Israeli warplanes pound southern Gaza as mediation efforts to finish Israel’s struggle on the Palestinian enclave look like stalling.
Right here’s how issues stand on Sunday, March 24, 2024:
Preventing and humanitarian disaster
- Israeli warplanes have carried out strikes on Khan Younis, with explosions and gunfire reported close to the Nasser Medical Advanced in southern Gaza Metropolis. At the least 14 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes in a single day on Rafah and Deir el-Balah.
- Mediation efforts to finish Israel’s struggle on Gaza look like stalling. A Hamas official advised Al Jazeera that Israeli negotiators have rejected the newest proposal for a ceasefire.
- UN Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres has once more referred to as for a right away humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, throughout a go to to the Egyptian aspect of the Rafah border crossing. “Any additional onslaught will make issues even worse – worse for Palestinian civilians, worse for hostages and worse for all folks within the area,” Guterres stated.
- Guterres referred to as the hunger contained in the besieged enclave a “ethical outrage”. Israel has been limiting the entry of vehicles into the Strip – making a backlog of automobiles loaded with provides on the Egyptian aspect of the Rafah crossing.
- A Chinese language-owned oil tanker was attacked off Yemen on Saturday by ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who’ve intensified strikes on Crimson Sea delivery, the US navy stated. The Houthis demand Israel finish its struggle on Gaza.
- The US navy’s Central Command stated its forces “engaged” six Houthi drones over the southern Crimson Sea on Saturday.
Diplomacy and regional tensions
- The US has made a “bridging proposal” for the variety of jailed Palestinians to be launched by Israel in trade for each captive freed by Hamas in any new Gaza truce, an Israeli official briefed on the Qatar-hosted talks advised the Reuters information company on Saturday. An Israeli delegation has been holding oblique negotiations with the Palestinian group Hamas in Doha.
- Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant will journey on Sunday to Washington, DC to debate with US officers developments on a captive trade cope with Hamas, his workplace stated on Saturday.
- The US has formally stopped UNRWA funding at the very least till March 2025 after President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan funding invoice into regulation.
- An Israeli captive soldier in Gaza died as a result of a scarcity of medication and meals, the Qassam Brigades, the navy wing of Hamas, stated on Saturday. The Israeli military has additionally confirmed the information of the demise of its soldier.
- Three folks have been wounded by Israeli air strikes on Lebanon’s jap metropolis of Baalbek in a single day, certainly one of which hit a two-storey constructing, an AFP correspondent stated early on Sunday. A whole lot of individuals have been killed and hundreds displaced on each side of the border in trade of fireside since October 7.
- 1000’s of Israelis have staged an illustration for the discharge of captives held by the Hamas. Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from Tel Aviv, stated demonstrators demanded the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
- Professional-Palestinian solidarity protests have continued throughout Europe. Individuals calling for a ceasefire marched on Saturday in Vienna, Milan, Berlin and Dublin amongst different cities.