Camille Naredo

A girl stands in the doorway of a house hit by Israeli bombardment at the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on March 25, 2025. Eyad Baba, AFP

A girl stands in the doorway of a house hit by Israeli bombardment at the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on March 25, 2025. Israel, vowing to destroy Palestinian militant group Hamas, on March 18 resumed intense bombardment of Gaza and redeployed ground troops, shattering a truce that had largely held since January 19. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

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GAZA

Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1742902421245AFP__20250325__37QF9FE__v1__Preview__PalestinianIsraelConflictGaza.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="A girl stands in the doorway of a house hit by Israeli bombardment at the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on March 25, 2025. Eyad Baba, AFP"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">A girl stands in the doorway of a house hit by Israeli bombardment at the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on March 25, 2025. <em>Eyad Baba, AFP</em></span></span></span></div><p>GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories -- An Israeli air strike killed a journalist working with Al Jazeera on Monday and the military issued fresh calls to evacuate parts of Gaza&#x27;s north, as Israel pressed its renewed bombardment and ground operations in the Palestinian territory.</p><p>Israel resumed intense air strikes across Gaza last Tuesday, followed by ground operations, after talks on extending a ceasefire with the Palestinian militant group Hamas reached an impasse.</p><p>On Monday evening, Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee issued &quot;an early warning before a strike&quot; in the northern area of Jabalia.</p><p>&quot;Terrorist organizations are once again returning to and firing rockets from populated areas... For your safety, head south toward the known shelters immediately,&quot; Adraee said on X, after issuing similar warnings for the northern towns of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/3/19/un-chief-condemns-intolerable-suffering-in-gaza-0805">READ: UN chief condemns &#x27;intolerable&#x27; suffering in Gaza</a></div><p>Earlier, Gaza&#x27;s civil defense agency said an Israeli drone strike on Monday afternoon killed Hussam Shabat, who was working with Al Jazeera, near a petrol station in Beit Lahia.</p><p>Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, said air strikes had targeted more than 10 cars, including Shabat&#x27;s, in various parts of Gaza.</p><p>&quot;Hussam Shabat, a journalist collaborating with Al Jazeera Mubasher, was martyred in an Israeli strike targeting his car in the northern Gaza Strip,&quot; an alert from the Qatari broadcaster said, referring to its live Arabic channel.</p><p>AFPTV footage from the scene in Beit Lahia showed Palestinians gathering around the car, which had an Al Jazeera sticker on its windscreen. A body could be seen on the ground nearby.</p><p>According to the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists, Israel&#x27;s military in October accused Shabat and five other Palestinian journalists of being militants, which he denied.</p><p>Hundreds of people attended Shabat&#x27;s funeral held at Beit Lahia&#x27;s Indonesian Hospital, praying over his body, which still wore a press flak jacket.</p><p>The civil defense agency said a media worker from Islamic Jihad-affiliated Palestine Today TV, Muhammad Mansour, was killed in a separate air strike in Gaza&#x27;s south.</p><p>In a statement, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate called the deaths of Shabat and Mansour &quot;a crime added to the record of Israeli terrorism&quot;.</p><p>It said that more than 206 journalists and media workers had been killed since the start of the war, which was triggered by Hamas&#x27;s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/3/19/fleeing-civilians-fill-gaza-roads-as-israel-keeps-up-strikes-0021">READ: Fleeing civilians fill Gaza roads as Israel keeps up strikes</a></div><div><strong>- &#x27;Imagine this is your son&#x27; -</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u3mk9sWVlTY?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><p>The October 7 attack resulted in 1,218 deaths, mostly civilians, according to Israeli figures, while Israel&#x27;s retaliatory campaign has killed at least 50,082 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory&#x27;s health ministry.</p><p>The health ministry said Monday that 730 people had been killed since Israel resumed bombardments on March 18, including 57 in the past 24 hours.</p><p>Militants also seized 251 hostages on October 7, 58 of whom are still in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.</p><p>Hamas&#x27;s armed wing released a video on Monday showing two Israeli hostages -- identified by AFP as Elkana Bohbot and Yosef Haim Ohana -- describing the danger they have faced since the resumption of intense Israeli strikes.</p><p>Bohbot&#x27;s family reacted to the video with a statement appealing to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump to secure the remaining hostages&#x27; release.</p><p>&quot;Imagine this is your son, the father of your grandchild, waiting to see daylight, hearing (Israeli army) bombs, and living in constant fear for his life,&quot; the statement said.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/3/18/israel-vows-to-fight-on-in-gaza-after-deadliest-strikes-since-truce-0140">READ: Israel vows to fight on in Gaza after deadliest strikes since truce</a></div><div><strong>- Civilians &#x27;trapped&#x27; -</strong></div><p>Israel&#x27;s military said it intercepted a total of three &quot;projectiles&quot; launched from the Gaza Strip on Monday evening. The armed wing of Hamas ally Islamic Jihad said it had launched rockets towards Israel.</p><p>The military also said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, the sixth since the resumption of Gaza hostilities.</p><p>The Huthis later claimed responsibility for two missiles, saying they would &quot;target the heartland of the occupying entity until the aggression stops and the siege on the Gaza Strip is lifted&quot;.</p><p>The Huthi news agency Saba late Monday reported 12 US airstrikes &quot;in the last few hours&quot; in northwest Yemen.</p><p>The Israel military said Tuesday it had again struck two military bases in central Syria, a day after the European Union&#x27;s foreign policy chief warned strikes there and in Lebanon risked escalation.</p><p>&quot;A short while ago, the IDF struck military capabilities that remained at the Syrian military bases of Tadmur and T4,&quot; the Israeli military said, referring to bases in Palmyra and another 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of the city.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/3/25/palestinian-behind-oscar-winning-documentary-arrested-by-israeli-army-co-director-0950">READ: Palestinian behind Oscar-winning documentary arrested by Israeli army</a></div><p>On Monday during a visit to Jerusalem, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned that Israeli strikes on Syria and Lebanon were threatening to worsen the situation.</p><p>&quot;Military actions must be proportionate, and Israeli strikes into Syria and Lebanon risk further escalation,&quot; Kallas said.</p><p>Meanwhile, the municipality of the southern Gaza city of Rafah said in a statement Monday that &quot;thousands of civilians&quot; were &quot;trapped under intense Israeli shelling&quot; in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood.</p><p>It added that all communications were cut with the neighborhood, and that the local health care system had &quot;entirely collapsed&quot;.</p><p>On Sunday the military said it had encircled Tal al-Sultan to &quot;dismantle terrorist infrastructure and eliminate&quot; militants there.</p><p>The defense ministry also announced the creation of an administration dedicated to the &quot;voluntary departure of Gaza residents to a third country&quot;, drawing outrage from Egypt.</p><p>Egypt, which borders Gaza and Israel, expressed &quot;its strong condemnation&quot; of the creation of this authority, the foreign ministry said on X.</p><div><strong>-- AFP teams in Gaza with Cyril Julien in Jerusalem</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>An Israeli air strike killed a journalist working with Al Jazeera on Monday and the military issued fresh calls to evacuate parts of Gaza's north.</p>

An Israeli air strike killed a journalist working with Al Jazeera on Monday and the military issued fresh calls to evacuate parts of Gaza's north.

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Journalist killed, evacuation calls issued as Israel presses Gaza offensive

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Published Mar 25, 2025 08:24 PM PHT

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