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Destruction of Turkish-Palestinian hospital has been condemned as being part of Israel’s ‘systematic state terrorism’.

Some were unwavering in their support for constitutional protections, but staunch backers of Israel adopted a more cautious approach

<span class="field field-title">Palestinian woman recalls how Israeli drone targeted and killed multiple family members</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/katherine-hearst" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/katherine-hearst" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Katherine Hearst</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-08T18:57:24+00:00" title="8 March 2025 18:57 GMT">Sat, 03/08/2025 - 18:57</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Euro-Med Monitor has shared harrowing details of a Palestinian woman's account of repeated Israeli drone strikes targeting her family in northern Gaza on 20 January 2024.</p> <p>In a video shared by the watchdog, 44-year-old Iman&nbsp;Abdelsalam Massoud described how an Israeli drone struck her home, killing her husband and daughter and then returned to target her siblings who had to tried to reach her in an attempt to save her.</p> <p>Massoud told Euro-Med that she had gathered her laundry in preparation to leave the camp they were staying in, as they could hear drone strikes nearby.</p> <p>"While I was there collecting it to take with me and my husband standing next to me at the clothes line.. an Israeli drone struck my husband," she said. "The missile exploded right in front of me, I didn't know what had happened and I started screaming".</p> <p>"I looked up and I saw my husband lying there with injuries to his abdomen and neck".</p> <p>Massoud's children then went to get a cart to transport him to hospital, but were struck by another drone.</p> <p>"It hit my daughter Asmaa, 18 years old. Her leg was severed from the hip".</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">An Israeli drone struck their home in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a>, killing her husband and daughter, and injuring her. It then returned to target her siblings, who had tried to reach her in an attempt to save her.<br> <br> Iman Abdelsalam Massoud, 44, shares her testimony with the Euro-Med Monitor team⬇️… <a href="https://t.co/WtmZHiM98r">pic.twitter.com/WtmZHiM98r</a></p> — Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) <a href="https://twitter.com/EuroMedHR/status/1898434116820906355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>

<span class="field field-title">Israeli protestors demand government see through captive exchange deal</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/katherine-hearst" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/katherine-hearst" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Katherine Hearst</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-08T19:25:13+00:00" title="8 March 2025 19:25 GMT">Sat, 03/08/2025 - 19:25</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israelis staged a protest in northern Israel's Haifa to demand the government complete the captive and prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="rtl" lang="iw">יצאנו לצעוד כי רק הציבור יוכל לטלטל את נבחריו עד שיבחרו בחטופים החיים.<br> אסור לתת להם להקריב חיי אדם!<a href="https://twitter.com/RotemPF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RotemPF</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Hofshi_Israel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Hofshi_Israel</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BringThemHome23?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BringThemHome23</a> <a href="https://t.co/2J3DDWzSVg">pic.twitter.com/2J3DDWzSVg</a></p> — מחאת העם חיפה 🍅 (@haifaprotest) <a href="https://twitter.com/haifaprotest/status/1898405801108107647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>

<span class="field field-title">Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/katherine-hearst" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/katherine-hearst" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Katherine Hearst</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-08T19:32:41+00:00" title="8 March 2025 19:32 GMT">Sat, 03/08/2025 - 19:32</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Armed Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, injuring several people, Wafa news agency is reporting.</p> <p>The agency cited anti-settlement activist Osama Makhamra who reported that the settlers came from the nearby illegal Susya settlement and attacked the Palestinian residents of the Wadi Jahish community at the time of Iftar. The victims included women and children.</p> <p>Under military protection, the assailants assaulted the residents with batons, and uprooted several trees in the area.</p> <p>At the same time, Israeli forces detained&nbsp;Ahmed Khaled al-Najjar, a man with a disability, while he was tending to his sheep near his home in the al-Qawwais area of Masafer Yatta.</p> <p>Israeli forces and settlers conducted&nbsp;1,705 attacks against Palestinians and their property in February, according to a report by the&nbsp;Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.&nbsp;</p> </div>

Israel intensifies military operation in occupied West Bank after bombs explode on 3 empty buses without casualties.

The strike comes as Gaza’s health system is collapsing amid repeated attacks by the Israeli military.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel has killed 48 Palestinians and wounded 201 in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

Lebanese officials are pursuing diplomatic efforts to 'stop Israeli violations'