered from the debris, according to the ministry.
March 24, 2025
Palestinian Health Ministry calls Israeli attack on Gaza hospital 'war crime'Gaza’s Health Ministry has denounced Israeli shelling on a hospital in southern Gaza as a “war crime,” demanding an independent international investigation into the attack.
Two patients were killed and several people wounded when Israeli forces shelled the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern city of Khan Younis on Sunday night.
“This attack constitutes a new war crime added to the record of repeated Israeli violations against civilians and medical facilities, in blatant disregard for the rules of international humanitarian law and international conventions that prohibit targeting hospitals and healthcare workers,” Muneer Alboursh, Director General of the Health Ministry, said in a statement.
March 24, 2025
Germany says Gaza civilian deaths 'extremely worrying'Germany has said that civilian deaths in Gaza were "extremely worrying" as Israel's military presses a renewed assault on Hamas in the Palestinian territory.
"It is now very clear that we must quickly return to negotiations and to the ceasefire that was in place," foreign ministry spokesman Christian Wagner said in Berlin.
March 24, 2025
30 Palestinians arrested in fresh Israeli raids in occupied West BankThe Israeli army detained at least 30 more Palestinians in fresh military raids in the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups.
A freed prisoner under a recent Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement was among the detainees in the raids that targeted several towns in the occupied 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 at least 70 Palestinians and displacing thousands.
March 24, 2025
Israel strikes on Syria, Lebanon 'risk further escalation':EUEU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has warned during a visit to Jerusalem that Israeli strikes on Syria and Lebanon threatened to worsen the situation.
"Military actions must be proportionate, and Israeli strikes into Syria and Lebanon risk further escalation," Kallas said at a joint news conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.
March 24, 2025
Harvard Jewish groups urge universities to condemn detention of Palestinian activistNearly 80 Jewish affiliates at Harvard University, including over 30 faculty members, signed a statement urging universities to condemn the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
The statement, which has been signed by nearly 3,000 faculty members, staff, and students from universities across the US, was issued in response to the detention of Khalil, a green card holder and recent Columbia University graduate who helped organise campus protests last year.
March 24, 2025
Israel refuses to coordinate rescue operation for Palestinian paramedicsIsrael has refused to coordinate a rescue operation for paramedics stuck in Rafah in southern Gaza, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said.
In a statement, the agency said it lost contact with a team of paramedics in Rafah since early Sunday after Israeli forces besieged it amid a rescue mission.
“We are still awaiting a greenlight (from Israel) to reach out to the team in Rafah,” it added.
According to the organisation, several paramedics were injured, and four ambulances have been besieged by Israeli forces in the city.
March 24, 2025
Gaza Education Ministry says three staff members killed in Israeli attacksGaza’s Education Ministry has said that three staff members have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since last week.
The ministry said the three staff members lost their lives in attacks in the southern city of Khan Younis.
March 24, 2025
Palestinian teen dies in Israeli prison A 17-year-old Palestinian detainee has died in Israeli detention, bringing the death toll of prisoners in Israeli jails to 63 since October 2023, prisoners’ affairs groups said.
In a joint statement, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the Civil Affairs Authority, the Palestinian Authority’s official liaison office with Israeli authorities, notified them of the death of prisoner Walid Ahmad in Israel’s Megiddo Prison.
Detained as a minor, Ahmad hails from Silwad, a town east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.
The statement said Ahmad was apprehended by Israeli forces on September 30, 2024