Israel’s war on Gaza: List of key events, day 175
Here’s how things stand on Friday, March
29, 2024:
Fighting and humanitarian crisis
- Eight people were killed and an unknown number injured
during an Israeli attack on a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in central
Gaza on Thursday.
- Israel is expanding a buffer zone in Gaza adjacent to
the border fence, significantly enlarging the area declared by the army as
a Palestinian no-go zone before the war, Haaretz reported on Thursday. The
Israeli newspaper said a project director has been appointed by the army to
oversee the expansion.
- Journalist Muhammad Abu Sakhil of Gaza’s al-Quds Radio
has been shot and killed by Israeli forces near al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
City, Al Jazeera Arabic reported on Friday.
- The number of people killed in Israel’s war on Gaza
since October 7 has risen to 32,623, according to the enclave’s Ministry
of Health. At least 75,092 people have been injured in Israeli attacks on
Gaza.
- Gaza’s Health Ministry said 71 Palestinians were killed
and 112 wounded over the latest 24-hour reporting period.
Diplomacy and regional tensions
- Five members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and
33 civilians were killed during Israeli air strikes on the Syrian city of
Aleppo on Friday, two security sources told the Reuters news agency.
- The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the air
strikes were a clear violation of international law and the sovereignty of
Syria.
- Warning sirens have sounded in the settlements of
Kiryat Shmona, Tel Hai, Beit Hillel and Ma’ayan Baruch in northern Israel
on Friday, according to local media. Hezbollah and the Israeli army have
been exchanging fire over the Lebanon-Israel border since the day after
the war in Gaza started.
- Japan is preparing to resume funding to the crisis-hit United Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees, which coordinates the vast majority of aid to
Gaza, according to its government.
Palestinians
killed waving white fabric: Israeli army shoots two unarmed men dead
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Violence in the occupied
West Bank
- Israeli air strikes have hit the Saad bin Abi Waqqas
Mosque in the Jabalia refugee camp, injuring two Palestinians, Al Jazeera
correspondents reported.
- The strikes caused a fire to break out in an electrical
appliances store early on Friday.
- Israeli forces have arrested a resident in Nablus, the
Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Thursday. Laith Jibril
al-Sharbaji was arrested after the military searched his house and seized
his vehicle, it said.
- The army also stormed the village of Madama, south of Nablus,
and raided a number of homes.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
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