By Abdul Adil
(AA, Al Jazeera, Wafa, NNA, The Muslim News):
GAZA
At least 62 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, pushing up the death toll since October 2023 to 50,144, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
A ministry statement said that 296 more injured people were also transferred to hospitals, taking the number of injuries to 113,704 in the Israeli onslaught.
“Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
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”.
The Israeli army launched a surprise aerial campaign on the Gaza Strip on March 18, killing nearly 800 people and injuring over 1,600 others despite a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in January.
The Israeli army on early Tuesday killed three more Palestinians in an airstrike on their tent in the southern Gaza Strip amid ongoing Israeli deadly attacks across the Palestinian enclave.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the Israeli warplanes struck a tent for displaced people in the Hamad City area, western Khan Younis city, resulting in the death of three people and injuring several others, most of them children.
The chief of the World Health Organization has said Israel’s Sunday attack on the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip, has strained the health system in Gaza.
The Israeli attack on the hospital “severely damaged the surgical ward, killed two people, and injured eight,” Tedros Ghebreyesus said Monday on X.
“35 in-patient beds were destroyed, further straining the health system which is already overwhelmed by injuries due to renewed violence,” Tedros noted.
He stressed that “health care is not a target, should be protected, and must not be militarised,” reiterating WHO’s call for “the release of all hostages and for the resumption of the ceasefire.”
On Sunday night, the Palestinian Health Ministry said at least two Palestinians were killed and several others injured when the Israeli army shelled a hospital in southern Gaza.
A source said that 10 people lost their lives in three strikes targeting three tents housing displaced civilians in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Two more Palestinians were killed in separate airstrikes targeting groups of civilians west of the city, he added.
Israeli warplanes also hit a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least eight people from the same family, another medical source said.
In Gaza City, four Palestinians were killed when Israeli fighter jets struck a home in the Sabra neighborhood, according to a medical source.
Seven more people were also killed in airstrikes that targeted two homes in the northern town of Beit Lahia, he added.
Tuesday’s assault came as Israel continued to close Gaza’s crossings to humanitarian aid since early March, causing a severe shortage of food supplies in the war-ravaged territory.
The Israeli army on Tuesday admitted assassinating a journalist for the Qatari television Al Jazeera in the Gaza Strip.
Military spokesman Avichay Adraee said that Hossam Shabat was killed on Monday in a joint operation by the army and the Shin Bet domestic security agency.
He alleged that Shabat, a correspondent for Qatar-based Al Jazeera Mubasher channel, was a sniper in Hamas’ Beit Hanoun Battalion and participated in attacks against Israeli targets during the Gaza war, a claim vehemently denied by Palestinian journalists.
At least 208 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, according to the government media office.
Israel continues to refuse to facilitate a rescue mission for nine Palestinian paramedics trapped in Rafah in southern Gaza, the Red Crescent Society said on Tuesday.
“For the third consecutive day, the fate of nine Palestine Red Crescent ambulance crew members remains unknown after they were besieged and targeted by Israeli occupation forces in Rafah,” the organization said in a statement.
The medical team was targeted and besieged on Sunday during a rescue operation for injured people in Rafah.
The medical group voiced its deep concern over the safety of its paramedics and held Israel fully responsible for their fate.
Meanwhile, at least 16,000 Israeli soldiers have been injured since the outbreak of the Gaza war, official figures showed on Tuesday.
The Defense Ministry’s Rehabilitation Division said that it had received 16,000 soldiers since Oct. 7, 2023.
Half of the soldiers received by the rehab centers suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, including 2,900 suffering both physical injuries and psychological distress, it added.
WEST BANK
Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank Tuesday.
A young Palestinian was killed and several people were detained in an Israeli military raid in the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya on Tuesday, according to local media and witnesses.
Witnesses said Israeli forces besieged a house in the Al-Naqqar neighborhood in the city and launched shoulder-fired grenades at the building.
The official Palestine TV said that a Palestinian youth holed up inside the house was killed.
