Israel multiplies military initiatives in the Middle East. A week after resuming its strikes on the Gaza Strip, the Hebrew state has also led aerial raids in Lebanon and Syria in recent hours, despite the European Union call to avoid such bombings. The Israeli army continued its land operations on Monday 24 March in the Palestinian enclave, especially within the city of Rafah, to the south. The objective, according to her, is to “dismantle terrorist infrastructure and eliminate terrorists in the region”.
While many Gazans have been killed in strikes on the small Palestinian territory in recent days, the Israeli Ministry of Defense has announced the creation of an administration dedicated to the “voluntary departure of the inhabitants of Gaza to a third country”. Last week, Israel had threatened to seize the region if Hamas, responsible for the massacre of more than 1,200 people on Hebrew soil on October 7, 2023, did not accept to release the last hostages it retains.
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⇒ New strikes from Israel on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria
⇒ A Palestinian director of an Oscar -winning film arrested by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
⇒ An Al-Jazeera journalist killed in Gaza
10:20
Syria: Five people killed by an Israeli chariot shot during a foray into the south
At least five people were killed on Tuesday during an Israeli chariot shift which led a foray into the province of Deraa in southern Syria, the governorate announced.
The governorate announced on its official Telegram page a provisional assessment of “five people killed during the Israeli bombardment on the locality of Kouaiya (…) to the west of Deraa”, adding that residents of the region had fled after the Israeli tanks fire that made a foray.
10:00 am
Israel claims that Al Jazeera journalist killed on Monday was a “sniper” of Hamas
The Israeli army claimed on Tuesday the attack on Tuesday attacking an Al Jazeera journalist in the north of the Gaza Strip, saying that he was a “sniper” of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
The army and the Shin Bet (internal security) “eliminated a terrorist [du] Hamas […] Who was also employed as a journalist for Al Jazeera, “the army and the Shin Bet said in a joint statement. According to the text, Hospi Shabat, was” a terrorist sniper of the Hamas battalion for Beit Hanoun “(city in the north of the Gaza Strip).
9:20 am
Israeli strikes on Gaza: Civil Defense announces 14 dead on Tuesday
At least 14 people died in Israeli strikes on the entire Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, the Civil Defense announced to AFP, a week after the resumption of Israeli military operation.
“More than twenty air strikes led by Israeli aviation in different areas of the Gaza Strip have made at least 14 martyrs, including several children and women,” said Mahmoud Bassal, spokesperson for the organization of rescuers.
According to him, nine people were killed at dawn in the governorate of Khan Younès (South), including a family of five, both parents and their three boys. Five other people were killed by an Israeli air strike on a building in Zeitoun, a district in the south-east of the city of Gaza, according to civil defense. Mahmoud Bassal also mentioned artillery fire in the north of the Palestinian territory, in Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, and in Khan Younès, the two areas where the Israeli operation has been concentrated for a week.
Solicited by AFP, the army confirmed that it had led strikes on the Gaza Strip in the night, adding that they had taken place in the framework of “anti -terrorist” operations.
7:15 am
The Palestinian co -director of an ossarized film arrested by Israeli soldiers
Hamdan Ballal, co -director of the documentary “No Other Land”, was arrested on Monday by the Israeli army, according to the other co -operator of the film, the Israeli Yuval Abraham. “A group of settlers attacked Hamdan Ballal’s house […]while he was injured and bloodied, soldiers entered the ambulance he had called and arrested him, “wrote the filmmaker on his social network X. Facts took place in Sousssiya, in the south of the West Bank, and corroborated by the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, an NGO opposed to the Israeli occupation of the region.
The two directors had received the Oscar in Los Angeles in early March for the best documentary film for “No Other Land”. This feature film deals with Israeli colonization in the West Bank seen by those who undergo it. A reward immediately denounced by the government of Benyamin Netanyahu and his supporters. The Israeli Minister of Culture, Miki Zohar, had described the event as “sad moment for the world of cinema”.
07:00
Israeli terrestrial operation in Gaza continues
The Israeli army continues its operations in the Gaza Strip. It has been a week now that the cease-fire agreement between the Hebrew state and Hamas was broken, while peace negotiations no longer advanced between the two parties. Monday, March 24, Tsahal continued its land offensive in the city of Rafah, south of the Palestinian enclave. In the evening, a new call to evacuate was also pronounced in several areas in the north of Gaza before a response to rocket fire from Palestinian territory to Israel. The armed branch of Islamic jihad claimed these shots which were intercepted.
06:40
New Israeli strikes on Syria and Lebanon despite the EU warning
Israeli forces led new strikes on Syria on Tuesday. Two military bases, located not far from Palmyra, were targeted. “The Israeli army will continue to act in order to eliminate any threat to citizens of the State of Israel,” Tsahal said in a statement confirming these strikes. On Monday, a person was also killed by the shooting of an Israeli drone in southern Lebanon, according to a state media.
These various strikes intervene after a call for the retaining of the head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, on the move to Jerusalem on Monday. “Military actions must be proportionate, and Israeli strikes on Syria and Lebanon are likely to provoke a new escalation,” she said during a meeting with the Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Saar.
06:30
An Al-Jazeera journalist killed in Gaza
Hossam Shabat, journalist of Al-Jazeera Mubasher, was killed on Monday in an Israeli drone strike in Beit Lahia, in the north of the Gaza Strip. According to AFPTV images, the car, which wore the TV stamp and the chain logo, was affected at the back. The journalist’s body was found lying on the floor nearby. According to the Protection Committee for Journalists (CPJ), Israel accused Hospals Shabat of being a member of Hamas, which the employee of the Qatari channel had firmly denied.
On March 15, four journalists had already been killed in an Israeli strike in the same locality, where they worked that day for a charitable organization. According to the Palestinian journalists’ union, more than 206 journalists and media employees have been killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, triggered by the murderous attack of the Palestinian Islamist movement on Hebrew soil on October 7, 2023.