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The Israeli army are continuing to conduct violent raids across the West Bank, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing local sources.
According to the sources, soldiers are storming and vandalising homes in the al-Mahjar neighbourhood of Nour Shams refugee camp, east of the city of Tulkarem.
They added that Israeli forces have launched an arrest campaign in Beit Rima, northwest of the city of Ramallah.
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese said that Israel is “targeting Palestinians as a people, and this is what defines the crime of genocide”.
In an interview with Palestine TV, Albanese said that Israel has "violated the UN charter" and "must be held accountable for its actions".
She called for Israel's suspension from the UN due to its violations of international law.
"Israel has destroyed or damaged UN premises, targeted shelters, and accused the UN of terrorism," she added.
Al Jazeera Arabic has reported raids across the occupied West Bank, including in the towns of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem, Beit Rima and Kafr Ein near the city of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, Burqa and Beita in the Nablus district, Arrabeh, southwest of Jenin, the villages of Asla and Ezbet al-Tabib, east of Qalqilya, and the Thinnabeh suburb east of Tulkarem
A senior Hamas official has denied reports that the group told mediators it is open to a 'temporary truce'.
Mahmoud Mardawi said in a statement on Telegram that “Hamas confirms its full commitment to the agreement that was reached, with the necessity of moving to the second phase negotiations according to the agreed upon specifications, and that this news is incorrect and has no connection to reality.”
The Lebanese army has said in a statement on X that Israeli spying devices have been found on the outskirts of the town of Kfarchouba in southern Lebanon.
It added that specialised military units were called to dismantle the devices.
Israel will send a delegation to Qatar's Doha on Monday to advance ceasefire negotiations after accepting an invitation from the mediators, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement on Saturday.
Reporting by Reuters
Armed Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, injuring several people, Wafa news agency is reporting.
The agency cited anti-settlement activist Osama Makhamra who reported that the settlers came from the nearby illegal Susya settlement and attacked the Palestinian residents of the Wadi Jahish community at the time of Iftar. The victims included women and children.
Under military protection, the assailants assaulted the residents with batons, and uprooted several trees in the area.
At the same time, Israeli forces detained Ahmed Khaled al-Najjar, a man with a disability, while he was tending to his sheep near his home in the al-Qawwais area of Masafer Yatta.
Israeli forces and settlers conducted 1,705 attacks against Palestinians and their property in February, according to a report by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.
Israelis staged a protest in northern Israel's Haifa to demand the government complete the captive and prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel.
יצאנו לצעוד כי רק הציבור יוכל לטלטל את נבחריו עד שיבחרו בחטופים החיים.
— מחאת העם חיפה 🍅 (@haifaprotest) March 8, 2025
אסור לתת להם להקריב חיי אדם!@RotemPF @Hofshi_Israel @BringThemHome23 pic.twitter.com/2J3DDWzSVg
Euro-Med Monitor has shared harrowing details of a Palestinian woman's account of repeated Israeli drone strikes targeting her family in northern Gaza on 20 January 2024.
In a video shared by the watchdog, 44-year-old Iman Abdelsalam Massoud described how an Israeli drone struck her home, killing her husband and daughter and then returned to target her siblings who had to tried to reach her in an attempt to save her.
Massoud told Euro-Med that she had gathered her laundry in preparation to leave the camp they were staying in, as they could hear drone strikes nearby.
"While I was there collecting it to take with me and my husband standing next to me at the clothes line.. an Israeli drone struck my husband," she said. "The missile exploded right in front of me, I didn't know what had happened and I started screaming".
"I looked up and I saw my husband lying there with injuries to his abdomen and neck".
Massoud's children then went to get a cart to transport him to hospital, but were struck by another drone.
"It hit my daughter Asmaa, 18 years old. Her leg was severed from the hip".
An Israeli drone struck their home in #Gaza, killing her husband and daughter, and injuring her. It then returned to target her siblings, who had tried to reach her in an attempt to save her.
— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) March 8, 2025
Iman Abdelsalam Massoud, 44, shares her testimony with the Euro-Med Monitor team⬇️… pic.twitter.com/WtmZHiM98r
An Israeli air strike targeting a vehicle has killed a Lebanese civilian and injured another near the town of Beit Jbeil, in southern Lebanon, the country's health ministry reported on Saturday.
On Friday, Israeli forces launched a series of strikes on several villages in southern Lebanon, including Jabal al-Rihan and Yater, in the latest violations of the ceasefire deal.
Lebanese authorities have reported over 1000 Israeli violations of the fragile ceasefire, which was implemented on 27 November, resulting in the deaths of at least 84 people and injuries to over 280.
The deal stipulated that Israeli forces must fully withdraw from the country by 26 January, however this was extended to 18 February when Israel refused to comply.
Israeli troops remain at five border outposts in southern Lebanon.
Over 50 freed Israeli captives called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fully implement the Gaza ceasefire deal and secure the release of those still held in the Palestinian territory.
"We who have experienced the inferno know that a return to war is life-threatening for those still left behind," a group of 56 freed captives said in a letter posted on the social media platform Instagram on Friday evening.
"Implement the agreement in full, in one single manoeuvre."
Among those to sign the letter was Yarden Bibas, whose wife and two young sons died while held captive in Gaza.
Reporting by Reuters
Gaza's civil defence says its crews are trying to extinguish a 'huge' fire that erupted in warehouses containing food supplies on Al-Nasr Street, north of Gaza City.
The civil defence said that crews faced "major obstacles" in trying to contain the fire as they were left with only two fire engines after Israeli forces destroyed most of their vehicles.
Palestine Action activists targeted US President Donald Trump's Turnberry golf resort in Scotland on Saturday, spraying "GAZA IS NOT 4 SALE" in huge white letters across the lawn and digging up the golf course's holes.
The activists also splattered the luxury resort's clubhouse with blood red paint.
"Whilst Trump attempts to treat Gaza as his property, he should know his own property is within reach," the group said in a post on X, referring to Trump's proposal that the US "take over Gaza" and transform it into the "Riviera of the Middle East".
BREAKING: Palestine Action wreck Trump's golf course in Turnberry, Scotland.
— Palestine Action (@Pal_action) March 8, 2025
"GAZA IS NOT FOR SALE" is sprayed across the lawn and the golf course's holes are dug up.
Whilst Trump attempts to treat Gaza as his property, he should know his own property is within reach. pic.twitter.com/ZoH8joHEYi
Israeli forces briefly detained several journalists near the Jenin Government Hospital in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources.
According to the sources, the journalists were arrested while covering the Israeli military's siege around the hospital and its attempts to storm the hospital’s yard. Soldiers stopped the journalists from reporting and forced them to leave the area.
The agency also reported that in a separate incident, Israeli soldiers detained journalist Ahmad Jalajel from the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem.
Wafa said that Jalajel had previously been detained and interrogated by Israeli soldiers at his home in the Silwan neighbourhood on Wednesday during Iftar time.
Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that six Palestinians have been injured in Israeli strikes in central and southern Gaza.
According to the report, three people were wounded in a strike on Salah al-Din Road in central Gaza, while three others were injured in another attack in al-Brazil neighbourhood in Rafah city, southern Gaza.
