According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, 36 members of the same family were killed at dawn on Saturday March 16 during a “bloody night” marked in total, according to him, by 60 air strikes by the Israeli army. “They bombed the house while we were inside,” in the Nuseirat refugee camp, Mohammad al-Tabatibi, 19, told AFP. The Israeli army, for its part, claimed to have targeted “several terrorists entrenched” in the same Nuseirat camp. However, she did not confirm being behind the strike that killed this family. Follow our live stream.
All cargo from first aid boat to arrive in Gaza unloaded. The cargo of the first humanitarian aid boat, which arrived in the Gaza Strip from Cyprus on Friday, has been unloaded and will be able to be distributed to the population, threatened with famine after more than five months of war, the NGO said on Saturday responsible for the operation. “All cargo has been unloaded and is being prepared for distribution to Gaza”wrote World Central Kitchen in a press release sent to AFP.
The UN is calling for delivering humanitarian aid by land. “Beyond the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza by air and sea, the UN stresses that only land transport would make it possible to deliver the necessary aid to Gazans, who are on the brink of famine.wrote on the international organization. In a video, the UN explains in particular that airdrops are expensive, have limited capacity and can be dangerous, while Gaza’s port infrastructure is unsuitable for accommodating large ships.
NGOs denounce “systematic abuses” against Palestinians in Israeli detention. Israeli prisons contain a record number of Palestinians, subjected to “systematic abuse” and sometimes torture, denounce Israeli NGOs, calling on the international community to act. Members of these organizations traveled to Geneva this week to highlight a “crisis” major in the country’s prisons, where, according to them, nine people have died since October 7.
Benjamin Netanyahu approved the army’s “action plans” for an offensive in Rafah. “The Israeli army is ready for the operational side and for the evacuation of the population”, according to a press release sent to the press on Friday. Rafah, located on the closed border with Egypt, welcomes, according to the UN, around a million and a half Gazans who have fled the war.