Israeli army has killed over 1,400 medical staff: war on Gaza Day 542

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff

Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 80 more Palestinians, the Health Ministry said on Monday.

The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said on Monday that 1,001 people had been killed in the Palestinian territory since Israel resumed large-scale strikes on March 18.

The Israeli army on Monday issued fresh evacuation orders to Palestinians in multiple areas of Rafah, deepening the humanitarian crisis as deadly attacks continue.

Israeli army killed over 1,400 medical staff in Gaza since start of genocide: Officials

The Israeli army has killed at least 1,402 medical personnel and 111 civil defense personnel in the Gaza Strip since the start of the US-backed genocide, according to a statement released by Gaza’s Government Media Office on 31 March.

Moreover, 362 health workers and 26 civil defense staff have been arrested since 7 October 2023, including three doctors tortured to death in Israeli detention centers.

Israeli forces have also bombed 34 hospitals, 80 health centers, 162 health institutions, 15 civil defense headquarters, 142 ambulances, and 54 fire trucks across the besieged enclave.

The announcement by the Government Media Office came hours after the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) retrieved the bodies of 14 rescue workers killed by Israeli forces while under siege in Rafah’s Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood.

1/6 First responders should never be a target. Yet today @UNOCHA supported @PalestineRCS and Civil Defense to retrieve colleagues from a mass grave in #Rafah #Gaza that was marked with the emergency light from one of their crushed ambulances. pic.twitter.com/xFYFXWp2c6

— Jonathan Whittall (@_jwhittall) March 30, 2025

Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that Israeli attacks have killed 1,001 Palestinians since Israel restarted its genocidal war on the Strip with a massive bombing attack on March 18.

The Health Ministry said another 2,359 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli attacks in that time. The ministry’s figures are based on the number of dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals.

The renewed Israeli bombing campaign has been devastating for children. The first day of the attack was described by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz as Israel’s “largest child massacre in its history.”

Israeli strike kills two in Gaza’s so-called ‘safe’ zone

Israel prepares to occupy ’25 percent of Gaza’ in coming weeks: Report

The Israeli army is preparing to “expand” its ground invasion of Gaza and occupy 25 percent of the strip over the next several weeks as part of a “maximum pressure” campaign aimed at forcing Hamas into accepting a new prisoner exchange deal.

“Reoccupation could go beyond Israel’s stated objectives of the war and could serve as a pretense for pressing Palestinians to leave Gaza,” Axios journalist and former Unit 8200 member Barak Ravid reported on 31 March, citing an unnamed senior official.

The Israeli scheme has already begun with the forced displacement of Palestinians who had returned home after the January ceasefire. If no new agreement is reached, officials say the military could reoccupy most of the strip and force over 2 million people into a small “humanitarian zone.”

“Some Israeli officials say reoccupation is a step towards implementing the government’s plan for ‘voluntary departure’ of Palestinians from Gaza and is necessary to defeat Hamas,” Ravid reports.

The news comes one day after Hamas accepted a new Egyptian proposal to resume the truce in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister and wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu laid out what he called the “final stage” of the genocide in Gaza to his cabinet.

“Hamas will lay down its weapons. Its leaders will be allowed to leave. We will see to the general security in the Gaza Strip and will allow the realization of the Trump plan for voluntary migration,” Netanyahu said, referring to US President Donald Trump’s threat to “take” Gaza and forcibly remove Palestinians from their land.

“This is the plan. We are not hiding this and are ready to discuss it at any time … We have an alliance with the greatest superpower in the world,” he added.

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Bakeries in northern Gaza have run out of flour: NGO

Bakeries in northern Gaza have run out of flour and will not be operating Tuesday, according to a local NGO.

The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organization Network said Palestinians were at risk of hunger if the international community did not pressure Israel and force it to return to the ceasefire agreement.

Bakeries supported by the UN’s World Food Program in the southern Gaza Strip are also expected to close.

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Israeli forces destroy over 3,000 homes in Jenin refugee camp

The media committee of Jenin camp says Israeli forces have destroyed more than 3,250 housing units in the occupied West Bank camp. Some were outright destroyed, while others were seized and turned into military barracks.

Jenin, a flashpoint of Palestinian resistance, has been repeatedly targeted in Israel’s relentless military operations. With thousands now displaced, the camp is being systematically gutted—one home at a time.

US strikes Yemen, Trump says Houthis “decimated”

In northern Yemen, two people were killed and seven others injured in renewed US airstrikes, the Houthi-run Health Ministry said Monday, as American military operations in the region continue to escalate.

According to Health Ministry figures, US strikes have killed more than 60 people and wounded over 140 — including women and children — since the beginning of the air campaign.

US President Donald Trump on Monday said Yemen’s Houthis had been “decimated” by US strikes over the past two weeks, as he vowed to continue military action.

“The Iran-backed Houthi Terrorists have been decimated by the relentless strikes over the past two weeks. Many of their Fighters and Leaders are no longer with us. We hit them every day and night — Harder and harder,” Trump said in a statement on his Truth Social platform.

Arguing that Houthi’s capabilities threaten shipping and the region were “rapidly being destroyed,” Trump said: “Our attacks will continue until they are no longer a threat to Freedom of Navigation.

“Our attacks will continue until they are no longer a threat to Freedom of Navigation. The choice for the Houthis is clear: Stop shooting at US ships, and we will stop shooting at you. Otherwise, we have only just begun, and the real pain is yet to come, for both the Houthis and their sponsors in Iran,” the president added.

State Department dodges question on whether US citizenships may be revoked for pro-Palestine speech

Trump looking to cancel billions in grants to Harvard over ‘antisemitism’

The Trump administration said on Monday that it was reviewing $9bn in federal contracts and grants given to Harvard University, as part of an ongoing effort to crack down on what it says is “antisemitism” on college campuses. 

The focus on Harvard comes after the Trump administration this month cancelled $400m in federal funding for fellow Ivy League school Columbia University. Columbia has since drastically changed its rules to appease the White House and try to get that funding back. 

Columbia was at the epicenter of student protests in support of Palestinians and Gaza last year, which then erupted on campuses across the country. 

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Austria must expel Israeli envoy over call to execute Gaza children

In Austria, a country that hosts UN agencies – institutions supposedly dedicated to the principles of human rights and international law – the abnormal has become the norm. 

In a secretly filmed video leaked this week, Israel’s ambassador to Austria, David Roet, calmly advocates for genocide, for the deaths of children, and for the utter destruction of Gaza. His words are chilling, but not unexpected. He is not a rogue voice; he speaks with the full weight of a government that has been allowed to perpetuate violence with impunity.

Roet speaks of Gaza as though it were no more than a distant nuisance; an inconvenience to be swept aside. But his words – spoken without shame or fear – are damning. 

He declares that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza, and that all who bear arms should be executed, even children. This is a direct violation of international law, denying the humanity of more than two million people, including a million children.

This is not just an Israeli issue. It is an international one. This is Austria’s issue, because Austria gives Roet a platform. It has neither condemned his words nor expelled him. It has said and done nothing (continue reading here).

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