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March 25 - 23,2025 A timeline of Israel’s weaponisation of aid to Gaza... and Palestinians in Gaza attacked as they comply with Israeli evacuation order... and UNRWA: Banning aid is a collective punishment on Gaza... Food for thought: If it is not 'kristall-(sic)clear by now the attempted genocide of the Palestinian nation simply goes on while the West keeps saying: "Wir haben es nicht gewuesst". Read more and decide for yourself. and March 25 - 19, 2025 The full story of political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil March 23 - 20, 2025 Food for thought: A jewish saying: if you kill one human being you kill humanity. How true. And even morseo: they're to become no.1 in the worldbook of records. Read more.

and Gaza is being starved and bombed again. Why are we allowing it? And 'I was a human shield' and March 10 - 12, 2025 Release Mahmoud... March 20 - 17, 2025 Read more about idf atricities here March 20 - 18, 2025 Israel resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza Read more about "The unmistakable sounds of genocide" i.e. acts of inhumanity of the idf nazis and their co-killers of the innocent.

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When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
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Gianna d'Artali.




Palestinian children wait in long queues to get food-Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu
Al Jazeera - March 25, 2025 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<A timeline of Israel’s weaponisation of aid to Gaza
Israel is again starving Palestinians in Gaza as its renewed bombardment kills hundreds, many of them children.
Israel has repeatedly used food and international humanitarian aid as a tool of collective pressure against Palestinians over 17 months of its devastating war on the Gaza Strip. Civilians in the enclave have been subjected to extreme food shortages and famine-like conditions throughout the war. Dozens of children have died of starvation, and countless others have succumbed to wounds or preventable illnesses during a deteriorating man-made humanitarian disaster. Israeli authorities continue to starve Palestinians in the besieged enclave, which is home to 2.3 million people, after having blocked the entry of desperately needed humanitarian aid once again in early March. And on March 18, Israel unilaterally broke a ceasefire that had held since January, relaunching attacks across Gaza, and killing hundreds more Palestinians. The combination of the bombs and debilitating humanitarian situation is rapidly worsening conditions for the people of Gaza, but it has been a constant since the beginning of the war in October 2023. Here’s a closer look at how Israel has used aid to punish Gaza:
October 2023
October 9: Israel announces a “total blockade” on the Gaza Strip, halting the entry of all food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity.
Then-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant promises action against “human animals”, and orders a “complete siege”. Thirteen months later, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant against Gallant and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges that include the “war crime of starvation as a method of warfare”. October 21: The first aid truck enters Gaza via a land route from Egypt as the Israeli military carries on with two weeks of deadly bombing. The Israeli military eventually allows an extremely limited number of aid trucks to enter the enclave after international pressure.
November 2023
November 24: A temporary truce is reached between Israel and Hamas, allowing a slight increase in the humanitarian aid entering Gaza.
The United Nations and international aid agencies report that the amount of aid entering Gaza is highly inadequate to meet the needs of the population, most of whom are children. The temporary cessation of attacks enables several limited exchanges of captives held in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, but there is no promise for an end to the war or for the return of Palestinians forced out of their homes as a result of the fighting. The Gaza truce then ends a week after it started, and relentless Israeli attacks restart, killing more civilians, journalists, aid workers and doctors along with Hamas figures.
