A Palestinian child stands in the living room of a building that was damaged during Israeli bombardment in Rafah, on the southern gaza Strip, on March 2, 2024 (Photo by AFP)
Doha, Qatar: At least 17 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli air strikes targeting three houses in Deir el-Balah and Jabalia.
Meanwhile, Malaysia blasts Israel over ‘cowardly’ mass killing of Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza, and Nicaragua pursues Germany at ICJ over military support for Israel.
The war has killed at least 30,228 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. UN Women has said the war in Gaza is “also a war on women”.
Around 80% of Gaza's population has been driven from their homes and a quarter face starvation.
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[9:41pm Doha Time] Gaza officials say Israeli strike near Rafah hospital kills 11
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said an Israeli strike hit tents housing displaced civilians near a hospital in the southern city of Rafah Saturday, killing 11 and wounding dozens. Read more.
[7:18pm Doha Time] Many killed or wounded in Gaza stampede shot by Israeli army, EU arm says
Many of the Palestinians killed or wounded in the chaos as they tried to get bags of flour from an aid convoy were hit by Israeli army fire, the European Union's diplomatic service said Saturday, urging an international investigation. Read more.
[3:05pm Doha Time] Palestinian Foreign Ministry blasts US for failing to deliver aid to Gaza
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry says the US is acting as a “weak, marginal state” that is unable to secure aid access to starving Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians gather in a street as humanitarian aid is airdropped in Gaza City on March 1, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
In a statement posted on X, the ministry said “the behaviour of the United States does not conform to that of a great state able to pressure Israel into protecting Palestinian citizens and catering to their needs”.
“The ministry sees no excuse for the behaviour of the United States, who is behaving as a marginal, weak state in the face of its ally’s arrogance, tyranny and extremism, especially when it comes to delivering aid to Gaza.”
[12pm Doha Time] Gaza death toll rises
At least 30,320 Palestinians have been killed and 71,533 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, the Health Ministry in Gaza has just announced.
It added that 92 of those were killed and 156 wounded in the last 24 hours.
[10:15am Doha Time] Malaysia blasts Israel over ‘cowardly’ mass killing of Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza
Displaced Palestinians gather for food in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip on February 28, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
The shooting by Israeli troops of “defenceless Palestinians” as they sought food aid in Gaza was a “cowardly” act, which the Malaysian government has condemned.
In a statement on Saturday, Malaysia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the international community must “demand Israel stop atrocities and abide by its obligations under international law”.
“The cowardly action of Israel targeting Palestinians, including women and children, is not only illegal under international law, but also a blatant violation of the provisional measures handed down by the International Court of Justice on 26 January 2024 and the 1948 Genocide Convention,” the ministry said.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said 115 Palestinians were killed and more than 700 injured when Israeli troops and tanks opened fire on a crowd of thousands who had gathered near Gaza City on Thursday night to receive scare humanitarian food supplies.
PRESS RELEASE: MALAYSIA CONDEMNS THE ISRAELI REGIME’S INHUMANE ATTACK ON PALESTINIANS WHO WERE WAITING FOR AID IN GAZA pic.twitter.com/GfBhgqJJNg
— Wisma Putra (@MalaysiaMFA) March 2, 2024
[10:00am Doha Time] 17 killed in Israeli attacks on homes
At least 17 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli air strikes targeting three houses in Deir el-Balah and Jabalia.
The Palestinian Wafa news agency, quoting medical sources, reported that Israeli jets targeted two houses east of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of 15 people.
In the Jabalia camp, northern Gaza, Israeli jets struck a house in an attack that killed two people.
The house was reportedly sheltering 70 displaced people.
A member of the press consoles a woman outside Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza on February 28, 2024 (Photo by AFP)
[9:40am Doha Time] Israel continues to target Southern regions of Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon: The Israeli entity continued to target villages and towns in southern Lebanon on Friday, by launching a series of air strikes and artillery shelling, with casualties reported. Read more
[8:44am Doha Time] Nicaragua pursues Germany at ICJ over military support for Israel
Nicaragua has filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Germany over financial and military aid to Israel amid its war on Gaza.
The ICJ announced on Friday that Nicaragua has filed an “application instituting proceedings” and has asked the court to issue emergency measures over Germany’s alleged violations of its obligations under the Genocide Convention and the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the laws of war in relation to the occupied Palestinian territories, and “particularly the Gaza Strip”.
“Germany is facilitating the commission of genocide and, in any case has failed in its obligations to do everything possible to prevent the commission of genocide,” Nicaragua’s submission to the court states, according to the ICJ.
The German Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Reuters news agency.
The ICJ usually sets a date for a hearing on any requested emergency measures within weeks of a case being filed, the news agency added.
PRESS RELEASE: #Nicaragua institutes proceedings against #Germany and asks the #ICJ to indicate provisional measures https://t.co/RtdImbNben pic.twitter.com/UdsKZmDdxS
— CIJ_ICJ (@CIJ_ICJ) March 1, 2024
[8:30am Doha Time] Gaza conflict ‘also a war on women’, UN Women says
People mourn relatives killed in overnight Israeli bombardment, outside the Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 23, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Abed / AFP)
UN Women, the United Nations agency for gender equality, has said the war in Gaza is “also a war on women”.
The UN agency said Israeli forces have killed an estimated 9,000 women since October, with an average of 63 women expected to be killed each day the war continues.
Nearly nine in 10 women report finding it harder to access food than men, UN Women said, and about four out of five women report that their family eats half or less of the food they used to before the war.
“As the war on Gaza approaches its five-month mark, Gazan women continue to suffer its devastating impact,” the agency said in a statement on Friday.
“While this war spares no one, UN Women data shows that it kills and injures women in unprecedented ways.”
The war on #Gaza is a war on women.@UN_Women estimates that at least 9,000 women have been killed in Gaza to date. Women continue to suffer its devastating impact.
— UN Women (@UN_Women) March 2, 2024
We reiterate our call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
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[7:00am Doha Time] Biden approves military airdrops of aid into Gaza after chaotic encounter left more than 100 dead
People mourn at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, over the body of a Palestinian killed in an early morning incident when residents rushed toward aid trucks, on February 29, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
The US will begin airdropping emergency humanitarian assistance into Gaza, President Joe Biden said Friday, a day after more than 100 Palestinians were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops. Read more
