The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip announced tonight that an Israeli airstrike hit a hospital in Khan Yunis in the south of the Palestinian territory.
Israeli aircraft targeted the emergency department of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, the civil defense said.
This news was confirmed by hospital sources, but it is not stated whether there were any casualties.
The Israeli army has resumed attacks after a two-month ceasefire with the Palestinian movement Hamas.
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Israel killed Hamas political bureau member Ismail Barhoum in an airstrike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday, the Hamas-affiliated Shehab news agency reported, Reuters reported.
The agency also stated that the Israeli military said that the target of the Israeli attack on the Nasser Hospital area in southern Gaza was a key militant of the Palestinian Hamas movement, and that Palestinian doctors said that five people were killed in the attack.
The Israeli military, in a statement, did not identify the militant.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the release of hostages and the continued fighting in Gaza, among other regional developments, Netanyahu's office said on Monday.
The Israeli Defense Ministry announced today that it will open a special office tasked with allowing Palestinians to "voluntarily" leave the Gaza Strip, a decision condemned by an Israeli NGO.
According to the ministry, a plan has been approved for an office dedicated to "the voluntary departure of Gaza residents to a third country."
The office will be under the authority of the Ministry of Defense, but could "cooperate with international organizations" to "guarantee the safe passage" of Gaza Strip residents to these other countries, the statement said, without specifying which countries were involved.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said the proposal was in line with statements by US President Donald Trump, who said he wanted the Palestinians to voluntarily leave the Gaza Strip.
The non-governmental organization "Peace Now" condemned the formation of such an office "which is tasked with expelling Palestinians from Gaza" and added that the Israeli government has "lost its orientation and logic."
By establishing such an office to "expell" Palestinians, "Israel is admitting to committing war crimes," the NGO added.
The Israeli military resumed major operations in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, violating a ceasefire that went into effect on January 19 in the war-torn territory triggered by Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
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The Israeli army carried out several attacks on southern Lebanon today, allegedly killing a member of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, a day after a series of attacks, the most extensive since the ceasefire came into effect in November last year.
The army said it had "attacked and eliminated a terrorist from the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the Aita al-Shaab region in southern Lebanon."
The Lebanese news agency ANI reported that there was an "attack by an Israeli drone on a car in Aita al-Shaab," near the Israeli border.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that one person was killed in the attack.
ANI reported that the Israeli army attacked prefabricated houses in the towns of Nakuru and Shihin, also near the border, but that there were no casualties.
The attacks came a day after Israeli bombs killed eight people in southern Lebanon, and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned of the risk of another war after a four-month ceasefire. Following the Palestinian Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Hezbollah, its Shiite ally in Lebanon, opened a second front by firing rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel.
The ceasefire agreement reached on November 27 ended more than a year of hostilities, including two months of open warfare.
However, both sides accuse each other of violating the ceasefire.
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The militant group Hamas is responsible for renewed fighting in Gaza after rejecting efforts to move forward with what was an "acceptable deal", US special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Monday, adding that he would be open to new contacts, Reuters reported.
"So this is on Hamas. The United States stands with the state of Israel. Hamas had every opportunity to demilitarize, to accept the bridging proposal," Witkoff told Fox News.
After weeks of relative calm in the Gaza Strip following a ceasefire agreement reached in January, attempts to negotiate an extension have stalled, with Israel continuing airstrikes and deploying ground troops in areas across the strip.
Palestinian health authorities say hundreds have been killed in the latest attacks.
Witkoff's "bridge" plan, presented earlier in March, aimed to extend the ceasefire until April, after the Ramadan and Passover holidays, to allow time for negotiations on a permanent cessation of hostilities.
"Would we be susceptible to Hamas contact? Of course we would be – no different than in the Russian conflict (in Ukraine). We want to end the killing, but we have to be clear who the aggressor here is, and that is Hamas," he said.
Israel launched its campaign in Gaza after Hamas attacked Israeli communities around the strip on October 7, 2023, killing about 1.200 people, according to Israeli figures, and taking 251 people hostage.
The Israeli military confirmed in a statement today that it had killed Salah al-Bardawel, a political leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, on Saturday, Reuters reports.
Hamas announced earlier in the day that Bardawel was killed in an airstrike on Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
The Gaza Health Ministry said more than 50.000 Palestinians have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas, and more than 113.000 have been wounded.
The latest death toll released today includes 673 people killed since Israel broke the ceasefire last week, in a sudden wave of airstrikes.
Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip overnight killed at least 26 Palestinians, including a Hamas political leader and several women and children. Residents there said Israeli tanks entered the area of the southern town of Rafah after the army ordered an evacuation.
