Updates: Israel attacks tent camps, aid kitchen in central Gaza

A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to preserve messages sent on the Signal messaging app discussing attack plans against the Houthis in Yemen.

The messages became public after they were inadvertently shared with a journalist, prompting condemnation of the “shocking” security breach and questions from Congress. Earlier this week, the watchdog group American Oversight sued the administration to preserve the messages, arguing that officials failed to implement measures to prevent the automatic deletion of messages in the Signal chat, in violation of their duties under the Federal Records Act.

You can read a Palestinian Oscar-winning director’s account of being assaulted by Israeli settlers and soldiers here.

Read about the toll of Israel’s war on Gaza on children here.

And follow our broader coverage of the conflict here.

We will be closing the live page soon. Here’s a brief recap of the day’s main events:

• At least 13 people were killed in three separate Israeli attacks on areas of central Gaza, including a drone attack on an aid kitchen.
• The UN says 142,000 Palestinians have now been displaced since Israel resumed its war on Gaza on March 28 and that Israeli forced displacement orders now cover about 17 percent of the Strip.
• Thousands of Palestinians have marched in northern Gaza on the second day of antiwar protests, with many chanting against Hamas in a rare display of public anger against the group.
• Large protests have taken place in Jerusalem as thousands demonstrate against the government’s moves to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet security service and the attorney general.
• US politicians and rights groups have denounced the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University who has criticised Israel’s war on Gaza.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that an Israeli drone has targeted a car on the road to the village of Maaroub in southern Lebanon.

The country’s Health Ministry said that this attack resulted in the killing of one person, a civilian, confirming our report.

Earlier today, the Israeli military claimed it had hit what it described as 40 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon since it shattered its ceasefire in Gaza with Hamas early on March 18.

Amal Shabat is delirious with pain.

She is weeping, still unable to grasp that her 23-year-old son has been killed by Israel, exactly as he always said he would die – a “martyr” who sacrificed himself to make sure the world knew what was happening in Gaza.

She tries the words haltingly: “My son is a martyr, Hossam … My son is a hero.”

Hossam Shabat, an Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist, was killed by Israel in a targeted strike on his vehicle on Monday.

Read more here.

A documentary, The Encampments, looks to add context and provide a deep dive into the demonstrations demanding Columbia University divest from its financial interests in Israel.

Watch below to learn more:

US lawmakers and rights groups have denounced the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University who has criticised Israel’s war on Gaza, and the revoking of her visa – calling it an alarming crackdown on free speech and civil liberties.

Michigan Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib slammed the arrest, warning of escalating government repression.

“The Trump administration is abducting people off the streets,” Tlaib wrote on Instagram.

“They are starting with people who stand up for Palestinians and human rights … but they won’t stop there.”

Ozturk was one of four students last March who co-authored an op-ed piece in The Tufts Daily, criticising the university’s response to its community union Senate passing resolutions that demanded Tufts “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide,” disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel

Senator Elizabeth Warren also criticised the arrest, calling it part of a broader assault on fundamental rights.

“This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties,” Warren said. “The Trump administration is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process. This is an attack on our constitution and basic freedoms –and we will push back.”

Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Massachusetts chapter, called Ozturk’s detention an “abduction” and an attack on academic freedom.

“This alarming act of repression is a direct assault on free speech and academic freedom. Massachusetts residents must recognise the dangerous precedent being set – the federal government is resorting to draconian tactics to silence those who speak out against our nation’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.”

The Palestinian group says in a statement that it dealt with proposals during the last phase of indirect negotiations with Israel “positively and responsibly to achieve our goals by completely stopping the aggression against our people in Gaza”.

It said Israel “turned on the agreement it signed with us … refused to move to the second phase of it, and resumed its aggression again against our people”.

This statement comes as the US continues to place the blame for attacks on Gaza at the feet of Hamas, and small but notable protests against the group are taking place in north Gaza.

US immigration authorities have detained a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University near Boston, Massachusetts, who voiced support for Palestinians during Israel’s war on Gaza and have revoked her visa.

