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25-03-2025
GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces attack the Nasser Hospital in Gaza, killing at least two people, including Hamas leader Ismail Barhoum.
His assassination comes hours after Israeli forces bombed a tent in al-Mawasi in Gaza and killed a second member of Hamas’s Political Bureau, Salah al-Bardawil.
US air strikes have hit two areas in Yemen, including a densely populated neighborhood in the capital, Sanaa, killing at least one person and wounding 15 others.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 50,021 Palestinians have been confirmed dead and 113,274 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. Gaza’s Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of Palestinians missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 taken captive.
Mahmoud Khalil remains at a deportation facility in Louisiana, some 1,600km (994 miles) away from his home in New York.
His next court hearing is on April 8.
Speaking on US television, his wife, Noor Abdalla, said that attempts to smear her husband as anti-Semitic were absurd.
It’s very striking, though, that argument by the Trump administration that those who are protesting on university campuses against the Israeli genocide are therefore anti-Semitic or pro-Hamas mirrors very closely the arguments made by the Biden administration as those protests were happening.
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken all made the same charges.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the reaction from the Democratic Party here in Washington, supposedly leading the resistance to Trump’s crackdown on the Constitution and free speech, has been so muted.
Six killed in Israeli attack on Khan Younis
At least six people were killed and a number of others wounded.
More from Noor Abdalla
The wife of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil has been speaking to US media about her husband’s arrest.
As we’ve been reporting, she has dismissed allegations of his support for Hamas as “ridiculous”.
Abdalla, who is eight months pregnant, also described the moment her husband was arrested earlier this month.
“My husband was taken away from me in the middle of the night,” she told media. “It was one of the most terrifying times of my life. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything scarier than that.”
She said she has been forced to take on a role she never wanted, answering questions that she feels are often unfair, trying to change public perception, according to media.
‘You don’t bomb a hospital no matter what’
A volunteer surgeon at Nasser Hospital. He told that protecting hospitals during war is one of the oldest provisions of international law.
“That’s completely insane. You don’t bomb hospitals. Everybody knows that,” he said.
“The first Geneva Convention was signed in 1864, and that was the first creation of international law, at least in the West, and it’s specifically about not obstructing the work of physicians and nurses,” Sidhwa continued. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
