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Palestinians ‘starving’ in northern Gaza as Israel presses assault
Palestinian health officials have called for a humanitarian corridor to three hospitals in northern Gaza that have come close to collapse after Israeli troops have cut off the area during almost two weeks of a renewed ground assault.
Doctors at the Kamal Adwan, al-Awda and Indonesian hospitals have refused to leave their patients despite evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military at the start of the offensive into the Jabalia area of northern Gaza 12 days ago.
“We are calling on the international community, the Red Cross and the World Health Organization, to play their humanitarian role by opening up a corridor towards our healthcare system and allow the entry of fuel, medical, delegations, supplies and food,” said Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, on Wednesday.
“We are talking about more than 300 medical staff working at Kamal Adwan Hospital, and we can’t provide even a single meal for them to be able to offer medical services safely.”
In addition to Jabalia, Israel’s ground assault in ravaged northern Gaza has also targeted Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya. The area has been repeatedly bombarded and invaded by Israeli ground troops since Israel launched its assault on Gaza last October.
Since the latest incursion, it has been completely sealed off, according to Palestinian Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal.
The UN estimates that some 400,000 people are trapped in northern Gaza and have been unable to leave due to intense bombardment, as well as the presence of Israeli snipers and ground troops.
For 12 days, no food has been delivered to the area, Basal said.
“They are not only trapped, but also lacking food, drink, and medicine,” he said, adding that scarce medical supplies are also dwindling.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said the continuing Israeli offensive has killed around 350 Palestinians in Jabalia and nearby areas.
In Gaza City on Wednesday, an Israeli air strike on a house killed 13 people, medics said. In its daily update, the Gaza Ministry of Health said Israeli military strikes had killed at least 65 Palestinians across the enclave in the past 24 hours.
Munir al-Bursh, the director-general of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, said more than half of the dead are women and children and many bodies remain in the streets and under the rubble, with rescue teams unable to reach them because of Israeli strikes.
“Entire families have disappeared,” said al-Bursh.
‘People are starving’
The dire humanitarian situation has prompted worldwide alarm, with the United States issuing one of its strongest warnings to Israel that it must improve the situation or face potential restrictions on military aid.
“A policy of starvation in northern Gaza would be horrific and unacceptable and would have implications under international law and US law,” said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United Nations, on Wednesday during a UN Security Council meeting.
The US has previously vetoed multiple resolutions that called for a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza.
France and China also called for an end to the war and immediate humanitarian relief in Gaza’s north.
The Israeli military meanwhile said it has killed more than 50 Palestinian fighters in air strikes and close combat in recent days. It has told people to evacuate to what it claimed were safer areas in the south, fuelling fears among Palestinians that the drive is aimed at clearing them from northern Gaza permanently.
The Israeli military denies restricting aid supplies, saying that since October 1, more than 9,000 tons of humanitarian aid including food, water, gas, shelter equipment, and medical supplies have entered Gaza through various crossings.
It said some of that aid was transferred directly into northern Gaza. Gaza’s Government Media Office refuted the claim, saying Israel’s “lies” about allowing trucks in are completely false.
“Nothing entered northern Gaza. People in northern Gaza are starving,” said Hadeel Obeid, a supervisor nurse at the Indonesian Hospital, where 28 patients were being treated.
“Our administrative manager provides just one meal for all persons including doctors, nurses, patients, and their companions. It’s a small amount, not enough for an adult person,” she told Reuters news agency via a messaging app.
Like Basal, she said medical supplies were running out due to the daily demands of caring for the wounded.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said at least 50 humanitarian aid trucks from the Jordanian capital, Amman, had arrived in Gaza City, but they “did not reach besieged areas, including Jabalia, Beit Hanoon and Beit Lahiya”.
He said Israeli strikes have also continued across Gaza, including the central areas.
Polio vaccinations
Meanwhile, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that on day two of a polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, more than 64,000 children had received the drops and 51,000 vitamin A doses.
The World Health Organization (WHO) urged Israel to ensure the necessary conditions to finish the job of vaccinating Gaza’s children against polio,
“We call for the humanitarian pauses to continue to be respected. We call for a ceasefire and peace,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.
Rachael Cummings, a health specialist with Save the Children, said the situation for children across the coastal enclave is “absolutely dire”.
“People are in survival mode. … People are looking for food, looking for water. There is not adequate sanitation, and hygiene practices are decimated,” Cummings told Al Jazeera.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 42,400 people, mosly women and children, since October 2023, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
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Pakistan calls troops, orders 3-day curfew as 24 killed in pro-Iran rallies
Army deployed and some areas in northern Gilgit-Baltistan region put under curfew after deadly violence over Khamenei’s killing.
Published On 2 Mar 2026
Pakistan has called in the military and imposed a three-day curfew in some areas following deadly protests over the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a joint United States-Israeli attack on Saturday.