February 2024
February 29: Israel kills at least 112 Palestinians and wounds more than 750 when it opens fire on Palestinians waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City in what is called the “flour massacre”. The Israeli military carries out numerous similar attacks on life-saving aid convoys, often saying “terrorists” are being targeted but without providing evidence. The UN and other international agencies and aid workers repeatedly report that the Israeli authorities intentionally block many aid trucks meant to enter the enclave. Israeli attacks along with blocked aid and dire conditions created by Israeli ground offensives and destruction across Gaza also lead to aid convoys being attacked and looted. Far-right Israelis also on numerous occasions either attack aid convoys or try to stop them from entering Gaza.
April 2024
April 1: Israeli drone strikes target an aid convoy with the World Central Kitchen (WCK), killing six international aid workers and a Palestinian driver.
The WCK is forced to halt its humanitarian operations, similar to many other international aid organisations that temporarily or permanently stop their assistance to Palestinians. An investigation by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification agency finds that the three WCK vehicles were intentionally hit, adding to a record death toll of hundreds of mostly Palestinian aid workers killed since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.
October 2024
October 6: The Israeli military commences a massive siege on northern Gaza, designating the entire area a combat zone and issuing forced evacuation orders to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. The siege on the north, which is accompanied by Israeli attacks across other parts of Gaza, lasts until a ceasefire with Hamas comes into effect on January 19, 2025. The entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza is heavily restricted by Israel throughout the winter amid low temperatures. Far-right Israeli government ministers, chief among them Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, call for the blockage of all humanitarian aid and for a military occupation of Gaza, preferring this to the option of a ceasefire.
January 2025
January 19: The implementation of the ceasefire allows a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza, something relief organisations say would need to persist for a long time before life could return to any semblance of normality.
Israel allows more trucks to enter Gaza in the days after the truce comes into effect, but the volume of aid is much less than what had been agreed upon in the ceasefire. As babies die from the cold, the Israeli government prevents the entry of thousands of mobile homes meant to shelter displaced Palestinians along with heavy equipment required to clear the rubble of destroyed homes and infrastructure.
March 2025
March 2: For the second time since the start of the war, Israel halts the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza, an order that currently remains in effect.
March 10: Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), warns that another hunger crisis looms in Gaza and accuses Israel of an illegal “weaponisation of humanitarian aid”.
March 18: Israel ends the ceasefire, and its military conducts one of the heaviest bombing campaigns in Gaza yet, killing more than 400 Palestinians and wounding more than 500, many of them children, on the first day alone.
March 25: The UN announces it is withdrawing 30 percent of its international staff from Gaza after an Israeli air strike on March 19 kills a Bulgarian UN staff member and severely wounds six other foreign workers.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/25/a-timeline-of-israels-weaponisation-of-aid-to-gaza

