Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
On Saturday, Israeli military operations across Gaza killed twelve people, three of which were journalists (more detail below). A child was also killed after being shot in the head.
Over the last 48 hours, the corpses of twelve Palestinians have been located under the rubble in the Gaza Strip.
NOTE: The 42-day ceasefire (“Phase One”) between Israel and Gaza ended on Saturday night, March 1, but Phase Two has not begun. Phase Two, which all parties agreed to in January, would include a permanent end to the war, the return of all remaining living Israeli hostages and a number of Palestinian prisoners, and the withdrawal of all Israeli troops from Gaza.
On Saturday, the Israeli army continued its violations of the ceasefire in the devastated, besieged, and starved Gaza Strip, killing twelve Palestinians, including a child, and wounding many others.
Media sources in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, reported that the army fired barrages of live rounds at displaced families, killing a child, Yamen Al-Hamlawi, by shooting him in the head, and wounding a woman in the back.
In central Gaza, Israeli drones fired missiles at Palestinians in the Juhor Ed-Deek area, killing two and wounding many others.
Also, several Palestinians were injured by live fire from an Israeli military drone, while collecting wood for heating and cooking, east of Johor Ed-Deek.
In Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost part, the army killed a Palestinian near Hamza Mosque in Khirbet Al-Adan, north of the city. An Israeli drone also dropped a bomb on displaced Palestinians in the Shakoush area, northwest of Rafah, wounding eight.
In addition, an Israeli military drone opened fire on a mosque in Rafah, during a communal Ramadan iftar the Palestinians were holding in the holy site.
Earlier on Saturday, the army bombarded Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, killing nine Palestinians, including three journalists, and causing numerous injuries.
NOTE: Israel has committed approximately 962 ceasefire violations since the ceasefire came into force in November.
Israel enacts exacting new rules for aid groups assisting Palestinians: Washington Post
Israel will begin implementing sweeping new visa and registration rules for international aid organizations operating in the Palestinian territories, introducing restrictions that humanitarian groups say would politicize their work, put local and international staff at risk and undermine relief efforts in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Aid groups say they are particularly worried about a provision requiring them to submit the names, contact details and identification numbers for Palestinian staff, something Israel contends is necessary to vet employees for potential ties to militants.
But because the war in Gaza has been so deadly for humanitarian personnel, with more than 300 killed, the majority of them Palestinians, aid organizations said they find the request to hand over names to one party to the conflict “highly problematic,” according to a Jerusalem-based relief worker who, like other aid officials and staff in this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation by Israeli authorities.
Registering in Israel is mandatory for international humanitarian groups seeking access to the Palestinian territories — home to about 5 million people — and helps facilitate visas, permits, financial transactions and other logistics essential for large-scale aid operations. But although NGOs have been working in Israel for decades, the move to constrain their activities comes amid a wider Israeli effort to curtail aid delivery in Gaza and shrink the political and legal space in which humanitarian groups function, relief workers say (continue reading here).
Israel is denying doctors and int’l aid workers entry to Gaza at unprecedented rates
The Israeli military is denying international health care and humanitarian workers entry into Gaza at unprecedented rates, according to multiple doctors and aid workers who spoke to Drop Site News. Since early February, shortly after the Gaza “ceasefire” went into effect, as many as half of doctors with preliminary approval through the World Health Organization to enter Gaza found out the night before their scheduled entry that they were rejected.
Nearly all of the doctors being denied entry over the past six weeks have been on relief missions to Gaza within the past 17 months and have previously been cleared by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the branch of the Israeli military that oversees the West Bank and Gaza.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government established an inter-ministerial team in December, led by the Director General of the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, to oversee the registration of international NGOs working with Palestinians.
The newly-formed team’s guidelines include denying registration for political reasons, such as “denying Israel’s status as a Jewish and democratic state,” or “supporting boycotts, denying October 7, supporting resistance efforts, delegitimization campaigns, or legal proceedings against Israeli security personnel.”
“This policy is using bureaucracy as another weapon in Israel’s genocidal campaign against Palestinians,” said a spokesperson from an international humanitarian organization that operates in Gaza (continue reading here).
Israeli military removes reservists over video of them shooting toward Gaza during Purim scroll reading
Since the ceasefire between Israel and [Gaza] came into effect in Gaza in January, life for the 2.9 million Palestinians in the West Bank has not become easier. Israel immediately launched a bloody major offensive in the north that has so far forced at least 40,000 people from their homes, the largest displacement since Israel’s occupation began in 1967, and killed dozens, including children.
At the same time, Israeli authorities have been constructing new checkpoints and barriers. According to the Palestinian Authority, at least 119 “iron gates” have been set up since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, including many since January. These block access to villages and towns, cutting off entire communities from major transport routes.
There are now close to 900 barriers in the West Bank, the PA said. The UN has recorded more than 800, a steep increase on the 645 in 2023.
Palestinian officials say this “localized system” of roadblocks is a change from a strategy merely to cut the West Bank into north, south and central sections. “It no longer controls movement alone, but also … access to agricultural land, social and livelihood opportunities, health, education and the economy, among other things,” Amir Daoud, of the Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Committee, told the Observer.
A survey last month of NGOs working in the West Bank found that 93% said roadblocks, permit denials and checkpoint delays hindered aid delivery. “Each village has a gate now and they lock us in like sheep in a pen,” said Barghouti, who lives in Atara (continue reading here).
FOR MORE ON THIS SUBJECT, SEE: Israel’s military checkpoints: ‘We live a life of injustice’ A photo essay by Activestills
Palestinian scholars condemn escalating Israeli violations at Al-Aqsa Mosque
The Palestinian Scholars Association condemned on Saturday the escalating Israeli violations against Palestinian worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem during the month of Ramadan.
In a statement, the association said: “We are following with great anger and sorrow the escalating oppressive measures taken by the Israeli occupation against” the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
“The pace of systematic provocations and targeting by settlers against Al-Aqsa Mosque, its worshipers, and those observing prayer has been increasing on a daily and noticeable basis,” it added.
The association explained that Israel is preventing worshipers from “praying inside Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan while opening the mosque to settlers to perform their Talmudic rituals in its courtyards.”
On the second Friday of Ramadan, only about 80,000 Palestinians were able to perform Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque—a significantly lower number than usual. The Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem had previously estimated that around 250,000 worshipers attended on the same day in 2023, while last year’s figure was 120,000.
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STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – MARCH 15, 2025 (ongoing count):
- At least 49,461 Palestinians killed, 119,858 injured – including:
- at least 48,524 killed in Gaza (~14,550 children)
- at least 937 killed in the West Bank (~187 children)
- at least 111,955 injured in Gaza
- at least 7,903 injured in the West Bank
According to Palestinian authorities, at least 150 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, and Israel has committed approximately 962 ceasefire violations since the ceasefire came into force in November.
WAR STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 (Hamas attack) – JANUARY 22, 2025 (Ceasefire):
Palestinian death toll from October 7, 2023 – January 19, 2025: at least 48,143 – including at least 47,283 in Gaza (~20,600 children), and 916 in the West Bank (~183 children). Palestinian injuries: at least 118,472 – including at least 111,629 in Gaza, and 7,000 in the West Bank.
Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 11,000 more are still buried under rubble.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – January 19, 2025: ~1,616 (or 1,590) – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 436 (or 405) military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel.
NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
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