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Israeli strikes overnight killed at least 19 Palestinians in Gaza, including a senior Hamas political leader, officials said today.
Two hospitals in southern Gaza said they received 17 bodies of those killed in the attacks overnight, including several women and children.
Hamas separately announced that Salah Bardawil, a member of its political bureau and the Palestinian parliament, was killed in an attack near Khan Yunis that also killed his wife.
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who are allied with Hamas, meanwhile fired another rocket at Israel. The Israeli military said the missile was intercepted and there were no reports of casualties or damage.
Israel broke a ceasefire with Hamas last week when it launched a wave of airstrikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians.
Yemen's Houthis have continued their attacks on Israel, as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians, despite recent US attacks on them.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that the decision to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet internal security agency, Ronen Bar, was made before it was announced that Bar was investigating alleged ties between the prime minister's office and the government of Qatar.
Netanyahu stated that he decided to dismiss Bara after the agency's report on the October 7, 2023 attack, and not because of the investigation that followed, the Guardian reports.
"Ronen Bar will not remain at the head of the Shin Bet. There will be no civil war, and Israel will remain a democratic state," Netanyahu said.
The Shin Bet said that an investigation into potential links between the prime minister's aides and the Qatari government began in early February, before the release of the report on the Hamas attack. The investigation is based on allegations that certain members of the prime minister's cabinet and other state institutions received money to work in the interests of Qatar.
The decision to dismiss the Shin Bet chief sparked mass protests across Israel. Tens of thousands of citizens took to the streets, accusing the government of undermining the rule of law and democracy. Further discontent was fueled by renewed Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, which this week killed more than 590 people, including more than 200 children, breaking a two-month ceasefire.
Israel's Supreme Court has suspended Netanyahu's decision to dismiss Ronen Bar until a court hearing, which must be scheduled no later than April 8. At the same time, Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miyara said that the prime minister does not have the right to appoint a new Shin Bet director at this time.
Netanyahu said in a post on the X network that he has the legal right to appoint and dismiss heads of security agencies. "There will be no civil war! The state of Israel is a state of law, and according to the law, the Israeli government decides who will lead the Shin Bet," he stressed.
The opposition reacted sharply. Opposition leader Yair Lapid called for a general strike if the prime minister did not comply with the court's decision. "If that happens, the entire country should stop," he told a crowd at a mass protest in Tel Aviv.
Lapid's party condemned Netanyahu's move, calling it "motivated by a conflict of interest."
Netanyahu is currently facing three separate corruption trials, including charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust. His testimony, scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed due to a new military offensive in Gaza, launched the same day.
The government is also considering the dismissal of State Prosecutor Baharav-Mijara, a long-time critic of the prime minister, and a session to address the issue is planned for Sunday.
The protesters also demanded an end to the military operation in Gaza and called for an agreement to release the remaining hostages. The previous ceasefire allowed for the exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners, as well as the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Israel bombed neighboring Lebanon yesterday, killing six people, including a child, Lebanese authorities said.
This was done after intercepting rockets, allegedly fired from Lebanese territory, towards Israel.
Lebanon's pro-Iranian Hezbollah denied responsibility for the rocket fire, for which no one claimed responsibility, and accused the "Israeli enemy" of seeking justification for continued attacks on Lebanon.
The rocket fire on Israel is the first such incident since the ceasefire with Hezbollah, reached on November 27th, came into effect.
The ceasefire agreement ended the war between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, which had opened a front against Israel in solidarity with the Palestinian Hamas, at the beginning of the Gaza War in October 2023.
The ceasefire brought relative peace to Lebanon after more than a year of Israeli attacks on facilities that the Israeli military claims are linked to Hezbollah.
Israel partially withdrew troops from southern Lebanon on February 15th.
Sirens rang out in the Israeli border village of Metula this morning. The Israeli army intercepted three of six rockets fired from southern Lebanon towards the northern Galilee region.
In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to attack targets in Lebanon.
The Israeli military then announced that it had targeted dozens of rocket launchers and a Hezbollah command center in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon's Health Ministry reported that five people, including a child, were killed and eight others were wounded in one of the attacks in the town of Tulin.
In the evening, Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered a second wave of attacks on dozens of Hezbollah targets, the Defense Ministry's office said.
The Lebanese news agency Ani reported that there were multiple Israeli attacks in the south and east of the country, including in the city of Tyre, where one person was killed and seven were wounded.
Israeli Army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir promised a harsh response to any rocket fire from Lebanese territory.
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