Jinha - Womens News Agency - March 25, 2025
<<Overnight Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 23 Palestinians
Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 23 Palestinians overnight into Tuesday, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
News Center-On March 18, 2025, the Israeli army resumed its offensive on the Gaza Strip, shattering the ceasefire that came into effect on January 19. Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 23 Palestinians, including women and children, overnight into Tuesday, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Five members of the Anshasi family, including father, mother and their three children, were killed when Israel’s forces bombed a tent for displaced people in Hamad City, west of Khan Younis, according to the news agency. Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in the Qizan al-Najjar area, south of Khan Younis. The news agency also reported that an Israeli strike on a residential building killed five people in the Bureij refugee camp, located in the central Gaza Strip east of the Salah al-Din Road in the Deir al-Balah Governorate. Another Israeli airstrike targeted the home of the al-Khor family in the al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, killing four Palestinians and injuring others.
730 Palestinians killed in eight days
Since March 18, 730 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, according to health authorities in Gaza.>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/overnight-israeli-strikes-on-gaza-kill-at-least-23-palestinians-36774


Video screenshot footage - Children among dozens killed
Al Jazeera - March 25, 2025
<<Children among dozens killed as Israel pounds Gaza from north to south
Health officials say at least 62 people are killed in a day as tens of thousands face forced displacement under latest Israeli orders.
Renewed Israeli bombardments across the Gaza Strip have killed dozens of Palestinians, including children, as the Israeli army has issued a new round of forced displacement orders across the besieged territory. In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said at least 62 people were killed in Israeli attacks over the past 24-hour reporting period. At least 23 people, including seven children, were killed in overnight attacks, according to medical sources. Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said different areas across the Strip were under heavy artillery shelling and air attacks. In southern Gaza, at least five Palestinians were killed in attacks that hit two tents sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis, she said. Another eight Palestinians were killed in an attack on a residential home in Bureij in central Gaza while more attacks were reported in northern areas, including in Gaza City and Jabalia. In Beit Lahiya, also in the north, an Israeli attack killed at least three Palestinians, including a three-year-old girl. “There have been continuous air strikes on civilians’ homes and where Palestinians are sheltering,” Khoudary said. After the latest attacks, Hamas issued a statement denouncing the “horrific massacres” and urged the international community to rein in Israel, which last week broke a two-month ceasefire with the Palestinian group. Since it renewed its bombardment on Gaza on March 18, the Israeli army has killed 792 people, including hundreds of children, and wounded 1,663, according to the Health Ministry. Amid a total aid blockade, tens of thousands of people have also been forced to flee once again, just weeks after returning following the start of the ceasefire on January 19.
In its latest round of forced displacement orders, the Israeli army on Tuesday warned of new attacks in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoon and Shujayea in Gaza City, saying rockets had been fired towards Israel from the northern area. Other orders were also issued for Khan Younis and Rafah in the south.
‘Children killed in their sleep’
A number of aid groups and United Nations agencies have long said there are no safe areas in Gaza as Israeli-designated “humanitarian zones” and shelters have repeatedly come under Israeli attack. The international charity Save the Children on Tuesday called the resumption of the war “a death sentence” for children in besieged Gaza. “Children are being killed in their sleep in tents. They are being starved and attacked. The only way to ensure children and families are protected is through a definitive ceasefire,” it said. Nearly 18 months of Israeli attacks have killed more than 50,000 people and wounded about 113,000, according to the Health Ministry, while thousands more are missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings and presumed dead. The Israeli war began after Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, led to an estimated 1,139 people being killed and about 250 taken captive. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the renewed offensive aims to pressure Hamas into releasing the remaining 59 captives who are being held in Gaza. About 24 of them are believed to still be alive. Hamas says it wants Israel to abide by what it agreed on when it signed the January ceasefire, including holding talks on ending the war permanently in exchange for the release of the remaining captives.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/25/children-among-dozens-killed-as-israel-pounds-gaza-from-north-to-south


Video screenshot footage - Israel kills dozens of Palestinians
Al Jazeera - March 25, 2025
<<LIVE: Israel kills dozens of Palestinians in Gaza as it mulls reoccupation
By Federica Marsi
Israel continues bombarding Gaza for an eighth consecutive day, killing at least 23 people in predawn attacks including seven children.
Save the Children says more than 270 children have been killed in the week since Israel resumed attacking Gaza, marking some of “the deadliest days for children since the war began”.>>
Read more/video: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/3/25/live-israeli-attacks-kill-65-in-gaza-including-journalists-children


Video screenshot footage - UN says it will ‘reduce footprint in Gaza’
Al Jazeera - March 24, 2025
<<UN says it will ‘reduce footprint in Gaza’ amid renewed Israeli assault
The United Nations says it will reduce its footprint in Gaza amid Israel’s renewed assault on the strip, with one-third of its international staff of 100 leaving. A spokesperson added that the organisation had determined an Israeli tank was behind an attack on a UN facility last week that killed one staff member and injured six others.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/24/un-says-it-will-reduce-footprint-in-gaza-amid-renewed-israeli-assault


Video screenshot footage - English playwright walks from dawn to dusk for Gaza
Al Jazeera - March 24, 2025
<<English playwright walks from dawn to dusk for Gaza
Peter Oswald is on a 13-day pilgrimage for Palestine, walking 241 kms from Bristol to Parliament Square in London. Oswald was teaching poetry and English to children in Gaza when Israel began its war on the enclave.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/24/english-playwright-walks-from-dawn-to-dusk-for-gaza


