Updates: Houthis threaten Israel over aid as Gaza hospitals run low on fuel

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• Tonight saw the highest concentration of Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon since a ceasefire was agreed to between Israel and Lebanon in November. Israel’s military said it conducted strikes on “military sites” belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, where it said “weapons and rocket launchers” were identified.
• Yemen’s Houthis gave Israel four days to resume aid delivery to Gaza, threatening to restart naval attacks if they do not comply. In a statement, Hamas praised the ultimatum.
• Two people were killed and others were injured after Israeli drones targeted a group of people in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City in the northern Strip, Wafa reported.
• Hamas released a video showing captive Israeli soldier Matan Angrest on its Telegram channel.

Al Jazeera’s sources say that the Israeli army has fired on citizens’ homes in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, in the northern Strip.

Earlier, the Israeli army reported that its air force attacked targets in Gaza City, saying that its targets were militants.

Wafa news agency said that the drones fired on civilians.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says that a 23-year-old man from the Fawwar refugee camp, near Hebron in the southern West Bank, was shot with live ammunition during an Israeli army raid.

The man was transferred to the hospital for his wounds, the PRCS said.

Palestinians prayed amid the rubble during the first Friday prayers of the Holy month of Ramadan at the Imam Shafi’i Mosque in Gaza City. The mosque was damaged by Israeli air strikes.

Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked the Bedouin community of Ras Ein al-Auja, north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank and stole sheep owned by Palestinian residents, according to a local official, Wafa reported.

Hassan Malihat, the general supervisor of the al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, told the Palestinian news agency that the settlers, travelling in trucks and under the protection of Israeli forces, raided the Ras Ein al-Auja area, fired live bullets, searched livestock barns and stole two flocks of sheep at gunpoint.

Local Lebanese outlet L’Orient-Le Jour reports that the Israeli army conducted 15 air strikes within 30 minutes on southern Lebanon around 10pm local time (20:00GMT).

This constituted the highest concentration of strikes by Israel on Lebanon since the November ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Around 20 to 25 missiles were fired at across different districts of the south, the outlet said.

US Senator Peter Welch, a Democrat of Vermont, has introduced legislation seeking to restore US funding to UNRWA.

“Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed. Food is scarce and disease is spreading,” Welch wrote in a post on X. He added that UNRWA is “the only organisation in the region with the ability to help Palestinians recover from devastation and live in dignity”.

“The humanitarian work of UNRWA helps keep one of the most volatile regions in the world stable,” Welch added in a separate post. “That’s why I’ve introduced a bill alongside my colleagues to restore funding to UNRWA so the organisation can resume its work combatting hunger and disease.”

The US has historically been UNRWA’s largest donor, but it paused funding for the agency in January 2024 – stripping it of some $360m in annual aid. More than 120 organisations signed a letter this week urging the US Congress to restore funding for the agency.

Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed. Food is scarce and disease is spreading.

I’m introducing legislation that will restore funding to @UNRWA, the only organization in the region with the ability to help Palestinians recover from devastation and live in dignity. pic.twitter.com/xZtdOnZIFD

— Senator Peter Welch (@SenPeterWelch) March 7, 2025

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa has called for the adoption of the Palestinian-Egyptian plan for the reconstruction of Gaza at a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the news agency Wafa reports.

“We will work by all means to ensure the successful implementation of the reconstruction plan, not only as a foundation to restore life to our people in Gaza and all of Palestine but as a foundation to launch our efforts towards liberation from the grip of occupation and the realisation of our independent Palestinian state on our national soil,” Mustafa said at the meeting, held today at the headquarters of the OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Mustafa called on the international community to escalate political, diplomatic, legal and economic pressure on Israel. He stressed that the unity of Islamic nations is an effective tool in confronting Israel and achieving peace and stability in the region.

A local Lebanese platform published a video on social media documenting the moment Israeli forces launched a violent air strike in southern Lebanon.

The strike was part of a series of attacks carried out this evening between the towns of Ansar and Zarariyeh.

The video, verified by Al Jazeera, shows panic among citizens in the aftermath of the air strike.

Israel has repeatedly violated a ceasefire between it and Hezbollah in recent months.

As we reported earlier, Yemen’s Houthis gave Israel four days to resume aid delivery to the Gaza Strip, threatening to resume naval attacks if they do not comply.

