Updates: Israel kills 38 people in Gaza, WFP warns of renewed malnutrition

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• The charity World Central Kitchen says another of its personnel has been killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
• Seven Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli strike on a busy market in central Gaza.
• Hamas spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua has been killed in northern Gaza’s Jabalia city, the group says.
• At least six people have been killed in Israeli strikes in the south of Lebanon, according to the Ministry of Health.
• The UN’s World Food Programme warns that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are again at risk of severe hunger and malnutrition.
• The Israeli army is continuing its military operations in the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood of southern Gaza’s Rafah city.

Cornell University PhD student Momodou Taal is facing potential deportation from the US after launching a legal case against President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at foreign students accused of “anti-Semitism”.

Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron have denied Palestinians full access to the city’s landmark Ibrahimi Mosque for a fourth consecutive Friday, the Palestinian minister of religious affairs has said, as reported by the Wafa news agency.

In 1994, 29 Palestinian worshippers were massacred by an Israeli settler and since then, Israeli authorities have divided the mosque between Muslim and Jewish worshippers.

A US Senate committee has launched an investigation into the group American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and its activities on college campuses, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy has announced.

Speaking at a Senate hearing about campus anti-Semitism, Cassidy, the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, announced the probe into the nonprofit, accusing the group’s leaders of having “ties to Hamas” and of having helped create the group Students for Justice in Palestine, which has been active on US campuses.

Cassidy sent letters to the presidents of several US universities requesting information about AMP activities on their campuses.

AMP is a national education and grassroots-based organisation dedicated to educating the American public about Palestine and its rich cultural, historical and religious heritage, according to the group’s website. The group did not immediately address the report.

The US Justice Department has announced that it has disrupted a financing scheme through the seizure of approximately $200,000 in cryptocurrency held in wallets and accounts intended for Hamas, the department has announced.

In a statement, the Justice Department said that the seized funds were traced from fundraising addresses purportedly controlled by Hamas that were used to launder more than $1.5m in virtual currency since last October.

“These seizures show that this office will search high and low for every cent of money going to fund Hamas, wherever it is found, and in whatever form of currency,” US Attorney Edward R Martin Jr of the District of Columbia said in a statement.

According to court documents filed by the government, a group chat claiming association with Hamas on an encrypted communications platform provided Hamas supporters worldwide with a set of at least 17 cryptocurrency addresses, encouraging supporters to donate money to those addresses.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting that the arrests were made as Israeli protesters headed towards the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

The newspaper said mounted police attempted to block the march, knocking some protesters to the ground.

Some demonstrators managed to make it onto Tel Aviv’s main highway, where police arrested two people, as well as another three protesters who were in the march.

Haaretz reported that Einav Zangauker, the mother of a captive, said that police on horseback whipped her daughter and other protesters around them.

Pro-Palestine activists in Bristol, UK, have staged a protest in support of 18 people currently facing trial over an earlier action against the Israeli defence company Elbit Systems.

Video verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit shows the protesters chanting slogans calling for the charges against them to be dropped.

The trial stems from a protest last August after which seven people were charged with criminal damage, violent disorder and aggravated burglary. Palestine Action, the group behind that protest, had rejected allegations of violence against police and security staff and said the authorities had launched a “smear campaign” to prejudice the outcome of the trial and “lay the groundwork for the police unjust use of authoritarian powers”.

“We refuse to be intimidated into allowing a genocide to happen,” the group said at the time.

On its website, Palestine Action describes itself as aimed at “dismantling British complicity with Israeli apartheid”.

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Video verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit shows mounted police running down protesters during a march in Tel Aviv.

Israelis are demonstrating en masse tonight, demanding that Netanyahu’s government strike a deal with Hamas to return the remaining captives held in Gaza.

הפרשים של המשטרה משתוללים עכשיו על המפגינים בתל אביב pic.twitter.com/nMB2ymfueF

— לירי בורק שביט (@lirishavit) March 27, 2025

Translation: Police cavalry is now rampaging over protesters in Tel Aviv

At least 32 Palestinians have been killed and scores injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif al-Qanou in Jabalia.

Meanwhile, the World Food Programme warns that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are once again at risk of severe hunger and malnutrition.

Watch below for our video report on the latest from Gaza:

The UN special envoy for Yemen has called for “peace and stability” in the country during a visit with European officials.

In an official statement posted on X following a visit to Brussels, where he briefed the European Union’s Political and Security Committee, the special envoy, Hans Grundberg wrote that “after ten years of conflict in Yemen, it has become clear that achieving stability and peace in Yemen is an urgent necessity, not only for the Yemeni people, but for the security and stability of the region”.

The comments came as the US recently launched a series of strikes in Yemen, while Yemen’s Houthis have repeatedly launched rocket attacks towards Israel in recent days.

“The resumption of a full-scale war in Yemen is not in the interest of any party and must be avoided,” Grundberg wrote. “It is imperative that the international community continue to take unified action to ensure a peaceful and sustainable solution for the Yemeni people.”

In a statement posted on X, the independent US senator from Vermont said that he will force votes on two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval he introduced to block certain offensive sales to Israel.

“Netanyahu has clearly violated US and international law in this brutal war, and we must end our complicity in this carnage”, he said.

The US has remained Israel’s number one backer – both diplomatically and materially – throughout its nearly year and a half long war on Gaza.

Netanyahu's illegal war has killed 50,000 Palestinians. Now, Trump wants to force out 2 million more to build a billionaire's playground in Gaza.

That is ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime.

Next week, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in new arms sales to Israel. pic.twitter.com/IVGjBCIibl

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) March 27, 2025

The Iranian government has sent a response to Trump’s letter urging it to reach a new nuclear deal, according to Iran’s state news agency IRNA.

The agency cited Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, who said the response to the US was sent through Oman. In the letter, Iranian officials reiterated their stance on not negotiating directly while under pressure, but said they are open to indirect talks, Araqchi was reported as saying.

Trump has hinted at the desire to negotiate with Iran since returning to the White House earlier this year. But he has also reinstated a “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran.