Live: Gaza death toll nears 50,700

At least 25 civilians, including four children, have been killed in a week of US bombing in Yemen, the Yemen Data Project has found.

At least 28 more civilians were also injured in the 38 air strikes conducted “in the heaviest and deadliest week of bombing since the last months of Saudi-UAE air war in January 2022,” according to the independent data collection project.

More people were killed in the first week of the new US military campaign than in 12 months of US-UK strikes from January 2024 to January this year, the group said.

Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun and Jabalia on Tuesday to demand an end to Israel’s attacks and blockade on Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency.

They held up placards that said, “We refuse to die,” “The blood of our children is not cheap,” and “Stop the war,” Wafa reported.

“Enough displacement. We want to live! The siege is severe. There’s no food, no security, no water, not even money. Enough of this situation. We want to live with dignity," one protester said.

Some protesters shouted anti-Hamas slogans during the rally, the AFP news agency reported.

In Beit Lahia, some shouted “Hamas out” and “Hamas terrorists,” it said.

Majdi, a protester who did not wish to give his full name, told the agency that the “people are tired”.

Munther al-Hayek, the spokesperson for Fatah Gaza, has urged Hamas to give up power, saying its rule in the enclave threatens the Palestinian cause, according to the Wafa news agency.

Israeli forces have killed at least one Palestinian in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.

This raises the death toll since this morning to at least 12, including five children.

A student who is suing the government for attempting to deport her for participating in pro-Palestine protests has been granted reprieve on Tuesday from being detained or transferred outside of New York.

The legal team of Yunseo Chung, a Columbia University student and US permanent legal resident who has lived in the United States since she was seven, filed a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Monday to seek immediate relief to block her from being detained or transferred outside the district to a distant detention site.

An emergency hearing took place in the Southern District of New York City on Tuesday afternoon. The court heard arguments from her legal team and granted the TRO, which remains in place until further orders by the court.

The lawsuit and request for an emergency TRO came after immigration officials moved to deport Chung for her participation in pro-Palestinian protests.

In court documents, her legal team said she “was one of a large group of college students raising, expressing, and discussing shared concerns” and has not “assumed a high-profile role in these protests”.

Read more: Court rules student suing Trump administration not be detained for time being

Israeli police released Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal on Tuesday, after detaining him a day earlier following what activists described as an attack by settlers in the occupied West Bank.

"After I won the Oscar, I did not expect to be exposed to such attacks," Ballal said in a video by AFPTV.

"It was a very strong attack and the goal was to kill."

Ballal said he had been attacked by a settler.

"He was hitting me all over my body and there was also a soldier with him hitting me."

Yuval Abraham, who co-directed "No Other Land", said Ballal has injuries to the "head and stomach, bleeding".

An activist from the anti-occupation group Center for Jewish Nonviolence, who witnessed the attack, said that before Israeli forces arrived, a group of 15 to 20 settlers attacked the activists as well as Ballal's house in the village.

Good morning, Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 537th day:

• Israel's strikes on Gaza have killed at least 11 Palestinians since the early hours of this morning, Al Jazeera reported. Five children, including a six-month-old infant, were among those killed in the bombardment.

• Israeli forces stopped an ambulance during a raid on the Fawwar camp in the occupied West Bank and assaulted the medics, leaving them hospitalised, Wafa news agency, citing the Palestine Red Crescent, reported.

• US forces have launched multiple air strikes in Yemen's Saada and Amran provinces, with Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV reporting at least 17 raids on Saada in recent hours.

• European commissioner for equality, Hadja Lahbib, called for humanitarian aid efforts to continue in Gaza as expressed concern by alarming reports of yet more Israeli attacks on health workers, ambulances and hospitals.

• Houthis claimed attacks on US warships in the Red Sea, including the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman, and a number of drone attacks at Israeli military sites in Tel Aviv.

• Lawyers for Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, said that an Israeli court has extended his detention for another six months, based on a "secret file" of evidence that the lawyers were denied access.

Good evening Middle East Eye readers, 

Tuesday was a deadly day in the Gaza Strip with at least 37 people killed by Israeli strikes across the besieged enclave, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. 