At least 24 people were killed and dozens injured in clashes between protesters and security forces across the country on Sunday, prompting authorities to tighten security around the US embassy and consulates.
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The curfew was imposed before dawn Monday in the districts of Gilgit, Skurdu, and Shigar in the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, where at least 12 protesters and one security officer were killed and dozens of others wounded during confrontations, according to an official statement.
Of those, seven were killed in Gilgit, a rescue official said, while six others died in Skardu, a doctor told AFP news agency on Monday.
Thousands of demonstrators on Sunday attacked the offices of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), which monitors the ceasefire along the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, and the UN Development Programme in Skardu city.
Protesters also burned a police station and damaged a school and the offices of a local charity in Gilgit, according to officials.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Monday said protesters became violent near the UNMOGIP Field Station, which was vandalised.
“The safety and security of UN personnel and premises throughout the region remain our top priority, and we continue to closely monitor the situation,” Dujarric said.
Shabir Mir, a Gilgit-Baltistan government spokesman, said the situation was under control and that the curfew would remain in place until Wednesday. Police chief Akbar Nasir Khan urged residents to stay indoors, citing “deteriorating law and order conditions”.
In the southern port city of Karachi, the country’s commercial hub, 10 people were killed and more than 60 injured during a protest outside the US consulate.
Two additional protesters were killed in the capital, Islamabad, while heading towards the US embassy.
Pakistani authorities have beefed up security at US diplomatic missions across the country, including around the US consulate building in Peshawar, to avoid any further violence.
The US embassy and its consulates in Karachi and Lahore cancelled visa appointments and American Citizen Services on Monday, citing security concerns.
The federal government warned that the situation could further deteriorate amid large-scale demonstrations condemning Khamenei’s killing on Saturday.
Tehran has responded with a series of drone and missile attacks targeting Israel and US assets in several Gulf countries.
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Tel Aviv analyst shelters from 30 missile sirens in 48 hours, says Iran ‘won’t recover’
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The past 48 hours in Tel Aviv have been unlike anything seen before, a leading security analyst has said, as sirens blared amid missile threats following Operation Epic Fury and U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran.
“We are facing a biblical event — nothing less,” Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and the Misgav Institute, told Fox News Digital, speaking from his shelter in the city.
Like many Israelis, Michael said he had spent hours in reinforced rooms during the ongoing barrage, adding that he was “very experienced in this.”
“But this all requires time and determination, and I do hope that Trump will also have them both,” he said, speaking shortly after the president released a video message stating that the military operation would continue “until all of our objectives are achieved.”
Explosions from projectile interceptions by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system over Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ / AFP via Getty Images)
“Trump is the only one who can make the change — and that change will impact the entire region and the international order for years to come,” Michael added.
As of Sunday, Tel Aviv remained under a state of emergency following Iranian missile attacks that caused casualties and widespread damage.
According to The Associated Press, Iranian missile and drone strikes have killed approximately 11 Israeli civilians and wounded dozens more in retaliation for the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran.
Shrapnel from missile impacts damaged at least 40 buildings in Tel Aviv, and authorities reported at least one death in the area from falling debris.
The Philippine Embassy in Israel confirmed the death of a Filipino national after a missile strike hit Tel Aviv on Saturday.
TOMAHAWKS, B-2 STEALTH BOMBERS AND ATTACK DRONES POUND OVER 1,000 IRANIAN TARGETS IN 24-HOUR BLITZ
People take shelter as Iran launched missiles and drones towards Israel following the US-Israeli attacks. ( Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“We enter our shelter once the siren is heard and stay there until the Home Front Command announces that we can leave,” Michael said.
“Usually, it is about 20 to 30 minutes — unless there are further sirens during our stay. Since yesterday morning, it has happened around 30 times.”
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog also visited an impact site in Tel Aviv Sunday, delivering a message of resilience.
“The people of Israel and the people of Iran can live in peace. The region can live in peace. But what undermines peace time and again is terror instigated by this Iranian regime,” Herzog said.
EXILED IRANIAN CROWN PRINCE SAYS US STRIKES MARK ‘BEGINNING OF THE VERY END’ FOR REGIME
Israeli emergency service officer walks past building debris at the scene of a Iranian missile attack. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP via Getty Images)
Following the reported killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and roughly 40 senior Iranian officials, Iran formed a provisional leadership council.
Iran named Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, President Masoud Pezeshkian and Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i to lead roles.
“The Supreme Leader did not complete the necessary groundwork regarding his own succession,” Michael added.
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“Pezeshkian will face very troubling challenges due to their heavy losses, severe disruptions to control and command systems, and the massive bombing and attacks across Iran, including Tehran,” he said.
“Even if this regime doesn’t collapse, it will never be able to reconstitute itself, recover or return to its previous position,” Michael added.
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