Gaza March 2025

Guardian: "Israel-Hamas war" — (LINK)

Al Jazeera: "Israel-Hamas war live": now "Israel War on Gaza" — (LINK)

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN OCHA. Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office. — 31 March 2025 (LINK)

Israeli military orders the evacuation of most of Gaza's southern city of Rafah — ground.news: 218 media reports — 31 March 2025 (LINK)

The media are ignoring the Gaza protests against Hamas — 31 March 2025 (LINK)

'Puzzling' appointment of outsider as Israel's Shin Bet head — 31 March 2025 (LINK)

Red Cross outraged over killing of eight medics in Gaza — 30 March 2025 (LINK)

Israel strikes Beirut for first time since ceasefire deal agreed with Hezbollah (LINK) — ground.news: 309 media reports — 29 March 2025 (LINK)

Report: Hamas may be open to freeing some hostages in exchange for Eid al-Fitr truce — 28 March 2025 (LINK)

Hamas receives US offer to revive ceasefire in exchange for American hostage's release — 28 March 2025 (LINK)

Guterres to reduce UN aid 'footprint' inside Gaza following ceasefire collapse: around a third of the approximately 100 international staff working in Gaza will be temporarily relocated. — 24 March 2025 (LINK)

Air strike kills top Hamas official in Gaza — 23 March 2025 (LINK)

Israel air strikes Lebanon after several rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel for the first time since a ceasefire came into effect in November. — 22 March 2025 (LINK)

— Hezbollah, the main armed group active in Lebanon, said it had not carried out the attack, and that it remained committed to the ceasefire that ended 14 months of conflict in Lebanon. Several armed groups operate in Lebanon, including Hezbollah and Palestinian factions, and no-one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Israeli Supreme Court freezes Netanyahu government's dismissal of head of internal security agency — 21 March 2025 (LINK)

— Netanyahu fired Israel's security chief over failure to anticipate the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas. — 21 March 2025 (LINK)

Intel chief was investigating Netanyahu's aides for allegedly receiving payments from Qatar during the Israel-Hamas war. — (LINK)

Israel faces dual attacks as Houthis and Hamas target major cities, IDF expands ground operations in Gaza — 20 March 2025 (LINK)

Gaza: Israel restarts ground operation; 70 killed in pre-dawn attacks — 20 March 2025 (LINK)

The Israeli military announced it has resumed ground operations in Gaza, resulting in at least 38 Palestinian deaths, according to local health workers. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned an Israeli airstrike that reportedly killed a foreign staff member at a UN site, contributing to 280 UN personnel deaths in Gaza since October 7, 2023. — ground.news: 318 media reports — 19 March 2025 (LINK)

Netanyahu says Israeli strikes across Gaza that killed over 400 are 'only the beginning' — 18 March 2025 (LINK)

Dozens reported killed after Trump orders 'decisive' strikes against Yemen's Houthis. — 15 March 2025 (LINK)

Hamas says it is prepared to release American-Israeli hostage and bodies of four dual nationals. — 14 March 2025 (LINK)

US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza: to Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somalia known as Somaliland. — 14 March 2025 (LINK)

— Officials from Sudan said they have rejected overtures from the U.S., while officials from Somalia and Somaliland told The Associated Press that they were not aware of any contacts.

UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory accuses Israel of destroying 'reproductive capacity of Palestinians' in the Gaza Strip by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during the conflict in Gaza, and using sexual violence as a war strategy. Israel has rejected the accusations, calling them unfounded, biased, and lacking credibility.. — 13 March 2025 (LINK)

— The report accused Israel's security forces of using forced public stripping and sexual assault as part of their standard operating procedures to punish Palestinians following the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel in October 2023.

— "The IDF has concrete directives ... and policies which unequivocally prohibit such misconduct," the permanent mission to the UN in Geneva responded in a statement, adding that its review processes are in line with international standards.

Hostage envoy: US could strike deal with Hamas within weeks. — 11 March 2025 (LINK)

Trump warns that arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia will be 'first of many': possible deportation. — 10 March 2025 (LINK)

Over 600 killed in Syria as security forces battle pro-Assad fighters. — 8 March 2025 (LINK)

France, Germany, Italy and UK back Arab plan for Gaza reconstruction. — 8 March 2025 (LINK)

Hamas threatens to kill all hostages if Israeli attacks resume: Trump threatened Hamas, ordering them to release all hostages, dead or alive, or it is "over for you" in a post Wednesday on Truth Social. — 7 March 2025 (LINK)

Israel hails cancellation of 'biased' Geneva Conventions meeting in Switzerland on Palestinians for March 7. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)

After Trump threat, Hamas refuses to release more hostages without phase 2 ceasefire deal: believed to have 24 living hostages taken in Oct 7, 2023, attack on Israel. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)

Arab leaders endorse $53bn plan to rebuild Gaza as alternative to Trump idea: Proposal focuses on emergency relief and long-term economic development under Palestinian Authority administration. — 4 March 2025 (LINK)

— The prospect of the PA governing Gaza remains far from certain, however, with Israel having ruled out any future role for the body, and Trump having closed the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) liaison office in Washington during his first term while stepping up support for Israel.

— In a 112-page document, the Egyptian government presented colourful AI-generated images of housing developments, gardens and community centres, with plans for a commercial harbour, a technology hub, beach hotels and an airport.

Israel's halt of Gaza aid 'alarming' — UNOCHA head Thomas Fletcher: "International humanitarian law is clear: We must be allowed access to deliver vital lifesaving aid." — 2 March 2025 (LINK)

Israel blocks entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza. — 2 March 2025 (LINK)

First phase of Israel-Hamas ceasefire ends with no deal. — 1 March 2025 (LINK)

— Hamas says no Gaza ceasefire talks on the second phase are happening as it rejects "Israel's formulation" to extend the first stage.