The official news agency Wafa identified the victim as Bara’ Miskawi, who was freed from Israeli jails last year after a 20-month jail sentence. It said Israeli forces seized the body of the slain Palestinian, while two other people were injured.
Witnesses said two people were also detained in the Israeli raid, while several others were taken into custody in Nablus and Ramallah.
Israeli occupation forces Tuesday evening killed a Palestinian near the al-Eizariya town, east of the occupied West Bank city of Jerusalem, according to local sources.
They said that the occupying forces opened fire at a 41-year-old civilian from the town, injuring him.
The casualty, whose name was not identified, was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly afterward.
At least 25 more Palestinians were detained in fresh Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to prisoners’ affairs groups.
A woman and freed prisoners were among the detainees in the raids that targeted several towns in the 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 over 70 Palestinians and displacing thousands.
Israeli occupation forces Tuesday demolished agricultural greenhouses in the city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank, according to a local official.
Farmer Ahmed Yaqoub told WAFA that Israeli forces, accompanied three military bulldozers, demolished a five dunams of greenhouses planted with vegetables, causing heavy losses to the farmers.
He added that these greenhouses are a source of livelihood for him, his brothers, and his children. He noted that they had been burned in June of last year by flares fired by occupation soldiers. Despite being rehabilitated and planted, they were completely destroyed today.
Tuesday’s arrests brought the number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli army in the West Bank since October 2023 to over 15,700, including those who were released after being arrested, according to Palestinian figures.
YEMEN
The Yemeni Ansar Allah [Houthi] group said Tuesday that it targeted Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel with two missiles as regional tension continues to spike over ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The group said two hypersonic ballistic missiles were launched at the airport, in the fifth such attack in the past few days.
There was no immediate Israeli comment on the Houthi claim.
The Houthi group also said its forces targeted “hostile” US warships in the Red Sea, without providing any further details.
The Israeli army said Monday night that it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen before entering Israeli airspace.
Local media, however, said the missile was shot down inside Israeli airspace and reported falling shrapnel of the interceptor missile inside Israeli territory.
The Houthi group has been attacking Israeli-linked ships passing through the Red and Arabian seas, the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden with missiles and drones since late 2023, disrupting global trade for what it said was a show of solidarity with the Gaza Strip.
SYRIA
Syria condemned the Israeli bombing of the western Daraa province on Tuesday, demanding an international investigation into Tel Aviv’s violations of its sovereignty and crimes against its citizens.
At least six people were killed and several others injured in an Israeli incursion and shelling in the town of Koya in western Daraa on Tuesday.
In a statement, the Syrian Foreign Ministry denounced “the ongoing Israeli aggression on Syrian territory, which saw a dangerous escalation in Koya town in Daraa.”
This escalation “was the latest in a series of violations that began with Israeli incursions into the Quneitra and Daraa provinces and ongoing assaults on Syrian territory,” the ministry said, calling it “a blatant violation of national sovereignty and international law.”
Syria “categorically rejects these crimes” and calls for “an international investigation into the offenses committed against innocents and into Israel’s violations,” the ministry asserted.
LEBANON
Hussein al-Nimr, a Hezbollah official in the Bekaa Valley, called on the Lebanese state to deal with Israeli violations of the ceasefire that came into effect in November.
“We are committed to the ceasefire with the Israeli enemy from a position of wisdom, not a position of weakness,” al-Nimr said, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
Last week, Israel launched dozens of air strikes across Lebanon, killing at least eight people, in response to a rocket launch towards the Israeli border town of Metula.
Hezbollah has denied involvement in the rocket attack.
“The suspicious launch of rockets gave the Israeli enemy an excuse to assault Lebanon even if it does not need that excuse,” al-Nimr said.
Lebanese authorities reported nearly 1,100 Israeli violations of the ceasefire, including the deaths of 100 victims and injuries to more than 330.
[Photo: Palestinian residents forced to flee by Israeli forces to areas they consider safe with whatever belongings they can take with them, following the intensive attacks by the Israeli army on the northern Gaza towns of Beit Lahia and Jabalia, on March 25, 2025 in Gaza. Photojournalist: Abd Khaled/AA]