In a statement, Hamas praised the ultimatum.

Hamas said that the Houthis’ decision is “an extension of the support and backing it provided throughout the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip.”

Israel’s military says that it has conducted strikes on “military sites” belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, where it said “weapons and rocket launchers” were identified.

“A short while ago, the [Israeli army] conducted intelligence-based strikes on military sites in southern Lebanon belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in which weapons and rocket launchers belonging to Hezbollah were identified,” the army said in a statement on X, adding that they “constituted a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon”.

“The [army] will continue to act to remove any threat to the State of Israel and prevent any attempt to restore and consolidate the terrorist organization Hezbollah,” the statement continued.

Despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel has continued to strike targets in Lebanon regularly, leading international bodies and countries such as France to allege ceasefire violations.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports that Israeli occupation aircraft launched consecutive airstrikes on several locations in the south of the country, targeting the hill of Zaghrabin in Jabal Al-Rihan – Jezzine area, as well as launching airstrikes between the towns of Yater and Zeqin.

Video posted by local sources, and verified by Al Jazeera, shows some of the strikes.

*قلعة انصار غارتين الآن* pic.twitter.com/JaBClMtzMF

— AlHadeel News (@news_hadeel) March 7, 2025

Palestinian worshippers prayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on the first Friday of Ramadan.

Fifty-six Israeli captives released from Gaza have written a letter to Netanyahu, urging him to complete the ceasefire deal and have the remaining captives returned home all at once, Israeli media is reporting.

“We who have experienced the inferno firsthand know that a return to fighting is a real danger to the lives of those who are still left,” the captives’ letter stated, the Israeli outlet reported.

The letter was initiated by Ilana Gritzewsky, the partner of Matan Zangauker, who is still held in Gaza, according to Haaretz.

Yemen’s Houthis have said they will resume naval operations against Israel if it does not lift its blockade of aid into Gaza within four days.

Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, the Houthis have carried out dozens of attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea in what they say is solidarity with Palestinians.

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A Palestinian father died just hours after reuniting with his son who was released from Israeli detention as part of the ceasefire agreement, Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

Ibrahim Sabbah died in Cairo hours after reuniting with his son Ayham, 24, who was released by Israel after nine years in custody and deported to Egypt. The family announced that Sabbah died of a sudden health crisis shortly after their emotional reunion, according to Wafa.

Sabbah had been living with his family in Beitunia, near Ramallah, when his then 14-year-old son was shot by Israeli forces and subsequently detained. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison before being released in January in a swap for Israeli captives.

A Palestinian man was injured after an Israeli military vehicle collided with his vehicle in Jenin, occupied West Bank, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).

The PRCS said that its crews evacuated the 55-year-old man.

The man transferred to Ibn Sina Hospital, where medics confirmed that they were dealing with a man who sustained an injury after his car was forcefully hit by an Israeli army vehicle, Wafa reported.

For more than a month, Israeli forces have been raiding Palestinian homes and using bulldozers to destroy critical infrastructure. The assaults have largely focused on Jenin and Tulkarem.

The Israeli army said tanks have been deployed in Jenin for the first time in the West Bank since the end of the second Intifada, or uprising, in 2005.

For six days, Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, triggering dire consequences.

Food and fuel supplies are depleting, and the rainy weather is making living conditions unbearable for families sheltering in makeshift camps.

Aid groups, including CARE, report that trucks carrying food, medical supplies, and shelter materials were scheduled to reach Gaza but have been halted.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports from a temporary shelter in Gaza City, where people describe their worsening struggle against hunger and cold.

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The situation is hanging by a thread. The Israelis’ ban on the entry of all sorts of aid into the Gaza Strip has done nothing but complicate both the humanitarian and medical situation.

We have seen throughout Gaza’s barely functional hospitals that medical teams are trying to do everything possible in order to continue to provide essential medical services. We’re talking about more than 100,000 wounded people who have injuries from Israel’s military attacks on Gaza, and now this ban has triggered huge concerns regarding two important issues: fuel and medical supplies.

Hospitals and medical centres are in desperate need of fuel in order to help medical teams continue to provide services. The vast majority of hospitals rely on emergency generators and now with the ban on fuel trucks entering the situation is getting much worse.

And it’s expected to get even worse within the coming days if there is not any serious intervention.