Updates: Over 140,000 displaced since Israel resumed Gaza attacks

Al Jazeera

31-03-2025

Update:
Date: 28 Mar 2025 - 23:59 (23:59 GMT)
Title: Thank you for joining us
Content: This live page is now closed.
For more on Israel's attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, read our story here.
For a feature on how residents on northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya have been protesting Israel's ongoing assault, demanding an end to the suffering, read this.
And for a piece on how illegal Israeli settlers take over Palestinian homes, read this.
Update:
Date: 28 Mar 2025 - 23:45 (23:45 GMT)
Title: Here's what happened today
Content: We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of today's main events:
Update:
Date: 28 Mar 2025 - 23:30 (23:30 GMT)
Title: Video shows arrival of wounded north Yemen hospital
Content: Video shared on Telegram – and verified by Al Jazeera's fact-checking unit – shows the casualties from the latest round of US strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen.
The hospital said that one person who was killed and three wounded people arrived at the Republican Hospital in Saada, in northern Yemen.
The video was deemed too graphic for inclusion on this live page.
Houthi-affiliated media reported that 14 US strikes hit various areas of Yemen.
The Trump administration has given free rein to the US army to hit positions in Yemen after the Houthi rebels renewed their attacks on Israel and on shipping in the Red Sea.
Update:
Date: 28 Mar 2025 - 23:15 (23:15 GMT)
Title: WATCH: Israel launches first air strike on Lebanon's Beirut since November truce
Content: Israel has carried out an air strike on Lebanon's capital for the first time since a fragile truce between the Israeli army and the Lebanese armed group, Hezbollah, in November halted a war between the two.
Residents fled as a building was flattened in the Hadath neighbourhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday when Israel carried out four strikes – an attack reminiscent of the months-long bombing campaign of last year when Israeli jets pounded the area.
Al Jazeera's Ali Hashem reports from southern Beirut:
This is a modal window.
Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.
End of dialog window.
This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.
Update:
Date: 28 Mar 2025 - 23:00 (23:00 GMT)
Title: One killed in Israeli attack on south Gaza
Content: Our colleagues on the ground in the Gaza Strip report that an Israeli attack on a home near Khan Younis has killed at least one person.
At least seven others were wounded in the attack, which hit the town of al-Qarara.
Update:
Date: 28 Mar 2025 - 22:45 (22:45 GMT)
Title: Over 200 groups urge South Africa to return to ICJ
Content: Over 200 South African and Palestinian human rights organisations have urged South Africa to return to the International Court of Justice to ensure the implementation of the provisional measures previously issued by the court against Israel.
In a statement, the groups thanked South Africa for being a 'staunch supporter and protector of the fundamental rights and interests of Palestinians'. But they indicated that Israel's resumed attacks on Gaza, as well as its ongoing military escalation in the occupied West Bank, amounted to a 'change in situation' that could trigger the court's prerogative to issue new or modify the existing measures.
In January 2024, the ICJ ordered Israel to refrain from any acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention and to ensure its troops commit no genocidal acts against Palestinians in Gaza. In March 2024, it ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies arrive without delay to the Palestinian population in Gaza.
And, in May 2024, the court ordered Israel to halt its offensive in Rafah and withdraw from the enclave.
Since then, 'Palestinians in Gaza have been subjected to a further seven months of unrelenting bombardment, forced displacement, starvation and erasure before the brief ceasefire that was violated by Israel hundreds of times in its 42-day existence', the organisations wrote.
This is a modal window.
Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.
End of dialog window.
This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.
Update:
Date: 28 Mar 2025 - 22:30 (22:30 GMT)
Title: Israeli forces raid towns in occupied West Bank, wounding several
Content: Israeli forces stormed the town of Beit Ummar and the Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron in the West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.
Israeli soldiers hurled tear gas canisters and fired live bullets towards residents.
In Beit Ummar, at least two men sustained injuries after being shot in the legs and feet, and a third person, a woman, suffered tear gas inhalation, Wafa cited the Palestinian Red Crescent as saying.
In Arroub refugee camp, it said two people suffered from tear gas inhalation.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli forces detained a Palestinian man in Tubas, near Nablus. He has been identified as 67-year-old Khaled Issa Sawafta, who was taken while passing through the Qalandiya checkpoint.
Israeli forces also stormed el-Bireh near Ramallah, and stationed themselves in the Am'ari refugee camp, Wafa said. It cited local sources as saying soldiers raided a commercial store and 'fired live rounds and sound bombs indiscriminately'.
Update:
Date: 28 Mar 2025 - 22:15 (22:15 GMT)
Title: What is Al-Quds Day?
Content: Palestine supporters across the world have marked 'Al-Quds Day' as Israel continues its attacks on Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Al-Quds Day (or, simply, 'Quds Day') is an annual, international day to express support for Palestine and oppose the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Large rallies are held, usually beginning after the communal prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan.
'Al-Quds' or 'Quds' is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. Hence, this event is also called 'Jerusalem Day'.
Iran's first supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, established Quds Day in 1979 shortly after the Iranian Revolution to show solidarity with Palestinians and reject Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem. It has since become a symbol of resistance though some observers have claimed that the event was initiated by Iran to further its own political interests of using proxies to fight against Israel and Western powers.
Update:
Date: 28 Mar 2025 - 22:00 (22:00 GMT)
Title: Photos: Al-Quds Day protests in support of Palestine around the world
Content: Protesters in countries around the world took to the streets for Al-Quds Day, a day of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance, on the last Friday of Ramadan.
Update:
Date: 28 Mar 2025 - 21:45 (21:45 GMT)
Title: US strikes Yemen's Sadaa, killing one person: Report
Content: US air strikes hit Yemen's Sadaa, killing one person and wounding four others, the Houthi-aligned Al Masirah TV reports.
It said 14 raids were carried out by the US on the outskirts of Saada city.
Meanwhile, the US military's Central Command (CENTCOM), which now has authority from the White House to strike offensively in Yemen without pre-approval, said its forces struck 'Houthti positions', without providing more details.
The latest attack comes after the US targeted more than 40 locations across Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen, including in the capital, Sanaa, damaging multiple residential homes and shops earlier today.