Video screenshot footage - Mohammad Mansour
Al Jazeera - March 24, 2025
<<Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat killed in Israeli attack on Gaza
Mohammad Mansour, who worked for Palestine Today, has also been killed in a separate Israeli attack.
Separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed two media workers, including an Al Jazeera journalist. Hossam Shabat, a journalist who worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher, was killed in northern Gaza on Monday. Witnesses told the network that his car was targeted in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya.
The colleagues of Shabat, have shared his final words.
In a post on X, prewritten by Shabat, he wrote, “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed — most likely targeted — by the Israeli occupation forces.” Shabat wrote that over the last 18 months of war, he has dedicated “every moment” to his people. “I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents—anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people’s side.”
“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza,” Shabat added. “Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories — until Palestine is free.” Earlier on Monday, an Israeli army attack on Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, also killed journalist Mohammad Mansour, who worked for Palestine Today. Abu Azzoum said Mansour was killed “in his house … alongside his wife and his son”, in an attack that also came without any prior warning.
‘Targeting journalists a war crime’
The killing of the two journalists brings the number of media workers killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 2023 to 208, according to the Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza. In a statement on Monday, the GMO said it “strongly condemns the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation” and called on press advocacy groups to denounce “these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in Gaza”. The GMO said it held Israel and its main ally, the United States, as well as “the countries participating in the genocide, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, fully responsible for committing this heinous crime”.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the killing of Shabat and Mansour and called for an independent investigation into whether they were deliberately targeted. “The deliberate and targeted killing of a journalist, of a civilian, is a war crime,” Jodie Ginsberg, the CPJ’s chief executive said, adding the organisation has been investigating several cases in which Israel appears to have deliberately targeted a journalist, knowing them to be a media worker. “That would amount to a war crime. Journalists and civilians must never be targeted”, she said, noting that the CPJ had spoken to Shabat for its own reports on the news void developing in northern Gaza because of Israel’s war.
‘Another bloody day’
Meanwhile, heavy Israeli bombardment across the besieged territory continued throughout Monday for the seventh straight day since Israel ended a fragile two-month ceasefire after imposing a renewed blockade on the Palestinian territory. More than 700 have been killed, including hundreds of children, in a relentless wave of bombardments since the resumption of large-scale Israeli attacks on March 18. Al Jazeera’s Abu Azzoum said it had been “another bloody day”, with medical sources saying at least 65 people were killed in Israeli attacks since dawn on Monday. According to the Health Ministry in Gaza, at least 50,082 Palestinians have been confirmed killed and 113,408 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza.
SOURCE/video: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/24/al-jazeera-journalist-killed-in-israeli-strikes-in-northern-gaza


Video screenshot footage - Palestinians in Gaza attacked while evacuation order
Al Jazeera - March 24, 2025
<<Palestinians in Gaza attacked as they comply with Israeli evacuation order
Palestinians share the horror of witnessing their loved ones being killed while responding to Israeli evacuation orders in Rafah. They were attacked while fleeing along routes declared safe by the Israeli army.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/24/palestinians-in-gaza-attacked-as-they-comply-with-israeli-evacuation-order

Al Jazeera - March 24, 2025
<<Israel building agency to steer Palestinian ‘voluntary departure’ from Gaza
Under the proposal, the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza will be under the control of the Defence Ministry.
Israel is set to establish a government agency that would oversee the “voluntary departure” of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Monday that the agency is being built following the Israeli security cabinet’s approval of Defence Minister Israel Katz’ plan over the weekend. Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel’s announcement of an agency aimed at displacing Palestinian people.
Egypt and other Arab countries have not yet reacted to the announcement but have repeatedly insisted on a “two-state solution” to the conflict, and “the necessity of establishing an independent Palestinian state” as well as rebuilding Gaza with Palestinians remaining in the coastal territory. The Israeli move follows suggestions from United States President Donald Trump that residents of Gaza should be moved to other countries, which rights groups and critics worldwide have said is ethnic cleansing, the forced removal of a population from its home. The spokeswoman confirmed that an authority tasked with “preparing the voluntary departure of residents of the Gaza Strip to third countries in a safe and controlled manner” was being established. This will see the administration of emigration placed under the control of the Defence Ministry, she said. People willing to leave the sealed-off Gaza Strip should be allowed to do so “in compliance with Israeli and international law and in line with US President Donald Trump’s vision”, Netanyahu’s spokeswoman continued.
Middle East ‘Riviera’
Israeli nationalists have long sought the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and the occupied West Bank. They have pushed harder on the idea amid the war with Hamas, while the Israeli government has been accused by civil organisations of obstructing humanitarian aid into the enclave in a bid to encourage people to leave. Trump outlined his plan for a US “takeover” of Gaza and the resettlement of more than two million Palestinians in other countries – Egypt and Jordan – last month. He said he wanted to convert the war-torn Palestinian territory into a Middle East “Riviera”. The suggestion triggered widespread international outrage, incurring vehement objections from Palestinians, Arab negotiators, and many other nations across the globe. Netanyahu’s spokeswoman did not specify which third countries might be willing to cooperate with Israel in implementing the plan.
Netanyahu has previously said he was “committed” to Trump’s plan “for the creation of a different Gaza” while promising that, after the war, “there will be neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority” ruling the territory. Katz had instructed the military in February to draw up plans to implement Trump’s proposal for the resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza. The Israeli peace movement Peace Now condemned the move, labelling it “an indelible stain on Israel” in a post on X in English. “When life in a certain place is made impossible by bombing and siege, there is nothing ‘voluntary’ about people leaving,” the organisation wrote.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/24/israel-building-agency-to-steer-palestinian-voluntary-departure-from-gaza


