The Palestinian Ministry of Well being says famine in northern Gaza has reached harmful ranges with 25 folks dying of starvation and dehydration.
Right here’s how issues stand on Sunday, March 10, 2024:
Ramped-up assaults and a humanitarian disaster
- An toddler and a younger lady have died of malnutrition in northern Gaza, bringing the variety of recognized hunger deaths to 25.
- Individuals in Rafah have been desperately lining as much as get water from provide vans as Israel has destroyed pipes throughout the strip. Rights teams have accused Israel of utilizing water and meals, as weapons of struggle. The mayor of Jabalia advised Al Jazeera that Israel has destroyed three out of 4 water wells within the north.
- The US says a navy logistics vessel has set sail for the Japanese Mediterranean to ascertain a brief pier in Gaza to ship help.
- At the least 13 Palestinians looking for refuge in Khan Younis have been killed by Israeli shelling on their tents. An air strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp killed one other 13 girls and youngsters.
- One in all Rafah’s largest residential towers was hit by an Israeli strike on Saturday, displacing lots of of individuals.
- 5 folks had been killed in assaults on Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, the Palestinian information company Wafa studies. An help employee employed at a US charity has additionally been killed within the space. The demise toll now stands at 30,960, with 72,524 wounded.
- Sweden will resume funding to UNRWA, with an preliminary $20m disbursement, following related steps from Canada this week.
- The Palestine Kids’s Reduction Fund (PCRF) stated its final remaining workplace in Gaza has been destroyed in an Israeli assault.
Regional tensions
- Hezbollah claims it struck an Israeli military base with a Burkan rocket on Saturday. The Israeli navy denied there was any injury and responded with a strike in the direction of the launch web site in Lebanon, an Israeli navy assertion added.
- An Israeli strike killed a household of 5 and injured 9 different folks in a village in southern Lebanon close to the border with Israel, Lebanese safety sources stated on Saturday.
- US President Joe Biden in an MSNBC interview made contradictory statements, saying he would proceed to assist Israel whereas additionally warning that there are “pink traces” Tel Aviv mustn’t cross within the struggle on Gaza.
- The US navy’s Central Command (CENTCOM) stated on Saturday it shot down 15 drones fired by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis within the Pink Sea space. The Houthis have been focusing on Israeli-linked ships in addition to US and UK ships demanding an finish to Israel’s struggle on Gaza.
Violence within the occupied West Financial institution
- A bunch of settlers put in a cell house on Saturday on Palestinian land within the city of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, Wafa studies. An area official advised the Palestinian information company that Israeli forces have prevented residents from accessing their lands in northern Sinjil since October 7.
- In Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, Israeli troopers seized a tractor and chased Palestinian farmers and shepherds off their pasture as they tried to reclaim occupied land, in line with Wafa.
- Settlers destroyed tombstones within the Bab ar-Rahma Cemetery, adjoining to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Wafa reported. At the least 10 graves had been broken within the assault.
