The Palestinian Ministry of Health has announced that hunger in northern Gaza has reached dangerous levels, with 25 people dying of starvation and dehydration.
Here is the situation for Sunday, March 10, 2024.
Intensification of attacks and humanitarian crisis
- An infant and a young woman have died from malnutrition in northern Gaza, bringing the number of known deaths from starvation to 25.
- People in Rafah are frantically lining up to pump water from supply trucks as Israel destroys pipes across the strip. Human rights groups have accused Israel of using water and food as weapons of war. Mayor Jabaria told Al Jazeera that Israel had destroyed three out of four wells in the north.
- The United States announced that a naval logistics ship had sailed into the Eastern Mediterranean to set up a temporary pier to deliver aid to Gaza.
- At least 13 Palestinians seeking refuge in Khan Yunis were killed by Israeli shelling of their tents. An additional 13 women and children were killed in airstrikes on the Nuseirat refugee camp.
- One of Rafah's largest residential towers came under Israeli attack on Saturday, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate.
- Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that five people were killed in the attack on Deir El Bala in central Gaza. Aid workers employed by US charities were also killed in the area. The death toll now stands at 30,960 and the number of injured at 72,524.
- Sweden will resume funding UNRWA this week, following similar measures as Canada, with an initial outlay of $20 million.
- The Palestinian Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) announced that its last remaining office in Gaza was destroyed in an Israeli attack.
regional tensions
- Hezbollah claims to have attacked an Israeli military base with Burkan rockets on Saturday. An Israeli military statement denied any damage and said it responded with strikes against launch sites in Lebanon.
- Five members of a family were killed and nine others injured in an Israeli airstrike in a village in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border, Lebanese security officials said on Saturday.
- US President Joe Biden contradicted himself in an interview on MSNBC, saying he would continue to support Israel, but also warning that there were “red lines” that Tel Aviv should not cross in the Gaza war.
- The US military's Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday that it had shot down 15 drones launched by Yemen's Iranian-allied Houthis in the Red Sea region. The Houthis are not only targeting ships with ties to Israel, but also US and British ships demanding an end to Israel's war on Gaza.
Violence in the occupied West Bank
- A group of settlers set up a mobile home on Palestinian land in Sinjir town, north of Ramallah, on Saturday, Wafa reported. Local officials told the Palestinian News Agency that Israeli forces have been blocking residents from entering their land north of Sinjir since October 7.
- In Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, Israeli forces seized tractors and drove Palestinian farmers and shepherds from their pastures as they tried to retake occupied territory, Wafa said.
- Wafa reported that settlers destroyed tombstones in the Bab al-Rahma cemetery, adjacent to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque. At least 10 graves were destroyed in the attack.