Banning aid is a collective punishment
Jinha - Womens News Agency - March 24, 2025
<<UNRWA: Banning aid is a collective punishment on Gaza
“Banning aid is a collective punishment on Gaza,” Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General, said in a post on social media platform X on Sunday.
News Center- On March 18, 2025, the Israeli army resumed its offensive on the Gaza Strip, shattering the ceasefire that came into effect on January 19. At least 51 people were killed and dozens more injured in Israeli airstrikes on different areas of Gaza in the last 24 hours, Gaza's Health Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. According to the statement, more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed and 113,274 others injured in Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. The figures show that the war has claimed the lives of 2.1 percent of Gaza's 2.3 million population until now.
‘Every day without food inches Gaza closer to an acute hunger crisis’
“It’s been three weeks since the Israeli authorities banned the entry of supplies to Gaza,” Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said in a post on social media platform X on Sunday. “No food, no medicines, no water, no fuel. A tight siege longer than what was in place in the first phase of the war. The people of Gaza depend on imports via Israel for their survival. Every day that passes without the entry of aid means more children go to bed hungry, diseases spread and deprivation deepens. Every day without food inches Gaza closer to an acute hunger crisis. “Banning aid is a collective punishment on Gaza: the vast majority of its population are children, women and ordinary men.” Philippe Lazzarini called for the lift of the siege, the release of all hostages and the entry of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies to Gaza.>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/unrwa-banning-aid-is-a-collective-punishment-on-gaza-36766