Meanwhile, the UN said that at least 124,000 Palestinians have been displaced in the Gaza Strip since Israel resumed its attacks.

Here is what else you need to know: 

• Israeli forces detained dozens of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
• A 41-year-old Palestinian man died from wounds sustained after Israeli forces shot him near the town of al-Eizariya, east of the occupied West Bank city of Jerusalem
• Israeli artillery and tanks are shelling the town of Abasan, east of Khan Younis
• Israeli police released Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal
• Houthi media in Yemen reported new strikes, blaming the US for the attacks

Israeli forces launched raids in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday night, after detaining dozens of Palestinians in the occupied territories.

The raids targeted the town of Bani Na'im, east of Hebron, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. 

Israel has ramped up its attacks on the occupied West Bank, even as it bombards the Gaza Strip. 

The UN said on Tuesday that at least 124,000 Palestinians have been displaced in the Gaza Strip since Israel resumed its attacks.

In an update published on Tuesday, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, Unrwa, said at least 124,000 Palestinians were displaced. 

The UN also decried Israel's siege of the enclave, saying that one million Palestinians will be without food parcels, if supplies are not allowed in. 

"The ongoing siege is worsening the humanitarian crisis," Unrwa said. 

Houthi media in Yemen reported new strikes on Tuesday, blaming the US for the attacks.

Al-Masirah TV reported, “US aggression with two raids on the Sahar district" of Yemen. 

The report comes after the US launched widespread strikes on Yemen against the Houthis on 15 March. Washington said the strikes were in response to Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. At least 53 people were killed, according to Houthi officials. 

Israeli forces swept across the occupied West Bank on Monday and Tuesday, arresting dozens of Palestinians, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Two Palestinians from Jenin and Jericho were arrested. Jenin has been the focal point of arrests in recent weeks, with Israeli soldiers regularly raiding Palestinian homes and turning them into military barracks.

Israeli troops raiding the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp, south of Jericho, also detained a General Intelligence officer in the Palestinian Authority, Wafa said. 

Northeast of Jenin, three Palestinians, a father, along with his wife and son, from Deir Ghazaleh village were detained. 

At least 25 Palestinians have been detained between Monday and Tuesday, Wafa reported. 

Hamas made a statement on Tuesday calling for global protests during Ramadan. 

“To the masses of our people, Arab and Islamic nations, and the free people of the world, we call for a general mobilisation on coming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.”

Hamas called on protestors to support the “defence of our people in Gaza and Jerusalem, in support of our people’s steadfastness, and in rejection of the crimes of the occupation and its supporters".

Israeli police on Tuesday released Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, arrested a day earlier after what witnesses described as an attack on him by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Basel Adra, who worked with Ballal on the Oscar-winning documentary film "No Other Land", posted on X a photo of him from a hospital after his release, which police have also confirmed, with blood stains on his shirt.

"Hamdan has been released and is currently in the hospital in Hebron, receiving treatment. He was beaten by soldiers and settlers all over his body," said Adra, adding that "soldiers left him blindfolded and handcuffed" overnight.

US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff laid out a vision for the Middle East of Israeli hegemony funded by cash from the oil-rich Gulf, that risks destabilising the entire Middle East in a recent interview. 

In his discussion with conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson, Witkoff, tellingly suggested that Gaza was the only stumbling block to peace in the Middle East and did not mention the occupied West Bank at all. 

Middle East Eye's Editor-in-Chief David Hearst pointed out the chasm between Witkoff's world view and that offerd by the chief imam and president of Mecca’s Grand Mosque, Abdul Rahman al-Sudais. Notably, Saudi Arabia is a key US ally in the region. 

During Thursday prayers last week, Sudais said, “Oh Almighty, bring justice upon the oppressive Zionist occupiers. Oh God, strike them down, for they are not beyond your power.”

As Hearst writes, words like these channel the anger in every Arab's heart. If Witkoff thinks that calming, or rather suppressing, the people of Gaza will quench this degree of hatred in Arab hearts, he is living in a fantasy.

Read More: Witkoff and Trump’s Gaza dream has one thing missing: Palestinians

At least 37 people have been killed by Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. 

The death toll has climbed steadily throughout the day, with reports that Israel is shelling Khan Younis.