The Palestinian Health Ministry says famine in northern Gaza has reached dangerous levels and 25 people are dying of hunger and dehydration.
This is how things stand on Sunday, March 10, 2024:
Intensified attacks and humanitarian crisis
- A baby and a young woman died of malnutrition in northern Gaza, bringing the number of known starvation deaths to 25.
- People in Rafah have been desperately queuing for water from supply trucks as Israel has destroyed pipes across the strip. Human rights groups have accused Israel of using water and food as weapons of war. The mayor of Jabalia told Al Jazeera that Israel has destroyed three out of four water wells in the north.
- The United States says a Navy logistics ship has set sail for the eastern Mediterranean to establish a temporary dock in Gaza to deliver aid.
- At least 13 Palestinians seeking refuge in Khan Younis have been killed by Israeli shelling of their shops. An airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp killed another 13 women and children.
- One of Rafah's largest residential towers was hit by an Israeli strike on Saturday, displacing hundreds of people.
- Five people were killed in attacks on Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Palestinian news agency Wafa reports. A humanitarian worker employed by an American charity also died in the area. The death toll now stands at 30,960 and 72,524 injured.
- Sweden will resume funding to UNRWA, with an initial disbursement of $20 million, following similar steps taken by Canada this week.
- The Palestinian Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) said its last remaining office in Gaza was destroyed in an Israeli attack.
Regional tensions
- Hezbollah claims it attacked an Israeli army base with a Burkan rocket on Saturday. The Israeli military denied any damage and responded with an attack on the launch site in Lebanon, an Israeli military statement added.
- An Israeli strike killed a family of five and wounded nine other people in a southern Lebanese village near the border with Israel, Lebanese security sources said on Saturday.
- US President Joe Biden in an interview with MSNBC made contradictory statements, saying he would continue to support Israel while warning that there are “red lines” that Tel Aviv should not cross in the war against Gaza.
- The US military's Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday it shot down 15 drones fired by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in the Red Sea area. The Houthis have been attacking ships linked to Israel, as well as American 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 the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, on Saturday, Wafa reports. A local official told the Palestinian news agency that Israeli forces have prevented residents from accessing their land in northern Sinjil since October 7.
- In Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, Israeli soldiers seized a tractor and expelled Palestinian farmers and herders who were trying to reclaim occupied land from their pastures, according to Wafa.
- Settlers destroyed tombstones at the Bab ar-Rahma cemetery, adjacent to the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Wafa reported. At least 10 graves were damaged in the assault.