Al Jazeera - March 24, 2025 - By Al Jazeera Staff
<<Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills Hamas leader, teen, officials say
Hamas’s Ismail Barhoum and 16-year-old boy killed in attack on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, according to authorities.
An Israeli air strike on a hospital in southern Gaza has killed at least two people, including a senior Hamas official and a 16-year-old boy, Hamas and health officials have said. Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, was killed while undergoing treatment at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis late on Sunday, Hamas said in a statement. “We condemn this latest crime, which adds to the occupation’s long record of terrorism, violating sanctities, lives and medical facilities,” the Palestinian armed group said in a statement. “It reaffirms its disregard for all international laws and conventions and its continued policy of systematic killing against our people and leadership.” Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed that Barhoum had been the target of the attack. Israel’s military said the attack had been carried out with “precise munitions in order to mitigate harm”, following an “extensive intelligence-gathering process”. “Hamas exploits civilian infrastructure while brutally endangering the Gazan population – cynically using an active hospital as a shelter for planning and executing murderous terrorist attacks in a direct violation of international law,” the military said in a statement.
Hamas leaders targeted as Israeli assault escalates
Barhoum’s assassination came just hours after Hamas said Israeli forces had killed Salah al-Bardawil, another member of the group’s political bureau, along with his wife, in a strike on a tent shelter in Khan Younis. Israel has killed four members of Hamas’s political bureau since Tuesday, when its forces resumed major military operations in the enclave following a weeks-long impasse over the next stage of its ceasefire with Hamas. Footage from outside Nasser Hospital showed a fireball exploding from the building’s upper floors as an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Rami Abu Taima was preparing to do a live broadcast at the scene. Reporting from Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said at least eight other Palestinians were wounded in the attack, all of whom had been receiving treatment for previous injuries. Khoudary said doctors at the hospital reported spending hours putting out fires in the department targeted in the attack. “Hospitals across the Gaza Strip are overwhelmed. There are no medical supplies or medicine as the Israeli forces continue to close the border crossing for 21 days now,” Khoudary said. “The situation is also escalating in different parts of the Gaza Strip, especially Beit Layhia in the north and Rafah in the southern parts of the Gaza Strip.” Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon volunteering at Nasser Hospital, said the 16-year-old boy killed in the attack was one of his patients. “I operated on him. I believe on March 18, I did an abdominal operation. He probably would have gone home tomorrow, but now he’s dead,” Sidhwa told Al Jazeera. Sidhwa said the surgical ward for male patients had been destroyed and would need to be completely rebuilt.
“The whole hospital smells like smoke now,” he said.
“The [ward’s] entire electrical system was destroyed. Every door was blown off its hinges. Most of the windows were shattered. The ceiling has collapsed. It’s completely unusable. It’s going to have to be torn out and redone.” Sidhwa criticised Israeli forces for targeting the hospital. “Benjamin Netanyahu has been ill recently. Well, he stands accused of genocide. Nobody thinks Hamas can bomb a hospital because Benjamin Netanyahu happens to go there. That’s crazy,” Sidhwa said. “That’s completely insane. You don’t bomb hospitals. Everybody knows that.” Israeli forces have killed more than 600 people since resuming their assault on the enclave, including dozens within the last 24 hours, according to Palestinian health officials. On Sunday, the official death toll in Gaza since the start of the war topped 50,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, a figure that many experts believe is likely an undercount of the true number.
SOURCE/Video: AL JAZEERA>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/24/israeli-strike-on-gaza-hospital-kills-hamas-leader-teen-officials-say

Al Jazeera - March 23, 2025
<<Israeli cabinet casts no-confidence vote against attorney general
Critics see the no-confidence vote as part of broader moves to weaken judicial checks on Netanyahu’s government.
Israel’s cabinet has passed a vote of no confidence against Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, the country’s justice minister has said, in a first step in the removal of yet another vocal critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government. The vote on Sunday comes just two days after the government dismissed Ronen Bar, the head of Shin Bet, the country’s internal security agency – a decision later frozen by the Supreme Court Baharav-Miara, the country’s most senior legal official, is accused of “inappropriate behaviour” and of “ongoing substantial differences of opinion between the government and the attorney general, which prevents effective collaboration”, according to the prime minister’s office. The attorney general, who did not attend the cabinet meeting, refuted the claims and accused the government of trying to operate above the law. The vote of no confidence aimed at gaining “limitless power, as part of a wider move to weaken the judicial branch” and to “promote loyalty to the government”, she said in a letter sent to the cabinet ahead of the vote. The vote does not translate into her dismissal yet. A committee will review the arguments and hold a hearing to consider the case. Should the committee fail to support her removal, the Supreme Court could still block it. The attempted dismissal of both the Shin Bet chief and the attorney general has attracted thousands of protesters who say the unprecedented moves are a threat to democracy and part of a crackdown on the few remaining voices critical of Netanyahu. The prime minister, meanwhile, has cited an “ongoing lack of trust” in Bar, who is expected to testify on April 8. Netanyahu has insisted it is up to the government to decide who will head Shin Bet. Critics say the prime minister moved against Bar due to his criticism of the government over the security failure that allowed Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, the deadliest day in the country’s history. They also allege that Netanyahu’s ongoing bribery trial is at play. Shin Bet has investigated Netanyahu’s close associates on suspicion of receiving money linked to Qatar. Bar said in a letter that his ouster was motivated by a desire to halt the “pursuit of truth” about the events leading up to October 7. Shin Bet this month released a report that acknowledged it should have thwarted the Hamas-led assault while criticising Netanyahu for helping to create the conditions for the attacks. Netanyahu’s office has dismissed such accusations as “fake news”.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES>> https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/23/israeli-cabinet-casts-no-confidence-vote-against-attorney-general