Rumeysa Ozturk’s supporters say her detention is the first known immigration arrest of a Boston-area student engaged in such activism to be carried out by President Donald Trump’s administration, which has detained or sought to detain several foreign-born students who are legally in the US and have been involved in pro-Palestinian protests.

The 30-year-old Turkish national was taken into custody near her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday evening while she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast, according to her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai.

US Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a post on X that authorities determined Ozturk “engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.”

Ozturk co-authored an opinion piece in the school’s student paper, the Tufts Daily, that criticised Tufts’ response to calls by students to divest from companies with ties to Israel and to “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide”.

Palestinian journalists rallied in front of the Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis to protest the targeting of their colleagues Mohammad Mansour and Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat, killed in Israeli strikes two days ago.

Watch below:

Here’s a recap of the latest developments:

• At least 13 Palestinians have been killed as a result of Israeli drone strikes on tents housing displaced people, as well as a charity food bank in the centre of the Gaza Strip.
• Thousands of Palestinians have marched in northern Gaza on the second day of antiwar protests, with many chanting against Hamas in a rare display of public anger against the group.
• Israeli media reports that thousands of people are protesting in Jerusalem against the government’s moves to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet security service, Ronen Bar, and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.
• The Israeli military has transferred hundreds of Palestinian inmates to other prisons following pressure from Israel’s top court to improve conditions in the occupied West Bank’s Sde Teiman prison, according to Israeli human rights organisations.
• The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) has warned that a health crisis is looming at Israel’s Megiddo prison “due to extremely unsanitary conditions”, causing scabies and other skin diseases to spread.

The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee has announced forced evacuation orders for Palestinians in more areas in and around Gaza City, including western and eastern Zeitoun, Tel al-Hawa, the Old City, Sheikh Ajlin, and southern Remal.

“This is a final warning before an attack! Terrorist organisations are once again launching their rockets from within civilian areas,” Adraee said in a post on X.

“For your safety, you must move immediately to the south of Wadi Gaza to the known shelters.”

#عاجل ‼️ إلى جميع سكان قطاع غزة المتواجدين في الأحياء التالية: الزيتون الغربي والشرقي، تل الهوا، البلدة القديمة، الشيخ عجلين، الشيخ، توسعة النفوذ والرمال الجنوبي
⭕️هذا انذار مسبق وأخير قبل هجوم!
⭕️تعود المنظمات الإرهابية وتطلق قذائفها الصاروخية من داخل المدنيين. لقد حذرنا هذه… pic.twitter.com/13N4Vl1k2b

— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) March 26, 2025

Nowhere is safe in Gaza, not even places for the dead, due to Israel’s nonstop bombardment of the enclave.

In this Bird’s Eye View, Al Jazeera’s investigation unit, Sanad, uncovers unprecedented destruction to cemeteries across the Gaza Strip:

European politicians from the far right are gathering in Israel for a conference on anti-Semitism this week, sealing an alliance with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government that would have been unthinkable in the past.

Analysts say the invitation to parties that have themselves previously been accused of anti-Semitism demonstrates the willingness of Israel’s right – under pressure from some traditional allies over the war in Gaza – to cultivate new relationships with unlikely supporters.

“The current Israeli government sees the world in black and white,” Denis Charbit, a political scientist at the Open University of Israel, told the AFP news agency.

Some in Israel feel the country is currently isolated, and needs “new friends”, even if it deems them distasteful, he added.

France’s National Rally and Hungary’s Fidesz party are among the guests, along with other members of Europe’s far right.

“For progressive movements of Israel’s historic left, which doesn’t mobilise many people today, it’s obvious that these far-right parties are not allies,” Thomas Vescovi, a researcher at Paris’s School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, told AFP.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children in Gaza and many more bodies remain buried under the rubble.

Many surviving children have endured the trauma of multiple wars, and all have spent their lives under the oppressive shadow of an Israeli blockade, affecting every aspect of their existence.

Read more here.

Israeli Army Radio says that one rocket fired from the Gaza Strip was intercepted over the skies of Isreal.

It said that no air raid sirens were triggered by the launch.

As seen since Isreal resumed hostilities in the Gaza Strip last week, Hamas retains the ability to fire rockets from Gaza despite nearly a year and a half of ground and air attacks on its capabilities.