Al Jazeera - March 23, 2025
<<Could Israeli violence ignite a wider conflict in the Middle East?
Gaza and Lebanon are under attack while the US bombs Yemen.>>
Read more/video: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/inside-story/2025/3/23/could-israeli-violence-ignite-a-wider-conflict-in-the-middle-east

France24 - March 21, 2025
<<'This is the key moment to bring peace to Gaza and the Middle East': UNOPS chief
The EU is adapting to a new security situation, not just on its own continent, but also in the Middle East. Hopes of a more peaceful Syria after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad have so far been dashed, with sectarian massacres happening on the Syrian coast earlier in March – killings that have triggered an exodus of thousands of people across the border into Lebanon. Lebanon itself remains extremely fragile, economically and socially. And the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is clearly far from over, despite a ceasefire that was announced in January. The EU is working with the United Nations to address the challenges of humanitarian aid and reconstruction in this volatile region, and our guest has a lot of first-hand experience in that domain. Jorge Moreira da Silva is the executive director of UNOPS, the United Nations agency dedicated to implementing humanitarian and development projects. He is a former Member of the European Parliament, a former senior official at the OECD in Paris, and a former minister of environment and energy in the Portuguese government. Asked about the Israeli air strikes on Gaza, Moreira da Silva says: "What is happening in Gaza is totally unacceptable. It's very unfortunate that we return to escalation. During the ceasefire in the last few weeks, we could provide support to the people (of Gaza). And now, with the strikes, with the conflict again, all aid has been stopped and we are seeing the direct impact on civilians, but also on the UN. I’ve been informed that the UN compound has been hit, and we are obviously following very carefully what is happening. I really hope that we can go back to where we were with the ceasefire and restart the political discussions. It’s the key moment to bring peace to Gaza and to the Middle East." On the recent sectarian massacres of civilians on the Syrian coast, and the implications for Syria's post-Assad transition, Moreira da Silva states: "There was a clear call from the international community (at the recent Syria conference organised by the EU in Brussels), and a clear response from the minister of foreign affairs of Syria, committing precisely to ensure that there is a thorough investigation of what happened, and that those who perpetrated those crimes will be held to account." But, Moreira da Silva adds, nobody used the violence "as a pretext to delay action. That’s why I think there was a breakthrough in progress when donors stepped in to provide €6 billion to the people in Syria. I visited Damascus a few weeks ago, and Syria is still at the brink. It's in the middle of an immense humanitarian crisis, with almost 90 percent of the population living in need, in extreme poverty." On the issue of Syrian refugees potentially returning home – a topic that EU member states are debating – Moreira da Silva suggests that "nobody will return if there is no security and no economic development. It's important that the donor community provides all the support that is needed in Syria, and that will be a way to get Syrians to come back. Not because we went them to come back, but because it’s important for them to go back to the places where they were happy." Moreira da Silva also discusses UN and Western support to Ukraine. "We are doing early recovery, repairing infrastructure, rehabilitating entire neighbourhoods, rehabilitating energy and water networks. And this is what UNOPS is doing. We are supporting the Ukrainians, building schools, and doing mine action, which is removing unexploded ordnance." But he emphasises that aid should not be a "zero-sum game," in which resources might be shifted from Africa to Ukraine. "We need to support Africa. We need to support Ukraine. We need to support fragile states. That's why I'm very worried about cuts in overseas development assistance. I'm very worried about the cuts in solidarity globally. This is the moment when we need to raise the bar. It's not the moment to cut, but to bring more."
Programme prepared by Oihana Almandoz, Perrine Desplats, Isabelle Romero and Luke Brown>>
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